Steppenwolf

Back to the Communion clip, the menacing alien cannot be anyone other than Steppenwolf. In the comics, he is the uncle of Darkseid, as well as a member of Darkseid’s Elite, who leads the supervillain’s army in the battle.

We can expect that this character will be adjusted for the big screen, as we have already seen in the clip – besides the anthropomorphic figure, the Mother Boxes, and all the correlations, this will be a completely different character.

And it isn’t hard to believe that he will prepare Earth for the arrival of his master. Maybe his forces are the ones defeated by Wonder Woman? Maybe he is manipulating other, smaller villains from the shadows, in order to throw the superheroes off track and place the Mother Boxes all over the world?

Maybe all of the above?

At any rate, this seems to be, to me at least, the best approach for bringing Darkseid to the big screen: by introducing his generals first.

On the next page, the actors.