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The Anti-Life chant of Grant Morrison's Final Crisis (2008), from Jack Kirby's Fourth World
Darkseid is.
— New Gods • 1971
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Two words that stand in for a whole religion of fear: the claim is that Darkseid simply is, like weather or gravity, and resistance is only ever temporary. Fans use it as a dread-laced sign-off for anything inevitable. The rhythm, subject and verb with nothing after it, carries the menace.
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In context
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Darkseid is the tyrant of Apokolips, the villain Jack Kirby created for his Fourth World saga at DC. He was glimpsed first in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #134 (December 1970) and fully introduced in Forever People #1 (February 1971), with New Gods running alongside. His goal across the saga is the Anti-Life Equation, a formula to put every thinking thing under his control. The two-word chant itself comes later, in Grant Morrison's Final Crisis (2008), where people enslaved by the Anti-Life Equation repeat it as their only creed.
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- Wikipedia: DarkseidPublication historyReference checked
- Wikiquote: DarkseidJack Kirby quotesReference checked
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