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General DC Comics Discussion Thread

Oh, I didn't expand on my point above about Elizio’s claim that Doctor Multiverse’s narrative about The Darkness is false.

^This is true about the nature of the Darkness ie “not evil” or “responsible for the Crises.”

However, the first whole page is true because I’ll break it down.

Her calling it a single black infinitude is true because a canonized event mentions and that event is the reference here.

Here is her statement in Justice League: Incarnate

Here is COIE statement:

So, by saying she's lying entirely then you are also denying COIE because it’s a homage to COIE, which is a true event that happened in DCU timeline. In Final Crisis, all heroes knew of previous crises.

Then here is here statement about The Flaw:

Here is Multiversity about Overvoid and The Flaw:

Oh, Williamson paying another homage to another writer. Weird how, he uses, their story as the vent catalyst in his story, which at this point mentions nothing about the intent of The Darkness.

Then we jump back into COIE:

JLI:
And in that instance the Multiverse was born
COIE:
For in that instance the Multiverse was born

Even without the inverse lore. Williamson is trying to connect stories from other authors as his attempt to merge origin stories. What here is a lie? It wasn't something that Williamson randomly wrote, it was already established previously.
 
I sent them hoping they might help remove the “likely” and replace it with a solid High 1-A key instead, for Perpetua
If they take away what I said about the level of emanation from the Flash series then there isn't a High 1-A argument outside of Animal Man “explicate order” being 1-A+.

Ultima at first said the Time and Night could be High 1-A, but, that was before I sent him the scans after he said he was unsure. He didn't even bother with “Crisis” having anything higher than 1-A outside of The Garden of Shadow from Flash.

Then he argued the “nothing places” in Vertigo could qualify for High 1-A+. So Vertigo is carrying hard if we don't accept the first two as I mentioned.
 
1. The CRT was closed already discussing the topic.

2. A certain someone has a problem. If I tried a thread myself, it might spiral into some sort of unwarranted insults again. He was already reluctant to bring me back, and as seen from the post prior, I would rather not test my luck with him.

He speaks his thoughts out too much with no consideration in how he words things and covers it up as “that’s what I believe.” I haven't seen any mods being as immature as him despite such a high role.

3. I’m pointing out some errors, I wouldn't call that a revision especially if it would be ignored and/or get called out for no reason.

I know more about DC Comics than who was in charge of handling this revision in my absence, but the unwelcome appeasement from a certain someone irritates me.
shit's pointless anyways, nothing's gonna get applied so why are y'all botherin' :v

deadass, just prep to make the thread, this is kinda just yapping for yapping's sake

@Antvasima And as a recommendation you should stop tagging staff for this. They barely input on threads that matter as is, they shouldn't need to input on inactionable GDs too, this is the kinda stuff that demotivates 'em.

I know y'all have shit goin' but this isn't really productive for either of you.
 
shit's pointless anyways, nothing's gonna get applied so why are y'all botherin' :v

deadass, just prep to make the thread, this is kinda just yapping for yapping's sake

@Antvasima And as a recommendation you should stop tagging staff for this. They barely input on threads that matter as is, they shouldn't need to input on inactionable GDs too, this is the kinda stuff that demotivates 'em.

I know y'all have shit goin' but this isn't really productive for either of you.
You're right, let’s hope he doesn't complain.
 
The Source is described as the product of a self-referential void, a state of being that defines itself without external reference. To be self-referential is to exist by one's own nature, deriving one's identity and meaning solely from within.

The Great Darkness, however, is not self-referential. It cannot define itself independently, for its very concept depends on the presence of the Source. Without the Source, the Great Darkness has no meaning or identity; it is nameless and without definition.
 
