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Fictional character biography

Crisis on Infinite Earths

Main article: Crisis on Infinite Earths

Alexander Luthor, Jr. was born on Earth-Three, the son of that world's Lex Luthor, who was known as "Alexander Luthor", and Lois Lane-Luthor. The senior Alexander Luthor is Earth-Three's only hero, fighting the Crime Syndicate, an evil version of the Justice League of America. In the 1985, DC Comics' 12-issue limited series Crisis on Infinite Earths, a being known as the Anti-Monitor destroyed innumerable universes, including Earth-Three, with an anti-matter wave. To save their son, the Luthors placed him in an experimental device that carried the infant to the relative safety of Earth-One. Crisis on Infinite Earths was a 12-issue comic book limited series (identified as a 12 part maxi-series) and crossover event, produced by DC Comics in 1985 in order to simplify their fifty-year-old continuity. ... The Earths of the Multiverse. ... Alexander Joseph Lex Luthor is a fictional character, a DC Comics supervillain and Supermans nemesis. ... Lois Joanne Lane is a fictional comic book character who appears in DC Comics’ Superman stories. ... The Crime Syndicate of America is a fictional team of supervillains from one of DC Comics parallel universes, and are the evil counterparts of the Justice League of America. ... The Justice League is a DC Comics superhero team. ... The limited series is a term referring to a comic book series with a set finite number of issues. ... The Anti-Monitor is the supervillain of the DC Comics mini-series Crisis on Infinite Earths. ... Antimatter is matter that is composed of the antiparticles of those that constitute normal matter. ...

The survivors of the Crisis are about to enter into the paradise dimension. Cover to Adventures of Superman #649 (2006). Art by Ivan Reis.

Alexander materialized on the abandoned satellite which was formerly the headquarters of the Justice League. Harbinger took him in at the request of the Monitor. His passage through the anti-matter storm granted him power over both matter and anti-matter, although the exposure also dramatically accelerated his aging process. By the conclusion of Crisis, Luthor is a young adult, despite the passage of only a few weeks. After the Monitor's death, Alexander helped lead the heroes and villains of the DC Universe against the Anti-Monitor. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (600x911, 174 KB) Summary Cover to Adventures of Superman #649 (2006). ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (600x911, 174 KB) Summary Cover to Adventures of Superman #649 (2006). ... The death of Superman and its aftermath ran through a number of issues of the Superman comics in 1992-93. ... Ivan Reis (real name Rodrigo Ivan dos Reis ), born 1976 in São Paulo, is a Brazilian comic book artist. ... Harbinger is a DC Comics character created in the early 1980s. ... The Monitor was a character created by comic book writer Marv Wolfman and comics artist George Pérez as one of the main characters of DC Comics Crisis on Infinite Earths limited series. ... Cover to the History of the DC Universe trade paperback. ...

After defeating the Anti-Monitor with the help of Kal-L, the Earth-Two Superman, and the Earth-Prime Superboy, Alexander reveals that he has saved Kal-L's wife, the Earth-Two Lois Lane from being erased from existence when the multiverse was destroyed. The foursome, no longer having a place in the new Post-Crisis universe, retreat to a "paradise dimension", Alexander accessed using the last of his dimensional powers. Kal-L is the Kryptonian birth name of the Earth-Two Superman, one of the most iconic comic book superheroes in the DC Comics Universe. ... Superman is a fictional character and one of the most famous and popular comic book superheroes of all time. ... Superboy-Prime is a fictional superhero turned supervillain in the DC Universe. ... Lois Joanne Lane is a fictional comic book character who appears in DC Comics’ Superman stories. ... The Earths of the Multiverse. ...

Escape from "Heaven"

Infinite Crisis Secret Files reveals how the four survivors have spent the years since the Crisis. The survivors have power over the dimension, and it reacts to their thoughts and emotions. Alexander, who has rapidly aged to his mid-30s and growing frustrated, becomes colder and detached from the well-being of the universe's living beings. Superboy-Prime becomes frustrated as well, and Alexander uses this opportunity to convince him to help fix reality, playing on his anger and only showing him the negatives of the new reality to convince him that it is inferior (for example, Superboy-Prime appears unaware that Hal Jordan and Parallax are two separate entities). Superboy-Prime is a fictional superhero turned supervillain in the DC Universe. ... Hal Jordan is a DC Comics superhero, the Silver Age Green Lantern, and arguably the most famous hero to bear that name. ... Parallax is a fictional comic book villain from DC Comics. ...

