History Characters / SmallvilleLuthorCorp

* ReformedButNotTamed: He has become more heroic but is still a manipulative, suspicious man.

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!!! '''Species''': Human
!!! '''Played by''': Creator/MichaelRosenbaum | Creator/MatthewMunn (young)

-->'''Lex''': I am the villain of the story.

'''Clark:'''I'll always be there to stop you. Always.\\

* TheCasanova: Almost all of his girlfriends or love interests are stunningly beautiful women. This mostly due to Lex's good looks (even with the baldness) and his witty personality. Not to mention the fact that he is obscenely wealthy and cultured.

--->'''Lex''': What I want more than anything is to live {{happily ever after}}. And do you know what the secret to living happily ever after is? ([[{{Beat}} pause]]) ''Power''. Money and power. See, once you have those two things, you can secure everything else. And ''keep'' it that way. I want to be Senator. ''I want it all.''

-->'''Victoria:''' It was just business.
-->'''Lex:''' (''without missing a beat'') You call sleeping with me "business"? I hate to think what that makes you.

-->'''Impulse:''' I want a lawyer.\\

-->'''Lex''': ''(Cradling a weakened Clark, while the Fortress of Solitude crumbles around them)'' I love you like a brother Clark, but it has to end like this. ''I'm sorry...''

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Pretty much his defining trait. Despite having pretty much everything going for him, he has felt jealous and inferior to Clark since day one, something that remains long after the two stop being friends.

* CainAndAbel: With Clark (whom he viewed as a brother) and later with Tess, resulting in the latter's death and his own memory loss.

* ClassicVillain: Displays the [[SevenDeadlySins sins]] of {{Pride}}, [[GreenEyedMonster Envy]] and {{Wrath}}.

* DeusAngstMachina: After losing his hair and being horribly bullied at school, Lex takes the blame for his mother murdering his infant brother, condemning himself to a future of abuse and hatred from his dad, whom he knows would kill her if he found out.
* {{Deuteragonist}}:

* GreenEyedMonster: He envies Clark, whose life and later powers Lex desperately wants. He had everything Lex ever wanted, a loving family, Lana, a close-knit group of friends, and super powers, the last one being a particularly sore spot for him after he finds out. When him and Clark meet up for their showdown in the Finale, Lex incredulously calls him out for "taking his powers for granted" by wanting to lead a normal life.

* LargeHam: Gets increasingly hammy as he becomes [[EvilIsHammy more evil]].
%%* LonelyRichKid: In Seasons 1-3.

* WouldHitAGirl: As demonstrated in the Season 6 finale when Lana announces she's leaving him.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Not that Michael Rosenbaum looks particularly old, but very few people would peg Lex as just ''twenty-one'' at the start of Season 1.

* PromotionToParent: Seemed to be going this route with [[CloningBlues Alexander Luthor]] prior to his FaceHeelTurn.

%%* CloningBlues: Complete with accelerated aging, until "Scion".

* CloningBlues: He's far older than the real Lex, and dying to boot.
* CloneDegeneration: The only real explanation for his positively [[Film/{{Nosferatu}} Orlokian]] appearance.
* EvilGenius: Has more than enough time to demonstrate his high IQ before his CloningBlues kill him.

* YoungerThanTheyLook: CloningBlues have left him with the body of a much older man.

* TragicVillain: Few modern villains fit this trope as well as Lex does.

Defined by his obsessions and [[ControlFreak need for control]], Lex can be vengeful, spiteful and, at times, downright [[EvilIsPetty petty]], but also has flashes of pure Machiavellian brilliance. He is a fitting ArchEnemy for a Franchise/{{Superman}}.

** Or this gem when he has [[Franchise/TheFlash Impulse]] imprisoned:

* {{Expy}}: To Lock-Up, a minor DC supervillain usually faced by Franchise/{{Batman}}. Both are {{WellIntentionedExtremist}}s who dress mostly in black act as TheJailer and have issues with being the {{Sadist}}.

* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: This show's version of Lex Luthor has by far the most dysfunctional and miserable relationship with his father as portrayed in any medium. Also, while most versions of Lex are either a CardCarryingVillain or a man assured of his own righteousness, this version of Lex is greatly tortured by his capacity for evil... initially, at least.

