ALEXANDER (LEX) LUTHOR
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Eyes: dark blue/grey
Hair: n/a (originally red)
Height: 6'

From the press materials:
21 years old. Born and raised in Metropolis. He's the only son of pesticide "king" Lionel Luthor. Until the summer of his ninth birthday, Lex had always sported a thick mop of red hair. That summer, Lex's mother encouraged Lionel to spend more time with his son. Lionel finally agreed to take Lex on a business trip but their father-son bonding was cut short when a bizarre accident caused Lex to lose all his hair. Although Lionel spent a fortune on specialists over the years, nothing could restore Lex's hair. Lionel was never able to look at Lex the same way again. Riddled with guilt and shame, he lavished Lex with money and gifts. He sent him away to the best boarding schools.

Although academically brilliant, Lex was a social misfit, who was viciously teased for being bald. It didn't take long for Lex to learn to fight back and he was kicked out of a string of schools. However, he eventually managed to graduate from Metropolis University at the top of his class and he expected to assume his place next to his father at Luthor Corp. Lionel has other plans. He tells Lex he's sending him to Smallville, and promises to bring him to assume the Luthor Corp. crown if he can turn the struggling fertiliser plant around. But Lex is smart enough to know it's a one-way ticket. Lex arrives in Smallville vowing to build his own empire and bring his father to his knees. On Lex's first day in Smallville, an accident of fate brings him face-to-face with a local high school student named Clark Kent. And thus begins a remarkable friendship. Clark looks up to Lex as the big brother he never had and Lex is surprised to find that this small-town boy is someone he can actually trust. Though neither has an inkling of how their destinies will clash... it all begins in Smallville...

canon

• Lex was born in 1980 (Premiere)
  
  
• Lex was 9 years old in October 1989, which makes him 21 in the pilot. (Premiere)
  
  
• Lex was in Reilly Field in October 1989 when the meteor shower hit. The effects of the blast caused Lex to lose his hair. (Premiere)
  
  
• Young Lex had red hair, was afraid to fly, and suffered from asthma. (Premiere)
  
  
• His mother gave him a lead box before she died—supposedly the lead lined box was made from St. George's armour. (Metamorphosis)
  
  
• When Lex was nine years old, Lionel gave him a scale model of the siege of Troy, to teach his son strategy. (Metamorphosis)
  
  
• The Luthors own the "Metropolis Sharks" professional football team. (Premiere)
  
  
• Lex's Porsche (the one he arrives on scene in) has a vanity plate "LEX" registered in Metropolis U.S.A. The date is "01". (Premiere)
  
  
• The truck Lex gives Clark is (at best guess) a Ford F-250 Superduty, est. cost $30,000. (Premiere) (Best Guess courtesy KN's husband. <G>)
  
  
• Has a private fencing instructor named Heike (Premiere)
  
  
• Met Lana Lang when she was 10 years old. She went to Metropolis for a riding competition and his father invited Nell and Lana to spend the night. When Lana went to check out the indoor pool, she found Lex and a girl skinny-dipping. (Metamorphosis)
  
  
• Drinks cappuccino (Hothead)
  
  
• Knows Dominic's sister. (Hothead)
  
  
• Lex has a juvenile record, possibly including some incident at Club Zero in Metropolis. (X-Ray)
  
  
• States his father is "Obsessed" with the Daily Planet. (X-Ray)
  
  
• There is a Lake on the Luthor property. (Cool)
  
  
• Lex has a manservant/butler (Cool)
  
  
• All indications are that Lex is left handed & he drinks his scotch neat (Cool)
  
  
• Lex tells Clark he had experts go over the wrecked Porsche and they said the impact couldn't take the roof of like it did and Clark lies. (Hourglass)
  
  
• Lex's asthma disappeared at age 9, after losing his hair. (Craving)
  
  
• Lex was kicked out of Metropolis University. (Craving)
  
  
• Lex's doctor, Dr. Vargas, informed him that like many Smallville residents, he has an unusually elevated white cell count. However, other than that, he is in perfect health. (Craving)
  
