Originating from the
Seven Soldiers: Mister Miracle mini-series, the Dark Side Club serves as the stronghold for
Darkseid and the
Apokoliptian New Gods stranded on Earth and a recruiting central for new loyal servants. Similar in concept to
Roulette's fight club, the Dark Side Club provides his wealthy patrons with an underground fighting ring, where brainwashed
metahumans are forced to fight in often deadly battles. In a human recreation of
Granny Goodness's orphanage, the captured metahumans, usually the youngest or the most obscure, are fed drugs concocted by
Bernadeth and routinely abused and controlled by Granny. Among the most known victims of the Dark Side Club there are the Tornado Twins, children of
the third Flash and
Misfit, young protegèe of the
Birds of Prey. Since all of them manage to escape, their capture backfires on Darkseid, alerting the larger heroic community on their activities, and letting Misfit and
Black Alice deal crippling blows to the organization, like killing Granny Goodness during their escape. Darkseid then hires the
Terror Titans to capture the
Teen Titans, granting the
Clock King the role once held by Granny and Bernadeth as the chief captor and brainwasher. The Terror Titans manage to capture
Red Devil and
Miss Martian, brainwashing Red Devil into a violent state of mind and forcing Miss Martian to undo his mental damage. However, not every captured metahuman is deemed fit to fight alongside Darkseid, and
DeSaad is sent to capture the
Infinitors and deal aggressively with the Everymen kids, the younger heroes receiving often unwanted powers from
Lex Luthor's
exogene.
Double Trouble is killed, and
Vaporlock,
Amazing Woman, and Empathy are captured, and forced to power a machine meant to rid the Everymen of their powers. As a side effect, the still living Infinitors vanish. The Club returns in the
Terror Titans, where the Terror Titans are shown retaining their chief role, and granting the Dark Side Club a more business driven facade, more similar to the Roulette underground fight club. They manage to capture a cadre of new legacy, semi-obscure heroes, and Clock King hires
Ravager as his minion and trainer. Rose begrudgingly accepts, still refusing to embrace the ways of the Club and refusing to give up her independent will. In
Final Crisis,
Dan Turpin is shown discovering that the Club has been capturing metahuman children and teaching them to say the
Anti-Life Equation.
Static is later revealed to be the champion of the Dark Side Club and the strongest of its captured metahumans. During his match with Ravager, he easily defeats her and attempts to attack his captors after escaping the effects of the Equation. ==Tie-ins==