Luthor's real estate scam recalls the scheme executed by Noah Cross in Roman Polanski's Chinatown (1974). Both villains purchase large amounts of seemingly worthless real estate with the intention of increasing its value through nefarious means. Cross plans to do this by drying up the land to reduce its value, then purchasing it and irrigating the area so it can be developed into an outer district of Los Angeles. Luthor plans to purchase a similar stretch of worthless desert land, then detonate a nuclear warhead at a fracture point in the San Andreas Fault to destroy the coastal area west of the fault line. Both villains plot to turn desert land into valuable urban real estate.

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