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Jul 29, 2024 · Lex Luthor may be incredibly intelligent, but Superman’s oldest antagonist is the first to admit there’s one person smarter than he is.
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Nov 24, 2022 · DCeased may not strictly be within the traditional DC Comics continuity, but even in its prime universe, Lex Luthor and Batman are confirmed by Ozymandias to be the two smartest men on the planet in the Doomsday Clock miniseries by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank.
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Apr 11, 2024 · Brainiac reveals Lex Luthor is DC's smartest human. Brainiac knows Lex's intelligence firsthand from working together with him in the past. Lex finally gets recognition as Earth's smartest man, but it comes at a cost - his potential death.
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Dec 5, 2022 · Lex Luthor has an IQ of 225, which is quite a bit higher than the average person, and higher than Superman of course. He uses his superhuman intelligence to build armor and weapons for...
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- Appearances
- Trivia
"To think you said you weren't obsessed with the Kryptonians."
"I told Lena that she had it right. Aliens shouldn't be Earth's saviors. A Luthor should. And now I will be."
—Lillian Luthor and Lex Luthor
Alexander Joseph "Lex" Luthor (after 1983–2019; resurrected 2019) is a billionaire industrialist, inventor and scientist, as well as one of the most intelligent people in the world. He is the son of the late Lionel Luthor and the late Lillian Luthor, the older paternal half-brother of Lena Luthor and the best friend-turned-archenemy of Superman, whom he viewed as an obstacle to his megalomaniacal plans and as a threat to the very existence of humanity.
Lex is a charismatic and well-known, yet controversial public figure, as well as the CEO of Luthor Corp. In the original multiverse, he was succeeded by his half-sister following his incarceration of 32 consecutive life sentences at Stryker's Island Penitentiary.
Later, Lex managed to escape from prison to continue his war against Kryptonians, eventually being killed by Lena. Mar Novu later resurrected him in order to have Lex's help in the Anti-Monitor Crisis, during which he used the Book of Destiny to rewrite reality and replace Earth-96's Superman as the Paragon of Truth.
Original multiverse
"Your friends have been lying to you from the start. Your boyfriend Jimmy, Alex, J'onn, that little alien runt Brainy. Even your own mother. They've mocked you, humiliated you, betrayed you. Every last one. Denial's a powerful thing, Isn't it? It's been standing right in front of you this whole time. And you chose not to see it. Kara Danvers is Supergirl. I'm about to die, but at least I lived without ever being a fool. You're left with no one and nothing." —Lex Luthor on his legacy As a result of Lex's actions, the Luthor family's name was tainted to the point that most individuals are unwilling or at least have difficulty trusting anyone with the last name "Luthor". In Lex's final moments, he spitefully revealed to his half-sister, Lena Luthor that her best friend, Kara Danvers is Supergirl and that the Kryptonians has been lying to her from the beginning. This revelation severely damaged Lena's friendship with Kara and also began leading her down a dark path spurred by this betrayal. Although unlike Lex, Lena took steps to avoid falling into madness. However, when Lena realized that Lex has betrayed her once again, she returned at the Superfriends' side, reconciling with Kara and strengthening their friendship.
Powers
•Lexosuit application: Lex is masterful in using his Lexosuit, a battle armor he created to suit his needs, enhance his physical strength and durability to protect himself against Kryptonian-level threats. He further improved his suit by equipping it with a self-created compact version of the Claymore satellite, which converts aliens powers into kinetic energy in order to defeat them. Lex Luthor built the exoskeleton himself and, while wearing it, displayed a strong mastery of its combat functions and weapons usage. The Lexosuit can materialize and de-materialize on him upon his command and is equipped onboard technology with HUD to control all of it functions, which can project Kryptonite-based energy beams, fly at high speeds, or manifest energy shields that can be activated even while separate from the rest of it. After going to the 31st century, Lex’s technology has been upgraded and can now perform extended feats, as he and a future version of Nyxly were able to invent unique, even amongst the advancements of the 31st century, scientific technologies that have been fused with magic. •Energy projection: The suit can create focused blasts of green energy. Due to it being the same color as Kryptonite is most likely powered by said mineral, hence could harm Kryptonians. After Lex upgraded the arm cannons with a miniaturized Claymore satellite, it became powerful enough to kill Kryptonians or melt a normal person. •Kryptonite sword: The suit's right arm it carries a Kryptonite sword that is able to damage a Kryptonian giving him radiation poisoning. It unknown if Lex ever used this. •Kryptonian imprisonment: The Lexosuit can be remotely controlled to imprison a target inside of it, as well as releasing a Green Kryptonite gas on its inside. •Autonomous operation: The Lexosuits can operate with no pilot so that no one gets hurt if a suit is destroyed. It is presumably controlled remotely like a drone. •Explosion inducement: Lex can generate powerful blasts from his gauntlets that detonate upon impact with their target and cause powerful explosions. •Bio-metallic symbiotic exoskeleton: Lex’s advanced Lexosuit can now craft itself onto Lex, as if it were a living creature, and it can do the same to other people.
