Not so for Doomsday, who was created—at least in the comics—on Krypton and equals Superman in strength. Doomsday, an unthinking creature, is hellbent on killing everyone and everything in his path.
He is a massive blob monster with bones protruding from his body. But this origin diverges from the comic books. In the comics, Doomsday was born during prehistoric times on Krypton. An alien scientist named Bertron conducted a series of cruel experiments on a humanoid infant in which it is killed over and over again until it evolved into Doomsday then known as The Ultimate. Doomsday eventually kills Bertron. The movie shows Lex Luthor mixing his own blood with that of General Zod to create the monster in the Genesis Chamber of the Kryptonian spaceship that crashed in Man of Steel.
After defeating the whole Justice League in a matter of minutes, he engaged in a fight with Superman. He was the first supervillain to be a match for the Man of Steel in a physical confrontation and the cult series eventually lead to Superman and Doomsday killing each other. Thus, Doomsday became the first and so far the only supervillain to kill Superman in combat. Of course, both of them survived the famous clash and Doomsday would play a role in future DC Comics stories.
He has appeared in several derivative materials, mostly in animation movies and TV shows , but also played a very important role — with a slightly different origin story — in the movie Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice within the former DCEU. After reading a brief history of the character, we should certainly ask ourselves — can this monstrosity be killed?
As was seen on several occasions, Doomsday is extremely powerful and strong, with a plethora of different abilities and powers. He is a mindless beast whose only purpose in life is — destruction. But, where he lacks intelligence, he has strength.
Doomsday is without a doubt one of the strongest beings in the DC Universe, comparable to the likes of Superman and Darkseid. In a physical confrontation, he is practically unbeatable. He has enormous strength, he is nearly invulnerable, has great leaping abilities he cannot fly, but is not far from it and can utilize a lot of the same powers as Superman.
He is also extremely fast and on top of that, he has exceptional regenerative skills, meaning that he can recover from any form of harm if given enough time he can even recover in hermetic conditions, underground, without the Sun, but it takes more time.
Doomsday, who finally made his cinematic debut in this year's Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice , is like DC's version of the Hulk: uncontrollable, unstoppable, and strong enough to level entire cities. But whereas Bruce Banner's green-skinned alter-ego has friends like Rick Jones, Iron Man , and Betty Ross, and tends to hang out with good guys like the Avengers — albeit while causing some collateral damage along the way — Doomsday utterly despises all forms of life, crushes small birds in his hands, has no kind feelings toward anyone , and desires nothing but the total destruction of anything that gets in his path.
Doomsday will forever be remembered as the terrifying villain who finally killed Superman , a climactic feat that even classic villains like Lex Luthor and Brainiac were never able to pull off. But Doomsday, though mindless and indestructible, is not a character who comes from simple beginnings. His ancient, torturous history is more complex than many realize. Though Batman V Superman kept Doomsday's Kryptonian roots intact by presenting the monster as a hybridized creation of General Zod's corpse, ancient Kryptonian technology, and the machinations of Lex Luthor, the comic book Doomsday's history goes even further back.
The Krypton that Doomsday comes from is so ancient, in fact, that Doomsday himself existed many hundreds of years before humanoids became the planet's dominant species — primarily because back then, the surface of Krypton was so hellishly dangerous that few life forms could survive stepping out the front door.
Doomsday is the result of experiments by the alien scientist Bertron, who sought to create a humanoid lifeform that could survive life on Krypton. To do this, he threw out a humanoid baby onto the planet, where it was immediately killed. After this, Bertron recovered the infant's remains and cloned them, then put the cloned baby back out into Krypton — repeating this process over and over, with the baby dying each time.
Bertron, through murdering this baby over and over, was creating a form of accelerated evolution This horrible experiment would be one thing if the cloned-and-recloned infant didn't know about all of the times it had been murdered, but the memory of all these thousands of deaths became recorded in the lifeform's genes; thus, its entire memory was filled with nothing but the endless torture of dying in brutal ways, over and over again, for decades.
By the time that the new lifeform was actually able to survive the harsh atmosphere of Krypton, no longer needed to eat and breathe, had no more use for internal organs, and had then killed all of early Krypton's most powerful predators, it was ready to murder its most dangerous enemy of all: Bertron himself, whose desperate pleas for life were ignored by the monster he'd so unmercifully created.
Since then, Doomsday has died again many, many times. Betron's experiments to create "The Ultimate," as Doomsday was originally named, resulted in a creature with such fantastic regeneration abilities that he can recover from any injury and any death. Furthermore, Doomsday is constantly evolving to become more powerful.
Every time he dies one way, he becomes resistant to that form of injury, and can never be killed the same way again. There was at least one time that the only way Doomsday could be defeated was to leave him stranded at the End of Time, trapping his body within the heat death of the universe.
That's at least one death that nobody, not even Doomsday, can evolve past. The X-Men's Juggernaut is pretty damn unstoppable , but Doomsday might have him beat. Darkseid, one of DC's big bads who will likely play a huge role in the two Justice League movies, has a fairly personal history with Superman's killer After the Ultimate first escapes from Krypton, he makes his way to the planet Bylon 5, where his murderous rampage not for any particular reason, it's just that Doomsday arriving anywhere means a murderous rampage interrupts the wedding bells between Darkseid and the planet's princess.
Doomsday quickly manages to destroy the planet's atmosphere, poisoning its resources, and forcing Darkseid to escape before he and Doomsday can fight each other directly. They meet again, many centuries later, when Doomsday finds his way to Darkseid's home planet of Apokolips.
Doomsday's mindless rage tears right through Apokolips, leading him right to Darkseid, a god-like foe whom Doomsday single-handedly devastates in combat. Even Darkseid's legendary Omega Beams — the energy force that he projects from his eyes, capable of disintegrating any living organism in seconds — prove to be no match against Doomsday, marking him as one of the few beings in history to ever withstand them Years and years before Superman battles him to the death on Earth, many planets across the universe face their Doomsday, and not all of these worlds are lucky enough to survive the encounter.
The planet Calaton suffers the rampages of the Ultimate for three years, seeing everything but their capital city destroyed at his hands, and the planet's natives are only able to get rid of him by combining into one being and blasting away an entire fifth of their planet.
The planet Khundia is also unfortunate enough to suffer an invasion from Krypton's ancient monster, until they are able to shoot him off into space. Decades later, the creature somehow resurfaced and came to Earth, where the media dubbed him Doomsday. He battled Superman in Metropolis, apparently killing him, only for the hero to revive later. After escaping one more time, he evolved and released spores into the air that would poison others or alter them to become similar creatures.
Doomsday appeared in Metropolis once again, beast-like in his behavior again but still intelligent enough to rationalize basic strategies against his opponents and predict attacks. After another battle, Superman exiled Doomsday to the Phantom Zone yet again.
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