My Adventures With Superman Season 3 Poster Analysis!
HI! I’m Mars and I LOVE theorizing! I’ve been writing My Adventures With Superman theories for months now and although I plan on posting those here too (even the ones that have been disproven) today I’m just doing some theories based on the new poster (the one released May 14th)! So please expect spoilers for My Adventures With Superman Seasons 1 and 2 as well as all the new Promo for season 3 released May 14th or before! I might mention other things here and there from comics or other media, but I’m staying away from anything really spoiler-y as much as I can and for the like one thing I do talk about more in depth I put the name of the series in big letters at the start of the paragraph or before the spoiler so if you don't want spoilers for that just skip to the next paragraph!
Anyways this is my ideas I came up with from the poster and if anyone reading this has more ideas, any questions or wants to build off of the ideas I put here or anything like that I would love to hear anyone else's thoughts as I love this show and these characters so VERY dearly and love getting to talk to people about them!
SPOILERS BELOW THE THING!
SPOILERS FROM HERE ON OUT!
So this is the poster I'm talking about!
Ok so unlike most of the other theories I plan to post on here, these theories are more general and overall story theories / Lex theories than Kon specific, although I do really like what these theories could mean for Kon in the show and I do end up talking about him quite a bit cause favoritism! The just of these theories was mostly made cause when I saw the poster my first reaction was being sad there was no Kon and then confused cause why do we have no Kon and two Lex’s??? Cause I know a lot of people are excited for Kon and he’s been brought up a bunch in the other promo stuff so why him not being on the poster is surprising. Especially when like I said another character is on it TWICE! And he’s not even the main character! Sure he’s very fun and probably one of if not the main villain this season along with Cyborg Superman, but if anyone would be on the poster twice you would think it would be Clark or something! So that got me thinking. What if he isn't on the poster twice? What if there are two Lex’s. So yeah this post is basically just gonna be me throwing out my main theories on how there could be two Lex’s and how the different versions could affect the show and Kon’s creation (cause I have to include Kon in there somewhere!!!).
IM DIFFERENTIATING LEX’S BY:
Our Lex: This name refers to the Lex we saw in seasons 1 and 2. Whether he has been the imposter all along or is the original depends on the theory, but the statement “our Lex” will always be me referring to the Lex we have been seeing up until this point in the show.
Hair Lex: This name refers to the Lex we see in the trailer and on the poster with the long brown hair. Whether he is the same as our Lex from the previous seasons differs from theory to theory so this statement will be me specifically referring to just the version of Lex we see with hair in the promo for season 3. If a specific theory connects this Lex to being our Lex it will be stated in the theory.
Bald Lex: This name refers to the Lex we see in the villain teaser from forever ago and on the poster who is bald. Whether he is the same as our Lex from the previous seasons differs from theory to theory so this statement will be me specifically referring to just the version of Lex we see who’s bald in the promo for season 3. If a specific theory connects this Lex to being our Lex it will be stated in the theory.
Ok before we get into the individual theories I wanna say that no matter what I think the true Lex is the bald one and long brown hair eye bag one we see getting decked by Lois in the trailer is the imposter (for theories with an imposter Lex). Whether the hair Lex or the bald Lex are our Lex depends on the theory, but I believe the bald Lex will probably be the real one. It could be the other way around? I just don’t see it being as much since I feel like bald Lex is gonna be either the main Lex going forwards or they both will be. Like I don’t see them bringing in bald Lex then having him leave right after. Anyways! Without further ado IT’S THEORY TIME!!!
