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Gallery Official Name Anti-Life Equation Origins Universe New Earth · Sphere of the Gods Additional Designers Darkseid, Desaad Owners Current Owner Yuga Khan, Dreamer Beautiful, Grail, Uxas, Previous Owners The Source, Darkseid, Pied Piper, Empress (partially), Mister Miracle, "Billion Dollar" Bates, Sunny Sumo, Steve Trevor, Anti-Monitor Creators Creators Jack Kirby First Appearance Forever People #5 Quote1 DARKSEID IS MY WILL! Quote2 --Anti-Life infected Gothamites Contents[hide] History Death of the New Gods Final Crisis Post-Flashpoint The Formula Notes See Also Links and References History The Anti-Life Equation was originally said to allow those who knew it to dominate the will of any sentient race, and is the ultimate desire of Darkseid. Originally it was said to have existed in the mind of "Billion Dollar" Bates, he took it to his death. Darkseid continued to search for it, and recently obtained the full formula. It implants the mathematical certainty that all life is hopeless, as are freedom and hope, dooming those who hear it to despair.
The first sign of the Equation came about 300 years ago, when Darkseid made contact with the Martians. When he learned that Martian philosophy was based on the "Life Equation," which equals free will, he postulated that the opposite must exist as well.[1]
The Anti-Life Equation has the power to dominate the will of any sentient race, and has other reality-altering powers that twist and distort freedom. It is called the Anti-Life Equation because "if someone possesses absolute control over you - you're not really alive."[2] Though the full version of the Equation is barely known to any one person, a full version of the Equation supposedly existed in the mind of the billionaire "Billion Dollar" Bates, but he took it to his death. The Anti-Life Equation was also found in the time-displaced Sonny Sumo, according to the Forever People's Mother Box.[citation needed]
Later, Darkseid used clones of Billion Dollar Bates, made by Desaad, to get access to the Equation. Orion stopped the clones and wanted to use the Equation for good, but realized that the very nature of it was against that.
Mister Miracle knew the full formula but possessed the willpower not to use it. One member of Young Justice, the Empress, possesses pieces of the Equation, giving her limited mind control.[citation needed] The Pied Piper also possesses the formula in his mind and has been using it unknowingly with his sonic energy.[3] He became a pawn of Desaad so that Desaad could gain the Equation to kill Brother Eye and Darkseid, and rule Apokolips.
Death of the New Gods Main article: Death of the New Gods Increasingly unbalanced by the death of his wife, Big Barda, Mister Miracle decided to use the Equation. He then became determined to hunt down the killer of the New Gods. He came face to face with the being behind it all, the Source, and was killed himself. It was then revealed that the Anti-Life Equation is an entity that is the dark half of the Source, with which the source is finally reunited. When Darkseid became the last of the New Gods, he faced the Source in combat, wherein Darkseid revealed that he had created a serum that allowed him to draw power directly from the Anti-Life Entity. Regardless of his boost in power, in the end Darkseid was also killed.
Final Crisis Main article: Final Crisis Anti-Life 02 Under the influence of the Equation, individuals are little more than extensions of Darkseid's will. Due to Darkseid's knowledge of the full equation and his will to fully use it, he made sure he was spiritually reborn, in the body of a human on Earth. He became Boss Dark Side, but the human shell was not enough to fully contain him and he was eventually killed again. He then used the spoken word to be reborn again, this time fully, in the body of Dan "Terrible" Turpin. He also developed his base on Earth, warping it and turning the planet into a replica of Armageddon. Now seemingly in control of several billion people through a mass host consciousness, Darkseid used the equation to turn heroes, civilians, and villains alike into mindless slavish extensions of his will.
The equation was ultimately broken when Wonder Woman, herself a slave of Anti-Life, was freed of the Equation and bound Darkseid with the Lasso of Truth, thus breaking the Anti-Life Equation's hold on the people of Earth.[4]
The equation was broken and its remnants remained on earth, spread across the internet as digital codes. Calculator tried to retrieve them to heal his daughter, who was in coma and Oracle tried to collect them in order to completely eliminate them from earth.[5] Calculator's fragments of the formula caused people to lose their entire immune system and to prevent the use of the equation, Oracle nullified its effects and destroyed the fragments.[6]
Post-Flashpoint Justice League 0001DC Rebirth Logo The DC Universe heavily changed its continuity into the DCnU following the events of Flashpoint in 2011. This was part of an effort to make storylines more accessible to newer readers, beginning with the New 52. This new timeline combines elements from the DCU, Vertigo Universe and Wildstorm Universe while drastically changing the origins and histories of characters. In the Prime Earth continuity, the Anti-Life Equation, much like the Life Equation opposite of it, functions very differently Here. The equation, rather than being simply a means of mass possessive control and multiversal reality disruption, is instead used by Yuga Khan as a means of resurrecting the Old Gods, and himself, by utilizing a host body. According to this host, with a small portion of the Anti-Life, he could feel all of the pain of the New Gods, a pain that only Yuga Khan could heal.[7]
The equation itself is the same as in New Earth, but has more varied applications. Speaking the equation, Dreamer Beautiful was able to resurrect a dead Mark Moonrider and force the submission of the Femme Fatales with a word, but it appears that the equation is not as viral as it was in New Earth, and now it is required to be stated by select users, rather than being used to brainwash many.[8]
Over time the ALE is further expanded upon by its interactions with Darksied's daughter Grail and the mysterious new Anti-Moniter.[9] The equation is as much a sentient entity as it is a formula one that hails from the Earth 3 universe, where the Life Equation spawns hope love and freewill in most of creation; particularly in Prime Earth continuum. The Antimatter Universe spawned cruelty subjugation and destruction as it's cornerstones due to it's negative influence, turning anyone possessed by it into a slave that spreads the gospel of hideous mass dissociation on a planetary to universal scale.[10]
loneliness + alienation + fear + despair + self-worth ÷ mockery ÷ condemnation ÷ misunderstanding x guilt x shame x failure x judgment n=y where y=hope and n=folly, love=lies, life=death, self=Darkseid