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| Race = [[The Hands|Hand]]
 
| Race = [[The Hands|Hand]]
 
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| Relatives = [[The Source]] (creator)<br />[[The Hands]] (brothers and sisters)<br />[[Mobius (Sixth Dimension)|Mobius]] (son);<br>[[Mar Novu (Sixth Dimension)|Mar Novu]] (son);<br>[[Alpheus (Sixth Dimension)|Alpheus]] (son)
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| Relatives = [[The Source]] (creator)<br />[[The Hands]] (brothers and sisters)<br />[[Mobius (Sixth Dimension)|Mobius]] (son)<br>[[Mar Novu (Sixth Dimension)|Mar Novu]] (son)<br>[[Alpheus (Sixth Dimension)|Alpheus]] (son)<br />[[Auteur.io (Prime Earth)|Observer.io]] (grandson)
 
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| Overview = '''Perpetua''' was one of [[The Hands]] from the greater [[Omniverse]]. She was the first creator of the [[Multiverse]] and the mother of the [[Mar Novu (Sixth Dimension)|Over-Monitor]], [[Mobius (Sixth Dimension)|Anti-Monitor]] and the [[Alpheus (Sixth Dimension)|World Forger]]; Perpetua was also considered the most feared being in the greater Omniverse, out of all her brothers and sisters tending the infinite [[Multiverse]]s.<ref name=JLAnn1>{{C|Justice League Annual Vol 4 1}}</ref> She's the one behind Mobius' actions that caused the [[Crisis on Infinite Earths]] as well as all other [[Crisis|Crises]] in history.
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| Overview = '''Perpetua''' was one of [[The Hands]] from the greater [[Omniverse]]. She was the first creator of the [[Multiverse]] and the mother of the [[Mar Novu (Sixth Dimension)|Monitor]], [[Mobius (Sixth Dimension)|Anti-Monitor]] and the [[Alpheus (Sixth Dimension)|World Forger]]; Perpetua was also considered the most feared being in the greater Omniverse, out of all her brothers and sisters tending the infinite [[Multiverse]]s.<ref name=JLAnn1>{{C|Justice League Annual Vol 4 1}}</ref> Her influence over Mobius resulted in the [[Crisis on Infinite Earths]] as well as all other [[Crisis|Crises]] in history.
   
 
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===Early Existence===
 
===Early Existence===
In the very beginning of existence, there was only [[The Source]] and from it, the positive [[The Seven Forces of the Universe|Anti-Crisis Energy]] were born and pulled together by an [[The Presence|Unseen Hand]].<ref name=DNDMM1>{{C|Dark Nights: Death Metal Multiverse's End Vol 1 1}}</ref> It was throughout the void of the Greater Omniverse that The Source sent [[The Hands]], a group of super-celestial beings using the Anti-Crisis Energy to birth Multiverses. With the creation of their Multiverse, each member of the Hands would pass on and allow their energies to return to The Source.<ref name=DNDMM1/> However the rogue among them refused her fate and wanted a vicious reality meant to live forever in a self-renewing loop of crisis and rebirth.<ref name=DNDM1>{{C|Dark Nights: Death Metal Vol 1 1}}</ref> The name of that rogue super-celestial was Perpetua.
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At the very beginning of existence itself, the [[The Source|Source of All Things]] created a race of super celestial beings called the [[The Hands|Hands]] whose purpose was to populate the nothingness of the Void with Multiverses using the [[The Seven Forces of the Universe|Anti-Crisis Energy]] provided by the Source. After the creation of their Multiverse, each member of the Hands would pass and allow their energies to return to Source of All Things.<ref name=DNDMM1>{{C|Dark Nights: Death Metal Multiverse's End Vol 1 1}}</ref> However the rogue among them refused her fate and wanted a vicious reality meant to live forever in a self-renewing loop of crisis and rebirth.<ref name=DNDM1>{{C|Dark Nights: Death Metal Vol 1 1}}</ref> The name of that rogue super-celestial was Perpetua.
   
 
===20 Billion Years Ago===
 
===20 Billion Years Ago===
 
She created the first iteration of the [[Multiverse]] using the negative [[The Seven Forces of the Universe#Crisis Energy|Crisis Energies]] and created her three sons [[Mar Novu (Sixth Dimension)|Mar Novu]], [[Alpheus (Sixth Dimension)|Alpheus]] and [[Mobius (Sixth Dimension)|Mobius]], as its first inhabitants.
 
She created the first iteration of the [[Multiverse]] using the negative [[The Seven Forces of the Universe#Crisis Energy|Crisis Energies]] and created her three sons [[Mar Novu (Sixth Dimension)|Mar Novu]], [[Alpheus (Sixth Dimension)|Alpheus]] and [[Mobius (Sixth Dimension)|Mobius]], as its first inhabitants.
   
Once created, Perpetua explained to them that her Multiverse comprises of three main realms made out of the three basic forms of matter- dark matter, positive matter and antimatter, and created them to monitor these realms. She assigned Alpheus to the [[World Forge|dark matter realm]] beneath creation where he would build the myriad universes of creation. Mar Novu was assigned to the [[Multiverse|positive matter realm]], where he would guard the many universes that rose out of the dark from cosmic crises. Mobius was assigned to the [[Antimatter Universe|antimatter realm]] where he would prevent the light of creation to breach the Greater Omniverse.
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Once created, Perpetua explained to them that her Multiverse comprises of three main realms made out of the three basic forms of matter- dark matter, positive matter and antimatter, and created them to monitor these realms. She assigned Alpheus to the [[World Forge|dark matter realm]] beneath creation where he would build the myriad universes of creation. Mar Novu was assigned to the [[Multiverse|positive matter realm]], where he would guard the many universes that rose out of the dark from cosmic crises. Mobius was assigned to the [[Antimatter Universe|antimatter realm]] where he would prevent the light of creation from breaching the Greater Omniverse.
   
 
Curious, Mar Novu asked Perpetua what her purpose in this Multiverse was, as her role as creator had already been fulfilled. She told him that she would remain to make sure that all of her children lived.<ref name=JL22>{{C|Justice League Vol 4 22}}</ref>
 
Curious, Mar Novu asked Perpetua what her purpose in this Multiverse was, as her role as creator had already been fulfilled. She told him that she would remain to make sure that all of her children lived.<ref name=JL22>{{C|Justice League Vol 4 22}}</ref>
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After the recreation of the Multiverse, the story of Perpetua was hidden by [[Krona (Prime Earth)|Krona]] and the other [[Maltusians]] who gathered all evidence.<ref name=JL16>{{c|Justice League Vol 4 16}}</ref> She witnessed the tampering of [[Krona (Prime Earth)|Krona]], preventing her Multiverse to set in a stable form.
 
