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"Believe me Lex, your brother will never change. I've watched him over the years. The boy's a sociopath." Prodigal

Lucas Luthor is the half-brother of Lex Luthor and the illegitimate son of Lionel Luthor with Rachel Dunleavy.

Physical Appearance[]

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Lucas Luthor

Lucas had brown hair with dark blonde highlights, which was spiked up. He had gray eyes and slightly tanned skin. He was clean-shaven most of the time.

Personality[]

Lucas is characterized as a volatile sociopath willing to do just about anything to secure his triumph, wealth, or safety with no remorse or conscience unlike his half-brother Lex Luthor (at the time).

While trying to win a pick-up basketball game, Lucas intentionally elbowed Clark Kent in the jaw to injure him. He also threatened to fire Lana Lang from the Talon simply because he wanted to. While carrying out the kidnapping plan with Lex, he struck Jonathan Kent unconscious. This was probably not part of the original plan as Jonathan took Lex in after he was kicked out of the mansion; it is unlikely that Lex would have agreed to harm him. He was willing to double cross and deceive Lex and Lionel for financial security from LuthorCorp. However, it seems that Lex's desperation for family intimacy has allowed him to overlook Lucas' transgressions as he decides to protect Lucas in the end.

Early life[]

Lionel forced Rachel Dunleavy to give him up for adoption. Despite his claim to Lex that Lucas had died, Lionel located him when he was twelve, and continued to keep up with and remained in contact with him. However, Lucas was never officially adopted and grew up in poverty in various foster homes.

Season Two[]

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Lucas in Edge City.


"Come on. Cut the guy a break. He's had a really tough life." - Chloe


Lionel told Lex that Lucas was dead, but Lucas was then shown to be alive in the scene where Lionel was looking at the picture of Lucas.

In 2003, Lex found eighteen-year-old Lucas in Edge City after a seven-month search. He helped Lucas narrowly escape from some gangsters who went after him after Lucas was discovered to be cheating at a card game.

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Lex watches on as Lionel and Lucas reunite.

Lex brought Lucas to LuthorCorp to meet Lionel and to covertly organize a takeover of the company. However, Lucas turned on Lex because Lionel offered Lucas ten million dollars to sign his share away. Thinking he had Lucas under his control, Lionel and Lucas plotted together to take Lex's share of the inheritance and have him thrown out of the Luthor Mansion.

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Lucas at the Talon.

However, Lucas realized that at age eighteen, he was entitled to a much more sizable inheritance than his father was offering. In addition, Lucas still had bitter feelings about what he saw as his abandonment by Lionel. Through observation, Lucas also realized that Lionel was no longer blind. Lucas took control of everything that Lex owned, including the Talon.

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Lucas tries to force Lionel's hand.

When Lucas was found by one of the gangsters, he was saved by Clark. Lex discovered that Lionel set Lucas up and revealed this information to him. When Lucas kidnaps Lex, Clark discovers Lucas' vicious nature and follows him to rescue him. In a tense confrontation, Lucas threatened to kill Lionel unless Lionel killed Lex.

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Lucas and Lex.

With help from Clark's heat vision, Lionel got the upper hand and shot Lucas instead, but the gun was filled with blanks. The brothers revealed the kidnapping to be staged; they had plotted together to reveal that Lionel was no longer blind and worked together to restore Lex's position in LuthorCorp. Lex had Lucas placed safely away under his protection. His current whereabouts are unknown.

Notes[]

Trivia[]

  • Lucas' mother once believed that Clark Kent was Lucas.
  • It is briefly stated he has an affinity with ancient Asian weaponry, but this isn't expanded on other than a throwaway comment on how it's "one thing he has in common" with his father.
  • Lucas was seemingly forgotten after his first appearance and was never mentioned again. In Lucy and Veritas, Lex is said to have no brother and be Lionel's only son (though, the statements seemingly ignore the deceased Julian Luthor).[1][2] In the Season Nine episode Crossfire, pimp Rick DeGroot notes that Oliver Queen has more money than the Luthors, seemingly referring to the Luthors in the present tense.[3] However, at that time, Lionel was dead (and the Earth-2 Lionel Luthor was still on his own Earth), while Lex was believed to be dead, and Tess Mercer's Luthor lineage had not yet been revealed. This would leave Lucas as the only possible, living Luthor, for Rick DeGroot to have been thinking about.
  • In 2023, Paul Wesley recalled that Lucas was seemingly supposed to have a multi-episode arc. For unknown reasons, this ended up not happening.[4]

In the Comics[]

Lucas Luthor is an original character and does not appear in the mainstream DC universe. Pre-Crisis on Infinite Earths, Lex and Lena Luthor had an unnamed sibling, the parent of Supergirl villain Nasthalthia Luthor.

Appearances[]

Images[]

→see also Lucas Luthor/Gallery

References[]

  1. Lucy
  2. Veritas
  3. Crossfire
  4. Inside of You With Michael Rosenbaum: Paul Wesley (August 22, 2023)


Luthors in Smallville
Main Lionel LuthorLex LuthorTess Mercer
Earth-2 Earth-2 : Lionel LuthorClark LuthorTess Luthor
Relatives LillianJulianLucasLachlanEliza Luthor
Clones Grant GabrielAdrian CrossLX-13Conner Kent
Ex-Wives Helen BryceDesirée AtkinsLana Lang
Companies LuthorCorpLexCorpDaily PlanetQueen IndustriesPreClox
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