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Fictional character biography

The Ultimate

The character's origin was not developed until several years after Doomsday's first appearance, described in the next section: The Death of Superman.

The nameless creature, later called Doomsday, was created in the distant past on Krypton, long before the humanoid Kryptonian race had gained dominance over the planet when it was a violent, hellish world where only the absolute strongest of creatures could survive (at the time, the world's dominant lifeforms were said to be the most dangerous creatures in the universe).^[1][2] In an effort to create the ultimate lifeform, the alien Bertron sent an infant to the surface of the planet, where it would be promptly killed by the harsh environment or the vicious creatures inhabiting it.^[1] Its remains were harvested and used to clone a stronger version of it, a process repeated countless times as a form of accelerated natural selection.^[1] The agony of these deaths was recorded in his genes driving the creature to hate all life.^[1] Eventually, it gained the ability to adapt to overcome what killed it in its prior life without the need of Bertron's technology.^[1] "The Ultimate" hunted and killed all of the lethal creatures that then inhabited Krypton, including Bertron.^[1] Lara, Jor-El, and Superman on Krypton. ... Bertron Bertron is a fictional caracther in the Superman universe. ... For other uses, see Natural selection (disambiguation). ... The concepts of racial memory and genetic memory refer to related hypotheses that an individual can inherit knowledge, memory, and/or motivational imperatives from his ancestors, even without contact with them. ...

The Ultimate escaped Krypton and went on a killing spree across several planets. 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 battle had caused the planet's atmosphere to become toxic and therefore worthless to Apokolips. The Ultimate hitched a ride on an escaping shuttle, which crashed on Khundia. The warring Khundian clans united in order to build protective armor for a warrior named Kobald, who was hoped to survive long enough to force the Ultimate onto a rocket. Once the rocket was in space, the Ultimate killed Kobald and the resulting explosion sent him hurling through space. For other uses, see Krypton (disambiguation). ... Darkseid is a fictional comic book supervillain in the DC Comics Universe. ... In the DC Comics fictional shared Universe, Apokolips was the planet ruled by Darkseid, established in Jack Kirbys Fourth World series. ...

It next came across the path of a Green Lantern named Zharan Pel. The Ultimate took the Lantern's power ring and sensing the power of the Guardians of the Universe, made his way to them. Hundreds of Green Lanterns were sent to stop it and were killed. It continued to Oa where a single Guardian sacrificed himself in battle to defeat it. But the release of energies by the Guardian caused a tear in space through which the Ultimate fell. Eventually coming to Calaton, it tore that world apart for three years.^[1] With only the capital city left, the royal family combined their life forces into a single energy being, The Radiant.^[1] The Radiant killed the Ultimate with a huge blast of energy (laying waste to over a fifth of his world in the process).^[1] In common Calatonian burial procedures, the Ultimate's seemingly-dead body was shackled and masked, and shot into space.^[1] Eventually, it landed on Earth, the force of the impact driving the casket deep underground.^[1] The Green Lantern redirects here. ... The Guardians of the Universe are fictional characters in the DC Comics universe. ... For other uses of Oa and oa, see OA. Oa is a fictional planet located at the center of the DC Comics Universe. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

The Death of Superman

Main article: Death of Superman

In his first encounter with the Justice League, shortly after breaking free from underground, Doomsday defeated the entire team of superheroes in a matter of minutes, which in turn attracted the attention of Superman. Notable is the fact that the creature fought the entire time with literally one hand tied behind his back, yet still was able to lay waste to all opposition and much of the surrounding area. The only Justice Leaguer who could even defend herself against Doomsday was Maxima. Also at that time, his naming occurred when League member Booster Gold stated how the rampage resembled "the arrival of Doomsday" (meaning, the end of the world). The comment subsequently reached the broadcast media and thereafter led to the creature's accepted name. ... For the animated television series, see Justice League (TV series) or Justice League Unlimited. ... Maxima is a fictional comic book character in DC Comics Superman titles. ... Booster Gold is a fictional character, a superhero in publications from DC Comics. ... Look up end of the world in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

