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I wanted a duplicate Superman. One with all his powers. All his memories. But one that worked for me! Not this bizarre... Ohh-H! Forget it!
Her vital signs are slipping. Breathing is shallow, pulse must be slowing. She's alive, but barely. If she doesn't get out of this device soon... she's going to die in it.
'Similar'?! You've been mocking me, right in front of my face, all these years, and you say--?! I now have the power to save him, do you realize that? I could go further back in time! But I'm not going to. I was happy to be rid of what I had for a father! But you... you got them! You're not human! You don't deserve to be Clark Kent! I'll punish you with every ounce of pain and humiliation and regret from an entire human lifetime. Don't you understand?! I'll never stop! What will it take to break you?! Why won't you break?!
Because as my father always said, in his drunken stupor and smug arrogance--vincere aut mori. Conquer or die.
So today, thanks to the audacious and uncompromising architectural vision of Miles Van Vliet... and the wisdom of planetary harmonics carried to us from the orient by Feng Shui master six true words... I, Lex Luthor do hereby give notice that I will build a monument befitting the indomitable human spirit... To serve as a lasting testament to the inherit greatness of mortal men and women. It will be a modern wonder to rival the pyramids... And it will stand here, in the very heart of the most magnificent city the world has ever known...
I want some glimmer of Christmas cheer.
I know! I'm shocked! Appalled! Gosh, if only Metropolis had a Superman who could stop this chaos!
Death by Kryptonite. I'll do it with irony. Then I will save the world from all its ailments. And humanity will embrace its true altruistic inspiration. Lex Luthor.
Metropolis and her people are mine -- and they'll live or die as I see fit!
I could not raze Metropolis! But I will do anything in my power to destroy you!
I'm the President of the United States, Superman. Of course "I knew."
Whisk fern tea helps me think. And I need to think.
This is war. And you should consider yorself drafted, Superman.
I'm not the one behind Ruin. In fact, I came here to do a little research on the person who is. See what they know at the Daily Planet. I used to know a reporter who could do that sort of research, but he was demoted. I wonder who made that happen?
There are few things in the universe that achieve perfection. The Phantom Zone is one of them. It rewrites the laws of thermodynamics with perfect penmanship...
You really need to stop straying so far from your little city, you know that?
Mercy. Ready to rebuild Gotham? Then let's get started.
Just what I need – another spandex-clad obsessive sticking his nose where it doesn't belong.
My name is Lex Luthor. And I'm going to be making some changes around here.
The No Man's Land is an embarrassment, a betrayal of the fundamental precepts of this country! To deny citizenship, existence, even, to our own people is criminal. LexCorp says enough is enough! We have committed ourselves to rebuilding Gotham City! Starting today...starting now.
Reeesults. Yes. So. Find me these super-purple-flower-women. One or both. And get them to the labs for examination and dissection. Yes?
All the good you have done, we will undo. All the lives you have saved, we will destroy. All that you stand for, we will mock and trample in the dirt. That's unless you want to try to stop us.
This isn't the end, Superman. I'll build another building. Do you hear me? On this very site. A building that everyone will know is mine. Whether on the ground or looking down from the air... they'll know that building... and the city it's in... belongs to Lex Luthor!
I see the end. The end of our potential. The end of our achievements. The end of our dreams. You are my nightmare
Always good to see you, Bruce.
This is why I'm President and you thick-necked, death-grip, macho gun nuts are paid to leap in front of me.
My... so many heroes. Look at all the pretty colors, son. Why don't you thin out the herd.
Does it bother you... bother you at all, really... that Batman likes Catwoman better? HAHAHAHAHAHA He'll never love you, sweetheart! You can keep screwing with his city, but he's never gonna take you to the prom!
Tsk, tsk, I sincerely hope it wasn't him.
I am the President of the United States. It's like the old saying... if you want someone killed right-- YOU HAVE TO DO IT YOURSELF!
There will be a reckoning... a crisis...
Last of your race. Which makes this genocide. I'm doing you a favor, Superman. It's agony to be alone in the world.
I'm never going to fit in here, am I?
All of Smallville does not exist as far as I'm concerned! You hear me? Nothing good will ever come out of this hick town but Lex Luthor! Nothing!
I'm the only sane inmate of Asylum Earth. I'm not eager to hand tomorrow over to an interplanetary extremist with laser eyes. There's only room on this world for one leader, Superman. When I'm finished with you, every last gibbon out there will know you for the menace you are... and they'll realize that Lex Luthor is their savior.
If you and your merry band of morons hadn't brought that infernal machine in here -- none of this would have happened!
I'll regain all the power that was mine, Vekko -- all of it! And nothing shall stand in my way... not physical infirmity... not the law...
My soul! What claptrap! I had never believed in religion as anything other than a tool to keep the rabble in line.
I am not broken! I am Lex Luthor and I will not be broken by a filthy -- alien.
Sasha Green?! First me, then Superman and now her? Doesn't anybody in Metropolis stay dead?
That's right... I just killed your girlfriend, Superman. What are you going to do about it?
I find myself in a difficult position... I'd like to kill you, but I have no desire to spend the rest of my life as a fish.
I'm Lex Luthor. I'm never finished. Oh, and Kent...I always knew you had a glass jaw.
It's ironic really. When Metallo was fully robotic, he wouldn't have felt this at all. Now that he's in a clone body though... It'll probably hurt like Hell!
He wouldn't dare die on me, Toyman. He wouldn't dare.
Today, Metropolis dies. And it was Krypton that built its doom.
I know that no man with the power of Superman would ever pretend to be a mere human! Such power is to be constantly exploited. Such power is to be used!
I wonder what my young friend Clark would think of me now... Flying a stolen Lear Jet across the Alaskan Tundra... so I could Kill the one man on earth that I hated more than the Alien... or so that he could kill me.
I knew I'd bury you one day, you sanctimonious self-righteous pain!
The sheep call him Superman. Man of Steel. Man of Tomorrow. If I have to be so fragile... to have no tomorrow of my own -- then I'll take his away as well!
You've made a mistake, Superman. A big mistake. A potentially fatal mistake. I run this town, Superman. Metropolis belongs to me. The people are mine, to nurture, or destroy, as I see fit. And they've forgotten that. They've looked at you, with your costume, and your flashy super-human powers... and they've forgotten who their master is. Who is number one! And I intend to remind them, Superman. I'm going to show them you're nothing, Superman. A card-board cut-out. One day, very soon now, you're going to die, Superman. You're going to be destroyed and you'll know who's doing it. Everyone in Metropolis will know. But no one will ever be able to prove it. I'll not be arrested, Superman. Not ever again. Remember, Superman. You're a dead man. It's just a question of how soon!
Not Human?? Are you telling me this self-proclaimed Champion of the Earth is -- an alien being??
I'm a respectable businessman -- I don't make deals with criminal madmen... but the way I see it, after tonight -- you owe me! Oh, and Joker -- I always collect my debts.
I don't want a repeat of this! I'll be damned if I'm going to be indebted to Superman!
With Superman gone, I am denied the satisfaction of humbling him. In a way, I will actually miss him... great men need great challenges... and he was my greatest!
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