The latest movie from DC Films succeeded in bringing together some of the most popular superheroes in their first big screen adventure, but did it actually make sense?
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In Justice League, the evil New God known as Steppenwolf is attempting to secure the three Mother Boxes he left behind in an attempt to destroy the earth. He can also teleport directly to the objects, but spends a good portion of the movie interrogating scientists in order to learn the location of one Mother Box.
Why would he need to interrogate some earthlings if he can just teleport to it?
We see Steppenwolf use the Mother Box to open a boom tube directly to its location in Atlantis, returning to the planet that he failed to destroy centuries prior.
After a quick fight against Queen Hippolyta and her elite warriors, Steppenwolf teleports away with the Mother Box intact.
He then uses the same tactic in Atlantis, fighting against Aquaman in a section of the underwater city. Once he secures the Mother Box, he opens another boom tube to escape.
But he cannot do the same in Metropolis, instead opting to send his army of Parademons to hunt for the item. The Parademons eventually come across Silas Stone and other members of STAR Labs, taking them to Steppenwolf who interrogates them. He cannot directly boom tube to that last Mother Box, but apparently has to find it through more conventional means.
Cyborg eventually brings the Mother Box to the Justice League, carrying it in a container. It doesn’t explain if said container shields it from being accessed via boom tubes, or what, so it’s not safe to assume anything. Unless we get a deleted scene explaining the reasons, it’s just a misstep in an attempt to service the movie’s plot.
The movie also doesn’t explain what happens to the Mother Boxes after the film’s final confrontation with Steppenwolf. After they were separated by Superman and Cyborg, nothing else happens, and they don’t mention whether they return the powerful artifacts to the civilizations that previously protected them.
These are minor gripes in an otherwise entertaining movie, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t going to ask the “hard” questions.
Justice League is now playing in theaters.