Why didn't Lex Luthor ever attempted to insert Kryptonian DNA into himself and grant himself Kryptonian powers? Even that failure from Doom Patrol was capable of doing this.
Because only man can defeat a god
Because at Lex should be disgusted by the idea of injecting any alien DNA into himself.
>i want to kill him because i want to be him
sjw logic
>>82731925
Post-Flashpoint, he gave himself Darkseid's powers. Pre-Flashpoint, he stole the powers of a Phantom Zone God.
>>82732249
Those are god powers, not alien powers.
As for the question, he gave himself Kryptonian powers in 52 via the everyman project.
>>82732476
>Darkseid not an alien
>>82733251
He's not. In his true form he's a living idea, and Apokolips is not located inside the normal universe so his "projected form" isn't an alien either.
If he gained powers equal to Superman and failed to save the day, inspire people, or just be as good as Superman, he'd have no one to blame but himself. That fact would shatter his ego and he knows it.
>>82731722
I though he was sitting on a giant pot leaf.
>>82733251
He's the tiger-force inside all things.
>>82731722
We've seen it done in a couple of different continuities, actually. It's kind of beating a dead horse at this point.