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One of Lex Luthor's identifying characteristics is the fact that he's bald, but he wasn't always. So how did Lex Luthor lose his hair in the first place? Well, there are a few reasons in the comics as to why this happened that range from natural hair loss to more exciting backstories involving his hair being burned off. But the first time Luthor appeared bald in a comic was not an intentional choice, but a complete accident! Today we're learning about all the reasons in and out of comics as to how Lex Luthor became bald.
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I always thought it was just due to some kyrptonite poisoning.
Though I also like the theory that Superman flys into his home every night and just shaves his head again.
Malicious Hero Hahaha! I love that theory!
Who came up with that theory? Elon Musk? I must meet the genius who thought of this!
@@braydenmunro2385 genuis? can't be elon then.
Why is LEX LUTHOR Bald? Because he doesn't have any hair.
+jake wareham It's because he once took 40 cakes when no one was looking. He took 40 cakes. That's as many as four tens. And that's terrible.
+Fooly Cooly Do you watch ScrewAttack or are just knowledgable about that book?
+Fooly Cooly 2 months later, and I love you.
+Fooly Cooly that's the most evil thing he did
i never thought of that
The clothes of the bald henchman also reminds me of newer depictions of Luthor. It's like the henchman took over the original Lex's business.
Agry
+Kris Thoresen English please Agry? It's Agree
Agry whole heartedly
The red haired guy was always a decoy, the bald man was the real Lex the whole time.
he's caillou
Saitama*
+Mojoforthewin why
But he’s not a kid who’s four
Lol
Lol true
Honestly, I preferred the "male pattern baldness / regular head shave" theory. It means that Luthor doesn't have to suffer a personal injury to muster a mad-on for Clark; his ego is cankered enough as it is. (Besides, he could then point to himself as a trend setter as lots of celebrities do the hairless look: Stone Cold Steve Austin, Patrick Stewart, Bruce Willis, etc.)
I always thought that Luthor was bald due to cancer contracted from over exposure to Kryptonite but hey, The More You Know.
Darius Davis That's so weird. Apparently a lot of people thought this. Haha
***** I think it was smallville's explanation of it
I think you're right. I never really watched Smallville.
***** Yeah, nor have I but I guess the cancer thing makes somewhat sense and gives Luthor a reason to 'dislike' supes. Great Videos btw, love your work!
Darius Davis Thank you!
100 pushups, 100 situps 100....no wait... if he did that he could actually match superman :P
JaxBlade Lol
k
this guy is on EVERY CHANNEL
what guy
😂
I like Smallville's reasoning behind it. It's basically the same as the fire one exert the kryptonite meteor is what burns off his hair.
Isaac Gazmararian That's neat. I haven't seen much of Smallville, but I have a friend who has watched it through multiple times.
In smallville lex lost in one corn field when the rain of meteory hit in smallville becasue the impact lex loss the hair he have 12 old i remenber and that is why he bald in the serie Smallville..
Smallville was pretty awesome
That's also the only story of Lex's hair loss I know. LOL! In Christopher Reeve's Superman movie, Lex wasn't bald, was he?
Meal Stub Luthor was bald however he had a wig. Hackmen didn't want to cut his hear so he was wearing a bald cap for some scenes. So Lex Luthor was wearing a wig and Gene Hackmen was wearing a bald cap. Tere is a scene where Lex removes his wig and is bald. Pretty meta. I can't remember the reason (or if it was mentioned for his hair loss). In the 80's Superboy series it was a lab accident at the university Lex and Clark went to.
He took on Saitama's training regiment of 100 push-ups, 100 sit-ups, 100 squats and 10 Km runs everyday, but he decided to stop after 15 months.
Best explanation.
