What the fuck was his problem?

What the fuck was his problem?

he got bullied by chads and staceys

Because his dad abused him as a child and he came to the conclusion that God cannot be good if he was all powerful and yet chose to let him suffer. So when Superman, a god-like figure comes to Earth, he refuses to believe that someone so powerful is "good". He then tried to "expose him as a fraud" by having him kill Batman or have him killed by Batman.

You know the leddit fedora boogeyman Sup Forums love to hate on?
That's him. That's Lex
The whole movie is basically leddit taking on two chads only to be foiled and having to resort to calling help from a giant troll, cameo a qt3.14 to piss off Sup Forums

Then why did he release Doomsday?

He is secretly gay.

>Him offering that guy a red cherry and licking his fingers after
>The reason why Lex lets the cute Asian die and doesn't pay attention to when she gives him a smile earlier on in the film
Yes Snyder made Lex gay.

It's sort of implied (in the UE) that was Steppenwolf's doing.

to fight superman and kill him. it kinda worked.

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He is a really bad actor

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Overacting to the extreme.

I cringed every time he was on screen.

And then Doomsday runs wild and destroys the planet. Great idea, Lex.

but I loved his acting in this scene

>Because his dad abused him as a child and he came to the conclusion that God cannot be good if he was all powerful and yet chose to let him suffer. So when Superman, a god-like figure comes to Earth, he refuses to believe that someone so powerful is "good". He then tried to "expose him as a fraud" by having him kill Batman or have him killed by Batman.

>he believes luthor lies

He doesnt care about the planet

>OOOOOOH IM A LOBSTER

he thought that doomsday was his son and wouldnt harm him, he was wrong

That's just how he came to rationalize both his upbringing and the existence of an alien figure like Superman.

You can trace a more realistic analysis of his psychology just by seeing how he behaves in other scenes.
When he gives the library speech and when he uses geometry as a metaphor with Lois, for instance, you can see how hard he struggles to find the proper, by-the-vocabulary definitions of what builds his psychotic, grandiose toughts.
Not only that, but you can also see him loathe himself and momentarely lose his identity when he can't find the right words, probably with his mind going back to how his dad punished him for being an intellectual underachiever as a kid.
Basically his dad made everything he could to make his son a picture of himself - an important, genius, larger-than-life entrepreneur - and he did so at the expense of his mental and emotional stability.

Superman looks like nothing that young Lex read in the books he was forced to memorize by his father - whose image he still uses as a standard to build his own identity, even more so by inheriting his role at LexCorp - and he was raised to believe that only he could reach a godlike status among humans. So the metahuman discovery is when his fragile psyche crumbles down and leads to all the events depicted in the movie.

Like the original comic character, he can't understand Superman existance: he only knows that he can't play "god" as long as he is around, and wants his image destroyed.

His portrayal was pretty spot on if you think about it, and even true to the source material. It's just that Eisenberg's bratty mannerism is too distracting and out of place for a film that, even if it tries too, doesn't want to sell himself as a psychological thriller.
He's the more realistic character, yet he's also the hardest one to take seriously.

They literally told him to chanel heath ledgers joker to play let Luthor and he failed