Warning! Spoilers ahead for Superman #23!Doomsday, one ofSuperman’smost powerful and devastating enemies, is on the path to becoming a godlike threat. The Man of Steel’s adversary escaped Hell itself in one of his most fearsome forms yet, but one of Clark’s closest allieshas set Doomsday upto gain more power than ever before.
InSuperman #23by Joshua Williamson and Dan Mora,Superman and Doomsday arestill mid-battle with Radiant and his army, who have come to kill Doomsday. Superman and his allies fight Radiant, fearing that deathwill make Doomsday evolveinto something more powerful.
To end the battle, Lex Luthor enters the fray with Brainiac tech. He miniaturizes and bottles Doomsday, Radiant, and the armies, saving the day. Despite the threat of Radiant killing Doomsday in the bottle, Lex defends his choice, saying time is slower in the bottle, butMercy Graves speculates how time slowing down will affect Doomsday’s evolution.
Lex Luthor Just Accidentally Turned Doomsday into the Time Trapper
He Saved the Day, But Superman’s Old Foe Just Created a Huge Problem
After breaking out of Hell, Doomsday did what he does best and made a beeline to fight Superman. But during the battle, Superman was temporarily (and temporally) stopped by the mysterious Time Trapper, who revealed himself to be a hyper-evolved Doomsday who had been killed and evolved so many times that he became his most powerful and intelligent self possible. The Time Trapper appeared to Clark, asking the hero tokill the future Doomsday one last time so that the Time Trapper could be reborn as a god of time, with Superman refusing to do so.
Knowing that Doomsday was destined to grow in power, Superman and Supercorp took every step to contain Doomsday and verify he’d never grow in power. But with Metropolis being attacked on all sides, Lex called an audible and got rid of both Doomsday and Radiant by securely containing them in one of Brainiac’s bottles. Admittedly, it saves the day in the short-term. But what Lex has actually done was create the perfect environment to evolved into the Time Trapper in the first place. NowDoomsday’s going to be killed repeatedly while the bottle’s time distortion adds to his power.
What’s Next For Doomsday’s Powerful New Form?
Has Lex Luthor Doomed Superman?
Judging by the Time Trapper’s speech to Superman, Doomsday is going to be locked away in that bottled city for some time, so there’s no immediate threat to Clark or his family. But Time Trapper is on the precipice of becoming a god, and he’s still got all of Doomsday’s worst traits. The one saving grace, if one could call it that, isthat the Time Trapper is confronted by Darkseid’s Legion once he returns to the end of time, and they might put him through something far worse than death.
It’s unfortunate that the only way to stop Doomsday this go-round was to give his future self exactly what he wanted. Now Doomsday is currently in the process of becoming a god. Granted, the future is malleable and things could change at any moment. But thanks to Lex, Doomsday has begun a journey that could end with him becoming one of the most powerful beings thatSupermanor anyone in the DC Universe has ever seen.