Would explain his athleticism
i like the version in smallvile where he lost it because of the meteors that came to earth when Clarks ship landed
MrMonsterLoki Me, too and I like how it gave him healing powers.
yeah i like that one too i thought it was because his immune system was so strong he couldnt grow hair
My favorite explanation for Luther being bald is the explanation that he wasn't bald until he started his rivalry with Superman and it was carrying around the Kryptonite that caused him to go bald due to the radiation from the Kryptonite this is been seen in several iterations of the character and it's the one that I think is the most logical
I like the version in the Smallville show. Lex has crazy long red hair in that, but lost it all in the first episode. Lex is out in the field watching the kryptonian meteorites falling, and one crashes close enough to badly burn him. The one time Lionel is a good father in the show, he rushes over to him and instantly comments on his burnt hair
So Luther vowed to be superman's enemy over losing his hair. He must of loved those ginger locks
The hair was only a symbol of the perceived betrayal by his best friend. And (Trivia time) the silver age Lex was the only version never to be a redhead. His hair was brown!
I always thought one day he looked in the mirror and decided "You know what, I'm gonna shave my head"
As for why Lex baldness I knew the back story about the freak lab accident but I always considered it a trait of Luthor's personality.
Nowadays it is frequent to find young boys with dreadlocks or tattoos working in important jobs but back then society was completely different. When Superman was created up until the early 60's people believed that society is driven by reason and the more civilized you were the better you were.
This is why back then Superman was called ''THE MAN OF TOMORROW'' not '' THE MAN OF STEEL''.
If you look at the old 1930's and 1940's cartoons and even many of the golden age comics you'll notice many of the bad guys and lowlife punks had tattoos and wore very short hair or were bald. That's because the more ''outside'' of the norm they seemed to be, the more savages they were. This is true to Lex Luthor's bald henchman you mention in the video. And I think this is also why the image of the bald Luthor was accepted.
He is the antipode of Superman, who is genetically superior in body and mind but appears to be frail to show sensitivity so he's a civilized person, Luthor OTOH is maybe the biggest genius mankind has ever produced but he is ruthless because his reasoning is driven by his own puerile ego so he's a savage.
BurnRoddy That is some really great insight. Man, everyone is leaving some amazing comments on this video. I get so excited about this stuff!
I actually like the Smallville explenation. The meteor rain
The BIG one you missed is where Lex lost his hair just from handling Kryptonite for a long period of time, keeping it on his person in case Superman ever caught him unaware, thinking the radiation only affected Kryptonions but finding out that after prolonged contact it caused symptoms similar to radiation poisoning like baldness. This has been played around with a few times, the most recent being that the Kryptonite didn't cause his baldness but did give him cancer. However the original version was a kinda acknowledgement that he had hair and then lost it after he met Superman
I liked the real life version. I think that was a good mistake, because Luthor looks better bald.
Actually, my favourite version of how Lex lost his hair is the Smallville TV show explanation. In the pilot of Smallville, Lionel Luthor is visiting Smallville on the day that Clark lands, and Lex is with his father. Clark lands in Smallville in the midst of a Kryptonite meteor shower, and Lex is close enough to the blast site of one of the meteors that the radiation kills his hair, kind of like chemotherapy does. Interestingly enough, the kryptonite radiation also cures him of the asthma that Lex had suffered from up to that point.
+Wesley Molt And...Michael Rosenbaum is a real ginger. He was meant to be Lex
Hmm...
Well, in SMallville, he got bald cause of the impact of a near-by Krypton meteorite.
I love your take in Golden Age real life back stories Scott, informative yet so distinctively yours in every detail of it from the subtle humor to the change of topics everything has an identity of it's own.
With that said I love when people does it because it gives kids an idea of how unreal was the world of comics back then and I really really appreciate it that you take your time to do so.
BurnRoddy I really appreciate your incredibly kind comment! Thank you so much!
I thought lex just had cancer from kryptonite
+Justin nunez me too
+Justin nunez Yes, in the 1980s and 1990s
+Kenroy Cherrington Yeah, that fits most of the stories about Lex and Kryptonite, but after looking into the origins of Superman, I thought they got switched. Original Superman was basically Charles Xavier, only more super, and I thought that maybe when they were looking for Superman's worst enemy, they picked the other Super Man; The Super Man was bald, super-intelligent, telepathic, telekinetic, and just overall the next evolution of man. Aside from the psychic abilities, it just seems like Lex could be the ultimate in Human intelligence, if he wasn't so obsessed with chasing Superman and profit.
