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The whole "the boxes were scared of Superman" thing doesn't make sense


So they surmised that the boxes were waiting for Superman to die before coming back to life. Yet, they've been on earth thousands of years....and Superman less than 100.

Why the gap??? Couldn't they have come back to life long ago?

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absolutely right

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Shhhh!

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If the box was afraid of Superman, why revive him? Or, why not revive him but as an ally? Piffle I say.

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Boxes are just machines that do what their told. They were told to revive him.

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If they could be told what to do, why didn't Batman tell the box not to destroy the planet?

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That's what Cyborg did, remember?

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But why wait? If a box on its own would obey to the point of reviving the one being capable of destroying them, why not tell that box, "hey bro, chill on the destroying" right then and there?

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Maybe because the boxes need some form of interface or something to be made to obey.

When they resurrected Supe they didn't just say "hey box, do your thang" but they had to make sure they followed certain steps, with Cyborg doing the control as well. And the Supe they got was quite pissed and ready to fuck the world into oblivion ...

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Because unlike Cyborg, Batman does not have magic ability to talk to machines.

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Cyborg was right there the whole time.

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I agree. Seemed corny to me.

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I missed that. I was thinking that the death of superman generated the wave that awoke the boxes, not that they were "afraid" of him. More like a trigger.

A bomb is not afraid of the trigger, a bomb is exploded by the trigger.

They couldn't have come to life a long ago because the trigger was missing.

Other events could be the trigger as well, but those events never happened.

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Wait, the boxes are afraid of Superman? i tought was Steppenwolf and that is why he din't try to conquest earth even after the dad of Cyborg uses the boxes to bring to life his son, Steppenwolf make his move against earth after Superman was dead, Steppenwolf even Darkseed is afraid of Superman not the boxes

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Are you saying this movie isn't a flawless masterpiece like all the Snyder fans say.

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Before that line was uttered, I thought the energy/impact from his death was simply so strong it "woke" them up. But then Batfleck says they were scared of him and I was like.... "Wait, what? What about the 49XX years he wasn't here?"

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