After the recreation of the Multiverse, the story of Perpetua was hidden by [[Krona (Prime Earth)|Krona]] and the other [[Maltusians]] who gathered all evidence.<ref name=JL16>{{c|Justice League Vol 4 16}}</ref> She witnessed the tampering of [[Krona (Prime Earth)|Krona]], preventing her Multiverse to set in a stable form.
   
he was forced to watch her Multiverse grow more and more unstable. She knew its final fate: it would die, and she would die with it. As the only thing that would break her prison was an [[Crisis|action]] that would crack the very foundation of reality, Perpetua began to whisper in the mind of her son, the Anti-Monitor, instigating him to cause the first [[Crisis on Infinite Earths|Crisis]]. After the Anti-Monitor's defeat, a crack formed on the wall, allowing Perpetua to whisper out, through the Multiverse, into the ears of those powerful enough to cause Crises over the years.<ref name=DNDMM1/>
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She was forced to watch her Multiverse grow more and more unstable. She knew its final fate: it would die, and she would die with it. As the only thing that would break her prison was an [[Crisis|action]] that would crack the very foundation of reality, Perpetua began to whisper in the mind of her son, the Anti-Monitor, instigating him to cause the first [[Crisis on Infinite Earths|Crisis]]. After the Anti-Monitor's defeat, a crack formed on the wall, allowing Perpetua to whisper out, through the Multiverse, into the ears of those powerful enough to cause Crises over the years.<ref name=DNDMM1/>
   
 
===Source Wall Breaking===
 
===Source Wall Breaking===
After the invasion of the [[Dark Multiverse]] by her last scion, [[Barbatos (Dark Multiverse)|Barbatos]] and the [[Bruce Wayne (Earth -22)|Batman Who Laughs]], the [[Source Wall]] was finally broken and Perpetua was freed from her prison, the [[Totality]] which landed on [[Earth-0]] after the wall breaking.<ref>{{C|Justice League Vol 4 1}}</ref> Her corporeal form was restored by [[Alexander Luthor (Prime Earth)|Lex Luthor]] with almost six parts of her [[The Seven Forces of the Universe|dark powers]] unlocked.<ref name=JLAnn1/>
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After the invasion of the [[Dark Multiverse]] by her last scion, [[Barbatos (Dark Multiverse)|Barbatos]] and the [[Bruce Wayne (Earth -22)|Batman Who Laughs]], the [[Source Wall]] was finally broken and Perpetua was freed from her prison, the [[Totality (object)|Totality]] which landed on [[Earth-0]] after the wall breaking.<ref>{{C|Justice League Vol 4 1}}</ref> Her corporeal form was restored by [[Alexander Luthor (Prime Earth)|Lex Luthor]] with almost six parts of her [[The Seven Forces of the Universe|dark powers]] unlocked.<ref name=JLAnn1/>
   
 
===[[Year of the Villain]]===
 
===[[Year of the Villain]]===
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===Doom Rising===
 
===Doom Rising===
While the Justice League divided into two them, one for the [[Totality]]'s shards which were across time and the other for recruiting Mobius, Perpetua and Lex were heading to the [[Promethean Galaxy]] with the intent to recruit her son Mobius. Meanwhile, [[Hypertime]] was within the grasp of Perpetua, allowing the Legion of Doom, who were in different timelines, to affect them as they see fit without erasing their present.<ref>{{C|Justice League Vol 4 32}}</ref>
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While the Justice League divided into two them, one for the [[Totality (object)|Totality]]'s shards which were across time and the other for recruiting Mobius, Perpetua and Lex were heading to the [[Promethean Galaxy]] with the intent to recruit her son Mobius. Meanwhile, [[Hypertime]] was within the grasp of Perpetua, allowing the Legion of Doom, who were in different timelines, to affect them as they see fit without erasing their present.<ref>{{C|Justice League Vol 4 32}}</ref>
   
Arrived in the Promethean Galaxy, she was confronted by Mobius and his brothers alongside the Justice League. During the fight, the [[The Brothers Three (Sixth Dimension)|three brothers]] merged together to form the [[Ultra-Monitor (Prime Earth)|Ultra-Monitor]], strong enough to fight their mother.<ref name=JL33>{{C|Justice League Vol 4 33}}</ref> At the end of the battle, Starman and his analog from the past and future were going to open a portal to bring the rest of the Justice League who gathered the shards of the [[Totality]] across the past and the future. However, due to the fact that the psychic energy shifted toward doom and [[Kendra Saunders (Prime Earth)|Hawkgirl]]'s vendetta against Lex Luthor who previously absorbed [[J'onn J'onzz (Prime Earth)|J'onn J'onzz]] within himself, the portal closed before the rest of the league could join the battle and Perpetua was restored to all her might.
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Arrived in the Promethean Galaxy, she was confronted by Mobius and his brothers alongside the Justice League. During the fight, the [[The Brothers Three (Sixth Dimension)|three brothers]] merged together to form the [[Ultra-Monitor (Sixth Dimension)|Ultra-Monitor]], strong enough to fight their mother.<ref name=JL33>{{C|Justice League Vol 4 33}}</ref> At the end of the battle, Starman and his analog from the past and future were going to open a portal to bring the rest of the Justice League who gathered the shards of the [[Totality (object)|Totality]] across the past and the future. However, due to the fact that the psychic energy shifted toward doom and [[Kendra Saunders (Prime Earth)|Hawkgirl]]'s vendetta against Lex Luthor who previously absorbed [[J'onn J'onzz (Prime Earth)|J'onn J'onzz]] within himself, the portal closed before the rest of the league could join the battle and Perpetua was restored to all her might.
   
 
She then granted the [[Anti-Life Equation]] to Mobius who betrayed his brothers.<ref name=JL34>{{C|Justice League Vol 4 34}}</ref> Perpetua then crush Starman on her fist and and exclaimed that she have the entire Multiverse to remade.<ref name=JL34/>
 
She then granted the [[Anti-Life Equation]] to Mobius who betrayed his brothers.<ref name=JL34>{{C|Justice League Vol 4 34}}</ref> Perpetua then crush Starman on her fist and and exclaimed that she have the entire Multiverse to remade.<ref name=JL34/>
   
 
Perpetua came to [[Earth 19]], noticing that this world has doom in its core but its people still chose justice thus, she destroyed this universe. She then returned to the Promethean Galaxy explaining her plan to Lex and Mobius and remade every human who believes in doom into Apex Predators.
 
Perpetua came to [[Earth 19]], noticing that this world has doom in its core but its people still chose justice thus, she destroyed this universe. She then returned to the Promethean Galaxy explaining her plan to Lex and Mobius and remade every human who believes in doom into Apex Predators.
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At some point, the Legion of Doom returned to claim their rewards from Perpetua. Her response was to turn Brainiac into her throne and the other members as conduits of power for Lex now wielding the [[The Seven Forces of the Universe]].<ref name=JL36>{{C|Justice League Vol 4 36}}</ref> Later, she came to [[Earth 44]], asking its people on whether they choose to join or oppose her. Among all people of this Earth, [[Will Tornado (Earth 44)|Dr Will Tornado]] was the only one answering, telling her that whatever god she is, his machines have more divinity in their metal hearts than her.
 
At some point, the Legion of Doom returned to claim their rewards from Perpetua. Her response was to turn Brainiac into her throne and the other members as conduits of power for Lex now wielding the [[The Seven Forces of the Universe]].<ref name=JL36>{{C|Justice League Vol 4 36}}</ref> Later, she came to [[Earth 44]], asking its people on whether they choose to join or oppose her. Among all people of this Earth, [[Will Tornado (Earth 44)|Dr Will Tornado]] was the only one answering, telling her that whatever god she is, his machines have more divinity in their metal hearts than her.
   
