THE MAN OF TOMORROW... TODAY

I AM A MAN. I HOPE.

[imperiouslex]

I always thought I hated you because you did too much. You stop humanity from realizing our potential. By saving us from failure. But I was wrong. I get that now. Because what I really hate you for? If I'm being truly honest with myself? Is doing too little. [...] In this era, people are begging for a hero who will fix their problems, the wars, the death, the misery, the terror of it all. They want you to save them. What the Phantom Zone taught me is that I do, too. But you never will. Because deep down, you're a coward, Superman. That was my epiphany. Now, excuse me, while I do what you won't, and save the #@🗲★! world. ⸻ DC K.O. #2 (2025)

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#IMPERIOUSLEX ⸻ an independent, selective, and mutually exclusive roleplay blog for ALEXANDER "LEX" LUTHOR from dc comics. influences include the dc animated universe, james gunn's superman (2025), lex luthor: man of steel by brian azzarello, superman: birthright and superman: the last days of lex luthor by mark waid, forever evil by geoff johns, all-star superman by grant morrison, superman: the black ring by paul cornell, and the works of elliot s! maggin.

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1.     first and foremost: be nice. it's the golden rule for a reason!

2.     usual dnis apply, including minors.

3.     general rp etiquette also applies: please cut your replies if you can, don't godmod or metagame my character(s), ask if you're unsure about something, etc.

4.     my portrayal of lex is primarily comics-based with influence from the dcau, though I have a verse specifically for james gunn's superman (2025). the current superman 2023 run is real fucky right now when it comes to lex, so just know that I default to him being the mad scientist and evil business mogul we all know and love (to hate). I'm not familiar with the cw shows and don't draw any influence from them, but I'm willing to interact with those who do; all I ask is that you understand and respect that my lex is completely unrelated to the versions seen in those shows.

5.     all posts containing potential triggers will be tagged as #trigger / and sexually suggestive or explicitly sexual posts will be tagged as #suggestive / and #nsfw /. when lex is being especially nasty, I will use the tag #lex being a bastard /.

6.     I am mutually exclusive, meaning I only interact with people I follow who are also following me! if you ever decide you don't want to be mutuals anymore, please feel free to soft/hard block me, whichever makes you more comfortable; I'll soft block unless your rules indicate you'd rather be hard blocked. I take my time to read people's rules and about pages, so please give me a few days to follow back!

7.     I enjoy shipping, but please keep in mind that lex is a grade a narcissist and pretty damn sociopathic; it's very hard for him to genuinely care about anyone besides himself, much less in a romantic capacity. he will always be an incredibly manipulative and toxic individual, and being in a relationship isn't going to change that. lex is also very charming and very opportunistic, and will flirt with or otherwise attempt to seduce anyone he thinks will benefit or even just entertain him.

     that being said, clex (clark/lex) is going to be featured prominently on this blog, but please don't assume that means I want to ship with every superman I follow and interact with! I'm not going to assume lex has a romantic or sexual relationship with any character unless it's been discussed beforehand. just think of all the fanart as a physical representation of lex's one-sided yearning for the man of steel. :)

8.     if you do not have an example of your writing on your blog that is easily accessible, and I do not know who you are and/or we're not following each other on our other blogs, then I'm not going to follow you back. I've been getting followed by a lot of blogs whose muns I don't recognize, and who have nothing on their blog to indicate what kind of writer they are and whether or not we would mesh.

9.     I'll occasionally do discord drops or offer my discord to mutuals I really click with!

10.     and the most important rule of all: have fun!

[imperiouslex]

Man of Tomorrow is currently filming, which means social media is already getting inundated with lots of set photos, videos, rumors, discussions, and unfortunately, leaks and spoilers.

This blog will remain spoiler-free until a month after Man of Tomorrow's theatrical release. What little pertaining to Man of Tomorrow that I do post (mainly costume/character designs) will be put under a read more and tagged as #mot spoilers.

Please do not send me anything about the movie. I want to go into it with as little knowledge as possible, like I (somehow) managed to do for Superman 2025. I've probably already seen too much at this point tbh but that's all the more reason for me to try and avoid seeing even more.