During his rampage, Doomsday took interest in billboards and television spots advertising violent wrestling competitions held in Metropolis, which appealed to his bloodlust and thus enticed the otherwise mindless creature to head towards the city. By counterattacking, Superman quickly found that his opponent's awesome power was a match for his own, and so he realized that if Doomsday actually reached Metropolis, the resulting battle could conceivably destroy the city and kill millions of innocent people. Simultaneously, Doomsday developed a strong desire to murder Superman in particular. That desire was later explained in the Hunter/Prey miniseries: from the agony of continually dying during his creation process, Doomsday developed in his genes the ability to sense anyone Kryptonian, plus an overriding instinct to treat any such beings as an automatic threat. (However, it remains unexplained why Doomsday did not also react with this specific type of malice towards the Cyborg Superman, who at one point possessed Kryptonian DNA). Metropolis Skyline, as seen in Smallville. ... |caption=Cover to Superman (vol. ...

Death in Metropolis

In the space of only a few issues of the Superman comic book series, Doomsday battled Superman in a titanic struggle, leading the hero to conclude that the creature would only continue to attack relentlessly and endlessly, with no urge for surrender. It all culminated in Superman #75, where in an act of self-sacrifice, Superman refused to give up despite taking serious wounds and running low on stamina. The fight raged to the bitter end, where the two combatants each struck a simultaneous, fatal blow, leaving both of them lifeless in front of the Daily Planet building in Metropolis.

In the aftermath of Superman's apparent death, no fewer than four super-beings appeared in his wake, two of them declaring themselves to be the "real" Superman. One of these four, a half-man/half-machine who greatly resembled Superman (and who would later become a dangerous villain called simply "The Cyborg"), took custody of Doomsday's apparently lifeless body. After strapping the creature to an asteroid with an electronic device attached (a device later revealed, in the Hunter/Prey books, to be a backup of the Cyborg's essence), the Cyborg flung Doomsday into deep space, on a trajectory supposedly certain to never intersect any other planet. The issue closed with an image of an awakened and laughing Doomsday, still strapped to the asteroid but otherwise in good condition. |caption=Cover to Superman (vol. ...

Round two: Hunter/Prey

Eventually, after passing through a wormhole, Doomsday's asteroid was accidentally found by a deep-space scavenger ship. Upon closer examination of the peculiar-looking drifting rock, the ship's crew retrieved the object hoping to find something of value. The scavenger vessel happened to be on a route to Apokolips, the home of the awesomely-powerful tyrant Darkseid. Doomsday was fully rested and, after slaughtering the crew of the salvage ship, found himself landing on the harsh world. This was to be the setup for a final showdown between Doomsday and Superman (similarly resurrected, in the meantime), who had been uneasy about the possibility of Doomsday's resurrection. With the help of his JLA contacts, Superman procured a Mother Box, a thinking computer, after Darkseid's servant Desaad contacted Earth about a problem on Apokolips. Unknown to Superman, Doomsday had faced and beaten Darkseid himself in single combat (even surviving Darkseid's fabled 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. However, Doomsday is essentially able to adapt and overcome any opponent because of the process by which he was created (he was always stronger than he had been prior to his last death); 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 would be unable to do so again. Superman, while knowing this, was obsessed with stopping Doomsday and traveled 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. He 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. In the DC Comics fictional shared Universe, Apokolips was the planet ruled by Darkseid, established in Jack Kirbys Fourth World series. ... Darkseid is a fictional comic book supervillain in the DC Comics Universe. ... The Justice League is a DC Comics superhero team. ... Mother Boxes are fictional devices in Jack Kirbys Fourth World setting in the DC Universe. ... In DC Comics comic books, Desaad is one of the followers of Darkseid from the planet of Apokolips in Jack Kirbys Fourth World meta-series. ... The Radiant is a superhero from the DC Comics Universe. ... Waverider is a comic book superhero in the DC Comics universe. ... The heat death is a possible final state of the universe, in which it has run down to a state of no free energy to sustain motion or life. ...

Duplicates

During the Wonder Woman Lifeline storyline, an imperfect duplicate of Doomsday was created by an artificial intelligence based on the son of scientist Doctor Julian Lazarus, who was attempting to bring his son back after being responsible for the accident that killed him. The AI based on the child had already created short-lived copies of Barry Allen and Sinestro, but he simply didn't realize that he was creating an actual monster; he thought he was simply playing a computer game. The duplicate possessed the same strength as the original Doomsday, but at one point absorbed so much power his bony spurs grew to cover his body, essentially turning him into a statue that Wonder Girl was able to shatter. For other uses, see Wonder Woman (disambiguation). ... Barry Allen is a fictional character, a superhero in the DC Comics universe and the second Flash. ... Sinestro is a fictional character, an alien supervillain in the DC Comics Universe. ... Cassandra Cassie Sandsmark, aka Wonder Girl, is a DC Comics superheroine. ...