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Much later, Perpetua came to [[Earth-0]] to confront the Justice League who had defeated Lex Luthor and gathered Hawkgirl, John Stewart and J'onn J'onzz. During the confrontation, J'onn managed to reach out the minds of all the people of the planet, trying to convince them to break free of Perpetua's lies which shifted the psychic balance toward justice, strings of energy started to wrap up Perpetua.
 
Much later, Perpetua came to [[Earth-0]] to confront the Justice League who had defeated Lex Luthor and gathered Hawkgirl, John Stewart and J'onn J'onzz. During the confrontation, J'onn managed to reach out the minds of all the people of the planet, trying to convince them to break free of Perpetua's lies which shifted the psychic balance toward justice, strings of energy started to wrap up Perpetua.
   
However, just as the victory was near for the league, the balance shifted for doom again, breaking free of her bonds, Perpetua explained that she allowed the psychic connection J'onn had with Earth's people to happen because she wanted them to see their people rejecting them since she was the creator of the Multiverse and also explained that she left a piece of the [[Totality]] across time for [[Vandal Savage]] who will recruit the Luthors to found a way to unlock her powers as she planned. She then obliterated the Justice League however without her knowing, the league were saved by the [[Quintessence]].<ref name=JL39>{{C|Justice League Vol 4 39}}</ref>
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However, just as the victory was near for the league, the balance shifted for doom again, breaking free of her bonds, Perpetua explained that she allowed the psychic connection J'onn had with Earth's people to happen because she wanted them to see their people rejecting them since she was the creator of the Multiverse and also explained that she left a piece of the [[Totality (object)|Totality]] across time for [[Vandal Savage]] who will recruit the Luthors to found a way to unlock her powers as she planned. She then obliterated the Justice League; however, without her knowing, the league were saved by the [[Quintessence]].<ref name=JL39>{{C|Justice League Vol 4 39}}</ref>
   
 
===Hell Arisen===
 
===Hell Arisen===
After the fall of the Justice League at Perpetua's hands, the Multiverse was at her and Lex Luthor mercy. When the [[Crime Syndicate]] of [[Earth-3]] came to Perpetua, requesting more power, Perpetua's response was to turn their people into Apex Predator and killing [[Johnny Quick]] after his disagreement to join her.
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After the fall of the Justice League at Perpetua's hands, the Multiverse was at her and Lex Luthor's mercy. When the [[Crime Syndicate]] of [[Earth-3]] came to Perpetua requesting more power, Perpetua's response was to turn their people into Apex Predators and killing [[Johnny Quick]] after his disagreement to join her.
   
After the meeting Perpetua had with the Crime Syndicate, she send Lex Luthor to Earth-0 in order to eradicate the dark energy incursion caused by the [[The Batman Who Laughs]]. Much later Lex came to Perpetua with the defeated Batman Who Laughs. However, [[The Batman Who Laughs]] used his superior knowledge to convince Perpetua to choose him over Lex as her second in charge. Perpetua then depowered Lex for his insolence and send him back to Earth but not before Lex learns that the glorious vision of the future he has had was an hoax made by Perpetua in order to manipulate him.<ref name=YVHA1>{{C|Year of the Villain: Hell Arisen Vol 1 1}}</ref>
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After the meeting Perpetua had with the Crime Syndicate, she sent Lex Luthor to Earth-0 in order to eradicate the dark energy incursion caused by the [[The Batman Who Laughs]]. Much later Lex came to Perpetua with the defeated Batman Who Laughs. However, [[The Batman Who Laughs]] used his superior knowledge to convince Perpetua to choose him over Lex as her second in charge. Perpetua then depowered Lex for his insolence and send him back to Earth but not before Lex learns that the glorious vision of the future he had was an hoax made by Perpetua in order to manipulate him.<ref name=YVHA1>{{C|Year of the Villain: Hell Arisen Vol 1 1}}</ref>
   
 
===[[Dark Nights: Death Metal]]===
 
===[[Dark Nights: Death Metal]]===
Perpetua was confronted by the Justice League at an unspecified date. She wielded all the Crisis Energy as the league were harnessing [[Doctor Manhattan]]'s energy, consisting of all the Anti-Crisis Energy.<ref name=DNDM1/> As their battle raged, Perpetua taunted [[Wonder Woman (Diana Prince)|Diana]], telling her that if she won using the positive energies, every history including those forgotten due to [[Crisis]] would matter, many people would be dead. Scared by this truth, Diana hesitated long enough for Perpetua to regoup call on [[The Batman Who Laughs]].<ref>{{C|Dark Nights: Death Metal Vol 1 5}}</ref> The fight ended on a massive blow that burned the sun and has exhausted both energies.<ref name=DNDM1/>
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Perpetua was confronted by the Justice League at an unspecified date. She wielded all the Crisis Energy as the league harnessed [[Doctor Manhattan]]'s energy, consisting of all the Anti-Crisis Energy.<ref name=DNDM1/> As their battle raged, Perpetua taunted [[Wonder Woman (Diana Prince)|Diana]], telling her that if she won using the positive energies, every history including those forgotten due to [[Crisis]] would be destroyed; therefore many people would be left dead. Scared by this truth, Diana hesitated long enough for Perpetua to regroup and call on [[The Batman Who Laughs]].<ref>{{C|Dark Nights: Death Metal Vol 1 5}}</ref> The fight ended on a massive blow that burned the sun and has exhausted both energies.<ref name=DNDM1/>
   
 
The Batman Who Laughs helped her to regain strength using the [[Dark Multiverse]], whose three worlds of unending Crises made it a hub of the negative energies that would keep powering Perpetua through multiple antennas around the Multiverse. Having gained enough power to destroy the rest of the Multiverse, Perpetua took over reality and proceeded to reshape it as how she wanted, while rewarding Laughs with [[Earth-0]], reshaping the world for him.
 
The Batman Who Laughs helped her to regain strength using the [[Dark Multiverse]], whose three worlds of unending Crises made it a hub of the negative energies that would keep powering Perpetua through multiple antennas around the Multiverse. Having gained enough power to destroy the rest of the Multiverse, Perpetua took over reality and proceeded to reshape it as how she wanted, while rewarding Laughs with [[Earth-0]], reshaping the world for him.
   
She destroyed [[Earth-22]] as well as most of the universes that doesn't match her dark ideology, reducing the Multiverse from fifty two universe to only eight. Later, Perpetua came to The Batman Who Laughs, telling him that only six universe remains. Untrusting him, she also warns him about if he usurp her, her kind, the Hands would come, seeing what's been done in the Multiverse and they will destroy it all.<ref name=DNDM2>{{C|Dark Nights: Death Metal Vol 1 2}}</ref>
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She destroyed [[Earth-22]] as well as most of the universes that doesn't match her dark ideology, reducing the Multiverse from fifty two universe to only eight. Later, Perpetua came to The Batman Who Laughs, telling him that only six universes remains. Untrusting him, she also warns him about if he tries to usurps her, her kind, the Hands would come and see what's been done in the Multiverse and they will destroy it all.<ref name=DNDM2>{{C|Dark Nights: Death Metal Vol 1 2}}</ref>
   
