So, Darkseid gets the Anti-Life Equation and can control the minds of all living things. What does he use it to make them do?
Like, find the remote for him so that he doesn't have to get off the couch or something?
So, Darkseid gets the Anti-Life Equation and can control the minds of all living things...
Owen Hernandez
Gavin Clark
Worship him I guess. In the same way Nekron wants to kill everyone he wants to rule everyone because he's a walking manifestation of tyranny. Worship also empowers gods, if everyone worshiped you, you would be nigh omnipotent.
Matthew Jackson
He's basically Sauron in terms of motivation. Enslaving people is an end in itself, even if they can't do anything for him.
Josiah Fisher
Through Darkseid, the multiverse will achieve perfection.
Kayden Sanders
I've always had an idea that perhaps he could feel like the moral world is too chaotic and under the guidance and will of Darkseid, without any free will to oppose it, the multverse would peace.
Adam Cox
Hive mind
Final Crisis showed that when he unleashed the anti-life equation onto Earth, it created a cosmic hive mind where all were Darkseid.
Christopher Morgan
He will bring the universe to total ruin. He will foul the fields of paradise beyond repair, and when all of creation has been remade in his image, he will turn his gaze towards his work and see himself as if in a mirror, and then he will know fear.
Juan Cooper
Some comics have actually gone with this interpretation. This is the explanation he gives to Martian Manhunter in the Ostrander series.
Personally, trying to find some way to subsume Darkseid's actions under some altruistic noble intent to protect people from conflict and chaos just feels a bit clunky and inconsistent with everything else we know about him. It might work for other characters, but it makes more sense, given everything else about Darkseid, if he's just an evil bastard just because.
Yeah, this feels more "Darkseid."
Jeremiah Morris
In Final Crisis, when he does it, it just plain ends the multiverse as a side effect, and he's okay with it, because he's just the current 3d intersect of an Nth dimensional entity, who can only be understood by 3d humans as an mythoideological representation of tyranny and endings. He doesn't "want" things in the same sense that 3d beings understand: he enslaves sapient beings, destroys free thought, and ends life, because: Darkseid Is.
Joshua Wright
>This is the explanation he gives to Martian Manhunter in the Ostrander series.
there was another moment in the spectre (the comic from the 2000s where hal was the spectre) where darkseid exiles one of his slaves from apokolips and says that freedom is the worst punishment he can give her