Are Warner Bros Wasting Justice League On A Bad Villain?
Shouldn't we be getting something more?
In the past couple of days we've heard rumours that Darkseid isn't the main villain in the first Justice League movie, despite being heavily set up in Batman v Superman. According to said rumours, the top bad guy billing will instead go to Steppenwolf - Darkseid's uncle and a high ranking minion of Apokolips.
He will apparently be seeking the three mother boxes Darkseid left on Earth when he was defeated thousands of years ago, in order to gain supreme power they wield. Whether or not he'll actually be working with his nephew or against him remains to be seen (they have some friction in the comics), but he's likely to be an enemy of the Justice League either way.
Look, the plot doesn't sound terrible: it provides a reason for the Justice League to come together (even if it's a little silly that three of them would be in possession of mother boxes independently), but is this the kind of villain we should be getting in DC's first big ensemble event?
Even though the escalation towards Darkseid was a little unearned, his arrival would have been the right sort of profile to suit bringing the team together (so would Doomsday if he'd been handled properly), and a step back to Steppenwolf feels like something of a betrayal to the superteam's billing.
What, were Brainiac, Bizarro, Apokolips, The Joker and everyone else unavailable?
It's not a problem to have Steppenwolf involved - in fact having atypical villains is a good move - but it leaves a question of balance. And there are already some serious questions over the character's redesign from mostly human looking warrior into what appears to be an Egyptian God-like creature.
What do you think? Is it silly to want more for Justice League:Part One? Do you agree that Steppenwolf feels like a holding villain for the main event? Or should Snyder be heralded for again trying to do the unexpected.
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