>>126101942Something occurred to me as I gazed upon the glorious aesthetics of this CHAD. He is just a ripped as fuck rock. Nothing more nothing less. Obviously everyone can see that, and it's been criticized many times. What people failed to see however, was that therein lies the value. His simplistic, "boring" design was not an accident. It was a symbol. A symbol for his belief in absolute tyranny. You see, CHADseid is unique among the many antagonists Superman faced in that he is simply despair. Nothing more, nothing less. He may have weird gimmicks, he may have have fancy techniques that border on magic, his race may have weird biological gifts, he may even have transformations. But in the end, he's just fucking strong because he IS.
And with that raw strength he surpasses everything, no gimmick works on him, no transformation helps, even freezing him in time doesn't defeat him.
He was the first antagonist, PERIOD, to mercilessly shoot down every single thing the protagonists tried. Nothing fucking worked against this guy. Technically he was even worse than the Time Trapper, since at least the Time Trapper took damage, (he just evading it with his time hax powers), but in the Great Darkness Saga Darkseid was straight up invincible. Then the Post-Crisis era happened, Superkek did it, he achieved the impossible, he's finally beaten down CHADseid with the Entropy Aegis, he can win! Except no, in the end he fucking doesn't. By Final Crisis they had to asspull a literal plot device because he was required to lose one way or another.
