Steppenwolf (Earth-5180)

"Parademons are not born, they are made. A genetically engineered parasite-assassin solely devoted to the whims of its maker. These creatures have no names, just a binary existence defined by whether they complete the task given to them, or whether they fail."

- - Steppenwolf to the Justice League Steppenwolf was the general of Apokolips' Parademon army and the co-leader of the Black Order alongside Goodness. A ruthless and cunning military strategist, he was the maternal uncle of Darkseid.

Early Life
Steppenwolf was the younger brother of Apokolips' Queen Heggra and brother-in-law of its king, Yuga Kahn.

When his nephew Uxas took over the mantle of king following Kahn's disappearance and Heggra's age, he started serving him as lieutenant. He led invasions to other worlds, reclaiming the souls of its late inhabitants to form new Parademons who would blindly follow Uxas' rule. Through these voyages, Steppenwolf found large Green Lantern Corps resistance, but would always outsmart them.

After Heggra was killed by Desaad following her betrayal on Uxas, he renamed himself Darkseid and became a full tyrant. He approached his uncle, and made him the head of the Black Order alongside the recently promoted Goodness, a former lieutenant who slaughtered her superiors. Together they took orphans all around Apokolips and made them members of the Orders, indoctrinating them to serve Darkseid as their supreme and merciful king.

Invasion of Apokolips
In later years, Steppenwolf commanded the Parademon army against Ultron's invasion on Apokolips, with the rogue android having hacked an entire armada of aliens and freed Galactus from the Negative Zone. An army of billions of minions, however, was not able to fight against the combined powers of Ultron and Galactus, and Steppenwolf was killed alongside his soldiers. Ultron then sent his head to Darkseid's throne room through a boom tube as a message to Mad Titan.