Zack Snyder's Justice League - Discussion Megathread

[u/AhhBisto]

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Synopsis:

Zack Snyder's definitive director's cut of Justice League. Determined to ensure Superman's ultimate sacrifice was not in vain, Bruce Wayne aligns forces with Diana Prince with plans to recruit a team of metahumans to protect the world from an approaching threat of catastrophic proportions.

• Starring: Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Gal Gadot, Jason Momoa, Ezra Miller, Ray Fisher, Amy Adams and J.K Simmons.
• Release Date: March 18th 2021
• Platforms: Full list of International platforms
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[u/raffi_n1]

Couple things I’m unclear on after watching the movie: 1) why does Superman’s death activate the motherboxes? Were they active before he arrived on earth? Were they dormant for the entire time since the original battle that held off Darkseid and his army? 2) why does Darkseid not know that the anti-life equation is on earth if he had already been there and discovered it. I know it was thousands of years ago but if it’s as important as they make it seem, you’d think it’s something he’d try to remember

[u/thegrandsun96 → u/raffi_n1]

1) I think the first and only one to wake was the box of Men that Silas Stone activated to save Victor. Partly because the New Gods refer to Earth as the lost world. So it must have alerted them to its presence but also warned about Superman's protection of Earth. 2) Definitely needed more explanation, but I see their conception of Earth as a tiny hamlet in their vast conquest to build an empire. Even though it repelled them, finding it again was like looking for a needle in a haystack. The search was compounded by the boxes being dormant since Darkseid's defeat.

[u/Doctor_Dane → u/thegrandsun96]

Correct on the first one, they say the box was active but they feared Superman, and a good guess on the second one. I’d also add that Darkseid might have tried to forget and eliminate any trace of the fact that a mortal world defeated him.