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Warning ! Spoilers in front for Challengers of the Uknown # 3!The very matter that the terrifyingDarkseidhas been after all this sentence is actually the Francis Scott Key to save the DC Universe . The Anti - Life Equation , a force that would allow Apokolips ' rule everlasting and utter controller of the DCU , is actually one one-half of the world ' ultimate redemption .
Ever since Darkseid died , the DC Universe has been through a turn of changes . Aside from the developmentof the Absolute Universe , legion anomalies have pop up in the Prime DCU . As the Justice League andChallengers of the Unknowndig into these anomalies , one champion is identify the winder to saving the DC Universe .
Darkseid’s Anti-Life Equation Can Help Create DC’s Ultimate Savior
Life Plus Anti-Life Equals the Optimum
InChallengers of the unnamed # 3by Christopher Cantwell , Sean Izaakse , Amancay Nahuelpan , Romula Fajardo , Jr. , and Hassan Otsmane - Elhaou , tension are incline high among the Challengers , who are being isolatedafter inquire Darkseid anomaliesunder Mister Terrific ’s edict . Despite the tension , Challenger Walter ' Prof ' Haley joins the particle to investigate yet another unusual phenomenon . An eruption of A-one - intelligence service has occurred on Dinosaur Island , and the leash maneuver out to look into it . There , they discover Cro - Magnon heroes Anthro and Embra , whose IQs have increased dramatically .
… Haley ’s greatest success : Uniting the Life and Anti - Life Equations into one formula .
Atoms Ray Palmer and Ryan Choi investigate the technology Anthro and Embra bear , which are some of the most advanced pieces of tech either hero has ever seen . And Prof confirms that Anthro is at least 65 intelligence quotient points higher than him . But the base Anthro admits that his intelligence service is merely a giving founder to him by a being known as the Optimum . As if on discriminative stimulus , the Optimum , a powerful , cosmic being look to Prof and temporarily stops time to talk with him , revealing that the Optimum is actually a future version of Prof.
The Optimum tells Prof that he ’s a result of Haley ’s great success : Uniting the Life and Anti - Life Equations into one convention . The Optimum tells him that though Prof will finally conflate the two equations and be invest with impossible power , it may be too later as the DC Universe is speedily approaching its end . The only agency Prof canprevent that hereafter and unite Darkeseid ’s Anti - Life Equation with the Life Equation earlieris by using whatever it is the Choi and Palmer are working on in the Atom Project .
How Darkseid’s Most Coveted Desire Can Lead to Universal Harmony
Two Opposing Cosmic Forces Merged into a Powerful, Godlike Being
Since he first debuted , Darkseid has long been in chase of the Anti - Life Equation , a numerical formula that , when spoken , fundamentally proves that free will , hope , and life itself are pointless . Darkseid learned of the formula eons ago after find the Martians based their mode of life history on something called the Life Equation , and theorized that there must be a natural opposite . After years of searching , Darkseid finally find out and used the Anti - Life Equation , enslave the totality of manhood , arguably his greatest success in DC history .
Darkseid used the Anti - Life Equation to subjugate the Earth inFinal Crisis !
Other continuities have search the full big businessman of the Anti - Life Equation , such as DCeased , which revealed that the formula was really connected with a sinewy entity known as Erebos . Erebos was a primaeval deity who desire to eradicate all biography in the universe and nearly come through with his undulation of zombiism that nearly destroyed all aliveness in the DC Universe . While that was another persistence , it showed just how powerful the Anti - Life Equation really was . Buthow could something that destructive ultimately save the DC Universe as the Optimum said ?
If the Optimum is genuine , then the more destructive theatrical role of the Anti - Life Equation are balanced out with the more positive Life Equation . grant , there are not as many examples of the latter in action mechanism , but as Darkseid once tell , its a knock-down polar contrary of the Anti - Life Equation . Both formulas are incredibly hefty and bear on all living thing in the DC Universe . professor managing to snap both and bring them into one amalgamated formcould indeed make the most powerful thing the DC Universe has ever seen .
Will the DC Universe’s Salvation Come to Pass?
Or Is This All a Trick By Something Darker?
It ’s backbreaking to tell what ’s going on in a cosmic horse sense ever since Darkseid break . But the Optimum is right , things are pose bad in the DC Universe and chances are , they ’re only about to get worse . Uniting the Anti - Life and Life Equations does get a risk , but at the hands of an intelligent person like Prof Haley , he could become someone who could really turn things around in the DCU . Darkseid may be perish , but this most desired force could be the paint to keep start the universe .
Challengers of the obscure # 3is available now from DC Comics .
