History Characters / SmallvilleLuthorCorp

!!Old Lex/Lx-3 (Mackenzie Gray)

* CloneDegeneration: The only real explanation for his positively [[{{Nosferatu}} Orlockian]] appearance.

Another one of Lex's clones, this one degenerated to the point where he resembles a much older man. He is released in the Season 10 opening and goes on a killing spree that starts with the other clones, progresses through the entire staff at Cadmus Labs, and ends with separate attempts on Lois and the entire ''Daily Planet''. Utterly insane, he possesses all of Lex's memories and brains, but none of his suave demeanor.

!!Alexander Luthor/LX-15 (Jakob Davies, Connor Stanhope, Lucas Grabeel)

* YouAreNumberSix: LX-15 is his actual name and number.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Not to the degree of Old Lex, but he's getting there.

!!Old Lex/LX-3 (Mackenzie Gray)

* YouAreNumberSix: LX-3

* WouldHurtAChild: Would totally hurt a child.

Another one of Lex's clones, this one degenerated to the point where he resembles a much older man. He is released in the Season 10 opening and goes on a killing spree that starts with the other clones and ends with separate attempts on Lois and the entire ''Daily Planet''. Utterly insane, he possesses all of Lex's memories and brains, but none of his suave demeanor.

* AxeCrazy: Lex himself had this guy locked up. Following his escape he proceeds to try and murder the five year old Alexander, burns the other clones to death, slaughters the staff at Cadmus Labs, and in the episode's climax ties Lois to a scarecrow and sets the cornfield around her on fire, then places a bomb in the Daily Planet. For a guy who appears in one episode that's quite the achievement.

* AxeCrazy: To the point where Lex himself had him locked up.

* DressedToKill

* ManInWhite: In the various {{Bad Future}}s where he's PresidentEvil.

-->" I know I'm dying. I'm aging faster and faster. I have all of Lex's memories. And he despised every single one of you."

!!Alexander Luthor (Jakob Davies, Connor Stanhope, Lucas Grabeel)

!!Old Lex (Mackenzie Gray)

** BadassBoast: "You were right, Clark. I am the villain of the story."

* [[spoiler:EnfanteTerrible: Given that he has Lex's mind in a child's body, this should surprise no one. He's creepy, manipulative and downright abusive towards Tess. And then there's his murderous agenda regarding Clark. "Born bad" is putting it mildly.]]
** [[spoiler:TeensAreMonsters: God yes.]]

* [[spoiler: SelfMadeOrphen: He sure as hell tries to send Earth-2 Lionel the way of his Earth-1 counterpart]].

** [[spoiler:TeensAreMonsters: If the trailer for next year is any indicator.]]

* [[spoiler:EvilRedhead: "Harvest", before his ImportantHaircut]]

* [[spoiler:TheDreaded: As of Season 8. Other characters treat him as though he were a HeroKiller (even though he's really not) and the possibility of his return is always spoken of as though it were a prophecy regarding TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. Not bad for a BadassNormal who hasn't appeared for two-and-a-half seasons.]]

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Perhaps best stated by Lex himself in "Descent":

* AlternateUniverse: In Clark's ItsAWonderfulLifePlot episode, "Apocalypse", we meet PresidentEvil Lex, who as usual, is a ManInWhite with a RedRightHand, but adds SocialDarwinist and OmnicidalManiac to his resume, via a plan to NukeEm all, and rebuild the ashes of the world in his own image.

A clone of Lex created sometime after Season 7, Alexander was part of the mad billionaire's plan to save himself from the injuries he sustained at the end of Season 7 [[spoiler:following his face-off with Clark at the Fortress of Solitude]]. He is released from Cadmus Labs by Tess in the Season 10 opening, and at first appears to be a relatively normal child. However, his accelerated aging and possession of Lex's memories [[spoiler:eventually drive him to begin imitating his namesake, to the point of abandoning Tess. His current whereabouts are unknown]].

* [[spoiler:EvilRedhead: "Harvest"]]

* AxCrazy: To the point where Lex himself had him locked up.

* ShadowArchetype: To the real Lex. Old Lex is what the real Luthor would by like if he lost the [[ManipulativeBastard charisma]], and his few [[EvenEvilHasStandards remaining]] [[AffablyEvil scruples]], while turning up the AxCrazy a notch or [[UpToEleven eleven]]. That darkness inside him Lex was constantly being warned about? It's more or less this guy.
* SmugSnake: Has all of Lex's cunning and evil and JerkAss qualities with none of the sympathy or [[MagnificentBastard Magnificence]].

