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* JerkassHasAPoint: ''Brainiac'' of all people hits Luthor with this in his confrontation with him, pointing out how for all his posturing and grandiosity, Luthor is fundamentally a small and inadequate man who [[IgnoredEpiphany lacks the ability to engage in any kind of self-reflection]] and whose goals and desires are fundamentally doomed by his own [[ItsAllAboutMe self-obsession]] and [[NeverMyFault inability to acknowledge (and therefore learn from) his own mistakes]]. He points out as an example that, for all Luthor's self-glorifying martyr complex, ''Luthor'' was the one to betray Brainiac in their last encounter.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: ''Brainiac'' of all people hits Luthor with this in his confrontation with him, pointing out how for all his posturing and grandiosity, Luthor is fundamentally a small and inadequate man who [[IgnoredEpiphany lacks the ability to engage in any kind of self-reflection]] and whose goals and desires are fundamentally doomed by his own [[ItsAllAboutMe self-obsession]] and [[NeverMyFault inability to acknowledge (and therefore learn from) his own mistakes]]. He points out as an example that, for all Luthor's self-glorifying martyr complex, ''Luthor'' was the one to betray Brainiac in their last encounter.encounter, yet has seamlessly rewritten [[SelfServingMemory his own memories]] in order to make himself the victim.
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* PerspectiveFlip: Superman, normally the star of ''Action Comics'', only appears in the final issue, with the preceding eleven focussing on Lex Luthor and his viewpoint.
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* IgnoredEpiphany: Luthor is constantly being confronted with reasons for why his quest is a bad idea, is not going to end the way he thinks, how he and the world would be much better off if he turned his back on it and focussed on other matters, or -- if he ''must'' press on regardless -- then he at least needs to change his priorities and worldview in order to truly succeed, up to and including Death of the Endless showing up to politely try and talk him out of it. He constantly dismisses and ignores them. Furthermore, he often does so in such a swift, smooth and practiced fashion, often neatly sidestepping the point onto something else, that at times it's almost like he magnetically repels any idea or suggestion that his ideas could ever be bad or that achieving what he wants is not only best for him but best for everyone in the universe without even thinking or realising it. Brainiac even calls him out on this in their confrontation, pointing out that for almost anyone else Luthor's adventures would have been a quest for self-realization and achieving a deeper understanding of themselves, but it's all just gone completely over Luthor's head because he fundamentally lacks the ability to engage in any kind of self-examination or introspection. It's not lingered on, but the smug way Luthor dismisses Brainiac's point only serves to underline it.
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* IgnoredEpiphany: Luthor is constantly being confronted with reasons for why his quest is a bad idea, is not going to end the way he thinks, how he and the world would be much better off if he turned his back on it and focussed on other matters, or -- if he ''must'' press on regardless -- then he at least needs to fundamentally change his priorities and worldview in order to truly succeed, succeed. This is up to and including Death of the Endless (i.e. the ''literal embodiment of death'') showing up to politely try and talk him out of it. He constantly dismisses and ignores them. Furthermore, he often does so in such a swift, smooth and practiced fashion, often neatly sidestepping the point onto something else, that at times it's almost like he magnetically repels any idea or suggestion that his ideas could ever be bad or that achieving what he wants is not only best for him but best for everyone in the universe without even thinking or realising it. Brainiac even calls him out on this in their confrontation, pointing out that for almost anyone else Luthor's adventures would have been a quest for self-realization and achieving a deeper understanding of themselves, but it's all just gone completely over Luthor's head because he fundamentally lacks the ability to engage in any kind of self-examination or introspection. It's not lingered on, but the smug way Luthor dismisses Brainiac's point only serves to underline it.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: ''Brainiac'' of all people hits Luthor with this in his confrontation with him, pointing out how for all his posturing and grandiosity, Luthor is fundamentally a small and inadequate man who [[IgnoredEpiphany lacks the ability to engage in any kind of self-reflection]] and whose goals and desires are fundamentally doomed by his own [[ItsAllAboutMe self-obsession]] and [[NeverMyFault inability to acknowledge (and therefore learn from) his own mistakes]]. He points out as an example that, for all Luthor's self-glorifying martyr complex, ''Luthor'' was the one to betray Brainiac in their last encounter.