Reality Ripples

Furiously trying to escape, Superboy-Prime pounds on the barrier wall of the paradise dimension but is unsuccessful. This assault on the universe causes "ripples" that alter reality, explaining in-story the real-life changes and retcons in DC continuity for the past 20 years. Retroactive continuity – commonly contracted to the portmanteau word retcon – refers to the act of changing previously established details of a fictional setting, often without providing an explanation for the changes within the context of that setting. ... In fiction, continuity is consistency of the characteristics of persons, objects, places and events seen by the reader or viewer. ...

Main article: Continuity changes during Infinite Crisis

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Countdown to Infinite Crisis

Superboy-Prime's efforts frustrate him; he is not as powerful in the post-Crisis dimension because it has no yellow sun. Eventually, Alexander reveals that his own powers are returning, and the two combine forces to break through the barrier wall. Together, they set into motion the events that culminated into Infinite Crisis:

• Superboy-Prime pushes the planet Rann into Thanagar's orbit, destroying Thanagar's ecosystem, sparking the Rann-Thanagar War, and shifting the center of the universe away from Oa.
• Alexander poses as Lex Luthor and starts the new Society of Super-Villains.
• Alexander recruits the Psycho-Pirate to place Eclipso's Black Diamond in Jean Loring's Arkham Asylum cell. Loring as Eclipso then seduces the Spectre into destroying all magic.
• Superboy-Prime destroys the JLA Watchtower and abducts Martian Manhunter.
• Alex takes control of Brother Eye from Batman, which gives him control over the OMACs, as well as Checkmate's files on Earth's meta-humans.

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Infinite Crisis

Main article: Infinite Crisis

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Countdown

Alexander watches the events happening in the post-Crisis Earth for several years with his companions, and he eventually convinces a pessimistic Kal-L to break the walls of their paradise to intervene in the post-Crisis Earth. Alexander tells Kal-L and his cousin Power Girl that they can help him bring aspects of Earth-Two into predominance over the merged universes (as Earth-One had become predominant Post-Crisis), which will help Earth-Two's Lois Lane recover from her current illness. The Earths of the Multiverse. ... The Earths of the Multiverse. ...

Alexander Luthor is confronted by Lex Luthor. Art by Phil Jimenez.

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"I'm you. Only better."

Lex Luthor does everything in his power to find his impersonator. Taking the identity Mockingbird, he organizes the Secret Six. He spies on all of Alexander's transmissions for months and finally confronts him in the Arctic. When Lex asks who he is, Alexander replies, "I'm you. Only better." Lex escapes by teleporting away. Mockingbird is the code name of several characters in the DC Comics Universe, denoting whoever is in charge of the Secret Six. ... Secret Six is the name of three distinct DC Comics fictional teams (plus a noncanonical fourth team). ...

Not only is Alexander masquerading as Lex Luthor, he is also using the Society to construct a massive dimensional "tuning fork" - like those in the original Crisis - that incorporates heroes and villains from the Earths that had combined to form the post-Crisis Earth, as well as the remains of the Anti-Monitor.

Tower

The Anti-Monitor's corpse is turned into a tower. From Infinite Crisis #3 (2006). Art by Phil Jimenez.

The device requires a vast power source to operate, which Alexander generates by manipulating the Spectre into destroying magic (as seen in Day of Vengeance). The result is a raw form of magic that the device can tap into. Alexander programs the tower by granting sentience to the Brother Eye satellite, allowing the system to evolve into a brain capable of directing the tower's energies. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (951x1664, 620 KB) Summary From Infinite Crisis #3. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (951x1664, 620 KB) Summary From Infinite Crisis #3. ... Day of Vengeance #1; cover by Walter Simonson. ... OMACs are an organization of powerful cyborgs that exist in the DC Universe. ...

Using the device, Alexander is able to divide the universe, re-creating the multiverse. Alexander appears to be successful in recreating Earth-Two (or a close facsimile); however, he notes that objective is not his ultimate one, which is to gather elements from every Earth to create one single, perfect Earth. With the parallel Earths restored, Alexander combines various Earths. At the center of the universe, Donna Troy and her team see gigantic representations of Alexander's hands creating a rip in space. The Earths of the Multiverse. ... Donna Troy is a superheroine in the DC Universe. ...

As Alexander attempts to combine Earth-Two and Earth-Three (an act that would have killed Superman and Wonder Woman), Firestorm converts all the energy the heroes are firing at the rip into raw positive matter, which destroys Alexander's right index finger. Immediately after, Nightwing, Wonder Girl and Superboy arrive at the tower and free the captives. Superboy-Prime enters the fray. His fight with Conner destroys the tower, and the multiple Earths collapse into a single "New Earth." Firestorm the Nuclear Man is a DC Comics superhero, created in 1978 by writer Gerry Conway and artist Allen Milgrom. ... Richard John Dick Grayson is a fictional superhero in the DC Comics Universe. ... Three of the Wonder Girls: Donna Troy, Wonder Woman, Cassandra Sandsmark, by Adam Hughes. ... Superboy (also known as Conner Kent or Kon-El) is a fictional superhero in the DC Comics Universe. ...

