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Joe Fisto posted:Do we know if Lex will be the big bad in Gunn's Superman? I haven't read all that much on it. They have announced that they are casting for Lex and haven't announced for anyone else. So, they are either keeping it very secret or it is Lex.
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CapnAndy posted:Brainiac, I believe they've said. Quite a strong leap out the gate if that's true. Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:They have announced that they are casting for Lex and haven't announced for anyone else. So, they are either keeping it very secret or it is Lex. I think Gunn is good at keeping secrets. I hope it's not just Lex, we have seen that movie a couple times already.
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Jun 28, 2023 19:39
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Joe Fisto posted:Quite a strong leap out the gate if that's true.
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Jun 28, 2023 19:41
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CapnAndy posted:I just googled it and apparently it's only a rumor so far. I'm sure Lex and Brainiac have been the same person before in the comics and the Justice League cartoon, there might be some of that.
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Jun 28, 2023 19:44
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maybe lex fights superman in a giant robot shaped as a starfish
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Jun 28, 2023 19:48
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Homelander from The Boys is probably the only "topical" supervillain that works, and that's because he's not a 1:1 caricature of Trump, he's just also a powerful sadistic narcissist.
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Jun 28, 2023 19:48
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Or he wants a loose connection to the previous movies wants to do the prison interview bit from All Star Superman.
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Jun 28, 2023 19:49
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The plot is about Superman reconciling his human and Kryptonian selves so Lex'll probably have a Kryptonian partner.
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Jun 28, 2023 19:51
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cool, supergirl's gonna get her face punched so hard it turns into pudding
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Jun 28, 2023 19:54
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Joe Fisto posted:But, running a social media site that allows and encourages tons of hatred and misinformation that could lead to global violence could be a threat. Sure Superman could take down the servers, but how does he change the minds of millions of brainwashed violent people? (the boyscout could find a way surely.) This was....more or less a Supergirl plot, and she solved it by delivering an inspirational speech.
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Jun 28, 2023 20:07
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That plot wanders a bit too close to Wonder Woman 1984 for comfort for me
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Jun 28, 2023 20:11
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I shouldn’t be sharing these banger ideas with the writers strike going on anyway.
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Jun 28, 2023 20:22
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AngryBooch posted:That plot wanders a bit too close to Wonder Woman 1984 for comfort for me tbf that was like the first season which was several years before 1984 e: and iirc the speech itself was way less bad than 1984's site fucked around with this message at 20:26 on Jun 28, 2023 |
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Jun 28, 2023 20:24
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They are allegedly casting for "The Authority" and Jimmy Olsen now that Superman and Lois is finished. The Authority would likely be the actual Superpowered group that are the villains (maybe not straight villains, but antagonists?) along with Lex. https://www.cbr.com/superman-legacy-authority-superhero-team/
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Jun 28, 2023 20:35
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The Authority are perfect for what I sense Gunn wants to do with Superman. Hope it's true.
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Jun 28, 2023 20:40
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The Grant Morrison Superman vs Authority comic from 2021 was decent, way better than initial Elite story.
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Jun 28, 2023 20:45
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Lobok posted:The Authority are perfect for what I sense Gunn wants to do with Superman. Hope it's true. Hopefully Cornsweat can bring this energy 
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Jun 28, 2023 20:46
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site posted:tbf that was like the first season which was several years before 1984 Season one was more a mass hypnosis device that Kara dealt with by giving an inspirational speech. I was thinking of the Obsidian North evil VR story from season five that got hosed up by Covid. But let's be honest, most of the season long story arcs on that show got resolved by Kara delivering an inspiring speech.
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Jun 28, 2023 21:02
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:They are allegedly casting for "The Authority" and Jimmy Olsen now that Superman and Lois is finished. Cast Karen Gillan as Jenny. 
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Jun 28, 2023 21:16
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gently caress it, make Luthor a mad scientist again
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Jun 28, 2023 22:59
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I still think the "Marry a rich widow to inherit her fortune and then use that money to research a way to create an island made of kryptonite in the middle of the ocean to give himself an entire new continent of beach-front real estate to sell" Luthor plot is just the right amount of stupid, convoluted, and brilliant to be the perfect version.