Shapeshifter
Ok so this is probably my least favorite of my theories, but I thought of it and it technically could work? Idk I just don’t think it fits as well or packs as much of a punch as the theories later on this list. So the just of this theory is that one of the two Lex’s is a shapeshifter in disguise. Now like i mentioned before I think it’s hair Lex that is the imposter so then our Lex is bald Lex and probably knows about the imposter, but is the one to create or employ him to take his place so he can do stuff in the background. One of the reasons I don’t like this theory as much is we really don’t have any good candidates for who the shapeshifter would be. Sure it could be a character that’s just introduced this season since I’d imagine our Lex has always been our Lex and the imposter just took his place this season/ in between season 2 and 3 (since it seems at least a bit of time has passed like the 2 and a half months between seasons 1 and 2, but maybe even longer this time), but for that I feel like we will need to establish him before the reveal and it would have just hit harder if we were already introduced to the shapeshifter before. SUre we could have and they were just in disguise then too, but that also doesn’t feel as good. The only shapeshifter we have met is Mxyzptlk and this doesn’t feel like something he would do as much from what we saw of him in S1.
Future
So this is basically my take on the whole “superboy from the future thing” but with adding Lex in there. I still think it’s Kon though because as much as I love him I would be very disappointed if this character who is so Kon in personality and actions and design and everything ends up being Jon. So basically this idea is that bald Lex is our Lex, but in the future. Hair Lex is also our Lex, but from our current time whereas bald Lex is from a future timeline. Basically for whatever reason (maybe to try to destroy the aliens while they’re still very new heros) Lex comes back in time to the present day. In this theory I think it’s possible Kon also comes back with him (either as his puppet created to help him infiltrate and take down the aliens or a hero from that time come back to try to stop him (although I feel like the ladder is less likely unless they come from an apocalyptic future where Kon never got to meet Clark and Lois really, but then you’d guess the supers would be dead so why is Lex coming back? To save them?)). But anyways now they're back in time and causing chaos, but their meddling (or maybe they are just from an already parallel future) means they make it so the future is different now or something? Idk I just don't really like this cause it makes me think a lot of Bart (my beloved) and also idk if setting up a whole time travel plot would be good for the show idk. I do think it would be fun if their from the future to allow Kon to make references and stuff to other comic stuff and specifically his team (core four young justice my beloved) and that could be fun as well as just be a good set up for a lot of jokes and comedy with him messing up on acting like he’S from here. It could also be the reason for the watch looking thing around his wrist seen in the trailer, but I have many other theories about what that could be in other theories here and in my Kon theories from the trailer. Honestly I think it would be better to just stick with a plot in this world or if they have to go from a different time type root my next idea has more set up and makes more sense for the show.
Portal
Ok so portal theory! This is mostly based on a really old idea my bestie @heliomuse came up with and we built on together back in January where maybe Kon comes into the show through the portal in Cadmus (you know connecting him back to Cadmus like he is in the comics) or even could have some connection to the League of Lois Lanes. Now this was waaay before the two Luthors came in so this gives us a potential reason for why this Kon came through the portal. Maybe the bald Lex (or hair Lex, but to me that makes less sense) came to the Maws earth (called Earth-12 in S1E7) for whatever reason and Kon came after him to get him back to his proper earth. This could also be a fun way to bring the League of Lois Lanes back into the show or maybe this could be another consequence of Mallah and Brain jumping around dimensions and maybe Lex slipped through one of their portals when they came back to our dimension like Mxyzptlk did back in season 1. Anyways this would give the same opportunity with funny Kon stuff as in the future theory as well as having some of the same problems with the fact it leaves him feeling less connected to the main cast as he isn't even from this world and would have his own version of the other character and means he probably won't stay after this season. It would also mean we get an older, more experienced version of the character, which isn’t a bad thing per say, but I also love seeing Kon mess up and grow and I feel starting with him as a fresh tube baby gives him even more of an opportunity for that. Also I love his original ark from Reign of the Superman and although we got a version of it in The Reign of the Superman movie I feel even that was missing a lot from the original (especially with how much that movie focused on fighting scenes rather than characters for the most part) and I feel like Maws has a golden opportunity to give us actual full early Kon backstory and development that we haven't really gotten to see in media outside the comics before. Anyways I think this could be really really fun, but the biggest thing for me would be the ability to mention Young Justice and all that and I think it would be even better if we get a newly made Kon in Maws and then he gets super popular and we get a YJ show of it’s own or just more comics of them cause I miss them.