Perpetua would later destroy the [[House of Heroes]] and would sent her Dark Multiverse's minions on the [[Justice Incarnate]] and the [[Green Lantern Corps (Prime Earth)|Green Lantern Corps]] who were trying to destroy all the antennas in order to cut her off from her source of power.<ref name=DNDMM1/> Thanks to [[Thomas Wayne, Jr. (Earth 3)|Owlman]] who had trapped each tower with a detonator, they managed to destroy every tower and leave the areas despite this, Perpetua was still powerful enough to destroy the remaining universes though her unlimited source of power was cut.<ref name=DNDMM1/>
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Perpetua would later destroy the [[House of Heroes]] and would sent her minions from the Dark Multiverse on the [[Justice Incarnate]] and the [[Green Lantern Corps (Prime Earth)|Green Lantern Corps]] who were trying to destroy all the antennas in order to cut her off from her source of power.<ref name=DNDMM1/> Thanks to [[Thomas Wayne, Jr. (Earth 3)|Owlman]] who had trapped each tower with a detonator, they managed to destroy every tower and leave the areas; despite this, Perpetua was still powerful enough to destroy the remaining universes though her unlimited source of power was cut off.<ref name=DNDMM1/>
   
 
After the rise of the [[Bruce Wayne (Earth -22)|The Batman Who Laughs]], now known as the Darkest Knight, who tricked the [[Trinity]] in order to redirect all remaining Crisis Energy from three worlds of never ending Crisis to him instead of [[Flash (Wally West)|Wally West]], Perpetua battled the Darkest Knight head-on, with all of the remnants of reality collapsing in the chaos around their duel.<ref>{{c|Dark Nights: Death Metal Rise of the New God Vol 1 1}}</ref>
 
After the rise of the [[Bruce Wayne (Earth -22)|The Batman Who Laughs]], now known as the Darkest Knight, who tricked the [[Trinity]] in order to redirect all remaining Crisis Energy from three worlds of never ending Crisis to him instead of [[Flash (Wally West)|Wally West]], Perpetua battled the Darkest Knight head-on, with all of the remnants of reality collapsing in the chaos around their duel.<ref>{{c|Dark Nights: Death Metal Rise of the New God Vol 1 1}}</ref>
   
Despite being cut off from their primary power sources thanks to the machinations of the remaining heroes, both powerful beings continued to war against each other.<ref name=DNDM2/> Growing exhausted and weaker as the remaining Crisis Energy was redirected to the Darkest Knight, Perpetua offers a partnership with the him, arguing that it's only her that keeps her kind from coming to the Multiverse and wiping it out. But the Darkest Knight is hoping for just such an outcome in order destroy them himself. With Perpetua all but spent, the Darkest Knight reveals his last trick, using his powers, the Darkest Knight pulls together the remaining parts of the Source Wall that had once contained her. Despite her pleas, the Darkest Knight seals her within the remnants of the wall and destroys them, ultimately ending Perpetua's life.<ref>{{C|Dark Nights: Death Metal Vol 1 6}}</ref>
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Despite being cut off from their primary power sources thanks to the machinations of the remaining heroes, both powerful beings continued to war against each other.<ref name=DNDM2/> Growing exhausted and weaker as the remaining Crisis Energy was redirected to the Darkest Knight, Perpetua offers a partnership with him, arguing that it's only through her power that her kind is prevented from coming to the Multiverse and wiping it out. But the Darkest Knight is hoping for just such an outcome in order to destroy them himself. With Perpetua all but spent, the Darkest Knight reveals his last trick; using his powers, the Darkest Knight pulls together the remaining parts of the Source Wall that had once contained her. Despite her pleas, the Darkest Knight seals her within the remnants of the wall and destroys them, ultimately ending Perpetua's life.<ref>{{C|Dark Nights: Death Metal Vol 1 6}}</ref>
   
As the final battle between the [[World Forge|Forge of Worlds]]-empowered [[Wonder Woman (Diana Prince)|Wonder Woman]] and the Darkest Knight raged, they fall back through time, to the beginning of the universe itself. They saw the Hand of Creation sparking the [[Big Bang]] which the One who Laughs has recognized as Perpetua's.<ref>{{C|Dark Nights: Death Metal Vol 1 7}}</ref>
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As the final battle between the [[World Forge|Forge of Worlds]]-empowered [[Wonder Woman (Diana Prince)|Wonder Woman]] and the Darkest Knight raged, they fall back through time to the beginning of the universe itself. They saw the Hand of Creation sparking the [[Big Bang]] which the One who Laughs has recognized as Perpetua's.<ref>{{C|Dark Nights: Death Metal Vol 1 7}}</ref>
   
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* {{Omnipotence|Nigh-Omnipotence}}: Perpetua is a godlike being of nearly infinite power. [[Mar Novu (Sixth Dimension)|The Monitor]], the [[Alpheus (Sixth Dimension)|World Forger]] and the [[Mobius (Sixth Dimension)|Anti-Monitor]], cosmic beings of extreme powers in their own rights, were unable to defeat her without help from the [[The Cosmic Raptor (Prime Earth)|Cosmic Raptor]].<ref name=JL22/> Her power is such that her release made a burst of energy similar to the [[Big Bang]] that would expend an infinite expending universe.<ref name=JLAnn1/> However, she is not strong enough to oppose the Judges of the Source.<ref name=JL22/>
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* {{Omnipotence|Nigh-Omnipotence}}: Perpetua is an omega class cosmic entity and is considered as one of the most powerful beings in the Multiverse and even in the [[Omniverse]], she is viewed as the most feared being out of all her brothers and sisters tending the infinite Multiverses.<ref name=JLAnn1/> [[Mar Novu (Sixth Dimension)|The Monitor]], the [[Alpheus (Sixth Dimension)|World Forger]] and the [[Mobius (Sixth Dimension)|Anti-Monitor]], cosmic figures of extreme powers, weren't able to defeat her without help from the [[The Cosmic Raptor (Prime Earth)|Cosmic Raptor]].<ref name=JL22/> After joining together as the [[Ultra-Monitor (Sixth Dimension)|Ultra-Monitor]], they were equal to Perpetua who had yet to regain her full power. After regaining her full power, she achieved such tremendous power, she was able to completely overwhelm the Ultra-Monitor.<ref name=JL34/> Even upon her freedom, it released a burst of energy similar to the Big Bang and shocked the entirety of the Multiverse, even [[Heaven]].<ref name=JLAnn1/>
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** {{Reality Alteration}}: Perpetua has the ability to alter reality on a universal scale. She can create and destroy almost everything with the most casual act, from living beings to universes.<ref>{{C|Justice League Vol 4 35}}</ref> Even while asleep, planets form around her fingers and galaxies born and die around her.<ref>{{C|Justice League Vol 4 19}}</ref> At full capacity, she can reconfigure the Multiverse, switching it from Justice to Doom, and remake it in her image.<ref>{{C|Justice League Vol 4 30}}</ref>
** {{Cosmic Awareness}}: Perpetua can sense various events throughout the Multiverse such as sensing Mxyzptlk's assault on reality as well as Alpheus' attempt to replace it with a new Multiverse from the [[Sixth Dimension]], the highest plane of existence.<ref name=JL22/>
 
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** {{Energy Projection}}: Perpetua wields the [[The Seven Forces of the Universe#Crisis Energy|Crisis Energy]], which is essentially all dark powers in the universe that invites undoing the past in favor of the immediate moment, including the [[Anti-Life Equation]], [[Magic#Chaos_Magic|Chaos Magic]] and the Seven Hidden Forces.<ref name=DNDM1/>
** {{Clairvoyance}}: Perpetua can peer into the Fourth Dimension of time. She used this ability at least one time to watch the future of her Apex Predator.<ref name=JL22/>
 
