DC Multiverse Framework Detailed Explanation (10) :D The Ultimate Enemy of the C Universe "Great Darkness"
This article was inspired by a friend's message.
First of all, the little evil should apologize, in the previous article "DC Multiverse Detailed Explanation (IX) :D C God, Angel and Heaven in the Universe", the small plague made a mistake, writing the Void Hand and Darkseid backwards, Darkseid is the left hand of the Great Darkness, and the Void Hand is the right hand of the Great Darkness, and the hand that the Great Darkness shakes hands with God is the Void Hand, not Darkseid.
Shortly after the article was published, Xiao Fu discovered this error and made changes, but some platforms could not edit it for special reasons, so they did not correct it.
Many people have heard of the great darkness of the DC Universe, but in fact, most people do not really understand it, believing that the Great Darkness is one of the most powerful beings in the DC Universe, the opposite of the supreme "existence" of the DC Universe.
In fact, this is not the case, and the Great Darkness will only be truly recognized as the antithesis of "existence" in 2021. The little peril has said many times that the 2021 event "Infinite Margin" is very important, after the event dc universe entered a new era, creators gained greater creative freedom, and the dc universe also focused on some newly created characters and some old marginal characters. In this context, the Great Darkness, which was created in 1986, was truly recognized.
The Great Darkness of Not Being Recognized
Also known as the Great Beast, Great Darkness first appeared in the 1986 comic strip Swamp Monster v2#49.
When anti-watchers invade the multiverse, the cult "Witchcraft" summons Great Darkness in the hope that Great Darkness will destroy God and reshape the world.
At this time, magic heroes such as Etrigan, swamp monsters, phantom strangers, Doctor Destiny, ghosts, and some angels of heaven and demons of hell stood up to prevent the Great Darkness from marching to heaven. In addition, Sargon, Zatara, Manto and a group of other magical heroes are sitting around the round table to remotely cast spells to stop the giant beast.
Great Darkness asks the heroes in front of them a question of "how to explain evil", and the heroes such as Dr. Destiny, Etrigan, and The Ghost all give their answers, but these are not what Great Darkness wants, and they are all injured by Great Darkness, until the Swamp Monster tells Great Darkness that "good and evil define each other", Great Darkness extends his hand to Heaven, and the Hand of God appears and the Hand of Great Darkness is held together.
Everything in the world has changed, and good and evil coexist with each other.
In this war, the heroes in front of the giant beasts were not seriously injured, but the heroes who cast spells from a distance, Sargon and Zatara, died, and Mando went crazy.
Here's a little woe to say that many artists who pursue artistry often do not consider the continuity of DC when creating. For example Jack. Bryant's "Fourth World", Neil. Gaiman's "The Sleeping Devil", Alain. Moore's "Deadly Joke," Grant Morrison's "Animal Man," and so on.
The reason why these works are now integrated into the continuity of the DC Universe is the work of the DC editorial office, because these works are very good and popular. The mandatory integration of DC into the DC Universe also caused a lot of continuity problems. For example, after Lucifer leaves Hell and is no longer the King of Hell in "Sleeping Devil", the successors in "Sleeping Devil" are angel Duma and Remir, but in Lucifer, which is also a vertigo comic book, Lucifer Satan takes over the position of the first fallen, and under the mainstream source system of DC, It is Etrigan and Ran. tile. The trinity of Darth and Abbadon, and Lucifer did not voluntarily abdicate the throne by Etrigan.
In this case, there are many authors whose settings are not accepted by other authors, the most representative of which is Grant. Morrison's main watchdog.
This is the case with the giant beasts created by Alan Moore, and in the Swamp Monster comics, the giant beasts that broke the wrists of God were not recognized by other authors, and in the following decades, the giant beasts rarely appeared, and generally only appeared in comics that recalled the war.
In addition, the equal strength of the giant beast and the god was not recognized, and at the same time as the giant beast incident, another event occurred in DC.
In the comic strip The Last Day of the Justice Society, Hitler in 1945 acquires the Spear of Destiny, which binds the fate of the universe to the twilight of the gods of Norse mythology, and others use the twilight of the gods to destroy the universe. At this time, the ghost body led the Justice Society to the battlefield of World War II in 1945 and cooperated with the Norse gods to stop the gods from twilight and smash Hitler's plot.
The ghost who traveled to 1945 was the ghost body, and the one who remained in 1986 to stop the giant beast was a doppelganger with only a small part of its strength. That's why the ghost was defeated by the giant beast. In the subsequent manga Ghost V2#1, the ghost who lost to the giant beast was punished by the Voice of God.
This is confirmed in several of DC's official formula manuals.
That is to say, in 1986, when the giant beast was created, the setting of the giant beast's strength was not recognized by the DC editorial department and other authors.
After that, the Great Darkness never appeared, only in some comics that recalled the event.
