State Your Opinion on A Character - Part 1

[Mystirious]

Grundy be getting some love

 

[Anubis]

That's it for Solly.

Spoiler

Solomon Grundy, born on a Monday

Lex Luthor

 

[BLACKVULCAN]

Lexy ROCKS!! the only thing i hate though is he's suppose to be the yin to Superman's yang which means Supes is suppose to be a dunce and Lex has all the brains in his bald head! Thats just wrong! Supes is far from being a dim bulb! Love the CEO Lex( those evil guys are real!!) but i oh so miss the purple and green suited scientist one!( yeah i know its corny... but sue me!) That guy is a cad but hids it behind his philanthropic doings... and baby that's about to the real world villainy as you can get! Luthor rocks like offering a waitress a million bucks to leave his husband and her family and then skipping out on her ass, always making her think shoulda,coulda woulda.. thats HELLA WRONG!!

 

[Anubis]

I prefer a Lex who is both the unscrupulous business man, and amoral super scientist.

 

[SuperFerret]

I prefer the amoral business man and the unscrupulous super scientist. Or possibly the unscrupulous super man and the amoral business scientist.

 

[Franklin Richards]

The only guy that can play a Long Con almost as well as Doom. He just does it American Style!

 

[Anubis]

There just isn't enough amoral super architects in comics.

 

[Mystirious]

Unscrupulously designing buildings that have too low ceilings or carpets that are all sticky

I prefer a Lex who is both the unscrupulous business man, and amoral super scientist.

Agreed

When Lex is written well I absolutely love him as a villain. He was great in the Action Comics story by Paul Cornell and Morrison writes a pretty great Luthor too

The only guy that can play a Long Con almost as well as Doom. He just does it American Style!

What about David Xanatos

 

[Franklin Richards]

Well. If we're going to bring Gargoyles into this...

 

[Mystirious]

I loves Gargoyles. I've been rewatching both seasons and I'm on season two at the moment t:

 

[E-Man]

Lex is bald, and as a sometimes bald man I have no choice but to support him in most of his endeavors.

 

[Cain]

In my opinion the greatest villain in the history of the medium. Lex at his best under writers that completely get what makes Luthor great like Azzarello, Busiek, Waid, Morrison and more recently Cornell is unmatchable to me.

 

[flash13]

Lex is awesome, especially when written by Morrison.

 

[Superman 1265]

Easily one of my top favorite villains. Although, this one girl who I used to talk to told me that she doesn't see why Lex is such a big deal, just because he's human . The thing is though, she doesn't read comics. I always tell people that if they really want to understand these characters, then they should read the freaking comics!

 

[TruerToTheCore]

Obviously one of the all-time greats, but also one of the character that has so many incarnations that everyone has a completely different view on him!

I prefer the Bronze Age version, especially what Maggin did to him. Never cared so much about the battlesuit version. The corrupt businessman felt odd, especially since his personality was so different from what was before.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I hate seeing Lex as a crazy dude in a mech suit or as a goofball. Most other incarnations are pretty good because they involve Lex's being the smartest guy in the room more often than not, which is exactly what he should be. A truly great man with tons of neuroses that pull him in a bunch of strange directions, especially where Superman is concerned.

 

[Anubis]

 

[Oddzball]

I wish that after Our Worlds at War, President Luthor found himself positioned to support the super hero community and they allied with him. Think Magneto's run as head of Xavier's school.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

That would be a little awkward for Lex, given that he doesn't trust non-humans. Look at that scene Nubs posted. The mere fact that it was Superman challenging him to live up to his boasts about realizing humanity's potential if Superman weren't around makes him spit in disgust.

 

[Anubis]

Yeah, if he did take control of the worlds Super humans after Our Worlds at war, it would be for his own dastardly ends, and totally involve f**king up Superman.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Which would've been way more awesome than "takes Venom, goes crazy, impeached immediately."

 

[Primal Slayer]

I like Lex but I also get annoyed when they make characters "SMARTEST man in the world!" "Gets away with everything! even if everyone knows it was him!"

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I don't mind it so long as writers come up with decent ways to do it. If Lex is caught on camera murdering somebody and gets away scot free by going, "It wasn't me!" without any kind of investigation or anything, that's just s***ty writing.

 

[Enriquespy]

No 40 cakes jokes yet? SHAME ON YOU!!!















And that's terrible.

 

[SuperFerret]

Lex is great because he's versatile from a story-telling point of view. Anything from personal vendettas and city-scale to national, world and beyond, Lex's character allows him to get in there and still be in character.