In an attempt to understand death, Mister Mxyzptlk created a temporary copy of Doomsday—which he called "Bada-Bing-Bada-Boomsday"—in Man of Steel #75, who subsequently killed Mxyzptlk in the fight. However, Mxyzptlk was resurrected that same issue following a meeting with the 'Supreme Being', and removed the Doomsday duplicate from the fight once again. Mister Mxyzptlk (roughly pronounced Miks-yez-pit-lik, or Mix-yez-pittle-ik, also nicknamed Mxy) is a fictional supervillain who appears in DC Comics Superman comic books. ...

The Doomsday Wars

Doomsday returned yet again in the mini-series The Doomsday Wars. In this series, Prin Vnok, an underling of Brainiac uses his technology to travel to the End of Time to retrieve Doomsday in order to combine the beast's massive power with Brainiac's formidable intellect (this was later revealed to have taken place due to the timeline's reconstruction following the events of 'Zero Hour', when the former (at that time) Green Lantern Hal Jordan, presently known as Parallax broke down creation and the heroes were forced to trigger their own Big Bang to stop him; the reconstruction of time meant that Brainiac was able to change the outcome of Doomsday's defeat). Brainiac is a fictional character, a DC Comics supervillain created by Otto Binder. ... Zero Hour: Crisis in Time was a 1994 comic book miniseries and crossover storyline that ran in DC Comics. ... The Green Lantern redirects here. ... Hal Jordan is a fictional character, a DC Comics superhero. ... Parallax is a fictional character, a supervillain from DC Comics. ...

Doomsday's will proved too strong to override completely with psionics, and he reacted too quickly for any chemical process to eliminate his simple mind, so Brainiac attempted to use a human host to genetically engineer a Doomsday body without the mind while temporarily lodging in Doomsday's head. He chose to use Pete Ross and Lana Lang's newborn baby, born eight weeks premature and transported by Superman to a hospital. Brainiac intercepted Superman during the attempt and stole the baby to hurt his long-time foe, correctly deducing that it was the child of someone close to Superman. In the end, Superman thwarted Brainiac's plot by driving him out of Doomsday's body via the use of a telepathy-blocking 'psi-blocker'. He then lured Doomsday to the moon, where he placed Doomsday in a kind of stasis with four Justice League teleporters; perpetually transporting between those four booths, Doomsday would never be more than 25% integrated, and thus unable to 'think' of a plan to escape. Pete Ross is a fictional character who appears in the Superman comic books published by DC Comics. ... Lana Lang is a supporting character in DC Comics Superman series. ... For the animated television series, see Justice League (TV series) or Justice League Unlimited. ...

Our Worlds at War

Following these events, Doomsday was released by Lex Luthor's Suicide Squad to battle Imperiex, a threat that was judged to be even greater than Doomsday himself. Once freed, Doomsday slaughtered the Squad, and then went on to battle Imperiex's numerous probes (his mind having been altered to regard them as the threat he normally perceived Superman to be), which had thus far managed to seriously injure or kill most of Earth's heroes. Doomsday tore through numerous probes with seemingly little effort, while aided by Superman—the only time the two enemies would come close to teaming up—before finally confronting Imperiex himself. Imperiex proved too much for Doomsday; he blasted him, reducing the creature to a glowing skeleton. Lex Luthor is a fictional DC Comics supervillain and the archenemy of the superhero Superman. ... Suicide Squad is a name for a number of fictional organizations created for and owned by DC Comics. ... Imperiex, also called the Devourer of Galaxies, is a fictional extraterrestrial supervillain featured in the Our Worlds at War crossover published by DC Comics. ...

