Didn't one of his animated incarnations get borderline effortlessly pasted by Kal-El once he finally stopped treating him like cardboard, and only salvaged his reputation (and avoided getting literally beaten into a coma) via external assistance ( thus admitting he was weaker), and despirate infomation control?
Yes, that scene/speech.
You and I remember that scene
very differently.
Superman only avoided
getting his heart cut out thanks to Luthor, Darkseid had that fight in the bag. Throughout the DCAU, from Superman Animated all the way to JLU, Darkseid was always depicted as one of Superman's biggest foes, the one enemy that Superman
always struggled against. More then Brainiac, more then Mongul, more then even Doomsday, Darkseid was the one superpowered enemy Superman had that always had the upper hand during their fights and usually required massive luck and/or external help for Superman to defeat.
IIRC, Apokolips was heavily nerfed in Justice League animated. Like, Brainiac could actually pose a threat to the entire planet, and their serious invasion of Earth was rebuffed rather easily
You people
really need to rewatch those episodes. First off, Brainiac did not invade Apokolips when it was at it's height.
Brainiac attacked
after most of Apokolips's military forces got wiped out in a battle against New Genesis. And of course, Darkseid getting the Justice League involved turned out to be a trick to first get Superman captured by Brainiac and then allow Darkseid to take control of Brainiac himself.
And as for the invasion, the invasion only left
after Darkseid disappeared with Luthor after finally getting the Anti-life equation. They were only there because Darkseid willed it, with him gone they went back to Apokolips just like what
always happens at the end of an invasion by Apokolips, no matter the medium(comics, tv show, movie, game). Take out the invasion's leader and the army will retreat, Apokolips tactics 101.