[rodrickheffeley]

why do i need to come out ? if you still think im straight then that's on you

[imperiouslex]

HAPPY PRIDE TO ME HOLY FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[hxneyfarm]

Happy pride month specifically to folks on the asexual and aromantic spectrum who oftentimes feel isolated and left out of the conversation. You belong here as much as the rest of us and I hope that you are all loved in a way that is comforting to you.

[imperiouslex]

Happy Pride Month Everyone!

[imperiouslex]

starter call for "short form" threads! those who know me (or just glance at my blog at any given moment) know that I suffer from an affliction called yapping disease, and I tend to do 4+ paragraph replies on average. it's incurable, I'm afraid. brevity is the soul of wit, as the saying goes, and I think it'd be fun to challenge myself to try and keep my replies between 1-2 paragraphs max.

these threads will be tagged as #frankie that's enough so I can keep track of them.

[imperiouslex]

starter call for orange lantern lex! lex has succumbed to the ring's influence and wants to claim everything for himself, so these are going to be pretty short and maybe even a bit memey, with him taking your character's stuff (or even the character themselves!). think the seagulls from finding nemo: mine! mine! mine!

[aes-ashh]

[fexrbound]

05. pacing the room with heavy steps.

⇏ @imperiouslex from x

                                                          THAAL SINESTRO DOES NOT CARE FOR LEX LUTHOR.    That is a fact irrefutable, indisputable, unshakable in its foundations (FIRMLY LAID.) The human, in all his (flaunting,) in all his bald-headed posturing, in all his ATTEMPTS FOR RELEVANCE proves a creature as base as any animal; as fool hearty as any martyr, as defiant & insolent as any child, it was LEX LUTHOR who proved time & time again to be nothing greater than another beast, clawing desperate at the greater WORKINGS OF THE UNIVERSE, crying for a purpose far bigger than their  l i t t l e  l i v e s. No, no, Sinestro does not LIKE Luthor- & where lesser men had earned even modicum of it, it is the RICH MAN who failed, in spectacular & repeated display (like supernova caving in upon itself,) to earn from him even a hint of RESPECT.

                                                Thaal Sinestro does not care for Lex Luthor,                                                Nor does he respect him, & in this human's pride & narrow-sighted goals                                            it is the LANTERN who sees only foolishness.                                     But Lex Luthor managed to succeed where many others could NOT.                                     Lex Luthor, for all his FAULTS, proved one thing certainly.

Even now, even with his TANTRUMING growing more   o b v i o u s, it was not LIKABILITY that drew Lex Luthor into the Korugarian's vision, was not LOYALTY that drew the Lantern's return to this BUILDING, this LEGION, this collection of CRIMINALS, THIEVES, & LAWBREAKERS...... but something far more DANGEROUS. Something far more powerful- something, quite frankly, more LUCRATIVE.

                                                        Lex Luthor offered INTRIGUE. The promise of GAIN.                                                          The chance, to hold the UPPER HAND,                                                & an insight to the nature of a planet that Sinestro was certain                                                would bend below his heel (IN DUE TIME.)

Golden eyes narrow, chin tips UP, as he watches, WATCHES the   g e n i u s   in his apparent efforts to wear a hole through the very floorboards. Pointed ears, tipped sidelong, (catching stray conversation, the distant sounds of life,) lay back as brows tighten, as lips tug DOWNWARD & draw a firm line across the Lantern's features. Disagreement. Displeasure.

                       A hint of BARELY CONTAINED IMPATIENCE. A dripping of cool vitriol.

Behind his spine long fingers fold, tighten & ease, flex tendons (mindful,) controlled. & in the doorway, THAAL SINESTRO REMAINS, ANOTHER LONG MOMENT.... a PARAGON. Self Control, powerful, & undaunted. He speaks.

"Your inability to hide your AGITATION, Luthor, is not a STRENGTH, nor an INTIMIDATION."

Muscles coil, & the alien MOVES.

A long stride, a militaristic gait, the King of Terror stepping INTO THE ROOM with none of the reverence a LESSER GOON OR HENCHMAN might have displayed. He carries himself as a GENERAL OF WAR, a king, a deity that commands (as shadows writhe at his heel,) as unease settles in the air about him. & This, the UNCONTROLLED EMOTION by which Lex Luthor exudes….- Gleaming, Sinestro's gaze lingers on him for a brief moment, & then departs, pulled away as he PASSES this  w o u l d-b e   leader, crosses to the opposite side of a room, to find DISTRACTION (window, perhaps, or screen,) there.

