Lena Luthor
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Real Identity: Lena Luthor
Affiliations: Metropolis Green Initiative, Metropolis Superman Museum, and Vincent Edge Club
Appearances (Episodes): The Big Apricot, Back to School, Breaking Brainiac, Bottle My Heart, Frankette, Family Feud, Bottle Episode (But Not a 'Bottle Episode'), and The Mess Is the Point
Powers/Skills: Technopathy, Business, Above Average Intelligence, and Planning
Voiced By: Aisha Tyler
Lena Luthor is the sister of Lex Luthor. At some point after Lex Luthor went bald during childhood at age seven, he walked into his bedroom and found Lena holding the broken model building of Lexcorp in her hands. He called her an idiot. She promised to fix it and insisted it was just an accident. He remarked their parents called her a mistake all the time. She insisted she just wanted to play with the model city of Metropolis. He stated it was his Metropolis and she was not allowed it ever again. Nigel, the family butler, arrived with a sign that read "No Lenas" and hung it on one of the doors. She grew to hate him and became obsessed with thinking of ways to murder him but all she craved was his approval. Decades later, she formed a secret alliance with an alien named Vril Dox, who needed someone who understood humans. She would handle the people of Metropolis while he secretly made the city perfect by Coluian standards in preparation for shrinking the city and removing it from the planet to preserve it on his Skull Ship. In exchange, she was promised she would rule the city.
Lena Luthor leaked documents to Lois Lane and she published the expose that sent Lex Luthor to prison and won her a Pulitzer Prize. Luthor began dating Bruce Wayne at some point after he got out of prison. She donated a lot of money to the Vincent Edge Club and spearheaded a green initiative project. Luthor recruited Poison Ivy to the project after being impressed by her at the opening of the Metropolis Superman Museum that she funded. She also took a liking to Harley Quinn and quickly befriended both. She rented out all of the Tavern Over The Green to meet them. She was surprised when they revealed the Heart of Darkness she was wearing had a demon in it and mentioned she won it at Sotheby's. Ivy and Harley suspected Catwoman put it up for auction after tricking them into stealing it with her a year prior. Luthor was impressed by Ivy's powers but Eclipso was accidentally released from the Heart of Darkness. Harley quickly beheaded him.
Lena Luthor hired professionals to decorate Harley and Ivy's condo. The former worked with them. Ivy and Luthor later met at Metropolis University so the former could be introduced to Jason Woodrue for help on the green intiative. It turned out they knew each other. Ivy walked off to Luthor's annoyance but she coached Ivy into leaving the past in the past. Luthor later suggested to Harley to take King Shark's children to a birthday party going on at the Vincent Edge Club. The party was for Bane and Betty's adopted child, Goldilocks. Luthor showed up at the club to deal with Humpty Dumpty falling off the wagon. She then convinced Vincent Edge to allow Harley Quinn to become a member, citing all her donations then insisting change was good. To Wayne's disappointment, she cancelled on attending his Big Pasta Dinner. Before Vril Dox could kill Harley, Lena Luthor teleported into the ship and ordered him to stop. Dox took offense to being commanded and being called "Brainiac." She reminded him their agreement was she took care of the humans while he took care of everything else.
Brainaic pointed out Harley was getting in the way of everything else. Luthor promised she could keep her in line. Luthor admitted she liked her and as part of the deal, she could have what she liked then intimated she could tip off the human race about his plans. Brainiac approved and agreed to return Ivy and Harley to Metropolis with their memories wiped. Frustrated with Brainiac, Lena Luthor grabbed some of Koko's bones and tossed them at him. He was still in denial and ended their partnership. She was teleported back to Metropolis. She ended up in Wayne's condo. He asked her if she got his special Hemorrhoid cream. She screamed. Luthor went to the Daily Planet and told Harley, Bane, and "Perry White" (who was really Clayface) all about Brainiac's plans because she believed in the power of the press rather than tipping off superheroes. Clayface instead wrote a musical he starred in called "Brainiac, The Tragedy Of - The Musical." She sat next to Ivy and became more and more annoyed with the effectiveness of the musical. She didn't like how sympathetic it made Brainiac.
During intermission, Luthor excused herself to get some fresh air but went back stage and stabbed Frank The Plant to death. She attended Frank's funeral. With Ivy a wreck, she advised Harley to start the funeral instead. She later told Ivy and Harley that Brainiac was Frank's killer then told them to come to her condo because she had a teleporter to his ship. They impulsively teleported to the ship before listening to Luthor's instructions on how to kill Brainiac. However, Harley and Ivy learned the truth from Brainiac. Ivy teleported back to the condo and startled Luthor. She realized Ivy knew and narrowly dodged her vines and ran for the teleporter. Luthor teleported into the room and was amused to see a tiny Brainiac. Harley begged for help to stop the Automaton Sentries from killing Ivy but she wanted something in return. In her panic, Harley told her she could have anything. Luthor agreed and powered all the drones in Metropolis down.
A drone poured her a drink and she declared they were even. Harley disagreed. Luthor revealed she killed Frank to make Harley and Ivy take the Brainiac threat seriously. Harley realized she was the real threat. Luthor pointed out she just saved Metropolis. Harley didn't believe she cared about the city. Luthor contended that was all she cared about and how it was hers. Harley called her a monster and was about to punch her but she was teleported to the city. One of the drones brought Frankette to Luthor. Brainiac was perplexed why she wanted her. Luthor admitted she didn't but Harley and Ivy did and they would be weak without each other. She gloated her plan worked out better than she thought it would while Brainiac, the galactically brilliant entity with an unfathomable grand plan, failed. She inserted Brainiac's tubes into her skull. She hired Nick Quinzel to kill his own daughter, Harley Quinn, and as a backup plan also hired five goons to kill her. As part of the hiring, the goons had to use her catchphrase, "You about to get Luthored!"