%%* KilledOffForReal: At the end of his first episode.
%%* LargeHam: It's Mackenzie Gray playing an AxCrazy clone of ComicBook/LexLuthor. Were we expecting it to be subdued?

%%* OlderAndWiser: Or so he claims.
%%* PointyEars: Slightly.

%%* {{Revenge}}: His motivation for attacking Clark.

%%* WouldHurtAChild: As Alexander can attest to.

!!! '''Played by''': Creator/MichaelRosenbaum | Matthew Munn (young)

* PlayingWithSyringes: Uses a drug derived from Chloe's mother's [[{{Squick}} spinal fluid]] to mind-control first Chloe and then ComicBook/GreenArrow.

%%* AxCrazy: Lex himself had this guy locked up. There was a reason for that.
%%* BaldOfEvil: He ''is'' Lex's clone.

* ManOfWealthAndTaste: Is dressed as such when he confronts Clark.

* SmugSnake: Has all of Lex's cunning and evil and all of his JerkAss qualities with none of the sympathy or [[MagnificentBastard Magnificence]].
* TheSociopath: Literally tries to kill every person he meets.

%%* WouldHitAGirl: First Tess, then Lois.

* YouLookFamiliar: His actor, Creator/MackenzieGray, also portrayed EvilBrit MadScientist Dr. Alistair Kreig in Season 5's "Cyborg."

* AlternateSelf: Plastique, Parasite, and Livewire have them on [[Series/{{Arrowverse}} Earth-Prime]].

* AlternateSelf: Has one on [[Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse Earth-1]] as Silas Stone.

* AlternateSelf: Has two, one on [[Characters/ArrowverseLuthorFamilyAndAssociates Earth-Prime]] and one on [[Characters/SupermanFilmSeries Earth-96]].

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!!Christina Lamell

!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/LexaDoig

A doctor who was helping Tess to find a cure for Alexander's rapid aging.
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* AlternateSelf: Has one on [[Characters/ArrowverseLeagueOfAssassins Earth-Prime]] as Talia Al-Ghul.
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!!Helen Bryce
!!!'''Species:''' Human

* AlternateSelf: Has one on [[Characters/ArrowverseCentralCityIndependentCriminals Earth-Prime]] as the metahuman Russell Glosson/The Turtle.

* AlternateSelf: Including his Earth-2 counterpart, he has one on [[Series/{{Supergirl2015}} Earth-Prime]], two on an [[Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse unnamed Earth]] as [[{{Film/Shazam2019}} Mr. Sivana]] and [[Characters/DCEUSupermansRoguesGallery himself]], [[Series/Titans2018 Earth-9]], one mentioned on [[Film/SupermanTheMovie Earth-96]], and one on [[Series/Lucifer2016 Earth-666]] as Peter Peterson.

* AlternateSelf: Has two on [[Series/{{Supergirl2015}} Earth-Prime]] as herself and Red Tornado, one on [[Characters/ArrowverseEarthX Earth-X]] as Red Tornado, and one on [[Series/Titans2018 Earth-9]] as herself.

* AlternateSelf: Has one on [[Series/{{Supergirl2015}} Earth-Prime]].

* {{Envy}}: Of Clark, whose life and later powers Lex desperately wants.

* GreenEyedMonster: Towards Clark. He had everything Lex ever wanted, a loving family, Lana, a close-knit group of friends, and super powers, the last one being a particularly sore spot for him after he finds out. When him and Clark meet up for their showdown in the Finale, Lex incredulously calls him out for "taking his powers for granted" by wanting to lead a normal life.

* AlternateSelf: Has four, one on [[Series/Supergirl2015 Earth-Prime]], one on [[Series/Titans2018 Earth-9]], one on [[Film/SupermanTheMovie Earth]][[Film/SupermanII -]][[Film/SupermanIVTheQuestForPeace 9]][[Film/SupermanReturns 6]], and one on [[Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice an undesignated Earth]].

* AlternateSelf: Including his Earth-2 counterpart, he has one on [[Series/{{Supergirl2015}} Earth-Prime]], one on [[Series/Titans2018 Earth-9]], one mentioned on [[Film/SupermanTheMovie Earth-96]], one on [[Series/Lucifer2016 Earth-666]] as Peter Peterson, and two on an [[Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse unnamed Earth]] as [[{{Film/Shazam2019}} Mr. Sivana]] and [[Characters/DCEUSupermansRoguesGallery himself]].

