Lex Luthor

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Lex Luthor Quotes

	Season 8 / Episode 14: - Requiem Lex Luthor: [voice-over] Clark Kent and Lana Lang, welcome to your destiny. You've destroyed me in every way, so now I'm going to take away what matters most to you. Lana Lang: Lex? Lex Luthor: Do you know what people remember about the greatest star-crossed romances? Not how the lovers met, but the way the relationship tragically ended. The skin Lana's wearing was designed to absorb enough meteor rock that you'll never be able to go near her again. Clark Kent: You're a coward, Lex. Come out here. Face us! Lex Luthor: No, Clark. It's time for you to face your defining moment. You can walk away, sacrifice innocent lives to stay together, or defuse the bomb and sacrifice your love forever.
	Season 7 / Episode 20: - Arctic Kara: I'd always thought the Traveler was meant for good. Even he thinks he is. When I went home to Krypton, I learned the truth about his fate. He won't save mankind. He'll destroy it. Lex Luthor: Who is it? Kara: Don't you already know?
	Season 7 / Episode 20: - Arctic Lex Luthor: I must admit, Clark. This is a big step up from the barn. Clark Kent: It's not what you think, Lex. You don't understand. Lex Luthor: For the first time, I think I do. You see, you live among us as a mild-mannered farm boy. But secretly, you're a strange visitor from another planet, plotting our demise. Clark Kent: That's not what I'm doing at all. Lex Luthor: It's a brilliant disguise, Clark. You don't even need a mask. Clark Kent: I'm not your enemy, Lex. I've never done anything to hurt you. Lex Luthor: Yes, you did. You didn't trust me. With everything you had, with everything you could do, did you ever think about what we could have accomplished together? I would have helped you become a hero. Clark Kent: When have you thought of anyone else but yourself? Lex Luthor: Right now. I'm doing this for the world. I have to protect the human race. Clark Kent: This is my life. You have no right to control it. Lex Luthor: It's my birthright! The Luthor family has always been about power and having control over everything. After all my sacrifices, after all the pain... I finally understand. I was being prepared for a much greater destiny. Everything led me to this moment. Clark Kent: And we're both here. We're in that moment. And what happens next is your choice. But no one is controlling you, Lex. No one is forcing you to do this. Lex Luthor: Who am I to turn my back on my fellow man? Especially after you turned your back on me? I'm sorry, Clark. But you are the Traveler. You hold the future of the entire planet in your hands. I'm here to take it back into mine. Clark Kent: Lex... Lex Luthor: You'll never threaten the world again... Kal-El. Clark Kent: Lex, don't! Lex Luthor: I loved you like a brother, Clark. But it has to end this way. I'm sorry.
	Season 7 / Episode 20: - Arctic Jimmy Olsen: Look, Lex, I would really like to help, but lying, it's just, uh, you know, it's not my thing. It's eating me up. It's actually... it's making my stomach hurt. Lex Luthor: Well it's never too late to learn a new skill.
	Season 7 / Episode 18: - Apocalypse Lex Luthor: You disappoint me, Kara. With everything my family's done for you, to question my judgment. Kara: It's only because I care about you. Lex Luthor: Since the day my father found your ship submerged in the Reeve's Dam, he loved you like you were his own daughter. He died guarding your secret from the world. Kara: I know, and I owe my life to the both of you, but this country... Lex Luthor: What do you know about protecting this country? You are an alien. I'm the President of the United States. By striking the enemy first, I am ensuring our survival. We will prevail. And through it all, I expect you to... look at me! I expect you to stand by my side. Kara: Of course, Mr. President.
	Season 7 / Episode 16: - Descent Lex Luthor: [to Lionel] I was raised in your shadow. Now, you're gonna die in mine. No one will even remember your name.
	Season 7 / Episode 16: - Descent Clark Kent: I tried to be your friend, Lex. But all you care about is power and control. Lex Luthor: This is Smallville! Meteor freaks, alien ships, cryptic symbols! These threats are real. Someone had to take control. Someone has to protect the world. Clark Kent: Listen to yourself, Lex. You're so caught up in your own delusions, you've lost track of reality. Lex Luthor: Have I? Then let's talk about something you can't deny. After years of pleading with my father, showed me some compassion, he turned to you with open arms. Now what would a worldly-billionaire have in common with a simple farm boy? Clark Kent: Maybe he just knew he could trust me. Lex Luthor: Of course. Everyone can trust Clark Kent. You're the perfect son. So...so why did Jonathan Kent always seem so stressed? I mean, was raising the perfect son really that much work? I wonder how much of a strain it put on his heart? Clark Kent: Are you blaming me for my father's death? Are you? You're the guilty one, Lex, not me. And this time you're going to own up to what you've done. I know you killed Lionel. Lex Luthor: [scoffs] Who's delusional now?
