Dec 19, 2025
its the way everyone thinks lex’s fatal flaw is heartlessness and his dad thinks his fatal flaw is being too soft
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its the way everyone thinks lex’s fatal flaw is heartlessness and his dad thinks his fatal flaw is being too soft
Lex is the villain but his worst fear is being the root cause of global catastrophe
I realized I have two unfinished fanfics were I let SV Lex be an older brother AND both the crack version and the serious-ish version of my Gotham!Oswald adopts Lex/becomes Lex goodfather has him acting as an older sibbling to Ivvy and Martin.
I need him to realize his full older brother dreams/potential before Lionel ruins him! Babies should not raise babies except Lex.
How do I convince ppl that the live action version of Saitama in my head that is smallville's lex luthor should be polular
another interesting piece to the dichotomy between Clark and Lex is they both have their issues with letting people get close to them due to their own respective traumas, but it manifests in different, almost opposite ways, which imo ends up being their downfall
Lex obviously has this air of “I’m a Luthor, I’m secretive, I won’t let anyone close to me” that he’s developed from a combination of lionel’s fucked up parenting, and a life of keeping secrets to protect the people he cares about, but actually looking at his actions the idea that he’s secretive and closed off or whatever starts to feel like a facade. In practice (especially with Clark) Lex is so desperate for connection that he lets his walls down almost every chance he gets. Like if I recall correctly in the show he really doesn’t shy away from talking about his childhood trauma whenever Clark asks. Plus Lex is pretty honest throughout the show, especially to Clark. There’s several moments from the start where other characters THINK Lex is lying, but in the beginning it’s almost always Lex being scapegoated.
And I think the idea that he’s a closed off person that’s hard to reach isn’t just something he tries to present to the world, I think it’s also a lie lex tells himself to convince himself he has any sense of power over who he chooses to let in, because in a community where he IS constantly the scapegoat choosing to let people in and connect to them opens him up too way too much opportunity for disappointment and heart break, so he has to convince himself he’s able to stay disconnected and keep people at arm’s length, but in reality I really don’t think he’s that capable of keeping people out? Like if someone genuinely wants to connect with him I don’t think he has the power to stop himself from letting that happen at LEAST in the early seasons of the show
Clark on the other hand feels like the kind of guy who should be an open book, and in a lot of ways he is! he’s earnest and kind and can make friends with just about anybody, including the widely distrusted Lex Luthor, but he’s got a secret that he’s been told his whole life he has to guard at all costs for the sake of his survival. And his fears of ending up on a lab table tortured and experimented on are reasonable so you can’t really fault him for being dishonest with everyone. But Clark clearly doesn’t want to be this secretive aloof guy, he’s lonely and displaced, the sole survivor of a world he never knew. He’s similarly desperate to be this trustworthy, friendly guy, with deep relationships with the people in his life. So he tries to compromise and instead lets people in just enough for it to feel devastating when they put together that he’s undeniably lying to them.
It nearly ruins every one of Clark’s relationships at some point in the show, but ultimately his other relationships survive it, his relationship with Lex can’t
the real reason they’re “doomed by the narrative” is Lex is so desperate to connect with Clark, and Clark is incapable of ever fully letting that happen, even though he wanted to!! and in the same way Lex tries to be okay with their “incomplete” relationship because he wants to be understanding and doesn’t want to ruin his relationship with Clark but in the end he can’t do it either!!
it’s actually insane that in onyx all people were worried about was that there was a part of lex that was capable of murder and didn’t even realise his good side was literally about to sacrifice his life for clark
it is really so so so so unbelievably Sick that evil lex’s actions in onyx convinced lionel to give up on his progress and shattered lex’s tentative hope that his father could grow into someone who could 1. love lex and 2. prove lex could change for the better too. and lionel for real says to his face that being a capital L Luthor is inescapable, implies that he will never leave lex alone ever again, and only the most evil parts of lex that he is deeply ashamed of make lionel proud. the way the light literally leaves lex’s eyes as he hears lionel say that. Evil :(