Lex's destiny as President.
"I've always been fighting my destiny, trying to avoid becoming my father. But we all have certain genes that, no matter how much we want to change, dominate us." – Lex to Clark, Exodus
Lex Luthor's destiny has been to become a ruthless billionaire and politician to which Lex Luthor has continually fought with but eventually embraced.
Season One[]
Cassandra Carver's vision of Lex's presidency.
When Lex meets blind elderly metahuman Cassandra Carver that was able to see a person's future by touching them, Lex asks her to see his. Although he isn't aware of it, she sees a vision of Lex in the White House then surrounded by flowers that turn to corpses while he is bathed in a rain of blood, dying before he could learn what she saw.
Season Four[]
Lex's hallucination of himself as a destructive and murderous President.
After Lex was exposed to a toxin that causes its victims to hallucinate their worst fear, he hallucinated himself in the Oval Office, then goes outside where he sees nuclear missiles flying across the skies and destroying every living thing and finally seeing himself in a field filled with the bones of all the people he killed.
Season Seven[]
In an alternate universe, the Daily Planet shows an article of President Luthor.
When Jor-El sends Clark Kent to an alternate universe to see what life would have been like if Clark hadn't existed, Lex was elected President of United States. Along with his Chief of Staff Milton Fine, Lex was planning to cause a nuclear war in the United States in order to reshape it in to his new order.
Season Nine[]
Lex running for President in 2013 as said by a paper by the Daily Planet.
When Clark dreamed of the year 2013, Lois Lane is handed a newspaper with the main article being about Lex running for Office.
Season Ten[]
Lex as President-elect in 2018.
In the year 2018 on a TV broadcast, it's revealed Lex had just become the President-elect of the United States.
Appearances[]
- Season One: Pilot (mentioned only) Hourglass, Drone (mentioned only)
- Season Four: Gone (referenced only), Scare, Onyx
- Season Five: Splinter (mentioned only)
- Season Seven: Apocalypse
- Season Nine: Salvation
- Season Ten: Finale, Part 2
Notes[]
- In the similar way Clark could've chose darkness and went through phases in his powers and accepting his destiny in the light, Lex could've chosen light and went through phases of denying, resisting and ultimately accepting his destiny in the darkness. Phase 1 was in Commencement when he said Lionel succeeded in creating the son he always wanted, and left him there to die. Phase 2 was in Lexmas when he was willing to ruin Jonathan's reputation for money and power, and steal the love of Clark's life. Phase 3 was in Descent/Finale, Part 2 when he killed his younger self, and became the President of the United States getting absolute power/becoming Clark's archnemesis. It could be said everyone starts at the beginning of the path with a dim light, one path gets darker and leads to total darkness and one gets brighter and leads to light.
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