Clone
My bestie @artemisstrixx called me so I could show her the trailer and tell her some of my theories and she brought up a fun theory that I had thought about too, which is what if one of these two Lex’s on the poster is a clone? We of course have our boy Kon coming in this season and with that Lex will probably be the one to clone, but to do so he probably had many other attempts. Now as Artemis brought up a really interesting point that is in real life cloning, Dolly the sheep had a lot of the same issues as the sheep she was cloned from and basically was at that age shortly after being created and then rapidly aged into death. Maybe Lex was trying to create clones of himself either to fix an issue he had or because he wanted to have them there to replace him when he dies to continue on his work, but the clones aged and died too quickly. One of them escaped becoming the other Lex in the photo (possibly the younger one we’ve been following this whole show) and then the true Lex continued on his research on cloning. The clones would have all of his memories and basically work as a new vessel for him to be in once he died or just more hands to work around his lab and run more experiments on. He then either finds out about or had already been experimenting on kryptonian tech and comes to the conclusion that kryptonians can live longer and decides to splice in some of supermans (or just some kryptonian dna from zero day, but I prefer it being Clarks) into his cloning process to try to stop the rapid aging. Inadvertently this also makes it so that this clone doesn’t have the memories of the previous Lex (maybe gains them a bit in time, but I prefer he doesn't have any) and just makes him into his own person. He still has the implemented knowledge Lex had been putting into his clones for whatever reason, but he is his own freshly made boy! Either this or Lex was gonna put his memories and whatever inside him, but Kon either escapes or is freed before he has the chance to gain them. Perhaps this is also why he is younger, although it's also possible he was just made to be younger so he would live in his prime longer.
SPOILER ALERT FOR SEASON 10 OF SMALLVILLE! This is all very reminiscent of the Alexander clones in season 10 of Smallville with the whole putting Clark’s DNA in to stop the rapid aging being an idea I pulled directly from said series! I think it’s a cool way to explain in Kon especially with a younger Clark and Clark not dying for reign to happen like in Smallville. Our main Alexander clone we follow in the series also goes by Alexander before he changes to go by Lex after the memories come in and although I think the maws Luthor we have been following didn’t have memories of his childhood if he is the clone, he did go by Alex until S2E2 so it could be a fun parallel!
Now I think it could also work that Kon was his attempt to make his own superman army and having to add some human DNA to fix issues he was having. Maybe the big guy attaching Clark at the start (like 11 seconds in) of the trailer is some version of a Bizzaro type clone made from pure kryptonian DNA that wasn't smart enough for what Lex needed of him so he adds in his own DNA and that makes Kon (although I feel it’s more likely he’s just blockbuster or someone else like that). This could also maybe lead to Lex being unsure of the project and then when Cyborg Superman comes along he decides to go with that plan instead of Kon and then leaves him in the tube or maybe Cyborg Superman comes first, but he won’t listen to Lex as much so he makes Kon in an attempt to have a Superman of his own he can control. This does not go as planned as Kon is Kon and is gonna be even more annoying and hard to work with as Cyborg Superman, but good try Lex! Either way I feel like Lex doesn’t use Kon because he changes projects or more likely Kon just isn’t ready yet (maybe he was planning on growing him into an adult superman and then he gets free’d before he’s fully grown) and so when the supers come along he joins them instead. I also feel Kon might be out but just still being studied and trained and then our main characters find him and he goes with them or they free him from the tube and he just follows them. Idk! We could also have Lex have Kon made and showing him off and then Kon leaves him later for the super’s once he realises Lex isn’t a good guy and that he actually wants to help people and save people more than the fame and limelight of being a hero which I do really like from the original Reign of the Supermen story, but I’m not sure if that’s what were gonna get considering we haven’t seen him with Lex in any of the promo we have (although to be fair its like 5 seconds from the trailer and a few other images or words in an interview), but we do see him fighting Cyborg Superman who does seem to be with Lex (With the L on his chest and the fact he has tech that seems very Lex-y) and so at least during the series he will change sides. Idk and I have so much more to say on how Kon could be introduced, but I have multiple other analyses on Kon in maws specifically I plan to post on here so I’ll talk more about those there hopefully!!!
