Should Darkseid be the Justice League Villain?

JL's origin I believe could easily feature Apokolips and its villains except no Darkseid present (though their master is referenced).

@Reddest

Yep. I agree.

*gasp* We must prohibit the full story and character potential of our series or otherwise we won't abide by the 11th Commandment of always making trilogy!!!

@TheReddestHood look at my plan.

@TheManFromMars

Er, it's a bit complicated.

Darkseid should not be the first villain. Aside from someone like the Anti-Monitor, all the other villains would seem kind of lame after him.

The first one should be something like OMAC. Or maybe Despero. Legion of Doom. Something like that.

Darkseid should be saved for a bit.

Doom***

The White Martians could be good if they wanted to use Martian Manhunter, Brainiac is tied to Krypton so that's a possibility, and OMAC is interesting.

I want Darkseid then Savage then Imperiex then Blackest Night.

I personally wouldn't want him as the last villain in JL3 or JL4. I think seeing him in the second JL movie is the best way to go. I would make the first movie about the White Martian invasion. I also think Trigon would be excellent. Most people think of him as a villain of the TT. But he could be a great villain for the JL too. Brainiac is another villain that can work. Zod hacked into man kinds infrastructure now imagine how much more Brainiac could do. I could see him taking control of missile launchers to cars. Anything he can get his hands on become a weapon.

I also can see Imperiex being a great first JL baddie. Despero might work also. I think having the Appellaxians and Starro's working together would be cool. I can even see Ultra-Humanite being a pain for the JL. Even Maxwell Lord being a villain could be interesting. So really think it's best to save Darkseid for the sequel. Then he can come back for the third or fourth movie.

What I think should happened in regards to story is indeed bringing in Darkseid in the first movie. but not directly.

What I believe the story should be based on is Darkseid's high rank henchmen (must be a known villain) come to earth in search of clues of the anti-life equation, but end up being VERY conspicuous and somewhat demanding.

This prompts a panic from the heroes fearing another Zod situation could happen.
Story continues, fighting ensues, parademon squad comes in to aid assist (not the entire army, atleast not in the 1st movie)

Heroes defeat Darkseid's henchmen and parademons.
Then suddenly a boom tube portal opens up, and Darkseid comes in, flying vertically like he does.

A league member ask's "who's this?"
Batman: "Must be their boss" or *Insert logical assumption here based on detective work*

Darkseid Shoots a couple of Omega beams (perhaps a scene of Batman dodging one?)
Superman goes to fight him and Darkseid punches him in the face (bloodied face or no?) and his body flies off a couple city's over.
This small fight sequence (if you can call it that) shouldn't last more than 30 seconds.

Whatever is left of the henchmen and parademons, they walk through the portal.
As Darkseid is the only one left still standing by the open portal.

A brief staring contest ensues between Darkseid and Batman, Then Darkseid turns around and walks through the portal.

With Batman's intelligence, he deducts that this is not the end because Darkseid did not find what he was looking for.
and points out to the other members, that now more than ever, a League of heroes should be formed to protect the earth. They form the Justice League, and superman makes it public. (Maybe add a small tease to the Legion of Doom with Vandal Savage looking at Superman's public announcement regarding the Justice League being formed to protect Earth)


While Darkseid is in the movie, and he kicks ass, he shouldn't have more than a minute of screen time.

JL2 Should be Brainiac with Doomsday as puppet / big canon fodder

JL3: Tower of Babel/ Legion of Doom type story With Vandal Savage and maybe Ra's Al Gul.

JL4: Darkseid full scale invasion of earth. (2 part movie? maybe if they mix in elements of Apokolips, New Genesis and the new gods)

I think Darkseid should be used as the second JL villain but do feel that without proper introduction he could be wasted I just don't want to see something similar to how marvel is handling thanos with him being built up and used in the third JL movie, because I would of loved to see the JL come together to fight the sinestro corp but without a proper GL movie before hand that is out of the question.