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Squall28
06/14/17 8:34:03 AM
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SSJGrimReaper
06/14/17 8:35:52 AM
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Patty_Fleur
06/14/17 8:36:13 AM
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What's wrong with black? There is an abundance of white characters
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boxington
06/14/17 8:37:40 AM
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he was modeled after Telly Savalas, IIRC.
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DevsBro
06/14/17 8:39:30 AM
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They just gave him big lips and a deep voice. Here he is pictured with an actual black guy:

http://colorwebmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Lex-Luthor-Steel.jpg

And here with Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman:

http://basementrejects.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/justice-league-unlimited-season-3-13-destroyer-legion-of-doom-team-up-lex-luthor-superman-wonder-woman-atomic-skull-red-tornado-batman.jpg

But yeah, I always thought he was supposed to be black too until someone pointed this out to me.
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MegaTech
06/14/17 8:39:35 AM
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When she asks if it's really 8 inches.

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SSJGrimReaper
06/14/17 8:43:23 AM
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TFW you're bigger than Superman

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MegaTech
06/14/17 8:45:42 AM
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TFW Clark asks how you know lois' bra size

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NeonOctopus
06/14/17 8:47:56 AM
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Wolfenstein2000
06/14/17 8:48:06 AM
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DevsBro posted...
They just gave him big lips and a deep voice. Here he is pictured with an actual black guy:

http://colorwebmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Lex-Luthor-Steel.jpg

And here with Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman:

http://basementrejects.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/justice-league-unlimited-season-3-13-destroyer-legion-of-doom-team-up-lex-luthor-superman-wonder-woman-atomic-skull-red-tornado-batman.jpg

But yeah, I always thought he was supposed to be black too until someone pointed this out to me.


You're aware black people don't all have the exact same skin tone, right? He's 100% black.
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Irony
06/14/17 8:49:45 AM
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TFW you're playing poker with your villain homies and Solomon Grundy ate his chips.

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_Goggalor_
06/14/17 8:51:43 AM
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He looks mixed to me. Like Obama.
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DevsBro
06/14/17 8:51:55 AM
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You're aware black people don't all have the exact same skin tone, right? He's 100% black.

Why, because he has big lips and a deep voice?

Having the exact same skin tone as three (actually four; I didn't notice the villain in that shot too) white people and being an adaptation of a character who has never once otherwise been black are pretty good indicators tbh.
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SSJGrimReaper
06/14/17 9:07:48 AM
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TFW you look like a fusion between the The Rock and Vin Diesel

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trappedunderice
06/14/17 9:27:25 AM
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When someone asks you why you wore a white tie over a white dress shirt. rpZYkfp
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Wolfenstein2000
06/14/17 9:30:47 AM
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DevsBro posted...
You're aware black people don't all have the exact same skin tone, right? He's 100% black.

Why, because he has big lips and a deep voice?

Having the exact same skin tone as three (actually four; I didn't notice the villain in that shot too) white people and being an adaptation of a character who has never once otherwise been black are pretty good indicators tbh.


Yeah except it's not the same skintone, it's similar, and besides that he looks a lot more like a lighter version of the "real" black character you posted rather than, say, Superman. He's clearly meant to be black.

EDIT: Eh, maybe I'm wrong. I've never actually seen the cartoon but looking up other images it could just be an those pictures.
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ChromaticAngel
06/14/17 9:33:23 AM
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When someone say you should be played by Jesse Eisenberg

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gunplagirl
06/14/17 9:34:01 AM
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When she asks where her wasp nest went to

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Darkman124
06/14/17 9:55:29 AM
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his voice actor, clancy brown, is an oldish white guy

which is amazing to me beacause his voice is really similar to kevin michael richardson

anyway his skin tone, if 'black', is so light that it is comparable to superman's. and he's an animated character, who cares?

lex in JL/JLU was a great character and idgaf if he was white with a deep tan or light-skinned african american
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Sexypwnstar
06/14/17 9:57:35 AM
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Wolfenstein2000 posted...

Yeah except it's not the same skintone, it's similar, and besides that he looks a lot more like a lighter version of the "real" black character you posted rather than, say, Superman. He's clearly meant to be black.

