The Luthors
When Smallville began, Lex seemed to be kind of an okay guy. He had befriended Clark, and never wanted to follow in his father’s footsteps of the corporate, evil guy. And as the show progressed, it seemed that the Lex Luthor from the comics, and television shows, and movies, was being shown as a fairly good guy. That was, until some thing happened. Lionel had become a good person for a while, and Lex wasn’t too sure of it. He thought that maybe it was an act, but eventually, made his peace with it. He’d just been released from jail, and Lionel felt like a good man, and wanted to bond with his estranged son. It wasn’t until the episode where Lex is split into two, when Lionel turns bad again. Lex’s bad side forces that evil that is boiling in Lionel, to burst out. It had seemed that Lex had lost his father’s good side. However, the closer that Lionel got to Martha, the better of a person that Lionel seemed to become. As for Lex, well, Clark was what was keeping him a good person, and as Clark kept things from him, and lied to him, their relationship eventually unraveled. Then, when Jonathan died, Lionel began seeing Martha more and more, and her pure good side made him want to be a better man. Also, when Lex and Lana began seeing eachother, his obsession with the kyrptonite began to show even more, as she wanted to know more about the space ship, and Lex was more than willing to help. And we especially saw how evil Lex has become in the last episode, when he came walking out of the secret level 33.1, which he had told Lana, never existed. So it seems that the tables have turned with the Luthors quite a bit so far, and we’ll just have to wait and see how long that lasts.
Michael Rosenbaum portraying Lex Luthor
John Glover portraying Lionel Luthor
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