Michael Rosenbaum - Lex Luthor : The Villain of the Story

[The Caped Knight]

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"It's my birthright! After all my sacrifices, after all the pain, I finally understand. I was being prepared for a much greater destiny. Everything led me to this moment."
The Man who gave the best adaptation of Superman's number one ultimate nemesis .

[Webhead2006]

What can i say that others havent over the years. Michael's lex was one of the best takes on the character.

[Young Superman]

The best Lex Luthor ever.

[Indy1Jones]

The best Lex Luthor ever.

Yes I agree.

[chumchees]

Lex Luthor died in Arctic. That is how I see it. It was nice to see him again in the finale but he wasn't used properly and then they wiped his memory. Forget season 8.

[marvelrobbins]

They had to find a way for him to lose knowledge of Clark's secret to Line up with Iconic Lex Luthor.I would have had him lose some of his most recent memorys after the fortress
collorpsed.

[The Incredible Hulk]

I disagree. They said everything they needed to say to one another in the scene in the burned down Luthor Mansion. They had an understanding with each one having enough leverage over the other to make everything a bit more of a fair fight, with Lex having no real reason to divulge Clark's secret to the World. This scene was perfect.

"If you look at history, the great men and women of the world have always been defined by their enemies."

"Every villain is only as great as his hero."

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Then they went and ruined it with mindwipe.

[Webhead2006]

It was a bit of a bad move there. They should have left it he knows but keeps it to himself as a trump card over clark.

[The Incredible Hulk]

Rosey returns as the voice of the Flash in JL: Doom

http://www.buzzfocus.com/2011/12/12/justice-league-doom-release-date/

[Webhead2006]

Saw the news on him on jl dtv awhile ago. Can't wait to see him as flash again.

[The Incredible Hulk]

hear him

[Webhead2006]

Lol you got what I meant.

[The Incredible Hulk]

Looks like Rosey's doing a new movie with Bradley Cooper, Kristen Bell, and Dax Sheppard.

http://www.hitfix.com/articles/dax-shepard-making-directing-debut-with-bradley-cooper-and-kristen-bell-in-outrun

Sounds like it could be pretty funny actually.

[Webhead2006]

Sounds cool hope its good.

[fixxxer1022]

micheal will always be the definitive luthor to me. no one yet has even come close to what he has portrayed on screen.

[The Incredible Hulk]

Daly, Fillion, and Rosenbaum do a little cosplay. Pretty damn funny.

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[The Caped Knight]

That's pretty funny .

[Webhead2006]

Just saw that my self lol.

[Prison Mike]

Tim Daly has an adult son? ****, Tim looks young!

[BH/HHH]

That was pretty funny love the bit on the bed with the cape haha

[Webhead2006]

Ya was pretty good. Sucks they never did get tim or george or either two superboy on sv. But they did get some good folks.

[Thundercrack85]

Is it strange that I just now made the connection that he also voiced Flash?

[The Incredible Hulk]

Ya was pretty good. Sucks they never did get tim or george or either two superboy on sv. But they did get some good folks.

George who? Reeves? :huh:

Is it strange that I just now made the connection that he also voiced Flash?

Yes, kind of. lol

[Webhead2006]

The guy who took over for daly in justice league/justice league unlimited, i think i might have said his name wrong.

[Johnny]

Yeah, George Newbern. He's gonna voice Superman again in the next DC Animated Movie this summer.

[Webhead2006]

I knew it was george something.

[The Incredible Hulk]

Oh OK. LOL I was gonna say, SV missed the G.R. boat by a few decades :)

[Webhead2006]

Np problem hulk.

[iwtv]

Rosenbaum's Lex officially became a true villian for me because of my own reaction to the first Lex/Lana strip down scene in S6, where they're standing by the fireplace getting ready to do the deed. Ughhh...it was kindof gross.
I know right there and then that Rosenbaum was the best.

[Rodrigo90]

Lex getting his leg over cemented him as the greatest villain of all time!!!

