Desaad

A sadistic New God of Apokolips, DeSaad serves as Darkseid's chief torturer and most devoted — if treacherous — servant. His cruel nature made him a natural fixture among Darkseid's Elite, where he indulges his appetite for others' suffering in his master's name.

Few villains in the DC Universe wear cruelty as comfortably as Desaad, the sinister schemer who slithered onto the scene in The New Gods #2 in 1971 — one of Jack Kirby's landmark Bronze Age creations from his legendary "Fourth World" saga. A fixture of Apokolips for over five decades, Desaad has kept some of the most formidable company imaginable, sharing pages with Darkseid, Superman, Batman, and Green Lantern across titles like Legends, Super Powers, and Countdown to Final Crisis. With four key-issue appearances to his name and a publishing history stretching all the way to 2024, he's proven himself one of DC's most enduringly unsettling figures — a testament to the dark, mythic imagination Kirby brought to comics. If you're exploring the cosmic corners of the DC Universe, Desaad is exactly the kind of character who rewards a deeper look.