Lex Luthor

"Lex Luthor" is a common name for criminal members of the Luthor family, known for their frequent clashes with the Superman Family. Criminal activities of the Luthors include Alexei Luthor(1938-1985), Alexis Luthor(1958-1987), Lionel Luthor(1987-2007), Alexander Luthor Jr(1997-2006), and Alexander Luthor(2001-)

## **Family History**

### **1866-1888**

Aloysius Luthais Luthor, a member of a scottish family, struck it rich when finding oil in Texas, moving his family to Metropolis. He had a daughter, Hannah Alexandria Luthor.

### **1888**

Hannah Alexandria Luthor. Daughter of Aloysius Luthais Luthor. First born in America after the Luthors moved, fell in love with Mr.Jimberly Jimmington Olsen, immigrants from New Oberstad, having had their named changed to Olsson. The two had a secret love affair but were eventually caught and separated. Jimberly would go on to marry Lucy Lawrence Gattler and have four children before dying in a buffalo hunting accident. Hannah Luthor married into the Hamblejamb family and had three daughters with him(Lucinda, Lacroix and Labadeebada) and allegedly a fourth child, a boy with Jimberly.

Aloysius had three sons, Alexei Luthor, Jules Luthor and Wallace Luthor. Jules Luthor moved to Metropolis and married a native woman named Arlene.

### **1915**

Alexis Luthor was born in the small Kansas town of Smallville to Jules and Arlene Luthor. Jules was a strict father and Arlene a strong religious mother. Alexis was named after his uncle Alexei.

### **1916**

Jules and Arlene Luthor had a son named Lachlan Luthor while visiting their native home of Scotland.

### **1920**

Alexei Luthor throws in with a gang led by William Dunn. Their first known exploit is attempting to ransom Thomas and Martha Wayne as hostages in 1920. This forced William Dunn to flee once the attempt failed by jumping on a train. This led him to later on become a criminal called the Ultra-Humanite. Jules and Arlene had a daughter named Lena.

### **1929**

Wallace Luthor and the Luthor family as a whole(excluding Alexei who had already lost access to the fortune due to his criminal status), are hit particularly hard by the stock market crash. Jules and Arlene Luthor move to Smallville and live a less glamorous life there. Alexis however, is more willing to commit crimes to reclaim what he believed was his birthright.

### **1929-1936**

Alexis Luthor stole 40 cakes from the school bake sale, receiving detention. When Superboy appeared in Smallville, Lex supported and befriended him. Then there was a fire at Luthor’s lab. Superboy attempted to save him but inadvertently caused an explosion which his breath caused a beaker of chemicals to explode. The Fire burned off Luthor’s red hair. He blamed Superboy for this and they parted ways with Alexis Luthor begin to antagonize Superboy. Jules and Arlene, angered at Alexis's turn to the criminal life, disowned him, and and changed their last name to Thorul.

### **1936**

Jules Luthor initially supported President Berzelius Windrip until he was revealed to be a dictator. Jules then shifted to supporting the Underground Resistance against his rule.

## **Alexei Luthor Era(1938-1950)**

### **1938**

The Sarmaks once more invaded Earth. This invasion was defeated by Superman. Alexei Luthor, working as a scientist, briefly betrayed Humanity for the Sarmaks and was arrested. A Sarmark Heat Ray burned off his red hair. He resorted to using a wig.

Alexei Luthor was broken out by the Ultra-Humanite. The Ultra-Humanite, and Alexei Luthor set up their headquarters in Metropolis, which unfortunately for them had become plagued by costumed vigilantes such as Superman, The Shadow, and Doc Savage. They made certain to steer their main operations clear of Superman's attention but also to test his abilities through a series of proxy fights.

Unfortunately Superman stumbled onto one of their most lucrative grafts, a taxi cab protection racket. Their front man for this operation was ganglord Jackie Reynolds. Reynolds had organized unscrupulous cab drivers into a union, the Cab Protective League. Reynolds' union, financed by the Ultra-Humanite, intimidated other cab drivers through violence and threats of violence against passengers. Superman began investigating the activities of Jackie Reynolds because a cab carrying Clark Kent was harassed by the CPL. This led to Superman thwarting the scheme. Further schemes were thwarted by Superman an this led a rift to form between the Ultra-Humanite, who’s schemes endangered more and more innocents, and Alexei Luthor.

Tired of Superman’s interference and blaming the city that had embraced the muscle headed hero, the Ultra-Humanite decided to punish both Superman and the citizens of Metropolis. Ultra-Humanite decided to unleash a virulent plague upon the city. The cure for the disease would be withheld until payment was made. Ultra-Humanite and Alexi had a serious disagreement about unleashing the plague; Alexei wanted to use it as a last resort if a ransom was not paid, and Ultra-Humanite planned to release it regardless of payment. After arguing for several hours, Alexei came around to Ultra-Humanite's way of thinking. The Purple Plague hit the city hard and fast. The city paid the ransom, but Superman tracked the payment and was able to penetrate the Ultra-Humanite's base of operations. The Ultra-Humanite fired an electric gun of his own devising at the hero. Unfortunately for the villain, the gun exploded, supposedly killing the Ultra-Humanite. Satisfied that justice had been done, Superman left the criminal's corpse for the authorities

Because their operations were constantly being thwarted by Superman, Luthor began to think that perhaps Metropolis was not such a good place to be after all. Rumor had it that the Shadow and Doc Savage were gone more often than they were in the city. If Luthor kept a low profile the psychotic killer named the Spider would not bother with them.

### **1939**

Alexei Luthor travelled to Europe and attempted to instigate a war. Superman prevented this but soon learned the art way that the war was inevitable. His anti-War stance had led him to assume that Alexei Luthor was working alone when he had allies with the Ultra-Humanite and Adenoid Hynkel.

In 1939, Metropolis was the sponsor to the World's Fair. The Ultra-Humanite contacted the Mayor of Metropolis and threatened to destroy the World's Fair unless he was paid a million dollars.

