Lex L Luthor (DC Animated Universe)

**Lex L Luthor** is .

## Media Acting Users

### Somehow Entirely Voiced by

Clancy Brown + Corey Burton( via In Unison Voice for Become Fully Combined with Kryptonian Android Brainiac)

## Loves And Hates

### DisLikes

Kryptonian Brainiac's Deceased, His Plans-Being Failed

## Physical Appearance Description

### Known Eye Coloration

**HIS REGULAR-HUMAN SELF:** The Regular-White Eyeballs with The Regular-Black Pupils.HIS NANOTECH-AMAZO ANDROID: **The Colorful-Regular•Half•Lower-Ovals Red on The Inner Zone** with **The Colorful-Regular•Half•Lower-Squares Black on The Outer Zone****HIS COMBINED-FORM•WITH-KRYPTONIAN BRAINIAC:** The Violet-Purple Eyeballs and The Regular-White Pupils and The Light-Blue Irises.

## Known Media Appearances

### Somehow Entirely Voiced by

Clancy Brown + Corey Burton( via In Unison Voice for Become Fully Combined with Kryptonian Android Brainiac)

### An TV Episode

***SUPERMAN - THE ANIMATED SERIES -***- **Stolen Memories (Episode),** Ghost In-The Machine, **Knight Time (Episode),*****THE JUSTICE LEAGUE - THE ANIMATED SERIES -***- **Twilight**
***STATIC S SHOCK - THE ANIMATED SERIES -***- **An League-Of-Their Own**
***JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED -***- **Question Authority (Episode),** Flashpoint, **Panic In-The Sky,** Divided We Fall**, I Am Legion,** .

