Editing Apokolips (section)

==Fictional history==
Apokolips and its counterpart [[New Genesis]] were created after the destruction of Urgrund, the world of the "Old Gods" (implied to be the gods of [[Norse mythology]]).<ref name=":0" /> While New Genesis was given strength and nobility from the "living atoms" of the Old God [[Baldr|Balduur]], Apokolips was saturated with evil from an unnamed sorceress.<ref>''Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe Volume I'' (March 1985)</ref> The two planets are locked in an eternal war, symbolizing the struggle of evil and good on a grand mythic scale. Apokolips is ruled by a fell being known as [[Darkseid]], a dark leader who rules over his downtrodden people by force and fear and killed his mother Heggra to obtain the throne.<ref name=":0" />

===''Seven Soldiers''===
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Both Apokolips and [[New Genesis]] were seemingly destroyed in a final battle prior to [[Grant Morrison]]'s miniseries ''Seven Soldiers: Mister Miracle''. However, the final issue of that series implied that the story's earlier events were merely visions seen by the hero as part of an elaborate test by the New God [[Metron (character)|Metron]]. How much of the battle really happened and the current status of the New Gods remains to be seen.

===''Countdown to Final Crisis''===
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Using Boom Tube technology, [[Brother Eye]] arrives on Apokolips and seemingly assimilates the entire planet. Before the assimilation is fully complete, the [[Pied Piper (DC Comics)|Pied Piper]] intervenes and channels the [[Anti-Life Equation]] through his flute. This destroys much of [[Brother Eye]], causing it to flee and reverting much of Apokolips to normal.

===''Death of the New Gods''===
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At the end of the ''Death of the New Gods'' miniseries, with all the gods now dead, the combined entity born from the melding of the [[Source (comics)|Source]] and the [[Anti-Life Equation]] merges Apokolips and New Genesis into a single planet.

===''The Great Darkness Saga''===
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In the 30th century, original ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes]]'' continuity, Apokolips is inactive and Darkseid is incapacitated. In the reboot ''Legion'' continuity, Darkseid was aged and dying, with the planet mostly uninhabited, but the center of a large cult.

===''[[The New 52]]'': Earth-0 and Earth-2===
In DC continuity following its 2011 ''[[Flashpoint (comics)|Flashpoint]]'' event and the launch of its ''[[The New 52|New 52]]'' line of comics, the [[DC Multiverse]] remains composed of 52 worlds, but only one set of New Gods. Darkseid and his army from Apokolips have attempted to invade Earth-0, or Prime Earth, but are repelled by the first incarnation of the [[Justice League]]. At the same time, his armies invaded the alternate Earth of Earth-2 under the aegis of [[Steppenwolf (character)|Steppenwolf]], which was much more successful.

The invasion of Earth-2 cost the lives of that universe's original [[Superman (Earth-Two)|Superman]], [[Batman (Earth-Two)|Batman]], [[Catwoman#Earth 2|Catwoman]], [[Wonder Woman (Earth-Two)|Wonder Woman]] and millions of humans, including Earth-2's [[Lois Lane]], who married Superman on that world. The Apokoliptan forces have assistance from [[Fury (DC Comics)#Earth 2|Fury]] (Earth-2 Wonder Woman's abducted and brainwashed daughter), with all her mother's Amazonian abilities. Five years on, a number of new "wonders" begin to emerge: [[Alan Scott#Earth 2|Green Lantern (Alan Scott)]], the [[Atom (Al Pratt)#Earth 2|Atom]], [[Hawkgirl (Kendra Saunders)#Earth 2|Hawkgirl]], [[Doctor Fate#Khalid Ben-Hassin|Doctor Fate]], the [[Lois Lane#Red Tornado|Red Tornado]] (an android with Lois Lane's consciousness) and the [[Flash (Jay Garrick)#Earth 2|Flash]] form an embryonic Justice Society. Before long, the armies of Apokolips attempt a second invasion of Earth 2, and the Wonders of the World are supported by further heroes including Batman ([[Thomas Wayne#Earth 2|Thomas Wayne]]), a new [[Superman (Earth-Two)#Val-Zod|Superman (Val-Zod)]], [[Huntress (Helena Wayne)]], [[Power Girl]], Aquawoman (Marella), the [[Jimmy Olsen#Earth 2|Accountable (Jimmy Olsen)]], the New God [[Mister Miracle]], and Earth 0's [[Mister Terrific (Michael Holt)|Mister Terrific]].

Agents of Darkseid, such as [[Glorious Godfrey]] and [[Kalibak]] (in ''Batman & Robin'') and the Apokoliptian Orion (in ''Wonder Woman''), have encountered the heroes of Earth-0 on several occasions, but no full-scale invasions have taken place. Later, in the series ''Earth 2: Worlds' End'', [[Mister Miracle]] discovers that [[Highfather]] made a deal with Darkseid that the armies of Apokolips could invade Earth-2 and that dimension freely without the intervention of the New Gods of New Genesis, explaining the wild disparity between the fates of Earth-0 and Earth-2. Ultimately, Apokolips itself enters Earth-2's Solar System and consumes Earth-2, transforming the planet into fuel to sustain itself.

===''DC Rebirth''===
When [[Perpetua (DC Comics)|Perpetua]] destroys the Source Wall, one of the side effects is that Apokolips simply vanishes.<ref>''Justice League Annual'' (vol. 4) #1</ref> With Apokolips gone, Darkseid plans to use the Ghost Sector to create a New Apokolips which he will use to invade and conquer the Multiverse.<ref>''Justice League Odyssey Vol. 1''</ref>