that and people seem to not want to write people doing ANYTHING that's actually evil. One of the animated Lex Luthor versions(
Superman: Doomsday ) was.. exceptionally evil. But the corporate sort of evil SoB and not the crazy serial killer kind.
Lex did several different KINDS of evil in that movie.
1: Illegal mining operation that unleashed Doomsday from the stasis pod he was contained in.
2: After Doomsday went rampant Lex decided to hide the evidence... and killed everyone but himself who knew... including his personal assistant Mercy Graves.
3: steals Superman's body after Doomsday fights him.
4: stores Superman in stasis while making a clone army.
5: tortures the one working clone he bothered to activate.
6: does experiments using the other clones.... who die.
7: tries to force his working clone to kill the original.
Then there's early on the REALLY evil thing, something... not the supervillain kind of evil. He's reading emails at his desk when Mercy is about to tell him about how Doomsday wrecked his illegal mine. then he makes a comment about how he now has a cure for some disease, but decides it's unprofitable to market a cure, and decides to not release it, and instead market a treatment using the research data he acquired that will instead of curing the disease delay it's effects indefinitely... as long as it's taken daily. Yeah.... THAT kind of evil. The sort people ponder IRL daily.