doomsday came from superman in the comics.
doomsday came from superman in the comics.
where does doomsday come from in the comics?
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"superman" (vol. 2) #175 commemorated the 100th issue since the death of superman in battle with doomsday, by staging a rematch. doomsday's skeleton was retrieved and his flesh regrown by lex luthor (using superman's kryptonian dna), who handed doomsday over to darkseid to repay earth's war debt to apokolips. by this time, doomsday had evolved intelligence and sentience. luthor arranged for the joker to set doomsday loose in washington, d.c., to demonstrate that he was "in good working condition". it also happened to be the anniversary of the day that superman had died while stopping doomsday. despite being weakened by kryptonite exposure when luthor attempted to exploit doomsday's kryptonian origins, superman's heart was restarted by black lightning and he reached doomsday just as the monster was struggling with the martian manhunter (j'onn j'onzz). learning from j'onzz that doomsday wanted to kill luthor because he blamed luthor for his "death" in the imperiex war, superman would soon fight doomsday again and, this time, humbly defeat the creature by knocking him out and proving to himself and the world that doomsday would never be superman's equal anymore:
doomsday (dc comics)
unknown to superman, doomsday had faced and beaten darkseid in single combat, even after withstanding the full effect of darkseid's omega beams, and was laying waste to apokolips. unfortunately, before superman could deal with doomsday, desaad opened a boom tube to calaton—the first world where doomsday was successfully defeated—and sent doomsday through, to what he believed was his defeat at the hands of the radiant. doomsday was able to adapt, however, and overcome any opponent because of the process by which he was created, so, although the radiant had defeated him once, he would not be able to defeat him again. likewise, even though superman had killed doomsday once before, he was unable to do so again. superman, while knowing this — having been filled in on doomsday's history by the time-manipulating waverider — was obsessed with stopping doomsday and followed him to calaton. he fought doomsday again with the help of the mother box, but, despite it providing him with extra weapons such as an ultrasonic gun and an energy sword, superman met with defeat as doomsday's evolutions rendered him immune to superman's attacks, such as his auditory channels being sealed by new bone growths or his knuckle-bones being able to shoot out of his body to 'pin' superman in the air. eventually, with his left arm having suffered a compound fracture and most of his weapons lost, superman was forced to use one of waverider's time travel devices to leave doomsday stranded at the end of time, where doomsday met the one force he could not overcome: entropy. upon returning superman to the present, the mother box healed superman's injuries and then "died." on apokolips, darkseid became fascinated with doomsday's abilities after learning his origin from waverider.
doomsday (dc comics)