LIONEL LUTHOR
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• Came to Smallville in 1989 to purchase the creamed corn factory opposite Reilly Field from the Ross family (Premiere, Nicodemus)
  
  
• Brought his nine year old son Alexander with him, because his wife Lillian wanted him to spend more time with the boy (Premiere, Craving)
  
  
• Purchased a great deal of land in and around Smallville from Nell Potter (Premiere)
  
  
• Promised to cut Mr. Bell and Mr. Guy in on a deal and sent them flashy gifts. However, once they sold him their property, he went back on his word and had them evicted. (Premiere)
  
  
• When Lex was nine years old, Lionel gave him a scale model of the siege of Troy, to teach his son strategy. (Metamorphosis)
  
  
• Built LuthorCorp Fertilizer Plant #3 opposite Reilly Field (Premiere)
  
  
• His wife Lillian was on a heart medication called Amlodipine before her surgery (Shimmer)
  
  
• Knew Jonathan Kent prior to Earl Jenkins taking Gabe Sullivan and a group of Smallville High School students hostage (Jitters)
  
  
• Lex's 'wounded pride' routine does not work for him the way it worked for Lex's mother (Hothead)
  
  
• Had the Luthor family home shipped stone by stone from Scotland to Smallville, but never set foot through the door until he exiled Lex to Smallville (Premiere)
  
  
• Is an excellent fencer (Hothead)
  
  
• Has published books on tape (Hothead)
  
  
• Lionel equates business with war, and sees himself as the leader of an empire akin to Caesar (Hothead)
  
  
• Does not tell his son he loves him, but assumes Lex knows how he feels about him (Hothead)
  
  
• When Lana Lang was 10 years old, she and her aunt, Nell Potter went to Metropolis for a riding competition and Lionel invited Nell and Lana to spend the night. (Metamorphosis)
  
  
• Slept with Victoria Hardwick after Lex's manoeuvring of the Hardwicks made their company vulnerable to a hostile take-over. (Leech)
  
  
• In approximately 1991, his wife became pregnant with their second child, a son they named Julian. 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)
  
  
• 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)
  
  
• Lionel's wife and Lex's mother was named Lillian, and is buried in Metropolis. She was born in 1951 and died in 1993. (Crush)
  
  
• After his wife's death, Lionel Luthor forced Pamela Jenkins to leave, threatening to disinherit Lex if Pamela ever had any contact with him again. (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)
  
  
• Despite the Smallville plant turning a profit in the first quarter of 2002, Lionel closed the Plant, citing management's failures. (Tempest)
  
  
• When he discovered his son 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)
  
  
• Lionel suffered a ruptured spleen, spinal cord and optic nerve damage during the tornado. While the damage to his spine is recoverable, he is blind and told Lex that the damage is permanent, and that his son should have let him die. (Vortex)
  
  
• Lionel threatened to disinherit Lex if he did not sign a prenuptial agreement before wedding Desiree Atkins (Heat)
  
  
• Has been undergoing therapy in Metropolis under the care of a Dr. Rawlings (Duplicity)
  
  
• Went AWOL from therapy, and told Lex that he was in Smallville under doctor's orders because he was sick of being treated like an object, poked and prodded by physical therapists and treated like an invalid (Duplicity)
  
  
• Was told by his Braille instructor that "One day all this will feel natural." (Duplicity)
  
  
• Was approached by an unstable Dr. Hamilton, who took him to his barn and "showed" him the spacecraft (Duplicity)
  
  
• Lex caught him reading some of Hamilton's research (Duplicity)
  
  
• Lionel knows that Lex had the octagonal disc (Duplicity)
  
  
• Took Lex to the barn, but both the ship and the doctor had disappeared (Duplicity)
  
  
• Has decided to move to Smallville to spend "quality time" with his only son. (Duplicity)
  
  
• Lionel's favourite brandy is [Mauleon d'] Armagnac 1963 (Red)
  
  
• In the months after the meteor shower, Lionel gave Lex some excellent advice on how to deal with the way people looked at him, which was to stop feeling sorry for himself. These were the cards fate had dealt him, and it was best that Lex accept it and move on. (Red)
  
  
• Lionel's previous executive assistant was an Ivy League graduate with a grasp of the obvious named Tad. (Nocturne)
  