I thought the cancer made him loose his hand that he put the kryptonite ring on
Kryptonite is radioactive !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I always kind of assumed he was bald from over exposure to Kryptonite. The fact that he and Supes started out as friends makes things that much more interesting.
It's interesting how Smallville obviously took inspiration from the Superboy version of the Lex story. The shrine is much like Lex's investigation/shrine room in the series. Lex saves superman from kryptonite in a farm field. Lex was in Smallville in a farming related industry, etc., etc. I think Smallville made Lex bald as a result of Clark's arrival maybe to make the character more relateable to Lex's character for the audience, for the sake of expedience, and to make him a troubled outcast. It's always interesting to see how the comics affect tv and movie adaptations especially in the small details that you wouldn't notice normally.
Edit: They also had his red hair in Smallville before he lost it funny.
How about Smallville the tv show here lex loses his hair because of the Meteor shower
I honestly like birth right and people in smallville being scared of lex and it was actually clarks kents fault that drove him into full on villain I really like that and also him being connected to supermans origin being interested in aleins and alein life and even seeing krypton from a split second and because of supermans weakness lex is now furious and hates superman and I just like that origin so much well done with this episode well done i'm going to get superman birth right because I think it sounds pretty good
Tay Boy Thanks! I fully recommend that comic.
I like how he lost his hair in the smallville's show
The friendship between Lex and Clark on the Smallville TV show drew inspiration from that same comic from the 60s. That's why they started out as friends in the show. Lex even had a shrine of sorts to dedicated to Clark if you consider his holographic recreation of his car hitting Clark on the bridge as a shrine
My original misconception was that they switched the original look of Superman the bald mind controller to be the evil Lex Luthor we know today.
As a guy that grew up with Superfriends myself I kinda lean towards the Alex being an obsessed fanboy having that accident like now we see the quote always from Luthor gods are the ones saving the world with capes, kinda dates back where it all began.
Typo Alex should have been lex
Hey Scott there is also a really cool reason why Martian Manhunter is afraid of fire. As far as I know, (I may mess op so of the details, it have been some time) - :
The Guardian of the Universe insisted that the Martians was too powerful, and that they needed a way to keep them in check. So the Guardians decided to implement the fear of fire in Martian GNA, with made sense since there existed a race called The Burning on Mars (Fernus), that now has an advantage against the Green Martians. So Martian Manhunter is not weak to fire his GNA is just messing with him.
Acedia DeKay Neat! Thanks!
I knew about the Superboy lab accident. I dident know the second one but the most intresting was the real life explanation. This episode was relly good!
raggarharry Thanks you very much! I really enjoyed learning about the real life reason.
I haven't seen any of you vids in a while but holy shit 55K subscribers?! Congrats dudes, your on your way!
I thought Luthor got cancer because of his long exposition and experiments on Kryptonite, so he became bald due to his treatment against cancer...
I think that's the story in the DCAU.
So basically, Lex Luthor created Flubber?
Oh, Nooo!
This day at 2am ECT you had under 200k subscribers, now at 16:30 ECT you have 200.160 subscribers! Great job NerdSync, hope you stay awesome ^^
AWESOME video I never thought about why Lex was bold but now I know :3 yay thanks I like the comic book version with him being burned the best XD
My internet is really bad today and i'm having trouble watching this. On the bright side I have watched the first 30 seconds several times and have come up with some possible reasons to why your hair is missing.
1. You cut it.
2. Your balding.
3. One of your crazy fans sneaked into your bedroom at night and and stole it.
4. A horrible lab accident.
5. That new shampoo you bought didn't work as advertised.
6. The instructions on your microwave were unclear.
7. The stress of running a youtube account, as well as being the first member of the plaid lanterns, is causing your hairs to fall out.