Just a little while later, Superman #175 commemorated the 100th issue since the death of Superman in battle with Doomsday by staging a re-match. It is shown that Doomsday's skeleton was retrieved and his flesh regrown by Lex Luthor (by using Superman's Kryptonian DNA), who handed Doomsday over to Darkseid (Luthor's aide in the retrieval, repair, and improvement of Doomsday) 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. Learning from J'onn that Doomsday wanted to kill Luthor because he blamed Luthor for his 'death' in the Imperiex War, Superman managed to defeat the creature by using his newfound sentience and intelligence against him: The Joker redirects here. ... This article is about the fictional substance. ... The heart and lungs, from an older edition of Grays Anatomy. ... For references to Black Lightning in the work of William Golding, see Pincher Martin. ... Martian Manhunter is the superhero alias of Jonn Jonzz, alternately known as the Manhunter from Mars, a fictional comic book superhero who was created by DC Comics. ...

Darkseid attempted to replicate Doomsday, producing an army of Doomsday "clones." Darkseid was not able to duplicate perfectly the creature in all its raw power, possibly as a result of the creature's complex DNA, and they were defeated by a combination of heat vision and Batman's explosive batarangs during an attack on Paradise Island while Darkseid kidnapped the newly-arrived Kara Zor-El/Supergirl. The structure of part of a DNA double helix Deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, is a nucleic acid molecule that contains the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms. ... Batman (originally referred to as the Bat-Man and still referred to at times as the Batman) is a DC Comics fictional superhero who first appeared in Detective Comics #27 in May 1939. ... Batman surrounded by batarangs. ... For other uses, see Supergirl (disambiguation). ...

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. Doomsday's short freedom was quickly halted by Irons in the Entropy Aegis, an armor with incredible power that had been built out of the remains of an Imperiex probe. Doomsday disappeared and was seen wandering the harsh lands of Apokolips. John Henry Irons is the third hero known as Steel, a fictional superhero in the DC Universe. ... Mortalla is a DC Comics character with ties with the New Gods of Apokolips. ...

Sentience

With his newfound intelligence, Doomsday managed to escape Apokolips and return to Earth. Upon his arrival, Doomsday encountered a series of emotions previously alien to him—love, compassion and kindness. Exploring the full abilities of these new emotions, Doomsday made his way to Metropolis once more, though not in the destructive manner he had before. Upon his arrival in Metropolis, Doomsday found Superman at the brink of death at the hands of Gog and intervenes to help Superman in an ultimately futile fight against Gog's army. In a new future, Doomsday was remembered as one of Earth's greatest heroes, who continued Superman's legacy by leading an army under his name against the army of Gog. This new timeline ended when it was revealed that Superman was still alive, trapped and tortured with kryptonite for two centuries by Gog. Ultimately Superman manages to convince Gog of the error of his ways. Gog offers to correct the past by returning Doomsday to an earlier point in the timeline, but in the process Doomsday would lose his intelligence and humanity. Returned to the present, an unconscious Doomsday is transported away by a younger version of Gog to an unknown location for an unknown purpose. Gog is a supervillain that repeatedly kills Superman throughout a timeline in the DC comics story The Kingdom, which is the sequel to Kingdom Come. ...

Battle of Metropolis

Main article: Battle of Metropolis

During Infinite Crisis, Doomsday was freed from captivity in a cavern near the center of the Earth by Doctor Psycho and Warp. He was then mind-controlled by Doctor Psycho and used as the "spear-carrier" of a supervillain assault on Metropolis. Just as he came into full view in front of Green Arrow, he was stopped by Kal-El and Kal-L, who made quick work of the villain as, for the first time, the two Supermen acted as a team. The Battle of Metropolis is a fictional DC Comics event. ... Infinite Crisis was a seven-issue limited series of comic books published by DC Comics, beginning in October of 2005. ... Doctor Psycho is a supervillain in Wonder Womans rogues gallery. ... Warp is the name of a fictional DC Comics supervillain that has fought the Teen Titans on different occasions. ... The Battle of Metropolis is a fictional DC Comics event. ... This article is about the first Green Arrow, Oliver Queen. ... Superman is a fictional character and comic book superhero , originally created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian artist Joe Shuster and published by DC Comics. ...

