Lex Luthor

**Alexander Joseph "Lex" Luthor** (1995) is a billionaire industrialist, inventor, and scientist, as well as one of the most intelligent people in the world. A charismatic and well-known, yet controversial public figure, Lex is the former CEO of Lexcorp. He is the son of the late Lionel Luthor and the late Lillian Luthor, the older paternal half-brother of Lena Luthor and the future great granduncle of Lori Luthor.

## Biography

#### Early Life

Lex Luthor was born sometime in 1995 in Metropolis to billionaires Lionel Luthor and Lillian Luthor. He hails from one of the city's wealthiest and most prestigious families. Since early childhood, Lex exhibited an extremely high intellect, which made his mother greatly proud of him, often referring to her son as a "genius" and being very close to him as he grew up.

After Lionel passed away, Lex gained his life insurance policy as well as Lexcorp in which he dedicates himself to honour his fathers legacy. A week later, he took charge of the company by hiring a new personal assistant to further on the company. Over time, Lex's relationship with Mercy grew deeper.

Because of what Leslie Wilis did with her shutting all the power, Lex Luthor and The Blur (later Superman) become allies. Lex started helping the Superfriends by building the tech.

1 month later, he and James Olsen worked together to gather enough info on Intergang and place a location. The two worked perfectly. Later, the two were interrupted by a crime alert and went to the Fortress of solitude.

In late May, Lex's mother returned to Metropolis and to try and reconnect with him and Lena. When Lex was working, she was constantly distracting him from his company.

On June 1st, Lex lost his position of CEO to his Mother and thus causing him to lose half his money then he regained his position on June 13th, 2020.

On October 13th, 2020 Lex created a device that can nullify Riot's abilities. A week later, he decided to work with Lena to perfect this tech to completely negate an aliens powers. On January 31st, 2021, United States Army barged into Lexcorp to take his Power Dampener against Superman.

#### Leaving Superfriends

After helping the team stop Zor-El, Lex left the team thinking he didn't deserve to be on a team of "killers". Over the next month, Lex decided to rid himself of everything connected to the Superfriends. He then decided to start a secret project to exact his revenge.

In his attempt to rid the world of aliens, Lex invites Clark over for lunch. He tells Clark about how he's sorry for doubting him and the team. However, in reality, it was just said to lower Clark's guard. After learning that Ray Palmer was in Metropolis, Lex got mad and later stole some of Clark's DNA to create a "perfect and true hero". He also during this period created a warsuit to go toe to toe with Clark.

#### The Reign Of Darkseid

Two weeks later, Lex talks to Lois, Jimmy and Lena as they enlisted his help to stop Darkseid's invasion. At first, Lex refused as he wanted nothing to do with his former team. However, Lex later had a conversation with his sister which made him rethink about hating the Superfriends. During the Reign of Darkseid, Lex as well as everyone on Earth-0 except for seven specific heroes became affected by the Anti-Life Equation, only to be freed two weeks later after the Justice League stopped Darkseid.

#### The Perfect Creation

In December 2022, Lex stole more of Superman's DNA to create another clone. However, this clone was younger and called Superboy and used him to infiltrate the Superfriends.

#### Incarceration

After the rebirth of Superman and obtaining powers, Lex was stopped and sent to Stryker's Island Penitentiary.

#### Possible Future

* Lex will have a great grandniece in the 31st century.

## Abilities

* **Genius-level intellect/Great business acumen/Master tactician/Leader:** A child prodigy turned recognized-genius, Lex's intelligence is nearly unrivaled, quite possibly being one of the single smartest beings on Earth.While having no known degrees, he is an immensely well-read and equally multi-skilled in individual. Ever calculating and methodical, he is a near flawless planner, able to assess and account for the numerous variables and from this effectively manipulate the situation to unfold as he sees fit.
* **Master scientist:** Lex has a great aptitude countless fields of study
* **Master engineer:** Lex is a brilliant inventor, specializing in various scientific fields of engineering, with Lena noting despite her own great proficiency, Lex still outshines her.
* **Multilingualism:** Lex is capable of fluently speaking English and Latin.