Abilities
"I will remind you, I have been in prison before. I have been shot and killed and risen from the dead before, and I will not be subjugated again. You should know, I always have a plan." —Lex Luthor to Lillian Luthor •Genius-level intellect/Great business acumen/Master tactician/Leader: A child prodigy turned recognized-genius, Lex's intelligence is nearly unrivaled, quite possibly being the single smartest being on Earth-38, and even easily ranking among the greatest in the multiverse. Mar Novu also deemed Lex's mind as being an important piece to helping the multiverse survive the Crisis. While having no known degrees, he is an immensely well-read and equally multi-skilled individual. Ever calculating and methodical, he is a near flawless planner, able to assess and account for the numerous variables and from this, effectively manipulate the situation to unfold as he sees fit. So effective in his methods, the only individual who was ever capable of outsmarting Lex was Superman. Being among the greatest CEOs of Luthor Corp, his intellect has easily overseen for years the company's daily activities and maintain its status as a multi-billion dollar corporation, all while successfully having hideouts all around the world and leading his minions successfully in secret to defeat any sort of alien-related threats. His immense intelligence and strategical abilities were seen in his years-long war with the tremendously powerful and notoriously intelligent Superman, as Lex was able to stalemate the Man of Steel with many complex plans, plots, and attacks against him, although in the end, Superman ultimately defeated and exposed his true nature to the public. Lex was also able to efficiently and patiently program his escape from prison by infiltrating Eve Teschmacher at Lena Luthor's side to get her research, intentionally giving himself cancer to have himself placed under house arrest in his mansion, to curing himself of his disease and effortlessly kill his handlers with the mansion's secret defenses to escape, all while catching his extremely intelligent sister completely off-guard. Lex even managed to survive the destruction of the Multiverse by changing his destiny to becoming a Paragon and replace Superman of Earth-96. In the new Earth-Prime, Lex once again displayed his exceptional leadership and business skills, running effectively both the D.E.O., Luthor Corp and Obsidian Platinum's world tour. Due to his unimaginable intellect and his evil devotion, Lex was one of the most dangerous men in the multiverse, with Lena even stating that the world would never be safe with him in it. •Master of deception/Manipulator: Lex is exceptionally talented in the art of deception, as he is able to fool and convince many others of his agenda, to the point that he was able to keep up the façade of being merely a normal person of extreme intelligence and a famous CEO of Luthor Corp while simultaneously fighting Superman to a long standstill, only being exposed as a criminal after Superman defeated and revealed his crimes to the public. Lex's great proficiency as a manipulator and deceiver was so great that even Superman, despite his exceptional perception, was fooled into trusting him for years. Lex is also an extremely talented master of disguises. •Master scientist: Lex has a great aptitude countless fields of study; he was able to inject himself with green kryptonite and understand Lena's research on the Harun-El with ease, despite the fact that it took her months to study it. Lex is also an extremely capable biologist and is considered among the greatest living experts on Kryptonians, having studied them intensively due to his obsession with destroying Superman. His mastery regarding said aliens is acknowledged even by various governments over the world. •Master engineer: Lex is a brilliant inventor, specializing in various scientific fields of engineering, with Lena noting despite her own great proficiency, Lex still outshines her. An extremely talented engineer, he was able to design many sophisticated devices such as an "earthquake machine" that triggered a fault line in California, a device to turn Earth's sun red, a warsuit to argument his physical attributes, a secret computer room inside his cell, a wrist teleportation device, and many other weapons. •Medical knowledge: Though he was never explicitly stated to have an M.D. or doctorate, Lex demonstrated satisfactory resourcefulness and remarkable knowledge in the medical field, as he was able to make a correct diagnosis of his condition, as well as cure himself. •Computer specialist/Master computer hacker: Lex was able to build a miniaturized computer into his watch and use it to take control of various complex devices, such as Luthor Corp's and his mansion's security systems. Lex's computer expertise is so advanced that he managed to disable with ease the security systems of Mar Novu's laboratory on Maltus, going so far as to describe them as "a joke". •Multilingualism: Lex is capable of fluently speaking English, Latin, and Kaznian-dialect Russian. He can also read and write in Kryptonese. •Network: Lex had a dense network of information throughout the world; despite being in a maximum security prison, he maintained enough influence and connections to hire the professional assassin John Corben to kill Lena, orchestrate the assassination attempt of James Olsen, manipulate the government to have his sister work with the D.E.O., and organize his escape from house arrest. •Litigation: He successfully defended himself as a pro se litigant in his trial for crimes against humanity. •Expert hand-to-hand combatant/Martial artist: Lex is a highly skilled hand-to-hand combatant and martial artist. While wearing his battle armor, which gave him the necessary physical powers needed to combat a Kryptonian, he proved to be able to single-handedly compete against Superman. Despite