Bruce Wayne kept calling, to her annoyance even though she told him she wanted some space. She was also annoyed Frankette tugged at her arm. Despite Dox's protest, she changed the administrator to her. She then taunted him for screwing everything up with his depressive episode but vowed she unscrewed it and was getting Metropolis bottle-ready. He gave her a thumbs up to her amusement. He explained that was the most offensive hand gesture in the entire galaxy surrounding Colu. She gave him two thumbs up to his shock. He retaliated with a peace sign. She flicked his bottle and knocked him off his feet. Wayne kept calling. She tossed her phone over her shoulder. She observed Ivy breaking into her condo and overriding her security system/15-day anniversary present, G.A.I.L. so she summoned the Automaton Sentries. Dox pointed out she didn't have to verbalize her commands and merely thinking them was sufficient. Luthor told him to shut it and told him she was having fun, something he wouldn't understand. He stated he was a 13th level intellect and understood everything, including fun.
Luthor didn't believe him and pointed out instead of enjoying control of the world, he organized it like a bookshelf. She likened the rush to being better than being on Molly. He didn't understand. She explained Molly was her favorite horse when she was a child then she ordered the Sentries to destroy Ivy. Luthor put the finishing touches on Metropolis. She had the Sentries paint all of Park Ridge, including Lexcorp, teal, the color her brother hated. Then she turned prime commercial real estate into a curated artisanal store that only sells salt which he also hated. Then she changed the name Lexcorp to Lenacorp and gloated. By the time Ivy and Harley Quinn drove back to the city with Lex Luthor and Sharon Quinzel in tow, Metropolis was gone. Lena Luthor bottled the shrunken Metropolis. She modified the Hyper-Ray's blast so the citizens of Metropolis were not frozen. Once she bottled Metropolis, she kissed the bottle and realized she had great lips then gloated to Dox she did way better that him. Dox begged her to kill him. She pointed out she wasn't a tech gal and needed him just in case.
The Sentries tasked with retrieving Lex Luthor from Stryker's Island Penitentiary failed to locate him so Lena Luthor tasked all the sentries with finding him. Bruce Wayne activated his Bat-Radia and it disabled the Skull Ship's cloaking device. The Batcomputer then activated three Wayne satellites that fired tractor beams and pulled the Skull Ship down to Earth's thermosphere. Lena Luthor was annoyed with the surprise then got further annoyed when Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy walked into the room. She told them to take Frankette and leave. Ivy declared they were after she was dead. Lena Luthor was amused but was shocked to see Lex Luthor walk in. He examined the shrunken Metropolis and remarked it looked just like "it." She didn't follow. He presented the model train from his model city. She held it while he explained she didn't want to rule Metropolis, she just wanted to play with his toys. She slapped him with the train and tossed it then clarified she wanted to destroy his toys like he always destroyed her, making her feel lesser and like an afterthought in the great line of Luthors when she should have been the only thought. She stated it was time for her to lord over him and summoned the Hyper-Ray.
Harley asked her what would happen next. She presumed she would be a god. Harley pointed out how that worked out for Dox. Dox pounded his head and wished to die. She was taken aback. Harley asked her what was the point of being a god if she couldn't share it with anyone. She refused to share with her brother. He told her to get over herself and blamed it on a kid going bald at age seven. Harley asked him why he didn't want to share with his sister repeatedly. He eventually admitted it was because people liked her and were drawn in by her charm and sense of ease that he never had so he dragged her down. Harley asked Lena how she felt. Lena felt sad because they wasted so much time feuding. She wondered what they could have gotten done as a team. He mused it would be more than Metropolis. She agreed and decided they should instead focus on ruling the universe. She joked they should start small. He liked her turn of phrase and asked where she learned to speak like that. She quipped she went fishing in the deep end of the Luthor gene pool. Together, they shrank Harley, Ivy, and Harley's mother, Sharon Quinzel. Lena scooped them up into Dox's bottle.
Lena put a dark cloth over Metropolis and asked Lex if he liked it. He correctly guessed she was going to reupholster the throne and called it brilliant and bold like her. Lena was smitten. Harley called him a dick in order to pit them against each other and facilitate their escape. She continued and suggesting renaming Metropols to Lena-opolis. Lena loved it. Lex wanted something a little more punchy like Lex-opolis. She called him narcissistic. Lex brought up how she broke his train. Lex stated their father named the company Lexcorp because he was the eldest boy and the favorite and she was the only one who loved her. Lena demanded an apology. Lex called her bluff. Lena set the Skull Ship on a self-destruct course with the planet Colu, Dox's home planet, to force Lex to apologize. He didn't believe she would go through with it. She stated she waited her entire life to get one up on him. Harley, Ivy, Sharon, and Dox escaped the bottle. Lex and Lena tried to kill them but they hid and took cover.
Dox asked Ivy to get him to the Hyper-Ray. Harley noticed Frankette's leaf. Ivy produced vines from it and launched Dox. He used the Hyper-Ray to shrink the Luthors. Ivy headbutted Lena and Harley roundhouse kicked Lex unconscious. Dox then restored himself, Ivy, Harley and Sharon to normal. Dox realized they were on a collision course. Harley attempted to revive Lena by flicking her. She tossed her over her shoulder as did Ivy with Lex. The Luthors landed on the train track and ran away from the model train only to be eaten by Frankette. One week later, they were still being digested by Frankette. Lena blamed Lex. Lex countered she wouldn't even be alive if Dad had "bagged it" like he told him to.