Villian: Lex Luthor<br/>Real Name: Alexander Joseph Luthor<br/>Place of Origin: Smallville, Kansas, USA<br/>Residence: Metropolis, USA<br/>Species: Human<br/>Affiliations: LuthorCorp<br/>Family: None worth mentioning<br/>Age: 30<br/>Sexual Orientation: Straight<br/>Base of Operations: LuthorCorp Tower, Luthor Mansion<br/>Powers: Genius level intelligence and a crap ton of money<br/><br/>Appearence:<br/>(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BdbRAKcIsAw/Tb1lssB9uPI/AAAAAAAAC9M/SfYDHKEZ6Vs/s1600/cliff-huddle-picture.jpg)<br/><br/>History: Born in Metropolis, but it was in Smallville where he grew up.  His father practically leaving him to be raised by an army of servants and on hand staff.  Lex doesn't remember much of his mother, but the memories he does have are ones of extreme warmth and love, or watching his father ruin such things.  She in an accident when he was six which was the time his father had found interest in Smallville, and thus sent Lex there to grow up in a family mansion.<br/><br/>Though being extremely rich, for the first part of his life Lex grew up and went to the same school as all the other kids of the Smallville area.  He fit in well enough at first, but when kids found out just exactly who he was things changed.  The friends he had were jealous and petty of it, his intelligence having already been something of a hindrance.  Add in filthy rich and the only way Lex could ever get to those farm boys to like would be to take the football team to state; a thing that simply just could not happen.  One boy however did be grudge Lex for being different, and that was Clarke Kent.  He too was something of an outsider despite all his skills, and the two became close friends.  So close in fact that Clarke told Lex the truth about him.  This was at the age of sixteen, when a few hard life lessons had changed them both from the idealistic boys they were.  Lex saw this as something of gift, he telling Clarke that together they could change the world, make it a better place, a great place.  Clarke felt the same way, but his adoptive fathers fear and sitrust of humanity was ingrained deeply within him.  Jonathan Kent had simply believed that the world would never accept Clarke, merely try to use him for whatever they needed.<br/><br/>The two stayed friends despite constantly fighting over a single girl, Lana Lang, and it was actually during this time that Lex helped Clarke focus and control his powers.  During a time out of highschool though, after the mysterious death of Lex's father (guy took a head dive off LuthurCorp Tower), he and Clarke came to odds.  Lex was determined to either have Clarke's help in changing the world, or have his power taken from him and used in that very same mean.  Clarke, being unable to trust the rest of humanity into accepting him and the hero he could be, went into hiding.  Lex since then has been hunting for his Kryptonian friend and the while been developing many a thing to combat the godlike being.<br/><br/>When Powergirl came onto the scene, Lex recognized the Krytonian traits easily enough.  Seeing how much of a public figure he was, he knew he would have to be careful about capturing her.  On a more personal level he wondered if she had a connection to Clarke, and if she could be used to draw his old friend out.<br/><br/>Weapons: Anything he can afford (so anything!).<br/><br/>Known Enemies: Kal-EL is the main one and most important.