The city refused, so the Ultra-Humanite, having replaced the World's Fair’s giant model of a robot with an actual working robot, sent it on a remote controlled rampage of destruction. A woman and her companion fell directly in the path of the robot and the Ultra-Humanite was going to crush them with the metal foot of the robot. Alexei once again protested the killing of innocents and was slapped down. This distraction, however, allowed the two people to escape. Then, the Ultra-Humanite lost control of the robot. The cameras inside the robot showed the distorted figure of Superman smashing the robot into scrap metal.

Alexei was planning on leaving as soon as he got his cut from the big Metropolis job. His brother had become less humane about the crimes they were committing, even to point of killing innocents. Alexei had protested this but had been physically chastised for daring to speak against the Ultra-Humanite. He planned a fitting retirement for the Ultra-Humanite and hoped to rid the world of another menace at the same time.

Despite Superman's interference, the Ultra-Humanite and his partner, Alexei Luthor went ahead with their plan to extort ten million dollars from the city of Metropolis by holding the Fair hostage. Superman, however, was soon joined by another costumed vigilante, the Batman.

Knowing that payment would not be forthcoming and learning that his brother intended to destroy the Fair even if he got the ransom, Alexei had left clues behind that would lead Superman and Batman back to the Ultra-Humanite. However, Lois Lane stumbled onto the scene and was captured by Ultra's men, who wanted to kill her outright. To save her life, Alexei took her back to the Ultra-Humanite and prepared her for interrogation, stalling for time until Superman or Batman showed up. Alexei planned to make good on his escape, neutralize the Ultra-Humanite's threat, and do so without any fatalities.

When Superman and Batman appeared on the scene, Alexei freed Lois Lane and pushed her towards them. He and the Ultra-Humanite rode a superfast lift into the interior of the World's Fair Trylon, or so it appeared. Actually at the last second they ducked into another superfast lift that dove down to the city sewers beneath the Fair where the Ultra-Humanite had his secret lair. The Ultra Humanite attempted to make his escape by having himself and Alexei escape in a rocket built into the Pyramax while having the Hyperglobe rigged to explode. Superman brought both Batman and Lois Lane to safety, then picked up the Hyperglobe and threw it straight at the launching Pyramax, stopping "two birds with one stone".

Unknown to Superman, the Ultra-Humanite's robotic servants found him alive in the wreckage, though now his body was destroyed, while Alexei Luthor had his brain damaged while his body was left intact. The Ultra-Humanite then had his servants transplant his brain into the body of Alexei Luthor. Alexei’s brain underwent intense surgery to revive him in a different body, which the Ultra-Humanite rigged to force Alexei into loyalty towards him.

### **1940**

Alexei aided in the Ultra-Humanite’s scheme to help carl Denham transfer exotic animals from the Skull Island Achipelago, which backfired when they escaped and Superman arrived, the two escaping in the chaos.

During World War II, The Ultra-Humanite joined forces with the Axis Powers and forced Alexei Luthor to do the same, but he largely remained in the states.

### **1942**

Alexei was sent to obtained the Power Stone, one of the famed Infinity Stones. This allowed him to break free. He turned on Superman for failing to save him. He was tricked into relinquishing the Power Stone bu Superman and was defeated.

Alexis Luthor did not see much action during World War II due to his father Jules keeping him safe by preventing him from being drafted and giving him a position as a factory supervisor as the company Luthorcorp made arms during the war. FBR Director Henry Lux kept an eye on Jules Luthor, in case he tried to help or was revealed to be a criminal like Alexei Luthor.

### **`1944**

Lionel Luthor is born to Lachlan and Eliza Luthor. the two moved to Metropolis and the city's so called "Suicide Slums".

### **1946**

Wallace Luthor participates in the Galtist Strikes at the time and is arrested by the Federal Government.

### **1950**

Alexei Luthor terrorized Metropolis in the identity of Atom Man, but was defeated by Superman.(*Atom Man vs Superman*). Alexei lacked the scientific intelligence of Alexis or the Ultra-Humanite, to invent his own as potent devices, usually using those made by the Ultra-Humanite and when he was arrested. He occasionally teamed up with Alexis Luthor, but served the purpose of nothing more than a henchman by this point. Both Luthors saw the Kanamits as invaders and felt vindicated when their true intentions were revealed.

### **1954**

Lillian(Later Lillian Luthor after marrying Lionel Luthor) is born.

### **1956**

Wallace Luthor is released from Prison and Goes missing. He is believed to have joined the underwater City of Rapture, possibly being killing in the uprising there.

## **Alexis Luthor Era(1958-1987)**

### **1958**

Alexis Luthor attempted to clone Superman, but unaware that Superman was an alien at the time, the clone mutated into the creature known as Bizarro.

Luthor was contacted by and supported Auric Goldfinger’s scheme to irradiate the Gold at Fort Knox and included Kryptonite Radiation to set a trap for Superman. The scheme was thwarted by James Bond without Luthor’s involvement.

### **1960**

Alexis Luthor supported a scheme by Buddy Pines that led to the death of several heroes. While Luthor was overjoyed by his successes in luring heroes to an island and killing them, Luthor wanted Superman as a target. Buddy Pines wanted to go after Mr.Incredible first based on his own vendetta. This target would lead to the death of Buddy Pines.

### **1961**

Lachlan Luthor, now destitute, tried to steal Louise McCallum's purse but was tossed aside by the mysterious Joe the Drifter(Jor-El's AI had been given an altered Superman robot as a body). Officer Billy Tate hired Lachlan Luthor to kill Joe the Drifter but the bullets bounced off and hit Louise McCallum. Later the same year, Lachlan Luthor carried out a successful hit, causing the deaths of Arlene and Jules Luthor in a car crash.

Alexis Luthor attempted to carry out Goldfinger’s previous plan or irradiating Fort Knox. He was confronted by a Superman robot as Superman himself was elsewhere. He defeated the robot but realizing it was not the true Superman left, seeing it as a hollow victory. He did not steal any gold when he left. Alexis Luthor was also spotted fighting the Triffid invasion.

Researching an article on witchcraft, Lois Lane came to believe that Cardiff librarian Lena Thorul was the reincarnation of executed witch Louella Thompson. Lena was really the sister of Lex Luthor, who seeked to discourage Lois from writing the story for fear she would reveal their parentage to Lena. Jules and Arlene Luthor had died in a car crash, now believed to have been orchestrated as revenge by Alexis Luthor as they had lied and told Lena that he had died in a car crash, making this poetic justice in Alexis's mind.