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** {{Energy Construct Creation}}: Perpetua can mold the Crisis Energy into a functioning Multiverse and can shape the entirety of the energies of positive, dark, and antimatter into the [[Multiverse|three]] [[World Forge|individual]] [[Antimatter Universe|realms]] that make up reality.<ref>{{C|Justice League Vol 4 33}}</ref>
 
** {{Energy Absorption}}: Perpetua feeds on the psychic energy of people's fear, anger, and selfish desires, which generates Crisis Energy that sustains her power.<ref name=DNDM1/>
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** {{Molecular Reconstruction}}: Perpetua can manipulate or disintegrate matter at will; she can transform living beings as sees fit, as she did when she turned Brainiac into her personal throne.<ref>{{C|Justice League Vol 4 36}}</ref>
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*** {{Disintegration}}: Perpetua can disintegrate matter. Also, upon her release, Perpetua was un-forming most of the [[New Gods]], [[New Genesis]] and [[Apokolips]].<ref name=JLAnn1/>
 
*** {{Geokinesis}}: Perpetua can rearrange planets as sees fit, as displayed when she twisted the continents of Earth-0 into bat-shaped landscapes, creating a new world for the [[Bruce Wayne (Earth -22)|Batman Who Laughs]].<ref name=DNDM2/>
 
** {{Resurrection}}: Perpetua was able to coalesce the remains of the [[Omega Titans]] into one Frankenstein-like being called the Omega Knight.<ref>{{C|Justice League Vol 4 53}}</ref>
 
** {{Bio-Fusion}}: Perpetua can perform Bio-Fusion on living beings like she did with the Humans and the Martians where she created the Apex Predators from them.<ref name=JL22/>
 
** {{Bio-Fusion}}: Perpetua can perform Bio-Fusion on living beings like she did with the Humans and the Martians where she created the Apex Predators from them.<ref name=JL22/>
** {{Bio-Fission}}: Perpetua can perform Bio-Fission on others like she did with Hawkgirl and Hawkwoman when she splitered the soul of Chay-ara causing her to reincarnate as both Kendra Saunders on Earth after the death of Shiera Hall and as Shayera Hol of Thanagar.<ref name=JL16/>
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*** {{Bio-Fission}}: Perpetua can perform Bio-Fission on others as she did when she splitered the soul of [[Chay-Ara]] causing her to reincarnate as both [[Kendra Saunders (Prime Earth)|Kendra Saunders]] on Earth, after the death of Shiera Hall, and as [[Shayera Thal (Prime Earth)|Shayera Thal]] on Thanagar.<ref name=JL16/>
 
** {{Superhuman Strength}}: Perpetua possesses immense levels of superhuman strength. During the [[Justice League: Justice/Doom War (Collected)|Justice/Doom War]], She was able of hurling an entire planet from [[Earth-44]] to her [[The Brothers Three (Sixth Dimension)|childrens]], while they were in [[Earth-0]], at high speed.<ref>{{C|Justice League Vol 4 37}}</ref>
** {{Energy Construct Creation}}: Perpetua can create and manipulate energy in a manner that creates matter from virtually nothing she shape the energies the Source provided to her into a Multiverse.<ref name=DNDMM1>{{C|Dark Nights: Death Metal Multiverse's End Vol 1 1}}</ref> She can also create and shape living beings from the void.<ref name=JL22/>
 
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** {{Superhuman Durability}}: Perpetua was strong enough to withstand the many planets the [[Bruce Wayne (Earth -22)|Darkest Knight]] hurled at her, as well as several of his punches.<ref>{{c|Dark Nights: Death Metal Rise of the New God Vol 1 1}}</ref>
** {{Energy Absorption}}: Perpetua feeds on the cosmic energies generated from the [[Crisis|Crises]] to fuel her powers.<ref name=DNDM1/>
 
 
** {{Mechanokinesis}}: Perpetua can control technology to some degree. She was able to turn off the ship of the Justice League with a thought.<ref>{{C|Justice League Vol 4 35}}</ref>
** {{Energy Projection}}: As one of the Hands, Perpetua was trusted with the [[The Seven Forces of the Universe|Anti-Crisis Energy]] by [[The Source]], although she refused to use it to build her Multiverse.<ref name=JL22/> She wields the [[The Seven Forces of the Universe#Crisis Energy|Crisis Energy]], including the [[Anti-Life Equation]], [[Magic#Chaos_Magic|Chaos Magic]] and so on, the forces of doom which are about selfish desires and the suppression of the past in favor of the immediate moment.<ref name=DNDM1/> Perpetua can shape and control the totality of the energies of the positive matter, dark matter and antimatter realities.<ref name=JL22/>
 
** {{Reality Alteration}}: Perpetua has the ability to alter reality on a universal scale. She can create and destroy almost everything with the most casual act, from living beings to universes. Even while asleep, planets form around her fingers and galaxies born and die around her. She can alter the very nature of the Multiverse into a vicious reality meant to live forever on a self-renewing loop of its own importance.<ref>{{C|Justice League Vol 4 30}}</ref>
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** {{Size Alteration}}: Perpetua can alter her physical size. There's currently no known limit on how much she can grow. She has shown herself capable of growing from normal heights to the size of several planets.<ref>{{C|Justice League Vol 4 22}}</ref> She can even enlarge herself to much bigger heights to the point of holding the Multiverse in her hands.<ref>{{C|Justice League Vol 4 22}}</ref>
 
** {{Telepathy}}: Perpetua can broadcast a psychic whisper across the Multiverse that invites anyone who might hear it to change history to make the present more important.<ref name=DNDM1/> This was the same trick she used on Lex Luthor when she projected a false vision into his mind in which everyone will worship him in one billion years in the future.<ref name=YVHA4>{{C|Year of the Villain: Hell Arisen Vol 1 4}}</ref> She was able to block the psychic connection that [[M'gann M'orzz (Prime Earth)|M'gann M'orzz]] and [[Shayne J'onzz (Sixth Dimension)|Shayne J'onzz]] had with Earth-0's people with ease.<ref>{{C|Justice League Vol 4 38}}</ref> [[J'onn J'onzz (Prime Earth)|J'onn J'onzz]] was only able to communicate with [[Earth-0]] people because she allowed the connection.<ref>{{C|Justice League Vol 4 39}}</ref>
*** {{Resurrection}}: Perpetua was able to coalesce the remains of the [[Omega Titans]] into one being called the Omega Knight.<ref>{{C|Justice League Vol 4 53}}</ref>
 
*** {{Geokinesis}}: Perpetua was able to rearrange [[Earth-0]], twisting its continents into bat-shapped lands, creating a new world for [[The Batman Who Laughs]].<ref name=DNDM2/>
 
*** {{Molecular Reconstruction}}: Perpetua was able to turn [[Brainiac]] into her throne and control it to capture the rest of the [[Legion of Doom (Prime Earth)|Legion of Doom]].<ref name=JL36/> She was also able to transform most of the human beings into her army of monsters.<ref name=JL35>{{c|Justice League Vol 4 35}}</ref>
 
*** {{Disintegration}}: Perpetua can dissolve living beings to dust with a mere thought.
 
** {{Superhuman Strength}}: Perpetua possesses immense levels of superhuman strength. During the Justice/Doom War, she was able to hurl [[Earth-44]] at her childrens while they were in the [[Promethean Galaxy]], which lies at the edge of the universe.
 
