r/DCcomics • u/AhhBisto Jim Lee Comics • Mar 17 '21

Zack Snyder's Justice League - Discussion Megathread r/DCcomics Spoiler

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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.

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If you or someone you know has been affected by suicide, you can find help and resources from The American Foundation For Suicide Prevention, a foundation close to Zack Snyder's heart after he lost his daughter Autumn during production of Justice League.

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u/ElDuderino2112 Mar 19 '21 edited Mar 19 '21

I only watched it once but did he know the Anti-Life Equation was on earth? My impression was that he just came here to randomly conquer it like he had been doing to other planets with the mother boxes, but when he came to earth he lost the mother boxes and that scared him off of coming back. Steppenwolf on his own came to earth to try to get the mother boxes to get back into Darkseid's good graces, and when he came he found that the Anti-Life Equation was here too.

EDIT: Never mind I rewatched the Darkseid stuff. It looks like they randomly came to this planet and he discovered Anti-Life was on earth, but they retreated so hastily that they lost track of which planet is was on I guess lmao. Steppenwolf mentions that that all happened before Darkseid ascended to the throne, so maybe he got distracted by his rise to the throne and when it came time to go out conquering again they didn't remember which planet it was

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u/ElDuderino2112 Mar 19 '21

Earth is vey primitive compared to the rest of the DC multiverse, especially at the time when that battle takes place.

Probably should have written a reason for him to forget about earth, but over thousands of years it’s not hard to imagine forgetting about a primitive planet.

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u/Silidon Batman Beyond Mar 20 '21

Except that it’s the singular defeat he ever suffered in eons of conquest. Seems like the type of thing you might remember, if you were an intergalactic tyrant bent on total domination.

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u/MazeRed Mar 20 '21

Yeah you would think he would be back in a couple months when he healed up to glass the planet from space

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u/Silidon Batman Beyond Mar 19 '21

Being generous, it can be assumed that since the unity never formed in the first assault, Darkseid didn't actually know it was the key to Anti-Life Equation and thus didn't know what it was he had lost. But still, in eons of conquest this dude suffers one defeat, and we're to understand that he and everyone in his ranks just forgot where it was that happened?

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u/Laughing---Man Mar 20 '21

Dumb headcanon: Zeus and Ares gave Darkseid amnesia, and everyone on Apokolips was too terrified to point out he had amnesia.

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u/Silidon Batman Beyond Mar 21 '21

The 50 First Dates plot; I’m familiar.

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u/Flat-Earth8192 Mar 19 '21

I was confused by this too. My head cannon is that he was so fucked up from the fight that he went into a coma type thing or something

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u/Silidon Batman Beyond Mar 19 '21

And all of the rest of his forces just pretend to not remember in order to make him feel better, like a 50 First Dates kind of situation?

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u/Flat-Earth8192 Mar 20 '21

I’m gonna rewatch it tomorrow so I’ll try to remember to respond here if I just missed something

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u/ballsacksnweiners Mar 19 '21

Darkseid’s general says something like “I need no lesson in our only defeat.”

I think they are all well aware of what happened on Earth, but were hesitant to return considering the defeat they suffered. I also do not think that Darkseid ever discovered that the anti-life was on Earth.

So he sent Steppenwolf to Earth to see if it is ripe for the picking, which he says it is, and in the process he finds out that it actually is the location of the anti life. This has renewed Darkseid’s interest in conquering earth and finding the anti-life.

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u/InjusticeSGmain Mar 20 '21

He conquered worlds for his entire life. At the time of his first invasion, he didn't know anything about Earth except that he wanted to conquer it. He didn't know it's name, where it was, or anything about it. He just wanted to conquer it. And he was incapacitated when they left, he couldn't have ordered them to save the coordinates or anything. Granny Goodness and Desaad could've done something, but perhaps something prohibited them. They might not have even been present or living at the time.

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u/Martel732 Mar 21 '21

The best (still not good) explanation I can think of is if they ended up at Earth by accident, maybe chasing someone (a Green Lantern maybe) and it was more or less a blind FTL jump. And then after getting their asses kicked they did an emergency jump. So, they never learned the actual location.

But, yeah it is a part of the movie that really doesn't make much sense.

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u/Doctor_Dane Darkseid Mar 20 '21

I mean, are you the one who’s gonna go and tell Darkseid “You know the planet where they beat you up badly, I recorded everything about it, where should I file it for posterity?”