It wasn't until the 2018 comic strip Justice League Dark V2#3 that the narrator again mentioned the Great Darkness and this event. This issue of the manga does not deny the power of the Great Darkness, but it does deny the Giant Beast. Because in this issue of the comic it is described as "it is the abyss, it is the dark world, it is the great darkness" and "Constantine once witnessed that a small piece of debris almost burned heaven to the ground". This refers to the incident in which the giant beast attacked heaven, and the giant beast was just a small piece of debris of the great darkness.
In the same comic the author created another universe created before the incarnation of darkness Pralaija, that is, in the creators of Justice League dark Dematis and Andrew. The giant beast in the eyes of Mario and the others was only a small piece of debris from Pralaia.
The "dark world" mentioned in the comic is also a very powerful and possibly even one of the highest gods of DC, but there are very few plots about the dark world in the comics, and the dark world was mentioned in an article about Dr. Fate written a year ago.
In the 2019 comic strip Lucifer V3#10, it is implied that the Giant Beast is one of Lucifer's many doppelgangers, which was found on Twitter by author Don. Confirmation by Waters.
Therefore, the strength of the Great Dark/Giant Beast has not been recognized by the DC official and other authors, and he is not the supreme god corresponding to God in the DC Universe.
Recognition of the Great Darkness
In 2021, DC launched "Infinite Edge", DC gave creators greater creative freedom, authors have released themselves, changed settings, and the great darkness has finally gained recognition and become the dark existence corresponding to God in the DC universe.
In Infinity Edge, Darkseid collects all the divine fragments he broke in The Final Crisis, becoming the full version of Darkseid. Darkseid said that "although he is not the only one looking for great darkness, he will be the only one who controls great darkness."
In the later "Justice League Incarnation", the latest setting appears in the Great Darkness, he is the darkness before the creation of the universe, and God is the white light that created the universe. (Mentioned in the previous article that God/existence is the source is also white light)
After God appeared to shake hands with the Great Darkness, which retreated, he remained in a deep sleep, but still unleashed his influence.
Originally after the appearance of Perpetua in 2016, the setting of the DC Universe was perpetua, who was trapped in the Origin Wall, in order to absorb the crisis energy and rush out of the Origin Wall, constantly murmuring, so that villains such as the Anti-Monitor and the Supreme Little Superman created several crisis events.
This setting was changed in Justice League Incarnation, and the anti-watchers were influenced by the Great Darkness to create Infinite Earth Crisis. And Mag, Anti-Life Equation, Supreme Little Superman, Silent Being, and Meditation Mites are all driven by the Great Darkness, causing various crises, and finally forming Infinite Crisis. Infinite Crisis breaks the truce between light and darkness, but Source sends a family of watchmen to administer the multiverse to delay the awakening of great darkness.
Darkseid's desire to control prophecy and fate triggers The Final Crisis, intending to pull out and control the Great Darkness, but the crisis costs him his life and causes his divinity to collapse. At this time, the Great Darkness appeared on Mandrake, The Nix, mandolac's son. Wu Tan activates the immune system of the multiverse: superheroes. Mandrake was nailed to death by the Green Lantern Legion in the form of a long nail.
This defeat makes Great Darkness know that his real enemy is the superhero of the multiverse.
When Great Darkness decides to expand its influence, it is discovered that Dr. Manhattan has stolen the time and history of the DC Universe, a change that has caused a huge chain reaction in the DC Universe.
Great Darkness transformed the right hand that had shook hands with God/Being/Source into the Hand of the Void and headed to Multiverse-2. When the Void Hand invaded the DC Multiverse, it contributed to the establishment of the multiverse hero team Justice Avatar, which was later renamed justice league avatar.
As the dark forces spread, Barbatos led the Dark Multiverse to invade the Main Universe, giving rise to Metal, which caused a series of events that led to the reorganization of the Multiverse, although Barbatos failed.
That is to say, all the crisis events in the DC Universe originated from the Great Darkness.
The upcoming Justice League V4#75 story is titled "The Death of the Justice League", after which DC will launch the dark crisis, which is said to be a 30-year-old event. This crisis is undoubtedly the biggest crisis since the birth of the DC Universe.
After the death of the Justice League, how will the heroes fight the coming darkness?
In Justice League Incarnation#5中最后一张图显示达克赛德, Eclipse, Black Death, Hand of the Void, Ares, Upside Down, Doom, and Nero, King of Hell, have all become members of the Dark Legion under the Great Darkness.
This lineup is very worrying for the heroes, every member of the Dark Legion has the strength to set off a big event, and The Day of Destruction may be the weakest of them.
In addition, #1中正义联盟和超级英雄军团一起被吸入了大黑暗之中 the latest comic book, Justice League vs. Legion of SuperHeroes, this great darkness does not know whether it is the same existence as the great darkness in the DC Universe.