  
• In one month, Lionel had "devoured" four executive assistants. (Nocturne)
  
  
• By claiming the plummeting price of LuthorCorp stock is due to that quarter's anticipated deficit, Lionel is attempting to make investors nervous so that when LuthorCorp posts "less than impressive" gains, LuthorCorp stock will already have adjusted. (Nocturne)
  
  
• Lionel plays classical piano. (Nocturne)
  
  
• Lionel finds Chopin sometimes lacks subtlety. (Nocturne)
  
  
• Lionel is very impressed with his new executive assistant, Martha Kent, telling Lex that unshakeable honesty like hers is hard to come by. (Nocturne)
  
  
• Despite repeatedly telling her that LuthorCorp is not in the charity business, Martha Kent convinced Lionel Luthor to pay for medical research to cure Byron Moore, stating that it would be more financially sound than spending more money on advertising to to restore consumer confidence in LuthorCorp after the closing of subsidiary Metron Pharmaceuticals. (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)
  
  
• Lionel had an extra-marital affair with Rachel Dunlevy, one of his wife Lillian's nurses, which resulted in a son. (Lineage)
  
  
• Lionel had no idea Rachel was pregnant. She appeared one day with the child, whom she had named Lucas, demanding Lionel leave Lillian and marry her. (Lineage)
  
  
• Lionel bribed Rachel, and forced her to give Lucas up for adoption. (Lineage)
  
  
• Part of Lionel and Rachel's arrangement was that she never approach him again. (Lineage)
  
  
• After the meteor shower, Jonathan and Martha passed Reilly Field, where they were flagged down by a shocky and terrified Lionel Luthor, whose son Lex was unconscious in the field following exposure to a meteor blast. Jonathan and Martha rushed Lex to the hospital, saving his life. (Lineage)
  
  
• In gratitude, Lionel told Jonathan that if he ever needed anything, to contact him. (Lineage)
  
  
• Jonathan went to Lionel Luthor and called in their favour, to get Lionel to help them create an iron-clad cover story about Clark's adoption. (Lineage)
  
  
• When the Ross family had second thoughts about selling to an outsider, Lionel blackmailed Jonathan Kent into helping to change their mind. (Lineage)
  
  
• Lionel Luthor does not negotiate with kidnappers or terrorists. (Lineage)
  
  
• After Rachel was committed to a private psychiatric clinic, Lionel was drinking scotch and listening to Un bel di from Madama Butterfly. (Lineage)
  
  
• Lionel told Lex that he had Lucas placed with a fine family, and that Lucas died before his first birthday. (Lineage)
  
  
• Lionel keeps a lock of hair and a photograph of himself and a boy (presumed to be Lucas) of approximately 10 years of age in a pocketwatch. (Lineage)
  
  
• Lionel and Martha Kent were in a closed door teleconference between Lionel and the LuthorCorp board, which made Martha late returning to the farm. (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)
  
  
• Lionel questioned building the LuthorCorp office park in Smallville rather than Grandville, despite the fact that Smallville needs the jobs that the office park would have generated. (Skinwalkers)
  
  
• Martha Kent had flowers sent to Dan Hammond's family from Lionel and arranged for him to do a condolence call two days after his death. (Skinwalkers)
  
  
• There are times when Lionel is with Martha Kent, that he'd swear he was talking to his late wife Lillian. Lillian was a lot like Martha. They shared the same unflinching honesty. He misses that. (Skinwalkers)
  
  
• Lionel was attacked in the mansion by a white wolf, who scratched his right cheek. He was rescued by the arrival of Clark Kent with the police. (Skinwalkers)
  
  
• Lionel is indebted to Clark for his courage. He thought Martha had had a talk with Clark regarding his involvement in the "save the cave" business. When she told him that she had, and that she agreed with him, he asked her if it was worth losing her job. (Skinwalkers)
  
  
• In light of the petition drive to "Save The Cave" lead by Lana Lang and Henry Small, the state has decided to exercise the Historic Artefacts Amendment, and buy LuthorCorp out at 30 cents on the dollar. (Skinwalkers)
  
  
• 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)
  
