I spent seventy-five million dollars on a fake presidential campaign all just to tick Superman off

Who was the Ron Perlman of Luthor's presidency?

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75 millions? What a cheapskate. That Clinton bitch spent over a billion on a failed campaign. 75 ain't enough even for cable advertising

>that one time Luthor spent millions on a supercomputer whose sole function was to deduce Superman's identity
>computer churns out the name "Clark Kent"
>Luthor is literally unable to accept this answer and thinks he just wasted his money
>because he is physically incapable of thinking that someone with that much power would willingly live a humble, quiet life behind the scenes

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Yeah, that was in All-Star Superman

The best thing about Lex is that he almost seems decent outside of his grudge with Superman. He's a self-made genius philanthropist who gets shit done. You almost could root for him. But then he pulls some shit like:
>murdering an innocent woman with his bare hands and framing one of his employees for it, because he can
>going to diners and propositioning waitresses, only to ditch them before they leave, because he can
>giving children the power to fly and shutting it off in midair, because he's mad
>creating an artificial woman who loves him deeply just so he could kill her and pin it on Superman, because he's mad
He's one of the funniest sociopaths in fiction just because of the ridiculous lengths he'll go to get his way or flaunt his power

the entire world held captive by a rich man's bloated ego and the corporate empire he runs, gee where have I heard that before

no. I dont mean trump

kek

>Do you know how much power I have to give up to become president?
Those words stuck with me for some reason.

Question is pretty based btw.

You don't become rich by paying for things when you can just take them.

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Absolutely TERRIBLE amount of them

I think it's moreso that in his mind Superman is such a blight upon earth that anything justifies the means of ''saving'' humanity from him

Gates?
Rockefeller?
Rothschild?

That's part of it.
Luthor considers Superman a blight because Luthor thinks he's the greatest human ever so he should be the most powerful man on Earth. So whenever Superman takes him down a peg, he rationalizes it as Superman mocking or undermining mankind.

Illuminati

Habbening

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That's the point. In the Justice Lords universe, he nearly brought the world to destruction and blamed everyone but himself for it.

>If Luthor wanted help the world he would have fucking done it,
superman literally tells him that to his face in
all star superman
youtube.com/watch?v=m24kwF1b6Ks

They make no sense. Political power always overshadows financial power. You can push for regulations to cripple corporations unless they kiss up to you. Executive orders can temporarily supersede laws.

Don't forget that time he literally invented a cure for someones terminal illness, then reinfected them and destroyed the cure like 5 minutes later for no other reason then to fuck with Superboy.

maybe he's smart with his finances

As someone who thought Luthor unironically wanting to be president made no sense in the comics, this scene was great.

Also made me smile when Luthor in YJ joined the UN only to fuck over the JL in small, petty ways.

>Do you know how much power I'd have to give up to be PRESIDENT?

Ever since I was a kid, I always thought that line was so ominous and bad ass.

That was not even some random person he cured. It was his sister.

Luthor was beyond political or financial power. He was a supervillain in all but appearance by then, he was legit trying to take over the world. He was even planning on making his own AMAZO super body to become the God Emperor of Mankind even if it all was just Brainiac inside of him secretly pulling the strings

Link?

And I thought Doom was autistic

You say this in a world where money runs political campaigns and corporations have the most money. Why become a single politician with an agenda when you can buy favors from many politicians in key positions to push your agenda.

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>>I spent seventy-five million dollars on a fake presidential campaign all just to tick Clinton off

Literally the same.

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Caillou isn't black or a genius

75 million dollar is enough to run for President and win. You just got shiity people running for President.

Agreed, it's straight, stone cold villainy at its finest

Rockefeller is a saint. He didn't like the Jews.

