10 Times The Justice League Were Utterly Destroyed
7. Darkseid Wins Again In Final Crisis
Written by Grant Morrison, Final Crisis was a seven-part miniseries with multiple tie-in series, making this a line-wide event. The Source destroyed the New Gods of Apokolips and New Genesis and unleashed the Anti-Life Equation, which destroyed free will. Darkseid’s spirit took over a gangster named Boss Dark Side and used his powers to alter reality.
Darkseid turned the Secret Society of Super-Villains into a terrorist organization and spread the Anti-Life Equation throughout the world. The all-powerful rogue's very presence was destroying space and time around him, and Earth became a black hole where time passed far faster. Darkseid subjugated the world’s population under the Anti-Life Equation, and, for a brief time, he controlled nearly all life in the world.
Breaking his own rule, Batman shot a gun at Darkseid with a radium bullet, but not before the monster hit Bats with his eye beams, seemingly killing the Dark Knight. Superman arrived and Darkseid mocked him, firing the radium gun at him as two Flashes arrived with the Black Racer, who removed Darkseid’s soul from its body.
Clark, working with the now-Lex-Luthor-controlled Secret Society freed Wonder Woman. She used her lasso on Darkseid and forced him to free the world. Using the Miracle Machine, provided by the Legion of Super-Heroes, Kal-El restored Earth to its proper place in the Multiverse.