8. That new comic book you purchased was laced with some strange poison created by the evil and corrupted government.
9. You are turning into Lex Luther.
10. The sock gnomes have evolved to want hair as well. (God help us all...)
***** This is possibly my favorite comment of this year so far!
LOL XD
Lol
I prefer the Smallville reason that he got the accident through radiation poisoning from a Kryptonite meteor that in turn also supercharged his immune system so he was never sick and always lived in the fittest of physical health that he could
I love the comic version from the silver age for what Geoff johns said about it on the commentary for that super friends episode Scott mentiond, Geoff brought up that lex losing his hair and the death of that thing he created is the result of supes handling a fire so imagine what will happen on a large scale is supes tries to stop a missile or something. It goes perfectly with lex's belief that superman is a threat even if supes means well. Granted I can go on for hours about lex's idea about supermans influence making humans to reliant on superman.
In Injustice, Lex had hair but got cancer whilst working on the kryptonite gun to stop Superman's regime. As a result of the cancer Lex lost his hair. That's the only reason I have ever known Lex to be bald, and I would like to thank you NerdSync for enlightening me on the mainstream origins.
Gr8 video and keep up the good work =)
So it all has to do with a mistake.
GnaReffotsirk I find that most things in comics are based off of a mistake or some weird conflict happening behind the scenes.
+NerdSync i thought it was from sterss
GnaReffotsirk so ur mom?
Get it? I called your mom a mistake... Uhhh yeah terrible burn probably just left a scar
Captain Flame hey bud it's me again how are you? Is everything okay at home?
Love Superman: Birthright! Probably my favorite, and, I believe, most definitive Superman story out there! BTW Scott, I ended up getting that Justice League poster you have! Going up in my office soon!
Garrett Lohuis Awesome! Send me a pic when you have it up. I'd love to see it!
Will do!
AWESOME episode, I'm glad to see you on TWP, it was a fresh change and welcomed.
Samurai Rebel Viking It was a fun time! I hope to be back someday.
I really love it when you do a random topic like this that I would never think of!
Frogknight511 Sometimes I just think of questions about characters that In instinctively know will work on the show. I'm glad to see that this was one of them!
My friend got his eyebrow shaved off before, he reacted similar to Lex. And I think I heard before kryptonite origin was because the actor who played him on the tv show wanted a break from shooting so the writers had to come up with an idea that could explain his absence? I could be completely wrong and that's why you make the videos and not me haha..great work as always dude.
AHeroAlmost I've heard that theory too, but I haven't looked into it yet.
***** One thing you did forget though, I haven;t seen all the comments yet, so somebody else might have pointed this out, but in the first issues of Superman put out by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, Lex Luthor was not called Lex. He was just the mad scientist known as Luthor. Case in point, watch the second 1940's serial Atom Man Vs Superman here on youtube.
Would you believe it if I told you that I was going to mention this on Friday's Tie-In video?
***** I might believe you.....maaaaybe.
Just kidding. By the way, the serial I mentioned is no longer on youtube. Just found that out. What's the world coming to when you can't break copy right laws???? Dang!!!!!
It's a sick world man, a sick world.
i actually liked Smallville's take on this question.
Just finished the CMCs playlist and came back to the newest just to get a better look at now and then. This will be something I try to catch weekly. Maybe your podcast as well.
The Hermit Man Thanks so much! I look forward to seeing you around the comment section!
I recall Lex Luthor being made bald by super boy in a comic where he put out the fire and blew Luthor's hair off.. This seemed to have started the feud. It was aided along the way by various slights that Luthor felt were done by Super boy. Of course I want to see more of the super man mythos. My understanding is that super man was born one long hot night where his creator could not sleep, so he kept adding to super man's origin story.
There are two kinds of shrine things: the creepy kind and the normal kind.
Creepy: Having the normal things like action figures and dolls.....as well as like if the person/thing had feathers the fan would have one of their feathers and that kind of stuff
Normal: Having the same stuff minus the weird "artifacts"
Another great miniature documentary about the wonderful history of comics. Keep it up guys.
