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\\ DC/Smallville \\ clex/multiships \\ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ \\ I follow from winterbirb \\ @feralis on ao3 \\ previously @lluthorjr \\

[impactstab]

bad doodle

[artoatsblog]

The origin ever made.

[kookyburrowing]

the nonsense bullshit of the day is I am debating whether LexCorp is like publicly traded or not. if it is that’s hilarious. yeah the stock is up. Evil McBald just tried to kill Superman again. uh huh. personally this time yeah. with a gun

[adancerofsymphonia]

Smallville, from Lex's perspective, was a psychological horror. Imagine being in an enmeshed relationship with a parent who delights in tormenting you, whose mere presence in the same space sucks all your joy, hopes and enthusiasm, who will never provide you with the unconditional love and affection that you, as a child they brought into the world, are entitled to but who would also never leave you alone in peace because they consider you as a possession and extension of themselves. The world sees you and sees a man who has everything, who never knew hunger or thirst and who has all the material comforts and luxuries that others can only dream of. So, you aren't allowed to complain. Should you not be grateful for all that you have? So, the child whose privilege never protected him from abuse must be silenced. He must be kept locked up somewhere deep within the man. He can lash out, cry and scream but he just won't be audible to anyone.

[spaceshiprocket]

Lex Luthor by David Aja

[nepeta985]

hnnnngh

[banban111]

[sistersorrow]

New DC/Sonic crossover has people asking questions

That question being

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

And if I said Megamind is one of the few movies that understands Superman.

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

And if I said Megamind through its three subversions of Superman shows a deeper understanding that the point of Superman is that he was loved and taught to love by good, present parents, and because of that he is able to return that love to a world even if it doesn't always accept it, and he is not corrupted by his power, than many other films either subverting or playing the superman story straight.

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

Megamind has three Superman subversions. One is obviously Megamind himself. He was not raised loved by the world, but rather was loved by those hated by the world. Because he was still raised with love, he does care about other people, hence his character development. But because he didn't receive wider love growing up, his own is misplaced at first.

Metro Man was not loved growing up in a way that mattered. His adopted father was clearly very absent, and while we don't know much about his family, their relationship seems superficial. Because of this, his sense of duty to the world is also superficial, hence his boredom.

Hal wasn't raised with power. He gained it and was shown how to use it by a 'space dad' who only taught him power and not love. Hence, he sees it only as a grasping means to an end.

All three of these subversions, in their negative space, create the silhouette of the superhero that they are parodying. That silhouette is of a space child that came to earth and was cared for very deeply by the world, and taught love through his experience of love, and because of that holds fast to his duty to the world. Which is Superman.

[gender-luster]

and the fact of the matter is, lex luthor makes such a good superhero, basically whenever he chooses to go that route, and it takes honestly, almost nothing to get him to do so (just. yknow. earth's assured destruction. but that's just an average tuesday in the dc universe tbh) but instead, he chooses to dedicate almost all his time and energy into being a cunt to superman. and that's the levels of petty i could only hope to aspire to reach

[skobochki]

[thesuperyapper]

Big fan of when this is the clex dynamic:

(Not my art, Idk who drew this I found it on pinterest 😕)

[skobochki]

[fictionalexa]

wait guys I'm loling bc clark is all "who would kill their own father" and chloe is like "total absence of love" and it's like did you two turd-for-brains forget that LIONEL murdered BOTH his own parents to collect INSURANCE and when Lex found out and wanted to go to the press, Lionel drugged him to make him look insane so that he could (and did) fry his brain and Chloe and her father had to be moved to a safe house so they wouldn't be murdered in retaliation for helping Lex uncover the story? total absence of love more like total absence of a fucking CLUE you idiots

[newnosejar]

dramatic ass

[niaggare]

ᯓ★ Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor | superman movie | dcu | dc comics | aesthetic

[rosie-tyler]

insp.