While many believed it to have either redeemed itself or vanished after merging with the Presence, this has since been proven to be incorrect.
It seems that the only being that was above it in power was God himself, and it is implied that the Great Darkness was God's dark half. The Great Darkness is an omnipotent being. In this sense, the Great Darkness can truly be considered the ultimate antagonist of DC lore. The Great Darkness lives on, an unfathomable power beyond the spheres of DC cosmology that empowers such monsters as the Upside Down Man, Empty Hand, etc. However, this was not actually the end of the entity, despite many fans mistaking it to be so. In later issues showing the afterlife in Swamp Thing, he would glimpse the joined hands of the darkness and the Presence. John Constantine lost some of his oldest friends in the campaign to stop the Brujeria, while his ally Mento (Steve Dayton, formerly of The Doom Patrol and an ally to The Teen Titans) glimpsed the smallest portion of the Great Darkness and went insane, actually becoming a villain for several years. On the more heroic side, Golden Age magical hero Zatara sacrificed his life to save his daughter Zatanna, and Sargon The Sorcerer also met his end. Doctor Fate killed one of the Demons Three. This climaxed in the two beings merging together into the perfect balance. However, as the Great Darkness stormed the gates of Heaven itself, the entity extended its hand, and much to the surprise of everyone, the Presence did likewise. It told Swamp Thing to leave him in peace, as he had entered, and prepared for what it called "a great and final ending". The entity listened as Swamp Thing gave what little lessons he had that implied that darkness was in its own way as necessary as light, and had a place in the cosmos after all.
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Somewhat ironically, another batch of demons known as the Demons Three decided to do the opposite and allied with the Great Darkness, seeing it as the ultimate sin and evil, which it technically was.įinally, Swamp Thing, readied by his journeys into the Parliament of Trees and his dealings with John Constantine, sought the entity out of his own free will, whereas all other beings had been engulfed after being soundly defeated. These new lessons angered the Great Darkness despite the heroes being well-meaning, and it launched an assault on Heaven itself in order to get answers as to its existence from the Presence itself.Īlong the way, the Great Darkness decimated anything that got in its way and was so powerful that Lucifer Morningstar, Azrael, and Beelzebub formed an alliance to defend themselves should the Great Darkness decide to attack Hell as well.
Fate told the entity Evil was despicable, and the Spectre finally told the entity about the concept of revenge. Etrigan taught the entity that Darkness was Evil, Dr. The Great Darkness would encounter Etrigan, Dr. When the events of Crisis on Infinite Earths took place, a group of mystics named the Brujeria attempted an occult ritual designed to contact the Great Darkness, but it went horribly wrong and the entity awoke as a furious beast, unable to grasp its power and becoming confused as to its existence.
However, despite its immense power, the Great Darkness was still a newborn entity and lacked knowledge, and thus was easily defeated by the Presence and contained within its own realm. The Great Darkness was formed when God uttered the words "Let There Be Light" and came to embody all the darkness in creation, as well as everything that opposed the light of the Presence, which is the DC universe's version of God.
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