[Sawyer]

I do wish that the bulk of Lex's turn against Clark hadn't revolved around an ill-concieved love triangle between Lex, Lana and Clark. Otherwise, love him. Just about neck and neck with Clancy Brown for me.

Gene Hackman, as great of an actor as he may be, comes fairly close to the bottom of the list.

[Webhead2006]

You know one of my fav scenes with lex had to be the one with impluse in justice with the hair joke. That was totally priceless.

[chumchees]

My favourite moment was in season 7 when he yelled at the failed Julian clone, "you're not my brother, you're a mistake" then shoots him.

[Rodrigo90]

My favourite part with Lex, definitely has to be where he pushes Lionel out the window.

"I was raised in your shadow. Now you're going to die in mine"
******* EPIC!!! :D

Say what you want about SV, I do, but we gotta admit, they gave us an amazing Lex. Rosenbaum is a legend :up:

[Webhead2006]

And most fans would agree sv lex was one of the best takes.

[Odneyson]

Lex lost my respect when he was murdered by Oliver Queen.

[Webhead2006]

And how does that lose your respect for a character.

[chumchees]

LOL

I like to think Lex died when the fortress collapsed. I try to pretend Lex in season 8 and the finale didnt happen. Seeing the actor in the finale was great, but wiping his memory and the process combining parts from clones to come back to life is silly.

[Webhead2006]

God its no different then what has happen to lex in the comics many times over.

[Rockstar]

The only thing close to it that happened was Lex getting cancer from Kryptonite exposure in the 1990s.

He created a clone (Lex Luthor II) and had his brain transferred into that body.

http://cdn.ifanboy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Lex-Luthor-II.jpg



Smallville's Lex actually died in the truck explosion.

The new Lex from the finale is a combination of the best parts of the Lex clones. Franken-Lex.


I would have preferred Lex to have stayed alive till Season 9 at least, and have Zod kill him off. The Oliver murder thing went nowhere.

[Llama_Shepherd]

It's actually possible the Lex that appeared in Requiem was a clone. Because when the real Lex is having his memory wiped, he has no memory of the encounter in Season 8.

Lex's disappearance almost had to be written the way it was, Rosenbaum just didn't want to come back.

[Rockstar]

That's probably because the cloned Lex Luthor from the finale was created from DNA from BEFORE "Requiem."

It wouldn't make sense for him to have memories of those events.

It's just like how Zod and his cloned army's last memories are from when their DNA was taken.


It also wouldn't make sense for the Lex from Requiem to have been a clone. They confirmed onscreen that his injuries were from the Fortress collapse and he was after the suit as his lifeline to recovery.

http://kevinwrites.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83452d71369e201116848bc0a970c-800wi

[chumchees]

Why couldn't they just have him disappear after the fortress collapse. He is missing, then eventually declared dead. Then returns for the finale.

[Webhead2006]

And back then many of us where going with theory that lex could have been a clone. Hell we know in tenth he had a lot of clones. So it could have if they wanted it to be a not fully forrmed clone we saw then. Plus that could have been an cool angle to go with since we had clones going far back to emily dinsmore.

[Rockstar]

I remember.

And all your theories turned out wrong.

[Webhead2006]

and I was just saying an idea/theory most had. Didn't mean of that was what happened.

[Odneyson]

And how does that lose your respect for a character.
He was killed by a toy monkey bomb:facepalm:

[Webhead2006]

And so what if he was killed like that look at how other characters where killed in the show. I don't see just cause of that you loose respect forr the character.

[The Incredible Hulk]

Happy 40th Birthday to Rosey....

If you don't follow him on Twitter, you should.
@mrosenbaum711

[Webhead2006]

Boy didn't know he was 40 and happy birthday to him.

[Odneyson]

The new Lex from the finale is a combination of the best parts of the Lex clones. Franken-Lex.
he's a combo of surviving Lex bits + clonepieces , according to q miller

[Prison Mike]

Why couldn't they just have him disappear after the fortress collapse. He is missing, then eventually declared dead. Then returns for the finale.

This would have been the simplest solution but the smallville producers loved to complicate things....

