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Lena Luthor is Lex Luthor's paraplegic sister.
History
Origins
When Lex Luthor was seventeen years old, his sister grew ill. Though he hoped he could save her, his attempt failed, consigning her to a wheelchair for life which made her even more vulnerable to their father's abuse. Rather than face his failure, he told others that she was dead, and that he had been too afraid to fail in an attempt to save her.[2]
Lena went to live with their aunt Lillian who encouraged her interest in science and later attended college.[3]
The Amazo Virus
Lena Luthor
When she started to make notable advances in bio-evolutionary studies Lex reached out to her and invited her to Metropolis to live and work with him, which she accepted. She then helped Lex perfect some of his greatest creations: his Warsuit, the B-Zero cloning technology and the Amazo Virus. Lex however took credit for most of her discoveries, thinking that he was protecting her, which caused her to grow resentful toward him.[3]
She was introduced to Bruce Wayne there after her brother became a member of the Justice League. After joining that team, Luthor claimed to Wayne that he planned to cure his sister, a change from his previous behavior of leaving her alone to ignore his failure. When Neutron attacked LexCorp, an explosion rocked the interior of the headquarters, and Lena was caught in the blast. Though she was knocked unconscious, Lena survived and her brother told Wayne to get her to safety.[4] Twenty-four hours after the outbreak of the Amazo Virus as an unintended result of Neutron's attack, Captain Cold had gotten Lena, apparently not infected, to safety from the outbreak.[5]
Darkseid War
During the start of the Darkseid War, while presumably being controlled by Apokolips' forces, Lena shot her brother and used a Mother Box to send Lex and Superman to Apokolips.[6] After that, she went into a coma. Lex unsuccessfully tried to wake Lena up using his own Mother Box.[7]
Ultrawoman
Lex, having become desperate, tried to use Doctor Omen's Super-Man technology to cure her and give her the superpowers who he thought she deserved. The experiment was a failure and instead of giving her Kryptonian powers it enhanced her intelligence but left her completely paralized. Unknown to Lex Lena had created numerous hybrid clones of her and Superwoman who helped her plan her revenge on her brother.[8]
Lena then started a systematic attack on Metropolis to destroy all of his brother's legacy. She deactivated her brother's armor and tried to crash his battle cruiser on Metropolis Bay but was stopped by the two Superwomen. Also, during the battle Bizarress accidentally killed Lois Lane. Lena then sent one of her clones to kidnap her brother and revealed herself to him.[9]
She paralized her brother with her Mother Box and revealed to him that his experimens were the cause for her condition before merging with one the Warsuits and announcing herself as Ultrawoman, Lex offered to help her get free of the Mother Box's influence but Lena refused and left[8] to steal her brother's battle cruiser and turn it into a flying base.[10]
Lena then sent a message to the world in which she said that resisting her was useless and sent her clones to destroy Lex's assets while she used tesseract technology to kidnap Guardian and anyone who piqued her scientific curiosity before telling her clones to bring her Superwoman. While punishing Bizarress for talking to Atomic Skull her power cell failed and needed help.[11]
Unknown to her Bizarress decided to betray her and killed one of the other clones and joined forces with Superwoman.[3] Together they launched an attack on her fortress while Traci Thirteen used her magic to free the city. While it initially appeared that Ultrawoman was about to win Lana distracted her by telling her that she had become exactly the worst that people thought about her before being attacked by Bizarress. Lana then unleashed her full power on Ultrawoman and defeated her.[12]
Lena was then taken back to the lab under LexCorp where Lex promised to find a way to help her before imprisoning her.[13]
In the aftermath of her attack the property damage cost was calculated to be around 1.8 billion dollars with 178 reported casualties.[14]
Powers and Abilities
Powers
- Enhanced Intellect: When Lex tried to cure his sister by using the technology used to create Super-Man it had the unintended consequence of enhancing her already gifted intellect to superhuman levels but caused her body to become inert.[8]
- Psychic Link: Her brain has fused with her Mother Box, giving her access to all of its powers.[11]
- Cybernetic Enhancement: Lena used her Mother Box to merge with one of her brother's armors.[8] Her body is now composed by her original head mounted on a mechanical bioform[11] that contains part of her skeleton with her lungs and heart.[13]
- Superhuman Durability: Lena's cybernetic body can survive great impacts without suffering injury.[12]
- Energy Resistance: Lena could take a blast of heat vision from Bizarress and suffer no injury.[12]
- Superhuman Strength: Lena's cybernetically enhanced strength allowed her to easily overpower and throw away Bizarress.[12]
- Telekinesis: Lena could lift a battle cruiser and reassemble it in a flying fortress.[10]
- Superhuman Durability: Lena's cybernetic body can survive great impacts without suffering injury.[12]
Abilities
- Genius Level Intellect: Lena displayed great intelligence since childhood, her brother considered her intelligence equal if not greater than his.[3]
- Genetics: Lena helped her brother perfect the B-Zero clone technology[3] and was able to splice her DNA with that of Superwoman to create an army of clones.[8]
- Mechanical Engineering: Lena helped her brother design his warsuit.[3]
- Science: Lena helped Lex design the Amazo Virus.[3]
Other Characteristics
- Illness (Formerly): When her brother Lex was seventeen years old, Lena contracted an unspecified illness. Lex's attempts to cure the illness by himself left Lena confined to a wheelchair. Lena was apparently cured of her condition, possibly by one of his brother's experiments, and is now completely healthy.[8]
- Restricted Mobility (Formerly): Lena was restricted to a wheelchair.
- Technological Reliability: Lena's new bioform needs great power to function and is powered by power cells that eventually burn out and need to be replaced.[11]
Paraphernalia
Equipment
- Mother Box
- Mechanokinesis: Lena used her Mother Box to control his brother's armor and use it to cripple him.[8]
- Warsuit
- Wheelchair (Formerly)
Weapons
- Hand Gun
Notes
- Lena Luthor was created by Jerry Siegel and Kurt Schaffenberger, first appearing in Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #23. However, in the Prime Earth continuity, Lena Luthor first appeared as part of the New 52 DC Universe in Justice League (Volume 2) #35 by Geoff Johns and Ivan Reis.
Related
- 17 Appearances of Lena Luthor (Prime Earth)
- 9 Images featuring Lena Luthor (Prime Earth)
- 1 Quotations by or about Lena Luthor (Prime Earth)
- Character Gallery: Lena Luthor (Prime Earth)
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (Volume 2) #12
- ↑ Forever Evil #4
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Superwoman #6
- ↑ Justice League (Volume 2) #35
- ↑ Justice League (Volume 2) #36
- ↑ Justice League (Volume 2) #41
- ↑ Justice League (Volume 2) #52
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 Superwoman #3
- ↑ Superwoman #2
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Superwoman #4
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 Superwoman #5
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 Superwoman #7
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Superwoman #8
- ↑ Steelworks #1
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