Darkseid (New Earth)/Quotes

The ultimate evil requires that everyone alive, everywhere in the universe, should bend to its whim. That is my aim.

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Run along now and tell your Oans that Apokolips is my sovereign dominion and shall remain forever so.

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A perfect copy of Batman, dead? I can use that.

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My brief "death" has given me a new perspective on life, gentlemen. As I floated in the spiritual limbo where Desaad's uni-cannon blast propelled me, I came to treasure the memory of living things... the soft glow of the sun at dawn, the gentle waft of a breeze across one's brow, even the scent of a flower in bloom. Yes, even a god may be affected by his own "death." I shall never forgive myself for such weakness! NEVER!

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Surely you see the futility of the task you've set for yourself? The utter impossibility of beating me? I am invincible. I am Darkseid!

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Of what use are my orders... when my mother orders me to do this?

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To attain my goals, I would sweep away a billion times that number. I would crush the very universe, to see it remade in my image!

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I have always found fear to be more formidable a weapon than force of will, off-worlder.

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I CANNOT BE DESTROYED! I AM EVERYTHING! I CANNOT BE STOPPED! AND IN THE RUIN OF THIS ANTHILL PLANET I WILL BUILD AN EMPIRE OF ORDER! THAT IS MY WILL! THAT IS THE WILL OF DARKSEID!

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I knew that you would not stay away, Orion... Revenge consumes your heart even as the monster grows within you

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What will you do when your friends, your enemies, your lover, are all Darkseid? When there is one body. One mind. One Will. One Life that is Darkseid. Will you be the enemy of all existence, then?

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Soon, now, Earth's mightiest legends will be no more than dust -- and that miserable world will at last be ripe for my picking!

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All young humans recognize the real thing when they see it! Young humans see me-- Even in "Happyland"! But you elders hide me with "cock-and-bull" stories to keep the premises smelling sweet! And still the cosmic joke escapes him!! For how can he cope with me-- by shunning me-- His other face.

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Billion-Dollar Bates!! To think that destiny would store the ultimate power in a yapping jackal's hide!! ---While Darkseid, ---the spearhead of pure elemental force-- must thirst for that knowledge!

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I like you, Glorious Godfrey! You're a shallow, precious child-- The revelationist-- Happy with the sweeping sound of words! But I am the revelation! The tiger-force at the core of all things! When you cry out in your dreams-- it is Darkseid that you see! The Anti-Life Equation exists! Locked in the mind of someone here on Earth! --And only I dare reach for it! I shall create chaos here! Shake up the planet! --Shake up that mind! I have many servitors to help me do that! Each with his own methods, eh, Desaad?

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I see the time fast approaching when existence itself shall be recreated, and Darkseid shall be it's architect.

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It seems there is more to you than I dreamed, youths. You have done that which is beyond imagining. You have shattered the dream of a God.

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Most excellent, mindless ones. You have reshaped this world on which I stand perfectly as I bid. ... Go and conquer the universe for me...for the GOD in whose image you have carved your own world as a monument. Go... for your master... for DARKSEID!

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You may live to witness my triumph. Live -- to witness the darkness transcendant... and your ultimate, undying doom.

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When I am done, everything that lives shall live only if it is as I wish it to be.

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For the first time in ages, Darkseid the schemer needs help. Worse yet, the aid I must have lies beyond the boundaries of my realm. I am forced to seek it in the camp of my enemies. The powerful deviants and monsters I have surrounded myself with will be of no help in this struggle. What I need now are heroes.

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But even one whose soul is as foul as mine can be used to do good. Fate sometimes plays strange tricks, Etrigan. You, yourself, wear no halo or wings, but have been chosen to save a galaxy from something far worse than death. It is the ultimate jest, is it not? The destiny of the very stars depends on two twisted monsters such as ourselves. Ironic, but the truth.

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You are crazed with power, insect-- Power which you vastly overestimate! You failed me, Mantis, by allowing the secret sanctuary to fall into enemy hands-- And you have spoken treason. The time for reckoning has come.

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Oh, how heroes love to flaunt their nobility in the face of death! Yet they know better than most that war is but the cold game of the butcher!

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Not long ago, I learned the first sixth of the Anti-Life Equation from an Eskimo protected by the since-departed godling Lonar! Now I propose to test what I learned-- And doing so, strike terror into Izaya's "fearless" heart! Through his staff, Izaya is in constant contact with The Source-- But what would happen if that contact were broken! Look, Titan! As we speak, Izaya leads a burial party to the wall of the Source! Always before, the Source has absorbed these deceased godlings, returning their substance to the cosmic all-- Even as the sea accepts the dead bodies of men! Yet if my knowledge of the Equation is correct-- I can disrupt that process with the application of a carefully-directed laser beam! This is but a small part of the secrets contained in the full Equation! Thus, he who controls the Anti-Life Equation-- May also control the Source!

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You have fulfilled my expectations, Desaad. Had you failed to do so, I would have terminated your pitiful existence-- Be satisfied that I will let you live... More than this, you will never receive.