  
• Lex's new Porsche has a vanity place that says "LEX1" (Hourglass)
  
  
• Lex's mother was sick for a very long time. She was on a heart medication called Amlodipine before her surgery (Shimmer)
  
  
• When she knew she was close to dying, Lex's mother gave him a watch with a face made from a Napoleon franc from 1806 (Shimmer)
  
  
• Lex received a stab wound at Club Zero in Metropolis circa 1999, which was treated by an unlicensed physician (Hug)
  
  
• In 1999, Lex took Amanda Rothman to Club Zero, where she caught her fiancé Jude Royce cheating on her. When Jude stabbed Lex, Amanda accidentally shot and killed him with bouncer Max Kasich's gun. Lionel Luthor sent corrupt cop Sam Phelan to handle the incident. Lex never saw Amanda again. (Zero)
  
  
• Lex's head of security is a man named Mr. Raines (Zero)
  
  
• Keeps an apartment in Metropolis (Zero)
  
  
• In approximately 1991, his mother became pregnant with her second child, a son they named Julian. After Julian's birth, for the first time, Lex felt that he was part of a real family. However, Julian died from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome the night before his baptism. Lionel became even more distant, and Mrs. Luthor was never the same. Lex suspects that Lionel saw Julian as his second chance for a "normal" son he could love. (Stray)
  
  
• Lex is a fan of the comic book series "Warrior Angel" and has original pencilled and inked pages framed (Stray)
  
  
• Lionel gave Lex a copy of Nietzsche's The Will to Power for his tenth birthday (Reaper)
  
  
• Lionel once took Lex to Australia where they went underwater in a cage and were "bait" for some great white sharks. Lex went precisely because his father didn't think he would. (Reaper)
  
  
• Lex's mechanic is named Hans (Drone)
  
  
• Lex's masseuse is named Gaby, and she is the best part of his day (Drone)
  
  
• Lex held a student office when he was a teen (Drone)
  
  
• Lex wants to be President some day (Drone)
  
  
• Lex's mother was named Lillian, and is buried in Metropolis. She was born in 1951 and died in 1993. (Crush)
  
  
• Lillian Luthor hired Pamela Jenkins as a child care provider, and companion for her son Lex after she became ill. (Crush)
  
  
• Lillian made Pamela promise on her deathbed to stay and raise her son. (Crush)
  
  
• After Lillian died, she left Pamela all her stock in LuthorCorp. (Crush)
  
  
• Lionel Luthor forced Pamela to leave, threatening to disinherit Lex if Pamela ever had any contact with him again. (Crush)
  
  
• Pamela was diagnosed with cancer, and when it metastasised, she journeyed to Metropolis to get Lex's forgiveness. (Crush)
  
  
• Lex told Clark that has only ever loved two women: his mother, and Pamela. (Crush)
  
  
• Lex can quote Walt Whitman's Song of Myself from memory (Crush)
  
  
• The deal memo with Cadmus Labs gives Lex fifty percent ownership with veto rights. Lionel, however, neglected to inform Lex that LuthorCorp was selling Cadmus Labs (Crush)
  
  
• Lex brings his copy of the Leaves of Grass to Pamela in the hospital (Crush)
  
  
• Despite the Smallville plant turning a profit in the first quarter of 2002, Lionel closed the Plant, citing management's failures, in an attempt to force Lex to return to Metropolis (Tempest)
  
  
• When his father discovered Lex had planned an employee buyout, Lionel purchased the Smallville Savings and Loan and threatened to foreclose on every plant employee who mortgaged their homes to afford the buyout, in an attempt to pressure his son to return with him to Metropolis (Tempest)
  
  
• Lex has his mother's shares of LuthorCorp (Tempest)
  
  
• Lex would rather be reviled than believed to be incompetent (Tempest)
  
  
• The email which Lex was reading before Lionel stormed in was as follows:
  

  [...]rebel, prompting Alexander to march on their city. Calmer heads do not prevail. Alexander seizes the "opportunity" to send a powerful statement to the rest of his empire. He and his armies kill six thousand Thebans, demolish the city, and sell the 30,000 survivors into slavery. Scorched earth, Lex. That was how Alexander the Great chose to inaugurate his reign at what my college history professor liked to call the first modern empire's birthplace. But that is only history. Now you have a choice between seizing the opportunity or fleeing from the danger. What you so will define your regime, as Alexander's actions defined his for generations to come.
  
