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Lord Darkseid understands some of you worms may not be satisfied with your petty explanations of his greatness. That is why he has allowed these... contentious issues... to linger. Beware, for he may turn his attention to you... and there will be no longer doubt about what Darkseid is.
- Anticlimax Boss: The Smallville version of him is a much bigger threat when he's a disembodied spirit spreading malevolence amongst the people of the Earth. As soon as he gets a body by possessing Lionel Luthor, Clark very easily takes him down.
- Character Shilling: Those who don't like Darkseid usually cite this as their main problem with him. He's constantly hyped up as the Ultimate Evil of the DCU and Superman's Evil Counterpart but he has a very weak army and gets tossed around a lot, with writers having to play mental gymnastics to justify his defeats. Not helping that beings like Trigon or the Anti-Monitor seem more deserving of the title of Ultimate Evil.
- Fandom Rivalry: With the fanbase of his expy Thanos, particularly following the release of Avengers: Infinity War. Thanos fans dismiss Darkseid as a cheaply written Generic Doomsday Villain who lacks Thanos' Character Development. Darkseid fans dismiss Thanos as a poor's man substitute for Darkseid, content that Darkseid, unlike Thanos, doesn't have to lie to himself to justify his horrible deeds. Not helped by most of the internet coming to the consensus that if the two came to blows, Thanos would come out on top.
- Memetic Loser: In some Marvel circles, he is a walking example on how not to write Thanos.
- Moral Event Horizon: He never crossed it, he was created on the far side of the line.
- In Final Crisis Darkseid is the Moral Singularity. Literally, his fall to Earth creates a black hole of evil dense enough to drag down the entire multiverse with him.
- Villain Decay: For a Physical God to still be a threat after 30 years, it has to happen; he keeps being defeated, his plans keep being foiled, because if they were not, then there would no longer be a DC Universe. Unless they want to end the universe as a whole, Failure Is the Only Option, and that often means making the supposedly Godly Darkseid somebody's punk. Though Final Crisis initially undid the decay, its end brought the decay back.