Darkseid/YMMV

Lord Darkseid understands some of you worms may not be satisfied with your petty explanations of his greatness. That is why he has allowed these... contentious issues... to linger. Beware, for he may turn his attention to you... and there will be no longer doubt about what Darkseid is.

Anticlimax Boss: The Smallville version of him is a much bigger threat when he's a disembodied spirit spreading malevolence amongst the people of the Earth. As soon as he gets a body by possessing Lionel Luthor, Clark very easily takes him down.
Can't Unhear It: Fans are likely to read his lines in Ray Porter or Michael Ironside's voices.
Complete Monster: Methinks the rest of the page explains why.
Generic Doomsday Villain: When he is badly written.
Fluffy the Terrible: 'Darkseid' is not actually a 'harmless-sounding' name for a villain, but it is a little narmy. The first-time reader expects a second-stringer villain with a man-crush on Darth Vader: the actual villain himself, who combines elements of Lucifer and Big Brother, is much more imposing.
Lawful Evil: Type 4, though with shades of Type 1 & 2 thrown in. Darkseid desires an ordererd universe and has a twisted (and sometimes, optional) code of honour, but ultimately and above all he desires to eradicate The Evils of Free Will, happiness and goodness because he is a monumental bastard and wants everyone everywhere to worship him as God, and to suffer and die for his pleasure. Though he finds reality to be random and chaotic, he would never be content to allow someone else to be in charge of correcting that and he finds ideas like freedom, love and joy to be part of the problem, not to mention he could never live in a world where he couldn't make people as miserable as possible and hold ultimate power over their fates in his hands.
Moral Event Horizon: He never crossed it, he was created on the far side of the line.
- In Final Crisis Darkseid is the Moral Singularity. Literally, his fall to Earth creates a black hole of evil dense enough to drag down the entire multiverse with him.
Villain Decay: For a Physical God to still be a threat after 30 years, it has to happen; he keeps being defeated, his plans keep being foiled, because if they were not, then there would no longer be a DC Universe. Unless they want to end the universe as a whole, Failure Is the Only Option, and that often means making the supposedly Godly Darkseid somebody's punk. And then Final Crisis happened, and Darkseid roared out of the decay heap with a vengeance.

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