Powers and abilities

Doomsday was created and evolved through cloning an infant and having it killed over and over again by one of the most dangerous species of the universe and in one of the harshest habitats in existence, prehistoric Krypton. As such, he returns to life and becomes resistant or immune to what killed him before. After the Radiant killed him the first time they fought Doomsday grew immune to the latter's energy-projection, and even managed to withstand Darkseid's full Omega-Effect. The amount of damage dealt to Doomsday determines the length of time it would take to fully recover. During his outwardly undamaged death at Superman's hands he only needed some months to recover, but when Imperiex reduced him to a skeleton, it could take a hundred years without assistance. Darkseid is a fictional comic book supervillain in the DC Comics Universe. ... Imperiex, also called the Devourer of Galaxies, is a fictional extraterrestrial supervillain featured in the Our Worlds at War crossover published by DC Comics. ...

Doomsday can also develop/evolve resistance from ordinary injuries. In the Superman/Doomsday: Hunter/Prey series Superman used a sound gun to greatly discomfort him, but Doomsday's auditory canals closed up, making him impervious to Superman's weapon. Waverider once paralyzed Doomsday with chronal energy, but the second attempt backlashed. In essence, Doomsday gradually turns more invulnerable if not injured beyond his ability to recover, which is so far undefined. Doomsday has also developed weapons and abilities that counters the powers of an opponent. He managed to cancel out the pure-energy Radiant by slamming into him, and greatly extend his claws and develop a poison to strike Superman in flight and reel him in (Also in Superman/Doomsday: Hunter/Prey) or breathe flames against the fire-sensitive Martian Manhunter.^[3] Doomsday is covered by bony spurs providing protection to his few vital organs (brain, eyes, nervous system) and acting as weapons on his hands, elbows and knees. Martian Manhunter is the superhero alias of Jonn Jonzz, alternately known as the Manhunter from Mars, a fictional comic book superhero who was created by DC Comics. ... A spur is a metal instrument composed of a shank, neck, and prick, rowel (sharp-toothed wheel), or blunted end fastened to the heel of a horseman. ...

Doomsday possesses extreme physical strength that even rivals that of Superman, at one point enabling him to effortlessly stand his ground against the entire Justice League, including Superman and Orion (The Doomsday Wars). He was able to break Superman's left arm with limited effort, as well as outmatch and beat Darkseid unconscious in physical combat. (Superman/Doomsday: Hunter/Prey) He is immensely resistant to heat, cold, and conventional damage, allowing him to survive on the most inhospitable worlds, or in the vacuum of space. Doomsday possesses seemingly inexhaustible stamina, and was not noticeably slowed down from fighting Superman for an entire day. His reflexes and speed are vastly beyond what's expected for his bulky size, and has been able to match Superman in this regard. He cannot fly, but rather travels by leaping miles at a time. Superman took advantage of this in their first battle by trying to keep him airborne, as the sky was his element. Orion is a fictional deity published by DC Comics. ...

Doomsday has a highly accelerated healing factor that allows him to quickly regenerate from most damage. When his side was cut by Superman with a plasma sword it closed within moments. As a result of his engineering, Doomsday does not need to eat, drink, breathe, or sleep and his body is almost solid mass with few vulnerable organs. A healing factor is a term used to describe the ability of some characters in fiction to recover from bodily injuries or disease at a superhuman rate. ...

Doomsday is now genetically part-Kryptonian due to his genes having been spliced with Kal-El's, however with the exception of his flame-breath he has displayed no additional abilities. In fact he was shown weaker than previously when he was singlehandedly beaten by Superman, which should not have been possible given previous accounts. Kryptonians are a fictional extraterrestrial race who hail from the planet Krypton. ...

Due to his Kryptonian DNA, he is susceptible to Kryptonite. Unlike Superman, it causes him pain but cannot kill him. This was done to render him controllable. This article is about the fictional substance. ...

