Man of Steel: Two More Easter Eggs for LexCorp, GBS Spotted

Even though Man of Steel has been in theaters for nearly a month now, fans are still spotting Easter eggs hidden in the background of the film. This morning via Twitter, a fan alerted us to MovieGeek's Facebook page, which features a look at a building under construction featuring a LexCorp banner. Now, this building is probably nothing special and it could be that the construction itself is being done by LexCorp for somebody else--but the fact that it's distinctively got a 90-degree angle on it brings us to mind of the L-shaped LexCorp building that figured into the Metropolis skyline of the post-Crisis on Infinite Earths era. This, along with a tanker truck and of course the LexCorp building seen in trailers, is at least the third LexCorp Easter egg spotted in the movie. A reader reminds us of a fourth--another truck, the one that brings Clark back to Kansas after the oil rig disaster. It also comes at the same time that Cosmic Booknews spotted a fleeting image of a WGBS logo on a building in Metropolis.

GBS, of course, owns the TV news station where Cat Grant has often been depicted as working. In the current comics continuity, GBS bought out The Daily Planet when it was having financial troubles and now its owner, Morgan Edge, now employs Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen and Perry White. Edge in the past has been depicted as a villain, with ties to Darkseid and Apokolips. In Smallville, Morgan Edge's first meeting with Superman is eerily similar to Lex Luthor's first contact with him in John Byrne's The Man of Steel, in that he sets up a "test" to force Superman into acting so that he can take stock in him.