Kim23Nov 25, 2022
Monte Cook

For a long time, when I'd read a comic with Lex Luthor in it, and he'd be... I dunno, conspiring with a guy who's super power is that he is mediocre at riddles, and maybe Solomon Grundy or someone like that, in order to launch their army of poison turtles into Metropolis, I'd scoff and say, "it's unrealistic that the world's richest man would waste his time and money on something that's only going to showcase to the world how incompetent he is."

I owe DC comics an apology.

Nov 21, 2022 at 11:20pmWeb
Show threadÓscar Morales VivóNov 21, 2022
@montecook The one thing I learnt these last few years is that real world villains are actually more Superfriends Lex Luthor than Gritty Continuity Lex Luthor. But they are still able to cause incalculable harm.
Show threadPhlawlessNov 24, 2022
@MyLittleMetroid @montecook "If Lex Luthor can be a super villain, anybody can. He put together a team made out of a clown, an eskimo, a zombie, a monkey, and a chick in cat pajamas. The last time a team like that got put together was when the special olympics put on an updated-for-the-nineties production of the Breakfast Club." http://www.seanbaby.com/superfriends/luthor.htm
Seanbaby's Super Friends Page - Lex Luthor

Bios, movies, and comics about TV's Super Friends.

Show threadDragoncrown GamesNov 21, 2022
@montecook A-freaking-men.
Show threadLittleDogsMediaNov 21, 2022
@montecook 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
Show threadRalf - WuDeRPG - (he/they)Nov 22, 2022
@montecook
Excellent!
Show threadJonathan QuistNov 22, 2022
@montecook
Brilliant!
Show threadCJ the Awkward LeftyNov 22, 2022
@montecook I feel like I owe every 90s movie writer an apology for the same reason.
Show threadVoid SciencesNov 23, 2022
@montecook I should really stop being shocked at the utterly banal and unimaginative evil of rich dudes
Show threadBrettNov 23, 2022
@montecook Yeah but Lex also ran for and became president in the 90s or 00s basically saying that he’s a rich successful guy with no need to kowtow to outside interests so he’ll be less corrupt while simultaneously being the most corrupt guy ever. Sound familiar?
Show threadStuBanhammer 🐀 mouse validatedNov 24, 2022
@bflip @montecook mastodon needs a dislike button. Like, I like your statement, but I hate what it says.
Show threadflamepanther ☢️Nov 23, 2022

@montecook
@Nome
I came to a similar conclusion several years ago:

Villain: "This new earthquake machine will make me richer than ever!"

It could never happen, right? And then we got fracking. 😅

Show thread🐍Dec 22, 2022
@flamepanther @montecook @Nome The comic book that really got it right was Spider-Man: "But I don't WANT to cure cancer! I want to turn people into dinosaurs!"
Show threadflamepanther ☢️Dec 22, 2022
@6of47
YES. 😆
@montecook @Nome
Show threadUtility NerdDec 22, 2022
@6of47 @flamepanther @montecook @Nome
Sauron 100% channeling Dr. Dinosaur.
Show threadRicki Yasha TarrNov 23, 2022
@montecook Oh no me too, I've made fun of this so many times.
Show threadjonasfireNov 24, 2022
@montecook I’ve been trying to say musk is a third rate lex Luthor for years
Show threadSeth HolmesNov 25, 2022
@jonasfire I always think of Hugo Drax
Show threadDB SchweinNov 24, 2022
@montecook
How sad is it that there is more than one person you could be talking about?!
We live in the weirdest timeline :-/
Show threadAlex Z | WriterNov 24, 2022
@montecook
/Bezos and his goofy cowboy hat nod sagely in the corner/
Show threadSarah SammisNov 24, 2022
@montecook I’ve been having similar thoughts
Show threadAppagal CrochetNov 24, 2022
@montecook Now this is creative writing! Bravo!
Show threadDavid A. DuttonNov 24, 2022
@montecook 🤣 awesome.
Show threadherecomesthestaticNov 24, 2022
@montecook and yet still he tweets. Doubling down on stupid like he's levelling it up as a super power!
Show threadPhilipp Michel ReicholdNov 24, 2022
@montecook #LOL #OMG #awesome
Show threadDoxy_cycling, MPH MLSNov 24, 2022
@montecook 🤣🤣🤣
Show threadZeb LarsonNov 24, 2022

@montecook This is how I feel about the police chief in Die Hard. As a child, it seemed impossible that an adult in a position of authority could be that stupid.

