Justice League: 10 Biggest Questions It Leaves Unanswered

After what feels like an age, the highly anticipated team up of the Justice League has finally hit theatres. Plagued by a myriad of production problems after Batman V Superman received a critical kicking and didn't take in the amount of money that a tentpole blockbuster featuring the two most iconic superheroes in the world should have, the latest instalment in the DCEU has been considered a small step in the right direction for the fledgling cinematic universe.

Unfortunately though, the piecemeal nature of the sequel's production - with 20% of the film being made up of reshoots and the whole thing ordered to be under two-hours long - has left its mark on the finished product.

The blockbuster was always going to struggle under the weight of its narrative requirements, having to not only introduce three new superheroes, a main villain and tie the whole thing into the series' continuity, but the added production problems have resulted in a film that raises a lot of questions and probes a wealth of new ideas, but rarely answers or follows through on any of them.

Consequently, fans leaving the cinema are going to be contemplating a plethora of questions that the sequel leaves unanswered, and surprisingly the most pressing one isn't "what on Earth have they done to Henry Cavill's face?"

In classic superhero fashion, Justice League ends with the whole team banding together to finally overpower main villain Steppenwolf, giving him the overdue beatdown he deserves. Rather than offing the villain in a straightforward way though (there are no easy neck-breakers here), the group actually comes out victorious by using his own Parademons against him.

Because they're fuelled on fear, the beating Steppenwolf receives is enough to turn him into a cowering mess, resulting in his own goons swarming him. It's actually a surprisingly inspired climax (admittedly, one that comes out of nowhere), but with Steppenwolf teleporting away once he starts to become overwhelmed it begs the question: is he still alive and if he is, where did he go?

Multiple times during the film the Old God uses his teleportation ability to quickly get out of danger, but in the finale he ends up sucking all of the Parademons away with him. It's never cleared up whether he was immediately ripped apart or made it through to the other side unscathed, but considering the muted response he's received from both fans and critics so far, it's doubtful that Warner Bros. would be eager to bring him back anytime soon.