Lex's attires primary consists of dark colors and is an inquisitive person, and it is that curiosity that drives him to attain as much power as possible as the series progresses, ultimately leading him to being Clark's greatest enemy, his conviction that he is ' needed ' to protect the world causing him to kill his own father and turn against everyone that he cannot control in the belief that he is ' protecting ' the world from the aliens or superhumans who might exert their authority, unable to accept the idea that they only seek to help others.

Pete hates the Luthors for what he sees as their theft of his family's creamed corn business, and resents Clark's relationship with Lex Luthor ( and later relationship with Lex's father Lionel ).

Lionel is eventually saved by Lex, who hesitates to save his father, but Lex's judgment to rush Lionel into surgery results in Lionel losing his eyesight.

Although Lex's father has been depicted in other mediums in the past, the character of Lionel Luthor is entirely the creation of Alfred Gough and Miles Millar.

Before Smallville, Lex's father made either brief appearances in the Superman comics or was relegated to a mere mention.

In the 2004 miniseries Superman: Birthright, Lex's father is not a billionaire himself, but immediately puts Lex to work making millions for him as soon as he discoveres his son's astronomical IQ.

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.

In the 1978 Richard Donner Superman film and Bryan Singer's Superman Returns, Lex briefly mentions his father — though he never reveals his father's name — as the insipiration of Lex's real estate schemes and that his father was a harsh man who kicked Lex out at some point.

Daley is Lex's stepsister ( her father married Lex's mother about a year ago after her mother died ), though this is never elaborated upon.

The first one Jaxon Xavier ( played by Andy Berman ) who was also a top scientist in one of Lex's companies called Lex Labs, entrapped Lois and Clark in a virtual reality world to steal information for mind control before the two with the help of Jimmy Olsen tricked him into letting them out by stealing his wrist watch escape window leaving him stranded.

When Lex ( Rosenbaum ) succeeds in making a profit for the first time in years, Lionel closes the plant down and blames it on Lex's poor managerial skills.

LexCorp appears on the series early in the second season when Lex Luthor ( Lionel's son ) stages a coup with a handful of LuthorCorp managers and splits off from the parent company to form Lex's own enterprise that are based entirely in Smallville, which Lionel retaliated by blackmailing Lex's shareholders individually in order to financially eliminate LexCorp and afterwards Lex has since returned to his father's corporation.

In the The Batman episode " The Batman / Superman Story, Part One ", Mercy appears again as Lex's right hand, only this time she appears to be of Eurasian descent, and is voiced by actress / musician Gwendoline Yeo.

When Lois asks what Lex's connection is to Metropolis ' new hero, Lex pretends to endorse the caped figure, saying, " He is a friend to Lex Luthor ".

Lex's story continues in the comic book continuation Smallville Season Eleven, written by Bryan Q. Miller, who also wrote for the television series.

In the Post-Crisis continuity, Lena is the name of Lex's adopted sister when he was living in a foster home.

One hallmark of this scene is Lex's line, " It's a Unix system!

His political opponent and lifetime friend, Thomas Jefferson, achieved immortality through his authorship of the Declaration of Independence, but equally notable were the legal and constitutional reforms he instituted in his native Virginia, his role as father of our territorial system, and his acquisition of the Louisiana Territory during his first term as President.

Again, I at first misconstrued this disconcertingly intense communication, and I quickly cast through my mind to account for her being able to speak, with such utter conviction, of an opinion held by my father, now several years deceased.

A Federal infantryman wrote to his father shortly after his first skirmish in Virginia: `` dear Pa.

André-Marie Ampère took his first regular job in 1799 as a mathematics teacher, which gave him the financial security to marry Carron and father his first child, Jean-Jacques, the next year.

In the Book of Samuel, Abner ( Hebrew אבנר " Avner " meaning " father of is a light "), is first cousin to Saul and commander-in-chief of his army ( 1 Samuel 14: 50, 20: 25 ).

Another account makes him the son of Pleisthenes ( the son or father of Atreus ), who is said to have been Aerope's first husband.

Germanicus ’ father, Drusus the Elder, was the second son of the Empress Livia Drusilla by her first marriage to praetor Tiberius Nero, and was the Emperor Tiberius ’ s younger brother and Augustus ’ s stepson.

In disposition Alexander bore little resemblance to his soft-hearted, liberal father, and still less to his refined, philosophic, sentimental, chivalrous, yet cunning granduncle, emperor Alexander I of Russia, who could have been given the title of " the first gentleman of Europe ".

The first one was the fact that queen Isabel II was a woman, and her father, king Ferdinand VII, had modified the Succession Law in order for her to be queen, excluding his brother Carlos.

Tabari, the most famous Muslim historian, in his Ta ' rikh quotes from Muhammad Bin Sa ' ad Bin Abi Waqqas, who said: " I asked my father whether Abu Bakr was the first of the Muslims.

The first one is Amram the father of Moses and the second one is Joachim the father of Mary, the mother of Jesus.

By his first wife, Eschiva of Ibelin, he was the father of Hugh I of Cyprus and was crowned in Nicosia on September 22, 1197.

The first is my father is king, which could be considered simply as a generic title given to a crown prince.

The father of this third Aeolus is given as Hippotes, son of Mimas, a son of the first Aeolus ( son of Hellen ).

George Washington ( February 22, 1732-December 14, 1799 ), the country's first president, is often said to be the father of his country.

