For those who still don’t see how much of a bytch Darkseid was in this, and why WB told Whedon to cut I’m out altogether, let me break it down.
Steppenwolf told him that Earth was primitive, divided and an easy lick
he took two mother boxes with ease.
by the time he found the second box, he told Darkseid, he had all of the motherboxes, and the antilife equation was on earth.
Darkseid wanted Steppen to find the third box, destroy earth, then he would come
if finding antilife was that important, why would you have someone you exiled do all the work, and then simply had it over to you
That don’t make one lick of sense. Any sane villain would’ve come thru immediately. He didn’t even send backup goons
Darkseid was utterly useless. A fraud in this movie.