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.

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

Superman attempts to appeal to Luthor about the potential of doing something even he never accomplished, but Luthor is unable to let go of his hate for Superman, costing him control of the entity as well as his memory of everything he learned or did while he was merged with it and it departs for another part of the universe.

Luthor would occasionally hire an actor to portray Tommytown in order to continue the illusion and would even write fanciful reports about the playboy's activities and having them sent to a magazine under the alias Brian Wallingford.

The long-anticipated wedding was put off to coincide with the characters ' marriage in the comics, which led to many storylines designed to delay and interrupt the wedding on the TV series Another controversy erupted when ABC announced that the wedding would actually take place Valentine's Day weekend, even sending out heart-shaped " wedding invitations " to ABC News staff, only to present viewers with a bogus wedding in which Clark unwittingly married a clone of Lois, developed by a mad scientist whose creations were required to ingest frogs periodically which started a main thrilling climax of a special five-part story with Lois being kidnapped by Lex Luthor who had put the clone in her place and later after a sharp hit on the head had amnesia and needed to regain her memory.

Supergirl, Gangbuster, Thorn, and even Team Luthor, a Lexcorp-sponsored team, all tried but were not sufficient.

When Green Lantern asks why Lex Luthor is at the funeral, Lex Luthor states that Superman was a worthy adversary even though he is glad that Superman is gone.

Superman is even ordered by the " President " ( in fact a computer generated front for Lex Luthor and Brainiac ) to stop Batman.

Adding up all these vocal appearances Clancy has made as Lex Luthor, Clancy Brown has played Lex Luthor longer than any other actor in history, even Gene Hackman who played Luthor in the first Superman film saga and his Justice League co-star Michael Rosenbaum who played Lex Luthor in Smallville.

Perry's editorship keeps the Daily Planet as one of the few newspapers that dare to heavily criticize Luthor ( even after Luthor's successful election as President of the United States ).

A new plan formed when he realized how close Superman actually was to Lois ; the Parasite decided to take her place and tear him down emotionally by pretending to be a scorned Lois Lane, apparently even having an affair with Luthor in the process.

He is similar in personality and function to the post-Crisis Lex Luthor ; he even resembles post-Crisis Luthor before the character lost his red hair.

Meanwhile back in the past Cyborg makes a deal with Skynet-leaving a message in a Terminator's skull about Superman's weaknesses and subsequently allying himself with a T-X sent back from the future to assist him -, while Supergirl, Superboy, and even Lex Luthor continue to protect Sarah and young John from wave after wave of Terminator cyborgs, the later models being specifically upgraded to cope with the Superman family.

These may or may not have been deliberate, or even conscious decisions, for instance, it is generally acknowledged that the bald Lex Luthor was an artist's error, but the fact of the similarity remained.

Despite her loyalty to Luthor, she has still shown some humanity even while in his employ ; when Superman was searching for Lois Lane after she was abducted and impersonated by the Parasite, Mercy saw him during his search, and, in that moment, saw him not as an alien, but as a man who had lost everything.

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

Ironically, Batman ultimately learns that the entire debacle was the fault of Luthor alone as he attempted to take control of Gotham by forging deeds for the land in his name, which results in Bruce Wayne severing all commercial ties between the U. S. government and his company, Wayne Enterprises, in protest of Luthor's election as President.

Despite being weakened by kryptonite exposure when Luthor attempted to exploit Doomsday's Kryptonian origins, Superman's heart was restarted by Black Lightning and he reached Doomsday just as the monster was struggling with the Martian Manhunter.

Lana Lang was automatically dismissed from her post of CEO when she attempted to use Team Luthor ( a LexCorp security unit ) to aid Superman in a battle against the superpowered Atlas ; this was in violation of a contractual clause in all LexCorp employment charters forbidding aiding Superman in any way-Lang had not read the fine print.

The creative team attempted to experiment with the character of Lionel Luthor in season four, creating a storyline scenario where Lionel turned away from his evil ways.

His formerly gray " skin " now gleaming golden like at the end of Tabula Rasa, his powers have evolved to the point where the combined League, including nearly all of its reserve members, were unable to hold him off while the Atom and Lex Luthor attempted to devise a weapon capable of defeating him using the original plans for the Android designed to neutralize Amazo's nanotechnology.

He attempted to transfer his mind into the body of a second Amazo, but Amanda Waller destroyed the body during her attempt to arrest Luthor.

After taking what he needed to build it from Cadmus and learning the League had figured out his link to the organization, Luthor attempted to destroy the organization by hacking into an immense laser built into the League's Watchtower.

With Tala's help, Grodd attempted a coup to retake control of the Legion, leading to a battle between members loyal to either Grodd or Luthor.

Silver Banshee attempted to collect the billion dollar bounty President Luthor placed on Superman ’ s head in Superman / Batman # 3, but failed, with Batman using an ultrasonic generator to keep her nullified.

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.

Back in Metropolis with his article on the front page, Superman wants one of Luthor's exosuits to send Luthor a message: he's back.

Using Natasha and several other volunteers, Luthor forms his own team of superheroes which are introduced as the new Infinity Inc.

During the midst of the Brightest Day event, Deathstroke and his new team of Titans are hired to assassinate Luthor while he is visiting Midway City with Nava Mendelssohn, his new personal assistant and bodyguard.

The most notable addition to the team during the title's publication was the post -" Crisis " Superboy, a 21st century clone of Superman and Lex Luthor who had previously been granted honorary membership.

After the events of Crisis on Infinite Earths, Lex Luthor orders his scientific team to create a clone of Superman.

Thinking Batman and Superman needed to be rescued from President Lex Luthor, a small team of superheroes, which includes such heroes as Superboy, Nightwing, and Robin, invade the White House.

Indigo then infiltrated the Outsiders until she attacked the team, along with Brainiac 6 and his allies, Lex Luthor, and a brainwashed Superboy, who had attacked the Teen Titans.

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.

Luthor reformed the team in the " World War III " storyline ( JLA # 36-41 ) with new members.

* In the animated Justice League episode ' Injustice For All ,' the team consists of Cheetah, Copperhead, Solomon Grundy, The Shade, Star Sapphire, and the Ultra-Humanite and is led by Lex Luthor.

Writer / executive producer Brian Peterson laments that the creative team wanted to remind the audience that Lionel was still the same Lionel Luthor they had come know, so they intentionally held off on revealing Lionel's usual antics until season six's " Promise ", where Lionel blackmails Lana into marrying Lex.

The team was subsequently attacked by Amazo during his search for Lex Luthor.

Donna, along with Kyle Rayner ( now called Ion ), leads the team to attack Alexander Luthor through his space rift, giving Nightwing, Superboy, and Wonder Girl the time needed to destroy Alexander's device, and save the two Supermen and Wonder Woman from being merged with their Earth-Three counterparts.

It is seen being attacked by the team of Lex Luthor and The Joker until the Justice League stopped them from destoying it.

After the revelation that Grodd's ultimate plan in the creation of the team was the ludicrous transformation of humanity into apes, Lex Luthor ousted him and assumed the position as leader with no objections from the membership.

The team is assembled by the more secretive supervillain cabal known as The Light ( consisting of Vandal Savage, Ra's al Ghul, Lex Luthor, the first Bialyan Queen Bee, Ocean Master, the Brain, and Klarion the Witch Boy ) to act as the fall guy for them, which is accomplished after the Injustice League is defeated.

Lex Luthor created a new Blockbuster in the pages of the miniseries event 52 to serve as an opponent of his manufactured hero team, Infinity, Inc.