Maxwell Lord

The Marvel Cinematic Universe is the most successful movie franchise ever and its most popular character is Tony Stark. Given that DC are clearly following their rivals’ model when it comes to their expanded cinematic universe, they should do with Lex Luthor what Marvel Studios have done with Stark – give him a number of business rivals.

In the MCU, it’s been the likes of Justin Hammer with Hammer Industries and Aldrich Killian with A.I.M., while Darren Cross‘ arrival with Cross Technological Enterprises is imminent and Norman Osborn’s Oscorp will surely follow soon.

With that in mind, Chimtech businessman Maxwell Lord could rival Luthor – after all, they are fierce business rivals in the comic books and Luthor even acquired Chimtech to add to LexCorp.

Lord’s arrival could set him up to be a Wonder Woman villain in future movies and, as a powerful telepathic metahuman, he’d be an interesting addition to the DC Cinematic Universe to boot.