Luthors
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The Luthor Family is a family of Scottish descent that had humble beginnings but is now known for being part of the extremely wealthy upper-class. It was headed by Lionel Luthor, the self-made billionaire and founder of LuthorCorp, until he was murdered by his son and heir, Lex Luthor.
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[edit] History
- Lachlan Luthor (b. 1916) was the father of Lionel Luthor. He and his wife lived in Suicide Slums and he scraped by doing petty crime. In 1961, he was hired by Sheriff Billy Tate to kill a mysterious stranger, Joe the Drifter, but instead killed Louise McCallum. However, he was never convicted of the crime because Tate had to prevent anyone from finding out his involvement. Lachlan and Eliza were killed in a tenement fire. It was later revealed that Lionel Luthor and Morgan Edge set the fire in order to collect the couple's insurance money. (See main article: Lachlan Luthor)
- Eliza Luthor (maiden name Meehan) was Lachlan's wife and Lionel Luthor's mother. She was killed in a fire that Morgan and Lionel started.
- Lillian Luthor was Lionel Luthor's wife. She died of a heart condition in 1993 when Lex was 12. (See main article: Lillian Luthor)
- Julian Luthor was Lionel and Lillian's second son, who died as an infant around 1992. Lillian became pregnant with Julian when Lex was 11 years old. Lex once said that when Julian was born, it was the only time he felt like he was part of a real family. Lex also stated that Lionel saw Julian as his second chance. It was believed that he died of sudden infant death syndrome, but later revealed that Julian was smothered by Lillian during a bout of severe post-partum depression. She reasoned that she was sparing the baby from Lionel's parenting. She believed that Lionel would pit the two boys against each other. Knowing that Lionel wouldn't get him into trouble, Lex took the blame for Julian's death, which is the main cause of the conflict in Lex and Lionel's relationship. Lex said that after Julian died, his mother was never the same and his father grew more distant. Grant Gabriel believed himself to be Julian Luthor after being told that he was instead put up for adoption by Lionel when Lillian was terminally ill, but instead discovered that he was actually a clone of Julian, as a result of Project Gemini.
- As Lex was named after Alexander the Great, fans have speculated that Julian was named after Julius Caesar.
[edit] Present
Living members of the Luthor family are: Alexander (Lex) and Lex's half-brother, Lucas.
Lionel married Lillian probably sometime in the 1970s and she gave birth to Alexander and Julian. Lillian grew to resent Lionel's ruthless and manipulative behavior and battled poor physical and mental health in the last years of her life. She suffered extreme postpartum depression, and, claiming she didn't want her two sons to fight for their father's attention and affections, smothered the baby to death. Lex found out what Lillian did and lied to his father that he killed Julian by accident. He confessed the truth more than 10 years later after undergoing experimental treatment to recover lost memories.
Having always blamed Lex for Julian's death, Lionel never treated Lex with care or approval; Lex has spent his entire life simultaneously trying not to become his father and trying to gain his acceptance. Recently it was revealed that he still continues to have an obsession with his brother Julian, as revealed when he cloned him at least twice through Project Gemini, creating Grant Gabriel and Adrian (both of whom he murdered).
With Lionel being the only member of Veritas to survive and feeling a certain doom impending, Lex stole his Veritas key and pushed his own father through a window to his death.
[edit] Alternate future
In Lexmas, Lillian showed a comatose Lex an alternate future in which he is married to Lana Lang, with two children:
- Alex Luthor, is the first-born son of Lex and Lana.
- Lily Luthor is their infant daughter, born on Christmas Eve.
- 20-year old Lana Lang was pregnant with 26-year old Lex Luthor's first child, but she miscarried one week after their February 2007 wedding. It was later revealed that she was never pregnant.
[edit] Alternate reality
In an alternate universe, Lionel raised Kara after finding her and her ship in Reeve’s Dam.