### Feature F Films

**Superman - The Last Son of The Planet Krypton**

## Biography

At a young age, Lex Luthor's parents were killed and he inherited their company. Growing up, he became interested in mechanics and patented many inventions. By his 20's, he was a corporate billionaire and built his company LexCorp into a financial powerhouse. WIth an array of technology, Luthor boasted having built Metropolis and two-thirds of its population work for him in one manner or another. **Lex Luthor lived his days as the city's most powerful and influential figure. That is, until Superman debuted and slowly won the love and admiration of the people. Around the same time, Luthor unveiled his LexoSuit, a billion dollar prototype. He was unable to sell a mass produced line to a client, the Regent of Kaznia, because of a US trade embargo. The two worked a secret deal. An elite squad of terrorists under contract with the Regent would steal the prototype and use it to reverse engineer it themselves. Luthor would then collect on the insurance and bank on the Pentagon would fear any country having a military advantage and contract him to build a better and more profitable suit.** Superman refused Luthor's offer to join forces, as he viewed Luthor as a criminal and vowed to stop him. Luthor concluded he would have to attain Superman's power in another manner and kill him. With his government contacts, Luthor funded Project Achilles, a black ops program dedicated to analyzing Superman. Achilles would be later absorbed into the much larger operation, Cadmus, years later. In the meantime, he pumped funds into LexCorp Research and Development to engineer his own weapon. LexCorp continued to survive through usual business deals and off the books sales to illegal arms dealers. **While unveiling a new museum dedicated to natural history, Luthor unknowingly held a shard of Kryptonite on display. When Superman tried to stop two common thieves, he fell ill. Luthor tried twice to kill Superman; luring him to a trap with a hired muscle and the more elaborate, a mechanical dinosaur. However, Superman remembered Professor Hamilton discovered lead could shield the radiation. Afterwards, Luthor greenlit a fervent search for samples of Kryptonite. For safe keeping, he always kept a shard by his side.** In another bid for a weapon to kill Superman, Luthor manipulated the terrorist, John Corben into undergoing an experimental surgery involving Metallo alloy, powered by Kryptonite. Though gifted with invulnerability and super strength, Corben was angered that he had lost his humanity in the process. As Metallo, Corben sought to kill both Luthor and Superman and failed. **After Superman's run in with the mechanical dinosaur, LexCorp technicians collected Superman's blood. Luthor used the DNA to start a secret cloning laboratory outside of Metropolis. Generic memories were programmed into the first clone. Luthor sought to control an army of cloned Superman's. However, the cloning process was flawed and the first mutated into what became known as Bizarro. Luthor abandoned the facility and detonated the half kiloton payload to cover his tracks.** Luthor also took advantage of former employees' desire for revenge on Superman, including Edward Lytener. Luthor gave Lytener technology and access to LexCorp's satellite communications. Lytener created a red sun environment that stripped Superman of his powers. After the event passed, Luthor used the data to create red sun lamps that supplied Project Achilles with in the future. **In an unconventional alliance, Luthor hired the Joker to kill Superman for a billion dollars. Luthor gave him access to his various facilities but Batman tracked Joker to Metropolis and intervened. The Joker cut his losses by kidnapping Luthor and hijacking his LexWing aircraft. Joker set out to destroy everything Luthor built, Metropolis. Batman and Superman freed Luthor and stopped the Joker, who narrowly escaped death, once again.** After avoiding an connections to the Joker, Luthor attempted to rebound with the debut of the LexCorp Sky Sentry, a defensive tool that utilizes a high powered magnetic beam designed to knock out guided missiles. One of Luthor's previous ambitions resurfaced. Brainiac had uploaded a copy of itself into LexCorp's systems during its stay on Earth. It quickly took control of LexCorp's R&D Lab in Sector Six and sought to build itself a new body. However, Brainiac needed Luthor's technical skills to put the finishing touches. It sabotaged the Sentry and lured him to the labs. Superman, as Kent, was able to convince Luthor's assistant, Mercy, to investigate his sudden reclusiveness. Brainiac was discovered but before the lab imploded on him, it blasted another copy of itself into Luthor. Since Brainiac was reconstructed with LexCorp technology, Luthor was able to legally confiscate the remains for research. **In another project aimed at creating and controlling a Superman-esque person, Luthor debuted the fruits on one-time engineer, John Henry Irons, the LexCorp Police Battlesuit Series Alpha. Irons' concern over the flaw in the neural interface was ignored. Luthor was confident in the override failsafe. It ultimately failed and Superman was forced to use high voltage to short circuit the suit and wearer, Sgt. Corey Mills.** Superman and Batman were not the only heroes to earn the animosity of Lex Luthor. It turned out that LexCorp explosive tests being conducted off of the eastern seaboard were encroaching on Atlantis. The city's ruler, Arthur, better known as Aquaman, went to the surface and tried to stop the tests. Aquaman was detained at an aquarium until he was discovered by Lois Lane. **When Superman was brainwashed by Darkseid and arrived on Earth leading an invasion force, Luthor supplied Project Achilles with a Kryptonite-lined warhead. Supergirl and Superman were knocked unconscious and taken to a top secret facility and tried. Luthor's red sun lamps kept Superman and Supergirl in check. Luthor wanted to take advantage of the situation and kill Superman with a lethal injection of liquid Kryptonite. Lois Lane infiltrated the facility and freed the two.** Years later, the Justice League formed a sting to take down Luthor once and for all. J'onn Jonzz, disguised as Superman, confronted Luthor. Playing the part, J'onn managed to get Luthor to reveal he bribed shipping magnates and Interpol agents in order to sell weapons to terrorists. Luthor escaped the League and led Superman on a high speed chase until he suddenly suffered a seizure. It turned out that Kryptonite affects humans over a longer period of time in the form of terminal blood poisoning. Luthor was taken to Stryker's Prison but he plotted a last ditch plan to kill the League before his imminent death. With Ultra-Humanite's expertise, Luthor escaped and formed the first Injustice Gang. After failures began to stack up, Luthor paid Humanite more to create a containment unit to stabalize his condition. Luthor then donned a battlesuit capable of firing Kryptonite blasts. Luthor continued to try to kill the League but failed time and time again. **Luthor was given the opportunity to clear his record with a presidential pardon, when the League faced the Justice Lords. Luthor used his Power Disrupter to permanently strip the powers and abilities of the Lords through neural manipulation. Though Mercy Graves was entrusted as the new CEO of LexCorp, Luthor was still clearly in control. One of first acts was to write a book about his experiences called "Into The Light." Lex Luthor allied himself with Cadmus, a government program with goals of attaining defenses against the League. He provided off the books funding as he did with Achilles. Luthor also spent $75 million on a false presidential campaign to influence a chain of events aimed to provoke a confrontation between Cadmus and the Justice League.