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The Source is described as the product of a self-referential void, a state of being that defines itself without external reference. To be self-referential is to exist by one's own nature, deriving one's identity and meaning solely from within.
Yeah, and The Source was a byproduct of the Darkness in respect to it coming into existence (They both didn't come into existence at the same time, The Darkness was already there, and it was “cold and alone”). That's not contradicted at all. Especially since as shown above, the only context of “Void” is just The Darkness. Overvoid isn't mentioned nor is it implied, it isn't called a “self-referential Void” at all, but it was addressed as immaculate perfection.

Name a comic where it states The Source came from The Overvoid because I have at least 10 scans all saying “The Light comes from Darkness.” Which is the Void in question because that's where The Source “came” from. Be easier when the only two topics mentioned are “Light/Source” and “Darkness” so everything in that sentence is only referencing those two. That means if you don't see Source = Overvoid (so many scans have said they are) then the Overvoid is the Darkness. There's no third party outside the two in that scan.
The Great Darkness, however, is not self-referential. It cannot define itself independently, for its very concept depends on the presence of the Source. Without the Source, the Great Darkness has no meaning or identity; it is nameless and without definition.
Yeah, that's what total darkness is, the absence of Light. The Great Darkness is defined through light, the “totality” of darkness alone, is the absence of said light. It is literally said in that second sentence.
 
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Yeah, and The Source was a byproduct of the Darkness in respect to it coming into existence (They both didn't come into existence at the same time, The Darkness was already there, and it was “cold and alone”). That's not contradicted at all. Especially since as shown above, the only context of “Void” is just The Darkness. Overvoid isn't mentioned nor is it implied, it isn't called a “self-referential Void” at all, but it was addressed as immaculate perfection.



Yeah, that's what total darkness is, the absence of Light. The Great Darkness is defined through through light, the “totality” of darkness alone, is the absence of said light. It is literally said in that second sentence.
The scan said that the Great Darkness can only be defined through the presence of another, not through an absence.
 
The sentence before said that the Great Darkness can only be defined through the presence of another.

The Great Darkness is defined as an absence of light only through the presence of the Source. The Source is what define the Darkness not its absence.
That's not what it said.

Connect the dots:

If The Source (which is stated to come “from The Darkness”) is present, then it isn't “total darkness.” Total Darkness = only Darkness.
 
I will get Ram V to literally debunk this nonsense. There are two subjects in that sentence: Source and Darkness. We know it can't be The Source because it came from a self-referential Void, which leaves one option: Darkness, or more precisely, total darkness, which can only be defined as the absence of light.

Are we forgetting the many scans that said The Source came from The Darkness?

Are we forgetting that The Darkness for a very long time was alone since “time” isn't prevalent in The Void?

There's so many ancient creatures older than The Light.
 
That's not what it said.

Connect the dots:

If The Source (which is stated to come “from The Darkness”) is present, then it isn't “total darkness.” Total Darkness = only Darkness.
Total darkness can only be defined in relation to Light; without Light, the Great Darkness would not exist as “total darkness” or as an “absence of light.” It would have no name, would not require a name, and would not be self-aware. It is only through the presence of Light that the Great Darkness gains definition, identity, and awareness.
 
Total darkness can only be defined in relation to Light; without Light, the Great Darkness would not exist as “total darkness” or "absence of light."
What?

It said The “Great Darkness” in contrast to Light are in reference to each other. Only Darkness ie total darkness is the complete absence of Light.

If Light exist then there isn't a “total” Darkness. What do you think the “total” or “only defined through the absence of Light” means?
 
I think that DC KO is a perfect example of how Darkseid's treatment in these big events has changed. Here he's treated as this unstoppable force that has basically already won but the heroes have one final chance to defeat him. Very similar to Final Crisis except a crucial difference is that Darkseid's "victory" in Final Crisis wasn't simply hyped up as this "holy shit how can we possibly win this" moment but also a "Darkseid is a petty loser" moment. Darkseid "wins" in Final Crisis because he's a crybaby failure who got his ass kicked by Orion and wants to take everyone who also routinely beat his ass with him.