For [[spoiler:his Earth-2 counterpart, see the folder below]].

* TheBaroness

** Arguably CorruptTheCutie can also be used to describe how Lex affected Lana's personality [[spoiler:after they got together]], although to be fair, she wasn't exactly a saint beforehand, either.

* [[spoiler:DroppedABridgeOnHim]]
** [[spoiler:And then NotQuiteDead.]]

* BrokenAce: A villainous example. Lionel's obsession with wealth, power and material success cover up a great deal of self-hatred, an inability to identify with other people, and a childhood he's still running away from.

* BrokenAce: Much like Lionel and Lex, Tess is an incredibly rich, successful young woman, who has successfully escaped an abusive home life. She speaks two or three different languages, is extremely attractive, and has the money and power to do whatever she wants. She also has horribly low self-esteem, [[MisanthropeSupreme no faith in humanity]], and a fatalistic need for a {{Messiah}}, all stemming from having given up on her former idealism and desire to change the world in favour of being successful.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: She's pretty much Lex in drag, at least initially.

* HellBentForLeather

* PsychoElectro: Livewire

* VampiricDraining: Parasite's power drains both your powers, and your LifeEnergy.

* ThereCanBeOnlyOne: Lex Luthor, that is.

** To be fair, he did have a brother ([[spoiler:who was killed by his mother]]) and a half-brother (who's whereabouts are unknown). And don't forget [[spoiler:Tess]].

Lex's father and the founder of [=LuthorCorp=], Lionel rose from poverty to become one of the wealthiest men in the world. Claiming to be descended from Scottish nobility, he raised his son with little warmth and less love, believing that such things only bred weakness. He is the chief culprit behind his son's shattered psyche and [[WellDoneSonGuy need for approval]], and is the main antagonist in Seasons 1-3.

Imprisoned at the end of Season 3 when Lex and Chloe reveal that he [[spoiler:murdered his parents]], Lionel is freed by [[EvilMatriarch Genevieve Teague]] and undergoes the beginnings of a HeelFaceTurn. Failing to re-connect with Lex despite his best efforts, Lionel grows closer to Clark, eventually learning his secret and becoming his ally, while at the same time serving as the host body for Jor-El (and nursing an enormous crush on Clark's mother Martha). [[spoiler:He's killed by Lex in Season 7's "Descent" when he refuses to reveal Clark's secret to him.]]

* AssholeVictim

* KnightTemplarParent

* [[HeroesWantRedheads Villains Want Redheads]]: Had a serious crush on Martha. To the bastard's credit, he never did much about it.
** Also, his late wife Lillian was a redhead. As was Pamela Jenkins, Lex's childhood nanny and [[spoiler:Tess' biological mother]].

* XanatosSpeedChess

* BrokenBird: Life in general, and her interactions with the Luthors in particular, have left her very, very damaged.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive

The son of multi-billionaire Lionel Luthor, Lex befriends Clark after the latter saves him from drowning following a plunge off a bridge in the pilot episode. He is initially Clark's best friend and goes out of his way to protect him, eventually deposing his father and seizing control of [=LuthorCorp=]. However, Clark's refusal to trust him, combined with Lex's inability to overcome his own upbringing, and their rivalry over both Lana and how best to protect Smallville cause Lex to slide into villainy, ending in a FaceHeelTurn of epic proportions when he [[spoiler:murders his reformed father and attempts to do the same to Clark in the Season 7 finale]].

He returns in Season 8 [[spoiler:and despite being reduced to an EvilCripple, manages to ruin Clark and Lana's future together before apparently being killed by Oliver Queen. Doctor Fate confirmed Lex was alive in Season 9's "Absolute Justice," and with all of Lex's clones currently on the loose in Season 10, it appears to be only a matter of time before he himself resurfaces]].

* AntiHero: Lex started the series as a [[SlidingScaleOfAntiHeroes Type IV]] AntiHero since he was generally trying to do the right thing and get rid of [[BiggerBad his father Lionel]]...but then of course, around Season 4 and on, the ForegoneConclusion begins to start...
** AntiVillain: Season 4 and 5, before he [[FaceHeelTurn dove into full on villainy]].

