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Level Three

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The subjects of Level 33.1 reach out to Lex.

Level Three was a mysterious level in LuthorCorp's fertilizer plant in Smallville. It was sub-level, presumably below the basement. Lionel Luthor once referred to it as a redundant storage area, but in 2001, Earl Jenkins was assigned to that area when he worked at the plant as a janitor. Earl described an enormous cornfield being sprayed with a green mist— certainly meteor rock-infused fertilizer. He was caught in an explosion, and tiny particles of kryptonite penetrated his skin, causing him to suffer from random, violent seizures as his body tried to push the poison out of his skin.

Unfortunately, when Earl returns to the factory six months later, no one knew what he was talking about. All the employees who had known of Level Three were all transferred to Metropolis, so everyone Earl met thought that Level Three was a myth, like the Bermuda Triangle.

Along with Lex Luthor and Clark Kent, Earl finally found what was left of Level 3, but there were no clues remaining regarding the experiments that injured Earl.

A few years later, Lionel still maintained Level Three experiments, such as cloning.

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[edit] Level 33.1

Level 33.1

After Lionel was imprisoned, Lex took control of the operation. He moved the headquarters from the Smallville Fertilizer plant to a secret level in the LuthorCorp Plaza skyscraper in Metropolis, between Floors 33 and 34, and changed the name to Level 33.1.

Lex led Mikhail Mxyzptlk to 33.1 in the LuthorCorp Plaza. LuthorCorp's Level Three is what the residents would call it "a nice stay. Gourmet food, satellite TV, and a nifty little green cocktail" placed in the neck three times a day, to boost the powers of metahumans. Tommy Lee and the Twins once resided in Level Three, and heard much about Clark Kent, as well as his superhuman feats.

Molly Griggs and her boyfriend Nick Yang were also held in Level 33.1 and subjected to experiments, but they were able to escape. When Lex decided to run for Kansas State Senator in late 2005, he temporarily shut the project down. Presumably, after he lost the election, the project was resumed.

In 2006, it was revealed that Lex was still actively collecting meteor freaks and using Level 33.1 to study and do experiments on them. One patient, Bronson, escaped and tried to expose the project, but it was covered up by Lionel and Bronson was killed by Lex. Jed McNally was also observed in Level 33.1 after he developed the ability to burrow underground.

Lex tests his prototype of Level 33.1's Project Ares.

Oliver Queen, who moonlights as the Green Arrow, is convinced that Lex is planning a war and intends on using the patients of this level as his army. He has assembled a super-powered team to thwart Lex's efforts. His suspicions were confirmed when he and his team confronted and destroyed at least one subject of the Level 33.1 experiments, a supersoldier that is the result of LuthorCorp's Project Ares, though they barely manage to do so; according to Chloe, it took "the equivalent of a mini-nuke" for them to do so. The fourth in the series of supersoldier prototypes was Wes Keenan, a former Special Forces US soldier who was deceived into volunteering for the project and designated Mark IV; he was given an amalgam of super powers derived from the experiments on various Level 33.1 prisoners. He was also a product of genetic material harvested from the alien Titan. He was defeated and killed in combat in Prototype.

Since the disastrous events of the escape of Bizarro, Level 33.1's Project Ares has seemingly been put on hold. Claiming to have reformed, Lex Luthor worked with Curtis Knox to help cure Level 33.1's subjects and release them as healthy individuals, albeit with significant memory loss. Additionally, Lex seems to have switched his focus from a supersoldier army to a future alien invasion, the subject of Project Scion, and human cloning, the subject of Project Gemini. Lex disappeared in the Arctic in 2008 and LuthorCorp has a new CEO Tess Mercer. Tess has been recruiting villains for her special team. 33.1 is presumably still on hold until Lex returns.

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John Novack (Jed McNally) and Yee Jee Tso (Nick Yang) both appeared in an episode, of the BBC series Doctor Who (1996 film). Novack played the E.R. doctor and Tso played Chang Lee (The Doctor's companion).

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