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Hold on now, Xikar is an anagram for kraxi. If you drop the "i", you get krax, which is really just an alternate spelling for the plural of crack. So, Lex's cutter was like, a symbol for take the cut out of the cocaine, much like take a bite out of crime. So, Lex was like anti-drug and he was fighting the War On Drugs with his Xikar cutter and Superman was strung out on krypton, which is another anagram - pytronk, which, if you drop the t, the n, and the k, you get "pyro". Superman was addicted to starting fires. Which is probably how he started smoking crack. But more on that later. When he couldn't start fires, he would go into withdrawals and convulse and then just lay there all weak and shit until someone would remove the krypton long enough for him to get his superpowers back so he could blast that bastard with a shot of his laser vision, incinerating the fucker and in the process, "accidentally" start a bunch of fires that he would just watch with a far-away look in his eyes until Lex would show up and tell Superman that he should try scaling back acoupla notches on the fire thing, at which point Superman would fly into a rage, saying he doesn't know what the fuck Lex could possibly be talking about, that he had eough on his mind without some chromedome busybody goody2shoes asshole coming along and implying that he might be behaving in any way out of the ordinary, at which point Lex just looks at Superman sadly and shakes his head, saying you dumb bastard you know the power is within our reach, all we have to do is carry out our plan exactly as instructed on this key, at which point Lex holds out his hand, and opens his fingers to reveal, the Holy Grail Xikar.