I love Clancy Brown’s version of Lex Luthor he was just so conniving and trying to plan and his whole voice/affect just oozes confidence and ego. One of my fave villain performances of all time
This is why lex luthor survives as long as he does. He doesn't go "what the fuck happened to my arms!" Or "what is the meaning of this?". He straight up looks an alien superpower in the eyes and goes "let's make a deal"
Bear in mind. This is the Second Murder filled Android that Lex managed to talk out of the defensive position with. I repeat, THE SECOND Murder filled Android. DCAU Lex was just a diff breed
DCAU Lex was just a league of his own. If he had met his other counterparts across the Multiverse. He likely had killed half of them. The rest would fall in line. For a little while. Then, they try to take him and each other out. But DCAU Lex is all that remains, and he be on top. At least, this is my theory.
This is why the writers shouldn’t previously say stuff like “Superman can hear everything on the planet from space and tell the difference between the sounds” and have shit like this going on only a FEW miles from the justice league 😂😂😂
I do agree but I believe the sewers are lead lined thanks to lexcorp. I’m not sure if that would effect his hearing (probably not) but he can’t see crap
He has to be listening for it though. He can’t hear everything all the time. He has to actually concentrate to use it. Normally he listens just like a human unless he’s investigating
@@Bilski86yeah exactly he'd never know to listen for it, nor would he know where it'd be coming from. i dunno how this guy thinks it works like "he can hear everything at once" or something because that would be absolute hell, hearing every sound being made on earth. it'd just be pure noise or something
This is probably one the most luthor things that luthor have done. Practically a puppet of an alien robot, an he just think "this is a great opportunity..."
The reason Lex succeeded is because he offered something that Brainiac doesn't have: imagination. Despite everything that Brainiac has acquired, he is still at the core a computer. He has a program that he is running with the ability to adapt to fulfill that mission, but that's it for him. Luthor offered Brainiac a way to go beyond his program.
@@joenu-tzzz that's why I said he would make Brainiac have an absolute silicone dumpy and Lex would inject himself with a gigacock injection or something
@@Watchful0ne obviously the only reason I put AM there is because he's the inspiration for every other genocidal/evil/insane A.I. you can think about such as HAL 9000, Colossus from Colossus: The Forbin Project, SHODAN, Decagrammaton, AbsoluteSolver, The Singularity (Dead by Daylight), AUTO, PAL and Skynet.
Brainiac is genocidal in nature. Lex may detest Superman but he doesn't really have beef with anyone or anything else that doesn't challenge his ego. He'd more than likely be against Brainiac more often than not.
Brainiacs mission is hilariously counter current to its own goals, containinting all knowledge would destroy the possibility for more knowledge to be discorvered/created.
The mission given to him is to contain every last bit of information in the universe and to achieve this goal he arrived at the conclusion that he needed to destroy everything as well to make sure that people wouldn't make more information, that's the whole point
Yeah it’s more ironic when you think, he will just know everything but have to sit there just watching everything play back from the past. No more lust for knowledge
He’s a robot he was just programmed with the goal of assimilating all knowledge until he is all that is left if he ever did succeed he’d probably just shut himself down not long after remaking everything as they see fit and becoming a god was lexs idea
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I liked that they made him both someone with enough intellect to not have his crimes put him at a disadvantage but also dumb enough to lust for power even as probably the richest and arguably most influential American businessman in the DCAU's earth. He's still a psycho but his intellect perfectly balances it.
Actually, Luthor is far more greedy than Mr. Krabs. Consider: When an Orange Lantern Ring (powered by avarice, its motto is "You want it all.") was seeking out someone to wear it, it chose Luthor. He fought Larfleeze for possession of the Orange Lantern. It is possible that Luthor is the greediest person in the Multiverse.
Lex luthor's imagination with brainiac's intelligence is an o.p combo. If it weren't for flash, he/they would've won (Edit: ive seem to have created a gender wars in the comments)
@@Eis7since it’s kinda like 2 people in one, brainiac doesn’t have a gender, so they’re pronouns are they/them, and lex is a guy, so his pronouns are he/him
@@GreyChimeraThe one time I actually agree on this pronoun choice, because it's literally 2 separate beings merged into one, and one of them is a literal machine with no gender. So it works
Brainiac more than likely nullified the nerves that he was attached to when he merged. Luthor has high intelligence and would have been able to figure out something is wrong if Brainiac tipped him off accidentally.
This right here is the reason this is the best lex luthor that has ever existed and ever will exist The dude is literally at the mercy of brainiac and all he has to do is talk and he wins!
I've always loved how even though Brainiac is controlling Lex's body, this interaction happens with pauses in their walk, and that turn around at the end, as if Brainiac's actually talking to another separate being around them, not one combined.
