fiction.wikisort.org - CharacterParademons are a fictional group of extraterrestrials appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. They are monstrous shock troops of Apokolips used by Darkseid to maintain order on the planet.
Group of DC Comics characters
Comics character
Parademon |
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Parademons as seen in Salvation Run #6 (April 2008), art by Sean Chen. |
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Publisher | DC Comics |
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First appearance | The New Gods #1 (February/March 1971) |
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Created by | Jack Kirby Dale Eaglesham Gail Simone |
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Team affiliations | New Gods of Apokolips |
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Abilities |
- Enhanced strength and endurance
- Heightened tolerance for pain
- low-high regeneration
- Armor-based flight
- Fire Breath
- Self-detonation
- Mechanomorphing
- Parademon conversion
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Parademons are featured in the DC Extended Universe films Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and both the theatrical and director's cut versions of Justice League.
Publication history
The original Parademons were created by Jack Kirby in The New Gods #1 (1971).
Fictional history
An artificially enhanced pseudo-race devoted to Darkseid, Parademons serve as both labor as well as an elite guard for the planet of Apokolips.[1] Created and trained by DeSaad - often by torturing and reconditioning captured victims - Parademons typically act in Legions.
Their true strength is in their numbers, which reach into the thousands. When acting together, they can overwhelm even the toughest heroes. They are chosen from the most sociopathic and cruel residents before being given gliders and trained in combat. They are often accompanied by gigantic dogs called Hounds.
In the comic Salvation Run, Parademons are dispatched by Desaad to attack the villains that were dumped onto their training camp. They killed Hyena, Brutale, General Immortus, and Solomon Grundy, the last of whom turned up alive in later comic issues. Most of them were killed when Lex Luthor self-destructed the teleportation device.
In the New 52 (a 2011 reboot of the DC Comics universe), the Parademons are used to attack Earth, first seen encountering both Green Lantern and Batman in Gotham City.[2] It is revealed in new continuum that the Parademon hordes are either remolded lifeforms or processed corpses that Darkseid and his Elite have harvested from the various worlds and realities they've conquered.[3]
The New 52 era Red Tornado of Earth-Two discovered that 'K'li, a former Tamaranean Fury of Darkseid, was creating a special class of Berserker Parademons from the remodeled remains of dead or kidnapped humans, repurposing them through the usage of nightmarish Apokoliptian technologies.[4]
Powers and abilities
Typical abilities of a Parademon include superhuman strength, stamina, regeneration, and a high tolerance for pain rooted in their reconditioning by DeSaad. Its armor provides additional protection against most weapons or energies and it also comes with wings for self-propelled flight.
As opposed to most Parademons, Mike, the Secret Six Parademon, and Pharzoof could speak and seemed to have more than the rudimentary intelligence most Parademons possess. The latter was shown to enjoy being tortured by his opponents.
Within the Prime-Earth reality, many if not all Parademons boast fire breath, self-detonation, and transformation abilities. Certain Parademons can even convert captured victims into new Parademons via direct technological infection.
Television
- The Parademons appear in the final season of Super Friends, The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians, with their vocal effects provided by Frank Welker. When Darkseid became a recurring villain, the Parademons followed (although the use of the word "demon" on television was often protested by parents' groups). Thus, Darkseid's minions were sometimes referred to as "para-drones" on that show.
- The Parademons appear in several episodes of Superman: The Animated Series, most notably in the "Apokolips...Now!" two-parter. They were last seen in the final episodes of Justice League Unlimited, following a resurrected Darkseid's attempt to take over Earth once more. They are non-speaking creatures and usually appear as invading armies.
- The Parademons appear in the Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode "The Knights of Tomorrow!" A few of them along with Kalibak pursue Question after he uncovered Darkseid's plans to invade Earth. In "Darkseid's Descending", the Parademons take part in the attack on Earth. Additionally, a Parademon appears in part 2 of the two-part episode "The Siege of Starro!", as one of the statues that represent the warriors defeated by the Faceless Hunter.