### **1962**

Alexis Luthor went into space, searching for a then missing Superman, actually on a long mission to space. He arrived on a planet of robots and killed one of them, being put on trial for murder. He was able to get his sentence commuted by repairing the robot. He was released and built three robots, one of which omitted Kryptonite while the others were made of lead and Diamond. He then attacked Earth, Superman used the lead Man to block the Kryptonite Robot and destroy them.

Lionel Luthor had an affair with a member of the Xavier family, resulting in the birth of Jason Xavier on November 12. Lionel Luthor rejected him.

### **1963**

Alexis Luthor escaped from prison and challenged Superman to a duel on a planet with a red sun, where his powers wouldn’t work. Superman still won but a storm separated them. Luthor found a human civilization on the planet and begin helping them, becoming a hero for all he’d done to improve their living situation. When Superman arrived they agreed to resume their battle but Luthor let Superman win so that he could through an Iceberg onto the planet to provide it with water. Luthor willingly returned to prison but was touched when Superman returned with photos of a statue built of him on the planet.

### **1964**

Alexis Luthor found Brainiac in space and the two teamed up for the firs time. They poisoned Superman. The people of Kandor arrived to help but were forced to let the villains go in exchange for a cure for Superman. Brainiac dropped Luthor on Lexor, where he met and fell in love with a woman named Tharla.

Lena Thorul had by this point completed a criminology degree and joined the FBR, though she was viewed with suspicion by Director Henry Lux for being related to the Luthors and later for undermining several male agents. Lena possessed minor psionic abilities. Lena had suspicions of the identity of Supergirl and Powergirl at times but could not confirm these identities.  She was given an assignment to stop poachers in Africa and assumed the Identity of a Jungle Girl on this mission, using her ester abilities to talk to animals. She tracked the ringleader to a supposed Soviet Defector working at a circus, where he was actually the leader of a Soviet Intelligence operation. Lena met and fell in love with CEA Operative Jeff Colby(a member of the wealthy Colby Family), the two marrying in 1964. They had a child, Val Colby, born in 1964. Eventually the two divorced, Jef Colby later remarried to Fallon Carrington(1981-1983, 1986-1988), Kirby Sanders(1983-1984), and Nicole Simpson(1984-1985). Val Colby would later have a daughter named Lori Luthor, who as a teen, had a crush on Conner Kent, the two briefly dated.

Alexis Luthor lured Superman to Lexor on the pretext he had accidentally spread a disease from Earth to Lexor’s people. Luthor then faked his death and framed Superman so that he could be convicted for killing him. Superman exposed the ruse but the people of Lexor still saw Lex as a hero. Superman departed Lexor without Luthor. Luthor remained on the planet for 4 years due to being content there but eventually couldn't resist the temptation to once more strike at Superman.

### **1968**

Luthor exposed Superman to Virus X. He travels through space, looking for a cure. He arrived on Bizarro World where Bizarro pelts him with red and White Kryptonite, which ends up curing him. White Kryptonite is harmful to all plant life and killed the bacteria.

### **1969**

Superman’s son Joel Kent was reported dead in Sarkhan, lacking his father’s level of strength. Superman himself and several of the League was out in space fighting the being Aquarius. Luthor claimed to have possessed Superman’s body. He attempted to sell the organs to several villains on the black market. Batman and Robin went to prevent the supposed transplants and thwarted Luthor’s plan, which was revealed to have used a Superman robot and rigged the organs to explode and kill their new hosts.

Alexis Luthor escaped prison to visit his sister on her birthday. She found she and Jeff Colby had a child, Val Colby, who was a boy with psychic abilities. Alexis Luthor kidnapped him, intending to use him against Superman. Alexis revealed himself himself to Val and manipulated him to aid in his crimes. Supergirl confronted Alexis and Colby and rescued Val after convincing him to come with her.

### **1970**

Lena’s daughter Nasthalthia Luthor had at some point travelled to Europe. A teenager at this time, she met and was grouped into aiding in the schemes of Alexis Luthor. She was sent to attempt to find and expose Supergirl’s true identity and formed a gang called the “Nasties” to aid in doing this. She was defeated by Supergirl and remained a common foe of her.

### **1972**

Alexis Luthor created the being the Galactic Golem and sent it to fight Superman. It appeared that all the three wiped out all life on Earth, but Superman discovered that they had been teleported to another universe with seemingly no life. The Battle returned to the present and the Galactic Golem was destroyed.

In prison, Alexis Luthor manipulated Thor into attacking Superman by briefing transferring his hate into the Man of Steel to provoke a fight. The device he was using was discovered and destroyed.

### **1974**

Alexis Luthor hired several criminals and gave them plastic surgery to resemble Jimmy Olsen to frame the real Olsen, a plot thwarted by Olsen himself and Superman.

Lionel Luthor briefly adopted Thaddeus Sivana Jr, but when the boy accidentally caused his car to crash, he wound up disowning him.

### **1975**

Alexis Luthor and Superman were forced to team up to stop the Parasite.

### **Late 1970's**

Lionel Luthor and Morgan Edge orchestrated the deaths of Lachlan and Eliza Luthor in a fire to collect the insurance money. This led to Lionel Luthor building his company under the assumed identity of Daniel Clamp and called his company CLAMP Industries. He began investing in companies such as Yoyodyne, Aperture Science, Nova Laboratories and Biosyn.

### **1978**

Alexis Luthor formed the Legion of Doom.