Weaknesses

Despite his ability to adapt to any attack, Doomsday is not invincible. In Superman/Doomsday: Hunter/Prey, Superman and Waverider sent Doomsday to the End of Time, where Waverider stated that even he could not survive, and Doomsday was shown to disintegrate and cease to exist. However, at a later point Brainiac's associate Prin Vnok traveled to the end of time and rescued Doomsday just before this moment had the chance to occur. (The Doomsday Wars) A blast from Imperiex reduced him to a skeleton during the Our Worlds At War storyline, but he eventually recovered. After this death, Doomsday's body was recovered in a joint venture between Lex Luthor and Darkseid, and was spliced with Kal-El's DNA. Giving him greatly improved intelligence, being able to communicate and analyze in regular manner, and displaying a form of flame-breath. The drawback being that he no longer was free of fear, due to coming so close to truly dying, with almost nothing left to regenerate from, and displayed no signs of his former evolving ability, enabling Superman to defeat him for the first time. Doomsday's durability has been great enough to withstand the full force from Darkseid's Omega Beams, but he can nonetheless be injured. Superman has, in order of occurrence, been able to snap one of his knee protrusions, temporarily kill him with a blow to the head, cut through his body with his heat vision, and knock him out. However he previously (as of the Hunter/Prey series) grew more invulnerable for every attack, although this trait has not been shown after being killed by Imperiex. Cover to JLA: Our Worlds at War #1. ...

Other versions

• In the non-continuity book All-Star Superman, Grant Morrison's modern take on the Silver Age includes the D.N.A. P.R.O.J.E.C.T. which was resurrected by a scientist named Leo Quintum. Under Quintum, the P.R.O.J.E.C.T. is dedicated to "the engineering of new human forms" including Bizarro worker drones, giants who can travel through space under their own power, and microscopic "nanonauts" unlocking the mysteries of the sub-atomic world. The P.R.O.J.E.C.T.'s ultimate goal is to create a replacement Superman, in case something happens to the original. In All-Star Superman #4, it is revealed that the P.R.O.J.E.C.T. created a formula to bestow Superman-level strength and durability on a normal person, but all of their test subjects ultimately burned out. Jimmy Olsen shoots himself with a syringe gun containing a formula marked "Do Not Open Until Doomsday", and transforms into a hulking, gray skinned figure with bony protrusions. Jimmy succeeds in stopping a black kryptonite-afflicted Superman and transforms back to normal before the formula kills him. It's not discussed as to whether Superman fought an original Doomsday in this universe, or if the familiar Doomsday even exists.

• In the Young Justice crossover story "World Without Young Justice", the past of all of the team members are changed. Superboy is now one of two clone attempts after Superman's death. His nemesis is a teenage version of Doomsday known as Doomsboy.

• In Action Comics #856, a Bizarro No.1 created a Bizarro Doomsday.

• In Superman: The Dark Side Darkseid's son Kalibak had a very similar appearance to Doomsday.

• In the Superboy story Hypertension; Black Zero has a collection of dozens of Doomsdays from alternate realities.

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Other media

Television

Doomsday as depicted in the series Justice League.

In the animated series Justice League, the Justice Lords (a tyrannical version of the Justice League from a parallel universe) fought an intelligent version of Doomsday. This Doomsday claims to be from another planet, Unable to defeat Doomsday in combat, the alternate-universe "no holds barred" Superman used his heat vision to lobotomize the villain. Doomsday was voiced by Michael Jai White. Image File history File links DoomsdayCartoon. ... Image File history File links DoomsdayCartoon. ... Justice League is an American animated television series about a team of superheroes which ran from 2001 to 2004 on Cartoon Network. ... Justice League is an American animated television series about a team of superheroes which ran from 2001 to 2004 on Cartoon Network. ... The Justice Lords are fictional anti-heroes or villains who first appeared in the two-part Justice League episode, A Better World (airdate November 1, 2003). ... Heat vision is a superhuman power, best known as one of the powers possessed by the DC Comics character Superman, in which beams of intense radiation are projected from the eyes. ... Look up Lobotomy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Michael Jai White (born November 10, 1967) is an American actor and professional martial artist who has appeared in numerous films and television series. ...

