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.

However, he ultimately conceded that the CEO Luthor would be easier for readers to recognize.

However, in the 2009-2010 series Superman: Secret Origin, Lex, his father, and his sister Lena Luthor are poor and Lionel is an abusive alcoholic.

However, the crowd turns on the Army, and Superman orders the crowd to stop, telling them that they, not the Army, not Lex Luthor, nor himself, are meant to be Metropolis's saviors.

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.

However, although computer analysis of the assembled data revealed that Clark Kent and Superman were the same person, Luthor dismissed the results because he believed that he ' knew ' that someone as powerful as Superman would never choose to live a normal human life.

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

However, Luthor is outraged when he learns that not only is Superman's mission genuine, but his defining moment of tragedy is the loss of his father.

" However, he expects the attack and allows it to happen so that his death will release enough energy to protect the last five parallel Earths ( the homes of the known DC Universe ) long enough for the heroes to lead an assault on the Anti-Monitor under the guidance of the Monitor's assistants, Harbinger, Alexander Luthor, Jr., and Pariah.

However, he falls to a carefully planned counter-attack, culminating in a battle with Kal-L ( the Earth-Two Superman ), Alexander Luthor of Earth-Three, and Superboy of Earth-prime, with some unexpected last-second help from the New Gods ' adversary, Darkseid.

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.

However, Superman does find an adversary in the mold of the Nietzschean Übermensch in the recurring arch-villain Lex Luthor, his greatest enemy on Earth.

However, wrongfully starting from the assumption that Superman is a human with metahuman abilities ( his alien origin had not yet been publicly revealed ), the process results in a flawed copy, which Luthor sneeringly dubs " Bizarro " and orders disposed.

However, subtly manipulating characters like Alexander Luthor, Jr., and Booster Gold to recreate the Multiverse made the Source Wall less impenetrable.

However, in the season 10 premiere " Lazarus " it is revealed that Jor-El's essence has survived, and he warns of the coming of Darkseid, simultaneously taking away a suit that Martha Kent had recently made for her son until Clark is ready to be a hero, feeling that Clark's recent willingness to kill a clone of Lex Luthor shows that he is not worthy to be the hero Jor-El thought he would become.

However Brainiac tricks Luthor by making a device that hypnotizes Luthor, who removes the timer and forgets Brainiac is a computer.

However, Lex Luthor is able to save a piece of Brainiac and forms an alliance with the Kryptonian robot.

However, Brainiac betrayed Luthor after he believed Superman was destroyed, but in the end, Superman returned to defeat Brainiac after a lengthy battle.

However, the secret was known by the villainous Manchester Black, who informed then-President Luthor of the secret, only later to wipe his memory of it.

However, he is secretly rebuilt by Cyntechnics scientists including Dr. Alistair Krieg ( played by Mackenzie Gray ( who would later play an older clone of Lex Luthor in the Season 10 premiere.

However, just as the machine is to be activated, Doctor Impossible double-crosses the Syndicate and attempts to resurrect Darkseid rather than Luthor, but the machine malfunctions and instead creates an immensely powerful villain called the Omega Man.

However, she was captured by Felix Faust and eventually used by Alexander Luthor to bring back Earth-4.

However, the team had problems from the beginning ; Jemm was only on the team because Luthor was manipulating his mind with the ' Philosopher's Stone '— later revealed to be the Worloggog —, and Mirror Master later defected from the group when Batman offered to pay the mercenary double what Luthor was offering him.

However, before anything could be done, trouble broke out in northern al-Andalus.

However, upon Constans ' death in 350, a civil war broke out which left Constantius as sole emperor.

However, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, base-stealing was brought back to prominence primarily by Luis Aparicio and Maury Wills, who broke Cobb's modern single-season record by stealing 104 bases in 1962.

However, Chad has not recognised the State of Israel since former Chadian President François ( Ngarta ) Tombalbaye broke off relations in September 1972 as an act of solidarity with the Palestinians, and other Arabs under Israeli occupation.

However, Pol Pot biographer David Chandler argues that the bombing " had the effect the Americans wanted – it broke the Communist encirclement of Phnom Penh ".

However, yet another massive rebellion broke out in the capital Nineveh, and the king was forced to turn back in order to quell the revolt.

However the Arista deal broke down following artistic disagreements between McLean and the Arista chief, Clive Davis.

However, in the meanwhile the Franco-Prussian War broke out.

However, after the death of Charles the Fat in 888, the Carolingian Empire broke asunder, never to be restored.

However, a riot broke out among the troops.

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However, in 1733 another war broke in central Europe, this time about the Polish succession, and France joined the war against the Austrian Empire.

However, the news of the fall of Algiers had barely reached Paris when a new revolution broke out and quickly resulted in a change of regime.

However, World War I broke out in August 1914, and Moseley turned down this job offer to enlist in the Royal Engineers of the British Army instead.

However, according to VH1's Behind the Music, Moon broke his tooth diving into the pool, which was empty of water at the time.

However talks broke down and the initiative failed.

However, a number of churches, particularly those associated with the School of Edessa, supported Nestorius – though not necessarily his doctrine – and broke with the churches of the West.

However, towards the end of his term and largely as a result of the deep divisions within Likud over Israel's unilateral disengagement plan, Sharon broke away from his party to form Kadima, managing to maintain his position as Prime Minister and also becoming the first Prime Minister not to be a member of either Labour or Likud ( or their predecessors ).

However, the agreement soon broke down.

However, even where the legal practice is based on a code, many rules deriving from Roman law apply: No code completely broke with the Roman tradition.

However, with Phillips ' production, the record broke into the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 59 and selling 200, 000 copies.

However, he failed, and again fighting broke out between the two parties.

However, there were long-term effects from the operation: the incision on his bladder broke open again late in his life, and the procedure may have left him sterile – though there is no direct evidence for this, as he was childless before the operation.

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