History Characters / ArrowverseLenaLuthor

* YoungerThanTheyLook: While she doesn't look ''old'' by any means, she doesn't look like she was born in 1992 or 1993 either (as per the second season episode "Luthors"). However, a fifth season episode partially set in 2004 shows Lena being aged between 15 and 17. This would give a birth date of between 1987 and 1989.[[note]]Her actress is between 4 and 10 years older than the character.[[/note]]

** This led to a partial subversion in Season 3. The plot between Lena and Morgan Edge was supposed to last all season and would be tied into Lena's planned descent into villainy. This was shelved because of the Kreisberg firing and that Edge was a sexual predator would be a case of being in poor taste. The show took advantage of Edge's arrest in "Both Sides Now" to write him out of the series (the episode ended with him saying he would beat the charge).
** Happens again in season 5. WordOfGod before the season started (from Jessica Quller, Melissa Benoist and Katie [=McGrath=]) was that the season would be a fight for Lena's soul and their relationship would be the main plot of the season. Then the show was allowed to keep Jon Cryer on after ''Crisis on Infinite Earths''. This led to Lex being the main antagonist and Lena has demoted to lackey and the fight for her soul never began and the Lena and Kara relationship ended in the 100th episode and have had only a couple of scenes together post-Crisis and Kara moved on to her romance with William.[[invoked]]
* ActionGirl: At least, she's not a NeutralFemale. She will fight back, even if she's over-matched.

** Season 3 started to set Lena up in the path to true villainy. When Andrew Kreisberg was fired, all his plots were shelved including those involving lena.
** This led to a partial subversion in Season 3. The plot between Lena and Morgan Edge was supposed to last all season and would be tied into Lena's planned descent into villainy. This was shelved because of the Kreisberg firing and that Edge was a sexual predator would be a case of being in poor taste. The show took advantage of Edge's arrest in Both Sides Now to write him out of the series. (The episode ended with him saying he would beat the charge).
** Happens again in season 5. Word of God before the season started (from Jessica Quller, Melissa Benoist and Katie [=McGrath=]) was that the season would be a fight for Lena's soul and their relationship would be the main plot of the season. Then the show was allowed to keep Jon Cryer on after Crisis on Infinite Earths. This led to Lex being the main antagonist and Lena has demoted to lackey and the fight for her soul never began and the Lena and Kara relationship ended in the 100th episode and have had only a couple of scenes together post-Crisis and Kara moved onto her romance with William.

* AdaptationDyeJob: She's blond or a redhead in the comics, but on the show she has [[RavenHairIvorySkin very dark hair]].

* BerserkButton: Being disagreed with, criticized, or deceived in any way. She's broken up with James and permanently ended her friendship with Supergirl due to the first two, and given that she sees being lied to as [[ThisIsUnforgivable unforgivable]], it's a a safe bet that however she plans to punish Kara and company for keeping Kara's SecretIdentity as Supergirl from her will be very unpleasant.
** In Season 5, anyone calling Lena evil or a villain will lead to her acting in anger. She isnl totally obviously evil that she actually believes she is the good guy and Supergirl and friends are the enemy.

* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: [[spoiler:After being continuously lied to and manipulated by the people she cares about, this becomes her goal during Season 5; to use various relics and technology to create a signal that can permanently remove peoples capacity to hurt one another. So far, she has used it on [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves Eve]] and Malefic. Her attempts at using it post-Crisis prove much more difficult, with a number of bugs cropping up in the process, culminating in the revelation that long-term, [[AllForNothing it]] ''[[AllForNothing can't]]'' [[AllForNothing work]], a realisation that helps push Lena to a HeelFaceTurn.]]

* HappilyAdopted: Zigzagged. She did love and was loved by Lionel and Lex growing up, but [[WellDoneDaughterGal craved approval and affection]] from Lillian. Plus, she it turns out that she's Lionel's biological daughter from another woman.

** Lena can't abide being lied to, but is prepared to keep secrets and lie to those close to her if she thinks it's necessary. When she is angry about Kara hiding her identity as Supergirl, she is willing to maliciously deceive Kara and Andrea to pretend friendship to further her own goals, despite bitterly condemning both women for doing the same to her.