Just a piece of shit. Also I thought Luthor was supposed to be part Hawaiian or part Samoan?

aluminum bats aint free nigga

The absolute best example though has to be the time where Luthor got godlike reality warping power, he had enough power to literally do whatever he can can think of. He could make good on all the shit he always says about making the world a better place, solve world hunger, create a utopia whatever, and receive all the credit for it too. He'd be hailed as the savior of the world, just like he always wanted. There's just one catch, he can't use his power to hurt Superman, at all. And Supes is right there too, apologizing to Lex for everything he's ever done, all but prostrating himself before Luthor because the chance to help everyone,is too good an opportunity to pass up just because Luthor would be the one doing it.

So Luthor is on the cusp of getting almost everything he ever wanted, all he has to do is let Superman go. He doesn't even have to admit Supes is better than him, hell Superman would gladly admit, publicly, that Lex Luthor is a better man than he is on a weekly if that was Lex's price. No, all he has to do to achieve his wildest dreams is resist the urge to harm Superman.

Lex lasts all of 30 seconds before he tries to kill Superman, which of course immediately strips him of his powers. Even when faced with literally everything he ever wanted, Lex just cannot let go of his grudge.

This is from the page, look at his face

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What a chad.

Would he even be happy if his grudge got satisfied and he killed Superman?

Here you go

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Thats the ending to "Red Son"
supes faked his death, and stayed quiet, letting Lex think he won

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>Clinton
More like Obama. Thanks Obama.
youtu.be/k8TwRmX6zs4

>in the cusp of th 4th milleneum
Andnewsbots are still Wall-E bots on tracks? poor how Doctor. poor show.

Manga Towa is fucking hot

Yep. In the comics at one point Superman calls him out on this, straight to his face, that with all his genius, all his tech and money, he could've been a hero as great if not better than Supes if he stopped to do stupid shit like that.

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>Good bye, Grodd. It could have gone the other way.
>>It really could have, couldn't it?
>No.
>But why speak ill of the dead?

Lex Luthor vs. Seto Kaiba in an autism-off
who would win?

This gay rapist (grapist?) doesn't have 1% of Luthor's gravitas

>the triple had replaced the couple
what did they mean by this?
t. brainlet

Polywogs. Maybe Male-Female-Shemale trio marriages. I dunno.

marriages/dates are based on a 3-person system instead of the 2-person one we currently have

I think at some point Kaiba would just infuriate Luthor too much for him to continue trying to outdo Kaiba, because it'd be looking at the walking uncanny valley for him. Luthor sees a self-made man who, through nothing but sheer ingenuity and determination, made his dream a reality. Made the world basically bend to his image. Made the whole universe and beyond value his contributions, reshaping the very culture of the human race and other races for centuries.

And he did this through holograms, trading cards, amusement parks, toys. Kaiba broke into the afterlife to challenge a long-dead ancient pharaoh to a children's card game just to stroke his own ego. Lex would hate Kaiba. Because Lex would see how similar he is to Kaiba. Continuing would only force him to see the similarities more and more.

Also Kaiba has his ultimate attack
dailymotion.com/video/xyjxs5

>You spent thirty five point seven MILLION on a jet shaped like one of your damn cartoon dragons?!
>And you didn't. Your move, Lex.

Back then, it was expected a president would divorce themselves from their businesses

Kaiba made aliens fight with cards with his autism while having a dragon waifu.

Supergirl (the TV show) had a good one as well. Luthor has successfully cast himself as the saviour of the country, defeated Supergirl, gives free power to an entire nation, and is publicly lauded.

Then he turns around and as his first decision uses all that power generation to activate a giant space laser and try shooting at Superman while he's off world.

You left out the best part: During that breakdown Luthor finds out Superman is Clark Kent /and he fucking loses his shit/

I have a lot of opinions about Luthor in Snyder’s JL, but at least the idea of the man completely rethinking his priorities only to succumb to some higher being’s machinations because it’s future aligns with his ego feels fitting.

>let the world be ran by writers, artists and philosophers
>made cuckoldry a staple in marriage
>the average man would die after 800 boring years
Truly he was a super villain.