* [[spoiler:BackFromTheDead: Thanks to Chloe's healing powers.]]

* {{Badass}}: He fought GreenArrow, the biggest BadassNormal in series' one-on-one and accquited himself well. And that's just one example.

** [[spoiler:HandicappedBadass: Season 8, in both the literal and metaphorical sense. Bereft of his [[CorruptCorporateExecutive company]], [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney money]], [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections connections]], and his very mobility, a quadrapalegic Lex keeps the superhero community quaking in their boots, and proves that even trapped in the back of a truck on life-support, and breathing through a respirator he's still one of the most dangerous villains out there.]]

* [[spoiler:EvilIsPetty: His incredibly petty and vicious plan in Season 8 revolves around breaking up Clark and Lana through the nastiest way possible.]]

* [[spoiler:GeniusCripple: Season 8]]

* [[spoiler:SelfMadOrphan: "Descent." Seen by many as his MoralEventHorizon.]]

* TheWoobie --> JerkassWoobie: Lex garners a ''lot'' of audience sympathy before, and even after his FaceHeelTurn.

Lex's father and the founder of [=LuthorCorp=], Lionel rose from poverty to become one of the wealthiest men in the world. Claiming to be descended from Scottish nobility, he raised his son with little warmth and less love, believing that such things only bred weakness. He is the chief culprit behind his son's shattered psyche and [[WellDoneSonGuy need for approval]], and is the main antagonist in Seasons 1-3. Affable, sarcastic and always capable of coming out on top, Lionel is one of the few ''agreed upon'' examples of a MagnificentBastard.

* AffablyEvil: Definitely. If you weren't in his way--or related to him--Lionel could be a downright pleasant guy, even before his HeelFaceTurn.

* AscendedExtra: A recurring villain in Season 1, he recieved his PromotionToOpeningTitles in Season 2.

* {{Badass}}: On the merits of both his physical prowess, and his sheer presence.

* [[HeroesWantRedheads Villains Want Redheads]]: Had a serious crush on Martha. To the bastard's credit, he never did much about it. Also, his late wife Lillian was a redhead. As was Pamela Jenkins, Lex's childhood nanny and [[spoiler:Tess' biological mother]].

The deceased wife of Lionel, and the mother of Lex and Julian (also deceased). It is [[spoiler:eventually revealed in Season 3 that she smothered baby Julian in his crib]], creating the beginnings of the Lex/Lionel feud that persists throughout the show.

First appearing in Season 8, Tess is a secondary antagonist throughout, trying to uncover the truth about Lex's disappearance, discover Clark's secret and eliminate both Doomsday and his host body. At the Orb's instruction, Tess releases the Kandorians at the end of Season 8 and spends most of Season 9 alternately allying with and opposing Zod's designs. [[spoiler:She is apparently killed at the end of Season 9, but is resurrected by Granny Goodness and pulls a HeelFaceTurn, becoming Watchtower II]]. She is eventually revealed to [[spoiler:be Lutessa Lena Luthor, the illegitimate daughter of Lionel Luthor and Pamela Jenkins, as well as a candidate Female Fury]].

* CompositeCharacter / {{Expy}}: [[Film/{{Superman}} Eve Teschmacher]] and [[SupermanTheAnimatedSeries Mercy Graves]]. Possibly of the Con''tess''a as well, who was Luthor's ex-wife in the comics.

* DesignatedGirlFight: Against Lana, Lois and, most recently, Harriet.

* ElectronicEyes: Implanted by Lex. It's revealed that [[spoiler: he is actually spying on her through them, which prompts her HeelFaceTurn]].

* EvilSoundsDeep: Has the deepest voice in the female cast, and, what a shocker, is one of the bad guys.

* TheReveal: In Season 10's "Abandoned," she's revealed [[spoiler:to actually be a Luthor.]]

* [[spoiler:BaldOfEvil: As of the end of "Harvest".]]

* YouLookFamiliar: His actor, Mackenzie Gray, also portrayed EvilBrit and MadScientist Dr. Alister Kreig in Season 5's "Cyborg".
* YoungerThanTheyLook: His CloningBlues have left with the body of a much older man.

* SecretKeeper

* [[AbusiveParents Abusive Dad]]: Though much, much more sympathetic than most television ones. Season 3 implies that he had one himself, meaning that the cycle of abuse is in full swing.

* FreudianExcuse: HIs parents were abusive and alcoholic.