	Season 7 / Episode 14: - Traveler Lex Luthor: What secret was so important that you and your friends built a group around it? Lionel Luthor: Oh, think about it, Lex. Skull & Bones, Scroll & Key, the Delphic. The rich have secret societies. The others have poker nights.
	Season 7 / Episode 13: - Hero Chloe Sullivan: Unauthorized surveillance is totally unethical. Lex Luthor: Pretty big words from a cub reporter. Shouldn't you be using them to write stories? Chloe Sullivan: Good idea. I think "office espionage" has a nice ring to it.
	Season 7 / Episode 10: - Persona Lex Luthor: You're telling me you wouldn't want to see Julian again? To look into the eyes of the son you've lost? Lionel Luthor: It's you I've lost. It's you I've lost.
	Season 7 / Episode 9: - Gemini Lois Lane: Mr. Luthor, perhaps we could start by discussing Project Gemini. Lex Luthor: Excuse me? Lois Lane: My sources tell me you run some kind of an ant farm except instead of ants, it's humans and instead of a farm, it's a lab. Grant Gabriel: Lois. Lex Luthor: Now that you're renowned for your eloquence, Lois, but, uh, I have no idea what you're talking about. Lois Lane: Human cloning. The replication of a DNA sequence produced from a single identical ancestor. Lex Luthor: My mistake. I didn't realize you'd be pitching me a Hollywood movie. Is this how you run your paper, Mr. Gabriel?
	Season 7 / Episode 9: - Gemini Adrian: You created me in a test tube, you kept me like some pet, so you could have a brother? Is that why you couldn't get rid of me? Lex Luthor: You're not my brother! Lex Luthor: [shoots Adrian] You're a mistake.
	Season 7 / Episode 9: - Gemini Lex Luthor: Look, not that it matters, but you're no longer running my exposé. Lois Lane: Nuh uh. You'll have to take that up with my boss. Lex Luthor: I am your boss. Merry Christmas, Lois. I just bought the Daily Planet.
	Season 7 / Episode 9: - Gemini Grant Gabriel: Congratulations on the Daily Planet. Wonderful. One more piece in my life you can control, starting with my creation. Lex Luthor: I can't believe you let that lunatic sneak his ideas into your head. You're my brother. Grant Gabriel: No, Lex. I'm an experiment. Beneath all that arrogance, your cracks are starting to show. Did you really think you could keep this a secret? Or are you so desperate to mean something to someone, it was worth the risk? Lex Luthor: You can't punish me for wanting a family. Grant Gabriel: How am I supposed to feel, being the product of a man who's destroyed everything he's ever touched? Lex Luthor: No. You're different, Julian. If I didn't love you, you wouldn't be here. Grant Gabriel: I'm living proof you've forgotten how to love. But if you wanna play God, you might wanna remember his greatest gift, free will. Let me live my life.
	Season 7 / Episode 7: - Wrath Lex Luthor: Lana, wait. Killing me would almost be a release. The only person who would really suffer is you. Lana Lang: From guilt? I think I'll get over it.
	Season 7 / Episode 7: - Wrath Lex Luthor: You know the ironic part of all this, is I'm the one who ended up with something I wanted. Lana still has feelings for me. Clark Kent: Don't flatter yourself, Lex. Those powers made her obsessed. Lex Luthor: Exactly. And passion like that doesn't come out of the blue. What do you think is stronger, Clark? Her hatred for me or her affection for you? Clark Kent: She was angry. But eventually she'll move on. Lex Luthor: Don't hold your breath. Funny thing about obsession is, it outlives everything. Even love. Clark Kent: Lana never would have done anything like this before she'd been with you. Lex Luthor: Well I wish I could take all the credit, but I wasn't the first person to teach her about betrayal. Now, was I? It's hard to face what you've created, isn't it?
	Season 7 / Episode 6: - Lara Lionel Luthor: Can't I take an interest on my son's well-being? Lex Luthor: Oh, which son is that? You spend as much time protecting Clark as you do pushing me away. Exactly whose father are you? Lionel Luthor: I wish I could say yours and be proud. Your treatment of Lana... Lex Luthor: Come on, Dad. I learned from watching you with Mom. I was just...being a Luthor.
	Season 7 / Episode 5: - Action Lex Luthor: [to Clark] In the comic-book world, when you're destined to save mankind, you're destined to be alone.
