the fact there was a time where Lex Luthor wasn't a billionaire mogul who runs a megacorporation is just surreal to me, it's such an OBVIOUS part of his characterization
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So many villains didn't develop into their iconic versions until later. Joker died in his first apperance! Mr Freeze was Mr Zero and it was the animated series that gave him his tragic frozen dying wife.
The Anti-Life Equation was proof that his point of view was correct. Something that might not exist, but he searches anyway, even though his continued failure to discover it is proof that good and hope can ultimately triumph.
Interestingly, the Silver Age Lex Luthor was a two-years-earlier prototype of Doctor Doom. Just replace 'facial scarring' with 'early-onset baldness'. They created an entire iconic supervillain archetype to explain away a Golden Age art error where he was accidentally drawn bald.
Golden Age Luthor (not Lex, just Luthor) was just a cheap, flavourless knockoff of Doctor Sivana, who's the third iconic variety of mad scientist supervillain.
if i remember right, he's literally been a business mogul for less time than all the time he existed beforehand? got interested in it from a "franchises last so long that changes made decades ago still feel recent" perspective
like there's less time between lex luthor being introduced as a red-haired mad scientist and becoming a donald trump parody, than there is between freiza's introduction on namek and his face turn during dragonball super.
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yeah
yeah luthor like that just *fucking fits*
even if I do feel that a lot of it is a bit too kingpin, but it sure gets a different flavor eventually
yeah
(i fucking hate sleez)