Only through a child's eyes...

Show threadThisMayBeGrahamNov 24, 2022
@montecook my memory is that lex is also supposed to be "smart"
Show threadDustin D. WindNov 25, 2022

@montecook @NadiaYvette I look forward to your take on Bizarro Politics... many politicians, you can more reliably depend on their public promises being lies than you can depend on the veracity of the vast majority of people.

"Me am very proud of saving environment and putting oil companies in place!"
"But you just dedicated an area larger than all but 3 countries to undersea drilling?"
"Me am standing up for little guy!"
"By burning the social safety net and cutting taxes on billionaires?"

Show threadLeoNerdNov 25, 2022
@montecook What I like about a post like this is that even though you didn't name anybody, we all know who it is you're talking about.
Show threadDrawlightNov 25, 2022
@montecook to be fair he has more hair
Show threadCiferNov 27, 2022
@Drawlight @montecook Mostly because one of them hasn't heard about hair plugs.
Show threadDrawlightNov 28, 2022
@Teskariel @montecook indeed
Show threadCiferNov 27, 2022
@montecook I am perpetually awaiting the day where we learn that one of them took 40 cakes when no one was looking.
Show threadCanadian in AlbertaNov 27, 2022
@montecook
😂​
So true
Show threadE L L ANov 29, 2022
@montecook 😂 👌
Show threadKelly HandleyDec 5, 2022
@montecook #brilliant #myapologiestodccomics
Show threadLou AndersDec 21, 2022
@montecook yes, it is sad that Luthor was a better president than Trump and a better CEO than Musk.
Show threadChris K.Dec 22, 2022
@montecook Hiya, stranger.
Speaking of apologies, here’s what happened. Shortly after 9/11, I reported some strange activity on the UES where I lived. Apparently it was a planned attack of some kind on Gracie Mansion, known to be the NYC Mayor’s home, but Rudy Giuliani actually lived in an apartment elsewhere, his wife and child lived there though. As I figure it, this ruined some plans for his designs on Federal office. This plus some political activity put me on GOP’s s-list. 1/2
Show threadChris K.Dec 22, 2022
@montecook 2/2. and so this includes apparently being harassed and drugged, speaking of supervillains. Been quite the ride. Hope all is well with you. I play a lot of Skyrim these days wishing I had time for pnp.
Show thread🐍Dec 22, 2022

@montecook I went through a similar experience with Final Fantasy 6:

I found Kefka to be an unrealistically flat villain with no motivation other than causing harm and death and destruction for its own sake...

...and then Trump took the White House, and he was a more over-the-top flat comic book villain than even Kefka.

I owe the team that developed the character of Kefka a major apology for that one.

Show threadLoneWolfDec 22, 2022
@montecook Felt the same way about Captain Planet villains for a while, but not anymore.
Show threadOldAndCrankyDec 29, 2022
@montecook hah!
Show threadElfbiterJan 26, 2023
@montecook Well. John Byrne made him rich villain in his version of Superman. Before that he was just mad scientist with that kind of weird schemes.
Show threadHauntedHareOct 10, 2023

@montecook I think we all do lol...

...But in our defense, The absolute, & let's be 100% clear here, frankly IMPRESSIVE level of incompetence we're seeing paraded before us on a daily basis could NOT have been foreseen.

I mean... you made this post in...

*Checks Timestamp*

2022... right?

It's actually become MORE relevant as time's marched onward.

I believe the word is... 'Evergreen'?

So evergreen in fact, that it's a year later and I don't even have to guess who this is about.

Show threadStar*DriveDec 9, 2023
@HauntedHare @montecook Yes, this should be reposted annually, if not monthly.
Show threadShafik YaghmourJan 12, 2024
@montecook and on the DC side they are like, "we would have preferred to be wrong on this one"