NOW! If this is true a big question becomes which Lex is our Lex then? Now most people would probably think hair Lex will be our Lex since he’s the one that's had importance for the story so far. In my opinion it could actually go either way and I think I’ve come up with a solid theory for both!
If our Lex is the one to make the clone I think our Lex shaved his head and the clone Lex is made to still have hair. Maybe as my one bestie @geo-lilypad said Clark or the others are the reason he loses his hair cause that could be very silly. But anyways if our Lex made the clone I feel like the clone will not know he is a clone and only bald Lex (who’s our Lex) and maybe Slade will know the truth. This could lead to some fun stuff with maybe why Slade let hair Lex get punched by Lois (But that could also just be Slade being Slade) because he knows he’s not our Lex and is testing the clone for something. It could be a cool twist that the Lex we have been following all season 3 (hair Lex) isn't the same Lex from seasons 1 and 2.
As much as I think that our Lex we have been following across the series being the not real Lex is something could end with people feeling very bad and make people feel like he isn't as impactful to the story, I think there is a way for this to be done well. So this would mean our Lex (who is hair Lex in this theory) we have been following has been a clone since we first saw him in S1E4 or even the one panel we see with him in the tie in comics (which that panel I assume from context has to be before S1E4 even if not by much). This would give the non clone Lex (bald Lex) a lot more time and practice studying clones so he would have probably been working on Kon for longer. This could have some really fun implications, but as said before it could also make Lex feel like he matters less and doesn’t impact the story as much since he hasn’t been here the whole time in his true form. But what if he has? Ok so there technically multiple ways this could go with multiple people bald Lex could be, but I have one idea in particular I made this theory off of. What if Lex is the head of / is Checkmate? Now for those who aren’t sure who Checkmate is, it's the higher ups at the government that watch over things like Task Force X or, before it went away, Cadmus. Now I don’t think they would give Lex and Clark that big of an age difference so I don’t think he would have been the head from the start, but he could be or he could just be someone who built his way up and took over during the years. I actually kinda like him being there from the beginning tho and helping to build a lot of the tech we have seen in the series and giving the calls to Task Force X and all that over the show which would give him impact to the story. It would also answer the question of who is checkmate since in the comics I’m pretty sure Waller herself made it, but she also made Task Force X whereas she was second fiddle to Sam in Maws so clearly they’re ok to change that up and clearly they have. If he had only ever been known as Checkmate too it would explain why Amanda didn’t recognize Lex as Checkmate, or if there is a big age difference. That or maybe she never even met him and we will see Sam meeting Lex next season and he will be confused and that's how the characters find out. As Checkmate would have also been observing Cadmus before its fall it could also lead to them being involved in the creation of Kon, although this could also happen since Task Force X knows where Cadmus is and went there to get stuff before as seen in S1E6 so it’s entirely possible Lex gets access to some of their experiments then too and uses them to make Kon.
Anyways I just love this show and these characters and the 2 Lex’s on the poster were weird to me so I wanted to talk about it! Will any of these be remotely close to true? NO! I mean theres so many other theories like Kon being Lex’s puppet to infiltrate to main cast or if they do a plot with him being all famous and in the limelight like in the comics, but those could go with these or be their own thing and maybe it’s just Lex who shaves his head or loses his hair that's the real most likely thing. I just think it’s fun to theorize and think of what could have been! I can’t wait for the new season and especially to see my guy Kon and I really hope he is a clone made by Lex, but am also willing to see them take it in fun new ways as long as they stay true to the character and his personality (which from what we’ve gotten so far they seem to be)! I plan on posting more of my theories here so hopefully at least someone on this silly little side of the internet thinks it’s cool or fun or something!
Thank you to all of my friends for putting up with my sillies and I hope everyone has a great day!
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