5. Lex's Hot Sidekick
There's nothing hot about a bald Gene Hackman (nor a grimacing Ned Beatty), so to offset that the original Lex Luthor was paired up with Valerie Perrine's Eve Teschmacher, a dimwitted girlfriend who ultimately betrayed him in the first movie (for totally justifiable reasons), yet still returned in the sequel to help him out because reasons. To reaffirm the cliché, Luthor-replacement Webster in Superman III also had a blonde bimbo as a sidekick (even if this one had the
shocking gimick of actually being smart). Zack Snyder seemingly thinks the same about a floppy haired Jesse Eisenberg (although let's not forget
he won't stay that way), because he's giving him a sexy assistant of his own, even relaxing the LexCorp work clothing rules to allow for an incredibly skimpy getup (although at least this time it's in the form of comic-accurate Mercy Graves). Hot assistants for megalomaniacs is hardly a new concept in film, but it's become pretty much a necessity for Lex Luthor and, like the glasses, is something Zack Snyder doesn't want to avoid.