Is Lex popular?

If most people have heard of him he probably is popular.

Wait, do you mean in universe or in real life?
Either way yeah he's popular.

>>94151125
IRL and on /co/. I'm not talking about well known, but is he generally liked as a villain? He gets a reasonable amount of exposure

He's THE mastermind super villain. Most cape masterminds are derived from him.

>>94151073
i guess most of us like him,he is a cool villain

>>94151174
He is liked both as a villain and generally as a character. It helps that he alternates between being a hero and a villain from time to time to keep himself from ending up stale.

We'll yeah he's runs an enterprise so he's gotta have brand recognition he named his lexcorp he's got and ego that'll make Steve jobs look good

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Of course, after all he's a respected journalist.

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>When he cured his sister of paralysis just to show that he could and immediately paralyzed her again right after
One of the most devlish things I've ever seen

I don't read much DC, but watch their animated offerings.

Have Lex Luthor and Vandal Savage worked together in comics before? They both seem like they've got the biggest egos so I find it hard to believe they'd work together for more than 5 seconds before trying to keikaku each other to death.

>>94151073
apparently not as popular as victor who got his own book.

seriously, when's Forever Hero?? or are they not giving lex a solo because he's gonna be a villain again in 3 months

>>94151125
>If most people have heard of him he probably is popular.
This isn't the definition of popular. This is the definition of famous (or infamous if he is known for bad things).

>>94151073
Isn't he the DC villain right after the Joker?

>>94151970
A decade ago maybe, now every villain who is not a Batman villain is tertiary

>>94151826
They've both worked and butted heads with each other.

They once managed to get themselves trapped in a building that was wired to blow up at any second. Lex had a way out but refused to use it until Savage admitted Lex was his superior.

Lex is best. He is a hero

>>94152051
What other Batman villain is above Lex Luthor?
Harley Quinn?

>>94152116
The Joker

>>94152116
All of them now probably, they get more exposure.

>>94151970
>>94152147
I already mentioned the Joker.

>>94152112
Ha, that sounds fucking great.

>>94151970
He isn't even as popular as catwoman or the penguin.

>>94153956
>Penguin
Fuck are you on about there, anon?

>>94152116

Bane?

>>94152116
The riddler

>>94154484
Lex isn't popular outside comic books circles, penguin is slightly popular and better known since the 60's

>>94154708
Lex has appeared in a movie that started the capeshit trend, was in DCAU, Smallville and normies were even complaining about the Eisnenberg casting. How is he not as popular as Penguin?

>>94154708
Niggas, Lex has been in four fucking Superman movies, and a show during the 2000s. Granted it was on an unpopular network, but saying Penguin is more popular is a reach.

>>94154998
Stop confusing normies with casuals.

Casuals are part of the fanbase, normies are not.

>>94151073

Popular among comic fans? Insanely.

Among casuals? Not their favorite but popular enough for casuals to get assblasted by Eisenberg's portrayal

>>94155066
forgot about smallville. Casuals loved that shit and the guy did a decent job as Lex.

>>94154708
are you seriously saying that the fucking Penguin is more well known than Lex fucking Luthor

What's next, Lois Lane is less famous than Vicki Vale?

>>94156415
Popular you dumbass, the penguin has a bigger influence on the media, from parodies to commercials, people dress as the enemies of 66 batman to this day, nobody dresses as Lex for Halloween. Lex is just another evil scientist.

>>94157035
You're confusing Penguin with Joker, you goober

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>>94157035
>Lex is just another evil scientist.

Smallville might mean Lex has more porn than any other DC villain

>>94151174

People like Lex for the same reason they like Doom.
He isn't a one dimensional villain.
He may do question, sometimes evil things, but Lex always sees himself as the hero of his story. He believes that what he does, he does for the good of humanity. Even during the times he goes fully off the deep end, he clings to that notion as justification for his actions. Lex (Unless the writer is really shit) will never sell humanity out to alien overlords and will always put Earth's best interests above all other planets.

It just so happens that Lex feels his best interests always coincide with Earth's best interests...Even when they don't.

>>94151073
He's probably the most well-known supervillain of all time.

>>94157243
>He's probably the most well-known supervillain of all time.

Not while The Joker exists.

>>94157035
How exactly do you dress like Lex Luthor? He's just a guy in a business suit.
>>94157225
>Lex will never sell humanity out to alien overlords and will always put Earth's best interests above all other planets.
Lex is the guy who could've ensured eternal bliss for Earth and the rest of the universe but chose not to because it meant he wouldn't be able to kill Superman.

