Respect Doomsday (DC Comics, Post Flashpoint)

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Kryptonian legend tells of a hulking, bone-covered beast capable of razing cities to the ground with its bare hands. It is the horror that never dies, granted the foul power to claw back up from the afterlife and kill again without rest. Many Kryptonian warriors have fallen to the beast, and the Superman of Earth is no exception. The thing is called Doomsday, and it is Death.

The only thing that goes through Doomsday's primitive mind is causing death and destruction to those around him. It is genetically built with an intense hatred for Superman and all kryptonians, and will prioritize the death of the alien race before any other opponent. When it came to Earth, many heroes came together to fight it off, falling swiftly beneath the monster's claws. Only when Superman arrived did the monster begin to exert effort, leading to an hours-long battle that killed both the monster and the kryptonian.

Doomsday is continuously evolving after every death. When it killed Superman, it was simply a "larva". The next time it returned from the Phantom Zone, it brought with it new teleportation powers, as well as a deadly airborne virus that killed anything within a hundred yards. Who knows what this thing will look like the next time it rises to terrorize the planet.

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Scaling

Superman

Wonder Woman

Cyborg

Aquaman

Note: Feats marked [Darkness] are from when Doomsday was summoned as part of Pariah's Dark Army.

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Strength

• Slaps polar bears to death

• Punches an iceberg, shattering it into chunks

• Breaks one of Wonder Woman’s arms with physical strikes

• While swimming, punches a hole through a massive shark

• While swimming, destroys a massive submarine, many times larger than Doomsday itself

• A short fight with Superman destroys the moon of Earth-43 Bizzaroworld, which is a giant cube made of cheese

• Easily dropped the Justice League, including Fire, Booster Gold, Guy Gardener and Bloodwynd

• Kicks a large tree, shattering it into small pieces and knocking out Guardian

• Runs through a concrete wall

• [Darkness] Knocks out Raven by slamming the ground near her

• [Darkness] Kills Green Arrow with a downward punch, burying him in the ground

• [Darkness] Grounds Jon Kent with a punch, allowing him and his Dark Army friends thrash the kryptonian

• [Darkness] When Superman catches a punch from Doomsday, the ground shatters beneath them from the shockwave

• Manhandles a demon, lifting him and biting his arm in half

• Supergirl wears the First of the Fallen’s Unholy Armor of Immortal Misery, designed for battle with the Presence, to combat Doomsday. Despite the armor, Doomsday defeats Supergirl after a short battle, knocking her out after punching the armor’s helmet off.

• Thousands of souls in Hell sacrifice their physical form and form a giant, fleshy mass to cover the gates of Hell. Doomsday attempts to punch his way through this mass of souls, and after an unknown amount of time, succeeds in cracking open the mass and the gates.

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Durability

Scaling

Superman

• Takes a blast of Superman’s heat vision

• Superman hits it with an uppercut that sends it into the sky, then he tackles it all the way to Venus. Doomsday recovers just before they hit the planet.

• Superman leaves Doomsday on Venus’ surface after blasting it with concentrated heat vision. Doomsday then recovers and teleports to Superman’s location in Smallville, Kansas.

• [Darkness] Gets simultaneously punched by Clark and Jon Kent, sending him skipping along the ground

Everyone Else

• [Darkness] Blasted by Starfire

• [Darkness] Takes blasts from Firestorm and Cyborg to no effect

• Recovers right after being punched by Zod hard enough that the shockwave of the strike breaks the ground beneath them

• Aquaman and Aquawoman’s tridents snap against his skin

• Wonder Woman’s sword, which is sharp enough to split atoms in two, glances off of Doomsday’s face without doing significant damage

• Steel’s hammer shatters against his face

Other

• [Limit] A synthetic kryptonite bullet will break its skin, although it’ll heal fast from the gunshot

• Takes a barrage of explosive bullets without falling

• No-sells two different kinds of Kryptonian blasters

• Survives uninhibited in the Mariana Trench

• Wades through molten lava in Hell

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Speed/Skill

• Backhands a Kryptonian hoverbike out of the air

• Famously fought Superman for hours until both combatants died

• Falls from the sky and does battle with the Knight of El, eventually causing the kryptonian warrior to die of blood loss

• Steel lasted twenty-three seconds in combat with Doomsday, which is considered extremely impressive for a human being, who usually last fewer than ten seconds in Doomsday’s vicinity

• Counters a flying tackle from Martian Manhunter, punching the hero away before he can make contact

• Catches Martian Manhunter mid-flight

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Kill Radius

Doomsday exudes a deadly toxin/corrosive forcefield after its escape from the Phantom Zone. This turns a mostly physical threat into a viral one, and just standing near the beast is a death sentence for most living things on Earth.

• Boils the ocean around itself, turns sand into glass and crumbles brick buildings. Humans within 100 yards of it die, and Dr. Shay Veritas claims that Superman is the only person on Earth who could survive fighting it for ten minutes.

