Zeus, Ares and Artemis all fight in the battle against him, with Ares managing to grievously wound Darkseid and force his hasty retreat. Where Uxas easily vanquishes these lesser foes, however, he struggles against Earth’s strongest champions – the Old Gods. Darkseid shows an impressive display of power in the scene, killing a veteran Green Lantern with seemingly relative ease and easily eradicating humans, Atlanteans and Amazons alike. In the extended flashback scene narrated by Wonder Woman, Darkseid is seen bringing the Apokolips armada to Earth in order to claim the Anti-Life Equation – a mathematical formula that allows for the complete removal of free will in those it’s used against. This younger, conquest-obsessed version of Darkseid is the earliest version seen in the Snyder Cut. Darkseid’s defeat at the hand’s of Earth’s ancient warriors prompted him to take a less frontline role in his galactic conquest, but after discovering the Anti-Life Equation on Earth and seeing Steppenwolf defeated by the Justice League, he decides to bring the full army of Apokolips to Earth and take it himself. His uncle and general Steppenwolf leads the attack on Earth, as he apparently has on numerous worlds during Darkseid’s quest for the Anti-Life Equation. Though he is the force behind the events of Zack Snyder’s Justice League, Darkseid remains a shadowy background figure throughout the film. ![]() That story will likely never be told in its entirety, but Snyder’s Darkseid is still a terrifyingly powerful foe. Snyder’s long-term DCEU plan saw the ruler of Apokolips stepping onto the battlefield himself to face off against the Justice League, in a battle that would have ended in the desolate Knightmare future. ![]() Darkseid is a force to be reckoned with in Zack Snyder's Justice League, and he would have been even stronger in the canceled sequels.
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