What is The Omega Sanction?


The Omega Sanction in full

Extracted from WIKIPEDIA The Free Encyclopedia
Darkseid vaporizes Desaad with his Omega Beams in New Gods (vol. 1) #11 (Nov. 1972). Art by Jack Kirby.

Darkseid is among the most powerful New Gods, sometimes depicted with a variety of god-like abilities at his disposal. His main power, the Omega Effect, is a form of energy that he fires from his eyes as either concussive force or beams of disintegration, capable of transmuting or erasing most living objects and organisms from existence as well as to reform or resurrect them. Anything Darkseid disintegrates with the Omega Effect can be brought back at any time by him, and he often uses this as a form of punishment. Darkseid has pinpoint control over his Omega Beams, and his unerring aim allows them to travel in straight lines, bend, twist, or curve around corners, and can pass through matter and energy. The Omega Effect can also be used to teleport Darkseid or others through time and space.[8] Darkseid can also project the Omega Effect as energy blasts from his hands.
Another type of Omega Effect is the Omega Sanction, that traps the organism in a series of alternate realities, each worse than the previous one.

In addition, Darkseid possesses superhuman strength, stamina, and durability equivalent to the corresponding traits of Superman [9] and Orion.[10] He also, despite his great size, possesses great speed, agility, and reflexes as he has been able to startle Superman with his speed[11] and it has been stated he can react in microseconds[12]. He sometimes possesses the ability to increase his size.[13] Darkseid possesses the powers of telepathy and (telekinesis), and has also shown the ability to create psionic avatars. He is even able to open boom tubes under his own power, and can travel through time, space, and even other dimensions with ease. Darkseid is also, being a god, virtually immortal. He has lived for several hundred thousand years at the very least.[14]

Despite his great might, Darkseid generally does not rely on physical combat, despite being a highly trained Apokoliptian warrior [14]; he is a master schemer and strategist possessing a superhuman intellect. Darkseid has also shown some form of godly sense, capable of sensing the death of his son Orion[9] and the fluctuations of the energy of the "Godwave".[15] Darkseid commands all the vast military and technological resources of Apokolips.