Metropolis: 10 Things The Superman Prequel Must Include

9. Lex Luthor As A Key Conspirator

Coupled with the announcement that DC were optioning Metropolis for production was the show's synopsis, which mentioned Lois and - who else - Lex Luthor, in the same breath as allies.

No matter how reluctant they might be, one can't help but feel like this is just a plain weird decision to take. Gotham's showrunners should know better, and while it's obviously gearing up for an inevitable betrayal in an unassuming season finale, no one wants to see Lex as a hero through and through. He's smarmy, cunning and irreconcilably ruthless. Make him duplicitous, sure, but be sure to hammer home his villainous credentials, especially since we've already seen 'Lex before he's Lex' in Smallville a whole ten years earlier.

Luthor needs to be the one pulling the strings, and while the concept of there once having been a 'good' Luthor is an interesting one to explore in a comic, it can't anchor a whole TV show, especially when the current Lex we do have is so horrendously unthreatening that he resorts to leaving jars of piss in congressional hearings to get his point across.

Make him bald, make him threatening, and make him thoroughly unlikeable. That's the kind of Lex that sells.