Alexis Luthor hatched a scheme to reshape the continental shelf of the United States using earthquakes occurred in this year. He had acquired the machine which the terrorist Little White Brother had terrorized Olifa in 1933. The machine had the ability to cause earthquakes but only in certain geological regions. For his plan, which was to cause a massive series of earthquakes all along the Western continental shelf of North America, he would also have to trigger fault lines using other methods. Luthor's organization hijacked two atomic missiles… by merely changing the launching and destination codes… One missile was a decoy deliberately sent towards a heavily populated area, Hackensack, New Guersey. The other was sent towards the San Andreas Fault while Luthor used his earthquake machine on the New Madrid and Cascade faults using sound vibrations created fault instability. He told Joel Kent of this through a high pitched frequency but tricked Joel Kent into become weakened due to a newly developed artificial Kryptonite. Once he recovered from its effects, Joel Kent intercepted the missile heading towards Metropolis and then headed towards the San Andreas Fault. Power Woman destroyed the earthquake machine shaking apart the New Madrid Fault and from there moved onto the Cascades where she destroyed the machine after a quake had started. The two then worked as fast as they could repairing earthquake damages and saving lives whenever possible. They were unaware that the earthquake on the Cascade plate had triggered a large fault instability along the pacific rim which triggered an earthquake of 9.2 magnitude to hit Alaska. The earthquake caused a great deal of damage and 106 deaths in Alaska, 4 in Oregon and 13 in California, the deaths in the latter two states occurred from the resulting tsunami. Given the magnitude of the earthquake there could have been many more deaths, millions if Luthor had successful triggered all of the plates he had planned to trigger. Because it was a holiday, (Good Friday) because it was after 5:30 p.m. and because of Alaska's low population density the tragedy was not as profound as it could have been.

Clark Kent rescued Lois Lane from a crevasse opened by the earthquake in California, without having to have turned back time. Joel Kent captured Alexis Luthor.

### **1980**

Alexis Luthor escaped from prison using a combination of holograms and a hot air balloon. He had heard about the Kryptonian invasion and so moved his escape plan ahead of schedule. He decided to search for the Fortress of Solitude, which he now believed existed but had never seen. Knowing Joel Kent was the current Superman due to their long history, he followed him to the Fortress of Solitude, where Joel Kent went with Mei Lei to have his powers restored. Once they left, Luthor entered.

Alexis Luthor met with the Kryptonians. He was shocked that they had never heard of him. He had heard of them from their previous escapes from the Phantom Zone, although never as a group. Yet they had never heard of him…the greatest criminal mind in the history of mankind. Ursa wanted to emasculate and then kill him but Lex claimed that he can take away Superman's powers without killing him so Zod had Non restrain Ursa. She stopped but then turned to Luthor's henchman Otis and burned him to a cinder with her heat vision. Luthor was visibly shocked which pleased Ursa.

Before Lex could go into detail about how he could accomplish this feat, Joel Kent confronted the villains. Superman engaged each of the villains in individual combat. Against General Zod, Superman is recorded to have used beams which shot from his hands, a power he had not previously demonstrated, this was accomplished by Joel Kent having held onto Captain Mahr-Vell's Nega Bands in the Fortress of Solitude and recalibrating them to fire his own solar energy. Despite the three to one odds Superman and the three Kryptonian villains were evenly matched. Clark Kent(Superman I) soon arrived to make the fight more even and father and son took turns, using super speed to make it seem as if there were one Superman. Metropolis suffered a great deal of damage in the super battle until Lex spotted Lois Lane on the outskirts of the battle. He mentioned to Ursa that Superman's Girlfriend was nearby and she could be used a hostage to end the stalemate. Ursa took Lois captive. Superman was to give himself up unless he wanted Lois to die. Luthor explained he knew a way to strip Superman of his powers.

General Zod demanded that Luthor use his machine to make Superman powerless. Luthor said that he needed the technology inside the Fortress of Solitude to do so. Only Superman knew the location and the way to get inside. Luthor suggested leaving Non and Ursa to hold Metropolis hostage and to bring  Mei Lei as a hostage to make Superman open the Fortress, secretly hoping that the original Superman or other heroes would defeat the two while they were one member short. Zod refused.

Inside the Fortress, Luthor revealed that the technology was not actually his but that of Jor-El, Lex had discovered it on the previous visit to the Fortress. Zod thought it appropriate that Jor-El would be the instrument of his son's death. They forced Superman to work with Luthor to prepare the molecular reconstructor. Superman whispered to Luthor, that they would dispose of Luthor as soon as Superman was dead. If Luthor helped Superman he would get a light sentence. All he had to do was to convince them that they would be safe from the molecular reconstructor if they stepped into a maneuver them into the crystal cage.

Luthor immediately told Zod Superman was trying to pull a fast one. Zod approved of this since he had heard the whole conversation due to his super-hearing. They put Superman into the chamber he had tried to maneuver them. Luthor gloated that he was finally going to end the career of his greatest enemy. Zod commanded him to stop. He demanded Luthor show him how to work the device and tossed him on the other side of the room with Lois. The honor would be his alone.

Zod worked the controls. The chamber in which Superman was imprisoned glowed a bright red and Superman screamed in agony. Lights began to flash all through the room. Ursa looked around and saw the Luthor and Lois had vanished. The rooms flashed another color. Ursa screamed. General Zod, Ursa and Non were back in the Phantom Zone.

There was not a molecular reconstructor… it was all an elaborate ploy to get the villains back into the Zone without further bloodshed.

Luthor and Lois stepped back out into the main chamber as Superman freed himself from the crystal chamber.

Luthor's betrayal of Superman was of course all part of the scheme… as Superman would not had made the mistake to trust Luthor or think that he could whisper to Lex without the other Kryptonians hearing him.

Being returned to Prison, Luthor received visits from his Luxor wife, Ardora at Superman’s behest. The thought of reuniting with her on Earth fueled. Alexis Luthor with a desire to do good. He proved this by helping Superman defeat The Terra-Man. Ardora took the Earth name of Angela Blake in order to settle on the planet and secretly marry Alexis Luthor under that name. Luthor’s change of heart was genuine and he even wanted to get closer to his sister Lena after the death of her husband on a mission. However, he was framed for a crime and Superman was forced to arrest him. Ardora tricked Superman II and Batman II(Bruce Wayne Jr and Joel Kent) into free Luthor and bringing him to Lexor to help him cure a plague, which they succeeded in doing.

Alexander Luthor was born to Lionel and Lillian Luthor, then known as Daniel Clamp and Lillian Clamp.

