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Originally Posted by Patrick Sun
Let's be fair, the Smallville version of Lex has been drawn through over 120+ hours of characterization, it's tough to make apt comparisons with the movie counterparts of the "same" character with less than 12 hours of cinematic treatment of Lex.
The nice flip that "Smallville" did (to the Lex/Clark dynamic) was to develop Lex and Clark's friendship in the beginning, and then as their goals and ideals drifted apart (plus their romantic interludes with Lana), their antagonism levels escalated through the seasons. Eventually Lex and Clark/Superman will become sworn enemies, and having that level of animosity coming out of a former friendship lends a little more of the bittersweet "what could have been" flavor to their dynamic.
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Agreed... this comparison of Smallville's Luthor being more developed than those of the cinema is obvious for obvious reasons.
However, the "flip" as mentioned above is not unique to Smallville as it is derived from the Silver-Age Superboy series that explained the long rivalry of Superman and Lex. In it, Superboy and Lex Luthor were once good friends (not Clark and Lex).