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You know what I was saying yesterday about Doomsday being overused and weakened as a threat because of it? Well, just after finishing that article I found one on ScreenRant that proves my point.

I’ve often said that the retcon is the most dangerous weapon in storytelling. It can completely change how you view those older stories going back because of the “new information” tied to those events. Add to that Doomsday’s origin story. In the miniseries Superman/Doomsday: Hunter/Prey, which I’ve reviewed because I own the trade, we learn that Doomsday was created by a scientist obsessed with creating the ultimate lifeform. To achieve that goal they’d clone a baby monster, toss it to the unforgiving wilderness, collect the remains, and repeat the process until they had an unkillable monster…who then killed them. Waverider showed all this to Superman, but for some reason the scientist in charge didn’t look like he came from Krypton…and yet he was Kryptonian. Supposedly this explained why Doomsday went after Superman specifically. You know, if you ignore everything else he attacked when he arrived on Earth and the alien worlds in that miniseries, including Apocalypse. Darkseid even allowed Superman to use a Mother Box to defeat the monster once and for all.

Well, now it turns out he had reason to worry. According to modern DC writers, Darkseid was destined to become the most powerful being in the multiverse, the “King Omega”, and an Alpha was supposed to be chosen to fight him or something. I haven’t been following the DC KO event because DC heroes fighting each other isn’t what I go to DC for and one of the reasons why Marvel was my number two until I parted ways with both main universes. So how Doomsday is the Time Trapper is already confusing to me…and now he’s also the “absolute champion”, the Alpha that’s supposed to save the multiverse. To repeat from the article title…what?

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