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Superman Good Deeds and Lex Luthor Bad Deeds refer to a series of image macros, caption memes and tweets following the 2025 Superman film, directed by James Gunn, in which images of Superman, played by actor David Corenswet, are paired with wholesome captions about helping people and spreading kindness. Alternatively, others used images of Lex Luthor, played by Nicholas Hoult, paired with captions about being evil. The primary image of Superman showed the character lying down and smiling serenely from the movie's ending. The primary Lex Luthor image showed the character standing in a corporate setting and scowling. The trend spread en masse on Twitter / X in mid-July 2025. Viral examples of the meme used captions like, "Helped my neighbor carry her groceries today," and "Watched my neighbor trip and spill her groceries today." Some of the positive Superman Good Deeds captions mirrored posts that followed the precursor Starman trend.

Origin

On July 11th, 2025, the 2025 Superman film, directed by James Gunn and starring actors David Corenswet and Nicholas Hoult, was released in American theaters.^[1]

Following the film's release, memes using stills of Corenswet's Superman paired with positive captions about helping others spread online.

The earliest known example was shared by X^[2] user @frickyuu on July 12th, who captioned an image of Superman lying down while smiling, "On the way home from Superman I stopped my car to let a squirrel cross the road." The tweet received over 147,000 likes in three days (shown below).

On July 14th, X^[3] user @RawbertBeef tweeted the opposite of the abovementioned meme, showing Hoult's Lex Luthor and the caption, "Hit a squirrel with my car today." In a day, the tweet received over 44,000 likes (shown below).

Spread

In the following days, multiple tweets following the two formats spread on X / Twitter.

For instance, on July 14th, 2025, X^[4] user @CQuill97 tweeted the image of Superman lying down, captioned, "Helped my neighbour carry her groceries today," receiving over 92,000 likes in a day (shown below).

Later on July 14th, X^[5] user @dyingscribe tweeted the image of Lex Luthor standing and scowling, captioned, "Watched my neighbor trip and spill her groceries today," gaining over 19,000 likes in a day (shown below).

Also on July 14th, 2025, X^[6] user @CBMovieFan tweeted the image of Superman lying down, captioning it, "Repeated someone else's joke in class and got a bigger laugh," gaining over 9,800 likes in a day.

Soon after, on that same day, X^[7] user @Superherotalk18 quote-tweeted the aforementioned tweet with the same caption, "Repeated someone else's joke in class and got a bigger laugh," forming an anti-meme in quote-tweet form. The post amassed over 668,000 likes in a day (shown below).

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