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• Why do the Mother Boxes activate after Superman's death?▾

  The three Mother Boxes had been dormant on Earth for thousands of years, kept separated and guarded to prevent Steppenwolf from using them to form the Unity. Superman's death created a wave of despair and loss that weakened Earth's protective energy, which the Mother Boxes sensed and responded to by awakening. Steppenwolf exploits this window to come to Earth and retrieve them before a new champion can emerge.

• What is the Unity and what would it have done to Earth?▾

  The Unity is the combined power of all three Mother Boxes merging together into a single catastrophic event. When unified, the Mother Boxes terraform the planet they are on, converting it into a burned, hellish landscape identical to Apokolips — Steppenwolf's home world. Every living thing on Earth would have been destroyed or transformed as the planet's environment was fundamentally remade.

• How is Superman resurrected and why does he initially attack the Justice League?▾

  The team uses a combination of the Kryptonian genesis chamber technology from the crashed ship in Metropolis and a Mother Box to restore the electrical charge to Superman's body and reanimate him. When he first wakes, Superman has no memory and is disoriented and aggressive, reacting on pure instinct to the unfamiliar figures surrounding him. It is only Lois Lane's arrival at the scene that calms him and restores his full memory and sense of self.

• Why does Steppenwolf ultimately fail and retreat rather than being killed?▾

  Steppenwolf is defeated when the Justice League disrupts the Unity just as it begins to form, with Cyborg pulling the Mother Boxes apart and Barry Allen generating the electrical surge needed to break their connection. With the Unity undone and his army of Parademons turning on him — Parademons are drawn to and attack the scent of fear, and Steppenwolf begins to feel fear once he realizes he is losing — he is overwhelmed and dragged back through a Boom Tube to Apokolips by his own forces.

• What is the significance of the ancient war flashback showing Amazons, Atlanteans, and humans fighting together?▾

  The flashback depicts the first time Steppenwolf came to Earth thousands of years ago to claim it for Darkseid, bringing the three Mother Boxes. The armies of humans, Amazons, Atlanteans, and even the Old Gods united to repel the invasion and scatter the Mother Boxes across different territories for safekeeping. This backstory establishes why each group guards one Box and frames the formation of the Justice League as a modern echo of that ancient alliance.