After watching Echo and seeing how the Toyman was able to make a "Mandroid" (inside joke by superhippie200 & us Supernatural fans since Chris Gauthier's character Ronald Resnick had a mandroid theory) or cyborg of himself, I think it's very possible that he made one of Lex too and that the Lex we saw in Bride & Requiem was a mandroid/cyborg, much like the one of Toyman in Echo.
Furthermore, if you look at the mandroid of the Toyman, you'll notice it was rigged with a bomb. The reason it was rigged with a bomb was to take out the human element so there would be no human error. He did the same thing by putting the bomb at the factory on a timer. We know this from the words spoken by Clark at the Ace of Clubs:
Clark: What you’re doing is pointless. Oliver would never let those people die.
PA System in background: The emergency alarm has been activated. Please move in an orderly fashion to the nearest exit.
Clark: But you already know that, don’t you? You don’t allow for human error. You have to control who wins. That’s why you put a timer on the factory bomb. The pressure plate that Oliver’s standing on is fake, isn’t it? It’s on a timer.
Toyman: You follow my work. It’s always nice to have a fan.
Clark: How long does Oliver have?
Toyman: Not long enough.
Clark: You know what, Toyman? I might be your biggest fan, and I know that the real Winslow Schott would want to live and dance on Oliver’s grave.
Toyman: Five, four, three, two...
Clark: No one wins the game if you both lose.
Note: Thanks to MrsK for supplying me with these lines since I had audio problems.
So it seems like he learned from the mistake he made in Requiem when he chose to plant the toy monkey bomb in person next to Oliver. We know that was the real Toyman because he didn't want to die & gave into Oliver's demands.
But what I think is that even though Oliver grabbed the toy monkey bomb, it didn't make a difference because there was already a bomb planted in the mandroid Lex that was sitting in the trailer of that truck. I do believe the real Lex was working with the Toyman and paid him to make a mandroid Lex because he was one step ahead of the Toyman. Unlike Toyman, who was inexperienced at that time & allowed for human error by trying to kill Ollie in person, Lex wanted to make sure all the bases were covered and set up a no-win scenario for Clark, Lana, and Oliver/Green Arrow.
It makes total sense. A kryptonite bomb was rigged on the roof of the Daily Planet to give Clark & Lana a choice to either save the people inside or be forever seperated. He knew that Clark would choose to stop the bomb and therefore knew that the bomb would be his way of forever breaking up Clark & Lana and was his revenge against them. Then was his vendetta against Green Arrow. The mandroid Lex was set up as Lex's revenge against Green Arrow. He would have known that Green Arrow tried to kill him in Cuba & what were several other offscreen attempts based on what we heard from Oliver. So to take care of his Green Arrow problem, he had a mandroid version of himself set up in the trailer of that truck & rigged with explosives to kill Green Arrow when he walked in. The only problem was that Oliver got to him first by planting the toy monkey on the exterior of the truck & blew up the mandroid, which would have had Lex's DNA to make up its skin.
So I maintain that the real Lex, just like the powerless Clark as we saw him at the end of Arctic & in Odyssey, walked out of the Fortress and was never disabled like the Lex we saw in Bride & Requiem. I think that Lex was a mandroid who was being fed the latest information (which is what we saw in Bride) to make him be as convincing as possible to the real Lex. Neither Tess nor Regan were able to find him in the Arctic, meaning he got away way before Odyssey--about the same time as Clark did.
Another cool thing if you notice is Lex's connection to Toyman. If there indeed was a mandroid version of Lex created, it's funny how we saw him so closely associated with Toyman in Requiem. And what did we see when Toyman made his return in Echo? Why another appearance of "Lex". Could it be that the Lex Oliver saw in the glass door of the Ace of Clubs is a 2nd Lex mandroid created by the Toyman for the real Lex as a tool to drive Oliver to either killing himself or on the brink of destruction where the real Lex will finally show his face & try to finish the job?
All I can say is that this is very interesting & I will be keeping my eyes peeled this season for more signs of last season's Lex having been a mandroid. I think Lex by now knows that Oliver is the Green Arrow. I think he's been in the background without anyone noticing him & has learned Clark & co.'s deepest secrets. Going this route will also free Oliver from having any blood from his hands as the Lex he "killed" would have been a machine covered by real, replicated skin and not been a living human----the real Lex or a clone. It would also show how clever Lex is and how he wouldn't be stupid enough to let himself get blown up in a truck without any protection.
