"So instead of walking into the unknown ... I didn't do anything. [...] I never again let the fear of failure stop me." ― Lex Luthor
Summary
Lex Luthor appears as a representative the government has recruited to investigate and bring down Superman. Based on background signage seen throughout the New 52 books (including Justice League), LexCorp also exists. In Justice League No. 2, Batman notes that he and Superman have at least one thing in common: both of them speak openly of their distaste for Luthor. In the New 52 Action Comics (a series set some time before the events of Justice League #1), Luthor is hired by General Sam Lane to capture Superman by setting a train accident as a trap for him. The younger Superman, who is weaker and inexperienced, barely stops the train and is left unconscious. Lex collects Superman and subjects him to a series of tests to ascertain his strengths and weaknesses. He tortures Superman until the latter manages to escape. Lex is later revealed to have obtained contact with the "Collector of Worlds" through unknown means and was told to say the word "Krypton" to Superman. He later appears when the Collector abducts New Troy as one of the residents in the area. 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. It is later revealed that Lex Luthor was the secret caller named "Icarus" that was giving secret information on Glen Glenmorgan to Clark Kent.
After the death of Darkseid, Darkseid's Omega effect is contained in Lex Luthor, turning him into the God of Apokolips. When Superman's identity is exposed as part of Vandal Savage's plot to drain his powers, Superman consults Luthor for help, but Luthor expresses disbelief at the idea that Superman could ever be someone like Clark Kent, going along with Superman's request for help just to find out the 'real' plan.
Following the death of the New 52 Superman, Luthor decides to assume Superman's symbol in a new suit of battle armor to protect Metropolis, but he is confronted by the Pre-Flashpoint Superman, who refuses to believe that Luthor's intentions are as noble. This results in a brief conflict between the two, Luthor claiming that Superman's 'unprovoked' attack proves that he is an impostor while Superman counters that Luthor's brutal response proves him right, but the fight is cut short when Doomsday appears. Luthor agrees to help Superman by focusing on evacuating civilians while Superman deals with Doomsday. After the crisis is over, Superman agrees to allow Luthor to continue using his symbol, as Superman concedes that he has no evidence that this Luthor has engaged in criminal activity. Luthor is later attacked by an alien warrior whose visions of the future show him who will commit various acts of death and violence, but Superman appeals to him to let Luthor free by arguing that the future is always changing and he will do his best to ensure that the dark future they foresaw for Luthor will never come to pass.
After the Source Wall broke from the events of "No Justice," Luthor formed a new Legion Of Doom where they spent almost a year of issues to get the new elements/forces. In the Year of the Villain special, Luthor committed suicide by self-destructing LexCorp HQ while still inside in order to gain initiation from Perpetua, the Mother of Foragers, and was resurrected by her as her acolyte/child, becoming Apex Lex, a martian/human hybrid, alongside a resurrected Anti-Monitor who was in his pre-Flashpoint form. Apex Lex wouls set out to offer gifts of power to almost all villains of the DC Universe.