** {{Mechanokinesis}}: Perpetua can control technology to some degree. She was able to turn off the ship of the Justice League with a thought.<ref name=JL16/>
 
** {{Size Alteration}}: Perpetua can alter her physical size. There's currently no known limit on how much she can grow. She has shown herself capable of growing from normal heights to the size of several planets.<ref name=JL22/> In the [[Sixth Dimension]] however, she held the Multiverse in her hands.<ref name=JL22/>
 
** {{Power Distribution}}: Perpetua can grant access to [[The Seven Forces of the Universe|Crisis Energy]] to others as displayed with [[Alexander Luthor (Prime Earth)|Lex Luthor]] or when she gift [[Mobius (Sixth Dimension)|Mobius]] the Anti-Life Equation.
 
** {{Telepathy}}: Perpetua can broadcast a psychic whisper across the Multiverse that invites anyone who might hear it to change history to make the present more important.<ref name=DNDM1/> This was the same trick she used on Lex Luthor when she projected a false vision into his mind in which everyone will worship him in one billion years in the future.<ref name=YVHA4>{{C|Year of the Villain: Hell Arisen Vol 1 4}}</ref> She was able to block the psychic connection that [[M'gann M'orzz (Prime Earth)|M'gann M'orzz]] and [[Shayne J'onzz (Sixth Dimension)|Shayne J'onzz]] had with Earth-0's people with ease.<ref>{{C|Justice League Vol 4 38}}</ref> [[J'onn J'onzz (Prime Earth)|J'onn J'onzz]] was only able to communicate with [[Earth-0]] people because she allowed the connection.<ref name=JL39/>
 
 
** {{Telekinesis}}: Perpetua can manipulate the movement of objects and people with her minds as displayed when she threw Lex Luthor into a portal with a mere hand gesture.<ref name=YVHA4/>
 
** {{Telekinesis}}: Perpetua can manipulate the movement of objects and people with her minds as displayed when she threw Lex Luthor into a portal with a mere hand gesture.<ref name=YVHA4/>
** {{Immortality}}: As the creator of the original Multiverse, Perpetua is one of the oldest being in existence.
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** {{Immortality}}: As the creator of the original Multiverse, Perpetua is one of the oldest beings in existence.
** {{Teleportation}}: Perpetua can make herself and others appear anywhere in the entire [[Multiverse]] with no issues, such as transport herself from the [[Promethean Galaxy]], which lies at the end of the universe of [[Earth-0]] to [[Earth-19]].<ref name=JL35/>
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** {{Power Distribution}}: Perpetua can infuse others with the [[The Seven Forces of the Universe|Crisis Energy]] as displayed with [[Alexander Luthor (Prime Earth)|Lex Luthor]] or when she infused Mobius with the [[Anti-Life Equation]].<ref>{{C|Justice League Vol 4 34}}</ref>
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** {{Teleportation}}: Perpetua can make herself and others appear anywhere in the entire [[Multiverse]] with no issues, such as transport herself from the [[Promethean Galaxy]] of Earth-0, which lies at the end of the universe to [[Earth-19]].<ref>{{C|Justice League Vol 4 35}}</ref>
*** {{Dimensional Travel}}: Perpetua can travel to other realities at will. Perpetua is not limited to using this dimensional traveling power on herself as she can teleport others through portals.<ref name=YVHA1/>
 
*** {{Chronokinesis|Time-Travel}}: Perpetua was able to send [[Kamandi (Prime Earth)|Kamandi]], [[Justice Legion (DC One Million)|Justice Legion]] and the [[Justice Society of America (Prime Earth)|Justice Society of America]] back to their respective timelines.<ref name=JL39/>
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** {{Dimensional Travel}}: Perpetua can travel to other realities at will. Perpetua is not limited to using this dimensional traveling power on herself as she can teleport others as well.<ref name=YVHA1/>
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** {{Chronokinesis}}: Perpetua has the ability to tamper with timelines by incorporating pieces of the [[Totality (object)|Totality]] across multiple eras in time, and can transfer beings through time as well.<ref>{{C|Justice League Vol 4 39}}</ref> Also, Perpetua's havoc on reality echoes backward and forward in time.<ref name=YVHA1/>
 
** {{Cosmic Awareness}}: Perpetua can sense various events throughout the Multiverse such as sensing Mxyzptlk's assault on reality as well as Alpheus' attempt to replace it with a new Multiverse from the [[Sixth Dimension]], the highest plane of existence.<ref name=JL22/>
 
** {{Clairvoyance}}: Perpetua can peer into the [[Timestream|Fourth Dimension]] of time. She used this ability at least one time to watch the future of her Apex Predator.<ref name=JL22/>
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* Perpetua was portrayed as the one who pulled the strings behind all Crisis events that happened in history.<ref name=DNDM1/>
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* [[Chronicler (Prime Earth)|Chronicler]] ranked Perpetua as an Omega Class Cosmic Entity.<ref>{{c|Dark Nights: Death Metal Rise of the New God Vol 1 1}}</ref>
 
* Perpetua is portrayed as the hand [[Big Bang|creating the universe]] from {{c|Green Lantern Vol 2 40}}.<ref name=JL22/> This assumption was later confirmed in {{c|Dark Nights: Death Metal Vol 1 7}}.
 
* Perpetua is portrayed as the hand [[Big Bang|creating the universe]] from {{c|Green Lantern Vol 2 40}}.<ref name=JL22/> This assumption was later confirmed in {{c|Dark Nights: Death Metal Vol 1 7}}.
 
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Perpetua was one of The Hands from the greater Omniverse. She was the first creator of the Multiverse and the mother of the Monitor, Anti-Monitor and the World Forger; Perpetua was also considered the most feared being in the greater Omniverse, out of all her brothers and sisters tending the infinite Multiverses.[1] Her influence over Mobius resulted in the Crisis on Infinite Earths as well as all other Crises in history.

Early Existence

At the very beginning of existence itself, the Source of All Things created a race of super celestial beings called the Hands whose purpose was to populate the nothingness of the Void with Multiverses using the Anti-Crisis Energy provided by the Source. After the creation of their Multiverse, each member of the Hands would pass and allow their energies to return to Source of All Things.[2] However the rogue among them refused her fate and wanted a vicious reality meant to live forever in a self-renewing loop of crisis and rebirth.[3] The name of that rogue super-celestial was Perpetua.

20 Billion Years Ago

She created the first iteration of the Multiverse using the negative Crisis Energies and created her three sons Mar Novu, Alpheus and Mobius, as its first inhabitants.

Once created, Perpetua explained to them that her Multiverse comprises of three main realms made out of the three basic forms of matter- dark matter, positive matter and antimatter, and created them to monitor these realms. She assigned Alpheus to the dark matter realm beneath creation where he would build the myriad universes of creation. Mar Novu was assigned to the positive matter realm, where he would guard the many universes that rose out of the dark from cosmic crises. Mobius was assigned to the antimatter realm where he would prevent the light of creation from breaching the Greater Omniverse.

