ppearances: S1 - S7; S8: Bride, Requiem, Eternal (flashback); S9: Echo; S10: Lazarus, Finale
Family: parents, Lionel and Lillian Luthor; grandparents, Lachlan and Eliza Meehan Luthor; brother, Julian Luthor; half-brother, Lucas Luthor; half-sister, Tess Mercer; partial clone, Conner Kent; ex-wives, Desiree Atkins, Helen Bryce, and Lana Lang
Bio: Lex Luthor was originally born in Metropolis, Kansas in 1980, having been named after legendary conqueror Alexander the Great. In 1989, his billionaire CEO father Lionel had brought Lex along on a business trip to Smallville, only for the town to be struck by a meteor shower. Lex had been caught in the middle of it, resulting in an increased white blood-cell count. While this had left him with permanent hair loss, it had also meant that he'd never again become sick. In 1991, Lex had become a big brother for the first time at the age of eleven, feeling for the first and only time like part of a "real family". However, the morning his baby brother Julian was to be baptized, Lex had found their mother Lillian standing over Julian's crib, having smothered her infant son during a bout of post-partum depression. Wishing to save his mother from Lionel's wrath, Lex had taken the blame for Julian's death, claiming it was an accident. The Luthors had later told everyone that Julian had died of SIDS, and eventually, Lex had repressed the memory of how Julian had really died. In 1996, while attending Excelsior Academy, Lex and his friend Duncan Allenmeyer had been the target of bullies, in particular Oliver Queen. When Lex and Duncan had caught Oliver and his friends stealing answers to a test, Lex had wanted to use that knowledge as leverage to gain the respect of their peers, whereas Duncan had wanted to do the right thing and turn them in. Duncan had refused to back down on the issue, causing Lex to snap and attack him. Afterwards, Duncan had wound up stumbling into traffic, where he'd been hit by an oncoming car, though had survived. In 1999, Lex had taken a friend of his, Amanda Rothman, to Club Zero, where they had run into her cheating fiancée, Jude Royce. Jude, who had originally told Amanda he was out of town on business, had accused Lex of bringing Amanda there on purpose, and attacked him, stabbing Lex in the shoulder. In the scuffle, Amanda had grabbed a gun belonging to Max Kasitch, Lex's personal bodyguard, and had shot Jude. Lex had later told rogue cop Sam Phelan that he and Max had struggled for the gun when it had gone off, and Phelan had helped him cover it up by blaming Jude's death entirely on Max. Then, in October 2001, Lex had been sent by his father to run the Smallville Fertilizer Plant. Following his first day there, he'd been driving over Loeb Bridge, when he'd swerved to avoid something in the road and collided with Clark Kent, sending them both into the river below. Unharmed, Clark had pulled Lex out of the water and administered CPR, saving Lex's life.
Portrayed By: Michael Rosenbaum, Matthew Munn (as a 9-year-old), Wayne Dalglish (as an 11-year-old), Lucas Grabeel (as a teeanger), Connor Stanhope (as a 9-year-old), Kevin Miller, Matt Adler (voice), Jakob Davies (young Lex clone), & Mackenzie Gray (aged clone)
Lex, age 9 S1: Pilot Matthew Munn |
Lex, age 11 S3: Memoria Wayne Dalglish |
Lex as a teenager S6: Reunion Lucas Grabeel |
Lex, age 9 S7: Fracture Connor Stanhope |
Injured Lex S8: Requiem Kevin Miller |
Young Lex clone S10: Lazarus Jakob Davies |
Aged Lex clone S10: Lazarus Mackenzie Gray |