LogFAQs > #886200994

Zeus posted...

Given that Lex has been the good guy and Superman the tyrant in many continuities (Red Son, Injustice, etc), anybody who sees Lex as a good guy wouldn't necessarily be wrong. Granted, this shit topic is low-tier trolling so it wouldn't necessarily know about any of that.

And Lex actually wins in Red Son by merely using a note with the following: "Why don't you just put the whole WORLD in a BOTTLE, Superman?"

Depending on the incarnation he does have a point. He believes mankind should rise to the levels of greatness it can rather than cry to the blue tighted alien for help all the time. That same incarnation was a poor orphan that worked his way up pissed that Superman got to be great just by living on the planet.

As for Superman's legal status.

Original origin was written in the 1930s, so would be set around the turn of the century, a time with far more foundlings and far fewer social service regulations, and zero concern for anchor babies.

Modern origins have the Kents claim he's their own (long winter, birthed at home, etc) so no adoption process was brought up. Smallville ignored this to make Lionel Luthor eviler by having him owed a foavor by the Kents.
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