** Luthor created Lexor City, a self-proclaimed utopia, within Metropolis, that would provide free energy and housing to the needy. It was another front to publicly discredit Supermanand the League. The plan involved Superman dismantling an experimental Kryptonite fusion generator under the ruse it was a bomb. The plan fell through and more. Captain Marvel tried to stop Superman and battle was videotaped live. After a physical conducted by Professor Hamilton, Luthor was shocked to learn his Kryptonite induced cancer was completely gone from his system and that he had the body of a fit 20 year old. Hamilton concluded it was a side effect of his vest or the Kryptonite poisoning itself. Luthor found himself gifted with super strength. **Lex Luthor apparently managed to hack into the JLU Watchtower and remotely activate the binary fusion cannon and blasted it into a Cadmus compound that was just relocated after Superman and Huntress infiltrated it. Because of this, the US government suspected the JLU of this crime since it also leveled a nearby city. It prompted Amanda Waller to launch an all out attack on the JLU. Meanwhile, Luthor was free to finish building a mysterious project of his, an android body based off of Professor Ivo's AMAZO android. Before he could transfer his brain into it, Amanda Waller destroyed it with a Nano-Disassembler Gun; ironically of Luthor's design.** The founding members of the JLU arrived and along with Waller, watched as Brainiac manifested itself from within Lex Luthor. Luthor was the unknowing vessel for a copy of Brainiac. Years ago when he was hel captive by Brainiac, it embedded a nano copy into Luthor and it bidded its time. Being the businessman, Luthor took this as the last chance to acheive his ultimate goal; power, knowledge and immortality. He managed to appeal to Brainiac, and the two set out to become gods. After assimilating the abilities of the Dark Heart, they created a machine that would allow them to assimilate a planet in one shot. After destroying everything in the universe, Luthor convinced Brainiac they would use their knowledge and power to remake the universe and be its god. However, they were stopped by the Flash. Flash used lightspeed vibrations to destroy Brainiac but Luthor was unscathed and taken back to prison. **After spending nearly a year in prison, Lex Luthor became detached. Prison officers observed him talking to himself and not showing any hostility or emotion. While being transferred, Luthor made a move and hijacked the prison van transporting him. It seems he is either suffering from delusions or still retains a limited mental bond with Brainiac. Nonetheless, Luthor was saved by the Key. The Key took him to a secluded swamp where Grodd revealed himself and his operation. Luthor declined Grodd's offer, until Grodd revealed he had the last piece of Brainiac on the planet. Luthor obliged and works for the Legion. Luthor's first test was to go to Blackhawk Island with the Key and Dr. Polaris and steal the Spear of Longinus. Their efforts were opposed by Shayera Hol, Flash, Fire and the last Blackhawk, Chuck Cuidera. However, Luthor set the self-destruct program and fled with his partners and the Spear. Grodd was impressed and assured him his next mission would be the real deal.** In the meantime, Grodd assigned Luthor to begin augmenting the powers and abilities of select Legion members. He gifted Devil Ray with increased strength, Killer Frost with pyschokinetic control and Atomic Skull with radioactive projection. When the Viking Prince's corpse was unearthed, Grodd devised a plan to take the body for himself. Luthor would then reverse engineer the Prince's invulnerability and bestow it upon every member of the Legion. The theft failed. **Lex Luthor was assigned to build Grodd a suitable amplifier for a carrier wave. Luthor was led to believe it was for Grodd's mind control module. The amplifier required a power source though. Grodd sent Luthor and several others to the Himalayas to steal the Heart of Nanda Parbat, a mystical totem. With it, the souls of the Temple's monks were taken. Grodd then led a larger group of super villains to Gorilla City to use their shield generator to spread the waves of de-evolution. However, Grodd's master plan was thwarted by Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman. Luthor was irritated by Grodd's plan and shot him unconsious back at Legion headquarters and assumed leadership.** Time and time again, Luthor failed to reconstitute Brainiac. In the meantime, he was charged with satisfying the demands of his peers. Luthor devised a plan to steal millions of Euros being delivered to Kasnia, only to switch bodies with the Flash. He also hacked the Justice League communications links to provide a bankrupt Roulette with attractive fighters. In any case, Luthor's unstable behavior warrants the concern of many within the Legion. Tala tapped into the psychic memory of the piece of Brainiac and revealed to Luthor that it still existed in a distant galaxy. Luthor reconfigured the headquarters' cloaking field into a hyperspatial drive. However, Tala engineered a rebellion by freeing Grodd from his prison. Tala attempted to confront Luthor, but he possessed the Eye of Agamotto, an ancient artifact capable of amplifying the mind's eye and in turn, gifting its possessor with psychic abilities. After the short lived mutiny, Luthor captured Tala and used her as a mystic conduit to siphon Brainiac's essence and reconstitute it. Luthor was unaware that remnants of Darkseid were also present. Instead of Brainiac, Darkseid returned and destroyed the headquarters. Luthor and a small group of survivors made their way to the Justice League Metrotower on Earth to reveal what had happened. **Luthor desired to get revenge on Darkseid by temporarily allying with the JLU. During battle, Luthor re-encountered the New God, Metron. He managed to convince Metron to help him attain the one thing that could stop Darkseid, the Anti-Life Equation. Together, they journeyed to the Source Wall, at the edge of the universe, where the Equation lay. Luthor managed to survive breaching the Wall and returned to Earth to stop Darkseid. In an explosion, Luthor and Darkseid disappeared. Whether both survived or not is unknown.**

