"Very good. Full of spirit!"
Seeing Luthor accept Superman's disappearance so calmly, even though Su Ming had done quite a bit of deceiving and fabrication, Su Ming happily patted the Anti-Superman Armor and gave him a thumbs-up.
"I was worried Superman's disappearance would make you lose your motivation to move forward, Lex. You've really made me see you in a new light."
"Heh heh, Deathstroke, if you think I'm only capable of that much—if you think losing Superman would leave me without a goal in life—then you've underestimated me." The bald man in green-and-purple armor gave a crooked smile. He exchanged a glance with Brainiac in the distance and nodded, signaling him to set a plan in motion, while continuing, "My goal has always been to awaken humanity's spirit of self-reliance. Anything that benefits that goal is both a spur and an encouragement to me."
Superman had disappeared before. He had even died before. There had once been a Superman graveyard in Metropolis's city square.
Lex knew full well that Superman was not so easy to kill, so he spoke with complete confidence now and dismissed Deathstroke's words with contempt.
But if he truly learned that Superman was dead, whether the bald man would burst into tears was another matter.
Just like Joker. When he believed Batman had died in the comics, he too quickly faded into obscurity and could even return to the ordinary life of a corporate drone, because he had lost his motivation to live.
As mentioned before, Batman and Joker brought each other into being, just like Luthor and Superman. This was the unique bond between Superheroes and Super Villains in the DC Universe.
There were many similar pairs: Little Dai and Cheetah, Arthur and Ocean Master, J'onn and any random White Martian, Green Lantern and