  I sincerely hope you will seize this "opportunity" to show your father and the business world -- as well as those of us who serve you -- an example of righteous and compassionate leadership. My family and I pray that you will.

  (Tempest)
  
  
• Lex works with Gabe Sullivan at the newly formed "LexCorp." (Heat)
  
  
• Lex shot and killed Metropolis Inquisitor reporter Roger Nixon when Nixon attempted to murder Jonathan Kent (Vortex)
  
  
• Lex was briefly married to Smallville High biology teacher Desiree Atkins (nee Alison Sanders), whom he met while on a 2 week business trip out of town. He asked Clark to be his best man at his wedding. (Heat)
  
  
• Lex had the marriage annulled when Desiree attempted to murder him two days after their wedding in order to inherit his fortune (Heat)
  
  
• Lex's original partnership agreement in the Talon allowed him to buy out Lana and Nell's half and have them evicted with no notice. However, the agreement has since been re-drafted to prevent him from ever doing so again. (Heat)
  
  
• Lex purchased a new "very Italian" cappuccino machine for the Talon, which he sent with roses for Lana as an apology for his behaviour. (Heat)
  
  
• Lex is running his own corporation now. (Duplicity)
  
  
• Lex went to the Kent farm because he needed to get away from the Mansion, which was getting "crowded." (Duplicity)
  
  
• The mansion has over seventy rooms. (Duplicity)
  
  
• Lex caught Lionel reading some of Hamilton's research. (Duplicity)
  
  
• Lex's father Lionel has moved into the mansion to spend "quality time" with his only son. (Duplicity)
  
  
• Lex's favourite brandy is [Mauleon d'] Armagnac 1963, and there was a time when Lex believe the only thing he had in common with his father was their taste in brandy. (Red)
  
  
• In the months after the meteor shower, Lionel gave Lex advice on how to deal with the way people looked at him, which was that he had to play the hand fate had dealt him and to stop feeling sorry for himself. (Red)
  
  
• Lex spent hours going over résumés of Ivy Leaguers from Harvard and Yale, looking for the perfect fit for his father's executive assistant. (Nocturne)
  
  
• Lionel's presence at the manor has thrown Lex's regimented routine into a mild chaos. (Nocturne)
  
  
• Lex usually leaves the monthly produce cheque out for Martha Kent to pick up. (Nocturne)
  
  
• Lex can quote John Donne's Holy Sonnet XIV from memory. (Nocturne)
  
  
• Lex wasted a day interviewing prospective assistants, when Lionel had already hired Martha Kent, without informing Lex. (Nocturne)
  
  
• Lex believed his father found Chopin too sentimental. (Nocturne)
  
  
• Lex warned his father not to meddle with the Kents, because they mean a lot to him. (Nocturne)
  
  
• When Excelsior prep headmaster Terrance Reynolds tried to expel Lex, Lionel donated a new library to the school, on the condition that Lex would stay, and Reynolds would be dismissed. (Redux)
  
  
• Lex was unaware of the circumstances that lead to Reynolds leaving Excelsior. (Redux)
  
  
• Lex respects and likes Reynolds, because Reynolds challenged him. (Redux)
  
  
• When Rachel Dunlevy came to Lex with her belief that Clark was lex's half-brother, Lex told her to present him with DNA evidence. (Lineage)
  
  
• Lex parks in the LexCorp garage. (Lineage)
  
  
• Lex asked Clark if he ever wished he had an older brother to help him with his jump shot. (Lineage)
  
  
• Lex was bothered by his father's infidelity only in as much as it caused his mother pain. (Lineage)
  
