10 Most Ridiculous Supervillain Plots In Comics History
5. Lex Luthor Stole Forty Cakes, And That's Terrible
Now infamous thanks to it becoming a popular Internet meme, 1978's Super Dictionary featured a series of surreal panels of DC Comics characters illustrating the definitions of various words, as well as teaching basic maths skills, for a young audience. The best-known amongst them is the entry involving Lex Luthor and his cakes. When no one was looking, Lex Luthor took forty cakes, the Super Dictionary explains. He took 40 cakes. That's as many as four tens. And that's terrible. That seems fairly outside of Luthor's usual wheelhouse, which involves wearing a huge green robot suit and engineering the downfall of Superman at every given opportunity. He's a genius-level entrepreneur who could probably afford to but forty cakes, given his highly lucrative business investments. It turns out, however, that the Super Dictionary is totally in continuity 2011's Superman #709 sees a flashback of Luthor doing the deed as a kid, making it canon. Sure, taking over the world is important. So are cakes.
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