To people asking Lex Luthor made Doomsday or his overall motivation, look at the creation scenes -- how he cries when examining Zod. The Greek Icarus flew too close to the sun and fell, Zod and the other Kryptonians came across the universe simply to restore their people. Yet Superman struck them down, in Lex's eyes, to cement his status as a god. He gives the genesis chamber his own DNA and weeps viewing the lethal results of Superman's righteousness. "If God is all-good, then he cannot be all-powerful" Lex manically laments as he remembers the abuses of his father. So if the super man's intentions for humanity are so supremely pure that he would act as destroyer for his own race, then there is no way he will never live up to them. The largest departure from comic book Lex Luthor is that he is no longer antagonizing Superman out of jealousy, beneath it all is a despair that Superman cannot fulfill the promise he made to this world.
By his interaction with the ship and Zod, Lex is more a bridge between 2 worlds than Superman will ever be. After Zod is reborn, Lex reaches out to embrace him. Mad scientist Lex Luthor is more a spiritualist as the ghost of Krypton arises to meet him. The worlds torn asunder by Superman, rather explicitly or implicitly, are linked by a shared experience of moral objectivism. Zod's unerring beliefs could not coexist with the Superman the same as tumultuous nature of humanity cannot. "If man won't kill God, then the devil will do it", there's double meaning: first off, Batman failed to end the Superman, but more importantly, Superman refused to give up his goodness - his godliness - viewing the underbelly of mankind. Batman's character arc in this movie is remembering that moral absolutes do still exist, then Lex's arc is attempting to prove to the world that they do as well. He never thought Superman would kill Batman. A layman would view Lex's catalog of metahuman files as brought on by paranoia. "The oldest lie in America is that power can be innocent" -- think of this of the objectivist scale, not the relativist one. These extraordinary people Lex catalogued cannot simply exist and be complacent, they factually must be like Superman as either savior or destroyer. Remember that despite aiding mankind, Prometheus was no man. Yet Lex's greatest fear is not that Olympus will succeed in stopping Prometheus - Superman has already brought down Olympus -, it's that humanity will. That necessitates the creation of Doomsday, the devil, a being rising against its destroyer. If Superman exists and is godly, then the devil must exist. If life is given to mankind by Prometheus, then anti-life must be given as well.
This, of course, perfectly ties together with the coming of Darkseid. In that deleted scene, he prays before Darkseid's church. Zack Snyder's Lex Luthor does not hate Superman. His villainy comes from believing in him the most out of anyone on the planet.
>>81368018
Too long, didn't read. Shitpost more concisely next time, anon.
I didn't get the Icarus reference. So Lex admired him now? So much so that he wanted to try it again and fly higher? But Zod was the confirmation of his fears and doomsday was even worse (not that he could've predicted that, but it was still an idiotic thing to do).
>>81367998
But what was the jar of piss symbolically representing?
>>81368742
Spoilers, obviously, but it was supposed to beMMMM BOYSSSSS
>>81368742
the movie itself. very meta and post-modern.
>>81368742
Just a Randian moment
>>81368742
So she'd know who killed her.
>>81368753
What did he mean by "the red capes are coming"?
Who else has a red cape besides Superman?
I hated that they made Luthor too young and WAY too Jokery..reminded me of the ka'ching guy from the 90's in a bad way..
I know in the original comic batman was older, but I wished they kept him younger like in the earlier movies.
It was kinda slow starting, but wasn't terrible.
>>81368018
>his villany comes from believing in Superman the most out of anyone
You started off so strong with the idea theat Superman struck down Zod to retain himself as God according to Lex and then you shit the bed and made everything really confusing in the second part.
How the fuck do you think "believing" in Superman drives him to call Darkseid? You dumb fuck.
Either explain it concicely and clearly or cut the whole second part out of your theory.
There is still no clear motivation for calling Darkseid other than dooming the world for no fucking reason.
>>81368658
>not that he could've predicted that
Yeah he could've, when the computer warned him it was an abomination so dangerous the council banned it's creation
>>81368961
http://influentialamericans.weebly.com/paul-revere.html
>>81369816
Lex knows he's in a shit movie, so he calls Darksied so he will continue to exist in the spinoff movies even if his own movie bombs
