Oh man, how good would it have been if Lex Luthor was the one claiming he was fighting for truth, justice and the American way in the latest film.
(Apologies if he does, I've not seen it yet, just the outraged responses.)
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Been a while since I've seen any Superman, but I'm pretty sure a major part of Lex Luthor's character is he's selfish, but he also thinks he's helping humanity by trying to get rid of Superman.
Yep he's an asshole but the entire point of what he does is that Superman can just turn bad at any moment and humanity will immediately lose so he is trying to take him out before that happens.
His fellow billionaire Bruce Wayne has multiple contingency plans for just such an occasion. Imagine if Lex found that out and managed to get into Batman's files.
some versions have him as extremely intelligent but completely selfish.
others (sometimes) have him as extremely intelligent and selfless, and her considers superman a threat.
All Star Superman has a quite succinct rebuttal to Lex Luthor as a character:
"I could have made everyone see! I could have saved the world if it wasn't for you!"
"You could have saved the world years ago if it mattered to you, Luthor."
(I think the book is the superior version, but I do love that the movie adds a sincere "you're right" from Lex in this scene).
movie spoiler ish, not even a minor one
It would have fit perfectly with his character in the movie, and it would be amazing if he said that, but he's didn't.
I have no idea how this narrative that it's the immigrants that are the problem, so we throw them all out, is working on people. I don't know how the idea of putting them in off-shore prisons without trials is working with people. The entire idea is costly and completely fucked. That karma is coming back on all of us.
Racism. You know the thing that the US was founded on.
The only thought process I have seen is that “The rules are that you have to follow the process. You can’t just come here for economic opportunity without getting permission. Every country works this way.”
There’s no thought process behind what actual harm is caused. It’s a mental centering on Rules. They refuse to dive behind why they respect those rules, and why they’re okay ignoring those rules for Europeans, because the answer is just Racism.
Yet these same people expect to be let off with a warning when stopped for speeding. Rules for me, not for thee.
Creating in groups and outgroups.
why fix real problems you are profiting from if you can blame an innocent powerless minority.
worst that'll happen is you eradicate them, but then you just gotta point the blame to the next minority.
Is true throughout history. Hard times? Blame the immigrants!
Our death and misery machine was working just fine! Until, you people showed up.
Cartoon villains keep getting more and more ~~un~~realistic.
I've seen One Piece villians less sadistic than this administration.
technically superman wasnt born until the pod opened so hes actually a naturalized citizen!
Take a hike, John Byrne! And take your white Vision with you!
Is that canon? Was he sent as an embryo or something?
As I understand it, there was one timeline in the nineties where he came in a "birthing pod", just so he'd be born in the US. That's been changed again since; aside from that weirdness, he's always been an immigrant.
Which makes sense - wasn't his concept conceived by two Jewish immigrants who wanted to give their spin on what an actual Übermensch would be like, as opposed to what Nazi Germany was putting out? Pretty sure that's how he got his name...
I mean, yeah, it kinda detracts from his whole backstory. Especially if the whole reason was just to be able to say "See? He's totally American by birthright!".
The whole point was that shit shouldn't be important.
In the 1986 post-crisis reboot his ship was an artificial womb and he was born on Earth. That was retconned again in the 2000s, though.
Glad it was retconed, Hate the concept is a vagina space ship bringing superman
Not in any continuity I'm aware of. They almost always show infant Kal-El being placed in the ship. My memory of Man of Steel is fuzzy so maybe that?
My knowledge of Superman is very basic, but I always had that image of him being placed in the pod as a baby.
Of course there must be like 40 retellings of that scene at this point if we count all media.
Dude, spoilers.
Finally, a non-woke version of Superman!
non woke superman
See, he's sleepy
I think that's Bruce Wayne in the bed.
That would make more sense, unless Clark Kent is somehow kissing himself.
Wait this is adorable
You know what's woke? coffee.
MAGA Superman (and others):
It would have been more realistic to name him Jeff Luthor.
But Lex Luthor was supposed to be brilliant.
The concept of Luthor is smart. He didn't always have smart writers.
We need a Batman with prep time to take down ~~Musk~~Luthor
this batman counts?
So. I just learned Musk is bald.
Pre- hair plugs:
