Luthor becomes so powerful that he controls all the media in Metropolis and uses it to reinforce his public image as a wealthy benefactor.

However, once it becomes clear that it is as much in their interests to save the multiverse as anyone else's, Luthor and Brainiac reluctantly ally their faction with Superman and the other heroes.

In the end, Luthor becomes a permanent prisoner in his own body, unable to even blink, and swearing vengeance on Superman.

Deciding to turn to politics, Luthor becomes President of the United States, winning the election on a platform of promoting technological progress.

Luthor immediately sets out to build a church, which he names the Luthoran Church ; he becomes spokesman for a new procedure, created by the Everyman Project, that engineers ordinary citizens to develop superpowers.

However, Luthor escapes after receiving a power ring fueled by the orange light of avarice and becomes a deputy of the Orange Lanterns.

Alice becomes pregnant shortly afterward, though the timing of the conception means an equal possibility of either Luthor or White being the father.

Luthor creates another binary clone with Brainiac using their genetics, which implies that it would becomes a threat to Superboy.

However that reunion becomes bittersweet, as Reactron kills her father, and her mother dies when New Krypton is destroyed by a trap in Reactron left by Lex Luthor.

Superboy's adventures in Adventure Comics include the story of how he was reunited with his pet superdog, Krypto ; the story of how his friend, the teenage scientist Lex Luthor, becomes his most bitter foe ; and how Superboy joins the 30th-century Legion of Super-Heroes.

In Infinite Crisis, Croc becomes a member of Alexander Luthor, Jr .' s Secret Society of Super Villains.

* Secretary of State Ruger-Exxon and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Starbucks: Members of Luthor's government ( In the mainstream DC comics world, Luthor is the head of a world-spanning conglomerate who actually becomes US President himself ).

In the 1988 – 1992 Superboy television series, Lex's father appears in season four's " Know Thine Enemy " ( Part 1 ) where Superboy becomes Lex Luthor in a virtual reality and watches Lex grow up with an abusive father ; Lex's father is not identified by name.

Talia, disillusioned with her father and his plans and using the name Talia Head for herself, leaves him to run LexCorp as its new CEO when Lex Luthor becomes President of the United States.

After Luthor becomes a successful businessman, he begins diversifying his holdings in his newly-founded LexCorp company, which includes buying the Daily Planet.

When the Secret Society becomes divided between Luthor and Grodd, she sides with Luthor, angry with Grodd for having manipulated her brain.

When Luthor becomes President of the United States, Cannon and the Guardian became uncomfortable with the amount of government pressure on the Project.

When Mercy reappears later in Justice League (" Tabula Rasa "), the nature of her relationship with Luthor becomes more clear.

Lex Luthor, other supervillains, and various civilians have learned the secret identity several times, though their knowledge is usually been removed through various means ( the boxer Muhammad Ali is one of the very few to deduce the identity and retain the knowledge ).

Even in his better days, Luthor is highly ambitious for power and wealth, at one time noting that he shares his name with Alexander the Great.

This revised origin makes Luthor's fight with Superman a personal one, and suggests that if events had unfolded differently, Luthor might have been a more noble person.

During one such battle, an energy salvo from Luthor's battlesuit accidentally overloads the " Neutrarod "— a spire Luthor had built to counter Lexor's geological instability — resulting in the annihilation of Lexor's inhabitants, including his wife and son.

When approached by John's niece Natasha Irons, Luthor gladly allows her to be one of his first test subjects.

Luthor is quickly overwhelmed by his greed, and sets out to steal the rings of his fellow inducted Lanterns, taking Scarecrow's yellow ring and attempting to steal Mera's red one, but is held back by the Atom ( wielding the ring-staff of the Indigo tribe ) and the Flash wearing a Blue Lantern Ring.

In the aftermath of the crisis, Luthor, craving the power of the orange light, recovers and operates on several Black Lantern remains in an attempt to find one with a ring still on its finger.

In the end, LexCorp scientists are shown performing experiments on the captured Facade, while Luthor assembles his staff and reveals that he knows that it was one of his employees who had hired the creature in the first place.

Luthor is ultimately defeated when he falls into one of the Phantom Zone holes created by the creature for the remainder of the timeline.

In Justice League # 2, Batman notes that he and Superman have at least one thing in common: both of them speak openly of their distaste for Luthor.

