Anyone else find it an interesting coincidence that two of the most prominent recent casting choices for Lex Luthor were Jews? The guy from Smallville show, and the actor from the DCEU. Superman is kind of a Christ allegory. Not from this world, has two fathers, his heavenly one and his earthly mortal one. Raised on earth to save it. All powerful. And his arch nemesis is Lex Luthor. That is all.
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It's...it's Hollywood.
Jews live rent free in a lot of people's heads.
Of course
Rosenbaum was also Flash in Justice League animated series. And people loved him in both things.
It's Hollywood.
Anything works when you start at a point and then work backwards to make it fit.
One of the most regular character traits of Lex Luthor is that he hates the idea of some non-human having power over him and all of humanity. Especially one who was just born with powers that he uses to be a godlike arbiter of society and morals. Superman is just the "chosen one" who we are never allowed to question, you get painted as a bad guy for doing so by all of society who considers him our greatest ally, and your entire life can be destroyed by him (and his entire race) on a whim if they felt like it.
From that point of view, Superman is closer to the Jew with Luthor being the rest of us under them, with the Jewish writers in the industry painting the utopia that it would be like if we just submitted to them and how awesomely amazing they are.
The new cartoon series with chocolate tomboy Lois Lane is even less subtle, with Lex chanting "Earth for Earthlings."
Did they seriously have Lex say that?
See for yourself.
Of course
What's funny is, he isn't wrong. Superman is a being who could at any moment kill all of us, and he regularly forces his morals and beliefs on everyone, often with violence. In every sense, he should be controlled but he can't because of his godlike powers so we should absolutely be trying to be rid of him. Every "Evil Superman" media proves that over and over.
So they have to make Lex stupidly evil, or associate him with real life bad guys (like when Red Skull starting quoting Jordan Peterson), to dodge that fact.
Everything about superman is Jewish.
Personally, I wouldn't associate neither Kansas nor "trying their best to be a good person" with Jews. So at least a few parts aren't.
"Oy vey, where can I find a good bagel in this dump?"
clancy brown is the superior luthor.
I thought Superman was a Moses allegory, but I can also see a Christ allegory in some aspects
Any "savior" type character trope will be considered a Christ allegory because we live in a Christian nation, no matter how much they try to undermine it. Its inevitable that we will see it that way, and even more inevitable that writers will write him as such because its buried that deep in their subconscious.
Good point. I’m a Christian and I notice I’ll analyze a lot of literature from a Christian lens or movies.