Final Crisis is a much better showcase of Darkseid as a character because it stays in line with Jack Kirby's original depiction of him as a symbol of fascism. That's why when we finally see Darkseid show up in Final Crisis he's not some hulking behemoth who is one shotting all the heroes, he's what Batman calls him "a rotten carcass of a god, crawling into the sewer to die". When you strip away all the hype and ego that's all Darkseid is. That was the point that Kirby was trying to make. Darkseid is a threat and he is dangerous just like fascism but also like fascism he's an insecure whiner who thinks he's greater than he actually is. Morrison wrote Darkseid as the very embodiment of evil but even after he is destroyed life still goes on. Darkseid isn't some necessary compotent of reality like current DC keeps saying he is.
 
I think that DC KO is a perfect example of how Darkseid's treatment in these big events has changed. Here he's treated as this unstoppable force that has basically already won but the heroes have one final chance to defeat him. Very similar to Final Crisis except a crucial difference is that Darkseid's "victory" in Final Crisis wasn't simply hyped up as this "holy shit how can we possibly win this" moment but also a "Darkseid is a petty loser" moment. Darkseid "wins" in Final Crisis because he's a crybaby failure who got his ass kicked by Orion and wants to take everyone who also routinely beat his ass with him.

Final Crisis is a much better showcase of Darkseid as a character because it stays in line with Jack Kirby's original depiction of him as a symbol of fascism. That's why when we finally see Darkseid show up in Final Crisis he's not some hulking behemoth who is one shotting all the heroes, he's what Batman calls him "a rotten carcass of a god, crawling into the sewer to die". When you strip away all the hype and ego that's all Darkseid is. That was the point that Kirby was trying to make. Darkseid is a threat and he is dangerous just like fascism but also like fascism he's an insecure whiner who thinks he's greater than he actually is. Morrison wrote Darkseid as the very embodiment of evil but even after he is destroyed life still goes on. Darkseid isn't some necessary compotent of reality like current DC keeps saying he is.
I see the future it would be “King Omega Darkseid vs Emperor Alpha Superman.”
 
I think that DC KO is a perfect example of how Darkseid's treatment in these big events has changed. Here he's treated as this unstoppable force that has basically already won but the heroes have one final chance to defeat him. Very similar to Final Crisis except a crucial difference is that Darkseid's "victory" in Final Crisis wasn't simply hyped up as this "holy shit how can we possibly win this" moment but also a "Darkseid is a petty loser" moment. Darkseid "wins" in Final Crisis because he's a crybaby failure who got his ass kicked by Orion and wants to take everyone who also routinely beat his ass with him.

Final Crisis is a much better showcase of Darkseid as a character because it stays in line with Jack Kirby's original depiction of him as a symbol of fascism. That's why when we finally see Darkseid show up in Final Crisis he's not some hulking behemoth who is one shotting all the heroes, he's what Batman calls him "a rotten carcass of a god, crawling into the sewer to die". When you strip away all the hype and ego that's all Darkseid is. That was the point that Kirby was trying to make. Darkseid is a threat and he is dangerous just like fascism but also like fascism he's an insecure whiner who thinks he's greater than he actually is. Morrison wrote Darkseid as the very embodiment of evil but even after he is destroyed life still goes on. Darkseid isn't some necessary compotent of reality like current DC keeps saying he is.
I completely agree. DC often falls into the habit of repeating the same formula : bigger, louder, and more hyped events. It’s not inherently bad, since those stories can still be fun to read, but they sometimes lack the depth and meaning that made earlier stories so memorable.
 
I think that DC KO is a perfect example of how Darkseid's treatment in these big events has changed. Here he's treated as this unstoppable force that has basically already won but the heroes have one final chance to defeat him. Very similar to Final Crisis except a crucial difference is that Darkseid's "victory" in Final Crisis wasn't simply hyped up as this "holy shit how can we possibly win this" moment but also a "Darkseid is a petty loser" moment. Darkseid "wins" in Final Crisis because he's a crybaby failure who got his ass kicked by Orion and wants to take everyone who also routinely beat his ass with him.

