Dark Side Club

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Dark Side Club
First appearance Seven Soldiers: Mister Miracle
Created by Grant Morrison
Characters Boss Dark Side
Publisher DC Comics

The Dark Side Club is a fictional underground club in DC Comics, coming to prominence in the Final Crisis limited series.

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Fictional history

Originating from the Seven Soldiers: Mister Miracle mini-series, the Dark Side Club serves as the stronghold for Darkseid and the Apokoliptian New Gods stranded on Earth and a recruiting central for new loyal servants. Similar in concept to Roulette's fight club, the Dark Side Club provides his wealthy patrons with an underground fighting ring, where brainwashed metahumans are forced to fight in often deadly battles. In a human recreation of Granny Goodness' orphanage, the captured metahumans, usually the youngest or the most obscure, are fed drugs concocted by Bernadeth and routinely abused and controlled by Granny.

Among the most known victims of the Dark Side Club there are the Tornado Twins, children of the third Flash [1] and Misfit, young protegèe of the Birds of Prey. [2] Since all of them manage to escape, their capture backfires on Darkseid, alerting the larger heroic community on their activities, and letting Misfit and Black Alice deal crippling blows to the organization, like killing Granny Goodness during their escape.

Darkseid then hires the Terror Titans to capture the Teen Titans, granting the Clock King the role once held by Granny and Bernadeth as the chief captor and brainwasher. In such role the Terror Titans manage to capture Red Devil and Miss Martian, brainwashing the former and forcing the latter into undo his mental damage. [3]

However, not every captured metahuman is deemed fit to fight alongside Darkseid, and DeSaad is sent to capture the Infinitors and deal aggressively with the Everymen kids, the younger heroes receiving often unwanted powers from Lex Luthor's exogene. Double Trouble is killed, and Vaporlock, Amazing Woman, and Empathy are captured, and forced to power a machine meant to rid the Everymen of their powers. As a side effect, the still living Infinitors vanish. [4]

The Club returns in the Terror Titans, where the Terror Titans are shown retaining their chief role, and granting the Dark Side Club a more business driven facade, more similar to the Roulette underground fight club. They manage to capture a cadre of new legacy, semi-obscure heroes, and Clock King hires Ravager as his minion and trainer. Rose begrudgingly accepts, still refusing to embrace the ways of the Club and refusing to give up her independent will. [5]

In Final Crisis , Dan Turpin is shown discovering that the Club has been capturing metahuman children and teaching them to say the Anti-Life Equation. [6]

Static is later revealed to be the champion of the Dark Side Club and the strongest of its captured metahumans. During his match with Ravager, he easily defeats her and attempts to attack his captors after escaping the effects of the Equation. [7]

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Notes

  1. ↑ The Flash (vol. 2) #240 (July 2008)
  2. ↑ Birds of Prey #118 (July 2008)
  3. ↑ Teen Titans (vol. 3) #59-60 (July - August 2008)
  4. ↑ Infinity, Inc. (vol. 2) #11-12 (September - October 2008)
  5. ↑ Terror Titans Stand the Test of (Clock King’s) Time Archived 2016-05-07 at the Wayback Machine , Comic Book Resources, August 14, 2008
  6. ↑ Final Crisis #1 (July 2008)
  7. ↑ Terror Titans #4 (March 2009)

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