”Most predators attack their attackers...but this beast...it destroyed everything. That was its function, after all...to ensure that no Kryptonian would ever be safe again.”

[METROPOLIS — 0:00 AFTER “THE DEATH OF SUPERMAN”]

The last thing you hear is the echo—that final, sickening WHUMPH of a punch… its fist exploded the Man of Steel’s head with devastating gore… brain matter splattered across the destroyed concrete wall..

”RRRAAAAGGHHHHHH!”

Something moves in the fiery wreck.

A massive silhouette swells through the dust—Gray skin stretched over corded muscle. And spikes: bone-growths bursting from shoulders, elbows, spine, even the jawline—a body built like a living battering ram..

DOOMSDAY.

A low, animal hiss and the sound of bone scraping against bone as he flexes.

Doomsday: (growls…)

[SENSOR: BIO-SIGNATURE DETECTED] KRYPTONIAN TRACE: RESIDUAL // FAINT DIRECTIVE: EXTERMINATE ALL LIFE SUBDIRECTIVE: KILL KRYPTONIANS FIRST

[NARRATOR: Doomsday — the creature that killed Super…man in a straight fight. A living extinction event: near-unstoppable strength, monstrous speed, and a body that adapts through sheer survivability. A problem that gets worse every second you’re alive near it.]

PRIOR OPPONENT: SUPERMAN (KRYPTONIAN / SOLAR-CHARGED) ENGAGEMENT RESULT: EXTREME TRAUMA RECORDED // SURVIVAL CONFIRMED CORE UPDATE: ANTI-KRYPTONIAN KILL PACKAGE

ADAPTATION: BLUNT FORCE / KRYPTONIAN STRIKES RESULT: SHOCK-DISPERSAL OSSIFICATION // ORGAN SHEAR RESISTANCE

ADAPTATION: EXTREME THERMAL / HEAT VISION RESULT: HEAT-SINK PLATING // CERAMICIZED EPIDERMIS

ADAPTATION: KRYPTONIAN GRAPPLING RESULT: GRIP-DETERRENT SPIKE MAP // TORQUE-ESCAPE MUSCLES

You try to step back.

Bad idea.

Doomsday’s head snaps toward you like a sensor locking on. He smells the movement. You feel it—this pressure in the air… your… death.

Then his legs coil.

And he’s gone.

He leaps—a single explosive launch that turns meters into nothing. The shockwave of his takeoff pops windows.

You raise an arm—

He hits you like a truck made of muscle & spikes.

There’s a sharp, ugly CRACK that sounds like wood snapping. Your arm folds at an angle arms aren’t supposed to fold. Pain flashes so bright it turns your vision grainy.

Your body slams into the pavement, and the world blurs white-hot.

A backhand catches your face and sends your head skidding across the asphalt. Teeth cut your lip. Blood tastes like pennies and panic.

[Narrator: Unique Physiology: Doomsday was created by a rogue scientist, through cloning an infant & having it killed & re-cloned hundreds of thousands of times, pushing him through millions of years of hyper-accelerated evolution to become the ultimate killing machine. His entire body is built as a defensive structure which continues to arm itself the more it is damaged. Self-Evolution: Doomsday's main function is to adapt to whatever he is faced against or killed by. Forever constantly adapting & evolving to forms of attack. After experiencing one form of offense he learns how to resist it in the future. Superman attempted to keep his distance while battling him, only for the monster to hyper-elongate his bone protrusions to gore and reel him in. Kal-El once used a sound gun to paralyze Doomsday, but Doomsday's auditory canals closed making him impervious to the weapon. Waverider even paralyzed Doomsday once with "chronal" energy, but the second attempt backlashes on him. Resurrection: Doomsday stands beyond the reach of death, as Bertron stated; should The Ultimate even be felled by a superior opponent. He will automatically resurrect himself from the grave stronger than ever. Regeneration: Doomsday can reconstitute himself from whatever is left after his death, such as a scrap of flesh or even a nucleotide. Even a memory is enough for him to reproduce from. Invulnerability: Doomsday is invulnerable to almost every form of damage. Punches from the likes of Superman & Wonder Woman do little to harm him.]