Great Evil Beast

Great Evil Beast was a DC universe demon and personification of pure evil - although classified as a demon the Great Evil Beast was actually more akin to a force of nature and can be seen as God's dark-side: needless to say this made Great Evil Beast a being of immense spiritual power and one of the most powerful villains in the DC universe - the creature appeared in the "American Gothic" storyline of Man Thing.

Origin
Great Evil Beast was formed when God uttered the words "Let There Be Light" and came to embody all the darkness in creation as well as everything that opposed the light of the Presence (which is DC universe's version of God) - however despite its immense power the Great Evil Beast was still a newborn entity and thus was easily defeated by the Presence and contained within its own realm.

When the events Crisis on Infinite Earths took place a group of mystics named the Brujeria attempted an occult ritual designed to contact the Great Evil Beast but it went horribly wrong and the entity awoke as a furious beast, unable to grasp its power and becoming confused as to its existence.

The Great Evil Beast would encounter Etrigan, Dr. Fate and the Spectre - Etrigan taught the entity that Darkness was Evil, Dr. Fate told the entity Evil was Despisable and the Spectre finally told the entity about the concept of revenge: these new lessons angered the Great Evil Beast despite the heroes being well-meaning and it launched an assault on Heaven itself in order to get answers as to its existence from the Presence itself.

Along the way the Great Evil Beast decimated anything that got in its way and was so powerful that Lucifer, Azrael and Beelzebub formed an alliance to defend themselves should the Great Evil Beadt decide to attack Hell as well - somewhat ironically another batch of demons known as the Demons Three decided to do the opposite and allied with the Great Evil Beast, seeing it as the ultimate sin and evil (which technically it was)

However as the Great Evil Beast stormed the gates of Heaven itself the entity extended its hand and much to the surprise of everyone the Presence did likewise - this climaxed in the two beings merging together into the perfect balance.

Powers
Great Evil Beast was omnipotent - it seems that the only being that outranked it in power was God himself and it is implied that Great Evil Beast was God's dark-half, it is not known whether or not Great Evil Beast still exists or not after it merged with the Presence but like all omnipotent-types the answer is likely beyond our understanding.