## Equipment

#### Current Equipment

* **Various Tech at Lexcorp**
	+ **Vibrational Emitter**: This device emits low level sonic waves that detects any alien presence
	+ **Power Dampener**: This device dampens alien abilities
* **Lexosuit**: Lex has created a high-tech battle suit, nicknamed "Lexosuit", which gave him enhanced strength, durability, flight, energy blasts and advanced weaponry, among other capabilities. He used it to better match Superman.

#### Former Equipment

* **Signal Watch**: Superman gave each member of his team a signal watch in case someone was in trouble. After leaving the Superfriends, Lex destroyed the watch.
* **Kryptonite Dampener**- This device dampens the radiation that Kryptonite emits

## Appearances

### Man of Steel

#### season 1

* Pilot
* The nuclear fight
* A spark in the air
* The Worshipers
* Smallville reunion (Mentioned)
* Intergang
* Parasite host
* Lois and Clark
* Family Matters
* Metallo
* For the Man Who Has Everything
* Man Of Power
* The rise of Intergang

#### Season 2

* Replication
* Bug Off
* Lightning or Thunder
* Adventures of Superman
* Bloodsport
* Scream of the Banshee
* Phantom Kryptonian
* The Brave (mentioned)
* Most Deadliest Toy
* True Colours
* A world without Superman
* Meet Mister Mxyzptlk
* Silver Machine
* Phantom Zone
* Shrapnel Bomb
* General Zod
* Supergirl
* Martian Scum
* Luthor
* Two sides of the same species
* Domination
* New Krypton

#### Season 3

* Last Daughter of Krypton
* Legionaries
* Man or Machine
* Good and Parasite
* The Light is in
* It takes Humanity
* Dominator
* The Kryptonian Way
* Electrical Tension
* The Fastest Race of all times
* Red Faced
* Human For A Day
* Back to the 31st century
* Role Reversal
* Stronger Together
* Legends
* Spark the light
* Cause and Effect
* Till We Collapse
* Golden Ring
* Superfriends Forever

#### Season 4

* Into the Void
* Friend or Foe
* Bizarro
* Childish Things
* Cadmus
* Dancing with the Luthors
* Justice War Part l
* The Book of Superfriends
* Metropolis Strong
* Project K
* Blood Bonds
* All for Nothing
* Honor Thy Luthor
* New Awakenings Part ll
* Crossed Wires
* Null and Annoyed
* Dawn of Injustice
* American Hero
* Lose Yourself
* Night at The Fortress (Hologram)
* Think Fast
* Finish Line

#### Season 5

* A world without S
* Rise of Superman
* Steel
* Not-Happy Thanksgiving
* Fight between Supers
* Super Luthor
* Dawn of Rebirth
* Crisis of Two Earths, Part One (mentioned)
* Fighting Live with Wire (Photo)
* Instant Duality
* Access to Earth Two (mentioned)

### Green Lantern Corps

#### Season 3

* Crisis of Two Earths. Part Two (mentioned)

## Trivia

* Like his comic book iteration, Lex is older than Superman
* He always performed experiments as a child
* His favourite movie is Jurassic Park

## Behind the scenes

* Lex Luthor first appeared in *Action Comics* #23 (April, 1940) and was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. He is considered to be the intelligent and ruthless archenemy of Superman. He usually appears as a brilliant scientist and sometimes corrupt billionaire industrialist, with a personal vendetta against the Man of Steel. Even though Lex has always been a controversial figure in the public eye, he has also maintained political popularity, once serving as the President of the United States.
* Lex served as the main antagonist of Season 4 of Man Of Steel.

## References

1. ↑ "Pilot (Man Of Steel)"
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Family Matters"
3. ↑ "Back to the 31st century"
4. ↑ "Dawn of Injustice"
5. ↑ "Dancing with the Luthors"