Having been sent to the prison planet after his Injustice League was defeated, Lex quickly assumes control of the amassed villains, receiving competition only from Joker and Gorilla Grodd, who convince half of the villains to join them.

Pete was Vice-President of the United States under Lex Luthor and briefly served as President following Luthor's impeachment but quickly resigned.

Lois decides to confront Lex Luthor about her discoveries, but is quickly captured by the true person responsible for the Liberators and the discrediting of the Justice League.

A near repeat of these events occurred the next month when Hall and Nash lost to the team of Lex Luger and The Giant at SuperBrawl VII, with Bischoff again abusing his power and quickly returning the titles to The Outsiders.

In the film, Lex Luthor, having retained vague memories of the place, returns to the Fortress of Solitude during Superman's absence to learn the power of the crystals.

Learning of his origins, he returns to Earth to help them against a fascist state run by Lex Luthor, but is sent back to Krypton because Abin Sur is Green Lantern for Earth's sector.

Pete returns in the seventh season episode " Hero ", having temporarily gained Elastic Lad-like powers after chewing gum imbued with Kryptonite, and he saves Kara and aids Chloe from a manipulating Lex.

As the various corps part ways, Sinestro notes that Larfleeze himself has changed, as he actually returns Lex Luthor to the other gathered Corps rather than keeping Luthor for himself after he was forced to briefly share his power with the bald billionaire.

Prometheus returns as a member of Lex Luthor's second Injustice Gang.

Lex Luthor teleports to the group almost immediately after Marvel and Superman leave to the Batcave, literally scolding the group as he returns Metallo his heart, telling Parasite he also gets Superman's weaknesses as well as his strengths.

Dr. Polaris returns in the episode " The Great Brain Robbery ", in which he attempts to wrest control of the organization from Lex Luthor.

Despero's spirit eventually returns with the aid of JSA villain Johnny Sorrow, and takes over the body of Lex Luthor, currently President of the United States.

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 both versions, Lex Luthor leaves Smallville " under a cloud of rumor and suspicion ", when his father is mysteriously killed.

Michael Rosenbaum as Lex Luthor in Smallville

In this 2001 series, Lex Luthor is sent to Smallville, by his father Lionel Luthor, to run the local LuthorCorp fertilizer plant.

The Smallville version of Lex is first introduced as a morally ambiguous character, who walks a fine line between good and evil.

Smallville is the setting of many Superboy comics, which depict the original Superboy ( Superman as a boy ) defending Smallville from various evils and occasionally, the young Lex Luthor.

He is best known for portraying Lex Luthor on the Superman-inspired television series Smallville and Dutch Nilbog on FOX's Breaking In, and for providing the voice for the Flash in the DC animated universe.

In 2001, Rosenbaum received a Saturn Award for his portrayal of Lex Luthor on Smallville.

After many months of speculation and him first turning down the contract to return, it was finally announced on February 11, 2011 that Rosenbaum would return to Smallville for the two-hour series finale, which aired on May 13, 2011 with Rosenbaum reprising his role as Lex Luthor.

Lex Luthor's adolescence in Smallville, first as Superboy's friend and then his foe, was one of the elements of Superman's history removed by the The Man of Steel.

Post-Infinite Crisis, a short biography has established that once again " Lex Luthor spent much of his teenage years in Smallville ", where he meets Lana Lang, Pete Ross, and Clark Kent, who befriends him.

** On the Smallville TV series, a young Lex Luthor clone called Alexander Luthor turns out to have 50 % Kryptonian DNA ( from Clark ); his hair changes from red to Clark's hair color and he ends up being given the name " Conner Kent ".

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.

* Michael Rosenbaum actor ( Lex Luthor on WB's Smallville )

Famous alumni of Unto These Hills include Michael Rosenbaum, best known for his portrayal of Lex Luthor on Smallville and actor and former U. S. Representative Ben L. Jones of Georgia, a regular on CBS's The Dukes of Hazzard.

In Smallville, Lionel Luthor is the father of Lex Luthor ( Michael Rosenbaum ) and founder and CEO of LuthorCorp.