Btw I vote for the kryptonite
Peter Hubers Thank you so much. I never considered them mini-documentaries before. Sounds very official. Haha
Nice job. Really informative and well researched. First time watcher...how can I articulate the surprise Im feeling after having watched this and comparing it to the more usual wafer thin vids this place is cluttered with? Looking forward to more
I would like to see an origin episode for the individuals who were supposed to fill in for Superman after his death.
lol, your name
So The TV show Smallville got it all right!!!!
I prefer the version where he just loses his due to natural balding. Must be painful for someone with the ego of that size to just watch his hair slowly fade away and nothing could be done about it. Painfully funny as well.
Debashish Mahapatra I never thought about it like that. Haha
Origins of superman 2 plz! Luv your show/channel! Keep up the great work!
Eugene Thompson Thanks!
Superman sits on the Mobius chair and asks, "Why is Lex Luthor bald??" After some whirring and zapping the Mobius chair replies, "There are two Lex Luthors."
Crazy that in those days people working on comics would use a pen name or hide the fact they worked on the 'kids stuff' as it was shameful, and now people look at their work as an important foundation to these huge industries.
In the smallville TV show, it was the meteor shower that Clark came in. Lex was in a helicopter and it crashed? Not sure on the crashing part but, reason for Luthor's baldness
The way you say "pretty" @ 7:59 is funny
It is not a comic, but the Smallville TV show had an interesting reason. When the pieces of krypton and superman's ship arrived on earth, a young Lex got separated from his family and lost lost in a corn field. Or of some type of field. Anyway, the combination of the impacts and radiation resulted in Lex losing his hair from then on.
In superman v batman lex loses his hair at the end by having it shaved off
That's Lex Junior.
+Bill Nye oh . thanks for letting me know !
The Cheesy Creeper No problem!
Bill Nye
:D
In smallville they else showed how Lex Luthor lost his hair in episode one
I want to hear something more about that Superman radio show.
In the Marvel Comics homage to the Justice League, "Squadron Supreme," the Superman analogue Hyperion faces a villain known as "Master Menace" (notice the alliterative name) who blames the hero for causing his hair to grow uncontrollably, an obvious reference to the silver age Superboy-Luthor story.
an topic that would be cool if ya did, is about Hank Pym little accident with Wasp (you know what i mean) as that too have its own interesting BTS story, as the original script had Pym slapping her by accident and not on porpuse as the comic shows because the artist made it more dramatic than how it was meant to be and it was too late to change the panel before it went to print
^ that is a good idea.
that or an episode with a broader idea on how comics deal with real world issues (like the green arrow/green lantern "snowbirds don't fly")
eagc7 I'll look into that. Might be a good episode for when the Ant-Man movie comes out this year. Thanks!
here's a link to an articule Jim Shooter wrote about the Pym thing
www.jimshooter.com/2011/03/hank-pym-was-not-wife-beater.html
Great episode. Could you do an episode on captain America's shield? With the different versions, the physics and the reason he has one in the first place. Pleasssssssse!
Kovacsfilms I have an episode like the scheduled for a few months from now before Age of Ultron comes out!
I am pleased.
I was told a recent reason why is because being around kryptonite's radiation for too long made him go slightly insane and bold.
Superboy saved him from a fire, I think.
Said this before the video.
Just subscribed as well!
Jericob Pena You're some sort of psychic wizard! Also, thanks for the sub!
Coming over from TVLittleHouse and I have to say, I'm loving the channel and this show. Hope you're on TWP again sometime soon and get a chance to throw a little more input, you know, when Benny isn't constantly yapping. ;] Great stuff man.
Birthright is also my favorite Superman story.
***** Thank you so much! Glad to have you over here. I'd honestly love to come back on the Weekly Pull again in the future.
***** Why don't you call your fans "The Knight's Who say NerdSync" since there isn't a person on this channel who doesn't know why I suggested it?
