Lex Luthor (Pocket Universe)

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Lex Luthor of the Pocket Universe with Matrix Supergirl and Kal-El of DC Primary Universe

Real Name: Lex Luthor
Some mistakenly think Lex's full name was "Alexander" akin to other interdimensional counterparts such as the Earth-Three Luthor but this is a mistake as his full name is simply Lex
Nicknames: None
Former Aliases: Defender of the Pocket Universe Earth
Other Current Aliases: None known

Status

Occupation: None
formerly Scientist; formerly de facto ruler of Pocket Universe Earth
Legal Status: Deceased
Lex Luthor was a citizen of the United States of the Pocket Universe Earth with no known criminal record
Identity: Public
Marital Status: Single was romantically attach to the Lana Lang of this reality but was unknown if they were engaged. Luthor created his Supergirl in Lana's image after the original Lang was killed by Zod
Base of Operations: Primarily Smallville in his native dimension

Origin

Place of Birth: unspecified
First Appearance: Superman (Vol 2) #21 (1988)
Known Relatives: No known biological relatives
Place of Death: Smallville, Kansas of Pocket universe Earth
Final Appearance: Superman (Vol 2) #22 (1988)

History

Born into the realm of the pocket universe, this Lex like his Earth-One counterpart admired his native universe's Superboy from afar. But unlike the teenage Earth-One Luthor, this Luthor was never able to meet his Superboy while Superboy was alive.

Thus, this Luthor incarnation was spared the accident and disappointment that turned the Earth-One Lex against the Earth-One Superboy. After a long absence when the Kents revealed that their adopted son was indeed Superboy and assumed him to be dead, Lex finally travelled to Smallville to express his true feelings of loss to the Kents. Inspired by his hero's selfless acts, young Lex stepped into the vacant heroic role of Superboy when the three murderous Kryptonian villians arrived on Earth and began killing people indiscriminately and openly destroying the entire planets.

Realizing that his scientific creations were not enough to stop them from murdering the human populace with casual disregard, Lex decided to recruit the known another dimensional Superman to aid the heroes native to his Earth. Unable to develop reliable dimensional travel that he could safely use in a short period of time, Luthor created a superhuman protoplasmic lifeform that would be able to survive the travel intact. This created lifeform would become Supergirl.

Luthor sent his created Supergirl through the dimensional void, but the transport was not accurate and partially wiped Matrix-Supergirl's memory. The problems from the transport confused her from immediately fulfilling her mission to bring back Superman to the pocket reality.

After a period of time and several adventures, Matrix Supergirl would recover her full memories and transport herself and Superman back to the pocket reality Earth. But the time Supergirl spent in the main DC universe allowed most of the Earth populace to be murdered by the Kryptonian rampaging over the Earth. Despite bringing back Superman to their Earth, the young heroic Luthor would ultimately fail in saving the few lives of that Earth, including his own.

But his sacrifice would allow the current Superman enough time to beat back the human genocide killers and permanently end their murderous rampage in a move some consider an act too drastic for a hero but was necessary for such wanton continual killers.

Only Matrix Supergirl would survive the onslaught of her native Earth after being almost killed herself by General Zod before Superman used the Kryptonite forms native to that reality on the three.

Powers

Known Powers: No known superhuman powers but a beyond superhuman intellect which he used to create super scientific devices for an amazing range of effects.
Known Abilities: No known permanent superhuman abilities.
Strength Level: Lex possesed the normal human level strength of a human male his age who engaged in regular physical exercise.

Miscellaneous

Equipment: Lex possessed hundreds of thousands of devices that he directly created himself, as well as enhanced and assisted in creating mostly from his native dimension's Superboy, including his most noted creation, Supergirl ("Matrix")
Transportation: Many extensive and exotic devices such as an interdimensional transporter that he used to send Supergirl to the current primary Superman's native dimension and bring him back.
Weapons: Extensive cache of super-science weapons that Lex used in his plans to save his universe from the three infinitely powered Kryptonians of General Zod and his crew.

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