Lex Luther Conflict Essay

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Just about everyone knows or has heard of Superman. His great ways with words and his good looks, Superman was an instant hit in the comic book industry. During the Cold War the comic book industry became a booming sensation, with novels including Captain America, The Hulk and Superman. Because of the amount of stress during the Cold War of possible communists living in the United States, comic books and comic strips became an American form of entertainment and propaganda. During this time period Superman and Captain America were both drawn up to defeat communist scum off the streets of the United States. The Communist Party was formed in the late 1940s to early 1950s, and these comics were written to help the children of the country have roll …show more content…

One of the most famous encounters was the Superman and Lex Luther conflict. Lex Luther, with his witty tactics to get into trouble and even wittier ways to get out of it, was certainly a difficult villain for Superman to take down. Lex Luther could be seen as Superman’s arch nemesis because of the amount of trouble he gave Superman. Lex Luther and Superman were at one-point friends, until a terrible lab experiment caused Luther’s hair to fall out completely. This lab accident causes Lex Luther to plan his entire life off ending Superman’s. In the modern Lex Luther, he is rewritten as a very wealthy scientist/CEO who comes off as a great man to the public because of his great deal of involvement, but really is a sociopathic, crazed man. Lex Luther should resemble someone that is believed to have lived through the Christian beliefs. In the Bible it is said that Satan, or Lucifer was once an angel of God and was one of God’s people. After an awful mistake by Lucifer he was sent to hell by God to rule the underworld. Just like Lex Luther and Superman’s confrontation with the accident in the laboratory, Lucifer would always try to get back at God for banishing him to hell. Lucifer and Lex Luther also resemble each other with their lies. Luther hid behind his large amount of philanthropy he was into. Due to this the people of the world would become accustomed to Luther being a great man when he was constantly out to kill or get rid of Superman. Lucifer does this same thing with people in modern time with a thing called temptation. God does not want people to fall into temptation a lot like Superman did not want people to listen to the nonsense Lex Luther had to

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