| “ | I was adopted when I was four. And the person who made me feel most welcome in the family was Lex. He made me proud to be a Luthor. And then he went on his reign of terror in Metropolis. Declared war on Superman. Committed unspeakable crimes. When Superman put Lex in jail, I vowed to take back my family's company. To rename it L-Corp. Make it a force for good. I'm just a woman trying to make a name for herself outside of her family. | „ |
| ~ Lena on her goal of atoning for her familie's mistakes. |
Lena Luthor is one of the tritagonists of 2015 CW series Supergirl. Once one of Supergirl's allies, she turns on her as soon as she discovers Kara's secret and becomes the central antagonist of Season 5.
She is Lex Luthor's adoptive half-sister and the former enemy of Kara Danvers/Supergirl. She became the CEO of Lex Corp after her brother caused mayhem across Metropolis and waged war against Superman. However, once she discovers that Kara, and all of her friends, lied to her several times, she became a villain with an immense hatred of Supergirl and committed terrible crimes for her delusional sake of "justice". However, she eventually redeems herself and made amends with Supergirl.
She is portrayed by Katie McGrath, Camille Marty and Samantha Davis and Lucy Loken young.
Her Good Ranking[]
What Makes Her Admirable?[]
- She tried to create a new image for Lex Corp and make up for her family's mistakes.
- She stopped her adoptive mother from killing the aliens in the city and refused her offer to join CADMUS.
- She helped Supergirl and her friends defeat Queen Rhea.
- She created kryptonite to subdue Reign, one of Supergirl's worst and most powerful enemies, allowing her to defeat her.
- She ultimately defeated her brother, Lex Luthor, by killing him for the safety of the world and her friends.
- Even though she turned evil, it was only out of good intentions (albeit extremist ones), as she wanted to make the human race peaceful, even if it meant brainwashing the entire world.
- While she was mentally insane into thinking that all of humanity was corrupt simply because of her best friend's "betrayal", it is implied she wasn't in full control of her emotions and her mind was in emotionally unstable state, so it wasn't completely her fault she wasn't thinking logically.
- Plus, her view on reality would slowly start to mend, as she questioned if she really did do down a dark path, and later be fully fixed when she confessed to Supergirl that she became a villain.
- Also, despite having the same number of resources as her brother, she holds back on them due to her moral code against killing and hurting people, even if they hurt her, wanting to do the minimum damage as possible.
- Although some of her crimes are horrible on their own while doing so, they mostly rely on Fridge Horror.
- She still continues to commit heroic acts during that point, like:
- She prevented Malefic from committing any evil actions, and while she did so by brainwashing him, this ultimately led to his brother J'onn redeeming him.
- She putted her grudge against the Superfriends aside to help them during the Crisis, saving millions of lives in the process.
- Despite her immense hatred of Supergirl, their friendship destroyed, and especially after everything that happened between them (even with Supergirl threatening to treat her like a villain) she still came to her office and offered her condolences on Jeremiah's death, giving her a book on how to deal with grief, and even called her Kara instead of Supergirl.
- After finding out that humans need to feel pain to evolve, she shut down Project Non Nocere because it wouldn't work. Then she rejected Lex's offer, now knowing that he is using her, refusing to become a monster like him.
- She felt heavy remorse of what she did, and came to Kara's apartment to apologize to her and told them about Lex and Leviathan's plans.
- Helped Supergirl take down the Leviathan by creating a kryptonian suit to protect her from kryptonite. During so, she continues to try to apologize to Kara for what she did, and cried as she explained that she was only trying to protect her, and how she greatly hurt her and abused her trust more than Kara ever did.
- She redeemed her childhood friend, Andrea Rojas, when she tried to kill Supergirl. She told her of how her unjustified feelings of hurt consumed her, and hugged Andrea when she doesn't go through with it.
- She reconciled with Supergirl and rebuilt their friendship, making her officially redeemed.
What Makes Her Inconsistent?[]
- She is in the Grey Zone, due to committing many morally questionable acts as a hero and even after she redeemed herself.
- After discovering that Kara and the rest of her friends were lying to her almost all of the time (although for good reasons), she let her anger get the best of her and became fallen.
- While she did genuinely apologize for betraying Kara, she had little to no remorse for everything else she did during her time as a villain, like having an A.I. possess Eve Teschmacher or trying to brainwash humanity with Myriad, even claiming the latter was "for the greater good" while testifying at Lex's trial.
Trivia[]
- She is the one of three Arrowverse heroes to be Inconsistently Admirable alongside Rip Hunter and Oliver Queen.
External links[]
- Lena Luthor on the Heroes Wiki
- Lena Luthor on the Villains Wiki
- Lena Luthor on the Arrowverse Wiki
- Lena Luthor on the DC Database Wiki
- Lena Luthor on the Villainous Benchmark Wiki
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 Inconsistently Admirable
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