It was also coupled with Lex peering into Superman's mind to fuck with him, only to stumble on the memory of Pa Kent dying of a heart attack and realizing that, holy shit, Superman IS Clark Kent and has been fooling Lex to his face for years. Honestly I think Lex was more pissed at himself for not seeing past those ridiculous glasses all those years

>You spent a hundred MILLION on arming criminal scum to take down the greatest hero on Earth?!
>Yes, and?
>Pathetic. You didn’t even spend a single dollar on cards. You will never be the King of Duelists, Luthor. I’m turning my card game compatible motorcycle around this instant and dropping you home, because you will never, NEVER be worthy of sitting on it.

absolutely based

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That's not Lex Luthor

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And get killed like Darkseid?

Larry Page?
Jack Dorsey?
Jeff Bezos?

thats one sexy momma

I really liked that scene, how he referred to Supes' parents as "Mr. and Mrs. Kent" you can infer that he respected the Kents as their neighbors when he was a boy. and his envy was seething as he telles Supes that he didnt deserve them.

He could do the same by stealing Grodd's tech and turning Lois and only Lois into an ape and then destroying all info on the tech used.

>start up a paper trail of rescuing Gorillas and sending them to zoos and reserves
>Send lois to a random one

Friendly reminder that Lex is the real hero

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When money is considered speech, you have more power with less accountability when you're a billionaire than when you're the president. Because you can just lobby and buy politicians with campaign donations.

Non canon aside, Injustice Joker showed just how easy it would be to really break Superman. Even without the nuke just the Lois part would be enough.

But superman isn't the best at everything, there's even people better than him at things he does.

And Lex is just butthurt that he isn't better than everyone, and is extremely petty about being better than some people to boot.

Fuck off, Injustice is badly written even when compared to the storymodes of Mortal Kombat

There are a lot more restrictions/scrutiny once you become a public figure as opposed to a private citizen.

When President, you literally cannot take a shit without the news knowing, because it's the right of the press to know what you as a public figure are up to day in and day out.

As a Private Citizen, no one has a right to snoop and know your business. And if someone from the Governments wants to...well, you can always just bribe them. You could try bribes as President, but you'd get found out much too quickly.

You know, I don't even shit on Snyder's JL like some people but it's so weird to me it goes out of it's way to do a forgotten idealised childhood friend arc between Lex and J'onn when you could very easily do one between Clark and Lex. Like hell, if you're going to go full anime with the JL you might as well use THE paragon family of DC instead of having to explain why Martian Manhunter was secretly Luthor's nakama.

Orange man spent like a million because he understands how far he can stretch money.

Forget Injustice, simple logic tells you there's plenty of reasons to worry about Superman. What if he gets some brain problems or mental illness? Being a great person doesn't make you immune from them. Imagine a paranoid schizophreniac who can level cities.

But it also showed how easy it is.

He'd be stopped by the various other superheroes.

Including the multiple ones who are at his level of physical ability

No it doesn't, its just contrived bullshit.

Why do you think Supes gave Batman a Kryptonite ring?

The kryptonite ring has always been dumb, If Superman actually went rogue that piece of jewelry would be useless in the hands of someone like Batman.

Evil superman could just use his heat vision from miles above, or throw a pebble through Batman's head... hell just fly THROUGH batman so fast the kryptonite doesn't have time to take effect.

The president is subject to a system of checks and balances. If the courts and congress decide they don't like your actions, they'll do everything in their power to shut you down. Rich businessmen, on the other hand, can manipulate multiple branches of the government at once with "donations" and "funding".

kek, bribes are just called donations when you're a politician

>dickcorp donated a private trip to the bahamas to my campaign!

>2016 was 2.4-3 billion raised
>2018 was 4.6 billion raised
>2020 expected to be 5-6 billion raised

That escalation tho

Does Luthor have a private dragon jet? Didn't think so

Lex would probably win in a fist fight

As much as it hurts knowing that one of my favorite actors hates my favorite (living) president, I am deeply happy knowing that The Donald has spurred such beautiful cringe out of Ron Perlman.

