8 Ways Lex Luthor Can Be More Practical Before Man Of Steel 2
4. Dont Turn The Sun Red
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Just because you can, doesnt mean you should. No one is going to like this one. Yes, the Kryptonian will be depowered, but that insufferable slap-in-the-face somehow always gets out of that kind of situation, and the common folk are going to ask, Hey, whys the Sun red? Who went way out of line and changed the color of our star like that? Even if you are given the OK by the U.S. government, people will remember you as the guy who turned the Sun red, which may be all right at first, like with the atomic bomb ending World War II, but eventually people will start thinking about the decisionand I know you see that far ahead. If youre still alive at that point (why shouldnt you be?), they could change their minds andyou guessed itsend you to prison. Moreover, changing the composition of a star is destruction on a cosmic scale, and only one person can make damage done on that level right (besides you, but they wont ask you)HIM. And do you really want to give that chiseled, grinning imposter another opportunity to look like the saint that he isnt? Why not take your own example from Superman #164 and get Superman to go with you to a planet with its own red sun and confront him there? Not only is it more of a sure thing than making your own red sun, or using localized red sun energy on Earth, but its of sight and out of mind for Earths inhabitants. Theres no better way to prove your point about why Superman is so wrong for humanity, to show on that distant planet and your own what great things you could accomplish were it not for his smug, shackling presence.