Parademon

Parademon's History

Parademons are a sentient species of genetically modified and enhanced beings created when altering other species with the Mother Boxes.

They are a subservient race of aliens used by the overlord Darkseid, though they are actively employed by his generals. Steppenwolf, Darkseid's herald, notably employed them during his attempted planetary invasion of Earth, and later again when fighting against the Justice League.

Parademons are created by the tried and true process of deconstructing and repurposing genetic material from dead and captured enemies of Apokolips with the Mother Boxes. Newly created Parademons are then processed, trained, and enhanced to serve Darkseid.

Parademons were used as Steppenwolf's army when the New God first attempted to conquer Earth. During this invasion, countless hordes of Parademons emerged from the Apokoliptian dropships, requiring the combined might of the Amazons, Atlanteans, and armies of Mankind to match their numbers and manage to fight them back as Steppenwolf didn't equip his troops with long-range weaponry. Many were turned into parademons due to their exposure to the energy released from Steppenwolf's Electro Axe. With the assistance of the Old Gods and Yalan Gur, the parademons were defeated along with Steppenwolf. When the Unity was dismantled by Zeus, the Parademons were forced to retreat and restrain the humiliated New God as they fled.

After Lex Luthor accessed the Kryptonian ship, Steppenwolf, learning that Earth was defenseless with the Old Gods gone and with no one strong enough to protect it (since Superman was also dead), sent his parademons to scout the planet. Batman came in contact with one before it auto-destructed. Many assisted Steppenwolf when he arrived at Themyscira to retrieve from the Amazons their heavily guarded Mother Box. After the New God retrieved the second Mother Box from Atlantis, the parademons began kidnapping certain workers from S.T.A.R. Labs to learn of the last Mother Box of three's location. At this point, a team of heroes intervened, saving the hostages and defeating several parademons in the process. Steppenwolf built a hive inside a decommissioned nuclear silo in northern Russia, where his parademons stayed relatively hidden, not attracting much attention from the world until the Unity could be started. Once the Unity process began, the heroes arrived to stop it, being initially overwhelmed by the parademons' great numbers. Eventually, the League, with the help of the now recovered Superman, were able to defeat Steppenwolf and dismantle the Unity, leaving the New God reeking with fear, which leads the parademons to attack him instead. An immense portal opened, taking Steppenwolf and the remaining parademons back to Apokolips.

In a nightmarish vision of an alternate future shown to Batman as a warning from a version of the Flash from that future, parademons invaded Earth, having seemingly allied themselves with a ruthless and tyrannical version of Superman and his Regime Stormtroopers. Several parademons began taking much of the last remaining Insurgency members away to a place unknown. One parademon managed to knock out Batman after the latter had successfully killed a Regime trooper, taking out the Dark Knight in a single strike.

Sometime after Bruce's vision of this alternate future, he confided in his friend and guardian Alfred Pennyworth, about the creatures he'd seen within these nightmares. Alfred then went to work on creating a simulation system that would allow users to simulate stepping into the shoes of the potential team members that Bruce was looking to recruit to fight in this war against these creatures. As Bruce set about making use of the system, Alfred professed that he'd encountered trouble in creating an accurate simulation of the creatures and how they would react when challenged in combat.