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Lex Luthor

December 8, 2005: Forbes Follows Up with Luthor vs Wayne Article

Continuing on from The Forbes Fictional Fifteen list we reported on last week, Forbes' has published an article reporting on the fictional rivalry between Lex Luthor and Bruce Wayne, two men listed at number 4 and 8 respectively on the Fictional Fifteen list. Here's an excerpt from the article...

    Since resigning as U.S. president, Luthor has been publicly lobbying for increased government oversight of so-called "superheroes." Some of these beings, including such crowd-pleasers as Superman and Green Lantern, are thought to be more powerful than atomic bombs. For decades, superheroes have routinely outscored "Mom" and "apple pie" in public opinion surveys, but recent polls have shown increasing levels of distrust.

    "We cannot continue to put unlimited trust in beings who can crush coal into diamonds with their bare hands or move asteroids using energy beams," says Luthor. "These superheroes--or as I like to call them, superzeros--have weaknesses, and the government should make an effort to learn them--guarding against the day when these do-gooders are no longer doing good."

    Famous superheroes vehemently oppose any further governmental regulation.

    "Were it not for those who can fly, tear steel with their bare hands or talk to fish, all of you surface-dwellers would be fodder for sharks and aliens," says Aquaman, king of the undersea city of Atlantis, through a spokesman. Adds Princess Diana of the Amazons, popularly known as Wonder Woman: "We've stopped five alien invasions, ten giant robots and two enormous superintelligent apes just this year. More government attempts to regulate powerfully gifted individuals who obey existing laws is not the answer to the world's problems."

Read the full article at the Forbes.com website.



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