Final Crisis is a much better showcase of Darkseid as a character because it stays in line with Jack Kirby's original depiction of him as a symbol of fascism. That's why when we finally see Darkseid show up in Final Crisis he's not some hulking behemoth who is one shotting all the heroes, he's what Batman calls him "a rotten carcass of a god, crawling into the sewer to die". When you strip away all the hype and ego that's all Darkseid is. That was the point that Kirby was trying to make. Darkseid is a threat and he is dangerous just like fascism but also like fascism he's an insecure whiner who thinks he's greater than he actually is. Morrison wrote Darkseid as the very embodiment of evil but even after he is destroyed life still goes on. Darkseid isn't some necessary compotent of reality like current DC keeps saying he is.
Strongly agreed. Well said. 🙏❤️
 
I meant that Orion will likely have to help Superman out with getting access to it. Superman is about kindness, freedom, and equality, not cruelty, oppression/domination, and supremacism. 🙏
 
I meant that Orion will likely have to help Superman out with getting access to it. Superman is about kindness, freedom, and equality, not cruelty, oppression/domination, and supremacism. 🙏
Superman is also about flying at Mach 7 and throwing kilo ton punches
 
I likely misremembered. I think that Orion uses the Astro Force, not the Alpha Force. I will check. 🙏
 
Yes. I misremembered. My apologies. 🙏



Highfather seems to wield the Alpha Effect though, so he will likely be involved:

 
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I'm reading back on what I missed. So there's that and this time I won't take a break on the responses so I'm not bombarded by so many messages.


Ok, I see some issues with this that look like a generic copy-cat of outdated information. I swear I've seen that sort of format and half of it is contrived information.

Greater Omniverse:​

  • Mansions of Silence: This realm is not outside Creation and it was never stated as such. The location as said by Belgelmir is at the edge of the coin on each side of the afterlives to those who do not harbor Heaven nor Hell. It isn't outside the “coin” and it isn't outside Creation. All that Cal said was that it was beyond Silver City, which also is in Creation and is interconnected physically to Armaggdeon Plain which is in the eastern aspect of Heaven.
There's a difference between Heaven and the Silver City in Lucifer which was the slipside in Sandman. Nevertheless, I made a literal profile showing where it actually is, and it is not outside Creation.

The only things outside Creation we see in Lucifer are Yggdrasil and Eden Garden. Perhaps, the pocket reality that Sandalphon crafted was held by Michael’s God given powers.

Read the profile:

Then this is why I consulted with @Ultima_Reality about things like this because I knew we would fall into dumb stipulation. The Endless scaling is so dumb and Ultima could explain which no one would complain if he did. Nevertheless, it's somehow bound to “Creation” due to DC New History:

Time, Night, and The Endless:​

  • We know Time isn't in Creation because his whole being encompasses it all when they exist and do not. His coming within Night is the reason for Creation's existence, so they wouldn't be randomly pushed into Creation since cause-and-effect is the structural foundation of Yahweh’s existence and Time realms lack that and see all his children on all their “moments” existing in time of their inception and whatnot.
  • Night is obvious, she predates all beginnings and survives all endings. She's the eternal cosmic emptiness that had always existed with the worlds of light above her realm of true darkness.
  • The Endless in their aspects were born into Creation. The New History books mentioned nothing of their true self. I've already put their “True Form” key in their profile, which again the New History Book had mentioned about Sandman #22 which tells us that their “aspects” are mere glinting light nothing more than tiny specks of light in their true form.
Let’s recall the many times they were stated to predate Creation, in their truest self.
  • Morpheus tells Cain and Adam, he carpeted artifacts before the Dawn of Time.
  • Morpheus tells Corinthian about the laws established when all was void. Which he was present for.
  • Let’s recall that the Endless were actualized in their truest self from the essence of “Time” because Time is all of existence in which they began, end, and will exist.
  • Let’s recall Destruction saying the Light and the Big Bang were lousy and loud things that bothered him.
  • Let’s also recall that the first version of the Endless is also all the same Dream because each Dream is projected by their true self since all of them recall that they existed since the Void.
There's more, but I digress. They're not bound to time. Ultima, another expert on DC Comics, and I discussed that Time, Night, and Endless transcend Michael and Lucifer by a long shot. So if they're High 1-A then obviously Endless would be as well. You can check out the experts answer here about the History Book and the more accurate lore since the guide books don't paint the fill picture, but, nevertheless, the guidebook never even contradicted the source material.