### **1983**

Alexis Luthor had chosen to remain on Lexor for some time. During this time Ardora gave birth to a son, Lex Luthor Jr.  Alexis Luthor was content to remain forever on Lexor and give up his criminal life. He built a reactor to stabilize the Lexor’s core. One of Luthor’s robots on Earth launched an attack on Superman as an old contingency plan. This led Superman to Lexor. Luthor confronted him in a suit of armor known as the Lexosuit for the first time. The two fought, Superman also using a specialized suit due to Lexor’s red sun. Their battle caused destruction to the machine at Lexor’s core, threatening to destroy the entire planet. Superman fled while Alexis Luthor ran to his family. Ardora followed a contingency plan and rocketed her son Lex Jr to Earth. Alexis Luthor saw his family a moment before the planet exploded, destroying Lexor. While Superman believed Alexis Luthor died, He had survived and now blamed Superman more than ever.

Alexis Luthor returned to Earth and set up a base on an island. He used machines to cause Superman to hallucinate the image of Luthor everywhere to try and drive him insane. Luthor then tried to destroy Earth with a similar device that destroyed Lexor, which Superman prevented.

Lex Luthor Jr was found by Lionel Luthor before his birth father, having crashed into Hong Kong and been deformed by the collision. Lionel Luthor found him and was disgusted by him, sending him to live in hiding in Australia. Lionel Luthor was also quick to accept the Alien Visitors before their true nature.

### **1984**

Tess Mercer was born in 1984. She is Alexander Luthor's younger half sister and is born with the name Lutessa Lena Luthor, and is the Daughter of Lionel Luthor and Patty Jenkins, the Luthor family nanny.

Lionel Luthor has a son with Rachel Dunleavy, who became Lucas Luthor.

### **1985**

Alexis Luthor orchestrated a hoax that got Clark Kent fired from the WGBS and the Daily Planet. He then trapped Superman in a world where he believed he had killed Lex Luthor and caused the end of the world, which Superman actually believed at the time before breaking through. Clark Kent regained his position at the Daily Planet but not WGBS. He had clashed many times with Morgan Edge prior to this.

The Crisis on Infinite Earths occurred. Alexis Luthor was recruited by Brainiac to take advantage of the chaos and gathered every Super villain alive in one attack to conquer the worlds. All were gathered. Brainiac announced that Alexis Luthor would command them. Alexei Luthor protested, insisted he should leave. Brainiac responded by killing Alexei Luthor, commenting they did not need two Luthors. The battle continued until interrupted by the Spectre, Brainiac was though destroyed in the conflict.

### **1987**

Alexis Luthor was broken out of Prison by his nephew Leonard Luthor. Using a sample of Superman’s DNA and an experiment, Alexis Luthor created a being known a Nuclear Man, who fought Superman and nearly killed him in their first fight. Superman eventually succeeded in destroying Nuclear Man in their second fight.

Alexis Luthor would meet his end when he searched for and found the head of Brainiac, which came to life and took control of his body, using him in an attack on the Fortress of Solitude. An empowered Lana Lang confronted him. Alexis Luthor broke free enough to be to be killed. Lana complied and snapped his neck. Brainiac briefly controlled the body until rigor mortis settled in, causing the body to become immobilized and leading to Brainiac’s defeat.

## **Lionel Luthor Era(1987-2007)**

In the Comics, The DC Universe was rebooted with Lex Luthor being reimagined as a shrewd businessman who hid his criminal activities well. This was actually due to a shift to depicting Lionel Luthor. Both Comic Lex and Lionel murdered their parents. While Comic Lex had seven wives, Lionel did not, however he did have multiple children in several affairs, which this likely alluded to. Lionel Luthor was actually the first Criminal Lex to hide his crimes well and publicly distanced himself from Alexei and Alexis.

### **1989**

While visiting Metropolis, Lionel and Alexander Luthor were caught in a meteor shower. Alexander Luthor lost all his hair. Needing help, Lionel was rescued by Bo Duke and Lana Duke, who took Lionel and Alexander to the hospital. Lionel learned they had adopted a young boy and realzied he was a Kryptonian, agreeing to forge papers for them in gratitude.

### **1992**

Julian Luthor is born to Lionel Luthor and Lillian Luthor. Alexander Luthor sees his mother kill the infant. He would later be cloned and become known as Grant Gabriel.

Lionel Luthor revives an old scheme of the late Alexis Luthor and create a massive landmass made of Kryptonite. Joel Kent lifted the Landmass into the sky, nearly dying in the process.

### **1993**

Lena Kieran Luthor is born to Lionel Luthor and Elizabeth Walsh. Lillian Luthor dies. Lena Kieran is adopted into the Luthor family.

### **1995**

Alexander Luthor Jr has relationships with Contessa Erica Alexanda Del Portenza, who took control of Luthorcorp for some time.

Lionel Luthor's son Jason Xavier, attempted to take control of several people in a virtual reality under the name X(taken from his Xavier role), but was defeated by Superman and became trapped in a virtual reality(*Lois and Clark*).

### **1996**

Lionel Luthor served as a member of the mankind Liberation Front, which was broken up by Batman's outsiders and Lionel Luthor was forced to work as a doctor by Batman in exchange for not revealing his role. Lionel Luthor played a part in helping the Justice League end the Final Night event.

### **1997**

Alexander Luthor Jr returned to try and kill Lionel Luthor, who he believed was his father. He hired an actor to play him publicly. Alexander Luthor Jr created a robotic hero called Vixen and began to infiltrate Luthorcorp. He would capture and murder many high ranking members of Luthorcorp, seeking to rebuild the company after seizing control of multiple other companies, while Lionel Luthor was still imprisoned. Vixen was destroyed by the current Superman, Samuel Kent. Alex Jr then forced a superhuman named Edward Hanson to silence those connected to the creation of Vixen. Hanson's unstable nature led him to explode, covering Luthor Jr's tracks further. Luthor Jr then captured Amanda Mason to draw out Superman. This succeeded but Luthor Jr was seemingly killed when a bomb exploded. He actually survived and resurfaced with falsified documents in a bid to takeover Luthorcorp. He succeeds and Lionel Luthor and Alexander Luthor go into hiding.

