Within the rush to introduce us to 4 new superheroes, the Justice League advertising and marketing has spent treasured little time on the villains of the movie — past loads of disposable parademons for our heroes to crunch by means of.

However the newest Justice League trailer has given us two strong motion pictures of Steppenwolf, the face of evil for no matter Justice League’s plot seems to be.

First, we see him leap to the middle of a bunch of Amazons along with his huge axe:

After which, a minute or so later, we see him going through off towards only one Amazon, Wonder Woman:

Now, don’t really feel dangerous for not realizing who Steppenwolf is. Even within the extensive world of comics stuffed with little recognized characters, he’s very obscure. In Justice League, it seems to be like he’ll be within the function of the chief of that parademon military we maintain seeing, a common within the forces of the New God Darkseid, ruler of the hell-planet of Apokali—

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Steppenwolf isn’t the one villain working amok and inflicting havoc for the Justice League. Darkseid’s parademons would be the first line of protection for Steppenwolf; the appetizer for the Justice League to snack on earlier than the principle course. The parademons made their first look throughout Batman’s nightmarish sequence in Batman v Superman: Daybreak of Justice.

Even with Darkseid’s parademons, there’s no query that Steppenwolf is the man in Justice League. As one in all Darkseid’s generals, Steppenwolf poses one of many biggest threats to civilization as an entire. As the primary main huge dangerous the Justice League must tackle, Steppenwolf has so much to show. He’ll eternally outline the kind of villain the Justice League must tackle in future franchise installments.

However, y’know, no stress.

Justice League shall be launched on Nov. 17.