It may have hold a petty pushing , butWonder Womanmanaged to get a shameful   secret   out ofSuperman’sgreatest enemy , Lex Luthor . Amidst a dire office , Diana used the Lasso of Truth to restrain Lex Luthor , only for him to reveal what his actual problem with Superman is .

Since the Man of Steel first abound onto the scene , Lex Luthor has been there to challenge him . No matter what imposing deeds Superman has done in the name of man , Luthor remain positive in his opinion that the hero is one of manhood ’s vainglorious threats . The wicked industrialist has done everything he can to sully the good name of Superman and turn the world against him . But no matter how much money he spends on propaganda or anti - Superman skill projects , nothing has hold on the globe from accepting Superman as the number one hero .

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And that honey may besomething that bothers Lex Luthormore than he lets on . InBlackest Night # 7by Geoff Johns and Ivan Reis , heroes and villains have been drafted into the various Lantern Corps of the Emotional Spectrum to attend to push the Black Lantern army . Among them , Luthor has been inducted into the Orange Lantern Corps due to his immense capacity for greed . His greed gets the better of him though , and he begins turn on his allies in an attempt to add their tintinnabulation to his collecting . Several heroes are diverted away from the fight to stop the baddie from ruining everything . Wonder Woman takes the atomic number 82 on restraining Lex , raid out her trusty Lasso of Truth . As the magics of the Lasso work on Luthor , he divulge what he require more than anything else : " What I really want … is to be Superman . "

This is a bold admission from someone who notoriously does n’t allow others know what he imagine . Butthe Orange Lantern ring amplifies Luthor ’s desiresto greater   grade than they previously were , and when that is combined with Diana ’s Roland de Lassus , he stands no chance of not uncover his ultimate desire . It may not be the most surprising secret , but the peep into Lex ’s thinker bear witness a sad reasoning for why he choose the path of villainy .

The estimation that Lex Luthor wants to be   the Man of Steel should n’t be too disgraceful . He ’s long held the opinion that he would be mankind ’s greatest rescuer if it was n’t for the tampering of his alien adversary . But Wonder Woman peels back an important part of Luthor and reveals that under all the hatred and scheming , Lex just wants the same adoration that Superman gets . There ’s no doubt that he ’d love the major power that comes with being a Kryptonian , but more than anything else , Luthor just wants to be seenas the hero of the story . The fact that Luthor ’s desire to kill   Clark is rooted in his inferiority composite does n’t excuse his villainous endeavors , but it does make them more pitiful . Wonder Woman’slasso helped reveal that whileLex Luthormay play the baddie , he ’ll never stop wishing he was inSuperman’splace .

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