* AlternateSelf: Has one on an [[Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse unnamed Earth]] as Silas Stone.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: After being characterized her as a compassionate doctor and a counter to Lionel's corrupting influence on Lex in season 2, [[spoiler:season 3 reveals Helen to be nothing more than a gold digger who was willing to kill her husband in order to get his money. Her own actress was just as surprised at this swerve as the audience, being unaware that she was supposed to be a villain all along until the third season premiere.]]
* BlackWidow: [[spoiler:She tried to kill Lex on their honeymoon to get his money. Her attempt failed and Lex eventually realized what she had done after initially suspecting his father.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She claims that [[spoiler:she didn't have the heart to shoot Lex the night of their honeymoon because she had genuinely fallen in love with him. Of course, that didn't stop her from pulling a gun on him after he reveals that he discovered her ruse]].
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Assuming that she survived her (implied) jump from the plane, she fails to kill Lex and get his money, but she still escapes justice for her crimes and is never seen again.]]

** Helen only appears in nine episodes, but [[spoiler:her betrayal and attempted murder of Lex have a noticeable effect on him in future and lead to him becoming more and more of a ControlFreak as the series progresses.]]

* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:After Lex reveals her deception during their (second) honeymoon trip, she pulls a gun and they struggle over it, resulting in the pilot of their plane being shot dead; when Lex rushed to the cockpit to fly the plane and he turned around, Helen was gone, presumably having either jumped or parachuted away. While Lex organized search parties afterwards, it's not made clear whether she survived the jump or not, and she is never seen on the series again. The fact that Lex was able to marry Lana in Season Six (without being charged for bigamy) would suggest that Helen is (at least) legally deceased.]]

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Very few things truly get to her, or, if they do, she rarely lets anyone see it. In Season Ten, however, she's visibly nervous and shaken whenever she has to deal with her father's Earth-2 doppelganger. Perfectly reasonable, as his Earth-1 version was evil and abandoned her to an orphanage and the Earth-2 version is even worse.

* AbusiveParents: Murdered her second son and wasn't all that great to Lex either.

* EvilCounterpart: To Oliver Queen. Both are the sons of wealthy billionaires who strike an unusual friendship with Clark Kent and frequently struggle with their flaws. But while Oliver ultimately overcomes his inner demons, Lex succumbs to them.

%%* FreudianExcuse: Courtesy of his dad.

* TroubledAbuser: Lex's life would have been very different if his grandparents hadn't beaten Lionel for trying to be better than they were.

Halfway through Season 8, Lex, who spent most of the season on life support due to injuries suffered after pulling the Fortress of Solitude on top of himself and Clark at the end of Season 7, was murdered by Oliver Queen. However, like any good [[TheChessmaster chessmaster]], he had backup plans put into motion. Namely, various clones, designed to essentially resurrect him. After failed models either went AxCrazy or rebelled against his memories, his final clone was born in the GrandFinale with the heart of the Lionel Luthor from another Earth, properly bringing Lex back to life. After this resurrection, and one final confrontation with his eternal enemy Clark, Lex's memories are wiped thanks to a neural gel given to him via ArmorPiercingSlap at the hands of his half-sister Tess, whom he was in the process of murdering at the time. This led to Season 11, where he becomes the primary BigBad, hating Superman, but having no idea why. By the time of the final episode's time jump in 2018, he has become President of the United States.

* PoisonousFriend: To Clark, pre-FaceHeelTurn.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Judging by her mental state after Julian's birth, Lillian may have been suffering from Postpartum depression, a condition that sometimes causes women to smother their newborn babies. She sleeps more, is constantly crying, and appears to be having a breakdown during her argument with Lionel. And, like real life Postpartum depression, Lillian murders Julian. She looks extremely disoriented after the act. In a way, Julian's death was Lionel's fault, for not getting his wife help and giving her more reasons to go through with it.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She claims that [[spoiler:she didn't have the heart to shoot Lex the night of their honeymoon because she had genuinely fallen in love with him. Of course, that didn't stop him from
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:She fails to kill Lex and get his money, but still escapes justice for her crimes and is never seen again.]]
* SmallRoleBigImapct:
** It's implied that the sample of Clark's blood that she extracted in "Fever" was used by Lex to create Conner.

%%* ILoveNuclearPower: Presumably Neutron.