***** OK, in I see you changing the figure behind you...not sure who it was before but, now it's Thanos.....so, is there a reason...just trying to keep the background fresh?...I see the cube next to him hasn't moved and I cen't tell if that's the Aqua man I saw before off to your right (stage left)?....just wondering if there is a purpose?
conner kilmer The figure was first Deadpool, but I replaced him with Thanos. No particular reason other than I already have two littler Deadpools on the bottom shelf (one lead-cast figurine and the other is a LEGO figure) and I didn't want there to be three Deadpool figures. So I just put Thanos there because I think he looks better. And that is also Aquaman there. He hasn't changed. The rubiks cube does have a new pattern on it that I like to change up occasionally.
***** wow that's a lot more detail I thought you were putting into planning out what is or isn't in view of the cam...I did notice the cube changed....I discovered you about 2 hrs ago now on TWP so I'm going through all of your material ad thought I was just crazy...since I saw it there with Thanos I thought it was a Cosmic Cube/MCU allusion.....and I almost guessed Deadpool but, thought that would be silly since on TWP you sounded like you were in of a fuckWade mood.
I ❤ the reason IRL! 😃😃The ghost artist practically changed Lex Luthor from resembling Donald Trump to Lord Tywin 4rm the Game of Thrones novels. Both Tywin and Trump are rich and mean so the artist was definitely on the right track. Now that's why I ❤ art. A simple mistake can be turned into a signature look!! 👍👍👏👏
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I set down my tablet with this on and my cat kept trying to get your face lol XD
This is awesome!!! Is this the return of weekly misconceptions?!?!?!
The batman v superman hair loss story is by far the best 😂
+Daniel Hartgrove yep man the prison shave i also liked the batbrand ending
I prefer Smallville's explanation.
Literally, another outstanding episode. Interesting trivia, nice and smooth presentation, just top notch! Keep up the good word!
P Pugnans I will keep it up! Or maybe I won't... (I will)
heheh word
Woah i'm 3 years late i might as well just leave
You have such an under rated account!you deserve way more subscribers!
So Lex's real vendetta against Superman all boils down to the loss of his hair?
Supes should buy the man a toupee
***** The version I heard, was the artist mistook One Mad Scientist for another. He confused The original Look of Ultra-Humanite(Superman's first arch enemy,) who was a bald mad scientist who wanted to take over the world with Luthor, a mad scientist who wanted to take over the world.
I've heard this tale, but I haven't been able to find a credible source for it.
+NerdSync The henchman at 7:42 isn't just bald, he is wearing the Ultra-Humanite's costume (even if the medical smock is period generic). I funny that hilarious.
if it was up to me, i would have lex was a cancer survivor as a child and decided to stay bald as a reminder of his strength.
+mrwalnuthero yes that would make him seem like a hero, and so what. it would make him human and more interesting
I have a reprint of a silver age comic, with bizarro, it showed the stress of fighting superman causing his hair to fall out, i think. Oh, and it sounds like smallville drew from that superboy story, at least at first. Speaking of which, I would love to know more about kryptonite, I don't know a whole lot about that.
Harry Wompa I think the Kryptonite one is going to win by a landslide.
he got cancer from kryptonite due to the radiation
DINGDINGDINGDINGDING!
The theory about Leo Nowak also posits that he mistook the Ultra-Humanite for Luthor. I don't buy this so much as the belief that he pulled the design from Superman, vol 1, number 4. Some people are still stymied by the fact that Luthor is even Superman's arch nemesis. What about Lobo, or General Zod, or Parasite? Opponents that could give Supes a run for his money. The concept is that Lex ISN'T super powered. It's his ability to outsmart Superman that makes him so badass (you know, like the Batman kids). This is a conundrum that has followed Lex since the Bronze Age. That's when Lex created the battle-suit and Superman was so powerful that in order to clean his uniform, he had to fly through the sun. Literally.
I wish you'd do one of these on the development of Superman's powers in general. How he went from only being able to do the things in the preamble of the radio/TV series, to being able to travel through space at light speed without having to breathe, then the post-crisis tone down by Byrne/Wolfman/Ordway, to whatever they're doing now. Good video.
