I'm not a comics fan I've only ever watched movies and TV shows and played video games. So when it comes to lex luthor I've always thought his problem with Superman was that his power makes humanity and by extension lex look weak and that no matter what a normal human being(and lex)achieves it's always going to be undermined by the power of Superman, and that no matter what humanity and by extension lex is always going to seen as inferior. 

It's something that's brought up both an All-Star Superman and my adventures of Superman. In all star lex stats that people like Clark and himself are always overlooked due to Superman, and in MAWS lex states that people like Superman are a massive threat to humanity because his strength outclasses anything that humanity can create.

So I've always seen Lex's problem with Superman not just being that Superman makes lex seem inferior but that's Superman makes humanity as a whole seem inferior. 

Who cares if a firefighter risks his life to put out a burning building, when Superman can just fly over and blow on it. Who cares if a police officer puts his life on the line to stop a bank robbery, when Superman can just show up and stop it without any of the effort or threat to his own life. Who cares what a power lifter can lift when Superman can lift 50 times that without any of the effort. who cares how fast a track star can run when Superman can run 100 times as fast with none of the training or conditioning. Who cares how intelligent lex luthor is when the sheer might of Superman outclasses it a thousand fold. 

THINK OF ALL HUMANITY NEEDS TO DO, THE MONEY THEY NEED TO SPEND THE EFFORT THEY NEED TO EXERT TO MIMIC A FRACTION OF WHAT HE CAN DO NATURALLY.

But something that I've just recently thought about is that Superman isn't the only person like himself. He's not the only person who can fly, who can shoot lasers out of his eyes, who has super strength, who can run several times the speed of sound, Superman isn't the only god among men he just happens to be one of the strongest.

Met humans in general outclass humanity. Heck in Young Justice a show I've grown up on Vandal Savage even claims that meta humans are the next step of human evolution, And he's right. metahumans are stronger than us they're faster, they're actually capable of defending themselves against threats from beyond the stars. Think of how many aliens  that exist in DC and how many of them make regular humans look weak. Kryptonians, tamaranians, martians. Think of how many of them could easily wipe humanity from existence. And it's not just metahumans. atlanteans and the amazonians too they both far out class anything a human could do including lex luthor. 

TLDR
Every sense of inferiority and envy lex feels to Superman he should feel to all super powered individuals. Because they all outshine him, they all make him look weak, they all make him look inferior, They all put a spotlight on humanitie's weakness.  

But most importantly And the thing that lex doesn't realize through his envy is that for every superpowered hero there is there's another person like superman. A person with all this power, a person with all these gifts but rather than choosing to use them selfishly like lex would they would rather use it to do good and help people.

In my mind lex doesn't see the good deeds he just sees the power behind them. And that power isn't something that only Superman has, it's something multiple superheroes have and therefore I feel like lex shouldn't just hate Superman but superpowered people in general.

But tell me if I'm wrong like I said I don't read the comics So Im probably misinterpreting or missing something about Lex's character So enlighten me






Am I wrong for thinking lex should hate super powered people in general and not just Superman