One perfect moment DCAU Luthor

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

Superman Adventures #41 was unsual inasmuch as it featured 22 one-page stories rather than one 22 page story.

This is one of my favourites.

It's safe to say that I never once imagined I'd be reading Luthor and Mercy dialogue and expecting a "Narf!" or "Zort!", but it works rather well, no? :)

And if anyone would care to post the Alan Moore Swamp Thing sequence where Luthor is hired for ten minutes by a consortium of bad guys who want Swamp Thing out of the way, and devises a method in nine and a half minutes, because he wanted to be sure to leave them enough time to sign the cheque for his fee, that would be an awesome moment too! :)

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[runespoor7.insanejournal.com]

During his coffee break, Lex Luthor will find a cure for cancer, and a way to get even more filthy rich from it.

[taggerung301.insanejournal.com]

. . . and then he'll burn his notes on the cure as fuel for a giant ray gun to kill superman

cause that's how Lex rolls

[singory.insanejournal.com]

or use it to kill superman

which is kind of like what Osborn did to Deadpool

[besamim.insanejournal.com]

Luthor: "Look Mercy, while bending down to tie my shoelace I designed a perpetual motion machine that actually works."

Mercy: "Wow, boss. This could free our country from dependence on foreign oil and stop global climate change."

Luthor (raising an eyebrow): "Or...?"

Mercy: "*Sigh* ...Or it could be used to destroy Superman. I'll get our people right on it, sir."

[lonewolf23k.insanejournal.com]

They did that in the Superman vs Doomsday animated film: While Superman was trying (and failing) to find a cure for cancer, Lex did it almost overnight, and then decided to turn the sure-fire cure into a series of expensive treatments to milk more money out of it.

[runespoor7.insanejournal.com]

D: Oh Lex. Lex, see, that's the kinda thing that makes you evil a lot more surely in my book that trying to kill Superman.

[aaron_bourque.insanejournal.com]

In a classic Imaginary Story, Lex Luthor, in prison, devises a cure for cancer and seems to have reformed . . . but it's all just a ruse so he can kill Superman.

He does it.

Lex Luthor (in the Silver Age, at least) can CURE CANCER FROM PRISON if it means he kills Superman.

[jcbaggee.insanejournal.com]

I remember this! He used the cancer cure as proof he had been reformed, then continued doing extraordinary, good things as a cover didn't he?

We need that Luthor back.

[tanetris.insanejournal.com]

"Lunch at the Japanese embassy to discuss the labor problem in Hong Kong"

Spot the problem.

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

Not really, Lexcorp is a multinational conglomerate, if their Pacific Head Office is in Tokyo, they might well discuss Chinese and Hong Kong business there, the same way a New York Head Office might manage all of North America

[tanetris.insanejournal.com]

Just to be sure, are we all clear here that "Japanese embassy" would refer to a (presumably local) embassy that belongs to Japan, not an embassy that's in Japan?

Because, unless there's a miscommunication here, I really don't understand where you're coming from.

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

Ah, fair point then! :)

[(Anonymous)]

Actually Lexcorp would have japanese co-owners of labour operations in Hong Kong. It's because Lexcorp has better ties with the japanese than with the chinese and the japanese would manage the asian side of things for Lexcorp and keep in touch through embassies and make contact in case of problems.

[sherkahn.insanejournal.com]

Agreed. Not really.

Depends on who attends, and it will most likely have some of the division heads of Lexcorp Asia businesses in attendance.

[queen_marshed.insanejournal.com]

Okay, this gets on my nerves quite a fair bit. Especially when people keep saying 'konichiwa' to me.

Plus it seems like a strange place to put a factory actually. They've been steadily moving up to mainland China since the late 80s. :S

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

Unless Lexcorp built up their market before the handover of Hong Kong to China and just kept it there.

[mullon.insanejournal.com]

They're Mercy, they're Mercy and the Lex Lex Lex Lex Lex.

Dum, dum. dum, dum...

[nefrekeptah.insanejournal.com]

They're Luthor and Mercy,
Yes Luthor and Mercy,
One is a genius,
The other's sex-y...

Re: Dum, dum. dum, dum...

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

Poit!

[killermoth1.insanejournal.com]

Not only is this hilarious, and a great reference to Pinky and the Brain, but I love how much insight it gives into Lex Luthor. He's not obsessed with superman like the joker is with Batman, he NEEDS to rove himself to be Superman's better in order to validate mankind's existence among these Gods that he so envies. And of course, rule over them too.