** Subverted in season 5, when she says acting like Lex in doing villainous acts while genuinely believing that she is the good guy. [[spoiler:Double Subverted by the season's end, however; [[NotSoSimilar unlike Lex]], Lena has a definite conscience and the self-awareness to realize when she's gone too far, as well as a genuine sense of altruism that, far from Lex's narcissistic lust for power, lets her turn away from a villainous path and throw in with the heroes again.]]

* MoralityPet: For her brother, according to WordOfGod, something that's also been the case in the comics. It's subverted when he hires an assassin to kill her.

** Again in Season 5. The Kara and Lena story was the main plot of the first half of Season 5 (and Word of God said season 5 would be nearly all about Kara and Lena's relationship). After the reboot following Crisis on Infinite Earths, the show was given permission to continue using Lex as a character. The show then dumped the plan for the season-long conflict between Lena and Kara and Lex became the main villain. This meant that the show had no plan for Lena, so she simply restarts her plan for project non-nocere. This meant that other than the 100th episode, Lena spends her now reduced screentime stuck in a lab or conning Andrea. She barely appears and no longer has scenes with the cast she has worked with for 3 and a half seasons.

** The season 2 episode "Luthors" ended with the implication that Lena was not as innocent as she seemed and was playing both Kara and Supergirl. This was never followed up and the rest of season 2 showed Lena as a 100% good person and all the initial "shady" aspects of her character disappeared. They were reintroduced in later seasons.

* HotScientist: Along with being exceptionally beautiful, she is a verified tech genius, and once was involved in researching nanotechnology.

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** Lena was a major part of the first 5 episodes of season 2. She disappeared from the show save for 3 spaced out episodes before becoming a regular in the 18th episode. (This was partially a case of {{RealLifeWritesThePlot}} as Creator/KatieMcGrath was a regular on ''Series/{{Frontier}}'' at the time and she could only film ''Supergirl'' when not filming on ''Frontier'').

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!!! '''Species:''' Human

* KnightTemplar: When she [[spoiler: attempts to bring about world peace by mindcontrolling all of humanity]] in seasion 5.

* ActorAllusion: In the final series she becomes a powerful magic user, just like her actor's character on ''Series/{{Merlin}}''.

** See also: CantTakeCriticism and HisOwnWorstEnemy.
* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Although Kara acknowledges that she hid her secret identity from Lena and lied about her life, she lets her know at the end of ''It's a Super Life'' that she can't keep using that as an excuse for her recent actions. This is reinforced in an alternate timeline shown by Mxy, where Lena became a dictator without a Supergirl to lie to her.

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Creator/KatieMcGrath is a good actress, but an awful FakeAmerican. Possibly justified; we don't know if her biological mother was American, Irish, or a different nationality (Lex mentions Lena's biological mother once sang an Irish song to time when he was upset, but does not confirm that she was Irish).

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* RedemptionQuest: She is working hard to restore her family's reputation and reinvent their corporation after her brother's shenanigans. Her first step is renaming the company "L-Corp."

* StrongFamilyResemblance: Flashbacks to her childhood in "Luthors" show that Lena and Lex looked a lot alike. Lillian admits that Lena also greatly resembles her birth mother (which was one of the major factors for her cold treatment of Lena).

* NotSoDifferent: Like Lex, she has a really good knack at developing anti-Kryptonian technology. Although Lena uses said technology to keep Reign at bay, Supergirl is still disturbed by the implications. After Supergirl becomes a BrokenPedestal due to a breach of trust, Lena makes some very Lex-like comments about Supergirl's "superiority" to Kara. When she becomes more immoral, she believes herself to be heroic in a similar way to her brother.
* NotSoSimilar: While she and Lex are NotSoDifferent, in "The Missing Link", [[spoiler:when Lex tries to use the failure of Lena's Q-Wave project as proof that taking over the world is the only 'sane' response, Lena refuses to be like him]].