Gene Hackman
Gene Hackman is a former American actor. Among other roles, he played Lex Luthor opposite Christopher Reeve as Superman in the Superman film series. He appears in the Season Seven episode, "Krazy Kripples".
Background
Gene AKA "Hack Man" attempts to persuade Christopher Reeve to stop sucking baby fetus stem-cells, which he uses to cure his paralysis. However, Gene Hackman is not someone who delights in disabilities, commending that he wishes quadriplegia on no one and is pleased that Reeve was cured of it, but begs him to stop consuming fetuses as the concept is unnatural. Christopher becomes a supervillain and forms the Legion of Doom, out of his resentment towards Hackman's protesting of stem-cells research. Hackman uses the public's support to get a law passed through the US Government to ban stem-cells so Christopher cannot get them anymore. Somehow, Christopher gets imprisoned in the "Phantom Zone" glass pane and sent into outer space like the supervillains from Superman II.
Appearance
Gene Hackman is a very elderly looking man with grey hair and a mustache. He dresses very simply, wearing a red shirt, brown pants, and a gray hat.
Prominence
- "Krazy Kripples" - He tries to tell Christopher Reeve to stop eating baby fetuses to cure his paralysis. Gene gets support from the public to ban stem cells so Chris cannot get them anymore.
- "Wing" - Seen in the background at Sylvester Stallone's son's wedding.
- "Trapped in the Closet" - Stan tells Tom Cruise he is not as good of an actor as Leonardo DiCaprio, Gene Hackman, or the guy who played Napoleon Dynamite (Jon Heder).
- "Britney's New Look" - Seen in the crowd trying to take photographs of Britney.
References
- ↑ "South Park" Krazy Kripples (TV episode 2003). IMDb.com.