>>121748427To be fair Darkseid is egotistic AND strategic. Steppenwolf making a point of stressing there were no protectors made me think in hindsight he was trying to sell up the likelihood of his success. Like to be fair magic can get super fucky; look how the wizard Shazam empowered a whole family into Superman-tier flying bricks with their own unique god powers. My assumption was there’s other shit that was there to defend Earth and they didn’t have the budget to show it all.
...but yeah, if a good reason exists it was REALLY not communicated well, at all. And comes across like >somehow, Darkseid just forgot about the planet he was beaten on.
>it was really contrivedYeah. I get the impression Snyder was REALLY trying to hype up Superman and I’m like: Do the Seven Deadly Sins, civilisation-levelling demons who can fight on part with Cap Marvel and his family, not qualify? What about Enchantress and her Generic Sky-Blasting Light artillery platform? What about Ares, even weakened? What about Maxwell Lord’s wishing rock?
>why didn’t they just show up with more boxes?Man fuck if I know, in the modern comics Darkseid has entire powerbanks of the things worshipping the ground he walks on.
