In the end, The Hunger Dogs saw the tormented, slave population of Apokolips rise up against Darkseid in a massive slave revolt, forcing Darkseid to flee his homeworld.

The Apokolips campaign ended with a truce with the Guardians forced to abandon a soldier ( Raker Qarrigat ) to Darkseid.

The series ended August 31, 1985 and featured comic-book villains such as Brainiac, Lex Luthor, Mirror Master, Mr. Mxyzptlk, Darkseid and his henchmen from Apokolips.

", where Batman sends him to Apokolips to see if Darkseid has designs on Earth.

New Genesis is an idyllic planet filled with unspoiled forests, mountains, and rivers and is ruled by the benevolent Highfather, while Apokolips is a nightmarish, ruined dystopia filled with machinery and fire pits and is ruled by the tyrant Darkseid.

However, this ending would not last, as Darkseid would reclaim Apokolips off-panel prior to the events of the 1986 Legends crossover.

In the mid-1980s, Darkseid, Kalibak, Desaad, and the planet Apokolips were featured in the final two incarnations of the Super Friends animated series, entitled Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show and The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians.

When Darkseid launches his final assault on Earth and Apokolips appears in Earth's system, Jor-El and Jonathan's spirit inform Clark that, to be a true hero, he must accept not only his Kryptonian powers, but the human spirit he learned from the Kents, Clark subsequently donning the Superman suit for the first time to stop Apokolips.

" He ends up attacking Apokolips after Darkseid had suffered a major defeat at the hands of Orion.

It began 245, 000 years ago on Bylan 5, where Darkseid was about to wed a princess ( in order to obtain that planet's chemical deposits for Apokolips ' weapons factories ).

Just as the Ultimate and Darkseid were to meet in combat, Darkseid was forced to flee, as the rampage of The Ultimate had caused the planet's atmosphere to become toxic and therefore the chemicals worthless to Apokolips.

The scavenger vessel happened to be on a route to Apokolips, the home of the powerful tyrant Darkseid.

Unknown to Superman, Doomsday had faced and beaten Darkseid in single combat, even after withstanding the full effect of Darkseid's fabled Omega Beams, and was laying waste to Apokolips.

It is shown that 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.

When Superman travelled to Apokolips to reclaim the life of Steel, Darkseid's wife Mortalla ordered his troops to release Doomsday in an attempt to help Darkseid.

However, as part of a diplomatic move to stop a destructive war against the planet Apokolips, Highfather agreed to an exchange of heirs with the galactic tyrant Darkseid ; the exchange of heirs guaranteed that neither side would attack the other.

Darkseid uses Izaya in his scheme to seize control of Apokolips.

In making peace with Apokolips, Izaya and Darkseid make a pact to exchange their sons.

Eventually, Scott Free ( Mister Miracle ) escapes Apokolips ( as planned by Darkseid ) which breaks the pact between New Genesis and Apokolips.

He then went to Apokolips and confronted Darkseid about his birth, and fought for control of Apokolips.

The DC Comics character the Pied Piper plays Queen's " The Show Must Go On " as his swan song, using his control over sound to destroy the entire planet Apokolips, while being trapped inside.

* In the DC animated universe, Highfather first appears on Superman: The Animated Series in the Season 2 episode " Apokolips ... Now!

Issues 1-5 were reprinted by DC Comics in the trade paperback The Gates of Apokolips.

Desaad's first recorded appearance in the history of the DC Universe was as a hanger-on at the side of Drax, heir to Apokolips.

In the DC Comics fictional shared Universe, Apokolips is the planet ruled by Darkseid, established in Jack Kirby's Fourth World series.

Apokolips and its bright counterpart, New Genesis, were spawned by the destruction of Urgrund the world of the " Old Gods " ( initially implied to be the gods of classical mythology, though versions of these characters have since been revealed to still exist in the DC Universe ).

* In the crossover video game Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe, the merging of both universe causes Apokolips to merge with Outworld, thereby resulting in the destruction of both.

New Genesis and its dark counterpart Apokolips were spawned by the destruction of Urgrund, the world of the " Old Gods " ( initially implied to be the gods of classical mythology, though versions of these characters have since been revealed to still exist in the DC Universe ).

* Orion # 10, 12: " Legends of Apokolips " ( with Walter Simonson, DC Comics, 2001 )

A boom tube is a slang expression for a fictional extra-dimensional point-to-point travel portal ( a form of teleportation ) opened by a Mother Box used primarily by residents of New Genesis and Apokolips in DC Comics.

