Lex Luthor is a Personnage of fiction sworn enemy of Superman.

Biography

Alexandre Joseph " Lex" Luthor is the largest enemy of Superman. It is not equipped with Super-capacity S. It uses its Intelligence, its culture, its oversize ego and its money to mount sophisticated traps.

Versions before the recasting of cd. comics

Before the recasting of the universe comics of cd. during the crossover Crisis one Infinity Earths , there existed several versions of Lex Luthor.

Old of gold

Lex Luthor original , Alexei Luthor, appears in ( Action Comics #23, 1940). It is a European insane scientist who sows terror and wishes to overcome Superman. At the end of the years 1960, the scenario writers decide that this version of the character is that of Ground-II (a world pertaining to a parallel universe where the first adventures of Superman proceeded before the series evolves/moves in its form of then). Contrary to its Ground-I counterpart, it met Superman at the adulthood and forever lost its russet-red hair. He dies assassinated by Brainiac in Crisis one Infinity Earths #9.

Traditional version

The character evolves/moves. Initially, a year later, a draftsman describes it as being bald person and it starts to resemble a criminal scientist called Ultra-Humanity. Then, at the end of the Fifties, in a history having to reveal the origins of hatred between Lex Luthor and Superman, one learns that Lex Luthor was a teenager of the same age as Clark Kent, and than both became better friends when Lex moved with Smallville. Clark Kent built a laboratory completely equipped for Lex so that this last carries out its experiments there, while this one sought a solution with the vulnerability of Clark to the kryptonite. However, when a fire in the laboratory of Lex forced Clark to destroy an important experiment intended to save the life to him, the chemicals caused the fall of the hair of Lex.

It held Clark for person in charge of the destruction of his experiments and the loss of its hair, showing it to be jealous of its talent, and the Jura to prove in the world which it was higher than Clark. For that it developed inventions having the aim of improving quality of life of the inhabitants of Smallville. Unfortunately each invention produced harmful effects requiring the intervention of Clark. This series of reverse, combined with the preceding accident with the laboratory, resulted in to determine Lex to dedicate its life to destroy Clark. Consequently, Lex and Clark were sworn enemies. Later, in 1983, it acquires a special armor of combat. These elements define Lex Luthor of Ground-I, the principal Earth where the adventures of the characters of cd. such as they are held were published in the Sixties.

Ground-III

The version of Lex Luthor of the universe Ground-III is Alexander Luthor Sr. On this Earth where the doubles of the supermen are theunpleasant ones; the Crime Syndicate off America, this scientist is the only hero who opposes them. He will die with Lois Lane, the woman of his life, and the remainder of his universe because of the vagueness of Antimatière in Crisis one Infinity Earths #1. He will however save their son, Alexander Luthor Jr., by dispatching it on Ground-I where it will be collected by the Monitor.

Meet

The three Luthor will meet in cd. Present Comics Annual #1 in 1982 (" Crisis one Three Earths"). Ground-II Luthor will be shown there more pitiless than that of Ground-I bus ready to destroy two grounds to achieve its goals. It is on this occasion that Alexander Luthor will decide to become a hero.

Current version

The new version, written by John Byrne in the mini-series refondatrice of 1986, Superman: The Man off Steel , made of him a powerful businessman, leader LexCorp, who regards Superman as a rival in the domination of Metropolis. More generally, he considers that the existence of méta-human, " hero car-proclamés" , ridicules the human achievements and are a danger to humanity.

It was born with Suicide Slum a badly-famed district from Metropolis in a poor family. His/her father was cruel and misused his mother. He had one friend Perry White who encouraged it to continue his dreams. Whereas it was thirteen years old, his/her parents died in an car accident and it touched the money of the insurance life of his parents. While waiting for its majority, it will be placed in a family of reception, the Foster which will be still worse than his/her biological parents. Later, an unauthorized biography will show Lex to have killed his/her parents but that will be contradicted.

Its hatred of Superman extended to the Justice League, which he regards as the private army of Superman. To destroy it formed several Injustice Gang.

For a long time, Luthor carried a ring of Kryptonite to move away Superman from him. The exposure to the long-term with the kryptonite generated the development of a cancer. That obliged it to be made cut down, then to transplant its brain in the body of a clone. It simulated its death and was made pass for his son Alexander Luthor before taking again its original identity.

It will end up becoming president of the the United States of America in 2000.

In the first arc of the series Superman/Batman, it will try to discredit Superman by asserting existence of a meteorite giantess of kryptonite which moves towards the Earth. It will end up taking drugs with a mixture of Kryptonite and " venin" of Hamper and to cover an armor similar to that of before Crisis to fight Superman. Following a forwarding by a tunnel boom , it is reported missing.

The origins of the relation between Clark Kent and Lex Luthor were revisited in the minisery Superman: Birthright of Mark Waid (scenario) and Francis Leinil Yu (drawings), which makes go up their relation with their adolescence with Smallville with elements of the Televised series and Lex Luthor of Ground-I of before Crisis.

Publications

In 2005, cd. published the mini-series in '' Lex Luthor: Man off Steel '' scenarized by Brian Azzarello and drawn by Lee Bermejo.

Other media

• Lex Luthor appears in Batman, the animated series and Justice League Unlimited supervised by Bruce Timm.

Smallville

In the televised series Smallville , Alexander Joseph Lex Luthor is nine years old when it loses his hair the day of the rain of the meteorites. For this day it has become contained on itself, and the death of his/her mother of a cancer when it is thirteen years old did not arrange the things. It is also equipped with an enormous fortune (differs from Lex truth).

That did not prevent it nevertheless succeeding brilliantly in the studies and from being found with blackjack years director of a factory with Smallville. Although it is his/her father who gave him such a responsibility, they are often found in dissension.

Very ambitious, Lex knows that its destiny is very promising and would like to carry out large things. Indeed, when Clark saves it of an car accident, Lex realizes of the new chance which is offered to him. Debtor with Clark, it does not hesitate to help it as soon as the opportunity arises. In the final analysis he sought in Clark only attention, which offered forever him during its life.

Moreover, it realizes that this one hides some secrecies which it would like to discover. And even if its past seems somewhat sullied, he does not hesitate to employ not very scrupulous means to arrive at his ends… What makes him lose its friendship with Clark Kent which discovers that Lex is not satisfied to seek the secrecy of Clark but allows " of observer" all person having been in contact with the meteorite, even if it means to make experiments on it. Benefitting from the weakness of Lana during its separation with Clark, it ends up marrying with it.)

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