Spike_x1 said:
It would depend entirely on how the role is written and played out.There's no way people would've paid money to live on that island after it (hypothetically) killed billions of people. Living on New Krypton would be like living on the graves of all the people who died. No one would be so indecent as to live on that rock, no matter what shine Lex puts on it to try and attract customers.
Wait... they would have a choice? Stay on their overstuffed landmasses? Die from diseases of overcrowding and poverty? No, I think there'd be a good billion people who bit the bullet and betrayed their morals so their families could survive.
And about the lack of defensive measures on NK, if Lex could create kryptonian weaponry, why wasn't that the first thing he did? One would think that defences would be a top priority and Lex would want to have them set up in advance. Thank God the military was mysteriously absent from the climax of SR. If Lex could defend himself, it's crazy that he decided not to.
He hadn't done anything yet, I thought that was clear. Lex was sitting there planning out exactly how to use his six crystals and then the ground started shaking. Lex was probably going to get some defenses up, but there was no rush, and then it was suddenly too late. Set them up in advance for what? The military who have NO idea what's going on? All the military could POSSIBLY know is that a big island just showed up out of nowhere. And Lex had the man and firepower to take out a small search/exploration team if they stumbled upon his helicopter.
Again, there was no reason for Lex to have defenses up at the time. There were no, ZERO immediate threats and no candidates to be threats. Except Superman, who should have been dead. The only dumb thing Lex did was NOT stab Superman into a wall with a kryptonite rod and WATCH him take his last breath, though to be honest, he shouldn't have known that Richard and Lois were alive.
Post-Crisis Lex doesn't kill on the scale that SR Lex was planning to do, and he doesn't make it public like SR's Lex was going to do, either.Lex was going to open New Krypton for business, making it obvious that he was responsible for the sinking of the East Coast. If someone then decided to walk up to him with a hand gun and shoot him to avenge all of those lost, shutting off electronics wouldn't save Lex at all.
It's still business, no matter how many people die. (See any Tobacco Company). You assume because he did not have Kryptonian weaponry built the day that he grew NK, that he would not have any when he opened up for business. There's no reason to say that Lex would not have Kryptonian tech before he opened up for business. I don't know why you think he's that stupid. You're not that stupid, I'm not that stupid, why should Lex be?
In the FOS, when he said "tell me everything" and Kitty later said that they spent weeks (I think it was weeks) at the Fortress while Lex studied, he had to have been learning something other than the fact that the tech grows in water and incorporates minerals into it. By asking Jor-el to tell him everything, it's implied that Lex learned everything.
Regardless of what he learned/knows, he didn't really do much that was actually scientific. He wasn't much of a scientist, regardless of how much he knew.
This is your opinion and you're entitled to it. Personally, it's my opinion that DC Comics already has their fair share of evil scientists and they don't need another. Businessman Lex was something more. He was the guy who manipulated the mad scientists and turned their creations against them while using them to battle Superman, and then came out smelling like a rose in the public's eye. And Superman was helpless to stop him. With Pre-Crisis Lex, Superman could just punch him out and throw him in jail.
Hmm... businessman Lex is passive, he doesn't get his hands dirty. That means he can't be the main one in a conflict with Superman. Post-Crisis Lex can't get in Supe's face and stab him with Kryptonite and tell him to fly, because Post-C lex has to stay clean. He can't be as intimately intertwined with the story and he must fight Superman by proxy, leaving the story with less weight.
A more aggressive Lex, such as the one in SR (who I beleive was as much post as pre crisis), can get dirty, and thus have direct confrontation with Supe outside of terse statements in his office.
FURTHERmore, the SR concluded, Lex has no options but to become businessman Lex. He has no kryptonian tech, probably only a small bit of kryptonite if any. He has money and he's FORCED to act based on those tools. Businessman Lex, like True Dr. Doom, is born at the end of the movie. So not only do fans get to see Lex Luthor go head to head with Superman one last time, but those who beleive Lex should be a background character will get just that in all subsequent sequels.
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