The Greatest Criminal Mind Of Our Time: an all-encompassing LEX LUTHOR discussion

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He is the Super-villain's Super-villain.

He can speak, read and write in over a dozen languages fluently, including a few not of this world.

He has created the cures for over a dozen "incurable" diseases, after he created some of said diseases himself.

He can make 300 million people vote him into the most powerful office in the world, and stay there for 3 years real-time.

He owned the bald look decades before it became cool.

He is the Greatest Criminal Mind of Our Time: Lex Luthor!



Ah, Lex Luthor. My favorite Super-Villain of all time.

He deserves his own personal all-in-one thread on these new forums. This is intended to be an appreciation thread, a constructive criticism thread, a suggestion thread and an artwork/pic thread, all rolled into one.

I'll go first.

Luthor is the rightful heir to the line of brutal conquerors such as Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Attila the Hun, Charlesmagne, Genghis Khan, Napoleon Bonaparte, Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin.

Luthor is also the rightful heir to the line of brilliant innovators such as Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton, Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg.

Luthor should be the smartest, richest and most cunning man on the planet in the DCU. Luthor should be physically fit and a master of several different martial arts (as much as I dislike Chuck Norris on a personal level, he's the real-world template I'd use for Lex's fighting ability). Luthor should be a self-made man who grew up with nothing, abandoned and disowned by his father Lionel at a very young age.

Luthor's greatness is such that he would unofficially already be ruling the DCU Earth if not for one tiny detail: his irrational jealously-fueled hatred of Superman.



Superman is Lex Luthor's emotional kryptonite. The only person who can make the otherwise unflappable Luthor act the fool. Luthor should be smart and cunning enough to figure out other every super-hero's secret identity and not tell, just to toy with them. But not Superman's, due to the fact his monstrous ego simply cannot accept a god-like being would stoop so low as to pretend to be a powerless human. Everyone else, Lex already knows.

My favorite portrayal of Lex Luthor is the version from the recent animated series YOUNG JUSTICE, voiced by Mark Rolston. That version comes closest to My Ideal Lex: 10 steps ahead of everyone else, 5 steps ahead of all the heroes. And so cool under fire.



Any other admirers of The Greatest Criminal Mind Of Our Time here?