Justice League Comic-Con Trailer: 8 Ups And 2 Downs
6. The Trailer Raises The Stakes
Before Comic-Con, Justice League's biggest mistake was failing to set the stakes, giving us a legitimate reason why DC's greatest heroes are assembling on screen, beyond the millions in box office takings Warner Bros is bound to bag.
By introducing the villainous Steppenwolf for the first time, the movie has set this right.
The Apokaliptian looks truly formidable and that axe he's wielding is capable of doing some serious damage. In one scene it practically sparks a volcanic eruption.
The trailer sets the scene nicely, introducing us to a world where earth is vulnerable to this kind of threat in the absence of Superman as well as the "Lanterns", which Steppenwolf shamelessly namedrops.
What's more, the scale of the threat this foe brings is also laid out before us, with the footage demonstrating how he is capable of traveling from Themyscira to Atlantis with an army in tow.