10 Things You Didn't Know About Darkseid
6. His Omega Beams Can Send People Through Time
You know you're a badass when one of the few times you died required one of the most evil beings in all of comics to come down to Earth and finish you off himself.
Final Crisis' legendarily confusing finale had one part that was actually pretty lucid: Batman confronting Darkseid to take him out with the same kind of bullet that killed Orion at the beginning. Because when you're up against someone who has enslaved the entire planet and soon the whole universe with it, one dude's oath to never kill doesn't really hold water when all of creation is in the balance.
Batman does manage to get that hit off on Darkseid, but not before Darkseid takes him down with him with his Omega Beam. Except not really, as we learn at the end of Final Crisis and in the pages of Grant Morrison's Batman series that Batman was just sent back in time by the Omega Beam.
Turns out Darkseid was using Batman as a pseudo time bomb, infusing him with the omega sanction and sending him back so that when he blows up, he'll take the entire multiverse with him. If that sounds confusing, it's only because it is. Welcome to Grant Morrison.