Vad är ursprunget till idén att Lex Luthor är judisk?

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We learn this from a guy named Elliot S! Maggin (yes, he spells his name with an exclamation point), who wrote the Superman strip in the 70s and 80s. His notes on all the characters mentioned their religious affiliations, and reveal that Jimmy Olsen is Lutheran, Lois Lane is RC, Lex Luthor is a non-observant Jew - and Clark Kent is Methodist.

Hur exakt är det uteslutet att Lex Luthor är judisk? Citatet ovan låter som om Maggin inte uppfann idén, bara dokumenterade den, även om jag kunde ha fel.

Ursprungs det med Siegel och Schuster? Någon annan?

Jag föredrar något dokumenterat bevis över spekulationer.

    
uppsättning DVK-on-Ahch-To 23.10.2012 20:36

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Silver Age Lex Luthor som Elliot S! Maggin fick skriva en roman ( Last Son of Krypton ) med hjälp av tecknet som beskrivits honom i den publikationen som judisk.

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Elliot S! Maggin stated that he saw Lex Luthor as Jewish, and has the character use some Yiddish as a Second Language in his novel Last Son Of Krypton. It should be noted that A) this was Silver Age Luthor, who was not a Corrupt Corporate Executive whose primary trait is greed, B) Maggin is Jewish, and C) Maggin is very, very fond of Luthor.

    
svaret ges 23.10.2012 21:25
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Lex Luthor is depicted as a Nietzschean atheist in comics, although he is rarely (if ever) overtly identified by name as such.

The 1980s live-action television series Superboy portrayed a college-age Lex Luthor as an Episcopalian Protestant who enters an Episcopalian monastery as a monk in response to a lab accident that renders him bald.

Och mer från webbplatsen:

Clearly Luthor is not an adherent of any organized religion. However, Elliot S! Maggin, an observant Jew who is one of Superman's most popular and influential writers, has stated that Luthor is a non-observant Jew. Given Lex Luthor's utter disinterest in traditional organized religion and moral value systems, it is not surprising that his character never refers to any religious upbringing or religious ethnicity.

There seems to be little printed textual support for identifying Luthor as Jewish. But the theory certainly is plausible in a world where many of history's real-life brilliant world-changing atheists (or agnostics) have been Jewish, including Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, Franz Kafka, Noam Chomsky, etc. (The obvious difference, of course, is that Luthor is evil while these other individuals, regardless of whether or you agree with them or not, were not evil.)

Så medan en samtida författare kan rama honom som en icke-observant jew, finns det inget bevis någonstans av detta ursprung eller några riktiga religiösa indikationer. Förutom i Live Action Superboy, där han gick med i en massa episcopalian munkar men som hade Superboy slåss mormoner med lasrar (?) så jag är inte säker på att det ska följas.

    
svaret ges 23.10.2012 21:18