The answer is very long, but it left no detail out. This is why I prefer Ultima to come here and see this bogus cosmology take.

The Overvoid =/= The Source?​

This is also the dumbest thing. In all the mention of the Overvoid (I’ve read all of it) outside interview, which the term “non-dual” was rarely ever coined. I, recall, the Overvoid being non-dual only in Morrison’s Green Latern run. Which he happened to also draw the Multiversity Map with the Source being outside everything, which he admits there's no difference between The Source and The Overvoid.

Then in Final Crisis: Secret Files, he explained that the Source “is not dual.” In his rough sketch of Multiversity, he said the Source is the white page outside all of Creation.

Last I recalled outside him, It was never stated The Overvoid was non-dual especially since Justice League: Incarnate which references the very same story of the Overvoid being described during Morrison's time. In Death Metal, even Ultima agreed that the Overvoid is nothing like Final Crisis, it isn't “consciousness nor ground of being” since beings existing in it and being created from its “rent” is impossible.

Not to mention the true void that is self-referential and eternal is the Darkness. We see this in New Gods, Absolute Green Lantern, Absolute Maratin Manhunter, Green Lantern: Dark. The list goes on.

Lastly, I also recall that The Greater Omniverse and The Overvoid were the same thing in Snyder's take of the Void that houses Creation. Last I also recalled they never retcon it being the realm of light before the Multiverse and came into being from the Darkness.

The Divine Presence =/= The Presence?​

As shown above this is stupid. I've read all of DeMatteis’ story, talked to him, read all his interviews. I recount he coined the Presence twice, ever. One in Spectre and the other in Phantom Stranger. All else, he uses “The Presence.” The Presence is just a title that denotes both aspects and the whole, adding the word “divine” makes no difference. Divine Presence was mentioned in a Gaudium storyline in describing the transcendence of Yahweh who was above the immance of his Creation.

What kind of logic is this? Nevertheless, DeMatteis has said it more than 10 times, “The Presence” contains the Void and dreams of the Universe, he literally stated this in Superhirl: Wings when Zauriel was conversing with a demon, that the Presence dreams of everything and everything was just his thoughts and imagination. The same thing was said in a previous comic in Spectre #10, so yeah, why the hell are we counting it like that?

I could continue on, but I've already out everything about the “true extent” of the elemental realms. The recent Aquaman comics and the statement about the Blue/Clear already reaffirms each of the elemental realms are grander in their purest form. I listed the entirety of Animal Man in the current Cosmology page, and there's no actual good rebbutal against it because we tone it to only the smallest aspect of it’s power.
*Insert vigilante frame:
"Are you f*ckin kidding me"?!!
Glad you back!
 
I am going to merge The Void (Vertigo) and the Presence together into one profile
 
New Gods and Fourth World are 4-D.
It gets worse when you have descriptions, that it is the most powerful form of Darkseid, which implies godhead Darkseid is below 4D

Jokes aside, I guess this dimensionality works the same way the six dimension? I mean is Snyder writing so.. otherwise this would be an ass anti feat/outlier or whatever we call it
 
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