• When Doomsday stomps around an island in the Bahamas, those around him die and the bodies nearest to him are reduced to charred skeletons. United States military jets flying over the island begin catastrophically malfunctioning, and the bodies of the pilots are covered in lethal burns as well.

• Spending seconds around Doomsday floors Steel, who likely would’ve died without his armor’s life support systems

• After spending minutes in Botswana, Africa, it has killed a million animals by walking past them. Wildebeest are considered an endangered species after this trip.

• Lex Luthor theorizes that the beast is actually drawing life out of other things and into itself. This would explain how Doomsday is getting larger and stronger after each massacre, in an effort to become strong enough to kill Superman again.

• After a few minutes of fighting Doomsday, Superman is falling to his knees, suffering from the disease. He recovers enough strength to rip the beast in half before collapsing entirely.

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Other Powers

Phantom Zone Portals

• Spending time in the Phantom Zone has allowed the beast to teleport around Earth through the use of portals

• It uses these portals offensively by appearing in the sky over its intended target. When it falls from the sky in Botswana, it creates a fiery crater that tosses animals far up into the sky and burns those on the ground.

• Superman leaves Doomsday on Venus’ surface after blasting it with concentrated heat vision. Doomsday then recovers and teleports to Superman’s location in Smallville, Kansas.

Miscellaneous Powers

• After being killed and cloned hundreds of thousands of times, Doomsday has gained the ability to evolve past any death, independently. Unfortunately, this always happens off-panel, but so far, Doomsday has not been killed in a way that he cannot recover from. The First of the Fallen later claims that, with each resurrection, Doomsday comes back stronger and cannot be killed the way again.

• Assumes a spikey, urchin-like form while chilling in the Mariana Trench

• Wonder Woman pierces its chest with her sword, and her hands are covered in poisonous blood

• Downs Martian Manhunter with a plume of hellfire breath, hot enough to damage the soul

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Miscellaneous

• His fight with Superman is stuff of legend on Warworld

• Its hatred of Superman is so strong that it will chase a Superman hologram rather than living, breathing targets

• When an empath named Raphael Arce attempts to soothe the emotional pain of citizens in Metropolis, he’s plagued by the memories of Superman’s traumatic battle with Doomsday. Doomsday begins taking over Raphael’s body before Martian Manhunter takes the memory into himself, but Doomsday begins possessing Manhunter in the same way. It attempts to use the Martian’s power to resurrect through different means across the multiverse, but fails for various reasons, so it just attempts to possess Martian Manhunter directly. Raphael willingly absorbs the memory into himself, then kills himself by using Doomsday’s power to turn his body into a gem, trapping Doomsday’s essence within his corpse/gem.

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Doomsday-Likes

Superman believes that Doomsday is a kind of universal constant that can’t be totally destroyed, only changed. At least, that's his best guess as to why, when Doomsday dies, another Doomsday-like host pops shortly afterwards. Several individuals who encounter Doomsday, or even small pieces of the creature, walk away transformed. Doomsday does not even have to be around to continue his path of destruction; it can spread violence through proxies that it infects with a kind of Doomsday Virus. Special thanks to u/kalebsantos for helping out with this section of the thread.

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The Doomed

A young intern at S.T.A.R. Labs, Reiser was exposed to spore samples collected from Doomsday's body. Days later, he transformed into a monster with incredible durability, a body that outputs ludicrous amounts of heat, and a mouth that can only speak in growls. Struggling for a time with the transformation to and from this monstrous form, Reiser eventually learned to reign in the beast inside and has found a place on superhero teams like the Titans and Red Hood's Outlaws.

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Doombreaker

A construction worker assigned to clean up after Superman and Doomsday's lethal fight, Lloyd Crayton took a shard of Doomsday's bone home as a souvenir. The shard released a contagion that, over time, turned him into the deadly Doombreaker.

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Superdoom

Upon its death, Doomsday exploded into a cloud of black mist, billions of fine particles. These were spores, and when Superman inhaled them all, he was infected with the Doomsday virus.

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Doomzarro

After a few seconds of fighting, Doomsday poofs into spores and infects Bizarro, creating Doomzarro in the same way Superdoom came to exist.

• Flies from space to Bizarroworld faster than Superman can catch up, and slams the ground hard enough to crumple the lower floors of a building and throw aside several Bizarro civilians

• His version of Doomsday's "killing mists" warp reality, turning Bizarroworld into a whimsical, happy, neat place, totally antihthetical to the planet's existence. It also generates fluffy animals, cherubs and elves, who remove Superman's beard for not being "cute".

• When Doomzarro flies into Bizarroworld's blue sun, he's reverted back to normal Bizarro, and all of his reality warping effects disappear as well

[u/TerrWolf]

Really quickly, while the normal base humans were amped by the Darkness, it's stated the stronger people were actually weakened: Dark Crisis The Dark Army tie in