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To some these puny creatures are legends, the stories of their greatness inspiring others to greatness as well! Perhaps the time has come to strike at the core of the problem -- to destroy the very concept of such legends! Then, perhaps, humanity will become more... compliant.

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The great comedy of this play we live in has always been clear to me, Kanto. If that were not the case, would I have appointed an armored harrigan to head my "orphanage," or seen in a preening clotheshorse the talent necessary to make a master assassin?

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Yes, but who can deny the power of the other side? Death can eclipse life! A great lie can smash truth! And the answer to a finely disciplined Superman-- is what you have created-- A chaotic fury of a thing-- An uncontrollable organic murder machine!

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Your conception of good and evil are insignificant, Querl Dox. In fact, your minuscule awareness of this is so obtuse and vain that to even consider yourself sentient -- would be a monumental disservice to those who are.

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Why must I be taken to task by the fates... to achieve my end... All this time, with no peers, no lineage... might this be loneliness?

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Pitiful, transient beings. Their hour upon the stage is so indelibly brief. They would sooner have evolved to something of value. A prouder form... one of loftier ideals. And one without such petty concerns. The universe needs something closer to its kind. For Man is too cynical. It's not a time for Gods.

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I. Am. The. New. God. All is one in Darkseid. This mighty body is my church. When I command your surrender, I speak with three billion voices. When I make a fist to crush your resistance. It is with three billion hands. When I stare into your eyes and shatter your dreams. And break your heart. It is with six billion eyes. Nothing like Darkseid has ever come among you; nothing will again. I will take you to a hell without exit or end. And there I will murder your souls! And make you crawl and beg! And die! Die! DIE FOR DARKSEID!

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Too long has the son of Highfather been a symbol of those who oppose me. Yet it is beneath me to kill him personally. My ultimate goal is better advanced by having others fulfill my dark objectives. My influence is spread by corrupting others... and so, as ever... I must use intermediaries.

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Here it is, Desaad... that which I have so long sought... Deep within this tiny crystal yielded by the aspect itself -- lies the secret of pure, unadorned Anti-Life! For those who dwell in New Genesis... it is over.

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I am fear itself -- the terror hidden in your darkest dreams.

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Time dies. I will not mourn the past. There is only the future, where Darkseid is. And where nothing can stop him. Nothing!

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Darkseid Was. And so -- Darkseid Is.

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Your amazement would be comical, Scott-- Especially from one who routinely inspires amazement in others through similar survival of the unknown and impossible-- But Darkseid does not laugh at such inconsequential feats! There is one thing in all the universe to compel my laughter, Scott-- And that is the universe itself! I laugh at the-- Cosmic Comedy! The interplay of light and shadow-- Each one absolute in its own sphere, yet forever limited by the other-- Yes, and forever bound to be where the other is not! Without light, we would know no shadow-- And without shadow...

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So, is this the face of a New Genesis child? I think not. I think this is the face of Darkseid's son... A true child of Apokolips, born of fire, born of blood! You are my son, Orion, no matter what Izaya's weak teachings may have done to your soul. You're my son, more my son than that oaf Kalibak. Together, we can burn worlds, Orion. Together, we can claim a universe! Father and son, we can put this galaxy to the torch-- Burn out the old weakness, purify the fetid flesh-- Rout out the disease of life! Together, we can conquer eternity! I offer you my hand, Orion. Take it!

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You failed, Desaad-- Because you tried to trap Superman on your own, using your methods! You wanted to watch him suffer! Then you let yourself be beaten by Earthlings! Each of my agents who has tried to kill him has failed! Perhaps, in the end, I shall have to deal with Superman!

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Silence, fool! How easily you forget the power of Darkseid! See the flames of atomic life gather and expand... And busily boil to achieve "biologic symmetry"! What I snuffed out... I can rekindle!

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I am the beginning and the end of all things. I am Darkseid. Every molecule of your bodies belongs to me. You live and you breathe through my pleasure, and my will.

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The only rules that mean anything here are the ones we make ourselves! ... Your honor code can't help you here! Reach out with your soul — and see what's at stake! We clash on the ultimate battlefield for a prize too precious to lose — too vast to be caged by your cramped comprehension! The only prize that exists! Existence itself!!

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So many questions... one answer shall serve for all. I am Darkseid.

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Only silence was ever slain by words.

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I look on existence and I see chaos. I abhor chaos. I would have order. Ordering the chaos requires a single mind. A single will. Mine.

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They'll never know, will they, child? Your mother... your father... even your twin. The darkness hid you from all of them, the darkness that shrouded your birth. They'll never know that I have taken you... And if they had, they could not dream of what I shall do with you. You shall change-- Oh, change so much that they shall never recognize you. You will be mighty... But always in the cause of the darkness in which you were born. I consign you to the past-- Back through the years so that you shall meet them full grown before you have even been born. They shall never know you, child-- Or you them-- And who knows, my little Validus, perhaps some day your own parents may even kill you?

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