EDIT: Eh, maybe I'm wrong. I've never actually seen the cartoon but looking up other images it could just be an those pictures.


lol what a fucking shitpost
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Touch
06/14/17 9:58:41 AM
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When your date orders her steak well done

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Guy_Fieri
06/14/17 10:01:51 AM
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When you get a lone curly fry in your order of regular fries

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Jagr_68
06/14/17 10:02:56 AM
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SSJGrimReaper posted...
TFW you look like a fusion between the The Rock and Vin Diesel

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Lmao
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RE_expert44
06/14/17 10:03:33 AM
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I thought he was supposed to be Greek or something
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StealthRock
06/14/17 10:04:36 AM
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RE_expert44 posted...
I thought he was supposed to be Greek or something

This

like sicilian or something
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creativerealms
06/14/17 10:06:49 AM
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DCAU Luthor has darker skin yes but he's not black as in of African decent. Actually he was based partly on Telly Savalas an american singer and actor of Greek ancestry.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telly_Savalas
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emblem boy
06/14/17 10:14:48 AM
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Wolfenstein2000 posted...
DevsBro posted...
They just gave him big lips and a deep voice. Here he is pictured with an actual black guy:

http://colorwebmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Lex-Luthor-Steel.jpg

And here with Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman:

http://basementrejects.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/justice-league-unlimited-season-3-13-destroyer-legion-of-doom-team-up-lex-luthor-superman-wonder-woman-atomic-skull-red-tornado-batman.jpg

But yeah, I always thought he was supposed to be black too until someone pointed this out to me.


You're aware black people don't all have the exact same skin tone, right? He's 100% black.


He's the same skin tone as Superman in that picture
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Grindcorp9000
06/14/17 10:25:13 AM
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Which Justice League is this? Im watching the cartoon currently.
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dave_is_slick
06/14/17 10:29:56 AM
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Grindcorp9000 posted...
Which Justice League is this? Im watching the cartoon currently.

Justice League/ Unlimited
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Pics_nao_plz
06/14/17 10:34:02 AM
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lmao
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Nasty_Nitro
06/14/17 10:34:29 AM
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Lex Luthor is supposed to be Greek IIRC
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Webmaster4531
06/14/17 10:40:13 AM
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He's half robot.
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Kim Kusanagi
06/14/17 10:49:41 AM
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Darkman124 posted...
his voice actor, clancy brown, is an oldish white guy


you take that back or else

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zTztlCvOF4

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MacadamianNut3
06/14/17 11:03:27 AM
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Sexypwnstar posted...
Wolfenstein2000 posted...

Yeah except it's not the same skintone, it's similar, and besides that he looks a lot more like a lighter version of the "real" black character you posted rather than, say, Superman. He's clearly meant to be black.

EDIT: Eh, maybe I'm wrong. I've never actually seen the cartoon but looking up other images it could just be an those pictures.


lol what a fucking shitpost

I think it's more of a quintessential CE post. Arguing over something you have no familiarity with. Sums up most topics on this board since forever
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marc55
06/14/17 11:06:08 AM
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Wolfenstein2000 posted...
DevsBro posted...
They just gave him big lips and a deep voice. Here he is pictured with an actual black guy:

http://colorwebmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Lex-Luthor-Steel.jpg

And here with Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman:

http://basementrejects.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/justice-league-unlimited-season-3-13-destroyer-legion-of-doom-team-up-lex-luthor-superman-wonder-woman-atomic-skull-red-tornado-batman.jpg

But yeah, I always thought he was supposed to be black too until someone pointed this out to me.


You're aware black people don't all have the exact same skin tone, right? He's 100% black.

but if hes black then superman is too
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Vultis_Zales
06/14/17 11:16:27 AM
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marc55 posted...
Wolfenstein2000 posted...
DevsBro posted...
They just gave him big lips and a deep voice. Here he is pictured with an actual black guy:

http://colorwebmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Lex-Luthor-Steel.jpg

And here with Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman:

http://basementrejects.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/justice-league-unlimited-season-3-13-destroyer-legion-of-doom-team-up-lex-luthor-superman-wonder-woman-atomic-skull-red-tornado-batman.jpg

But yeah, I always thought he was supposed to be black too until someone pointed this out to me.


You're aware black people don't all have the exact same skin tone, right? He's 100% black.

but if hes black then superman is too


Wouldn't a black superman be stronger than a white superman ?
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apolloooo
06/14/17 11:34:04 AM
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Mfw she says she wants to try threesome with other girls
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DevsBro
06/14/17 2:00:17 PM
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There's also the documentary of the Red Son-like episode where Bruce Timm says he was surprised that people thought Lex was supposed to be Black because they used the same colors they used for Superman.
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chill02
06/14/17 2:08:31 PM
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DevsBro posted...
I always thought he was supposed to be black too until someone pointed this out to me.


same >_>
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SSJGrimReaper
06/15/17 5:25:53 PM
#42:


when Superman asks you where you put the kryptonite


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MegaTech
06/15/17 5:48:10 PM
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When superman says you're both the same skin color

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kuwab0
06/15/17 5:49:19 PM
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bidas100
06/15/17 5:49:35 PM
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Axiom
06/15/17 5:52:25 PM
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boxington posted...
he was modeled after Telly Savalas, IIRC.

I was just thinking how he looked like the guy from Kojak
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