How Warner Bros. Should Have Made Justice League

To be fair to Justice League, it handled Superman much better than its predecessors, tonally speaking. By the end of the film, he was the beacon of hope and optimism he should have been all along.

The film, however, could have made more effective use of the character. His resurrection was an elephant in the room throughout the first act, and the way it was executed felt hamfisted.

Everyone knew Supes would rise again from the moment he perished in Dawn of Justice and the fans were eager to see how he would return. The Cliffs Notes version is basically that Batman decides "We can rebuild him. We have the technology".

With a runtime of just two hours, Justice League was always going to have to employ a quick fix here, but was that really the best they could come up with? Having Steppenwolf somehow resurrect the Man of Steel under his control would have raised the stakes a lot more.

The worst thing about the handling of Superman was how overpowered he felt compared to the film's other heroes and the main villain, and this could have used some fine-tuning.

The movie wastes no time establishing that Supes is capable of kicking the rest of the team's collective backside, and once he arrives on the scene for the final battle, Steppenwolf stood no chance. The Apokoliptian no longer posed any threat once the Man of Steel had emerged.

This undermined the team as a unit and gave off the impression that the usefulness of Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, The Flash, and Cyborg plummeted the moment they resurrected Supes. The Man of Steel could have pretty much have handled Steppenwolf on his own, with minimal support from the others.

Granted, Supes is absolutely formidable in the comics, but the movie should have made the main villain more powerful relative to the Kryptonian, if only to make the other team members more essential to the final act.