being able to put up a fierce fight to the point of stalemating the superhero on several occasions, Lex is ultimately less skilled then his ex-best friend-turned-archenemy, as Superman was eventually able to best and incarcerate Lex in their final/prolonged confrontation. Although he has proved to be a formidable opponent for Supergirl in two of their confrontations, Lex's combat skills are proven to be inferior to master level combatants/martial artists; such as Clark Kent of Earth-167 and Kate Kane respectively, however, despite this, he demonstrated to be able to effortlessly fight bare-handed a group of much larger men during a prison riot. •Expert marksman: Lex is highly trained in using firearms, capable of shooting and killing a group of US Navy soldiers using a single shot each. He later used his revolver to shoot and kill William Dey with two precise shots to the chest. •Artistic: Lex is an incredibly skilled sculptor, considering it to be "mere geometry". "Lex is completely unhinged. His obsession with Superman is out of control. He'll stop at nothing to kill him and I am very afraid that a lot of people are going to get hurt... or killed in the process." —Lena Luthor to Andrea Rojas •Indomitable will/High tolerance for pain: A driven and determined person, Lex is nearly fearless and almost never gives up, as proven by his lifelong feud with Superman. Lex's willpower is so strong that he managed to enter a radioactive chamber - voluntarily poisoning himself with radiation - in order to get cancer, without having the slightest hesitation, as well as to orchestrate the rest of his master plan despite his failing health. Later on, despite sustaining two gunshot wounds to the chest from Lena Luthor, Lex refused to give in to his wounds until he fully revealed to a dismayed Lena that her best friend, Kara Danvers, is Supergirl - successfully damaging his half-sister's friendship with Kara. His willpower is strong enough that he was able to use the Book of Destiny without losing his sanity in the process. •Intimidation: Lex is universally regarded as an extremely dangerous individual and among Earth's most feared men; he commands an intimidating presence, to the point where most humans and aliens are afraid of him.
Weaknesses
"Lex went insane. Exactly. And if they could take the brightest mind on Earth and drive him crazy defending himself, imagine what they could do to you." —Lena and Lillian Luthor on Lex Luthor •Mental instability: Lex is extremely arrogant, erratic, cruel, unstable and delusional, believing himself intellectually superior to the rest of the world and Superman. He grew to resent Superman's popularity with the public and his animosity against the superhero eventually corrupted him, resulting in all of Lex's personal relationships collapsing, including that with his half-sister, Lena Luthor and his then-girlfriend, Mercy Graves. Lex even went so far as to inject himself with Kryptonite to keep his obsession at bay. He is also very overconfident about his schemes and takes no further caution beyond his initial plans, greatly losing his temper if something happen beyond his expectations. The fact that Lex had not learned from Superman's ability to defeat him - not only in direct combat, but also outsmart and reveal his crimes to the public - also proves that he is incapable of learning from his mistakes, as Lex still proclaims to be the strongest and most intelligent individual on the entire planet. •Lack of empathy: Despite Lex's intellect, he completely lack any ability to emotionally connect with others; though he was able to figure out on his own that Kara Danvers is Supergirl, Lex failed to realize Superman's secret identity as Clark Kent, simply because he can't imagine a frail human like Clark to be someone as powerful as Superman and simply deeming it as "ridiculous". •Obsession with Kryptonians: It has been noted often that Lex has an obsession with destroying Kryptonians or proving that he is better than they are intellectually. This obsession has been used to the advantage of the Superfriends to distract Lex from other maneuvers on their part.
•Lexosuit: Lex has created a high-tech battle suit, nicknamed "Lexosuit", which gave him enhanced strength, durability, flight, energy blasts and advanced weaponry, among other capabilities. He used it to better match Superman.
•Watch: Lex always carries with him a special watch of his own invention with which he is able to remotely control various devices, as well as teleport himself across various distances by opening transmatter portals.
•Guns: Lex is an expert in using multiple types of guns. He keeps a pistol holstered inside his jacket, though only used it in emergencies.
•Lapel pin: Lex got a pin from Gamemnae in order to protect himself from the protective shield radiation that hurt all but Jarhanpurians after he was welcomed into the organization.
SupergirlBatwomanThe FlashArrowDC's Legends of TomorrowComics•It's strongly implied that Lex's baldness is an inherited trait which he gained from his father instead of something caused by an accident as generally represented.
•Lex is the third known human capable to understand Kryptonese, after Winn Schott and Thomas Coville.
•It is stated that Lena had already been adopted when Lex was 13, thus, placing his birth year as 1984 at the earliest, making him around 9 years older than Lena and at least 5 years younger than Superman.
•This also makes him the second version of Lex Luthor who is younger than Superman, after Jesse Eisenberg's portrayal in the DC Extended Universe.
•Lex appears to be a fan of Frank Sinatra.
•He is implied to be a fan of the Alien film franchise.
Lex Luthor is physically an ordinary human and has no natural superpowers, but he is a genius with a high aptitude for business, politics, science, and technology.
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