They discovered that the real Lex Luthor is at large having been the one who mailed Lois the Red Kryptonite necklace and that the one in jail was a robotic duplicate.

Once there, he questions Luthor as to whether Cheetah will get control of Metropolis, as she was the one to defeat Superman.

Kryptonian civilization's level of technological advancement has ranged from being only a few centuries ahead of Earth ( such as in Kevin J. Anderson's Last Days of Krypton novel ), to being millennia ahead and referred to by Lex Luthor as " one of the most advanced civilizations in the Universe " ( in the Superman film series ).

Lex Luthor later combines one of the crystals with Kryptonite and shoots it into the ocean, creating what he calls " New Krypton ".

During the events of Infinite Crisis, some of the surviving Golden Age characters, such as Wildcat and the Flash, are transported to the new " Earth-Two ", as created by Alexander Luthor, and seem to recall the existence of the original one, albeit vaguely.

She was Carlotta Monti in the biopic W. C. Fields and Me ( 1976 ) and one of her best remembered movie roles came as Miss Eve Teschmacher, moll of criminal mastermind Lex Luthor, in Superman ( 1978 ).

After inhabiting Lex Luthor, Zod traps Clark inside the Phantom Zone, using a Kryptonian bracelet similar to the one used in the episode " Arrival ".

** Superboy of the Super Seven: This Elseworlds version of Kon-El is one of the " Super Seven ", a group of heroes which include Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, and a Lex Luthor / Metallo hybrid, who help humans fight off " The Horde ", an alien race that occupies Earth.

Perhaps the one thing in all this that Phiber and Lex Luthor agree on is that in reality there simply was no " Great Hacker War ", and that the notion of " warring hacker gangs " was an invention of overzealous law enforcement which was latched onto by irresponsible mass-media because the imagery made for good copy.

Lori is one of several Superman characters with the alliterative initials " LL ", including Lex Luthor, Lana Lang, Linda Lee, Linda Lang ( Supergirl's latest secret identity ), Letitia Lerner, Lena Luthor ( Luthor's sister pre-Crisis, and daughter post-Crisis ), Lyla Lerrol, Liesel Largo, Lenora Lemaris ( one of Lori's sisters ), Leta Lal ( Lori's ancestor ), Lightning Lad, Lightning Lass ( sister of Lightning Lad ), Lightning Lord ( brother of Lightning Lad ), Lorraine Lewis ( scientist jealous of Lois Lane, Lana Lang and Lori Lemaris ), Lucy Lane, Luma Lynai, Lionel Luthor and Lois Lane.

Clark Kent starts out best friends with Lex Luthor, whom he meets after saving the latter's life.

( Boyhood friendship with Lex Luthor had been the basis of a Superboy adventure published in 1960,

Lex Luthor's father, Lionel Luthor, is an unscrupulous industrialist with whom Lex has a troubled relationship.

In different ways to Luthor, Clark also does not have fully ideal relationship either with his adoptive father, Jonathan, nor with an A. I.

The younger Luthor slightly envies Clark's ' clean-cut ' and wholesome parents ( who disapprove of Clark's friendship with Luthor ), while Clark is impressed with Luthor's wealth while failing to understand some of the manipulations he carries out in his interactions with others.

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Metallo was soon kidnapped and his power source forcibly removed by Lex Luthor who, after discovering its debilitating effects on Kryptonians, created a ring with a kryptonite gem to keep Superman at bay.

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.

Despite Superman destroying his base, Luthor apparently escapes, with Superman destroying the machine and the scientist who made it committing suicide to prevent its reinvention.

However, Luthor returns in Superman # 5 with a plan to place hypnotic gas in the offices of influential people, intending to throw the nation into a depression with the help of corrupt financier Moseley.

In his earliest appearances, Luthor is shown as a middle-aged man with a full head of red hair.

The teenage Luthor saves Superboy from a chance encounter with Kryptonite.

In Crisis on Infinite Earths, Alexei Luthor is killed by Brainiac, and is subsequently erased from history with the rest of the DC multiverse.

This idea was further reinforced when Luthor was briefly merged with a near-omnipotent entity that sought peace after its difficult ' childhood '.

While merged with the entity, Luthor had the power to bring peace and bliss to the entire universe, potentially becoming a hero greater even than Superman, but Luthor fought against that power simply because he would have had to share that bliss with Superman as well.