"In fact, it proves only a weakening of threads with which hold your EFFORTS TOGETHER. It loses  l o y a l t y. It QUELLS determination. One might argue it will be your own LACK OF EMOTIONAL CONTROL that will be your downfall. But I digress-"

Pause. Shoulders, that roll back- a chin that tips, to glance over his shoulder- & shoot the MERE HUMAN a lilted, cold  s m i r k.

"You requested my PRESENCE." 

[imperiouslex]

" are you familiar with occam's razor, sinestro? "

     his footfalls slow to a crawl, then stop altogether. mercy graves, who stands opposite to her employer, greets the korugaran by lowering her head and delivering a polite, " yellow lantern. " Lex scoffs at the formality, shaking his head to himself as he turns to face sinestro properly. his green eyes follow the alien's every movement, undaunted by the unsolicited critique of his self-discipline.

" it is the heuristic principle that one should not make unnecessary assumptions when drawing conclusions. your haughty little hypothesis assumes that I am unable to hide my agitation because I lack emotional control, but allow me to offer you a much simpler explanation: I want you to know that I'm fucking agitated. "

     the mogul waves a hand to mercy. " give us the room, " he commands. after a moment's hesitation, she replies with, " yes, sir, " and nods to sinestro once more before leaving. once the door clicks shut behind her, Lex gets right to it: " black manta and cheetah were intercepted before they could complete their part of the plan. by the green lanterns, no less, " he adds with a unimpressed snort and a withering look.

" want to know what really 'loses loyalty' and 'quells determination,' sinestro? when others fail to do their part. dealing with the lanterns is your responsibility, yet both say you were nowhere to be found. and considering you answered my summons instead of staying in whatever hole you like to crawl into to lick your wounds, I assume you have an explanation other than 'hal jordan defeated me again.' so, let's hear it. "

[sarkywoman]

Lex Luthor does not know he is in superhero media.

He thinks he is in a cosmic horror and no one else is intelligent enough to see it.

[krypptonian]

☀️-- Hellish red blared all around alongside the sharp warning bells. ...But Kal could hardly concentrate on the crashing pod as he himself was screaming. Everything inside the pod was scalding as it heated on entry into an unknown atmosphere. The craft which should have been able to handle entry into any atmosphere was worn down from years of hopping around in search of a planet that its cargo could bear.

Kal felt like he was burning alive and he'd barely cracked his eyes open enough, concentrated enough, to see everything outside of the small pod-ship as a warped haze. Yet before he could even try to give a command or adjust anything he was jolted forward against the belt around his waist, he head slamming into the control panel.

His ears were ringing, but everything had quickly faded to black.

From the outside, the pod was a smoking wreck buried hard into the earth and surrounded like a fallen meteorite by a crater and broken pieces that had been stripped away.

@imperiouslex / because we were talking about it

[imperiouslex]

     when he was a young boy, he sent a message into space using the telescopic lens at the metropolis planetarium. it was an s.o.s., really, one that had ultimately gone unanswered. as he got older, Lex assumed that cry for help had gotten lost in the sheer vastness of the cosmos, but now he can't help but wonder if the response had just taken a little over a decade to reach him. or maybe this isn't a response at all, but someone else's s.o.s. sent from the other end of the universe.

     it certainly looks like it could use some help.

     for the first time in his life, Lex is actually somewhat grateful to be stuck in smallville; not only has it given him another great scientific discovery, but the people here exemplify the name as if it's something worth aspiring to—they're small. and they're especially small in ambitions and brains and curiosity, which means it's highly unlikely they'll actually investigate the crash site. and by the time the men in black arrive, all they'll find is remnants of another one of Lex's projects, and everybody will blame him for making the soil "bad" just as they blame him for everything else...

     but none of that matters right now. the only thing that does matter is vindication. Lex has always known—not posited, not speculated, not theorized, but knew—that there's intelligent life beyond the confines of earth, and now he has proof of it right in front of him! his very own alien. sydney was skeptical, suggesting he may be an undocumented cosmonaut or a nutter who tested out his own homemade spaceship, but the spaceship in question didn't match any designs that Lex knew of (which was all of them), and was far too sophisticated for someone to just cobble together in their garage.

