Ok. Me and a couple friends of mine started a debate earlier today. They don't read many comics, but they're huge fans of the DC and Marvel cartoons: Justice League, Stattic Shock, Teen Titans, etc.

When we were opening our BatB Heroclix boosters, they asked why Lex Luthor is white...I told them he IS white. They said he wasn't, and showed me a picture of him from the Justice League Unlimited cartoon. He looked white in that picture too, but since his skin was ALMOST slightly darker than the other two characters in the picture, and because of the way his face was drawn, they argued that he's a light skinned black man...also, a couple of his action figures online has darker skin than Superman.

We kept up the debate just for fun, but neither side proved anything.

So, anyone have any PROOF as to what race Lex Luthor is? Lol
In the cartoon?

Cite examples of other clearly WHITE characters in JLU that have similar skin tones? Black Canary or Huntress come to mind.

I think he is tanned because he occasionally spends his money and time in Palm Beach or the French Riviera or his yacht. Not to mention all those experiments with red sun rays machines...

the guy who voices him is clancy brown(the evil preacher in carnivale) who is white, if that helps.

He's white darn it!
my friends have the same dumb discussion.

*Fixed



Lex in comic books=white
Other medium=who cares?

Black, White, Lithuanian...doesn't matter.

*Double-fixed.

As for the topic at hand, I agree that he's obviously white and is just shown with a tan.

In this pic he seems to have to same skin colour as Giganta and Volcana: http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stori...4/07/jluth.jpg

Black guys do bald better then white guys so subliminally they think Luthor is black.

Wonder Woman is classified as white but I'd most certainly call her dark skinned

Fixed it for you.

I heard a commentary where Timm and some other folks discussed the misconception about the animated Luthor's race. They basically said that he's white and has the same skin tone as Superman.

I think they just light him differently. Because he's evil.

Whereas Harvey Dent from Batman: TAS was originally black.

Yeah He was but they kept it mostly in dark lighting so they could justify switching him : P


Wasn't he originally Black to synergize with the movies at the time?

Affirmative Action Lex Luthor!

Know with kung-fu grip!

Triple-fixed.

Yes, he was,* but there are people here on the 'Realms who will argue ENDLESSLY about that despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary (as shown in a thread on the subject a while back).

Best to just let 'em win and say "Nobody in the DCAU is black unless it's Amanda Waller or a hero with the word 'Black' somewhere in their name".

Then you can fight with the Black Canary fans.

* As has been pointed out endlessly elsewhere, Billy Dee Williams was the original Harvey Dent but backed out after the first movie, so he was replaced with Tommy Lee Jones. My theory is that since Tommy had a first name that also ended with two consonants and a "y", as well as a middle name that rhymed with "Dee", they figured nobody'd notice.

Batman: TAS had already been on the air for a year at that time, and in production for still longer, dating back to the time when Williams was still scheduled to play Two-Face.