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Superman: Lex Luthor
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Superman is the story of a baby with superhuman powers who is sent from the doomed planet of Krypton to the state of Kansas, where he's raised as Clark Kent. Once he moves to the city of Metropolis, the mild-mannered Midwestern editor becomes the Man of Steel and uses his remarkable powers to heroic effect. Superman (Christopher Reeve) soon finds himself pitted against the evil Lex Luthor (Gene Hackman), who plans to detonate a nuclear warhead in the San Andreas Fault, causing California to sink into the ocean.
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In the UK, Superman is Kenneth Clarke, a member of Parliament by day who secretly fought crime until he realized that the problems criminals were causing would give him something to use as a campaign issue during elections. His arch-nemesis is Ming Luthor, a liberal politician who wants to take over Parliament. Eventually. Some day. El Clarkoh Kentoh, muy bueno, muy poder.
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Early in his adventures Superman met Lex Luthor during an event Luthor was holding on his yacht. Luthor created a dangerous situation just to get Superman to turn up and offer him a job. Superman was not impressed, and neither was the Mayor of Metropolis who empowered Superman to arrest Luthor for public endangerment. This humiliation began what would become one of the legendary rivalries of the DC Universe.
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In March 1949, after having been locked inside a skyrocket by Lex Luthor, Superman uses his super-breath in place of rocket fuel to launch the skyrocket into the stratosphere. "And with super-breath," notes the text, "the Man of Steel lifts the projectile into the sky!" Superman performs a similar feat in July 1960, climbing into the exhaust apparatus of a jet aircraft disabled in midair and using his superbreath as jet propulsion to guide it to a safe landing.
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Superman was shocked to meet a being calling herself Supergirl, someone who first appeared similar to Lana Lang. Supergirl explained that she was from the Time Trapper's Pocket Universe and pleaded Superman to come back there with her. Superman agrees and meets the Lex Luthor of that universe, a benevolent scientist responsible for creating the Matrix Supergirl. He explains that ten years have passed since Superman's visit, and that the Pocket Universe exists solely so that the Legion of Super-Heroes could come there from the future. Superboy has already left for the 30th Century and Luthor accidentally released General Zod, Faora, and Quex-Ul, three Kryptonian criminals, from the Phantom Zone. The Kryptonians proceeded to destroy the atmosphere of the Pocket Earth, killing everyone on the planet, save for a handful that Lex protected in Smallville.
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DC Comics, Superman's publisher, released four prequel titles throughout June 2006 to tie in with the movie. The four 40-page editions served to explain the backstory to Superman Returns and are entitled Krypton to Earth (which reintroduces the origin from the 1978 Film, with Jor-El as the main protagonist), Ma Kent (in which Martha Kent recalls finding her son, his life growing up, and contemplates if she'll ever see him again), Lex Luthor (discussing Lex Luthor's time in jail, how he met Kitty and Gertrude Vanderworth (the old rich woman)) and Lois Lane (going over Lois' heartbreaking loss of the Man of Steel, her first meeting with Richard, and the birth of Jason).[40]
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