- The Parademons appear in the DC Super Hero Girls special DC Super Hero Girls: Super Hero High. One notable Parademon is called Perry (voiced by Fred Tatasciore).
- The Parademons appear in Justice League Action.
- The Parademons appear in Young Justice: Outsiders.
- The Parademons appear in the Harley Quinn episode "Inner (Para) Demons". After the titular character kills Granny Goodness, Darkseid puts her in charge of a Parademon army, which she leads into attacking Gotham City, only to relinquish control of them after realizing she had gone overboard. Despite this, numerous Parademons are left to roam Gotham and, in "Dye Hard", Doctor Psycho used his psionic powers to take control of them in an attempt to take over the city and exact revenge on Harley. All the Parademons in Gotham are ultimately killed by the Justice League in "Lover's Quarrel".
Film
DC Extended Universe
- The Parademons made a small appearance in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, showing up in Bruce Wayne's vision/nightmare of a post-apocalyptic Earth resembling Apokolips; one of them knocks Batman out, allowing Superman's soldiers to capture him and deliver him to their leader. Their inclusion hints at Darkseid's future involvement within the DC Extended Universe.
- The Parademons appear in the 2017 film Justice League with their vocal effects provided by Gary A. Hecker.[5] They appear under the command of Darkseid's uncle Steppenwolf, are shown to be attracted to fear, and can transform their victims into other Parademons.[6] In the final confrontation with Steppenwolf, he is betrayed by his own Parademons when the League's success in separating the Mother Boxes he was using to trigger a transformation of Earth inspires fear within him. They attack Steppenwolf as he disappears into the Boom Tube.
- The Parademons also appear in the 2021 version of Zack Snyder's Justice League. The storyline has changed where they are not motivated by fear, but simply fanatical servants of Steppenwolf and Darkseid. They are able to smell the Mother Boxes, abducting who has been in contact with them for interrogation on the Mother Boxes' location.
Animation
- The Parademons appear in Superman/Batman: Apocalypse. They appear driving a tank trying to destroy Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and Big Barda when they arrive on Apokolips to save Supergirl.
- Parademons resembling their New 52 looks, are shown coming out of a Boom tube in a post-credit scene in Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox.
- The Parademons are heavily used in Justice League: War with their vocal effects provided by Dee Bradley Baker. In the film, they are depicted as aliens from conquered worlds, transformed by nanomachines into an army of monstrous soldiers serving as Darkseid's invasion forces. Desaad even attempts to transform Superman into a "Super-Parademon" or using his Kryptonian DNA to create a "Super" type of Parademons by using these nanomachines, but the process is interrupted by Batman. In order to diminish the invasion, Cyborg connects himself to a Mother Box and uses it to reopen the Boom tubes to send them all back to Apokolips.
- The Parademons appear in Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League vs. Bizarro League. They assist Darkseid in his invasion on Bizarro World.
- Parademons also appear in Reign of the Supermen.
- The Parademons have a short appearance in the introductionary scene of Wonder Woman: Bloodlines.
- In Justice League Dark: Apokolips War, Darkseid combined the DNA of Parademons and Doomsday to create the "Paradooms".
Video games
- In the video game Superman: The Game, the player fights Parademons as the first wave on invasion from Apokolips.
- In the video game Justice League Heroes, the player fights Parademons on the level prior to the final battle with Darkseid.
- The Parademons appear in DC Universe Online.
- The Parademons appear in Injustice 2 as support units for Darkseid. In his ending after killing Brainiac and Superman as well as getting Supergirl on his side, Darkseid used Superman's DNA to clone a new type of Parademon.
