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 ).

In " The Secret Revealed ," a super-computer constructed by Lex Luthor calculated Superman's true identity from various information that had been assembled by his staff, but Lex dismissed the idea because he could not believe that someone so powerful would want another, weaker identity.

Later in the film, when the need to change is more urgent ( as he believes the city is about to be poisoned by Lex Luthor ), he simply jumps out a window of the Daily Planet offices, changing at super-speed as he falls ( the film merely shows the falling Kent blurring into a falling Superman ) and flies off.

Nevertheless, his journalistic skills are useful as he pursues stories on the crime boss known as the Spider Lady, and the criminal scientist Luthor ( who had yet to receive his first name, Lex ).

In the final season, Clark Kent marries Lois Lane ( a few years after her almost-marriage to his arch-enemy Lex Luthor, whom she refused at the altar ), finding love, happiness, and completeness in this relationship which does not jeopardize his Superman persona.

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.

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His major subsequent films include The French Connection ( 1971 ), in which he played Jimmy " Popeye " Doyle ; The Poseidon Adventure ( 1972 ); The Conversation ( 1974 ); Superman ( 1978 ), in which he played arch-villain Lex Luthor ; Hoosiers ( 1986 ); Mississippi Burning ( 1987 ); Unforgiven ( 1992 ); The Firm ( 1993 ); Crimson Tide ( 1995 ); Get Shorty ( 1995 ); The Birdcage ( 1996 ); Enemy of the State ( 1998 ); and The Royal Tenenbaums ( 2001 ).

Hackman showed a talent for both comedy and the " slow burn " as criminal mastermind Lex Luthor in Superman: The Movie ( 1978 ), as he would in its 1980 and 1987 sequels.

In 2006, Spacey played Lex Luthor in the Bryan Singer – directed superhero film, Superman Returns.

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.

Following orders issued by Lex Luthor and Lana Lang, LexCorp starts stockpiling and selling it to government facilities and weapon makers.

Lex Luthor and Sam Lane, working for the government, have a cache of the precious material too.

Alexander Joseph " Lex " Luthor is a fictional character supervillain who appears in comic books published by DC Comics.

In the origin story printed in Adventure Comics # 271 ( April 1960 ), young Lex Luthor is shown as an aspiring scientist who resides in Smallville, the hometown of Superboy.

In the 1986 limited series The Man of Steel, John Byrne redesigned Lex Luthor from scratch, intending to make him a villain that the 1980s would recognize: an evil corporate executive.

The Modern Age Lex Luthor is a product of child abuse and early poverty.

Waid's original intention was to jettison the notion of Lex Luthor being an evil businessman, restoring his status as a mad scientist.

As outlined in a backup profile in the 52 weekly series, the post-Action Comics # 850 Lex Luthor in this continuity is the son of business mogul Lionel Luthor and his socialite spouse, Leticia.

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.

It is assumed that the Lex Julia was closely followed by a supplementary statute, the Lex Plautia Papiria, which stated that a registered male of an allied state could obtain Roman citizenship by presenting himself to a Roman praetor within 60 days of the passing of the law.

In early post-Crisis stories the " condition " that would send him back to the fifth dimension would be anything he stated it to be for the occasion ; but since Lex Luthor taught him how to lie, making this meaningless, the stories have reverted to Mxyzptlk saying his name backwards.

The first law governing the Danish monarchy, Kongeloven ( Lex Regia ) dating from 1665, stated that the line of succession should follow agnatic-cognatic primogeniture, thus allowing female heirs if there was no surviving male heir to the throne.

Teaming up with the Cheetah, Zoom stretched his influence to the Justice League, but stated repeatedly that his only interest was " making the Flash a better hero " and was soon enlisted by the villainous Mockingbird ( later revealed to be an alternate reality version of Lex Luthor ).

Following the third season, Welling was interviewed by Smallville Magazine and stated that if he could play one character on the show that was not Clark Kent, it would be the character of Lex Luthor ; " Lex Luthor!

Lex stated that he enlisted Parasite's help in order to harvest Power Girl's DNA in exchange that Parasite has a Kryptonian-based meal.

The first law governing the Danish monarchy, Kongeloven ( Lex Regia ) dating from 1665, stated that the line of succession should follow agnatic-cognatic primogeniture, thus allowing female heirs if there was no surviving male heir to the throne.

* Lex Luthor is stated several times during the story to be a leading astrobiologist.

His story became national news, and even President Lex Luthor stated his disgust and sorrow at how Terry was treated.

The Second Triumvirate is the name historians give to the official political alliance of Octavian ( later known as Augustus ), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony, formed on 26 November 43 BC with the enactment of the Lex Titia, the adoption of which marked the end of the Roman Republic.

This second set added two more headings to their predecessors ' ten, completing the Law of the Twelve Tables ( Lex Duodecim Tabularum ), which formed the centerpiece of the Roman constitutions for the next several centuries.

Frenzal Rhomb formed in 1992 in the Sydney suburb of Newtown with Alexis ' Lex ' Feltham on bass guitar and Jason Whalley on vocals.

* In the Justice League Unlimited episode, " Divided We Fall ", Brainiac / Lex Luthor creates robotic copies of the League's villainous counterparts, the Justice Lords ; since the Flash died before the Lords were formed, instead Brainiac / Luthor creates a duplicate wearing the red-on-yellow costume of the Reverse-Flash.

Many tenuous alliances are formed, particularly between then-US President Lex Luthor and the Justice League, not to mention Earth and the dark world Apokolips.

One day Lex Luthor chooses Rudy as part of a daily " LexCorp Lottery " in which he selects one person from the crowd formed outside the LexCorp building to provide them with a new life.

In early 2000, he formed an alliance with Sting, as the " Brothers in Paint ," after he helped Sting to defeat Lex Luger in a lumberjack match.

Batman, who no longer uses the cover of his alter-ego Bruce Wayne, has formed an alliance with Lex Luthor's Mankind Liberation Front in order to counter what they see as the overbearing might of the Justice League.

" Totally Buffed " formed in late 2000 when Buff Bagwell and " The Total Package " Lex Luger joined forces after a short feud against each other to both take on Bill Goldberg.

After losing the championship, he formed another tag team, pairing with Lex Luger to form Totally Buffed.

Lex Luthor, Joker, and Cheetah ( widely regarded as the archenemies of the JLA's three primary members Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman ) recently formed an " Injustice League Unlimited ", as first seen in the Justice League of America Wedding Special.

In 2004, now known as Lex Icon, he teamed up with Shagrath and formed a new heavy metal band called Chrome Division.