In defense of steppenwolf in the justice league movie– you gotta understand how far beyond humans his planet is, in our terms it’d be like if the US Army sent a seasoned respected general and a whole platoon to invade an island populated only by chickens and he somehow lost that war, then after like 30 years of mockery he finally gets approval to just nuke the hell out of Chicken Island without even trying to fight the chickens again, and he’s in the plane with the nuke and he looks around to find there’s somehow six very angry chickens in the plane, two of whom are disarming the bomb and the rest of whom are pecking him to death, and he loses Chicken War II just like he lost Chicken War I