>>212518686
There's multiple variations you can pin him to
There's probably like 4 major character types through the ages that were popular;
Mad scientist from the early ages of superman where he's more of a classic mad scientist villain (this aspect has occasionally come back in some comics and even movies to a degree)
Real Estate Tycoon /Business mogul that was popular in the comics and was made famous to normies with the Donner era superman movies (as well as Returns which probably has the best on screen lex fight me )
He's usually drawn as being older and/or huge in this era and has hair is also blatantly a 80's Trump analogy
Political Luthor seen a lot more in the modern era and some of the cartoons/shows where he's gunning for the presidency while working to undermine Superman/other heroes through underhanded means (This is probably the closest that Hoult's Luthor is attempting to ape) often portrayed as charismatic, media savvy, and populist while having a massive hate boner for superman to is always making him assblasted
Chaotic/insane technocrat
Some aspects of this are in the comics but it went into overdrive with BvS and was widely disliked in that iteration but none the less this does fit the character in some more recent versions of the character
Seems that most people complain that Hoult lex is overacting which comes off as really forced
Seems he's trying to tap into the high functioning autism and manipulation aspects of the character but it falls flat due to the delivery/writing
I'm aware I didn't really explain how each of these characters types act on a personal level but what matters is the one that Hoult's aiming to recreate isn't achieved