  
• After the meteor shower, Lex was in shock and Jonathan Kent rushing him to the hospital saved his life. (Lineage)
  
  
• Lionel told Lex that he had Lucas placed with a fine family, and that Lucas died before his first birthday. (Lineage)
  
  
• Lex's company, LexCorp, owns the former Smallville LuthorCorp Plant #3. LexCorp is in the midst of a major plant expansion, but is still awaiting final approval from the zoning commission. (Ryan)
  
  
• Corrupt Smallville Mayor Tate wanted a bribe from Lex in the form of a "campaign contribution" before the zoning commission would issue a building permit for the expansion. (Ryan)
  
  
• Rather than give in to Tate, Lex threatened to give all his financial support to Tate's opponent, and showed Tate a paid 30 second public service announcement he had made, specifically to show Tate that he had no intention of buckling under. (Ryan)
  
  
• Lex can quote Winston Churchill from memory. (Ryan)
  
  
• Lex has two complete collections (for for reading, one for collecting) of Warrior Angel comics, including a mint condition Warrior Angel #1. (Ryan)
  
  
• Warrior Angel comics helped Lex through some tough times when he was younger. He found the world between these glossy covers was reassuring because you knew who the heroes and villains were. (Ryan)
  
  
• Lionel taught Lex that Sometimes you have to get your hands dirty, and make compromises. (Ryan)
  
  
• Lex spent three hours on the phone tracking Dr. Burton down, to see if the doctor could help Ryan James, who was dying due to a rapidly growing brain tumour. (Ryan)
  
  
• When Lex's mother got sick, he spent all his time researching the best doctors and treatments. By the time he realised that the most important thing he could've done was spend time with her, it was too late. (Ryan)
  
  
• Lex wasn't at Lillian's side when she passed. (Ryan)
  
  
• Lex admires Clark. (Ryan)
  
  
• Lex sponsors the Luthor Foundation scholarship, which goes to a Smallville High School student with a 4.0 GPA. (Dichotic)
  
  
• Lex was late for a tour of the LexCorp Plant with the EPA rep, and told his subordinates to start without him. Lex had planned on being in Metropolis for a charity auction, for which he was donating a set of golf clubs worth several thousand dollars. However, he used the nine-iron to bash in a traffic cop's little cart when the meter maid made snide comments about Lex, implying that Lex did not work for a living. (Dichotic)
  
  
• The licence plate of Lex's car reads "LEX XIV" (Dichotic)
  
  
• Lex employs 2500 people in Smallville (Dichotic)
  
  
• Due to the assault on the meter maid and property damage incident, Lex was forced to attend an Anger Management Class held at the Smallville Medical Centre (Dichotic)
  
  
• Lex placed a call to Lionel Luthor's personal orthopaedist in Metropolis, in case Jonathan Kent's broken leg required special treatment. This did not endear him to Kent's doctor, Helen Bryce. (Dichotic)
  
  
• Lex's attack on the meter maid was already gossip that reached Clark's ears by that afternoon. (Dichotic)
  
  
• During what Lex termed his "self-destructive phase" he once spent a night in Metropolis General drunk and puking his guts out. Dr. Helen Bryce was a first year med student assigned to sober him up. (Dichotic)
  
  
• After almost letting his father die, Lex is now just trying to beat him at his own game. (Dichotic)
  
  
• Lex provided Clark with Ian Randall's scholarship information. (Dichotic)
  
  
• Lionel approached Lex with the offer or partnership in the LuthorCorp office park being built in Smallville. (Skinwalkers)
  
  
• Lionel taught Lex that sentimentality is synonymous with vulnerability. (Skinwalkers)
  
  
• Any culture that's left a legacy that would endure for centuries has earned Lex's respect. (Skinwalkers)
  
  
• Lex has been fighting his destiny his entire life. (Skinwalkers)
  
  
• Lex believes the Kawatche caves may be more impressive than the caves at Lascaux, France. (Skinwalkers)
  
  
• Lex bailed Joseph Willowbrook out of jail. (Skinwalkers)
  
