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Doomsday is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by DC Comics. The character first appears in Superman: The Man of Steel #17 (Nov. 1992), and was created by writer-artist Dan Jurgens.

Doomsday is created in the distant past on Krypton, long before the humanoid Kryptonian race had gained dominance over the planet. It was a violent, hellish world where only the absolute strongest of creatures could survive (at the time, the world's dominant lifeforms were said to be the most dangerous creatures in the universe).In an effort to create the ultimate lifeform, the alien Bertron sent an infant who was born in vitro—in order to make it develop resistance to the harsh environment to the surface of the planet—where it would be promptly killed by the vicious creatures inhabiting it. Its remains were harvested and used to clone a stronger version of it, a process repeated countless times as a form of accelerated natural selection.The agony of these deaths were recorded in his genes driving the creature to hate all life.Eventually, it gained the ability to adapt to overcome what killed it in its prior life without the need of Bertron's technology."The Ultimate" hunted and killed all of the lethal creatures that then inhabited Krypton, including Bertron.

The Ultimate escaped Krypton and went on a killing spree across several planets. It began 245,000 years ago on Bylan 5, where Darkseid was about to wed a princess (in order to obtain that planet's chemical deposits for Apokolips' weapons factories). Just as the Ultimate and Darkseid were to meet in combat, Darkseid was forced to flee, as the battle had caused the planet's atmosphere to become toxic and therefore worthless to Apokolips. The Ultimate hitched a ride on an escaping shuttle, which crashed on Khundia. The warring Khundian clans united in order to build protective armor for a warrior named Kobald, who was hoped to survive long enough to force the Ultimate onto a rocket. Once the rocket was in space, the Ultimate killed Kobald and the resulting explosion sent him hurling through space.

It next came across the path of a Green Lantern named Zharan Pel. The Ultimate took the Lantern's power ring and sensing the power of the Guardians of the Universe, made his way to them. Hundreds of Green Lanterns were sent to stop it and were killed. It continued to Oa where a single Guardian sacrificed himself in battle to defeat it. But the release of energies by the Guardian caused a tear in space through which the Ultimate fell. Eventually coming to Calaton, it tore that world apart for three years.With only the capital city left, the royal family combined their life forces into a single energy being, The Radiant. The Radiant killed the Ultimate with a huge blast of energy (laying waste to over a fifth of his world in the process). In common Calatonian burial procedures, the Ultimate's seemingly-dead body was shackled and masked, and shot into space.Eventually, it landed on Earth, the force of the impact driving the casket deep underground.

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