Although the character of Lex Luthor's father was first introduced in Superman comics by Jerry Siegel in 1961 and has since appeared in other Superman-related media under different names, Smallville represents the first time the character has become an intricate part of a Superman adaptation.

In 1989, Lionel and his son Lex ( Matthew Munn ) come to visit Smallville, with Lionel intending to buy the Ross Creamed Corn company, when they are caught in a meteor shower that results in Lex losing all of his hair.

He makes a brief appearance in Smallville: Dragon, only to acknowledge to Lex that he used Renata, an old girlfriend of Lex's, to get close to Lex in an effort to test him, though he does not elaborate on what reason he was testing Lex.

He eventually marries a local woman named Ardora, with whom he fathers a son, Lex Luthor, Jr. After its debut, Lexor appears sporadically in various Superman comics as Luthor's base of operations, where he wages assaults on Superman.

He along with Lois and Jimmy go into Glen Glenmorgan's hotel where Lex calls the Collector and it is revealed that Lex had made a deal with him.

Chris Noth portrays the Lex Luthor of a parallel universe ( where the character is a superhero ) in the animated DVD release Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths.

On the one hand, this notion is used to describe the situation where a local court applies a rule other than the Lex fori ( local law ).

In the game, Lex Luthor has done an experiment where he has experimented on its citizens using Exobytes and Doomsday's DNA with Doomsday being trapped in a containment building near the Kent Family Farm.

He faced Nash at Uncensored in a match where Lex Luger interfered and helped Nash in winning the match.

She allies herself with Lex Luthor in an attempt to return to Earth, and mistakenly ends up on an alternate universe-Earth where Catwoman is a notorious villain.

Unlike Denmark proper, where the Lex Regia of 1665 allowed the throne to pass through the female royal line, in Holstein Salic Law prevailed.

Brainiac is brought to a top-secret military base, where the imprisoned Lex Luthor is assigned to discover his secrets.

Brainiac also appears in The Dark Knight Strikes Again where he is allied with Lex Luthor and blackmailing various superheroes to obey them before he is destroyed by the daughter of Superman and Wonder Woman and the population of Kandor, as well as Superman: Red Son, JLA: Shogun of Steel, and The Last Days of Krypton novel by author Kevin J. Anderson.

In the sequel, Lex Luthor, Lois Lane, and others go to Krypton, where Jor-El and Lara have rebelled against Krypton's xenophobia and Lex Luthor mutates Clark into a hulk-like powerhouse with red kryptonite as Krypton's core is returned to its path of self-destruction.

In 1978, Beatty appeared in Gray Lady Down ( 1978 ), portraying Mickey and was cast by Richard Donner to portray Lex Luthor's henchman Otis in Superman: The Movie ( 1978 ), with Christopher Reeve and Gene Hackman, as he would in the 1980 sequel, directed by Richard Lester, where we see his character being left behind in prison.

Unlike his earliest appearances where he was portrayed as a warlord and a would be dictator, most of Lex Luthor's post golden age appearances portrayed him as a mere thief who would use his genius to rob banks.

The show was also highlighted by the return of Lex Luger to WCW after having spent the previous two years wrestling for the WWF, where he had been one of the promotion's top stars.

Although the Lex Aquilia applied only where damage was unlawfully caused, this requirement was satisfied wherever a person was neglectful, as well as acting intentionally.

There have been numerous instances where Warrior has used his blog to address his viewpoint on members of his wrestling past ( Vince McMahon, Road Warrior Animal, The British Bulldog, Owen Hart, Hulk Hogan, Lex Luger ); historical ( Martin Luther King, George Washington ) or religious figures ( Jesus ).

Minutes later, Green Arrow and Red Arrow arrive where they see Roy Harper emerge with a briefcase where he states that he didn't kill Lex Luthor .... this time.

After making a very brief appearance in " Question Authority " ( voiced by Chris Cox ), he made a more significant appearance in " I Am Legion " ( voiced by Corey Burton ) where he helped Superman and Shayera Hol investigate where Lex Luthor had gone after escaping prison.

In this game, Lex Luthor has created a virtual version of Metropolis, and Superman enters Lex's interdimensional portal, where Luthor negotiates to Superman that he must fly through his maze of rings scattered across virtual Metropolis in order to save his friends.