>HEY LIL DONNIE

Seto can block guns by throwing cards and also beats the shit out of people in h2h.

No, everybody just treated him as an entertaining clown in the beginning and that gave him billions of dollars worth of free media coverage.

you fool. you cretin. it was never about the 40 cakes. the 40 cakes represents joy being taken by others because he can.

okay, I havent been keeping up with JL, Jonn is what now? I do remember him being a black farmhand with .the Kents before while Clark was a kid

soros?

> lex luthor: Dies

Super man 5 minutes later, pops out from behind a column.

lex: youtu.be/cQKzesTq0Wo?t=24

>unironically best villain character, voice, plan and execution
>wasted on cartoon literally everyone except nerds forgot
Absolute state of this gay timeline

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>Lex Luthor just builds machines that doesn't at all endanger him by forcing him to wear them to control it. His creations do all the heavy lifting: an accurate reflection of humanity's goal of automating technology to address any biological shortcomings that has plagued them since their existence.

Lex Luthor embodies the true potential of humanity and accurately represents the common people's values.

>Mission begins in 60 seconds

God, that exchange was stone cold.

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There was also one from years ago.
Basically, the comics had a recurring plotline that Luthor had saved this world, which became know as Lexor. There, Lex was seen as a hero and Superman as a villain.
At some point, after losing to Superman again, Lex decides to just leave Earth and stay on Lexor. And at first, it's well, he has a wife and baby, everything's fine. Lex even builds something to keep Lexor's core from going up the same way that Krypton's did. Then, something keeps attacking the citizens at night, which is later revealed to be Luthor in his battle armor. Meanwhile satellites on Earth prepare to attack a city or something and Superman realizes that they belong to Luthor (can't remember if Luthor specifically baited him, though considering what happens next, he may as well have).
So Superman goes to Lexor, Lex fights him in his armored suit, shit happens and Lex is revealed to be a villain and loses the respect of his people. Not that it matters, since Lex accidentally hits the thing meant to stabilize Lexor's core and the whole planet explodes, killing everyone including his new family.
And he still blames Superman.

nigga its gay symbolism/its batman/its capeshit

just go with it

God, DC was great at finding perfect sounding voice actors. Luthor, Grodd, Mongol, Darkseid, all sound perfect. My favorite is Mandragora from the justice league episode double date, between the albino look, the piercing eyes, and the voice that flirts the line between foreplay and murderous intent.

Even if it was Brainiac that is just the kind of idea Luthor would have come up with himself, which why it was so believable.

Remember the time he wore a kryptonite ring for so long he got cancer and was a little bitch about it, blaming superman instead of himself.

Lex could stub his big toe on the leg of a wooden table and it would be Superman's fault.

>Rothschild?
Read a book, nygga.

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Apple and the fag who runs it?

state supplied gimps

>while having a dragon waifu.
shit I mean Lex just instantly loses

Honestly if we're going to judge everyone before 1944 on anti-Semitism we're going to have more villains than heroes.

The guy disabled his own sister with no remorse. What did you expect? Lol

Sure did! Golden, delicious, cream-filled Hostess Twinkies!!

In the 70's and 80's, Hostess was by far the most effective weapon against DC and Marvel villains. True fact.

JLU Luthor was just a selfish asshole businessman

DC needs more Question

What's to say that Lex didn't employ similar tactics?

75 mil, without running as a major party candidate, in the early 2000's? That's a ridiculous amount, and they weren't even close to the election by that episode.

>2018
>Presidential election
what kind of weird alternate timeline does Smallville exist in?

One where they survived Darkseid invasion by a dude in tight pushing away a planet

With a messiah complex. Had such a distrust for Superman that he gave himself cancer, by carrying Kryptonite in his pocket daily for YEARS. A known radioactive substance. He thought it was worth it for even the fleeting chance to "protect" the world from "the alien".

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