Highfather (Justice League: Gods and Monsters)

Highfather is a secondary flashback villain in the animated DC movie ''Justice League: Gods and Monsters. ''Normally the kind-hearted and benevolent leader of the New Gods of New Genesis and a metaphor for Moses, this version of Highfather is instead a cruel and treacherous villain, while the New Gods of Apokolips are the victims.

He is voiced by Richard Chamberlain.

history
Highfather is introduced in an extended flashback to Wonder Woman's days among her people before she went to Earth. In it, he presents himself as being open to peace with Apokolips, claiming that his world and Darkseid's have been in conflict for too long. So it is that they agree to a marriage between Highfather's granddaughter Bekka and Darkseid's son, Orion. However, in secret, Highfather plans to betray Darkseid and the New Gods of Apokolips due to looking down on them as "a world of heathens and brutes". Sure enough, no sooner are Bekka and Orion wed does Highfather and his fellows draw weapons hidden away and begin slaughtering the New Gods of Apokolips. Highfather himself personally (and violently), murders Darkseid, and then Orion too when he tries to avenge his father. A distraught and heartbroken Bekka admonishes her grandfather for his act, but Highfather is unmoved, considering Orion to be just one more of Darkseid's spawn and thus deserving of death.

Consumed with hatred for her grandfather, Bekka angrily denounces him, strikes down Lightray, and then disappears into a Boom Tube, leaving her treacherous grandfather behind. It is unknown what happened to him afterwards, but as New Genesis ships were shown bombarding Apokolips in the background, it can be assumed that he either conquered or destroyed the planet. Wonder Woman does, however, eventually decide to go back with Lex Luthor, presumably to confront Highfather and stop him.

trivia

 * His appearing to be a kindly old man who then stages a wedding massacre of his enemies involving relatives he sees as only pawns and tools, is strikingly similar to Walder Frey from A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones. Likewise, both men profess to value family and honor, but are ultimately little more than ruthless hypocrites.
 * As already stated, Highfather is normally a hero and also based off of Moses, and Darkseid and his cronies villains. Here, the moral roles are reversed. This is similar to DC's Earth-3, where heroes are villains, and villains are heroes.
 * His murder of Orion is an especially dark irony, as in mainstream continuity, Orion was raised by Highfather as a son and loved as such.