Desaad admits he was forced to this course of action because the Everymen, even after turning into metahumans, are undetectable from Darkseid's minions, and they could be a wild card during the planned Final Crisis.

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.

During a heated battle with Supergirl, Black Adam learns that the evil god Desaad was the one who possessed Mary.

Desaad was seemingly killed during an attempt by Darkseid to penetrate the Source.

After disrupting a battle between Darkseid and Mary Marvel, Desaad gives Darkseid a compound that was unsuccessfully used to access the Anti-Life Equation.

He attempted to corrupt Chloe but fails, Desaad then confronted Clark himself and uses his power to temporarily subdue him while he attempted to escape, however Oliver appeared and was beating him until Clark called him off.

* Desaad was included in Series 12 of Mattel's DC Universe Classic toys, patterned after his appearance in the earlier Kenner Super Powers Collection.

While he believed he was working for Darkseid, his Apokoliptian contact was actually Desaad, whose only aim in supplying him with weaponry was to cause suffering.

aAlater retcon has it that Mannheim was the original leader of Intergang, dealing knowingly with Desaad.

Desaad sewed a new face onto him which was made from dead humans and animals.

Piper agrees to play, but upon hearing that Desaad was the mastermind behind his recent misfortune, in an almost successful attempt to break his spirit and taking control over him, he kills Desaad with a tune.

Clark had him committed to Belle Reve, however Desaad won by gaining Oliver as a new bearer of the Omega symbol.

Along with Desaad and Gordon Godfrey, tasked Oliver with placing the Gold Kryptonite ring on Clark's finger to neutralize his powers permanently, but Clark managed to remove Oliver's Omega symbol.

Later, as Apokolips eclipsed Earth, She, Desaad and Godfrey were confronted by Oliver.

In the series finale When Apokolips descended to Earth, he, Granny Goodness and Desaad had meeting with the corrupted Oliver Queen.

At one point Desaad had an assistant named Justeen, a reference to de Sade's novel Justine, although she bore little resemblance to the title character.

While Darkseid had been involved with Intergang as part of his search for the Anti-Life Equation, Desaad simply wanted to cause suffering.

At the end of issue # 25 of Countdown to Final Crisis Desaad, who had captured and tortured Professor Martin Stein, is able to take over the mantle and the power of Firestorm for himself.

In Salvation Run, it is revealed that Desaad oversees the training of the New Gods of Apokolips on a planet where Amanda Waller's Suicide Squad had dumped the exiled villains.

Desaad pledged his loyalty to him, telling him his service to Darkseid had been a lie.

The Omega Effect, however, possessed a horror within it that Desaad could not stand, and Darkseid simply siphoned the energy off him.

Desaad continues to pursue Piper and convinces him to finally play.

When it came to a warehouse storing Apokolips weapons, Desaad threw the Father Box into the formation of Infinity-Man in order to control him and has Infinity-Man attack Superboy and Wolf.

During the Forever People's formation of Infinity-Man, Desaad throws a Father Box into the formation in order to control him.

Though horrified by her actions while possessed by Desaad, and saying that she never meant for this to happen while crying, she is seen standing with Freddy with clubs in their hands, awaiting the end of the world.

During the Marvel / DC crossover Darkseid / Galactus: The Hunger, when Orion is badly injured in a fight with the Silver Surfer – during a period when the Surfer still served as Galactus's Herald – the Black Racer briefly comes to claim Orion, but the Surfer, his original memories briefly restored by Desaad as part of a plan to stop Galactus, confronts the Racer in recognition of Orion's nobility, giving Orion's Mother Box enough time to heal the rest of his injuries.

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.

Many of the New Gods characters, such as Darkseid, Granny Goodness, Desaad, and Godfrey appear in the final season of Smallville.

To flesh out the series, characters such as Fourth World stalwarts Lightray, Darkseid, Desaad, and Kalibak, in addition to lesser used characters such as Tigra ( early on in the series ), Mortalla, and the Newsgroup Legion ( an update of the Newsboy Legion ) often supplied aid or ill intentions to the quick tempered Orion.

In the Superman / Batman story " Torment ," Desaad is tasked by Darkseid to retrieve Highfather's staff from the Source Wall, and use it to restore Darkseid's waning powers.

However, when the time came to recharge Darkseid's powers, using the staff as a conduit to the Omega Realm, Desaad betrays Darkseid and tried to take the power for himself.

When Darkseid learns that Kalibak went to Earth to fight Superman, he forced the answers out of Desaad about this.

Apokolips is ruled by Darkseid as its theocratic god / despot but he delegates most of the actual day to day ruling to his counsellor Desaad.

* Century 25: Love in the Time of Apocalypse — On Apokolips, Darkseid is revived by Desaad and other members of his elite guard.

Superman throws Desaad into the beams, and begins pummeling Darkseid.

Despite apparently being freed from Darkseid after the confrontation with The Blur and Kara Zor-El, on the episode " Abandoned ," it is shown that he becomes one of a trinity of minion-prophets for Darkseid, the Lord of Apokolips, with Granny Goodness and Desaad.

Desaad, under the false identity of " Doctor Bud Fogel ", secretly manipulates McKenna ( now using the codename of " Double Trouble ") by nurturing a third personality created from McKenna's base and repressed instincts, and promising it the opportunity to take full control.

They have recently reappeared briefly in the third issue of the Terror Titans mini-series imprisoned by Desaad.

Granny Goodness takes up residence in the Alpha Lantern Kraken, using her to attack the Guardians of the Universe, while Desaad inhabits the body of Mary Marvel.

Desaad and Kanto also briefly appear in this storyarc, experimenting on Superman and referring to " the search for Darkseid's daughter ," explaining Darkseid's actions throughout the cosmos and his assault and assimilation of various cultures throughout the universe.

With the help of his JLA contacts, Superman procured a Mother Box, a sentient computer, after Darkseid's servant Desaad contacted Earth about a problem on Apokolips.

This darker Mary Marvel appears in DC's 2008 crossover series Final Crisis, written by Grant Morrison and illustrated by J. G. Jones, as a Female Fury, with another design change ( to match the styles of the other Furies ) and a fully evil personality due to possession by the New God Desaad.

An evil Mary Marvel, possessed by the New Gods | New God Desaad, battles Wonder Woman in interior art detail from Final Crisis # 3 ( of 7 ), September 2008.

Desaad is a fictional comic book supervillain, appearing in books published by DC Comics.

As Desaad serves as Darkseid's master torturer, his name is a play on the Marquis de Sade.

Desaad appeared to be helping Drax with his attempt to master the Omega force.

Desaad went on to serve as Darkseid's torturer.

Desaad is a sadist and a coward.