### Origins

Little is known about Lex Luthor's origins, but he was an admirably self-made man. With the aid of his natural genius and his general lack of conscience, Luthor assembled a vast fortune and founded LexCorp. Through a combination of Luthor's ruthless business tactics and genuine ingenuity, LexCorp quickly became one of the largest corporations in the United States. Now clearly the most powerful man in Metropolis, Luthor's ego and pride drove him to try and position himself as the face of the city, donating millions to charity and erecting libraries, schools, and hospitals in his name. **However, at heart, Luthor was devious, shrewd, and cold. In his mind, Metropolis was to be an empire, with Luthor as its absolute ruler. LexCorp forced virtual monopolies on public works, technology, transportation, and even became a major defense contractor—all with the underlying goal of collecting more and more power and wealth for the greedy Luthor.**

### Challenged by an alien

It was this lust for power that eventually made him the sworn enemy of Superman. From the start, the very idea of an alien who appeared to be human possessing incredible power disturbed Luthor. However, that reasonable suspicion soon erupted into personal jealousy and malicious intent. The fact that Luthor could not bribe or hire the newcomer, or alter the public's perception of Superman's actions, angered him even more. Luthor would soon scheme against Superman on a regular basis; attempting at various times to ruin Superman's reputation or destroy him outright. **His drive to eliminate Superman became so strong, that he even became willing to hire psychopathic criminals such as the Joker to kill him. However, the attempts often painted Luthor in an unflattering light, but he managed to cover his trail often enough to avoid prosecution.** In the early years, perhaps Luthor's most horrific plan involved collecting a drop of blood from a Kryptonite-weakened Superman and using it in cloning experiments. No successful clones were created—in fact, many were inhumanely destroyed. One massively flawed clone would escape after mutating into the white-skinned Bizarro. **Luthor took to carrying a small piece of Kryptonite on his person at all times, as a precaution against any potential encounters with Superman. However, he failed to realize how damaging the radiation could be to humans and after a few years, and he developed Kryptonite poisoning. Driven mad by the sickness, Luthor became angrier than ever at Superman, and attempted to kill him publicly. Lex Luthor's criminal activities are finally exposed in a sting by the Justice League, when Luthor lords it over "Superman" rendered helpless by Kryptonite, who turns out to be J'onn J'onzz in disguise, with Batman and Green Lantern recording the conversation where Luthor reveals how he smuggled weapons through customs, giving names of those he bribed.** Batman gets the Kryptonite and places it in his belt. Luthor flees the LexCorp tower in a personal aircraft. Superman flies after him, but Luthor has an unexpected seizure, and Superman acted quickly to keep him from crashing. Luthor awakens in a hospital bed. He claims the charges won't stand up in court, but Superman and a doctor inform him that he is suffering from an incurable form of blood cancer caused by long-term exposure to the Kryptonite's radiation. Superman asks Luthor if there's anything he can do, but Luthor, clearly blaming him, feels that he's "done enough" already, at which Superman leaves him be. Luthor loses interest in defending his case, and so for this crime and others, Lex Luthor was finally convicted and sent to prison.

