Justice League Incarnate #5 turned Darkseid from main villain to puppet but there’s a major chance he could still be Dark Crisis’ secret villain.
WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Justice League Incarnate #5, on sale now from DC Comics.
Justice League Incarnate‘s end has set up the beginning of DC’s next big event, Dark Crisis. However, this ending has reduced one of DC’s greatest villains, the all-powerful Lord of Apokolips Darkseid, to the role of a mere pawn. This formidable force of nature has been turned into a mindless drone, a single part of a much larger entity. However, that doesn’t mean he has to stay thatin that role.
Darkseid’s fight against his former master, the Great Darkness, came to a final end in Justice League Incarnate #5 (by Joshua Williamson, Dennis Culver, Andrei Bressan, Jesús Merino, Hi-Fi and Tom Napolitano). Although he believed he could conquer this all-powerful force of ancient eternal evil, when he charged in to show that he was in control, he proved the exact opposite. He lost his free will and became an agent of the Great Darkness, as he had been before.
As a part of the Dark Army, Darkseid will soon kill the Justice League in April’s landmark Justice League #75. After that, he’ll be part of the Great Darkness’ assault on the DC Universe in Dark Crisis. However, he won’t be the main villain, just a part of a larger force and without any will of his own. Readers may remember that the Lord of Apokolips was the main threat of another Crisis event, Final Crisis (by Grant Morrison, J.G. Jones and Carlos Pacheco). However, as Justice League Incarnate revealed, even that plan was in service to the Great Darkness. Although he didn’t know it, he was just a puppet of another ultimate evil and his intentions were never his own. This is compounded by the revelation that his origins were not what they seemed either and, apparently, he was always made to serve this evil, one that was greater than his own.
All of this seems to destroy Darkseid’s reputation as a villain and firmly place him below the Great Darkness, forever a servant instead of a leader. However, it’s unlikely that this is the end of Darkseid’s story. Out of everyone in the Dark Army, he was the only one that ever resisted. Not only that, he won. He may have been a servant to the Great Darkness during Final Crisis, but he was able to break free of its hold eventually. To the point that he was actively working against it in Infinite Frontier and Justice League Incarnate.
If he could resist before he can resist again. This could be a major part of the upcoming Dark Crisis. Although he will inevitably follow through in his role as a servant in “Death of the Justice League,” who’s to say he won’t begin resisting as soon as Dark Crisis begins. It’s more than just a possibility, it’s expected. As perhaps DC’s greatest and most formidable villain, someone that the heroes unite against time and time again, it’s unlikely that he will stay the way he is now.
With his history of resisting being a mere pawn to the Great Darkness, his breaking free once more is inevitable. What’s more, it could show the rest of the Dark Army that they don’t have to be servants either. If Darkseid breaks free then the rest could follow. He could soon be the center of a revolution in the most merciless selection of villains DC has ever seen. It could ruin the Great Darkness’ plans and give the next generation of DC’s heroes a new evil to unexpectedly fight towards the end of this next epic. Or perhaps it could do something even more unexpected. Darkseid could lead the rest of the Dark Army in an unexpected alliance with the heroes against their common enemy. It would be quite the shock but not completely unprecedented, seeing as how he suggested an alliance with Justice League Incarnate before. Either way, Darkseid’s time as a leading villain is far from over. In fact, it may only just be beginning.
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