Lionel Luthor

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* Biography
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia and Notes
* Gallery

## Identity

### Relatives

Lex Luthor (Son)
Luna Luthor (Daughter)
Lena and Lori Luthor (Granddaughters)

## Biographical Information

### Marital Status

Widower (Lillian Luthor [née Hawkes] and Pamela Luthor [née Jenkins], Wives)

## Trivia and Notes

### Trivia

#### General

* His first wife died of leukemia.
* As Luna was growing up she showed signs of being different. Lionel felt she was an embarrassment and sought to have her sent away to a foreign care center, but her mother fought to keep Luna with her. As a compromise, Lionel sent Luna and Pamela to go live in his summer retreat in Coast City.
* It's implied he murdered his second wife and for some reason left his daughter alive. He sent her oversees to a psychiatric facility.
* Perry White wrote one article that implicated him in a corruption scandal and though Luthor's lawyers sued the paper for libel and won (wrongfully), Lionel held a grudge and often sought to put White out of a job or even shut the Daily Planet down. Perry took most of this in stride, but it became a deeply personal vendetta when Perry's wife Alice was assaulted in their home by two masked men and threatened with more if Perry ever wrote about Luthor again.
* He in died under mysterious circumstances. He fell to the ground from his high-rise office.

#### Lex

* During a inspection of a fertilizer plant he wanted to buy Smallville was hit by a meteor shower. He found his son in a cornfield catatonic and without any of his red hair.
* His son used his money to win girls.
* He made a hefty donation to the Ivy University after his son and his friend caused a fire.
* After he cut off his son financially to teach him to be self-sufficient he was caught hacking school servers to alter grades for other people for profit.
* Frustrated with his son, Lionel sent Lex to run the Smallville Fertilizer Plant as a last resort for Lex to prove himself worthy of inheriting LuthorCorp.
* He competed with his son in research of the meteor rocks.
* Lex eventually moved to Metropolis to take a more active role in his father's company. Instead of bringing his ideas to the Board of Directors, Lex would often ambush Lionel's presentations which undermined Lionel's authority. To combat this, Lionel sent Lex to oversee his interests in Vlatava and Markovia. Lex recognized this as an obvious ploy to keep him away. Lex went without a fight, but not before he and his cohorts broke into LuthorCorp to raid Lionel's office and his personal vault, stock full of data and assorted paraphernalia, much of which had been stolen from Lex's own collection. By the time Lionel discovered the theft, Lex was in another country and had plenty of doctored evidence to assert his alibi. Despite Lex's phony protestations otherwise, Lionel knew he was being played and was determined to never let Lex return to Metropolis until Lex returned what was taken.

### Notes

* Lionel Luthor is a character from the *Smallville* TV series.

## Gallery

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## Links and References

* Appearances of Lionel Luthor

1. ↑ VOX Box: Luna Luthor
2. ↑ Deluxe Oracle Files: Luna Luthor
3. ↑ Deluxe Oracle Files: Perry White
4. ↑ Deluxe Oracle Files: Lex Luthor