### After the fall

**While in prison, Luthor is annoyed by the Ultra-Humanite, who occupies the cell next to his and is often watching his favorite opera program on public broadcasting. The program announces that this will be their last broadcast as they have run out of funds, which Ultra-Humanite notes with a sad frown. However, Luthor contacts him via their TV screens and convinces the Ultra-Humanite to help him escape in exchange for a large sum of money. He then teamed up with Ultra-Humanite, enabling their escape. The Ultra-Humanite electrocutes two guards bringing him food, and uses one of them to open Lex's cell via the doors' retina scanners. Luthor uses dynamite to set a building on fire, delaying the authorities and the League. Once free, Luthor summons a group of other super-criminals: Cheetah, Star Sapphire, The Shade, Copperhead, and Solomon Grundy, for one purpose: to destroy the League. However, the criminal masterminds were recaptured when their attempts to form an Injustice Gang were foiled. The Ultra-Humanite was responsible for their capture, who sold Luthor out to the Batman (in exchange for a sizable monetary donation to public television, of all things). However, despite that failure Luthor received a chest plate that prevented the Kryptonite poisoning from worsening, and he acquired a battle suit powerful enough to fight the Justice League directly.** Luthor returned again, taking sides with a supersoldier-type android called Amazo. After tricking Amazo into doing his dirty work and destroying the Justice League, Amazo copied all of the Justice League's powers and nearly killed them. But when Amazo acquired J'onn J'onzz's mind-reading capability, he discovered Luthor's true intentions. Amazo decided to spare Luthor's life and flew off into space. Luthor was returned to prison.

### Apparent reform

**Luthor was later pardoned for helping the Justice League defeat the fascist Justice Lords and claimed in a press conference that he'd sworn off violence against Superman and the Justice League in order to concentrate on more noble aspirations. To this end, Luthor was now looking into politics — more specifically he sought the U.S. Presidency.** To try and persuade the public that he was sincere in his reformation, Luthor courted the media, giving interviews to Phil O'Bannon and Sroya Bashir and writing a book called "*Into the Light"*. As part of his Presidential campaign, he funded the construction of Lexor City — only for it to be half-destroyed in a battle between Superman and Captain Marvel when the former was led to believe that Luthor had planted a bomb to destroy the city. For the benefit of the reporters present at the scene, Luthor took full responsibility for the damage and the events that had lead to it — the "bomb" being a Kryptonite-fuelled power generator which would have provided the city with cheap energy. **Luthor even joined forces with the League in order to stop the android Amazo when he returned to Earth. Amazo was more powerful than ever and had even apparently destroyed the planet Oa simply by approaching it. Using the android's blueprints, Luthor and the Atom came up with a weapon in order to stop him but it proved ineffective since he had evolved beyond nanotechnology. Amazo confronted Luthor over the way he had manipulated him in their original meeting but then revealed that what he really wanted to know was his purpose in life. Amazo's failure to find some kind of meaning to his existence was a major frustration for him. Luthor calmed him by stating that to find meaning for one's life was something that everyone had to find out for themselves: As an example, he revealed that his own motivation was the pursuit of knowledge and desire to last beyond his current existence, stating "In just a few short generations my name will be forgotten. Even the greatest of us can't compete with time... and death." Luthor's advice was enough to calm Amazo, who also restored the planet Oa to its original location, having simply shifted it to another dimension.** All this time, Luthor was pursuing a hidden agenda. His presidential campaign was really just a way to antagonize Superman and destroy the League. He had manipulated the battle of Lexor City in order to successfully discredit Superman, who had been made to appear to have destroyed the city for no good reason. Luthor also teamed up with Amanda Waller, head of Project Cadmus, to which he provided off-the-books funding. **It was around this time that Luthor's body underwent some strange changes. He was inexplicably cured of the Kryptonite-induced cancer; his body became as fit as that of a much younger man; and he displayed considerable super-strength in physical confrontations with Batman and the Question.** As the feud between the Justice League and Project Cadmus reached its height, Luthor hacked into the League's Watchtower's systems and used their binary fusion weapon to destroy Cadmus HQ, leading to an all-out battle between the League and Cadmus's army of Ultimen clones. **All of this was to distract the League long enough for Luthor to create an android based on Amazo to spend the rest of eternity in — having memorised the blueprints when trying to device a weapon to destroy Amazo. However, Batman convinced Waller of Luthor's intentions and she destroyed the android. Luthor was then confronted by the founding members of the Justice League who came to arrest him. However, at that point, Brainiac suddenly emerged from within Luthor. It was revealed that Brainiac had placed a nanite copy of himself within Luthor years ago, and protected him until he could transfer himself to another body. Escaping from the League, Luthor asked Brainiac what he intended to do. When he learned that Brainiac merely intended to acquire all knowledge, Luthor offered to merge with Brainiac and use that knowledge to achieve true godhood. They broke into Cadmus and assimilated the Dark Heart technology into their database. This way, he could control the nano-assemblers into converting any raw material into whatever they wished. Given his failed liaison with Darkseid, Brainiac didn't fully trust Luthor, so they agreed to completely merge into one single being, using the nanotech.** From there on, Luthor/Brainiac set off to build a machine that would absorb the information of the entire Earth, then the galaxy, and finally reshape the universe to their will. When the Justice League stepped in, Luthor/Brainiac created nanotech duplicates of the Justice Lords to hold them off. Even though the League overpowered their counterparts, Brainiac/Luthor managed to subdue them, except for Flash. While attempting to reassemble his absorption apparatus, Luthor/Brainiac was engaged by the Flash, who had tapped into the Speed Force and managed to destroy every piece of Brainiac in Luthor, returning Luthor to normal.