- The Parademons appear in Lego DC Super-Villains, voiced by Elias Toufexis.[7]
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- Fourth World
- Seven Soldiers
- Legends
- Countdown to Final Crisis
- Genesis
- Cosmic Odyssey
- Death of the New Gods
- The Great Darkness Saga
- Final Crisis
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Related |
- Apokolips
- New Genesis
- New Gods
- Anti-Life Equation
- Mother Box
- Boom Tube
- Source
- Thanos
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The New Gods |
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Jack Kirby |
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Inhabitants of Apokolips | |
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Storylines |
- Jack Kirby's Fourth World
- The Great Darkness Saga
- Legends
- Cosmic Odyssey
- Genesis
- Countdown to Final Crisis
- Death of the New Gods
- Final Crisis
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- Anti-Life Equation
- Eternals
- Mother Box
- The Source
- Alien races
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Other characters | Supporting characters | |
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Allies |
- Amazonians
- Atlanteans
- Birds of Prey
- Doom Patrol
- GCPD
- Justice League Dark
- Justice Society of America
- Lantern Corps
- Guardians of the Universe
- Zamarons
- Blue Lantern Corps
- Green Lantern Corps
- Indigo Tribe
- Star Sapphire Corps
- White Lantern Corps
- Legion of Super-Heroes
- Marvel/Shazam Family
- New Gods
- Outsiders
- S.T.A.R. Labs
- Teen Titans
- Young Justice
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Enemies | Central rogues | |
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Other supervillains | |
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Organizations |
- Aryan Brigade
- Axis Amerika
- Brotherhood of Evil
- Cadre
- Crime Syndicate of America
- Darkseid's Elite
- Fearsome Five
- Female Furies
- Injustice League
- Kobra
- Lantern Corps
- Black Lantern Corps
- Orange Lantern Corps
- Red Lantern Corps
- Sinestro Corps
- League of Assassins
- Legion of Doom
- Manhunters
- Parademons
- Phantom Zone Villains
- Rogues
- Royal Flush Gang
- Secret Six
- Secret Society of Super Villains
- White Martians
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Alternative versions | Alternate versions of the Justice League |
- Extreme Justice
- Just'a Lotta Animals
- Justice Guild of America
- Justice League 3000
- Justice League Dark
- Justice League Elite
- Justice League Europe
- Justice League International
- Justice League Queer
- Justice League Task Force
- Justice League United
- Justice Legion Alpha
- Justice Lords
- Super Buddies
- Super Jrs.
- Young Justice
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- Category
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Super Friends |
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Television series |
- Super Friends (1973)
- The All-New Super Friends Hour (1977)
- Challenge of the Superfriends (1978)
- The World's Greatest SuperFriends (1979)
- SuperFriends (1980)
- Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show (1984)
- The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians (1985)
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Original characters |
- Members
- Villains
- Supporting characters
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Related |
- Super Powers Collection
- Super Powers Minicomics
- The Superman/Batman Adventures
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- Category
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Jack Kirby |
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Marvel Comics | |
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DC Comics | |
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Other |
- Black Magic
- Boys' Ranch
- Captain 3-D
- Captain Victory and the Galactic Rangers
- Destroyer Duck
- The Double Life of Private Strong
- Fighting American
- The Fly
- Headline Comics (For The American Boy)
- Jack Kirby's Galactic Bounty Hunters
- Justice Traps the Guilty
- The Kirbyverse
- My Date Comics
- Our Fighting Forces
- Secret City Saga
- Silver Star
- Sky Masters
- Street Code
- Young Love
- Young Romance
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Television work |
- The Centurions
- Goldie Gold and Action Jack
- Mister T
- Thundarr the Barbarian
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Related articles |
- Kirby Krackle
- Stan Lee
- Joe Simon
- Mainline Publications
- Kirby: Genesis
- Kirby: King of Comics
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На других языках
- [en] Parademon
[es] Parademonio
Los Parademonios son un grupo ficticio de extraterrestres que aparecen en los cómics estadounidenses publicados por DC Comics. Son monstruosas tropas de choque de Apokolips utilizados por Darkseid para mantener el orden en el planeta.
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