Marvel & DC Agree on Comics' Ultimate Villain (And They're Both Wrong)
Comic giants Marvel and DC have recently presented in their comics an ultimate villain, and they both represent the concept of entropy. While this is a fascinating idea that works well for high-end, epic sagas, it is also one that explicitly avoids engaging with morality, something that superheroes have always done.
In Defenders #5 — by Al Ewing and Javier Rodriguez — the team led by Dr. Strange finally arrives in the Third Cosmos, an earlier iteration of the Marvel Universe, where two cosmic beings representing existence and nothingness fight: the First Sentry and the Anti-All. The second creature is dark, shaped like a dragon, and represents entropy, destruction, and every impulse that is opposite to creation. In DC's Justice League Incarnate #4 - by Joshua Williamson, Dennis Culver, Chris Burnham, Mike Norton, and Andrei Bressan — a very similar villain known as The Great Darkness revealed its origins as the primordial void that existed before creation and wants to return the Multiverse to nothingness. Much like the Anti-All, The Great Darkness is beyond the concepts of good and evil, life or death.
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While this is a nice (but not necessarily new) angle for a villain, it could be controversial that the ultimate enemies of two multiverses populated by superheroes are beyond the very same concepts for which heroes and villains fight every day. At their heart, superhero stories are morality tales, even when they reject the concept of superheroes as moral arbiters. The Boys, for example, completely destroys the idea of «good» superheroes, but it is still a story of good against evil, with very strong moral connotations, in which the protagonist, Wee Hughie, does
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