### Return to form

**After failing to destroy Superman and the Justice League while merged with Brainiac, Luthor was exposed as a criminal to the public at large. Compelled by a mental form of Brainiac, Luthor escaped prison and was recruited into Gorilla Grodd's super-villain army in order to resurrect Brainiac from his last remaining piece and regain his godhood. Ultimately, he planned on turning on Grodd and usurp leadership of the Legion and accelerated his plan when he learned that the items he had collected for Grodd were to turn all humans into apes, which was foiled by the League. Luthor also made extra insurances in case any one of his subordinates would try to betray him. One example was Doctor Polaris, who attempted to take control when Luthor switched bodies with Flash, only to learn that Luthor had installed fail-safes in his augmentation.** Luthor's obsession for reviving Brainiac made him distant from the rest of the Legion. He soon learned of the remnants of Brainiac's old base in outer space and modified the Legion's base into a faster-than-light spacecraft. However, Tala had released Grodd, who lead a schism in the Legion. The insurrection was put down and Luthor jettisoned Grodd into space. He then bound Tala into a machine meant to use her to reconstruct Brainiac, which should kill her in the process. However, Luthor's attempt failed as Tala, in a last act of revenge on him, used the last of her magical strength to interfere with the process and caused it to instead revive Darkseid, fused with Brainiac technology. **Reluctantly teaming with arch-rivals Superman and Batman to stop Darkseid, Luthor was helped by Metron of New Genesis, who directed Luthor towards the resting place of Darkseid's most valued prize: the Anti-Life Equation. Using the power of the cosmic Anti-Life Equation, Luthor stopped Darkseid from killing Superman, and in effect saved the Earth. In doing so, he and Darkseid vanished completely in an explosion of light and energy.**

