Details are not his strong point, and he tends to flip them around to suit his own perspective (saying his father’s famous painting should be hung upside-down). In some sense, he may be measuring his current successes against his father’s previous ones in an attempt to surpass them. He continues to keep a lot of the Luthor legacy intact – using his father’s name, his letterhead, the Luthor brand, etc. Our introduction to him includes him recounting his father’s experiences. He is playful and charismatic, charming enough to win over a room full of people (admittedly, who might find him strange), but also a bit malicious. His charm unnerves them and diffuses tension. He arguably pulls apart systems, individuals, and thought processes just to see how they work, sometimes destroying them while exploring their logical nuances and natures. He tinkers in science and thinks in unusual ways, such as using “studying” Zod and green kryptonite as an in-road to a much bigger scheme. He works to implement a large-scale plan, improvising along the way and even daring to make personal appearances in his big reveal (if Superman kills him, however, his mother is toast). He has a manic energy to his public appearances, often mocking and keeping things light, but with a darker intention beneath his designs – his desire to kill Superman out of a warped sense of resentment toward him for being so powerful, while Lex himself is so weak. It’s highly convoluted and abstract logic, but it makes sense to him and motivates his decision to manipulate Batman into hating Superman, exploit his own fears about him for a darker purpose, and then cause Superman to fight back, knowing Batman will destroy him with kryptonite. Ergo, he wants to destroy “god” for not being there for him, which means either god is a jerk who doesn’t care about people, or he is not all-powerful and all-knowing, in which case, he can be killed. Lex is a scattered genius who has created many things in building an empire off his father, but is also heavily abstract in his connections between things he reasons that he needs to kill Superman, because he is “a god” fallen to earth, and Lex blames “god” for not having defended him against his father’s abuse when he was a child.
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