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Has Done
#10 Helps The Justice League Back in 2003 there was an episode of the Justice
League titled A Better World where in which Lex Luthor becomes the President of the United
States.
After he kills the Flash on an alternate world Superman takes revenge by killing Luthor but
following that the Justice Lords come in and take over the world.
After they make contact with the Justice League their next target becomes Earth.
The Lex Luthor of the television shows prime reality is still viewed as a criminal, but
Superman actually asks for his assistance in taking down the Justice Lords.
Lex then uses this device called the energy disruptor that ultimately renders the Justice
Lords powerless.
Which is pretty remarkable when you think about it and on top of saving the planet he
also agrees to not use the device on the Justice League.
#9 Liberated Slaves Grant Morrisons Final Crisis brought in the
villain Libra who sought to take back society by reforming the Secret Society of Supervillains.
In doing so Libra creates a team of evil doers bigger, badder and more dangerous than ever
before.
Together they planned a whole host of evil activities for their team building workshop
which included killing Martian Manhunter, bombing the Daily Planet and throughout all
of these moments Lex Luthor was at the center.
However once Lex realized that Darkseid was actually instructing Libras actions, Luthor
started to question everything.
Libra then turns on many of the villains by fitting them with the Justifier helmets which
essentially turned them all into mindless drones under his control.
Together with Dr. Sivana, Lex defeats Libra and ends up freeing the world from this mind
control slavery.
#8 Finds A Cure After Forever Evil, Lex actually joined the
Justice League and back in 2014 there was a storyline called The Amazo Virus.
The virus was this deadly outbreak that would infect people with dangerous superpowers before
finally killing them.
As this chaos is unfolding, Lex Luthor was doing his best to find a cure.
In an odd turn of events its revealed that Luthor was the one who created the virus in
his attempts to kill Superman.
Superman wasnt exactly happy about this and demanded he be removed from the team.
The ironic thing was that in order to stop this virus meant to kill Superman, Lex needed
Superman's blood to successfully find a cure.
So he created a virus to kill the man of steel, but he also cured the virus, so I suppose
that's pretty heroic.
#7 Kills His Evil Counterpart At the peak of Forever Evil we had our heroic
Lex Luthor fighting against his evil twin from Earth 3 known as Alexander Luthor.
Alexander was essentially an evil Shazam, he could use the power of Mazah to steal others
powers to kill his enemies.
Both Deathstorm and Bizarro were killed by Alexander and then he set his sights on Lex.
Lex Luthor had the brilliant idea of using the fact that they sound the same against
the evil Luthor.
Using his own voice he calls down the lightning to rip away all of Mazahs powers.
Now being nothing more than a mere mortal, Lex was able to kill Alexander before he could
get his powers back.
#6 He Rebuilt Gotham In the event known as Cataclysm in 1998 a
massive earthquake had struck the city of Gotham wiping out most of the city.
The government made the tough decision to just abandon Gotham and lock down the city.
What this left in its wake was dozens of villains running rampant in the city and the dark knight
being the only source of heroism left to save the remaining citizens.
Now introduce Gothams savior Lex Luthor.
Due to the incredible resources that Luthors company Lexcorp has he was able to come in
and rebuild the city in a very short period of time.
This act of kindness made people across America really start to love Lex and ultimately is
what boosted his career as a politician.
#5 Stopped Zod's Invasion In the comic book Superman Last son of Krypton
an invasion of the Phantom Zone criminals commences and introduces Zod, Non, Ursa and
their army of Kryptonians.
This evil squad destroy a lot of the city of Metropolis while Superman is trapped inside
of the Phantom Zone.
Lex Luthor has always been known for his hatred of Kryptonians so the fact that he could flex
his years of torturing Superman and actually apply what hes learned was more than welcomed.
To undertake such a task though Luthor first enlists the help of Parasite, Bizarro and
Metallo forming a revenge squad to fight off Zod and his pals.
Once Superman makes his way back to Earth, Lex essentially gives him no option other
than working with them to end this invasion.
#4 The Savior of Lexor First appearing in Superman number 164 back
in 1963 there was a little planet that would soon be renamed Lexor.
What began as simply a location for Lex and Superman to fight each other one-on-one because
the location depowered Superman soon turned into something much more.
Lex Luthor ends up becoming the leader of the people that inhabited the planet after
he helps them unlock their lost technology and ultimately restructure their society.
Superman even helps Lex find this planet some water and stabilize their planets core.
Lex is branded a hero for these actions and as such the world is renamed Lexor and Luthor
becomes the ruler of their society.
#3 Saves Countless Lives Forever evil is exactly how it sounds, a lot
of evil things happened and perhaps one of the worst was when a crime syndicate had not
only captured Nightwing, but unmasked him on live TV.
To make matters worse when Lex Luthor and Batman finally locate Nightwing hes being
held captive by a contraption called the murder machine.
Yet not too much sunshine and hope when youre being held down by something called a murder
machine.
Originally the machine was made to imprison Doomsday, but now strapped to Dick Grayson
it is set to explode unless Nightwing dies.
The only option in the eyes of Luthor is to stop Graysons heart in order to stop the bomb
from taking countless lives.
Batman of course doesn't agree with this approach at all and attacks Luthor for killing his
quote unquote son, but we soon find out that Lex has more control over this matter than
we were led to believe.
After saving everyone and deactivating the bomb, Luthor simply uses his super-suit to
jolt Nightwing's heart back into working order.
So just chill Batman, Lex Luthor is here to save the day.
#2 Achieves World Peace In Superman Red Son a world is imagined where
in which the last son of Krypton lands in Soviet Russia instead of America.
In this alternate reality Superman takes control of the government under Joseph Stalin and
creates a utopia out of the empire.
On the flip side Lex Luthor becomes Americas leading scientist and plans to take down the
Soviets alien weapon that threatens the safety of the United States.
Eventually Lex Luthor becomes the United States president and leads the charge against fighting
this Soviet Invasion.
Once the American public believes that Lex has defeated the Russian Superman he establishes
his own philosophy of Luthorism not just in the US but around the world.
In a strange turn of events life on Earth actually improves and worldwide peace becomes
possible under this new leadership by Lex Luthor.
#1 Defeated Darkseid
Back in 2006 there was an episode of the show Justice League Unlimited called Destroyer
where Lex Luthor saves the Earth from Darkseid.
Before this, Darkseid is leading an invasion with the express purpose of destroying the
world.
With the assistance of Metron Luthor travels to the other side and enters the source to
bring the anti-life equation back to Earth.
Unbeknownst to Batman and Superman this anti-life equation is something that Darkseid wanted
more than taking over Earth.
This was the ultimate heroic act by Lex Luthor because not only did he save Superman from
certain death, but he gave up his own life to defeat Darkseid.
And that has been the Top 10 Heroic Things Lex Luthor Has Done.
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