10 Changes The DCEU Will Make After Justice League

When combing over the Justice League feedback, the negative response to the movie's villain Steppenwolf will be difficult to ignore, given the sheer volume of it.

The Apokoliptian tower of bad CGI was devoid of compelling motivation or characterisation, a depiction of villainy in purely black and white terms.

This seems to be a recurrent problem in the DCEU, since Suicide Squad's Enchantress was underwritten, Lex Luthor was just plain weird and Doomsday was a computer-generated abomination.

Going forward, these movies must strike a balance between in-depth villains that work on film, and adapting them from the pages of DC Comics in a fan-pleasing way.

There's a lot riding on Black Manta and Ocean Master in Aquaman, and Dr. Thaddeus Sivana if the rumours about him serving as Shazam's big bad turn out to be true. DC doesn't want a reputation as a studio that keeps getting its villains wrong.

No doubt DC and Warner will make resolving this issue a top priority and, looking further ahead, there are reasons to believe the studio will eventually get this right. Justice League's post-credits scenes introduced a comic-accurate Deathstroke played by Joe Manganiello and Darkseid has been teased as a future big bad.

Darkseid promises to be a more in-depth villain than Steppenwolf, with tragedy in his past and commentary on the corruptible potential of power in his present. With any luck, he'll show up in Man of Steel 2 or Green Lantern Corps.

Then there's Batman's classic rogues gallery. Once the DCEU begins the process of reimagining the likes of Penguin, Riddler, Scarecrow and Bane for the current generation, compelling bad guys should no longer be a problem.