  
• LexCorp secured the contract for the preservation for the entire area surrounding the caves. (Skinwalkers)
  
  
• Lex told his father that preserving the caves gave him the satisfaction of seeing a local treasure preserved forever. (Skinwalkers)
  
  
• Lex and Dr. Bryce have gone on five dates. (Visage)
  
  
• Helen told Lex she had never met his father. (Visage)
  
  
• Lex received a photograph of Helen with Lionel, from a private detective he had hired to follow his father, which prompted Lex to do a background check on Helen, including accessing her bank accounts. (Visage)
  
  
• Lex was furious at Helen's apparent betrayal, and was concerned that Helen had given Lionel inside information about LexCorp. (Visage)
  
  
• Lionel Luthor offered to pay Dr. Bryce $100,000 to stop dating Lex. When she refused and told him to go to hell, Lionel wired the funds into her account anyway. (Visage)
  
  
• Lex sent several LexCorp employees suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder to a specialist in Metropolis. (Visage)
  
  
• Helen was going to tell Lex about his father's attempt to break them up, when Lex accused her of working for Lionel. (Visage)
  
  
• Helen admitted to Lex that she had fallen for him. However, his accusations showed her that she never knew the real him. (Visage)
  
  
• From the time Lex was born, he was raised in an environment of suspicion and distrust. His father taught me to regard everyone as an adversary no matter who they are. When his mother died, he began to build a wall around my heart. Every year that wall grew taller and more fortified until eventually it became impenetrable. Lex wants to tear the wall down, but hasn't the slightest clue how to do it. (Visage)
  
  
• Helen forgave Lex, and is giving him another chance. (Visage)
  
  
• Lex discovered that his father planted surveillance equipment all over the mansion, which enabled Lionel to underbid him on a 150-million dollar contract. (Insurgence)
  
  
• Deciding to fight fire with fire, Lex hired a team to bug Lionel's office in Metropolis. However, when members of the team killed the leader and took Lionel and Martha Kent hostage, Lex attempted to regain control of the situation himself. (Insurgence)
  
  
• When Jonathan Kent overheads Lex on his cellphone to the kidnappers, he tells Lex that "if I find out you had anything to do with what's going on out there, you will pray to God that you never set foot in Smallville." (Suspect)
  
  
• Lionel beat Lex out of a $150 million contract Lex's lawyers had assured him was a done deal, by installing state of the art in high-tech surveillance cameras and microphones all over the mansion. (Insurgence)
  
  
• Lex told Clark he was preserving the caves because "I like a good mystery." (Rush)
  
  
• Lex offers Dr. Frederick Walden his weekly rate for a 10-minute consultation regarding the Kawatche caves, in the hopes Walden will take on the caves.(Rush)
  
  
• Walden told Lex he was leaving for Chile, and would not be available until the following year. However, once he saw photographs of the cave paintings, changed his mind. (Rush)
  
  
• When Walden found a nest of the alien parasites in the walls of the Kawatche caves, Lex had one of the live specimens sent to Cadmus Labs in Metropolis to be analysed. (Rush)
  
  
• Under the influence of the alien parasite, Chloe told Lex "You know, I always wondered. For a boy who has all the money in the world, you'd think he could afford a good toupé."(Rush)
  
  
• Lex ordered Walden to give Clark unfettered access to the cave. (Rush)
  
  
• Wagered all of his assets as collateral when he took out the loans to form LexCorp. (Prodigal)
  
  
• Family had a ranch in Montana, he used to spend summers there with his mother, working alongside the ranch hands. It was the only time he felt normal. (Prodigal)
  
  
• Jonathan Kent gave Lex the crappiest farm jobs he could think of, but Lex gained Jonathan's respect when he never complained once. Jonathan told Lex that he was welcome in their home any time. (Prodigal)
  
  
• Lex paid a Dr. Trenton to slip him Martha Kent's medical file. (Fever)
  
  
• Lex asked Helen to move in because while he would never want to stand in the way of her ambitions, he would be the one missing an opportunity if he didn't tell her how much he wanted her to stay. (Fever)
  
