Apokolips

Both Apokolips and New Genesis were seemingly destroyed in a final battle prior to Grant Morrison's miniseries Seven Soldiers: Mister Miracle. However, the final issue of that series implied that the story's earlier events were merely visions seen by the hero as part of an elaborate test by the New God Metron. How much of the battle really happened and the current status of the New Gods remains to be seen.

Using Boom Tube technology, Brother Eye arrives on Apokolips and seemingly assimilates the entire planet. Before the assimilation is fully complete, the Pied Piper intervenes and channels the Anti-Life Equation through his flute. This destroys much of Brother Eye, causing its central core to make a last-minute escape off the surface of the planet and reverting much of Apokolips to what it was.

At the end of the Death of the New Gods miniseries, with all the gods now dead, the combined entity born from the melding of the Source and the Anti-Life Equation merges Apokolips and New Genesis into a single new planet with characteristics in common with both the former worlds.

In the 30th century, original Legion of Super-Heroes continuity, Apokolips is inactive and Darkseid is incapacitated. In the reboot Legion continuity, Darkseid was aged and dying, with the planet mostly uninhabited, but the center of a large cult.

In DC continuity following its 2011 Flashpoint event and the launch of its New 52 line of comics, the DC Multiverse remains composed of 52 worlds, but only one set of New Gods. Darkseid and his army from Apokolips have attempted to invade Earth-0, or Prime Earth, but are repelled by the first incarnation of the Justice League. At the same time, his armies invaded the alternate Earth of Earth-2 under the aegis of Steppenwolf, which was much more successful.

The invasion of Earth-2 cost the lives of that universe's original Superman, Batman, Catwoman, Wonder Woman and millions of humans, including Earth-2's Lois Lane, who married Superman on that world. The Apokoliptan forces have assistance from Fury (Earth-2 Wonder Woman's abducted and brainwashed daughter), with all her mother's Amazonian abilities. Five years on, a number of new "wonders" begin to emerge: Green Lantern (Alan Scott), the Atom, Hawkgirl, Doctor Fate, the Red Tornado (an android with Lois Lane's consciousness) and the Flash form an embryonic Justice Society to deal with threats such as Solomon Grundy. Before long, the armies of Apokolips attempt a second invasion of Earth 2, and the Wonders of the World are supported by further heroes including Batman (Thomas Wayne), a new Superman (Val-Zod), the Huntress (Helena Wayne), Power Girl, Aquawoman (Marella), the Accountable (Jimmy Olsen), the New God Mister Miracle, and Earth 0's Mister Terrific.

Agents of Darkseid, such as Glorious Godfrey and Kalibak (in Batman & Robin) and the Apokoliptian Orion (in Wonder Woman), have encountered the heroes of Earth-0 on several occasions, but no full-scale invasions have taken place. Later, in the series Earth 2: Worlds' End, Mister Miracle discovers that Highfather made a deal with Darkseid that the armies of Apokolips could invade Earth-2 and that dimension freely without the intervention of the New Gods of New Genesis, explaining the wild disparity between the fates of Earth-0 and Earth-2. Ultimately, Apokolips itself enters Earth-2's Solar System and consumes Earth-2, transforming the planet into fuel to sustain itself.

When Perpetua destroys the Source Wall, one of the side effects is that Apokolips simply vanishes.[8] With Apokolips gone, Darkseid plans to use the Ghost Sector to create a New Apokolips which he will use to invade and conquer the Multiverse.[9]

During an intercompany crossover, Galactus visited Apokolips, but was unable to feed on the planet, since all of the life force that had dwelled there had either left to New Genesis or had been burned in the fire pits long ago, in essence leaving the planet with no lifeforce and making it too corrupt for him to feed on.

• The last two seasons of Super Friends featured Apokolips. It was shown in various episodes of Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show and The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians.
• Jack Kirby's Fourth World was featured heavily in the final season of Superman: The Animated Series with Apokolips as the primary setting in a few episodes. In the final episode "Legacy", Superman faced Darkseid in battle and actually dethroned him as ruler and freed the people of Apokolips, only to watch the citizens help Darkseid recover from his wounds out of loyalty.
• In the successor series Justice League Darkseid asked for the League's help when the computer Brainiac attacks Apokolips. This is later revealed as a trick to capture Superman so Brainiac can make itself an organic being. Darkseid gains control of Brainiac and tries to use him to solve the Anti-Life Equation, but is killed when Brainiac's asteroid base explodes. In the series continuation, Justice League Unlimited, Apokolips plunged into civil war after Darkseid's death, between two of his generals, Granny Goodness and Virman Vundabar. Vundabar captures Darkseid's oldest son Kalibak, but Kalibak is later imprisoned on Earth. The League hopes that both sides would destroy each other, so that neither of them can threaten Earth or the universe. But when Darkseid was resurrected by Lex Luthor, he returned to Apokolips to reaffirm his rule, quickly ending the civil war. He then orders his forces to attack Earth, so as to get revenge on Superman and later to head to New Genesis. The Apokolipian forces then came upon Earth via Boom Tubes. The Justice League, temporarily allied with the Secret Society of Super Villains, fought against them. When Darkseid and Luthor seemingly perished when they clasped their hands on the Anti-Life Equation, the Apokolipian forces retreated back to their home, with their fate unclear.
• In the series Smallville, Apokolips is referenced when Clark Kent's cousin Kara explains to Oliver Queen that a symbol-like language depicted on a cave's walls is Apokoliptian in nature. The actual planet appears in the series finale, in which Darkseid attempts to crash it into Earth until Clark, who has become Superman, defeats Darkseid and pushes Apokolips back into outer space.
• In the direct-to-video film Superman/Batman: Apocalypse, Apokolips was a featured location where Darkseid had placed Kara Zor-El under his command.
• Apokolips was referenced in the Young Justice episode "Disordered". It eventually appeared in "Endgame", where it was the gathering place for Vandal Savage, Darkseid, G. Gordon Godfrey, and DeSaad.
• Apokolips appears in Justice League Action.
• Apokolips is featured in the Harley Quinn episode "Inner (Para) Demons". The show's titular character and her crew travel there using a stolen Mother Box to seek an audience with Darkseid and gain control of his Parademon army to defend against the GCPD, which they do after she and Doctor Psycho kill Granny Goodness.

• Apokolips appears in Superman/Batman: Apocalypse, Justice League: War, Reign of the Supermen and Justice League Dark: Apokolips War.
• Apokolips is mentioned once by Knockout in Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay.
• Apokolips is indirectly mentioned in Justice League. While explaining the ancient Mother Boxes to Bruce Wayne, Diana Prince explains that the boxes combine to form the Unity, a power that transforms words into the primordial hellscape of Steppenwolf’s birth world, referring to Apokolips. Apokolips was physically featured in the director’s cut, Zack Snyder's Justice League

• Apokolips makes a cameo in the video game Superman: Shadow of Apokolips, where Darkseid and Kanto observe Intergang's activities with Superman and Metallo.
• Apokolips is alluded in Justice League Heroes, where Darkseid uses a Mother Box to turn Earth into a "New Apokolips". Superman is kept on Earth to see what has happened to Earth. Once Darkseid is defeated, Zatanna asks the Mother Box to turn Earth back into its original state.
• Apokolips appears in DC Universe Online, being viewable in the exterior of two instances, Happiness Home and Darkseid's War Factory, where you face against many of the Apokoliptians.
• Apokolips is featured heavily in Lego DC Super-Villains as the final battle between Darkseid, his forces and the Justice League and Legion of Doom, as well as an alternate location once the tenth level called “Cooking Up a Deathstorm” is completed.