Lex Luthor Character Review
Alexander Joseph "Lex" Luthor is a fictional character, a supervillain appearing in comic books published by DC Comics. Luthor is the archenemy of Superman, and as a high-status supervillain, has also come into conflict with Batman and other superheroes in the DC Universe. Created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the character first appeared in Action Comics (April 1940). Luthor is described as "a power-mad, evil scientist" of high intelligence and incredible technological prowess. Luthor's goals typically center on killing Superman, the foremost obstacle to achieving the villain's megalomaniacal goals. Despite periodically wearing a powered exoskeleton, Luthor has traditionally lacked superpowers or a dual identity.
The character was originally depicted as a mad scientist who, in the vein of pulp novels, wreaks havoc on the world with his futuristic weaponry. In his earliest appearances, Luthor is shown with a full head of red hair. Despite this, the character later became hairless as the result of an artist's mistake. A 1960 story by Jerry Siegel expanded upon Luthor's origin and motivations, revealing him to be a childhood friend of Superman's who lost his hair when a fire destroyed his laboratory; Luthor vowed revenge.
The character was originally depicted as a mad scientist who, in the vein of pulp novels, wreaks havoc on the world with his futuristic weaponry. In his earliest appearances, Luthor is shown with a full head of red hair. Despite this, the character later became hairless as the result of an artist's mistake. A 1960 story by Jerry Siegel expanded upon Luthor's origin and motivations, revealing him to be a childhood friend of Superman's who lost his hair when a fire destroyed his laboratory; Luthor vowed revenge.
Following the 1985 limited series Crisis on Infinite Earths, the character was re-imagined as a Machiavellian industrialist and white-collar criminal, even briefly serving as President of the United States.
In recent years, various writers have revived Luthor's mad scientist
persona from the 1940s. The character was ranked as the 8th Greatest
Villain by Wizard on its 100 Greatest Villains of All Time list. IGN's list of the Top 100 Comic Book Villains of All Time ranked Luthor as #4. Luthor is also described as a "megavillain" by comic book critic Peter Sanderson, one of a few genre-crossing villains whose adventures take place "in a
world in which the ordinary laws of nature are slightly suspended";
characters such as Professor Moriarty, Count Dracula, Hannibal Lecter, Doctor Doom, and Darth Vader, also fit this description...(More about Lex Luthor Character Review, keep reading !!)
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Relationships and Family
In the pre-Crisis continuity, Luthor is shown as having very few personal attachments. Shamed by his crimes, his parents (Jules and Arlene) disown him, move away, and change their name to the anagram "Thorul". Luthor has a younger sister named Lena, an empath
who grows up unaware of her familial connection with the noted
supervillain. Lena, like Lex, also attended Regis High School.
Protective of his sister, Luthor takes measures to hide his fraternity,
and is assisted towards this end by both Superman and Supergirl. Lena Thorul later marries FBI agent Jeff Colby (who had once arrested Lex), later giving birth to a son, Val Colby. Jeff Colby dies some time later. After Lena has brain surgery the decision is made to reveal the truth
about Luthor to her. There is some reconciliation between them when
Luthor discovers he was an unwitting party to a conspiracy against Lena,
which was masterminded by his cellmate "Sam", who wanted revenge
against Colby. He is deeply apologetic to Lena.
In the Post-Crisis continuity, Lena is the name of Lex's
adopted sister when he was living in a foster home. She is accidentally
killed by their foster father when she refuses to try to trick Lex out
of his inheritance. Lex later names his baby daughter after her.
However, following the events of the Infinite Crisis, Luthor's history was again altered, re-introducing Lena as his sister. Unlike the Pre-Crisis
version, Lena is well-aware of history with Lex, having grown up
alongside him, with only an abusive father. She has no empathic
abilities, and is a paraplegic with a teenaged daughter, Lori, both of whom still live in Smallville. Unlike his pre-Crisis
version, Lex has little love for his sister, having abandoned her with
an unnamed aunt after their father dies of a heart attack. Lex even goes
so far as to cure Lena's illness, and then immediately undoes the
process, leaving her completely catatonic, solely in order to make a
mocking point to Superboy and Superman. Lena is currently under the care of the best doctors from Wayne Enterprises, hired by Red Robin. Lex Luthor himself later marries Ardora of the planet Lexor and, in Action Comics (June, 1983), first learns of his infant son by Ardora, Lex Luthor, Jr. A short time later, Lexor is destroyed and both Ardora and Lex, Jr. die as a direct result.
The Pre-Crisis Luthor also has a niece named Nasthalia Luthor who is an occasional thorn in Supergirl's side.