Interesting info about the how one artist mistook Lex for another character, although the most popular story I read was that one artist mistook him for the Golden Age Ultra Humanite, who at that time was Superman's most recurring villain.
Badre Bally I've heard that and found that in my research, but I have not been able to actually find a legitimate source for that. If you have one, please let me know!
he is a redhead???
he was
so.... evil ginger ? (not being racist)
PSYCHRONIC pretty much
+PSYCHRONIC gingers aren't a race
Some people may associat red heads with certain races it was just a "just in case" , i dont want any backlash for racism
um both
David Watson Fair enough.
I always liked the Smallville version best. Lex goes bald as a child due to the meteor shower caused by baby Clark/Kal-El coming to Earth.
In Smallville they used Kryptonite radiation to make his hair fall out.
But it did cure his asthma.
Nobody makes such intelligent and well thought videos like you Scott. Just love your videos :)
Great Episode as always, Scott. I think it would be really cool if you guys could do a video on who is the real creator of vision, in some comics it was Iron Man and Hank Pym, in some it was ULTRON, maybe it's one definite answer, and I'm confused for no reason, however if you do know, you could just reply to this. Also I'd like that if you ever decided to do this topic that you'd do it maybe nearer to Age of ultron, that way you could get more viewers for your channel
Daniel Lewis I plan on doing a Vision episode in April to gear up for the Avengers in the start of May.
***** Ok thanks
I like Lex as being bald but part of me really likes the fact that he’s a redhead. Even if he’s bald, I just like the idea
Idea For A Comic Misconception Video:
Did The Weapon Plus Program Benefit Wolverine Or Not?
Wolverine WITH the adamantium bones:
-made him stronger
-^ however made his regeneration slower due to the poison in adamantium
-made his bone claws indestructable (in xmen origins sabretooth stamps on his claws and breaks them)
-gave him bad memories of the operation
-Weakness to magneto
Wolverine WITHOUT the abamantium bones:
-Regeneration MUCH faster
-Less health
-no deadpool: the reason for deadpool was because of wolverine (in comics; not real life btw), i won't go into detail
-advantage to magneto *
-he would survive longer without the mutation (like in the 'death of wolverine' comics: once again, i wont go into too much detail)
-He would become much more like an actual wolverine (his healing state wont be constantly used turning him into a wolverine, i cant go into much detail but yeah - his healing factor is 'reinventing' wolverine constantly and, if left 'unchecked', wolverine would get the animalistic features like lots more hair etc. where the adamantium comes in is : because its poisonous to humans, the healing factor is always at work, making regeneration slower but keeps wolverine more 'human' you could say - i cant go into too much detail but if you don't know much about this search it up)
*not necessarily 'advantage' more 'not disadvantage'
Hopefully this makes for a good Comic Misconceptions video. :)
I’d heard Luthor was bald after his first appearance because it was cheaper and easier to print characters with no hair than those with long red hair. I guess I was wrong.
The Real Origin of Kryptonite would be interesting.
I read once in Wikipedia that superman use to be a bald character. But they changed the character character to who he is and lex became the bald guy
When I saw the question I could only imagine a little kid asking a man "Why are you bald?"
A little epilogue to the story of the red haired Luthor. After DC consigned all the Golden Age comics to have taken place on Earth-2, they declared that the red haired Luthor was the one of that alternate dimension. He was rechristened "Alexei Luthor" and was the number one adversary of the Kal-L Superman who married Lois Lane. This Luthor made his final appearance to date in the 1985 miniseries CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS. In the 9th issue Brainiac and Luthor from Earth-1 organize all the villains into a take over bid of the five remaining worlds of the multiverse. Alexei objects to taking orders from the Earth-1 Luthor claiming there should only be one Luthor. Brainiac agrees with him and disintegrates Alexei with his eye beams.
4:08 does anyone else notice how much Lex Luther looks like Dr. Venture?
"ive admired you for a long time. to me your the greatest boy in the world"-Lex Luthor
my vote is for the kriptonite, and i wonder why it's so easy to get it, is it there a candy store which sells kriptonite or something like that