* Finally, the Infinity Gems are found in Apokolips, in the possession of an Infinity Gauntlet-wearing Darkseid ; however, since the Gems do not affect the DC Universe reality like they do in the Marvel Universe, Darkseid discards the Gauntlet, which is recovered by the Flash.

Also during Countdown in issue # 837 of Detective Comics, it is revealed that he is supplying the Amazons Women Shelters with special drugs from Apokolips.

Sadly, Air-Walker fell during an attack on his homeworld of Xandar by a villain named Ravenous and his fellow Seekers.

It is also the homeworld to the villain Cosmic King ( 1961 ), who was banished for performing transmutation experiments.

The opening and ending scenes were drawn by Mizushima ; the scene involving the debut of the film's villain was drawn by Soichi Masui ; the middle section of the film was drawn by Shingo Kaneko ; Edward Elric's return to his homeworld was drawn by Masahiro Ando ; action scenes were drawn by Shinji Aramaki ; and the battle between Wrath and Gluttony was drawn by Yutaka Nakamura.

Czarnia is a fictional planet, the homeworld of DC Comics character Lobo before he wiped out the entire planet's race.

Originally calling the planet New Krypton, the Kandorians decided to name their new homeworld Rokyn, which is the Kryptonian word for " gift from God " ( Rokyn had first been revealed as existing in the 30th century in Adventure Comics # 356, May 1967 ).

In the first act of The Sentinels, covered in McKinney's novel The Devil's Hand and Eternity Comics ' 16-issue first volume of the Sentinels series, Edwards is promoted to the rank of Brigadier General and becomes part of the " Pioneer Expedition ", leaving Earth on diplomatic mission to Tirol, homeworld of the Robotech Masters, in hopes of preventing more war.

Indeed, the evil wizard Gemini, the only repeating villain on the show, resembles Darkseid, an infamous Kirby villain.

While the series features adaptations of much of Superman's rogues gallery, the series ' writers supplemented the supply of enemies by paying tribute to Jack Kirby's Fourth World creations which also introduced the villain Darkseid to the series as Superman's archenemy.

Darkseid had been portrayed as a villain in Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show and The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians in the 1980s, but in this series, he was closer to the enormously powerful, evil cosmic emperor originally envisioned by Kirby.

Once again headquartered at the Hall of Justice in Metropolis, the heroes battled such familiar foes as Lex Luthor, Brainiac, the Scarecrow and recurring villain Darkseid.

Brainiac, defeated, is later resurrected / possessed by the villain Darkseid.

However, just as the machine is to be activated, Doctor Impossible double-crosses the Syndicate and attempts to resurrect Darkseid rather than Luthor, but the machine malfunctions and instead creates an immensely powerful villain called the Omega Man.

While the series tracked the character's struggle between good and evil, due to manipulation by supervillainesses Eclipso and Granny Goodness ( promotional material for the series used the catchphrase " Seduction of the Innocent ," a reference to Fredric Wertham's book of the same title ), Mary emerged from the series under the influence of Superman villain Darkseid.

He also voiced the villain Darkseid in the animated film, Superman / Batman: Apocalypse.

To further his scheme, Darkseid sends a new fire elemental called Brimstone to Earth, where he defeats the Justice League ( in their Detroit-based incarnation, along with Firestorm and a time-traveling Cosmic Boy ); meanwhile, Captain Marvel is framed for murder when a cyborg villain called Macro-Man explodes mid-battle via Darkseid's machinations.

The story ( which is not part of DC or Marvel canon ) has the cosmic villain Darkseid resurrect Jean Grey in her Dark Phoenix persona as part of his quest to discover the secret of the Anti-Life Equation.

Years later, Dream Girl served as Legion leader ( only the second female Legionnaire to do so ), with her first mission being perhaps the Legion's greatest challenge: defending the United Planets from an assault by the ancient villain Darkseid.

Years later, in yet another multipart Superman storyline (" Our Worlds at War ") the space villain Brainiac 13 turns the planet Pluto into a new Warworld, but Superman, his powers incredibly boosted by diving into the sun, destroyed it by literally pushing it down a Boom Tube extending into the past that had been created by a combination of Brainiac 13's temporal technology and Darkseid focusing his power through Tempest.