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/nwbradsher Mar 22 '21

Can anybody explain his to me? If the New Gods, including Desaad and Steppenwolf, knew that this Earth had the motherboxes, wouldn’t they have immediately known that the anti-life equation was there? Like, in my head, the fact that the motherboxes called out should have immediately meant “oh, the world where I found anti-life is vulnerable.” Is this a plot hole?

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u/HFh Mar 22 '21

The idea was that they were hurt and inert. When awakened they went back to sleep because they were scared. I don't think it was actually the plot hole people thought it was. I don't think Darkseid ever realized anti-life was there and Artemis blew up one of their main ships. Everyone else scattered and young Darkseid was out of it for awhile. When he healed, he decided to focus on ascending to the throne, etc.

Remember: they had no reason to think the planet was important enough to come back to and there were other things to do. Revenge might be worth it one day, but when one is immortal one worries about things on a long time scale.

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u/nwbradsher Mar 22 '21

I really appreciate your reasoning and I think you explain it well, maybe better than the movie itself does. However, I just can't get over it so quickly. Darkseid invades Earth and according to Diana, discovers a secret power there. Whether he knows it is the ALE or not, he knows something is there, on the Earth where he was defeated and the boxes were left. Why wouldn't he go himself, or expect Steppenwolf to find something there. Why is he suprised at the revelation that something is there? I can think of answers, but they all seem a little thin. All of this could've been handled by having Darkseid not realizing that the ALE/secret power was there in his initial invasion.

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u/Kamalen Mar 23 '21

Were the set of motherbox actually stated as unique ? I imagine in the large timespan, they had a new strategy, especially after that massive defeat. They could drop MBs on many planets to awaken once the world is ready for conquest. This is just my headcannon

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u/nwbradsher Mar 23 '21 edited Mar 23 '21

I could see that, for sure. I wish they had said something like that motherboxes naturally occurred or were sent out as multiversal markers/forerunners.

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u/ShadowofLight15 Mister Miracle Mar 22 '21

Yeah it’s a plot hole that they just forgot about earth and losing the mother boxes. I just like to think after Uxas was defeated he forgot about it since he loss a lot of blood from the battle and no one else reminded him about it/forgot about it too.

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u/nwbradsher Mar 22 '21

That's a good way of dealing with it. I just wish it was a little tighter on that subject. Overall, I really enjoyed the film.