JUSTICE LEAGUE'S 5 BIGGEST WTF QUESTIONS
Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Aquaman and Cyborg have united… but we’re still puzzling over a few things about their first big-screen team-up.
BY IGN STAFF The
Justice League has finally arrived! After many years of development, the best known and most beloved of DC Comics’ heroes have united on the big screen. You can check out our
review of the film here, but as usual we also have plenty of questions about some of the story beats and moments in the movie.
So here are our 5 Biggest WTF Questions About Justice League…
Full spoilers follow, of course!
Aquaman’s Never Been to Atlantis Before?!
No, seriously, Arthur Curry ventures to Atlantis for the first time in Justice League, according to what Aquaman actor Jason Momoa told IGN on the red carpet at the film’s premiere.
How did Arthur find his way there? It’s a lost -- meaning not found! -- continent somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean. Was he drawn there? If so, then by what? The ocean itself? Fish? The Mother Box? Amber Heard’s Mera makes it clear she’s never met him before in their scene together.
What’s Aquaman been doing with his whole life then exactly if he hasn’t been ruling Atlantis? Just swimming around stopping whalers and drinking booze in remote taverns? And just how old is he? The art on the wall of that pub looks like an ancient mural featuring Aquaman and all three Mother Boxes, which would suggest he’s pretty old or has been in contact with all three Mother Boxes at some point. And yet Arthur tells the League during his accidental “confession” that he’s too young to die and doesn’t act as if he has any idea what the Mother Boxes do during the League’s group chat about them.
Also, why does he smash that glass bottle INTO THE OCEAN!? AQUA-LITTERER!
How Does Clark Kent Return to His Old Life?
Look, Superman returning from the dead -- that the general public of the DCEU can buy. But Clark Kent also died, and now he’s back too. And it isn’t like he disappeared and was just presumed dead or something. No, there was a funeral. Clark’s body was buried. In a suit. With a picture of Kevin Costner! We know this because the Justice League eventually, and rather gruesomely, dug the guy up. Graverobbers.
We even saw in Batman v Superman that the Daily Planet ran Clark’s obituary. So everyone moving Martha back into the Kent farm at the end of Justice League was probably locals wondering just how the heck her son is alive again. Also, why is he hanging out with that famous billionaire Bruce Wayne now...?
Why Have the Mother Boxes Started Freaking Out Now Exactly?
Much is made about how millennia ago the villain Steppenwolf almost used the three Mother Boxes to destroy the people of Earth. It was only through the combined might of the Amazons, the Atlanteans, and mankind -- and some others, hey Green Lantern! -- that he was defeated. The dormant Boxes were then dispersed and hidden across the globe, but now they’ve started to become functional again. But why is that exactly?
Some lip service is paid in the film to the death of Superman and the hopelessness that has resulted from that. And the implication appears to be that this is why the Boxes are acting up again, which is why Steppenwolf has returned. But the thing is, Superman was only on Earth for, what, like 35 years before he died? So why weren’t the Boxes turning themselves back on in the intervening, oh, 5,000 years since they were hidden?
Oh, and by the way, what happened to the Mother Boxes at the end of the movie anyway? Are they still around? If so, might be time to hide and bury them again. Hey! Come to think of it, there’s a dug-up hole all ready to go in the Smallville cemetery...
Can Wonder Woman Really Not Go Back to Themyscira?
We just don’t know what the deal is with Wonder Woman and her old hometown of Themyscira. Can she go back there? Is she forbidden from ever returning? It wasn’t made clear in her solo film and Justice League doesn’t do anything to answer this question either.
While we do see a fair amount of the hidden paradise island in the new movie, plus flashbacks of the Amazons in battle against Steppenwolf, Diana herself does not set foot on the island. She left about a hundred years ago at this point, after saving Steve Trevor, and she was essentially in hiding for most of that time from what we can tell, living among mortal man as one of their kind. So why wouldn’t Wonder Woman return home to see her mother and her sisters again? Is she banished? Doesn’t she ever want a home-cooked meal that only her mom can make? It’s a question that hopefully Wonder Woman 2 will finally get around to answering.
What Happened to Steppenwolf at the End?
Once Superman is revived and the combined might of the Justice League is able to kick some Steppenwolf butt, the old guy gets a bit freaked out. And that fear leads to his parademons attacking him, which is a nice touch. But then a boom tube -- yep, that’s what those portals are called -- opens up, and the teeming mass of parademons that have engulfed Steppenwolf are sucked back to where they came from.
But where is that? And who triggered the boom tube? Did Steppenwolf himself do so in an effort to escape? Or was he summoned back by his master, Darkseid, who is briefly mentioned in the film and presumably will show up again in some future DC movie. Also, will Steppenwolf even still be alive by the time he gets to the exit point of that portal? Because those parademons can be pretty, pretty nasty…
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