Powers and Stats
Tier: 8-C, 4-B via Preparation | 4-B | 4-B, likely higher
Name: Alexander Joseph "Lex" Luthor
Origin: DC Comics
Gender: Male
Age: Unknown, Around 35-40s, Few days as Apex
Classification: Human, Scientist, Businessman, Crime Lord, Supervillain, President, Former New God, Martian/Human Hybird, Fusion, Perpetua's warriors
Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Biological Manipulation, Hacking, Technology Manipulation, Martial Arts, Weapon Mastery, Energy Projection, Electricity Manipulation, Explosion Manipulation, Preparation, Flight, Forcefield Creation, Elasticity (He can enlarge tentacles with his armor) Resistance to Telepathy (His suit attuned to Manhunter's telepathy power, allowing him blocking his telepathy powers)
Enhanced Senses (Built a machine that detects extraterrestrial matter, Portal Creation (Uses Kryptonite to access the Phantom Zone, Electricity Manipulation (Designs a solar tower that can generate 600 megawatts per day), BFR (Has a bomb that can send people to the Phantom Zone), Memory Manipulation (Through kryptonite memory stone that can store data than any computer on earth)
All the Martians abilities includes: Flight, Telepathy, Illusion Creation, Mind Manipulation (Can scan multiple realities simultaneously, read the minds of everyone in the galaxy), Memory Manipulation, Sleep Manipulation, Soul Manipulation (Can manipulate souls with his telepathy and trap enemies inside themselves), Enhanced Senses (Including Telescopic, Microscopic, and X-Ray Vision), Energy Projection, Shapeshifting, Sizeshifting (Able to grow to massive sizes or shrink to the size of a blood cell), Self-Sustenance (Type 1, 2, and 3), Telekinesis, Matter Manipulation (Can reduce enemies to a subatomic level with his Martian Vision), Gravity Manipulation (Can manipulate gravitons, subatomic particles associated with the force of gravity), Invisibility, Heat Vision, Sonic Scream, Super Breath, Durability Negation with Intangibility (Can phase through people to kill them), Immortality (Types 1 and 3), Regeneration Low-High, Can regenerate from a puddle of green liquid, their sole arm, and decapitation) Through Universal Power, He can possibly equip and wield each of the energies of creation: Time Stop/Age Manipulation (The Still Force drain motions and age others), Death Manipulation (The Tear of Extinction cause permanent death and nullify healing), Magic Nullification (The Void Wind snuff out magic and gods), Law Manipulation, Higher-Dimensional Manipulation (The Sixth Note & the Dimensional Superstructure govern all thing imaginable and unimaginable), Mind Manipulation (Through the Collective Unconscious & the Black Aple), Time Manipulation, Electricity Manipulation/Vibration Manipulation (Through the Speed Force), Life Manipulation/Telepathy (The Life Force connect life forms down to their souls and can be used to control sea life and telepathically connect with all life), Empathic Manipulation/Energy Manipulation/Weapon Creation (Via the Emotional Spectrum & the Invisible Spectrum), Magic (Via the Sphere of the Gods), and Dimensional Travel (Apex Lex can traval across infinite realities)
All the Martian resistances, including: Resistance to Time Manipulation, Reality Warping, and Mind Manipulation
Attack Potency: Building level, Solar System Level with Preparation (Can create things that can harm Superman) | Solar System Level (Beat up Superman | Solar System Level (Can fight the likes of Superman and Wonder Woman)
Speed: Massively Hypersonic | Massively FTL+ (Comparable to Superman | Massively FTL+ (Comparable to Wonder Woman and Superman)
Lifting Strength Peak Human | Unknown | Stellar (Should be on par with Martian Manhunter)
Striking Strength: Building Class | Solar System Class | Solar System Class
Durability: Building level (Survived a helicopter crash) | Solar System Level | Solar System Level (Tanked a full on punch from Superman)
Stamina: Very High | Likely Infinite as Apex
Range: Standard melee range, higher with weapons | At least Planetary (Comparable to Superman) | Unknown
Standard Equipment: Kryptonite (in a lead ring), Red sun weapon, Many gadgets, Firearms | Warsuit
Intelligence: Possibly Supergenius, Lex is the smartest man on Earth. He is an incredible scientist, a master manipulator, a shrewd businessman, and a skilled engineer Engineering. Lex Luthor has built several doomsday devices, weapons, and armors meant to combat Superman and his other enemies. Lex Luthor is a gifted scientist, who is skilled in medicine, theoretical physics, and several other sciences. | Varies as Apex
Weaknesses: He is so arrogant that he assumes all of his schemes will work out as planned, just because he's a genius and he came up with them. | None notable as Apex.
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
- Apex Predator Physiology: As a fusion of Humans and Martians races, The Apex Predator live and fight forever and they retain all Martians abilities such as the ability to control their physical down to molecular level, allowing them to shift their sizes, change their body parts and mimic other appearances. They can regenerate from great injuries and can withstand Kryptonians punch without trouble. They have also access to the following abilities:
- Telepathy
- Mind Control
- Illusion Casting
- Invisibility
- Phasing
- Telescopic Vision
- Microscopic Vision
- X-Ray Vision
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Key: Base | Warsuit | Apex Predator
Others
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