Her first marriage, at the age of fifteen, was to the son of her father's rival in Italy, Lothair II, the nominal King of Italy ; the union was part of a political settlement designed to conclude a peace between her father and Hugh of Provence, the father of Lothair.

I am the first ; that is, I have no father, and I am the last ; that is, I have no brother, and besides me there is no God ; that is, I have no son '" ( Isaiah 44: 6 ; Ex.

Cuyp probably first encountered a painting by van Goyen in 1640 when van Goyen was, as Stephen Reiss points out “ at the height of powers .” This is noticeable in the comparison between two of Cuyp ’ s landscape paintings inscribed 1639 where no properly formed style is apparent and the landscape backgrounds he painted two years later for two of his father ’ s group portraits that are distinctly van Goyenesque.

She says she has been treated like a doll to play with, first by her father and then by him.

Although his father had him baptised to Anglicanism at age 12, he was nonetheless Britain's first and thus far only Jewish Prime Minister.

New evidence from Babylon has verified the existence of Belshazzar, the name first given in Daniel 5: 1, as well as his co-regency during the absence of his father, Nabonidus, in Temâ.

His first selection for the full West Indies team followed in due course, but unfortunately coincided with the death of his father and Lara withdrew from the team.

Carmilla appears injured after her carriage accident, but her mysterious mother informs Laura's father that her journey is urgent and cannot be delayed.

He appears to have lacked the natural charisma of his brother and father.

Incest appears in the commonly accepted version of the birth of Adonis, when his mother, Myrrha has sex with her father Cinyras during a festival, disguised as a prostitute.

" Only a few days later, Allan Kozinn wrote an investigative report citing that Leon Klinghoffer's daughters, Lisa and Ilsa, had " expressed their disapproval " of the opera in a statement saying " We are outraged at the exploitation of our parents and the coldblooded murder of our father as the centerpiece of a production that appears to us to be anti-Semitic.

It appears this child was adopted because the mother has only recently " found him " and " hadn't got the heart to tell him who his father was ".

Although Shakespeare's Macbeth presents Malcolm as a grown man and his father as an old one, it appears that Duncan was still young in 1040, and Malcolm and his brother Donalbane ( Domnall Bán ) were children.

His name appears in the company of the Bishop of Argyll, the vicar of Arran, a Kintyre clerk, his father and a host of Gaelic notaries from Carrick.

The crown appears to have passed from brother to brother ( or sister ) and only when no siblings remained from father to son.

In the Hebrew Bible El ( Hebrew: אל ) appears very occasionally alone ( e. g. Genesis 33: 20, el elohe yisrael, " El the god of Israel ", and Genesis 46: 3, ha ' el elohe abika, " El the god of your father "), but usually with some epithet or attribute attached ( e. g. El Elyon, " Most High El ", El Shaddai, " El of Shaddai ", El ` Olam " Everlasting El ", El Hai, " Living El ", El Ro ' i " El my Shepherd ", and El Gibbor " El of Strength "), in which cases it can be understood as the generic " god ".

Some sources give the name of William Wallace's father as Malcolm Wallace, however the seal attached to a letter sent to the Hanse city of Lübeck in 1297 appears to give his father's name as Alan.

Earlier dukes had been illegitimate, and William's association with his father on ducal charters appears to indicate that William was considered Robert's most likely heir.

In fable Faunus appears as an old king of Latium, son of Picus, and grandson of Saturnus, father of Latinus by the nymph Marica.

Isabella concluded that the pair must have been carrying on an illicit affair, and appears to have informed her father of this during her next visit to France in 1314.

He appears in the Mabinogion as a son of Bran the Blessed, who is left in charge of Britain while his father makes war in Ireland, but is overthrown by Caswallawn ( the historical Cassivellaunus, who lived a century earlier than Caratacus ).

Invoked in passing by poets and figured as the father of rivers and streams, thus the progenitor of river gods, Oceanus appears only once in myth, as a representative of the archaic world that Heracles constantly threatened and bested.

In the first draft that Brackett would write from this, Luke's father appears as a ghost to instruct Luke.

In Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi ( 1983 ), set six months after The Empire Strikes Back ( in the novelization ), Obi-Wan Kenobi appears on Dagobah to talk with Luke, who has learned from a dying Yoda that Vader is indeed his father.

Nelson's father also appears briefly in the sixth-season episode " Bart's Girlfriend "; depicted capturing Nelson with a leash as the children run through the cornfields in an attempt to avoid attending church.

Henry I the Bearded quickly began his efforts to designate his sole surviving son as the universal heir of his patrimony, and from 1222, the young prince appears to have signed documents along with his father.

" His father, Henry Buckley Flashman, appears in Black Ajax ( 1997 ).

His father, Harry Buckley Flashman, appears in Black Ajax ( 1997 ).

The ghost of the Talking Cricket appears, telling him to go home and give the coins to his father but Pinocchio ignores him.

He appears to have been inspired by the writings of the Italian lutenist and musical theorist Vincenzo Galilei ( father of Galileo Galilei ), a onetime pupil of Gioseffo Zarlino.

The reign of John II was taken up with almost constant warfare and, unlike his father who delighted in active participation in theological and doctrinal disputes, John appears to have been content to leave ecclesiastical matters to the Patriarch and the church hierarchy.

While other incest configurations-mother-son, sibling-permit consensual agency, father-daughter incest does not ; when the daughter displays transgressive sexual desire, the prohibitive father appears.