Who Is Doomsday? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Doomsday is a DC Comics comic book character, the alter ego of Unknown, with over 613 comic issue appearances. Doomsday is a seemingly unstoppable behemoth who adapts his physical form to overcome and destroy anything or anyone in his path. He is best known for being the murderer of Superman in the "Death of Superman" storyline.

Who is Doomsday?

Origin Doomsday's containment Doomsday's "father" was an emotionless alien named Bertron , a geneticist who arrived on Krypton several hundred thousand years ago when lethal and deadly monsters roamed the world. He was obsessed with creating a creature that could survive any environment and even cheat death itself. Bertron subjected his test tube infant to Krypton's harsh landscape and its savage, hungry denizens, using the best of the surviving genes to improve his next cloned creation; firstly, the baby was killed in seconds by the poisonous atmosphere. Then Bertron ordered his troops to collect the remaining tissues in order to continue the experiment. Each day, a new infant was cloned from the preceding one. The baby died either because of the planet's poisonous atmosphere or high temperatures. Tests were performed over and over. After 10 years of scientific experiments, Bertron noted that the baby was evolving, "mastering the life's need to survive." At some point of time, the infant "conquered the environment," spending more than several hours in the atmosphere without dying, but was then set upon by the lethal beasts that inhabited the planet.

Key facts

Doomsday is of alien origin and first appeared in "The Underworld Rises Again". The character is published by DC Comics. With 613 recorded issue appearances, Doomsday ranks among the most featured characters in comics.