Source: herocollective.com
2. President Lex
Well, look at this story that maybe everyone should be checking out at this point in time for no real reason. It’s set in the year 2000, when there’s an election. In the DC Universe, noted businessman with no political experience Lex Luthor wins it.
This is a brilliant move from a storyline standpoint. Luthor had been rebooted post-crisis, so no one other than Superman knows that Luthor is really a bad guy. In fact, when Luthor had supposedly died in a rocket crash years earlier, everyone in Metropolis mourned him as a fallen hero. But giving Luthor the amount of power that comes with the presidency makes him a true equal of Superman, just in a different field.
It becomes about practical power vs. societally created power. Pretty smart. Luthor keeps the presidency for a couple of years, until he’s caught using a combination of Venom (the drug that makes Bane not the Spider-Man villain) and a green and purple battle suit to try and kill Superman (and, to a lesser extent, Batman). At this point he’s impeached.
Lasting impact: Not really anything, actually. Like, people mention the Luthor presidency every once in a great while, but it’s mostly ignored.