     the only real doubt Lex has about his alien is that, well... it just... doesn't look very alien; it looks like a regular human around his age, give or take. disappointing. he seems to have injured his head during impact, since there was what looked like a bit of blood on his forehead when taking him out of his pod—not enough for a real sample, unfortunately. frankly, there should be more injuries given the size of the crater, but Lex didn't want to start doing ct scans and x-rays before he determined more about the alien.

     and in order to do that, he needs it to wake up.

     when the alien finally does come to, he finds himself in a small, nondescript room. sterile and beige. he's lying on a bed with a computer that's displaying information he doesn't understand in a language he doesn't know. on the other end is Lex (who insisted on being in the room against everyone else's advice), who's gotten up from his chair at the first sign of the alien stirring. he tries to look as non-threatening as possible, reasoning that anyone, alien or not, would be scared in this situation.

" hello, " Lex says in a quiet voice, knowing full well the alien won't be able to understand what he's saying but hoping that how he's saying it will be interpreted as friendly.

(he'd be lying if he wasn't tempted to say take me to your leader, though. just a bit.)

[notbuckybarnes]

NICHOLAS HOULT Prada x Met Gala

[imperiouslex]

" Did you really make Lex Luthor bald? " " That's what he thinks. " " And that's why he hates you? " " He says he hates me because I show the world the limitations of humanity. " " But it's really the bald thing? " " Yeah, probably. " ⸻ Superman: Up in the Sky #6

     Lex Luthor is known for many things: his vast wealth, immense power, and pervasive influence, all of which are surpassed only by his unrivaled genius. In spite of these impressive qualities and accomplishments, the main thing that comes to mind when most people think of Superman's greatest adversary is his lack of hair.

     Lex has stated, both in various interviews and his autobiography, that his baldness is the result of an "accident" in his youth, but details have remained vague (as does most information involving his formative years). During his time in Smallville, Lex discovered a meteorite that would become known as kryptonite, and used it in his experiment to create a wormhole. His device malfunctioned and exploded, completely engulfing Lex in kryptonite-irradiated flames. This caused him to lose all the hair on his body save for his face, which he instinctively covered with his hands during the explosion.

     Once his true nature is exposed thanks to the efforts of the Daily Planet, Lex's baldness becomes a point of mockery (lighthearted or otherwise) from his detractors, with many reducing his ideologically-motivated hatred of Superman to simple jealousy over his iconic curly hair. It's basically achieved in-universe meme status along with his penchant for stealing cakes, much to Lex's annoyance.

Some miscellaneous fun facts:

when using face masks, Lex applies one to his face and one to the top of his head

his scalp freckles up if he's out in the sunlight without headwear for too long

his skin is very smooth and surprisingly soft, especially around his hips and thighs

he really enjoys having his scalp massaged and scratched, with the occiput and area around his ears being major "sweet spots"

[meangirlnurse]

What animals do you work with !

you’re supposed to call them “coworkers” i think

[imperiouslex]

" welcome to metropolis, mr. knox. I trust you found your means of transportation very... accommodating. miss graves is quite the gifted travel agent when she needs to be. "

     he winks at the aforementioned personal assistant, whose eyes have been trained on knox since his acquisition. sensing that his cleverness will continue to go unappreciated by both parties, Lex spares them both a mental well fuck you then before turning his full attention towards the late noah ritter's former dog, now one of his own—assuming, of course, that he deigns to keep it.

" I believe a 'thank you' is in order; it didn't take very long to locate you once I decided I wanted to, which means it was only a matter of time before someone who valued the bounty on your head rather than your skill set did. I mean, really? fucking florida? "

     the mogul scoffs and shakes his head before continuing: " well, regardless, I'm sure you'll find metropolis to be quite the upgrade compared to whatever hole mercy found you in, both in comfort and security. and as an added bonus, the one responsible for your bounty knows better than to stick his nose in my city—but not enough to keep it out of my business, unfortunately, so you can thank kody for your current arrangement. "

@alleyspat liked for a starter!

[aes-ashh]

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