  
• When Lionel learned that Martha and Jonathan planned to celebrate their wedding anniversary, he told Martha that LuthorCorp was finalising a major acquisition the next day and he needed het to go with him to his Metropolis office to prepare.
• When Lionel promoted Martha, and gave her an office in the LuthorCorp headquarters in Metropolis, he presented her with a gold and diamond dress watch engraved with the words "To Martha, with deep affection, L.L." (Insurgence)
  
  
• Lionel Luthor has a cache of refined kryptonite in his vault in the LuthorCorp headquarters building in Metropolis, along with files on Clark Kent and his family. (Insurgence)
  
  
• In Lionel's office is a private elevator which goes down to a tunnel that leads to a garage three blocks away. (Insurgence)
  
  
• One of his assistants got a restraining order against Jonathan. (Suspect)
  
  
• Shot twice in the chest by Sheriff Ethan. (Suspect)
  
  
• Made promises to Dominic about his place in LuthorCorp. (Suspect)
  
  
• Bribed Ethan to get confidential police information on various members of LexCorp's board so he could leverage them into selling their shares. (Suspect)
  
  
• Has a passion for Asian weaponry (Prodigal)
  
  
• Set up a living trust for his heirs would automatically get 10% of his LuthorCorp shares (Prodigal)
  
  
• Has a secretary named Selma (Prodigal)
  
  
• Sold the ranch in Montana after Lillian died (Prodigal)
  
  
• Offered Lucas 10 million dollars to help ruin Lex, and then leave (Prodigal)
  
  
• Didn't try to find Lucas until he was 12 (Prodigal)
  
  
• Created new records at Metropolis United Charities so Lex could find Lucas (Prodigal)
  
  
• Hired Dirk Lee to set Lucas up in Edge City (Prodigal)
  
  
• Pretended to be blind for "a few weeks" before anyone discovered he could see (Prodigal)
• LuthorCorp stock jumped 5 points with the announcement of his recovery (Prodigal)
• One of Lionel's associates, Dopkins, has a fetish for antique clocks (Prodigal)
  
  
• 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)
  
  
• When Chloe went to interview LuthorCorp driver John O'Conner in the Smallville Medical Centre, she found him unconscious--and Lionel Luthor in his room. (Witness)
  
  
• Lionel tells Chloe that he has been been following Chloe's work at the Torch for quite some time. (Witness)
  
  
• Following meeting Chloe at the medical centre, Lionel had The Torch office vandalised in an effort to either deter Chloe's investigation, or get her on "his" side, by swooping in with an offer from the LuthorCorp Foundation to make a donation to the school, with the funds specifically earmarked toward rebuilding and updating the journalism department, and a tantalising offer of a column in the Daily Planet. (Witness)
  
  
• Although Lionel made sure Eric Marsh was blamed for the Torch's destruction, Chloe knows that Marsh denied having anything to do with it. (Witness)
  
  
• Claims he only offered Helen $100,000 to leave Lex as a test. (Accelerate)
  
  
• Gives Lex and Helen a Caribbean honeymoon on a private island as a wedding gift. (Accelerate)
  
  
• Has continued the LevelThree Project in a variety of underground labs, one of which currently houses the latest Emily Clone. (Accelerate)
  
  
• The remaining viable Emily Dinsmore clone named the rabbit Lionel gave her "Bunny-Buns." (Accelerate)
  
  
• Helen tells Lionel she is marrying Lex because she loves him. (Calling)
  
  
• Lionel catches Helen looking through Lex's office, searching for the vial of Clark's blood which was stolen from her office. (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)
  
  
• Lionel has some influence with the managing editor of The Daily Planet. (Calling)
  
  
• Lionel offers Chloe a weekly column in the Daily Planet on current affairs from the young person's perspective in return for a complete investigative profile of Clark Kent. (Calling)
  
  
• Chloe refuses Lionel's offer, and tells him he can "take the job offer and shove it down your thousand dollar pants." (Calling)
  
  
• Lionel has Dr. Walden's hand removed and sent to him so that he can create a duplicate "key." (Calling)
  
  
• Analysed the composition of the ship key before it was stolen (Insurgence,) and found that it was similar to the meteor rocks. (Exodus)
  
  
• Chloe meets with Lionel and tells him she has reconsidered his offer. (Exodus)
  
  

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