History:  (Secret Origins of Super-Villains 80-Page Giant #1) - Apokolips, Goodness was training to become one of Darkseid’s soldiers, and excelled due to her physical prowess and merciless streak. She was given a hound named Mercy to train and fight alongside, but the day came for a loyalty test when a military examiner told her to kill the hound. She instead killed the examiner, and had to answer to Darkseid for her actions. She told Darkseid Mercy was more of an asset to him than the examiner; she’d trained the hound to be loyal to Darkseid above all others. Darkseid tested her claim by telling the hound to kill her, and Goodness destroyed the hound in self-defense. Darkseid was impressed by the blind loyalty she’d instilled in the hound and appointed her the head of an orphanage to teach Apokoliptian youths that same loyalty to him.

As the years went by Granny Goodness was made headmistress of many orphanages and became legendary for shaping the orphans of Armagetto into unthinking, cruel soldiers for Darkseid's armies. Her orphanages were inhumane beyond description, and only the most rugged individuals graduated and became Darkseid's foot soldiers. Granny thought of the orphans as her children and told them she loved them as she put them through the paces. 

(Jack Kirby’s Fourth World #9 (fb)) - Iluthin was a New God, and a student at Granny Goodness’ Orphanage, where lowly Apokoliptians were transformed into soldiers of Darkseid. Iluthin had a rough training, and turned to thievery, stealing from his fellow students, the Apokoliptian armory, and finally from Darkseid’s head assassin Kanto 13. He was caught by Sergeant Skragg, and brought before Granny, and even though she promoted treachery, she was ashamed that he’d allowed himself to get caught in the act. She reminded him that only the strong survived on Apokolips, and had him run a gauntlet of his fellow students as punishment. He made it to the end with his extraordinary agility and fighting prowess, injuring his classmates along the way, but Kanto 13 was at the end, and started beating him to a pulp. Darkseid, impressed with Iluthin’s potential, interrupted. He used his omega-beams on him for a total wipeout, and told him that if he survived his destiny would be altered. Kanto guessed the boy survived, teleported instead of disintegrated, and vowed to track him down.

(New Gods I #7) - Darkseid made a pact of peace with New Genesis that required him to send his son Orion to be raised on New Genesis. In return Highfather sent his son to Apokolips, and Darkseid handed him over to Granny Goodness to raise in her orphanage. Darkseid told her to train him as a warrior, and to break his spirit. He hoped the boy would eventually try to escape Apokolips, nullifying the pact. In honor of this plan Granny named the boy Scott Free.

Granny trained the Female Furies to be shock troops for Darkseid, but it was to her eternal shame that the Furies' leader Big Barda defected to Earth to be with her true love Mr. Miracle. Granny has spent much of her free time on plans to punish both Barda and Miracle for their disobedience.

(Martian Manhunter II #33, 34) - Martian Ma’Alefa’Ak opened communication with Apokolips and Darkseid became interested in the Life Equations of Ma’Alefa’Ak’s father M’Yrinn. Granny and other New Gods were sent to Mars to lull the Martians into a false sense of security. Glorious Godfrey explored the idea of an Anti-Life Equation with M’Yrinn and soon after Parademons raided Mars and kidnapped M’Yrinn and a number of Martian children. Granny brought the children to her orphanage to train, but J’Onn J’Onzz came to Apokolips and freed them.

(Mister Miracle I #2) - Granny Goodness wanted to kill Miracle for escaping her orphanage, so she set up a base in a mansion on Earth and sent her soldiers to capture him, but they ended up with his assistant Oberon and a Follower, a robotic duplicate, instead. Granny's sweet words to her soldiers were replaced by blows when she saw they'd failed, blaming them for making her upset. Miracle followed them to Granny's lair, but was captured, and he and Oberon were thrown in the X-Pit, a torture device created by Overlord, a gift given to Granny. After going through several torment cycles Miracle attached his Mother Box to the X-Pit, which was linked with Overlord, and the resulting feedback killed overlord. Granny was distraught that her gift was gone, and Miracle warned her to leave him be.