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Javaman

(62,531 posts)
Fri Feb 23, 2018, 09:52 AM Feb 2018

The origin of Super Villains: Doomsday

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_(DC_Comics)

Doomsday is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, commonly in association with Superman. Created by writer-artist Dan Jurgens, the character had a cameo appearance in Superman: The Man of Steel #17 (November 1992) and made his first full appearance in Superman: The Man of Steel #18 (December 1992). Doomsday is an adversary to Superman, as well as the Justice League.

Doomsday ranked as #46 on IGN's list of the Top 100 Comic Book Villains of All Time.[2] He is best known as the character who killed Superman in combat in The Death of Superman story arc. The character appears in the 2016 film Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, voiced and performed by Robin Atkin Downes through motion-capture.

Doomsday was conceived in 1991 during an annual brainstorming session with the editors and writers of Superman comics, in response to a concern by some writers that most of Superman's foes at this point either relied on technology or their intellect to outmaneuver Superman or had some natural advantage against him, wanting to create a new foe with great physical power to match him. Several writers proposed having Superman die at the hands of a "bestial foe", and editor Mike Carlin scribbled this idea on the wall chart as "doomsday for Superman". Inspired, they chose "Doomsday" as the name for this villain.[3]

Doomsday was glimpsed in Superman: The Man of Steel #17 (Nov. 1992), and made his first full appearance in Superman: The Man of Steel #18 (Dec. 1992).

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