His plan foiled, Alexander decides that if he can not create a perfect Earth, then he will take this Earth by force and shape it as best he can. To that end, the Society gathers in Metropolis to decimate the remaining heroes, with Doomsday as their champion. The Battle of Metropolis is a fictional DC Comics event. ... Metropolis as depicted in the Superman Returns video game For other uses, see Metropolis (disambiguation). ... Doomsday is the name of a fictional character in the DC Comics Universe, a supervillain best known for fighting and killing Superman in the Death of Superman storyline in 1993. ...

Death

Alexander Luthor, Jr. is killed by the Joker as Lex Luthor watches on, in art from Infinite Crisis #7, by Phil Jimenez.

After losing the battle, Alexander is nearly shot by Batman for severely injuring Nightwing and causing the death of Superboy. However, Wonder Woman stops him, telling Batman that Alex isn't worth it, and Alex flees, proclaiming that this doesn't mean that Wonder Woman is 'better'. Image File history File links Alexdeath. ... Image File history File links Alexdeath. ... Richard John Dick Grayson is a fictional superhero in the DC Comics Universe. ... Wonder Woman is a fictional DC Comics superheroine co-created by William Moulton Marston and wife Elizabeth Holloway Marston. ...

Hiding in an alley in Gotham City and making new plans, he is found by Lex Luthor and the Joker. The Joker mutilates Alex with his acid-flower, while Lex taunts his enemy for his various mistakes, including underestimating him and excluding the Joker from the Society (the Joker was the only villain not offered to join the Society, due to his highly unpredictable nature). The Joker then shoots and kills Alexander while Lex mockingly asks, "Now who's stupid?". Gotham Citys skyline, as it appears in the 1989 Batman movie. ... Alexander Joseph Lex Luthor is a fictional character, a DC Comics supervillain and Supermans nemesis. ... The Joker is a fictional character, a DC Comics supervillain widely considered to be Batmans archenemy. ...

In 52 Week Three, the Gotham City Police Department find a body in an alley that looks like Lex Luthor. John Henry Irons examines the body at S.T.A.R. Labs and notices that contact lenses were inserted post-mortem to make the blue eyes appear green, like Lex's. Lex Luthor barges in with a throng of reporters, claiming that the body is that of an impostor from another Earth, the man truly responsible for his various crimes. 52 is the title of a comic book limited series published by DC Comics, which debuted on May 10, 2006, one week after the conclusion of the seven-issue Infinite Crisis. ... The Gotham City Police Department (GCPD) is a fictional police department servicing the city of Gotham City in the DC Universe. ... John Henry Irons is the third hero known as Steel, a fictional superhero in the DC Universe. ... Star Labs facility circa 1985, DC Comics This article is about the fictional organization in DC Comics. ...

Though Alexander's body had a missing finger and a different genetic make-up from Lex's, 52 editor Stephen Wacker has confirmed that the body found in Gotham is indeed Alex, and that Luthor had altered it before the police had discovered it. [1]

Powers and abilities

Alexander's greatest talent is his genius-level intellect, which he uses to manipulate other characters, to outwit his enemies, and to engineer the Multiverse Tower. The circumstances of his escape from the doomed Earth-Three give him power over matter and anti-matter, which he can use offensively as bursts of energy or to form and control dimensional portals. However, it would appear that overuse of this power can weaken him, as, following his attempt to create the 'perfect' Earth, his powers are depleted after he tries to attack Nightwing, to the extent that he is nearly shot by Batman and is killed by the Joker.

Marv Wolfman on Luthor's role in Infinite Crisis

In a Newsarama interview with Wolfman about writing Infinite Crisis Secret Files, Wolfman says, "At first I hated seeing [Alexander] as a villain, but then when I realized here was a guy who had no life and, at less than a week old, had to grow up suddenly and, save the universe, then go into permanent exile. He was never given a chance to have a childhood. He went from newborn to adult in a few hours and he had people deciding everything for him. It was that breakthrough that made it possible in my mind to see how never having had a life could slowly alter his mind. It made psychological sense which lets me write him with real conviction."

In other media

In an episode of the TV Series Smallville, Lex is near death and is experiencing a dream where he and Lana Lang are married and have two children, Alexander Jr. and Lily. Also, recently in the show it's revealed that Lana is pregnant with Lex's child, so it's possible that Alexander may appear. [2] Smallville is a fictional town in the United States which Superboy protects and where most of his crime-fighting adventures take place. ...

See also

• Kal-L
• Superboy-Prime
• Crisis on Infinite Earths
• Infinite Crisis