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Jun 28, 2023 23:05
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I have a terrible soft spot for that movie, even if it is riddled with sex creeps and an absolute waste of Parker Posey.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:I still think the "Marry a rich widow to inherit her fortune and then use that money to research a way to create an island made of kryptonite in the middle of the ocean to give himself an entire new continent of beach-front real estate to sell" Luthor plot is just the right amount of stupid, convoluted, and brilliant to be the perfect version. Reeve-to-Returns con artist, land grab obsessed Luthor is so weird because he has zero representation in any other Superman media. Closest is probably weirdo Luthor from Paul Cornell run that meets Death of the Endless.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:I still think the "Marry a rich widow to inherit her fortune and then use that money to research a way to create an island made of kryptonite in the middle of the ocean to give himself an entire new continent of beach-front real estate to sell" Luthor plot is just the right amount of stupid, convoluted, and brilliant to be the perfect version. WROOOOONG! (you know, like he says in the movie) It dawned on me as I watched the WRONG clip, are people going to look at a bald Lex and think Jeff Bezos? Thats what I thought when I watched the 100p video.
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Jun 28, 2023 23:14
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I hope they have Lois figure out Clark is Superman, I always liked that about Man of Steel. I think it showed how good of a reporter she is.
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Jun 28, 2023 23:22
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Joe Fisto posted:WROOOOONG! i can't lie, even though spacey sucks all these years later that delivery is what occurs to me anytime i think of that word
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Jun 28, 2023 23:28
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I work at a department store and today I realized that we never got any merch for the Flash movie. Like even Black Adam at least got a t shirt.
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Jun 28, 2023 23:28
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Hell yes more Lex Luthor real estate plots. He's only had those in what like 80% of his movie appearances. Room for way more!
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Jun 28, 2023 23:42
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I feel like if you did a real estate Lex Luthor today it would be taken for a Trump thing, which nobody wants.
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Sentinel Red posted:Cast Karen Gillan as Jenny. I always wanted Claudia Black as Jenny, but that ship's probably sailed now.
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muscles like this! posted:I work at a department store and today I realized that we never got any merch for the Flash movie. Like even Black Adam at least got a t shirt. Any merch is Flash merch if you steal it.
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Joe Fisto posted:It would be funny if it was revealed that Lex just bought all of his inventions and made them worse Lobok posted:I'm in the same camp as other goons that said we don't need Lex to be some kind of commentary or burn on our doofus real-life billionaires. In the same vein as "you can't make an anti-war movie" I feel like when making Lex a satire of Zuckerberg or Musk or Bezos you're actually giving them more credit than they deserve. Faced against someone like Superman those guys would fold faster than... well, Superman on laundry day. Fangz posted:Making Lex an idiot just causes problems when you need him to be a threat to Superman. Suddenly every one else has to be an *even bigger idiot*. 
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theironjef posted:Hell yes more Lex Luthor real estate plots. He's only had those in what like 80% of his movie appearances. Room for way more! He buys up all the beachfront properties, then exacerbates climate change so he can sell them all to Aquaman.
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Jun 29, 2023 00:49
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Take it back to original Superman. Lex is a slumlord and Superman punches him.
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Joe Fisto posted:Take it back to original Superman. Lex is a slumlord and Superman punches him. Superman vs the Klan is a movie I'd watch.
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Bruceski posted:Superman vs the Klan is a movie I'd watch. Oh I need to read that again
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Assepoester posted:There have been a lot of different interpretations of Lex Luthor over the years and there's no reason a "stunningly incompetent but thinks he's brilliant, billionaire born on third base but thinks he's self made, bigoted against poor and minorities, megalomaniacal, murderous, thinks only he can save the world, ends justifies the means, never experienced any consequences in his life, doesn't respect social boundaries, extremely online, failson with daddy issues techbro/venture capitalist" cannot work. Hell, it's just an update of the gilded age era millionaire industrialist. Like Joe suggested, just have him steal credit for his "brilliant inventions" from actual geniuses ala Thomas Edison and weaponize them/make them more dangerous via his incompetence. I'm not saying it can't work. We're all just laying out our personal preferences. Your description sounds a lot like something I was thinking about the other day and something I wouldn't be surprised to see happen given the popularity of the show: a Kendall Roy version of Luthor.
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Make Luthor Tony Stark.
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What is Lex's relationship with /view towards The Authority, I wonder. Superman will be coming out as a cape in a world where capes = The Authority, so they're who will have informed Luthor's opinions on supers until he meets Clark.
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I could see some kind of Authority with Luthor in charge. Basically like H.A.M.M.E.R. under Osborne
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