They had to come a long way to get that kind of approval. In the original Justice League series, carrying kryptonite around gave Lex "blood poisoning" because I guess WB wouldn't let them use the c word yet. But by JLU, they finally called it what it really is
Lex was able to convince Amezo, who is basically the strongest and smarteste being in that universe, not to destroy the universe. Dude can convince the IRS to pay him taxes. 😂
Lex Luthor is a demon's worst nightmare. Man's body-horrored by an alien robot and he remains calm and even tries to help Brainiac reach Godhood. I'm convinced that if a demon possessed Lex, he'll start negotiating with it too.
That's because Lex is good at figuring out what someone wants. The key is that he realized that Brainiac wanted a purpose beyond just collecting information...and Lex offered him a way to have that...while Lex got what he wanted...power.
@@Solitaire001 "Lex is good at figuring out what someone wants" So basically Lex is the human version of Lucifer Morningstar. And they are both vain and have an ego. But Lex might be smarter...
An alien robot puppeting most of his body, with no obvious suggestions as to how this situation can or will improve. Wanted and hunted by the most powerful super beings on Earth. And Lex still manages to control the conversation. Lex’s charisma is arguably more dangerous than even his intellect.
If I had a nickel for every time Lex negotiated himself out of being erased by god-like androids, I'd have 2 nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
Every other human being when they get turned into an "The Thing" like creature: Ahhhhhhh! Lex Luthor if that happens to him: I think that's the begining of an beautiful new friendship.
Lex’s ability to trick/manipulate others really is incredible: he tricked darksied into thinking he possessed the anti-life equation and convinced brainiac, a robot who’s destroyed countless beings and worlds for who knows how long, to not destroy him.
Lex probably did give him the anti life equation remember like metron said only a level 12 intellect has the slightest margin of a chance to survive this and even went to the source wall
@@ryanhollstein4164 According to the DVD commentary or whatever, Lex and Darkseid DID go to the Source Wall: where ALL who solve the Anti-Life Equation go.
@@Bakuganluver23 I don't 100 percent trust those bonus facts only because there have been shows that retconned those types of facts 1 example is Ben 10
JLU Luthor is a philosophical grandmaster. His beliefs and motivations are rock solid even if they are twisted and evil. He really cares about the endgame - the 'what then?' after these doomsday scenarios. He realizes to himself that he needs humanity alive if he is to be above it. That makes him a true anti-hero.
That logic is flawed. All information is impossible to know because you don’t know what you don’t know. If information is manifested into objects then what the average human would know would be akin to a microscopic spec of ink on a simple piece of paper in a notebook. Brainiac could resemble a large scribble or hell even blacked an entire page but there would still be other pages of the notebook. The scrap aluminum binding, the wooden desk it is on, the school the notebook is in and even the planet then space itself. It really could not comprehend what is or isn’t
You are not gonna call Vegito or Gogeta or the fused gems in Steven Universe they/them(except Stevonnie, who is meant to use non-binary pronouns), now are you? They fused into one being with one mind, they both are referred to as he, so there's no problem in using he/him pronouns for them when they are fused as one. If it was a fusion between a male and a female, then the they/them pronouns would have been more appropriate.
I find it so ironic that the same voice actor as Lex Luthor also voice acted as Silas In Transformers Prime and they both wound up with a similar fate being combined to robotic alien machines
Before Superman destroyed his original body, Brainiac planted a copy of himself in Lex Luthor's body. This is how it looks like when Brainiac revealed himself.
I don't understand the second half of Brainiac's programming. I completely understand recording all information. It's good to have a record, but why destroy the original? At the end of it why have this Grand storage of information if no one is there to be able to use that information?
So no more new knowledge can be discovered by any being and that he can have all the knowledge the universe currently has that why after gathering all knowledge in a single world he destroys it so that it can't be possible for it to make new knowledge he won't have Even tho it a paradox since if there is knowledge that the beings on that planet has no discovered it means that it missing knowledge that he won't ever get but it obvious is to show braniac here has a one track mind with his programming
Blame the aliens who created Brainiac, they screwed up big time. Presumably destroying the original so that the filing can be done properly and the source doesn't go on changing? Brainiac's program reminds me of the Auditors of Reality in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels; who really detested living beings, esp humans with their illogical minds, and would have prefered "a universe of rocks moving in curves".
Something to consider: In "Doomsday Clock" Ozmandius determined who are the two smartest people in the DC Universe: Bruce Wayne and Lex Luthor. Ozmandius said he would see the smartest man...which was Lex Luthor. After talking with Ozmandius, Lex immediately saw the flaw in Ozmandius' original plan in "Watchmen", he expected humanity to stay united. At that Lex said "If you're the smartest man on your planet, I'd hate to meet the dumbest." The scary thing is that at the end of the story Lex looks at Ozmandius' plan (from "Watchmen") and thought he had right idea, but Lex could do it better.