In the sequel series Justice League Unlimited, Doomsday's brain has regenerated, and a recently demoted and vindictive Dr. Achilles Milo attempts to recruit Doomsday to get revenge on Project Cadmus for firing him. He reveals that Doomsday is actually an imperfect clone of Superman genetically engineered to be even more powerful than the Man of Steel (strength-wise; he lacks Superman's other powers), then indoctrinated to hate Superman. Milo releases Doomsday to take revenge on Cadmus, but Doomsday simply kills Milo and goes looking for Superman. Unlike his comic counterpart, this Doomsday does not seem to have an insane hatred of all life; he only hates Superman, but his rage is a blinding one all the same, causing him to disregard any evidence presented to him that shows Superman not being his tormentor. As in the comics, this version of Doomsday has adapted to his previous defeat: when Superman desperately attempts to lobotomize him as his Justice Lord counterpart had previously done, a heavy skull plate prevents his heat vision from reaching Doomsday's brain. Superman eventually manages to immobilize Doomsday by throwing him into an active volcano. The Justice League then sentences him, without trial, to life imprisonment in the Phantom Zone. The lack of a trial is one point in a theme for the season, dealing with the possibility of the Justice League dictating the law itself, as opposed to simply upholding it. Justice League Unlimited (or JLU) was the name of an American animated television series that was produced by and aired on Cartoon Network. ... Professor Achilles Milo is a fictional mad scientist in the DC Universe. ... Project Cadmus is a fictional government genetic engineering project in the DC Comics Universe. ... The Phantom Zone is a fictional prison dimension featured in the Superman comic books and related media. ...

In one episode of Legion of Super Heroes, a character very much resembling Doomsday is seen in the Phantom Zone.

It's been officially confirmed from the producers of Smallville, that Doomsday will appear as a recurring villain for the show's eighth season.^[4]

Film

Doomsday was going to appear in the unmade films Superman Reborn and Superman Lives.^{[citation needed]} Superman Lives was the title of a cancelled American superhero film based on the DC comics character Superman. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Doomsday appears in the direct-to-video Superman: Doomsday animated film that was released on September 18, 2007. His origin is simplified, with Kryptonian records reporting him as an improperly programmed biomechanical supersoldier, unable to distinguish friend from foe, imprisoned by his non-human creators and left on Earth some point in the past; the miners who find him describe the strata as "before Christ", but they're obviously stories underground, which would place his entombment in prehistoric times. He and Superman clash in a brutal battle over Metropolis, ending with Superman catapulting him into the depths of space, and propelling him back down to Earth in a blazing fireball caused by reentry into the Earth's atmosphere. The resulting explosion creates a devastating shockwave, and a vast crater in the heart of Metropolis. Doomsday's body lies motionless, his jaw twisted and askew, and his ferociously scarlet eyes fading to black, signifying both his defeat and death. is the 261st day of the year (262nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ... Biomechanical is a English Metalband. ... For the Amalgam Comics character, see Super-Soldier. ...

Doomsday is only referred to by such name by Lois Lane once during the film.

Videogames

Doomsday was also a boss in the Death and Return of Superman video game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega Genesis. Flag Ship from the video game Gorf A boss is an enemy-based challenge in video games that, once encountered, stops the games progression until the player is able either to surmount the enemy or is thwarted by it. ... The Death and Return of Superman is a beat em up video game based on the Death of Superman storyline. ... The Super Nintendo Entertainment System or Super NES (also called SNES and Super Nintendo) was a 16-bit video game console released by Nintendo in North America, Europe, Australasia, and Brazil between 1990 and 1993. ... The Mega Drive/Genesis was a 16-bit video game console released by Sega in Japan (1988), Europe (1990) and most of the rest of the world as the Mega Drive. ...

A clone of Doomsday is a boss featured in the video game Justice League Heroes voiced by Charles Gideon Davis. Justice League Heroes is a console game released in the fourth quarter of 2006 across 3 different platforms. ...

See also

• List of Superman enemies

This is a list of fictional characters from DC Comics who are or have been enemies of Superman. ...

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k}  Jurgens, Dan (p),  Breeding, Brett (i). "Jurgens, Dan" Superman/Doomsday Hunter/Prey  #2 (1994)  DC Comics (14-31)
2. ^  Jurgens, Dan (p),  Breeding, Brett (i). "Jurgens, Dan" Superman/Doomsday Hunter/Prey  #3 (1994)  DC Comics (25)
3. ^ Superman #175
4. ^ Eric Goldman (2008-05-02). Doom in Smallville's Future. IGN.com. IGN Entertainment. Retrieved on 2008-05-02. “In season eight, Clark will face his ultimate challenge with the appearance of the legendary, unstoppable destroyer Doomsday, who appears on "Smallville" for the first time”

• Superman: Doomsday Official Website for Superman Doomsday DVD
• Superman: Doomsday Official MySpace profile for Superman Doomsday movie
• DCDP: Doomsday - DC Database Project