## Bios/Biography

this version is a corrupt businessman controlling Metropolis. He is depicted with Mercy Graves as his loyal bodyguard. While Luthor comes into conflict many times over the course of the series, he is always ultimately foiled, but never charged with any crime due to lack of evidence even in his brief alliances with villains such as Bizarro, Metallo, Brainiac and the Joker, and thus stays out of prison throughout the series. Lex Luthor is finally exposed as a criminal and having lost his business empire. His character turns more toward the original conception of a criminal genius obsessed with destroying Superman. Early in the series, his criminal activities are finally exposed by Batman, Green Lantern and Martian Manhunter and achieves sufficient evidence to prove his guilt. He also learns that he is suffering from a rare but deadly blood cancer caused by long-term exposure to a piece of Kryptonite he carried for years. While in prison, he bribes the Ultra-Humanite for freedom, and the two band together and ultimately form the first iteration of the Injustice Gang with Shade, Copperhead, Star Sapphire, Cheetah, Solomon Grundy and even the Joker (though Luthor remains having a grudge against the Joker as he remembers events from their first alliance against Superman and Batman). Ultra-Humanite's technology allows Lex to wear a special chest-plate that stops the spread of his cancer, as well being part of an armored suit that gives himself a fighting chance against Superman, blaming the Man of Steel for him being terminal. However, Lex is betrayed by Ultra-Humanite when approached with an offer by Batman. After a fight with Superman and Hawkgirl, Lex uses his criminal genius to manipulate the android A.M.A.Z.O. to help him. After assisting against alternate fascists superheroes from a parallel universe, Luthor is eventually pardoned from his crimes, and implies that he is thinking of going into politics. Lex continues to have a central role and becomes the overarching antagonist of the entire series. In the first season, Lex continues to run for the President of the United States. Behind the scenes, he financially backs a shadow government organization dedicated to eradicating the Justice League if they ever turn on Earth's population. Luthor's actions cause Captain Marvel to quit the League, and the Question attempts to assassinate him so Superman cannot. At this point, Lex's Presidency is revealed to be a ruse to enrage Superman. Unknown to anyone, Luthor uses Cadmus to gain access to technology necessary to build his own duplicate of A.M.A.Z.O., intending to transfer his mind into the android body and gain immortality. He is thwarted by Amanda Waller and the seven founding Justice League members. At this point, it is revealed that Brainiac has been hiding within Luthor ever since *Superman: The Animated Series*, having earlier cured Luthor's cancer, rejuvenate his body younger, and given him superhuman strength. The two escape the League, and Luthor convinces Brainiac to merge with into a single being (also voiced by Corey Burton). After using alien nanotechnology to fuse themselves into a single being, they have a new purpose: absorb all information in the universe and then remake it in their image, rather than merely destroy it. Their new combined state, however, is defeated by the Flash in the first and only demonstration of the Speed Force in the series, in the process disappearing from existence. Superman is tempted to kill Luthor, but refused to cross the line as his Justice Lord counterpart. In the final season, Luthor continually speaks to a hallucination of Brainiac, giving him a sort of multiple personality disorder; it is never made clear if the hallucination is actually Brainiac or merely a figment of Lex's imagination. Luthor is obsessed with rebuilding Brainiac and regaining his lost "godhood". He joins the Secret Society led by Gorilla Grodd in order to obtain a piece of Brainiac in Grodd's possession. Later, using the failure of Grodd's plan to turn all humans into apes as a pretext, Lex usurps and imprisons Grodd, then assumes the leader's place with no apparent objections from the membership. After taking over as the Secret Society's leader, Luthor returns to trying to resurrect Brainiac. Using the power of the Secret Society headquarters, Luthor tries to bring the fragment of Brainiac back online. Eventually, with the help of Tala, Luthor tracks down the remains of Brainiac's base and reconfigures the Secret Society headquarters into a starship to reach it. During the journey, Tala frees Grodd and the two mount an insurrection against Luthor with his fellow Secret Society members. Luthor manages to turn Grodd's own telepathy back against when Grodd tries to place him under control, then forces Grodd to get into an airlock. He spaces Grodd, apparently killing the gorilla. With the Secret Society, back under Luthor's power, returning to the task of resurrecting Brainiac, Luthor hooks Tala up to a machine to gather Brainiac's essence from the remains, knowing fully well that this will kill Tala. Before Luthor begins the process, Metron warns him that he may unleash something that will affect all of time. Luthor ignores the warning and proceeds, and as a result ends up mistakenly resurrecting Darkseid fused with Brainiac, since Tala deliberately did this as a final act of revenge against Luthor, and immediately unleashes wrath on the Secret Society before heading to Earth. The Secret Society survives thanks to a forcefield generated by Star Sapphire and Sinestro. As a result of the attempt, Luthor can no longer hear Brainiac's voice. The remnants of Luthor's Secret Society go to the Justice League Watchtower to warn the superheroes of the threat. Complaisant to Superman's distrust to him, Luthor makes it clear that he cares less about saving the world and more about revenge on Darkseid for robbing him of his quest for power; they both agree that it will be "back to business as usual" and so make a temporary alliance in the defense of the planet. After, with the aid of the New God Metron, Luthor manages to acquire the Anti-Life Equation long sought by Darkseid, and in an act of heroism and bravery, uses it on Darkseid, sacrificing his own life in the process. Though there is no trace left of the two villains, Batman and other Leaguers suspect Darkseid and Luthor will most likely meet them again. However, by the time of *Batman Beyond*, they have not been seen or heard from, Dwayne McDuffie said that they both became a part of the Source Wall, like everyone else who solved the Equation.  **.**

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