Justice League: 29 Easter Eggs & References You Need To See

24. Classic Lex Luthor

In Justice League's post-credits scene, Jesse Eisenberg's Lex Luthor makes a surprise cameo despite initial reports suggesting he'd been cut out of the film entirely.

The real pleasant surprise here is that Luthor, who has escaped imprisonment, is now wearing a slick, tailored black suit, which much more closely resembles the conventional conception of Luthor seen in the comics and, of course, Gene Hackman's portrayal in the earlier Superman movies.

This combined with Eisenberg's seemingly more restrained performance (in the brief 30 seconds we saw of him) seems to suggest that the more eccentric Luthor from Batman v Superman has effectively been soft-rebooted, tweaked to be more Machiavellian and less of an annoying a**hole.