You guys have to accept that the traditionally masculine self-made industrialist archetype is dead and gone. Modern billionaire businessmen are largely weird dysfunctional insecure autists who refuse to go to therapy.

>>149355597 (OP)
>Modern billionaire businessmen are largely weird dysfunctional insecure autists who refuse to go to therapy.
I think they were always like that just no social media to show it off.

No businessman has ever gone to therapy. Someone rich knows a scam when they see it.

Cool, make him a mad scientist again.

>>149355999
Lex used to look like Guy, holy fuck.

>>149355667
>I think they were always like that just no social media to show it off.
This.
Citizen Kane came out in 1941, which shows that the "weird autist sociopath uber rich guy who can't relate to any normal person and really need therapy" archetype has existed for nearly 100 years at the minimum.
Every rich guy needs therapy or to their ass kicked at least once in their life to be humbled.

>>149355667
>>149355731
There have always been weirdos in the sciences, in technology (look at Tesla and Edision and Ford were both just high functioning), and thus in business.

But people like the Vanderbilts, the Carnegies, the Kennedy's - they were called robber barons and manipulative thieves for a reason. They were people perfectly happy to use slave labor, or immigrant labor that could then be rounded up and put into prisons or deported, versus being paid, to construct railroads, build steel building/sky scrapers, etc. They were insecure in different ways, but they were still someone who a traditional masculine say lumberjack could and would beat the shit out of them.

People who romanticize them into 'masculine traditionalism' are wrong.

>baby groyper emerges from egg, tells you how the world works
Because traditionally Luthor was known for never coming unhinged

>>149355999
He is one in the movie. In-universe, the portal technology he makes is risky as all hell with the potential to destroy the Earth each time it's activated if the infinitesimally precise calculations needed aren't spot on, and yet he uses it flippantly to get around. Even when the portal does finally go out of control and threaten to destroy everything, it's only because he deliberately makes it do so.

>>149355597 (OP)
They were never all that masculine

>>149355597 (OP)
I like this version of Luthor.
>1A! 1A! 1A! 1A!

>>149357667
I really liked that he was basically playing X-com with an entire esports team helping him with keeping tabs on everything and executing his commands.

>>149355597 (OP)
Smallville had the best version of Lex Luthor and no other has been able to compare ever since
https://youtu.be/g9e0gCah9l4?si=1h8fV_ao7TuZkzeb

>>149356064
I can't imagine why you think a therapist can do anything about a rich person's problems, most of their job is telling people to think more like rich people.

>>149355597 (OP)
>Modern billionaire businessmen are largely weird dysfunctional insecure autists who refuse to go to therapy.
I mean just look at Musk or Zuckerberg.

>>149355597 (OP)
True.
Art is imitating life.

therapy as psychologists are for neurotic white ladies. A rich man gets a psychtrist if he is having mental problems and gets on some drugs

>>149357795
>most of their job is [fanfic]
Another one who never saw a therapist.
But this one is poor.

Kinda looks like Billy Corgan

>>149355597 (OP)
>the traditionally masculine self-made industrialist archetype
Luthor is a mad scientist, not this post-crisis shit

>>149355597 (OP)
That archetype has only existed for a century and a half tho. It isn't as integral to humanity as one would assume

>>149357835
Says the schizo.

>>149357880
He also used to have hair. What's your point?

>>149355597 (OP)
Lex is supposed to be a fascist. He even looks like Benito Moussolini