[Webhead2006]

Well we had that to they blew up lex in 8th season. And they probably did that just cause they had no clue if michael would agree to return. I still would have liked and thought they have alexander just grow into michael lex and stop rapid aging and there we have lex of old in new body and go from there.

[Prison Mike]

What they should have done was give Lex a proper exit at the end of season 7. But since they didn't, they should have just left it alone until they knew 100% for sure Michael would be returning. The easiest solution was to just say Lex disappeared after the FOS fell and was taking the time to heal.

[Odneyson]

What they should have done was give Lex a proper exit at the end of season 7.
They did.:oldrazz:

[The Incredible Hulk]

Had no issue with his disappearance and the way he was brought back into the show. My only gripe with him was the silly mind-wipe.

[Rockstar]

he's a combo of surviving Lex bits + clonepieces , according to q miller

How could there be any surviving Lex bits from this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJkXCDw5y5Y&feature=player_detailpage#t=277s

There's definitely no way his brain would have survived that for sure. If they had to clone Finale Lex's brain, he's basically a clone.

I think their biggest mistake with Lex, before the mindwipe, was bringing him back in S8 without Rosenbaum. I felt like they only did it because Kreuk returned.

The best thing to have done during those years is kept Lex (the real Lex) cryogenically frozen somewhere.

[Brainiac 8]

How could there be any surviving Lex bits from this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJkXCDw5y5Y&feature=player_detailpage#t=277s

There's definitely no way his brain would have survived that for sure. If they had to clone Finale Lex's brain, he's basically a clone.

I think their biggest mistake with Lex, before the mindwipe, was bringing him back in S8 without Rosenbaum. I felt like they only did it because Kreuk returned.

The best thing to have done during those years is kept Lex (the real Lex) cryogenically frozen somewhere.


Who cares if the current lex is a clone in the Smallvilleverse. Up until the current reboot, the Lex that had been in the comics for years had also been nothing but a series of clones with his mind being transplanted into the new clones brain.

It's nothing new with Lex Luthor.

[Webhead2006]

Maybe they sghould have done lex reveal like how lois and clark did when lex died first time.

[Odneyson]

If they had to clone Finale Lex's brain, he's basically a clone.
Yes. A Frankenstein monster without memories

[Doc Ock]

I've always been stubborn about the Lex thing, I've always believed that the Lex we see in the finale is the original Lex with clone parts. Thats what I assumed the Lx0 meant, the original Lex. Its perfect in my mind and I won't listen to anyone else's theories! :p

[Odneyson]

Maybe they sghould have done lex reveal like how lois and clark did when lex died first time.
John Shea will always be the nr. 1 Lex Luthor

[The Incredible Hulk]

says you....

[Webhead2006]

I liked him too but I would put michael above him just a slight bit.

[Johnny]

He's better than Hackman and Spacey, that's for sure. But noone can come close to Rosenbaum. Or Clancy Brown for that matter.

[Odneyson]

Boy didn't know he was 40 and happy birthday to him.
Wow, he is 40:wow:

40 years old is the natural life expectancy of a healthy human being

[Webhead2006]

Actually I believe the normal life range in todays time is more like 80-85 yrs old. But I was shocked that michael is as old as he is.

[hithere144]

He's better than Hackman and Spacey, that's for sure. But noone can come close to Rosenbaum. Or Clancy Brown for that matter.

I wouldn't say he's better than Hackman, although I did like his version of the character better...Hackman was playing a completely different character for the script of S:TM, and he did wonderfully. To this day one of my favorite movies (and probably the one I own on the most kinds of media).

[Odneyson]

I wouldn't say he's better than Hackman, although I did like his version of the character better...
Rosenbaum thinks Hackman is the best Luthor

[Doc Ock]

I definitely think Rosenbaum is the best live-action Lex.

[Johnny]

Ditto. Nobody's better than Rosey. People always point out Clancy Brown, just as they do with Mark Hamill for the Joker compared to Ledger, but when it comes to live-action Michael has no equal. This guy was just captivating.