Curious, Mar Novu asked Perpetua what her purpose in this Multiverse was, as her role as creator had already been fulfilled. She told him that she would remain to make sure that all of her children lived.[4]

15 Billion Years Ago

Perpetua called upon Mar Novu to show him her greatest creation. Perpetua had searched the endless worlds of the Multiverse looking for the perfect creation, but could not find it. Disappointed in what saw, Perpetua bound the Martians with the Humans, creating the Apex Predators; perfect killing machines that would live and fight until the end of time. Upon seeing what his mother had created, Mar Novu told her that he found a cosmic judgement coming for them because of her actions and that she was well aware of that and wished to fight back. Perpetua then tried to share her point of view in vain, leading her to order her Apexes to attack Novu, forcing him to flee.[4]

Two hundred thousand years later, Mar Novu told his brothers what he had seen and they agreed that her kinds, the Hands needed to be alerted of her doings. They were interrupted by Perpetua who witnessed their betrayals and sent her Apex Predators to attack her sons.

The Cosmic Raptor Prime Earth 01

The fall of Perpetua and her Great Army

The Hands's response was to send the Cosmic Raptor to stop Perpetua's plan. Unable to defeat the Cosmic Raptor, Perpetua, her Apex Predators and the totality of her power were taken to the Source Wall and imprisoned in it. The Hands recreated Perpetua's Multiverse, allowing the Multiverse to evolve without intrusion. Perpetua was trapped and forced to watch it all.

After the recreation of the Multiverse, the story of Perpetua was hidden by Krona and the other Maltusians who gathered all evidence.[5] She witnessed the tampering of Krona, preventing her Multiverse to set in a stable form.

She was forced to watch her Multiverse grow more and more unstable. She knew its final fate: it would die, and she would die with it. As the only thing that would break her prison was an action that would crack the very foundation of reality, Perpetua began to whisper in the mind of her son, the Anti-Monitor, instigating him to cause the first Crisis. After the Anti-Monitor's defeat, a crack formed on the wall, allowing Perpetua to whisper out, through the Multiverse, into the ears of those powerful enough to cause Crises over the years.[2]

Source Wall Breaking

After the invasion of the Dark Multiverse by her last scion, Barbatos and the Batman Who Laughs, the Source Wall was finally broken and Perpetua was freed from her prison, the Totality which landed on Earth-0 after the wall breaking.[6] Her corporeal form was restored by Lex Luthor with almost six parts of her dark powers unlocked.[1]

Year of the Villain

At some point, she awoke and remade Lex Luthor into an Apex Predator as her second in command after the latter faked his own death.

Doom Rising

While the Justice League divided into two them, one for the Totality's shards which were across time and the other for recruiting Mobius, Perpetua and Lex were heading to the Promethean Galaxy with the intent to recruit her son Mobius. Meanwhile, Hypertime was within the grasp of Perpetua, allowing the Legion of Doom, who were in different timelines, to affect them as they see fit without erasing their present.[7]

Arrived in the Promethean Galaxy, she was confronted by Mobius and his brothers alongside the Justice League. During the fight, the three brothers merged together to form the Ultra-Monitor, strong enough to fight their mother.[8] At the end of the battle, Starman and his analog from the past and future were going to open a portal to bring the rest of the Justice League who gathered the shards of the Totality across the past and the future. However, due to the fact that the psychic energy shifted toward doom and Hawkgirl's vendetta against Lex Luthor who previously absorbed J'onn J'onzz within himself, the portal closed before the rest of the league could join the battle and Perpetua was restored to all her might.

She then granted the Anti-Life Equation to Mobius who betrayed his brothers.[9] Perpetua then crush Starman on her fist and and exclaimed that she have the entire Multiverse to remade.[9]

Perpetua came to Earth 19, noticing that this world has doom in its core but its people still chose justice thus, she destroyed this universe. She then returned to the Promethean Galaxy explaining her plan to Lex and Mobius and remade every human who believes in doom into Apex Predators.

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Perpetua terrorizing the Justice League

At some point, the Legion of Doom returned to claim their rewards from Perpetua. Her response was to turn Brainiac into her throne and the other members as conduits of power for Lex now wielding the The Seven Forces of the Universe.[10] Later, she came to Earth 44, asking its people on whether they choose to join or oppose her. Among all people of this Earth, Dr Will Tornado was the only one answering, telling her that whatever god she is, his machines have more divinity in their metal hearts than her.

Perpetua replied that these words have no place in her new design and started considering to destroy Earth 44 but was interrupted by a call from a helpless Mobius. Perpetua then tell Dr Will Tornado that she know a parfect place for his Earth and throw it toward her sons who were recently freed from their brother thanks to John Stewart's intervention but they managed to flee before the impact thanks to Alpheus' sacrifice.

Much later, Perpetua came to Earth-0 to confront the Justice League who had defeated Lex Luthor and gathered Hawkgirl, John Stewart and J'onn J'onzz. During the confrontation, J'onn managed to reach out the minds of all the people of the planet, trying to convince them to break free of Perpetua's lies which shifted the psychic balance toward justice, strings of energy started to wrap up Perpetua.

However, just as the victory was near for the league, the balance shifted for doom again, breaking free of her bonds, Perpetua explained that she allowed the psychic connection J'onn had with Earth's people to happen because she wanted them to see their people rejecting them since she was the creator of the Multiverse and also explained that she left a piece of the Totality across time for Vandal Savage who will recruit the Luthors to found a way to unlock her powers as she planned. She then obliterated the Justice League; however, without her knowing, the league were saved by the Quintessence.[11]

Hell Arisen

After the fall of the Justice League at Perpetua's hands, the Multiverse was at her and Lex Luthor's mercy. When the Crime Syndicate of Earth-3 came to Perpetua requesting more power, Perpetua's response was to turn their people into Apex Predators and killing Johnny Quick after his disagreement to join her.

After the meeting Perpetua had with the Crime Syndicate, she sent Lex Luthor to Earth-0 in order to eradicate the dark energy incursion caused by the The Batman Who Laughs. Much later Lex came to Perpetua with the defeated Batman Who Laughs. However, The Batman Who Laughs used his superior knowledge to convince Perpetua to choose him over Lex as her second in charge. Perpetua then depowered Lex for his insolence and send him back to Earth but not before Lex learns that the glorious vision of the future he had was an hoax made by Perpetua in order to manipulate him.[12]

Dark Nights: Death Metal

Perpetua was confronted by the Justice League at an unspecified date. She wielded all the Crisis Energy as the league harnessed Doctor Manhattan's energy, consisting of all the Anti-Crisis Energy.[3] As their battle raged, Perpetua taunted Diana, telling her that if she won using the positive energies, every history including those forgotten due to Crisis would be destroyed; therefore many people would be left dead. Scared by this truth, Diana hesitated long enough for Perpetua to regroup and call on The Batman Who Laughs.[13] The fight ended on a massive blow that burned the sun and has exhausted both energies.[3]

The Batman Who Laughs helped her to regain strength using the Dark Multiverse, whose three worlds of unending Crises made it a hub of the negative energies that would keep powering Perpetua through multiple antennas around the Multiverse. Having gained enough power to destroy the rest of the Multiverse, Perpetua took over reality and proceeded to reshape it as how she wanted, while rewarding Laughs with Earth-0, reshaping the world for him.