  
• Finds out about Walden trying to remove parts of the cave when the State Preservation Society threatens to revoke LexCorp's custodial management of the site. (Rosetta)
  
  
• Photos of Helen with the headline "Gold-Digging Doc Bags Bald Billionaire" ran in The Inquisitor, and Lex bought up every copy in Smallville so that Helen wouldn't see it.(Visitor)
  
  
• Lex offered to board Tyson in the mansion stables free of charge, but Lana turned him down. Lex assumed she was holding out for "the right offer." (Visitor)
  
  
• Lex has a walk-in closet across the hall from the master bedroom. (Visitor)
  
  
• When Helen finds a locked room in the mansion her key won't open, she tells Lex that he needs to figure out what kind of a relationship he wants, "because if this is gonna work, there can't be any locked doors between us."(Visitor)
  
  
• The locked room in the mansion houses Lex's "obsession": computer screens with a rotating CGI image of Clark's octagonal disk, the wall paintings from the underground cave, Nixon's computer simulation of Lex's car hitting Clark on the bridge, a large picture of Clark's face, an enlarged copy of Clark's family tree that he filled in with Kryptonian symbols. (Visitor)
  
  
• Lana asked Lex to teach her to fight. (Precipice)
  
  
• Lex was bullied for years in prep school until he convinced his father's chauffeur, an ex-Navy S.E.A.L., to teach him to fight. (Precipice)
  
  
• Can access LoJack records. (Precipice)
  
  
• Lionel tells Lex was hurt that he had to learn of Lex and Helen's pending nuptials via the gossip pages of The Inquisitor. (Witness)
  
  
• Lost the contract for the Kawatche caves after the governor learned of several accidents and deaths that occurred during Lex's conservatorship. (Accelerate)
  
  
• Despite the fact that Gabe runs LexCorp Plant #1, Chloe and her father was not invited to Lex's rehearsal dinner. (Calling)
  
  
• Helen tells Lionel she is marrying Lex because she loves him. (Calling)
  
  
• While searching for the vial of blood, Helen finds the file on Martha Kent which Lex paid to have smuggled out of the medical centre. (Calling)
  
  
• Lex filed a restraining order to keep Lionel out of the Kawatche caves, however the request for the order was rejected. (Calling)
  
  
• After Dr. Walden tells Lionel and Lex that Clark is "the last son" Lionel quoted one of his favourite Elizabethan poets: "'Twixt truth and madness lies but a sliver of a stream." (Calling)
  
  
• Lex tells Helen that they are gonna spend their lives together, they need to be completely honest with each other. (Calling)
  
  
• Lex denies having Helen's office ransacked, and the vial of blood stolen. (Calling)
  
  
• Jonathan's father, Hiram Kent, gave him a compass on his wedding day so he "wouldn't get lost going down the aisle." Jonathan gave the compass to Lex as a wedding gift. (Exodus)
  
  
• Helen and Lex wed, and leave on the LuthorCorp jet for their honeymoon. However, when Lex awakens from being drugged, he finds Helen and the pilots have disappeared and the plane is going down. (Calling)
  
  

unverified facts

• Lex graduated summa cum laude with a BS in biochemical engineering from Princeton and is on hiatus from his graduate work at Yale. (LuthorCorp Website)
  
  
• Lex's mother passed away when he was 13. (Smallville Torch)
  
  
• Lex spent semesters in Gastaad, Vienna, Paris, eventually graduating from Oxford. (Smallville Torch)
  
  
• Lex can say "vodka gimlet" in six languages. (Smallville Torch)
  
  
• Lex Luthor does not support underage drinking. (Smallville Torch)
  
  
• The email which Lex was reading on his laptop in Tempest was from Gabe Sullivan (LuthorCorp)
  
  

Clark | Lex | Lana | Chloe | Pete | Martha | Jonathan | Lionel
Gabe | Dominic | Henry | Jennifer | Helen | Sheriff Adams
Dr. Swann | Jor-El | Departed | Misc.