	Season 7 / Episode 5: - Action Lex Luthor: I just read about your heroics in the paper. Who needs Warrior Angel when we've got our own Clark Kent? Clark Kent: Actually, that's why I'm here. I was wondering if you could help me with a reference. You're the biggest Warrior Angel fan I know. Lex Luthor: Was a fan. I haven't picked up a comic since we were friends. Back when I saw life as black and white. When I realized good and evil was gray, the stories lost their magic. Though I have to admit, yours is the last nose I'd expect to find in a comic.
	Season 7 / Episode 4: - Cure Curtis Knox, M.D.: Mankind's greatest advances would never have seen the light of day if had the genius minds behind them been scrutinized under a microscope. Curtis Knox, M.D.: Leave the science to me. Lex Luthor: Doctor, three of my patients are missing. You wouldn't happen to have any idea why someone with a brand new lease on life would suddenly disappear?
	Season 7 / Episode 4: - Cure Curtis Knox, M.D.: My apologies for keeping you waiting. Lex Luthor: Mussolini once killed a conductor for not keeping a train on schedule. Fortunately, I'm infinitely more patient than Il Duce. Curtis Knox, M.D.: Mussolini went down in defeat, doctor. I won't accept that in what we're undertaking.
	Season 7 / Episode 3: - Fierce Lex Luthor: [to Kara] Twice I've been pulled back from the brink of death, and both times it was by a member of the Kent family. I'm not a man who believes in coincidences. Sooner or later, I'll find out the truth. Are you a savior? Or are you a warning?
	Season 7 / Episode 1: - Bizarro Lex Luthor: I was dead. And there was this light. And an angel. Why would she save me... after all I've done?
	Season 7 / Episode 1: - Bizarro Lex Luthor: You're the phantom. You took Clark's body. Bizarro: Just a few cells. Clark's still alive. He's out there. And you will help me kill him. I need meteor rocks. A lot of them. Lex Luthor: I'd never help you kill Clark. Bizarro: Lex, redemption doesn't suit you. Why protect a Clark Kent who hates you when you can help the one who wants to be your ally? It's what you've always wanted. Isn't it, Lex?
	Season 7 / Episode 1: - Bizarro Lex Luthor: I may have tracked you around the globe, but clearly you're not a native. Where are you from and why did you only replicate Clark? Bizarro: Now you got a decision to make, Lex. What's more important? Destroying me or solving the mystery of Clark Kent?
	Season 6 / Episode 22: - Phantom Lex Luthor: Ever since the day I've put on this wedding ring, you seem to have the uncanny knack for being one step ahead of me. Lionel Luthor: I don't have time for this. I have things to do. Lex Luthor: Like have a private screening of that DVD? You know the documentary - the one that Lana stole from me and gave to you. Lionel Luthor: Oh, dear. I'd hoped married life have lessoned some of your paranoia.
	Season 6 / Episode 22: - Phantom Lex Luthor: As hard as it is for you to believe, Lana actually loves me. Lionel Luthor: Oh, you know so little about women, Lex. I suppose losing your mother at such an early age didn't help matters. Lana does not love you. The only reason she agreed to marry you was that I gave her a gentle, yet very firm, nudge. Lex Luthor: Using my wife against me... That's deplorable even for you. Whatever debts you think I still owe, we are even. I want you out of my life. Lionel Luthor: I don't think you're gonna get rid of me that easily.
	Season 6 / Episode 22: - Phantom Clark Kent: [Clark superspeeds into Reeves Dam and pushes Lex up against the wall] She was your wife, Lex. Why did you do it? Lex Luthor: Now is not the time to lecture me about my marriage, Clark. Clark Kent: Why'd you do it? Just tell me! Lex Luthor: Get your hands off me! Clark Kent: You afraid she was gonna bring you down, or was it just too humiliating for you that she was gonna leave you? Why'd you have to kill her? Why? Lex Luthor: What are you talking about? Clark Kent: You already know. Lana is dead. Lex Luthor: [genuinely shocked] No. Clark Kent: No. You don't to need act so surprised. You're the one who killed her. You put a bomb in her car. You're the one who killed her!
	Season 6 / Episode 21: - Prototype Lex Luthor: Get some fresh guards. I wanna see him do it again.
	Season 6 / Episode 19: - Nemesis Clark Kent: I saw Lana the day of the wedding and she was gonna leave you. What did you do her? Lex Luthor: I don't know. The answer must have gotten lost in that dark abyss we call my soul.

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