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.

@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.