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Indie. (Earth 3) Luthor-El RP blog (All posts are IC unless stated otherwise)

WARNING: Luthor-El does not go by Luthor here. He goes by Lee-El. This also is an incredibly canon-divergent take and interpretation of him.

Of course with the Luthor surname you'd assume they are related by Blood, but there's not one we know traveller family with the first name Dana.

But there is another character in the Superman canon who does have the first name Diana. Obsession Aka Dana Dearden.

I was on about this as an aside back when the Young Justice vol.2 tpb hit shelves, as I wasnt keeping up with YJ issue by issue. But what a missed opportunity their little earth-3 excursion was. I get that it was just a quick dip in and out of Earth-3, and there wasnt time to go into the specifics of who the Crime Syndicate is and how they're different from the Justice League, so clearly the idea was to keep it simple and stick to "evil versions." But other than the fact that having them keep the Wonder-, Super- and Robin motifs just being kind of a big continuity error, a proper set of Earth-3 "Young Criminals" just would've been so cool.

Luthor-El is actually a fun angle for an evil Superboy. It's a shame they gave him kind of a counter intuitive backstory as the son of Kal-Il and Lana Luthor; having him keep the clone background wouldve been fine, and having him take more after Luthor than Kal would have been interesting. Plus, Connor already has the punk thing going in with the studded leather jacket, giving Luthor-El a mohawk as an "evil" trait feels kind of silly. You know what couldve been cool to counter Connor's look though? Making Luthor-El a skinhead; shaved head to harken back to Lex(even though Earth-3 Alex isnt bald, I know), jack boots, and keep the leather jacket but zip/button it up to give him a distinct look, spray paint a big "U" onto it for Ultra/Uber and make him a real elitist shit head.

Sadly, Superwoman of Earth-3 is a weird case...  She’s actually evil Lois Lane? But an Amazon?  But also has like, heat vision sometimes?  And Diana is just nowhere to be found on Earth-3?  She’s also just a frustratingly written mess of a character, with all her major plot points involving her sleeping with Ultraman, and secretly sleeping with Owlman, and secretly sleeping with Alexander Luthor, and being pregnant, and lying about who the father is, etc...  it’s all just wildly unimaginative and poorly motivated, and just bad writing.  Honestly so much of it scans like the plot of some lame 40s pulp drama.  it really doesn’t give an evil Cassandra much to work with as some kind of implicit Superwoman sidekick, although I think they tried to play with it by having Amaxon Thunder leading the team with Luthor-El and Drake both in love with her...  They don’t talk about the whole thorny lasso of submission thing at all.

and then there’s Drake.... For one, if he was going to have any of his old outfit, he’d have been a Talon, not a Robin, so there’s that.  But there’s also just so much to be said for a Talon legacy under Owlman.  Did he also have a Jason Todd?  Did he also die?  How?  What prompted Earth-3 Drake to become Talon III?  If he joins of his own accord like Tim as Robin, then that makes him kind of an interestingly self-motivated villain, unlike a lot of other sidekicks, thrown into the role by birth or other circumstance.  An evil Tim ostensibly chose to be a villain.