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Doomsday
A creature that returns from death immune to whatever killed it. Adaptive resurrection, not ordinary regeneration.
First appearance: The Death of Superman (1992), DC Comics
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Key issues
Milestone appearances — first appearance, death, return, team change. These are the issues the collector market actually prices.
- First appearance · 1992
The Death of Superman DC Comics
Introduced in the Death of Superman arc.
Commonly got wrong
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Commonly believed Doomsday can be killed the same way twice.
Actually He returns from death immune to whatever killed him. It is adaptive resurrection, not ordinary regeneration.
The feat ledger
Returns from death immune to whatever killed him, so the same method never works twice
Adapts after death to become immune to whatever killed him
Kills Superman in direct physical combat
Returns from death repeatedly, each time harder to kill
Adapts to become immune to whatever killed him previously
Fights the assembled Justice League without being stopped
Regrows bone protrusions as weapons after they break
His creation by repeated death and cloning is the stated mechanism for the adaptation
Continuities
Claims on this page are tagged by canon. Blending them is the most common error in both wikis and AI answers.
- Post-Crisis DC — 1986 Crisis on Infinite Earths through 2011 Flashpoint
- New 52 — DC relaunched continuity, 2011 to 2016
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