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The next villain that I am going to analyze is the richest
man in the DC universe. This mans ego and persona are so self-driven and
selfish, that he will stop at nothing to achieve his ultimate goal. This
Villains name is Alexander Joseph “Lex” Luthor, he is billionaire, a
businessman, a genius, an inventor, and a mortal man who is obsessed with
killing a nearly immortal alien with godlike powers. Lex Luthor is the
Arch-Nemesis of Superman, and Lex’s vast wealth and intelligence has given him
a seemingly infinite amount of resources, and Lex does not hesitate to use all
of them. Lex Luthor has been known to do anything in his power in order to kill
Superman, in fact Lex has been known to plant all of his technologies, weapons,
and armors with a large amount kryptonite, which is the only thing that allows
for mortals to injure Superman.
In the video to the left demonstrates Lex
Luthor’s large amount of resources and his endless drive to defeat Superman at
all costs. *SPOILERS* In this video Lex Luthor and his allies are successfully able to defeat the Justice League and most big members. Lex Luthor lives to regret his obsession with defeating Super as seen in the end of the battle scene with the Looming Alien Ships of Brainiacs Galactic Invasion force.
This leads to one of Lex Luthors Romantic values. Lex ends up becoming an Anti-Hero in the DC Universe online story line. He does this in other storylines as well. For example in the Superman Red Son storyline Lex becomes the president of US, while Superman (who as an infant ended up crash landing in The Soviet Union instead of Smallville, Kansas) is the Dictator of the Soviet Union, and Lex shows an Anti-Hero like personality in this storyline. Lex forces Superman to pay ultimate sarifice, causing the entire world to become a better place under president authors rule. In Injustice: Gods Among us story line Lex secretly funds the rebellion against Superman's One-World Regime, and eventally pays the ultimate price when Lex confesses to Superman that he was his enemy by challenging Superman's leadership. Lex Luthor has many other romantic ties. For one his original
appearance in Action Comics issue #23 was a romantic era comic book. Mr. Luthor
also is known to be very observant, and if necessary Lex will wait and observe
the actions of his target (generally his target is Kal-El) for as long as he
needs to. Lex observes his target through a vast network of, surveillance
cameras, spies, mercenaries and assassins (Deathstroke or Deadshot are
generally the people he goes to for those sets of skills), and other human
resources (politicians he bribes or blackmails, members of the justice league
he interrogates, etc.). This patience is a key quality expressed in most romantic writers pieces and lives. Lex's constant battling with Superman also has an allusion to a simple game of chess. In fact when Lex finally beats superman in the Red Son storyline Superman's Last words are "Well Played, Old Friend". On the Next page it shows Luthor playing a game of chess while he is thinking about his accomplishments, and he says "Checkmate Superman." This allusion to something as simple as a game of chess is a very big romantic ideal of observation. To make something as simple as a game of chess be shown in the complicated and drawn out relationship shown between Kal-El and Lex Luthor takes a lot observation and deep thought. This is a very big romantic ideal. Thus this ends my blog on Lex Luthor I know that it is a little bit over board on words, but I am very passionate about Comic books.
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