Furthermore, if you look at the mandroid of the Toyman, you'll notice it was rigged with a bomb. The reason it was rigged with a bomb was to take out the human element so there would be no human error. He did the same thing by putting the bomb at the factory on a timer. We know this from the words spoken by Clark at the Ace of Clubs:
Clark: What you’re doing is pointless. Oliver would never let those people die.
PA System in background: The emergency alarm has been activated. Please move in an orderly fashion to the nearest exit.
Clark: But you already know that, don’t you? You don’t allow for human error. You have to control who wins. That’s why you put a timer on the factory bomb. The pressure plate that Oliver’s standing on is fake, isn’t it? It’s on a timer.
Toyman: You follow my work. It’s always nice to have a fan.
Clark: How long does Oliver have?
Toyman: Not long enough.
Clark: You know what, Toyman? I might be your biggest fan, and I know that the real Winslow Schott would want to live and dance on Oliver’s grave.
Toyman: Five, four, three, two...
Clark: No one wins the game if you both lose.
Note: Thanks to MrsK for supplying me with these lines since I had audio problems.
So it seems like he learned from the mistake he made in Requiem when he chose to plant the toy monkey bomb in person next to Oliver. We know that was the real Toyman because he didn't want to die & gave into Oliver's demands.
But what I think is that even though Oliver grabbed the toy monkey bomb, it didn't make a difference because there was already a bomb planted in the mandroid Lex that was sitting in the trailer of that truck. I do believe the real Lex was working with the Toyman and paid him to make a mandroid Lex because he was one step ahead of the Toyman. Unlike Toyman, who was inexperienced at that time & allowed for human error by trying to kill Ollie in person, Lex wanted to make sure all the bases were covered and set up a no-win scenario for Clark, Lana, and Oliver/Green Arrow.
It makes total sense. A kryptonite bomb was rigged on the roof of the Daily Planet to give Clark & Lana a choice to either save the people inside or be forever seperated. He knew that Clark would choose to stop the bomb and therefore knew that the bomb would be his way of forever breaking up Clark & Lana and was his revenge against them. Then was his vendetta against Green Arrow. The mandroid Lex was set up as Lex's revenge against Green Arrow. He would have known that Green Arrow tried to kill him in Cuba & what were several other offscreen attempts based on what we heard from Oliver. So to take care of his Green Arrow problem, he had a mandroid version of himself set up in the trailer of that truck & rigged with explosives to kill Green Arrow when he walked in. The only problem was that Oliver got to him first by planting the toy monkey on the exterior of the truck & blew up the mandroid, which would have had Lex's DNA to make up its skin.
So I maintain that the real Lex, just like the powerless Clark as we saw him at the end of Arctic & in Odyssey, walked out of the Fortress and was never disabled like the Lex we saw in Bride & Requiem. I think that Lex was a mandroid who was being fed the latest information (which is what we saw in Bride) to make him be as convincing as possible to the real Lex. Neither Tess nor Regan were able to find him in the Arctic, meaning he got away way before Odyssey--about the same time as Clark did.
Another cool thing if you notice is Lex's connection to Toyman. If there indeed was a mandroid version of Lex created, it's funny how we saw him so closely associated with Toyman in Requiem. And what did we see when Toyman made his return in Echo? Why another appearance of "Lex". Could it be that the Lex Oliver saw in the glass door of the Ace of Clubs is a 2nd Lex mandroid created by the Toyman for the real Lex as a tool to drive Oliver to either killing himself or on the brink of destruction where the real Lex will finally show his face & try to finish the job?
All I can say is that this is very interesting & I will be keeping my eyes peeled this season for more signs of last season's Lex having been a mandroid. I think Lex by now knows that Oliver is the Green Arrow. I think he's been in the background without anyone noticing him & has learned Clark & co.'s deepest secrets. Going this route will also free Oliver from having any blood from his hands as the Lex he "killed" would have been a machine covered by real, replicated skin and not been a living human----the real Lex or a clone. It would also show how clever Lex is and how he wouldn't be stupid enough to let himself get blown up in a truck without any protection.
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