In post-The Man of Steel continuity, Luthor is childhood friends with Perry White and it is revealed that Luthor is the biological father of Perry's dead son Jerry White. Lex Luthor has been married eight times, though the first seven
marriages occurred off-panel in Luthor's past. His eighth marriage to Contessa Erica Alexandra Del Portenza (aka the "Contessa") is based on mutual greed; the Contessa buys controlling interest in LexCorp after Luthor is
indicted, compelling him to marry her in order to regain control of his
company. The Contessa becomes pregnant and starts using the unborn child
to dominate Lex into doing her bidding. Luthor's response is to
imprison her while she is drugged during childbirth, keeping her in a
permanently unconscious state. The Contessa later escapes to an island
mansion, but upon being elected President, Luthor targets her home with a barrage of missiles and destroys it. Luthor's daughter Lena was the avatar of The Tech, the remnant cyberware of Metropolis after Brainiac 13's advancing the city to a futuristic state was undone.
James D. Hudnall's Lex Luthor: The Unauthorized Biography
further expands on Luthor's origin. The story details how Luthor was
sent to live with a foster family following the sabotage of his parents'
car. His foster parents, Casey and Emily Griggs, conspire to
embezzle his insurance, and coerce their daughter, Lena, into seducing
Lex in order to learn the location of the money. Due to her own romantic
feelings toward Lex, Lena refuses, and is beaten to death by her
father. Lex is absent from the home at the time of the murder, having
been talked into going to a football game by his schoolmate Perry White. Once he has established his preeminence in Metropolis, Luthor takes
vengeance on Griggs, secretly hiring him to assassinate Frank Berkowitz,
the city's popular four-term mayor, who refuses to knuckle under to
Luthor's dominance, then personally killing him once the deed is done.
As an adult, this incident motivates Luthor to begin an affair with
Perry's wife, Alice, during a period when Perry is missing and assumed
dead. Alice becomes pregnant shortly afterward, though the timing of the
conception means an equal possibility of either Luthor or White being
the father. The child, Jerry White, later learns of his true parentage
during his late teens, shortly before being killed by a local street
gang he is associated with. The loss of a potential heir weighs heavily
on Luthor's mind, particularly when he is dying of cancer; while mulling
over his fate, Luthor visits Jerry's gravesite.
Luthor has shown an unusual level of compassion for Conner Kent, a hybrid clone created from the DNA of Superman and Luthor himself. After Conner's death at the conclusion of the Infinite Crisis, Luthor is shown visiting a memorial statue of Conner in Metropolis and placing flowers there. More than once Luthor addresses Conner as his son. Following Conner's resurrection, Luthor is shocked and decides to locate him. When Brainiac accuses him of showing paternal feelings for Conner though, Luthor denies it, saying that he only wants his property back, and has no fatherly feelings towards Superboy. Apparently, Luthor is no longer affectionate to the Boy of Steel after the event at his sister's house, and now seeing Superboy as a "failed experiment" due to using "a wrong alien DNA" to combine with his own. Luthor creates another binary clone with Brainiac using their genetics, which implies that it would becomes a threat to Superboy.
In the alternate future timeline of Titans Tomorrow, in which Conner still exists, Luthor acts as a caring, fatherly figure to him.
After the events of Blackest Night, Luthor went on to build a gynoid version of Lois Lane using Brainiac technology. His primary purpose for creating her was to have a companion which voiced honest opinions about his plans, and to give him an extra voice of reason to counsel him on his obsessive quest for the Black Lantern energy. Luthor also had a pseudo-romantic relationship with the "Loisbot", and regularly slept with it.
Powers and Abilities (Lex Luthor)
Lex Luthor has the physical capabilities and limitations of a normal adult with no metahuman
abilities. However, he possesses a genius level of intelligence. For
virtually his entire publication history, he has been depicted as the
most intelligent human in the DC Universe,
and as one of the most intelligent beings of any planet or species. He
has mastered seemingly every known form of science, including space travel, extra-dimensional travel, biochemistry, robotics, computers, synthetic polymers, communications, mutations, transportation, holography, energy generation, spectral analysis, and more (including time travel in many Pre-Crisis stories). With the exception of the extraterrestrial entity known as Brainiac, he does not view any other being as an intellectual peer.
Over the years, Luthor has made liberal use of Kryptonite weapons capable of injuring Superman and other Kryptonians. Since the Bronze Age,
he has also utilized various battlesuits in many stories. Additionally,
he often wore a Kryptonite ring on his right hand in Post-Crisis
stories, but abandoned this tactic after prolonged exposure to
K-radiation resulted in the loss of his hand and poisoned his entire
body (requiring him to transplant his brain into a cloned body in order
to survive).
During the Blackest Night crossover, he wore an orange power ring of avarice created by Ganthet, a former member of the Guardians of the Universe.
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