### **1998**

Lena Luthor II, daughter of Lex Luthor and Contessa Erica, is born. She is briefly possessed and turned into an adult by Brainiac 13, but returned back into a baby by the end of that ordeal.

### **1999**

Lionel Luthor's son Alexander Luthor, befriended a woman named Amanda Rothman. He discovered her fiancee, Jude Royce was cheating on her. Jude attacked Alexander Luthor with a knife, Amanda shot him. Alexander Luthor lied and said it was him to protect Amanda.

Lionel Luthor was hit with lawsuits after the 1999 Megatech Massacre as his company had worked with Megatech and he had supported the robots.

### **2000**

Alexander Luthor Jr ran for President. He nearly succeeded but lost to Josiah Bartlet. He is possessed by Brainiac and fights the Justice League. His defeat leads to Lionel Luthor returning to ownership of his company.

### **2001**

Alexander Luthor Jr killed Contessa Erica in an effort to tie up loose ends during his Presidential Run. He and a new Legion of Doom would aid in fighting against Imperiex.

Lionel's son, Alexander Luthor, was involved in a car accident with Clark Duke, realizing he had powers. The two would become friends. Alexander met his old nanny Pamela Jenkins, who revealed he had a half-sister before dying.

In the Fall, former Luthorcorp employee Earl Jenkins took hostages in an attempt to expose Luthorcorp secrets, but was apprehended. Alexander Luthor refused to return to Metropolis, Lionel Luthor responded by shutting down the Smallville Power Plant, Alexander Luthor retaliated by finding his own company of Lexcorp.

### **2002**

Lionel Luthor was left blind after being injured in a Tornado, moving to Luthor Mansion in Smallville. Rachel Dunleavy came looking for her son Lucas, Lionel had her committed to an asylum. He also clashed with the Kawatche Tribe due to his construction projects. He was also shot by Smalville Sheriff Ethan Miller, and succeeded in buying up Lexcorp. Lionel would reunite with his son Lucas, who would reveal publicly Lionel was had recovered from his blindness. He also turned Chloe Sullivan into a spy for him to keep an eye on Clark Duke.

Alexander Luthor was hypnotized into loving Desiree Atkins before being freed. It was Alex who tracked down his brother Lucas. Alex would marry Helen Bryce, but was lost at sea when he private jet crashed into the ocean.

### **2003**

Alexander Luthor Jr framed Samuel Kent for having gone insane due to an approaching Kryptonite meteor. Samuel Kent cleared his identity and arrested Luthor Jr. This also marked the end of his political power.

Alexander Luthor(Lionel's Son), found his way back to the island and uncovered that Lionel had his own parents killed and threatened to expose this, resulting in Lionel having him committed and then erasing his memories. Chloe Sullivan refused to spy on Lionel, leading him to getting both of them fired from their jobs. Learning he had Liver's disease, Lionel funded experiments using superhuman blood, including using a boy named Chad Nash, who murdered most of the project staff. Alexander Luthor cut a deal with the FBR and exposed Lionel Luthor's illegal activities, leading to his arrest.

### **2004**

Lionel Luthor escaped Prison by obtaining a mystical stone. While defeated by Clark Duke, the Stone cured his live disease. Filled with a new lease on life, Lionel intended to change his life, but was forced into helping Genevieve Teague, an old friend into collecting more of the magical stones. An encounter with Clark Duke lead him to acquire Kryptonian knowledge. This led him in a trance and he was placed in an asylum by Alexander Luthor.

### **2006**

After surviving an assassination attempt, Alexander Luthor ran for State senate against Bo Duke, ultimately losing. Lionel had a change of heart and approached Bo Duke. He intended to gain trust by revealing he knew the truth of Clark's parentage but this made Bo Duke angry, inciting a heart attack. Lionel did warn of an attempt by General Zod to escape the Phantom Zone via Possession.

Alexander Luthor Jr clashed with an alternate universe version of himself from Earth 4 during the Infinite Crisis. Soon after during Darkseid's Invasion of Earth, Alexander Luthor Jr seemingly perished alongside Darkseid. He would later be discovered to have been merged with the Source Wall and freed by Metron. He returned to hatch a plan that exposed Samuel Kent to radiation which would lead to his eventual death. While he escaped his execution thanks to a Kryptonite pill he had created for the Everyman Project, he came to realize the true nature of everything and broke down, leading to his defeat. He willingly submitted to his own execution.

Lionel's son, the sole remaining Alexander Luthor, was possessed by Zod's spirit from the Phantom Zone but was eventually freed.

### **2007**

Alexander Luthor made a power bid toward's his father's company, murdering Lionel Luthor. He then confronted clark Duke at the Fortress of Solitude, which collapsed around them during the battle.

## **Alexander Luthor Era(2007-)**

### **2008**

The Brain of Alexander Luthor Jr was discovered to have been preserved and placed in a robot body, which went on a rampage but was stopped by Samuel Kent.

Alexander Luthor aided the US Government in the war with New Krypton, destroying the planet.

### **2010**

Alexander Luthor was injured in an explosion during a fight with Green Arrow. He was rescued by Cadmus, who received a Donor fro mLionel Luthor of Earth Three.

### **2011**

The recovered Alexander seized his father's company from Tess, killing her and officially renamed it Lexcorp. Alexander would later discover that Tess's mind had ben digitally transferred.

### **2015**

Alexander Luthor pitted Clark Duke and Jason Todd against each other, while he experimented on General Zod's body, creating a Doomsday like monster that killed Clark Duke, though he would later be revived.Alexander Luthor was arrested.

### **2025**

Alexander Luthor conspired with a group of Parademons and caused a blackout during a battle with Samuel Kent.

### **Prior to 2077**

Prior to 2077, a member of the Luthor family challenged the current Superman to a bet. Luthor had implanted several Supervillains with devices to destroy their minds. Superman and Luthor would both make a pitch about whether Justice or Doom was better. Luthor made his speech to the people and Superman would make his. The people would vote. The loser would then be impaled by a Kryptonite trap. While Luthor made a speech, Superman's speech was effective enough to change Luthor's mind. Luthor expected the trap to go off and kill him but instead it killed Superman, the world had chosen doom. The Nukes fired soon after. Luthor would then devote his time attempting to clone Superman, creating several Rocketships with babies in them. He would eventually succeed but he would not see it. Luthor died and the last rocket hit the surface. The baby was the first to survive.

