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| Real Name: Unknown | ||||||||
| Also Known As: Athena | ||||||||
| Place Of Birth: Apokilips | ||||||||
| First Appearance: Mister Miracle Vol.1 #2 (1971) Bronze Age Villain | ||||||||
| Known Associates: Darkseid, Desaad, Doctor Bedlam, Kalibak, Parademons, Steppenwolf, Virmin Vunderbarr, Artemis, Bernadeth, Bloody Mary, Big Breeda, Gilotina, Knockout, Lashina, Mad Harriet, Malice Vunderbar, Speed Queen, Stompa | ||||||||
| Group Affiliation: Darkseid's Elite, Femal Furies, Injustice League Unlimited | ||||||||
| Base Of Operations: Granny Goodness' Orphanage, Apokolips | ||||||||
| Grudges: Mister Miracle and Big Barda | ||||||||
| Creators: Jack Kirby | ||||||||
| Gallery: Click | ||||||||
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| Granny Goodness is extremely robust for a woman of her age. She also possesses a high degree of skill in hand-to-hand combat. | |||||||
| Enhanced Abilities: Granny Goodness has super human strength, speed, agility, endurance and durability. | |||||||
| New God Physiology: Granny Goodness is a New God, New Gods have evolved due to their close proximity to the Source, a primeval energy, believed to be one of the ultimate foundations of the Universal Expression of Energy, along with their superior technology, into beings of genetic stability and evolutionary perfection. The denizens of Apokolips are stronger, faster, and smarter than homo sapiens, despite their resemblance to the same. | |||||||
| Immortality: The New Gods, are functionally immortal, having ceased aging physically near the age of 30. Unless they fall in battle, they are immune to the ravages of time, and could easily live for thousands upon thousands of years. | |||||||
| Weapons: Granny Goodness always has access to the advanced weaponry of Apokolips. | |||||||
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| Granny Goodness did not begin as one of the higher-level residents of Apokolips, but was instead one of the "Lowlies", the brutally oppressed peasant class. She was removed from her parents and trained to be one of Darkseid's "Hounds" (his elite soldiers). One part of their training was to train their dog; Goodness named hers Mercy. Through combat and training, the two bonded. As the final step of her initiation into life as a Hound, she was told to kill her beloved pet. Instead, she killed her trainer for ordering this. When Darkseid asked why, she answered that "to have done otherwise would have robbed my lord of a most valuable asset," telling him that Mercy would obey her first, but him foremost. Testing this, Darkseid ordered Mercy to kill Goodness. Mercy attacked Goodness, forcing Goodness to kill her pet. Darkseid was impressed, telling Goodness that she had graduated with honors. "You have trained Mercy so well in my name that perhaps you'll do as well training others whose blind obedience I will one day require." | ||||
| Darkseid had Granny run the training facility for his elite soldiers, where she uses brainwashing and torture, in a brutal parody of child care, to turn the innocent into fanatical warriors willing to kill or die for Darkseid's glory. Since the war between Apokolips and New Genesis first moved to Earth, Granny Goodness has often run Earthly orphanages, looking for potential warriors for Darkseid. | ||||
| Granny runs the "orphanage" on Apokolips and is the chief of the Female Furies. She also raised Scott Free, the son of Highfather of New Genesis who had been traded for Darkseid's son as part of a peace treaty. Scott Free (a.k.a. Mister Miracle) became the first child to successfully escape one of her Orphanages. | ||||
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| Granny Goodness at DC Database | ||||
| Granny Goodness at DC Comics.Com | ||||
| Granny Goodness at Comic Vine | ||||