Lex Luthor wants what's best for Lex Luthor, because he's the most selfish, spiteful, and petty character in fiction. That's the core of the character. Everything else is bullshit he uses to justify it.

>>94157178
Yes he is, there was nothing special about Lex Luthor before Byrne.
>>94157225

As always, some retarded Johnsfag or cartoonfag comes with some retarded modern interpretation of the character based in very very very few stories.

>>94157318
People dress as Tony Montana or the godfather. It's no excuse, the problem is that Lex is doesn't really have an interesting look, if you are fat you can go as the kingpin.

>>94157309
No one could care about the Joker today if it wasn't for Heath Ledger. Prior to that point Lex was consistently the first name normies thought of when you said "supervillain." If Mark Strong or some other good actor portrayed the latest cinematic Luthor, he'd be the most prominent again. But in 30 years, when TDK's influence is gone, everyone will still know Luthor more than the Joker, as it was in the days before.

>>94157365
They go as Tony because he has a tacky as fuck suit that's instantly recognizable. Lex doesn't have that. He is, again, just a normal guy in a business suit (other than being bald, I guess). You can't really dress as him for Halloween.

>>94151073

Only in his own mind.

Marci is the president of his fan club, though.

>>94157225

>Lex is an anti-hero

I find pathetic that Lexfags really try to push this shit as Canon. It's fine in some stories and all but give up. That interpretation is not only boring, it's retarded, all versions of. Lex share some similarities, he is a petty, selfish and really egocentric man that wants to be on top. He doesn't give a fuck about humanity or earth, your autism doesn't allow you to see that all his human supremacy shit it's always bullshit, villians are allowed to lie, even to themselves.

>>94157366
How deluded can anyone be?

>>94157366
>Prior to that point

We aren't talking about prior points in time. We're talking about right now.

And right now, Joker is infinitely more popular than Lex.

>>94152051

Nope. Ask 1000 different normies in Hong Kong, Rio, Paris, New York, Chicago, Moscow, Beijin or any other major city on the planet to name the top five DC villains and very few of that 1000 per are going to name Bane, Freeze, Kite Man, Calendar Man, Killer Croc, Riddler, etc. Only a handful will list Penguin among the top 5, so that leaves you Joker.

Fun fact: most of the thousand won't put Ivy or Harley as a villain.

>>94157366
Lex was never more popular than joker, not even in in the 40s

>>94157534

You're under the impression that normies can name 5 different DC villains that aren't Lex Luthor, Zod, or one of Batman's nutjobs.

Ask this question in a few years when the DCEU has had more films and more villains get exposure.

>>94157534
How underage are you? The batman series was a big deal for catwoman, riddler, joker and penguin.

>>94151073
He's well known but hell if anyone knows what he does besides be bald, smart and hate Superman. He's Flash-levels of being in the public conscious (well, before the CW show).

>>94157454
In all fairness he literally is an anti-hero right now in comics.

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>>94151892
No anon. He is INfamous. That means he is more then famous

>>94158428
kek criminally underrated movie

>>94157616

The joker was a joke in the 1960s movies. It wasn't until Burton proved he could be more and than the DCAU's resident Batfags got to jerk off all over him, that it changed.

Whereas Lex had been in two popular movies as well as two popular tv shows.

>>94157758
Only barely and he'll probably go back to being evil in Doomsday Clock. I enjoyed hero Lex but I miss evil Lex so I'll be happy either way.

>>94157650

The Batman series was not a big deal on the planet. That's why Return of the Caped Crusaders or whatever it was called failed to crack even the top 50 of best selling DVDs world wide and why, inspite of the fact that idiots here were making breathless posts that The Lego Batman movie would 'save the DCEU' and make 'a billion' or 'make more than BvS,' it barely went anywhere either in North America and certainly not worldwide.

If you want to have a popularity contest and limit the contest to the USA, fine sure - Catwoman and Penguin. That's exactly why that Catwoman film was such a huge hit, am I right? But if you want to take infamous or popular as those words should be use, again as I said, stop 1000 people in any major city and ask them to rattle off DC Comics villains and see what you get in response.

>>94160813
Yes, he was, and that doesn't mean he wasn't popular. Lexfags need to stop lying to themselves.

>>94160917
The batman series was a big deal on the planet, it's just that normal adults don't buy animated movies.