She destroyed Earth-22 as well as most of the universes that doesn't match her dark ideology, reducing the Multiverse from fifty two universe to only eight. Later, Perpetua came to The Batman Who Laughs, telling him that only six universes remains. Untrusting him, she also warns him about if he tries to usurps her, her kind, the Hands would come and see what's been done in the Multiverse and they will destroy it all.[14]

Perpetua would later destroy the House of Heroes and would sent her minions from the Dark Multiverse on the Justice Incarnate and the Green Lantern Corps who were trying to destroy all the antennas in order to cut her off from her source of power.[2] Thanks to Owlman who had trapped each tower with a detonator, they managed to destroy every tower and leave the areas; despite this, Perpetua was still powerful enough to destroy the remaining universes though her unlimited source of power was cut off.[2]

After the rise of the The Batman Who Laughs, now known as the Darkest Knight, who tricked the Trinity in order to redirect all remaining Crisis Energy from three worlds of never ending Crisis to him instead of Wally West, Perpetua battled the Darkest Knight head-on, with all of the remnants of reality collapsing in the chaos around their duel.[15]

Despite being cut off from their primary power sources thanks to the machinations of the remaining heroes, both powerful beings continued to war against each other.[14] Growing exhausted and weaker as the remaining Crisis Energy was redirected to the Darkest Knight, Perpetua offers a partnership with him, arguing that it's only through her power that her kind is prevented from coming to the Multiverse and wiping it out. But the Darkest Knight is hoping for just such an outcome in order to destroy them himself. With Perpetua all but spent, the Darkest Knight reveals his last trick; using his powers, the Darkest Knight pulls together the remaining parts of the Source Wall that had once contained her. Despite her pleas, the Darkest Knight seals her within the remnants of the wall and destroys them, ultimately ending Perpetua's life.[16]

As the final battle between the Forge of Worlds-empowered Wonder Woman and the Darkest Knight raged, they fall back through time to the beginning of the universe itself. They saw the Hand of Creation sparking the Big Bang which the One who Laughs has recognized as Perpetua's.[17]

Powers

  • Nigh-Omnipotence: Perpetua is an omega class cosmic entity and is considered as one of the most powerful beings in the Multiverse and even in the Omniverse, she is viewed as the most feared being out of all her brothers and sisters tending the infinite Multiverses.[1] The Monitor, the World Forger and the Anti-Monitor, cosmic figures of extreme powers, weren't able to defeat her without help from the Cosmic Raptor.[4] After joining together as the Ultra-Monitor, they were equal to Perpetua who had yet to regain her full power. After regaining her full power, she achieved such tremendous power, she was able to completely overwhelm the Ultra-Monitor.[9] Even upon her freedom, it released a burst of energy similar to the Big Bang and shocked the entirety of the Multiverse, even Heaven.[1]
    • Reality Alteration: Perpetua has the ability to alter reality on a universal scale. She can create and destroy almost everything with the most casual act, from living beings to universes.[18] Even while asleep, planets form around her fingers and galaxies born and die around her.[19] At full capacity, she can reconfigure the Multiverse, switching it from Justice to Doom, and remake it in her image.[20]
    • Energy Projection: Perpetua wields the Crisis Energy, which is essentially all dark powers in the universe that invites undoing the past in favor of the immediate moment, including the Anti-Life Equation, Chaos Magic and the Seven Hidden Forces.[3]
    • Energy Construct Creation: Perpetua can mold the Crisis Energy into a functioning Multiverse and can shape the entirety of the energies of positive, dark, and antimatter into the three individual realms that make up reality.[21]
    • Energy Absorption: Perpetua feeds on the psychic energy of people's fear, anger, and selfish desires, which generates Crisis Energy that sustains her power.[3]
    • Molecular Reconstruction: Perpetua can manipulate or disintegrate matter at will; she can transform living beings as sees fit, as she did when she turned Brainiac into her personal throne.[22]
    • Resurrection: Perpetua was able to coalesce the remains of the Omega Titans into one Frankenstein-like being called the Omega Knight.[23]
    • Bio-Fusion: Perpetua can perform Bio-Fusion on living beings like she did with the Humans and the Martians where she created the Apex Predators from them.[4]
    • Superhuman Strength: Perpetua possesses immense levels of superhuman strength. During the Justice/Doom War, She was able of hurling an entire planet from Earth-44 to her childrens, while they were in Earth-0, at high speed.[24]
    • Superhuman Durability: Perpetua was strong enough to withstand the many planets the Darkest Knight hurled at her, as well as several of his punches.[25]
    • Mechanokinesis: Perpetua can control technology to some degree. She was able to turn off the ship of the Justice League with a thought.[26]
    • Size Alteration: Perpetua can alter her physical size. There's currently no known limit on how much she can grow. She has shown herself capable of growing from normal heights to the size of several planets.[27] She can even enlarge herself to much bigger heights to the point of holding the Multiverse in her hands.[28]
    • Telepathy: Perpetua can broadcast a psychic whisper across the Multiverse that invites anyone who might hear it to change history to make the present more important.[3] This was the same trick she used on Lex Luthor when she projected a false vision into his mind in which everyone will worship him in one billion years in the future.[29] She was able to block the psychic connection that M'gann M'orzz and Shayne J'onzz had with Earth-0's people with ease.[30] J'onn J'onzz was only able to communicate with Earth-0 people because she allowed the connection.[31]
    • Telekinesis: Perpetua can manipulate the movement of objects and people with her minds as displayed when she threw Lex Luthor into a portal with a mere hand gesture.[29]
    • Immortality: As the creator of the original Multiverse, Perpetua is one of the oldest beings in existence.
    • Power Distribution: Perpetua can infuse others with the Crisis Energy as displayed with Lex Luthor or when she infused Mobius with the Anti-Life Equation.[32]
    • Teleportation: Perpetua can make herself and others appear anywhere in the entire Multiverse with no issues, such as transport herself from the Promethean Galaxy of Earth-0, which lies at the end of the universe to Earth-19.[33]
    • Dimensional Travel: Perpetua can travel to other realities at will. Perpetua is not limited to using this dimensional traveling power on herself as she can teleport others as well.[12]
    • Chronokinesis: Perpetua has the ability to tamper with timelines by incorporating pieces of the Totality across multiple eras in time, and can transfer beings through time as well.[34] Also, Perpetua's havoc on reality echoes backward and forward in time.[12]
    • Cosmic Awareness: Perpetua can sense various events throughout the Multiverse such as sensing Mxyzptlk's assault on reality as well as Alpheus' attempt to replace it with a new Multiverse from the Sixth Dimension, the highest plane of existence.[4]
    • Clairvoyance: Perpetua can peer into the Fourth Dimension of time. She used this ability at least one time to watch the future of her Apex Predator.[4]

Weaknesses

  • Power Loss: Despite her immense power, Perpetua relies on Crisis Energy and often has to be fueled by the psychic energies of people's fears, anger and selfish desires in order to maintain her power.[3] She can lose her power if the Crisis Energy are stripped away from her, which is what the Darkest Knight did when he redirected Perpetua's Crisis Energy to himself.

Equipment

  • Perpetua created technologies capable of stabilizing Hypertime which she gifted to Brainiac, allowing him to steal infinite futures of death from Hypertime.

Transportation

  • Godhead: Perpetua created the Godhead, a spaceship which serves as headquarter for her.

Weapons

  • Staff


Related

Footnotes


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