### **2425**

The Brain of Alexander Luthor Jr is discovered buried and is revived, killing the Green Lantern Ator.

### **2525**

Alex Luthor Jr at one point prior to this, blanketed the world with Kryptonite, killing Samuel Kent and Supergirl Red. Batman and Supergirl were able to finally put a stop to Alexander Luthor Jr.

### **30th Century**

Superboy briefly dated a girl named Alexis Luthor, unaware of the family connection due to being pulled from a time before he met any of the Luthors. She grew jealous and tried to kill his friends, being defeated and sent to prison.

A direct descendant of the Luthors, Rothul, antagonized Superman and Batman when they visited this time.

## **Alternate Universes**

### **Bizarro World**

Bizarro Lex was created by Mxyzptlk and saw himself as Bizarro World's greatest hero. He was based specifically on Alexis Luthor. He was not intelligent but usually did good things, which clashed with the ethos of the people of Bizarro World. He was killed in 1987, when Bizarro blew up his own home planet as he decided he needed to be Superman's perfect imperfect duplicate and had to have come from a destroyed world like Superman.

### **Flashpoint**

This world, due to the machinations of the Flash and Reverse Flash, had a Kal-El which crashed in Metropolis, devastating the city. Kal-El therefore grew up in a lab with Alexei Luthor and Ultra-Humanite working there in a plot to use the being that was defeated. Kal-El eventually escaped government custody. Alexis Luthor repeatedly tried to capture him. Another subject, Krypto, was captured and experimented on. Lionel Luthor used his own son Alexander as a shield when the dog attacked him, resulting in his death.

### **Earth Three**

On Earth Three, Alexei Luthor likely never pursued a criminal career nor a heroic one. This world was attacked when Alexis Luthor of Earth and Alexei Luthor of Earth One attacked, teaming up with Earth Three's Ultraman. Alexander Luthor, the Alexis Luthor of Earth Three, contacted Superman for help and the two defeated the villains. Alexander Luthor was inspired by this to become a hero, eventually marrying Lois Lane. Ultraman was freed by the Crime Syndicate. Alexander Luthor battled the Syndicate alongside a group of Heroes(Villains on Earth One), but most were killed including the Jokester and Clayface. He called on the Justice League of Earth One for help. In the conflict, Owlman and Johnny Quick of the Syndicate were killed and the rest arrested. In 1985, The Anti-Monitor destroyed this universe. Alexander Luthor and Lois Luthor sent their son Alexander Luthor Jr outside of the universe. The Anti-Monitor orchestrated this event to send the Crime Syndicate to Earth Three and they brought a captive Alexander Luthor with them. Luthor killed Earth Three's Billy Batson and took his power. He briefly reunited with his son before being killed by Alexis Luthor during the Crisis(This world also includes elements of Earth 148 as well).

Alexander Luthor Jr was found by the Monitor and grew quickly, helping to fight the Anti-Monitor and avenge his world. He then created a paradise Universe for a handful of survivors. He eventually attempted to merge realities to create the perfect Earth in 2005, but was ambushed and killed by Alexander Luthor and the Joke in the aftermath.

Lionel Luthor adopted Lor-Zod and forced his children to fight each other with Lor-Zod killing Alexander Luthor.

### **Earth 6**

On Earth 6, the closest equivalent to Superman is the displaced alien police officer Salden, who once engaged the alien criminal Gundor Gorrok, and defeated him. Gorrok could be considered the closest equivalent to Lex Luthor on this Earth, though he lacks super intelligence.

### **Earth 7**

Also known as Earth Z. This Universe underwent a Zombie apocalypse in the early 2010s. Darkseid studied the Virus and unleashed it on Earth after mixing it with the Anti-Life Equation. Alexander Luthor worked with the heroes to create an Ark. He was killed by a zombified Martian Manhunter.

### **Earth 11**

The Luthors on Earth 11 are of the opposite gender. Alexis Luthor was known as Leslie Luthor and created Bizarress in place of Bizarro.

### **Earth 23**

The Superman of this world is Calvin Ellis. Alexander Luthor, who is causasian, has a reputation of being racist, though he insists that he is not.

### **Earth 26**

Also known as Earth C. On the world of talking animals, Lex Luthor is instead Lex Lemur.

### **Earth 30**

Alexei Luthor was a scientist who was asked by the US Government to develop plans to oppose the Soviet Union allied Superman. He devoted himself more to science and grew to an intellect much closer to that of Alexis Luthor on Earth One. While he was a scientist for some time in the 1930's. Here he was able to continue expanding his knowledge, which was partly due to Superman and the Ultra-Humanite. World War II began in the early 1950's. In 1953, Alexei Luthor caused Sputnik II to crash and collected a DNA Sample of Superman when he rescued it, creating "Superman 2 ( this world's equivalent of Bizarro), who was killed in battle soon with Superman soon after. He continued to clash with Superman, even slowing down his own aging. The US began to collapse as the Soviet Union prospered with Luthor serving under every President from Hudson, Abbott, Jason, Monckton, and Dugan. In 1977, under President Cassidy, he shrank the city of Besstrashnyygrad with Brainiac's help. In the 80's the Soviet Union conquered The US and Alexei Luthor lead the resistance, which saw success in the 90's and saw the US be restored, electing Alexei Luthor as President. After Superman was apparently killed stopping Brainiac. Alexei stepped down in 2009 and was succeeded by a member of the Olsen Family. When he eventually died, his funeral was attended by thousands of people.

### **Earth 32**

In this universe, Batman was chosen to become the Green Lantern of Earth in 1937, due to the much earlier death of Abin Sur. Alexis Luthor, hearing about alien activity, specifically the site of Abin Sur's crash, moved to Gotham to investigate. While there he met and befriended Bruce Wayne. The two became good friends and Alexis Luthor learned Bruce's identity. The Mollusc Invasion of 1938, saw the two fighting aliens and the death of Alexei Luthor. Alexis Luthor eventually succeeded Bruce Wayne as Batman in 1961. He worked on the Justice League with Superman and Martian Manhunter specifically.

