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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 2754500" data-attributes="member: 151">True, but those are all late 80s/early 90s revisions.  Prior to that, Metropolis and Gotham's exact location was as unspecificied as Star City, Coast City, Key City and all the rest.  A generic US city located somewhere unspecified, to make it easier to play out the stories as they wanted.  In fact, the writers were awfully inconsistent about the city's internal geography, let alone it's location.  Wikipedia has a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_(Superman)" target="_blank">pretty good article</a>  on the topic of Metropolis, pointing out that it originally had a skyline modeled after that of Ontario and Cleveland, but was typically an analogue for New York City, just like Gotham was (although they emphasized different aspects of it).  Heck, Batman's adventures originally took place in NYC or a nameless city for his first two years...Gotham City wasn't named as such until 1941 (and remember, Gotham is a nickname for NYC).Lex was still his super-gadget making self up until 1986, long after these films.  His finest appearance, IMHO, was in Alan Moore's Swamp Thing run, where the government paid him $1 million in consulting fees for 5 minutes of his time to find a way to stop the Swamp Thing (who had crippled Gotham).  He quickly drew up a schematic and announced, "Stopping this monster is easy.  He's not Invulnerable.  I KNOW Invulnerable." <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Post-1986, Lex became his new version, a rich, corrupt businessman who was untouchable by the law.  He became the perfect foil for the new Superman.  Superman is immensely powerful, but chooses to play by the rules of mankind, preferring their company and adopting their lifestyles and beliefs.  He chooses to help people, when he doesn't have to do anything of the sort.  Lex is his exact counterpart...someone who will break every rule to do whatever he wants and whose contempt for others is evident in everything he does.  Their interaction is one of the most compelling things about that early run and about one reason why the animated series (and by extension, the JL animated series) works so well.</blockquote>

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