Lex+Luthor

Emil Gruber
 * LEX LUTHOR**

Billionaire and genius Lex Luthor is the most powerful human in Metropolis. Born to a tycoon father and an often absent mother, Lex grew up detached from society; always mor e inte lligent than those around him, he became nihilistic and focused on his possessions and success. Eventually, Luthor usurped his own father as the President of LexCorp, the aerospace engineering company that Lionel Luthor had himself established. Under Lex’s direction, the firm became one of the world’s largest multinational corporations. Greedy on the power of his wealth and intelligence, Luthor connives constantly for control of Metropolis, using the scientific and monetary resources provided to him by his company, LexCorp, to orchestrate a Machiavellian takeover. However, one thing stands in his way: Superman, the only person to ever best Lex Luthor. Realizing that as long as Superman is in Metropolis he will be unable to attain total power, Luthor focuses his abilities onto the subordination and destruction of Superman, bent on removing the only force in Metropolis large enough to stop him. In his voracity, he often endangers, and occasionally takes hostage, the citizens of Metropolis. However, he uses his influence and cunning to keep his name clean, and is considered a philanthropist by many in the community, although his goals are all but altruistic. Luthor’s apathy towards other people, combined with the treachery he utilizes in manipulating people, make him the quintessential villain; a corrupt and brilliant mogul, using his affluence to facilitate and feed an insatiable appetite for control.

1. Luthor’s baldness makes implications about his acquisitive and miserly nature; his disconnect from society and his greed bolster each other, and both are objectified in his premature baldness. 2. The sharp, pointed features of his face further establish him as an unfeeling, nearly inhuman, person. He is cold, and calculating, and dispassionate. 3. The style with which Luthor dresses reveal not only his wealth, but the joy he takes in it. He desires opulence, and views his own success through its scope; the costs, particularly those paid by other people, are not something he takes into consideration. 4. Even the way he holds the crystal seems devilish, not grasping it or showing interest in it. He views the crystal almost as he does the world around him, as an impartial observer. 5. Finally, Lex Luthor’s eyes are impersonal, almost as if he is not truly seeing or considering what is in front of him, but rather computing a reaction. There is almost contempt in his glare, putting a point on his self-absorbed and cruel mindset.

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