### **Earth 34**

On this Earth, Lois Lane became a criminal. Alexis Luthor was a concert pianist, who married Lois Lane. His son Larry Luthor became Superman's new nemesis. Superman instead married Lana Lang and they had a daughter named Joan Kent, who dated Larry Luthor, eventually reforming him. Alexis Luthor was accidentally killed by Larry Luthor.

### **Earth 38**

On this world, Superman died fighting the Sarmak invasion of 1938. Alexei Luthor turned a new leaf after his death and became Vice President under John Nance Garner in 1940.

### **Earth 43**

On this Earth, Superman was killed by Alexis Luthor in 1961, who pretended to reform to gain his trap and lured him into a trap. He was captured soon after by Supergirl and was exiled to the Phantom Zone. Supergirl then took up Superman's role. Lois Lane was left widowed. The Superman of Earth 51, who had lost his Lois, visited this world and chose to stay behind, marrying Lois.

### **Earth 49**

Known as the "Injustice Universe." In 1987, after Lois Lane was killed by the Joker, Superman reached the Joker first and killed him. He then led the Justice League in a move to police the world. Alexei Luthor and Alexis Luthor were both already dead. Lionel Luthor was killed but Alexander Luthor made efforts to befriend Superman and prove he was different from his family, even helping overthrow President Alexander Luthor Jr, resulting in Superman killing him in revenge for the death of Flash Wally West. He would aid Batman's underground before being killed by Superman.

### **Earth 51**

Superman's wife Lois, was murdered. He remarried Lana Lang, who died shortly after, followed by remarrying Lori Lemaris, who also died. Superman then left this reality for Earth 45 and seemed to settle there.

### **Earth 63**

A world devastated by Vampires. Alexander Luthor was among those killed during an attack on the Legion of Doom.

### **Earth 95**

Jor-El had more time to build a ship which took the entire family to Earth. He founded his own company. The Els prevented many tragedies from the Mount St.Helens Eruption, Munich Massacre, and the three thousand mile island disaster. Alexis Luthor accepted a position at Jor-Corp but was later arrested as he attempted to orchestrate a situation where he would be the hero( a Mix of Earth 95 and the Elseworlds Last Family of Krypton).

### **Earth 153**

On this world, Superboy briefly met Thomas Wayne. Alexis Luthor framed Superboy for Thomas Wayne's murder. Bruce Wayne believed Superboy was responsible and vowed revenge. Becoming Batman, Bruce and Luthor worked together to trap Superman in 1941. The trap succeeded but Batman realized Luthor was responsible and freed Superman at the cost of his own life.

### **Earth 159**

Earth was destroyed instead of Krypton with Lois Lane being sent to Krypton and using its science to be granted powers.

### **Earth 162**

Superman found a way to split himself into two beings dubbed Superman Red and Superman Blue. Together both accomplished many things like world peace with President James T.Cassidy, and Dimitri Kissoff as well as helping to reform Alexis Luthor and Alejandro Costa of Tropico, ushering in a new age of peace. Batman also found a similar process to split himself into two beings to make his own crusade easier. This world is known as "Blue Skies Over Camelot".

### **Earth 167**

On This world, Kal-El was exposed to Gold Kryptonite on the way to Earth, rendering him powerless. He was found and raised by Thomas and Martha Wayne. Alexis Luthor investigated the crash and found a way to grant himself superpowers, becoming a hero. He met and became close friends with Kal-El, who became Batman. The two remained a team. Clark Wayne met and married Lois Lane. In 1958, Supergirl arrived and was introduced to the two heroes. During a clash with Kryptonite, Alexis Luthor was exposed and willingly gave up his powers to transfer them to Clark Wayne. Clark Wayne would become Superman while due to the radiation he was exposed to, Alexis Luthor went off into space.

### **Earth 172**

On this Earth, The Chronosphere, a device to see the future, was granted to the Kents by the Legion of Superheroes. They were able to see the Waynes would be murdered when they saw Superman and Batman working together. They told the Waynes but they allowed themselves to be killed so Batman would exist. The Kents adopted Bruce Wayne in this universe. As adults, Batman failed to save the Kents from Lex Luthor. IN Sadness he elected to retire, Superman offered him the chance to join the Legion of Superheroes, which Batman accepted.

### **Earth 175**

Martha Kent on this Earth survived the disease that killed her on Earth One. Alexis Luthor's parents were then killed and he was adopted and reformed by Martha Kent, becoming Superboy's brother. The two became close allies. It was instead Pete Ross who became a villain. Lex sacrificed himself to save Superman.

### **Earth 230**

Kal-El was depowered due to passing through Gold Kryptonite. His rocket was discovered by Alexis Luthor, who found a way to grant himself Kryptonian powers and became a hero with Clark Kent using a genius intellect and being driven to become a villain.

### **Earth 332**

On this Earth, the Zor-El family instead all built a ship to take them to Earth, settling down and pretending to be a normal family. Jor-El and Lara were on Argo City and sent Kal-El to Earth later as an adult, where there were several Kryptonians already on Earth to train him. Alexis Luthor on this world never became a villain due to never losing his hair to Superboy and so was on good terms with the Zor-Els, being an ally of Supergirl. Lionel Luthor on other hand was responsible for eventually killing Kal-El, before being exposed and his company destroyed.

### **Earth 838**

On this Earth, The Kents never found Kal-El and he was raised by Amish parents and did not interfere with the world well into the 1960's. Alexei Kent and the Ultra-Humanite were largely unopposed and Alexei Luthor ran for Mayor and won, serving as Mayor in the 1960's he and the Ultra-Humanite were killed by Jimmy Olsen, as part of his own scheme.

## **Notes**

-Each member of the Luthor Family represents a different version of the character. Alexei Luthor is the Golden Age Lex Luthor who was a more standard criminal. Alexis Luthor is a scientific genius as in the Silver Ages stories. Lionel Luthor is the shrewd businessman who conceals his crimes. Alexander Luthor is the younger more modern depiction.