Superman: Lex 2000 #1 (Source: io9.gizmodo.com)

1. Lex Luthor

(Superman, DC Comics)

In real life, the 2000 election was a controversial one that led to much anger and infighting. In the DC universe, a literal supervillain took the presidency. To be fair though, its not like the people of the DCU knew Luthor was a supervillain, they just thought he was a businessman. Which I guess is the same thing to a lot of people, but whatever.

The cool part about Luthor being the president was that there honestly were a lot of good Superman stories that came out of it. It is a great story idea to give Luthor as much power as possible. People always complain that Superman is too powerful, and while I personally think that’s a ridiculous complaint, one solution is to give Luthor a comparable amount of power in a different field.

Of course, Luthor was eventually impeached, mostly because he kinda sorta got hopped up on Venom (the thing that makes Bane all strong and stuff) and put on a green and purple armored battlesuit. That is not the kinda thing the American people easily forgive. Although it would be ENDLESSLY HILARIOUS if an actual US President got kicked out of the White House for putting on a battlesuit and trying to kill Superman.

No part of that isn’t funny.