so in my drafts i have this giant lore post ready to go, and it's been there for Over a Month, but i wanted art to go alongside it and since im apparently never going to draw again, i decided to make a mini lore post in the meantime.
the other day, @asmidgenofships and i were talking about how when i'm mad at Lex, i make up a new ridiculously evil thing I think he did before the events of Superman 2025. here are the highlight:
- Luthorcorp dumped toxic waste on a random small town in Wisconsin and it's now classified as a brownfield
- when he torments another girlfriend into running away and then stalks them through the city cameras and kidnaps them put in a fucking CUBE PRISON WITH NO PRIVACY (i hate him i hate him i hate him i hate him i hate him) he picks up new girls by going to various charity events and pretending he cares about animals or something (guy who is a serial animal abuser HATE. HATE HATE)
- sponsored a million hostile benches, spiked gates, bird spikes on wires, and removing all female fruit bearing trees from public parks so people would be more dependent on corporate grocery chains (he owns a third of all the real estate in Metropolis, profit to Metropolis stores means he can raise rent and that's profit to Luthorcorp) also the rainbow-washed fake ass corporate pride Luthorcorp sponsors every year. also thank you @asmidgenofships for the contribution that he uses ridding Metropolis of metahumans as the excuse for this
- used his defense department status to personally lobby for electric vehicles so that later he could pitch his personal nuclear power plant as a Great and Sustainable way to feed power back into the grid to power all these new charging stations. did this specifically so the company would get subsidized with taxpayer money and then spent it all on building nuclear powered kill suits for the Raptors
- dumps virgin plastic waste from weapons development overseas in developing countries because proper disposal costs precious precious defense budget money that the company- i mean the country NEEDS to save us all from the METAHUMANS
- LIIIIIISTEN im telling you, its NOT gentrification, STOP calling it gentrification, we only bought up real estate for ridiculously high prices in that tiny poor neighborhood downtown and priced out every original tenant and business because their neighborhood was running amok, AMOK I SAY, with METAHUMANS.
- and NO it is not pRiCe GoUgInG when the factory farms we're major stockholders in drop their prices way lower than any small business could ever afford to and then raise them through the roof when local shops close, we're simply offering an alternative, safer product free of Metahuman Interference
- also WHAT is Dependency Theory??? like is it a CRIME to send my employees oversees to poor developing nations to assist them with their industrialization??? we CAN'T pay any of the local workers more, they haven't learned the Skills of the Trade yet. we're ALLOWING them to build our weapons *cough cough* build their weapons so they too can defend themselves from the metahuman blight
- STOP attacking my charitable and kind company for establishing a new police department entirely dedicated to expunging metahumans from our city and YES the extra public cameras we sponsored are Important AND safe, we CLEARLY need more surveillance- i mean protection from our beloved law enforcement, did you SEE the Vandalism that Filthy pest fox thing did to our new building??
