I just don't want Lex as Darkseid's pawn. Especially when it involved his existence. I'd rather have Lex work with Darkseid sometime down the line in the distant future, which would be way after the events of the series.
Before saying anything else about this, I'll say I would rather negate an already-horrible episode and dissociate Lex from Clark & Lana's breakup than totally ruin the character of Lex Luthor. They already ruined Lex enough (along with wasted his appearances on the show) by having him in the middle of a love triangle between Clark & Lana, which I never ever wanted. But despite this, we could still have Lex involved by not having Requiem-Lex be the real Lex. If the real Lex was behind the Requiem-Lex, which could have been a clone or prototypical cyborg, then in the end, it was Lex who would be responsible all along. And not only would this be the case, but it would also mean that Lex wasn't stupid enough to sacrifice his existence just for revenge on Clark & Lana and instead was smart enough to have used a clone or cyborg. The real Lex being blown up would not be the act of a supervillain but the act of a deseperate idiot who thought revenge was more important than his own life. And the real Lex should never ever be depicted as being so stupid or sloppy. The behavior of the Requiem-Lex mirrored that of the evil Lex clone in Lazarus, where that clone knew he was going to die and didn't care. Requiem-Lex being a clone would fall into the same scenario. I justify clones that knew they would die in acting like that. But I don't justify the real Lex Luthor, who's supposed to be Superman's ultimate villain to be so stupid or petty that he wanted revenge after being scorned by Lana of all people. So making the real Lex be the puppet master behind a clone or cyborg which would have been Requiem-Lex would prevent the real Lex from having been portrayed as a desperate, scorned revenge-minded fool in Requiem while also being behind everything that happened in that episode.
And if you ask me, a prototypical cyborg would make more sense given:
1. Lex had been producing Lex clones at Cadmus and Lex could have gotten his scientists or the Toyman himself to remove the organs of one of them & outfit him with mechanical parts (this would tie into the fact that Lex bought Cyntechnics, which is the company that altered Victor Stone)
2. The involvement of Toyman, a master electronics & robotics genius, in Requiem
3. How the next time we saw Toyman in Echo he had a fully functioning cyborg of himself that had a bomb inside & seemed like an advanced version of the Requiem-Lex model cyborg (if he was a cyborg), and such a Toyman cyborg would have required serious funding that Lex could have given him
4. How there were devices & wires that were hooked up to Requiem-Lex that make it entirely possible he was an imperfect cyborg model that the Toyman whipped up
5. That it would not object to being set up to die by the real Lex like a clone may object.
6. How in Echo, besides seeing the Toyman with a bomb-containing cyborg of himself we also saw Oliver see Lex's reflection for a brief moment on the rooftop in that glass door, which would be entirely possible if there was a Lex-Toyman collaboration and had Lex been using the same technology we saw his scientists use on Wes Keenan in Prototype on himself to make him be able to cloak & decloak at will
But Darkseid & Godfrey didn't have operatives in the government. Someone would had to be influencing those in the government. If the government was just affected by Darkseid's power & Godfrey's influence, then the VRA would have never been repealed since a government in a Darkseid/Godfrey trance would have just ignored the public outcry & continued with the law. Lex not immediately striking doesn't mean he has no threat value. The most dangerous threats gather information and extend their knowledge while picking out the most inopportune time for their nemesis to strike.
I specifically referred to the example of Neron as something that would not be consistent with Lex being bailed out by Darkseid in Smallville. If the real Lex in Smallville died in Requiem, then it means he had no role in being put into that situation since he died involuntarily. Requiem-Lex did not want to die, but was rather killed by Oliver. So if Requiem-Lex is the real Lex, then Lex was put into the position of needing to be saved by Darkseid by someone else (Oliver). But in the comics, the only reason Lex had to make that deal with Neron was because of Lex's own evil nature. His evil nature is what led to him wearing the ring, which gave him cancer, which led to him cloning himself and transplanting his brain to his clone, where he then posed as his own son when he crashed a plane containing his original body to make it seem like Lex Luthor died. But ultimately his cloned body began deteriorating and he was forced to sell Neron his soul, which itself was a voluntary thing Lex did. And all of this is rooted in his obsession in wearing the green-k ring for so long. And Lex selling his soul is what paid any debt he would have to Neron. So in the end, comics Lex sold his soul to keep himself alive all because of his own nature. But Requiem-Lex would have died & be brought back by Darkseid all because of Oliver Queen, not because of himself.
As far as Lex's soul in the afterlife as we saw it in Lazarus is concerned, what I have been suggesting is that Lex has been using an enhanced & safer version of the death serum seen in Void to enter the afterlife and learn the same knowledge about the future from the afterlife that Jonathan exhibited in Void & Lazarus and Lillian Luthor also exhibited in Void. I've been saying that in the end, revealing a Lex Luthor who uses the invisibility technology his own scientists developed (which they would have originally obtained after studying Graham Garrett's corpse from Fade & used on Wes Keenan in Prototype in a device that was hooked up to him) to get around undetected and spy on his enemies during his assumed death and who uses an enhanced version of the death serum from Void to learn the secrets from the afterlife to feed his neverending thirst for knowledge would create the type of Lex Luthor I want Superman to face. He would be a Lex Luthor who would go beyond death itself (without sloppily killing himself) to gain the upper hand while learning everything he needed to about his enemies and playing the puppetmaster behind the scenes while choosing the best time to strike & reveal himself. It would also be amazing continuity to go back and tie to the plots of episodes like Void, Fade, Prototype, Requiem, and Echo. Because it would show a Lex who did not die but used every tool at his disposal to keep himself hidden until the right time.
Lex would also stay hidden because of all the Kandorians who showed up and he would be able to do more damage that way that Clark wouldn't be able to detect. I still think the real Lex was who murdered the Jor-El clone because Alia being Jor-El's murderer never made sense. If I was writing this show, I would execute my Alia-Brainiac-orb theory by having the Brainiac crystal that Tess stole from Clark use the orb as its mouthpiece to communicate with Tess & trick her to bring the crystal next to the orb so it would absorb into the orb, making Tess believe it was destroyed, and ultimately release the final copy of Brainiac when the orb opened. And that final copy would take the form of the person we believed to be Alia, explaining why she had powers under both suns. Lex & Brainiac/Alia would have collaborated to rid Earth of the Kandorians so that Brainiac could release General Zod's phantom & have it merge with Major Zod's body as a fatal wound is delivered to Major Zod where he would be healed after General Zod permanently takes over his body. Then Brainiac & Zod would leave Earth according to Lex's deal with him since Lex wouldn't want Zod on Earth. But this plan would have been derailed by the events of Salvation. So if I'm writing the show, Zod would return this season & Brainiac would return & make his presence known briefly taking the form as Alia & changing back to himself while smirking at Clark to confirm my theory & Brainiac would merge the 2 Zods and leave Earth to travel in space like he does in the comics to fight Clark as Superman again in the future while a merged General Zod is moments later sent to the Phantom Zone in corporeal form by Clark. This would all happen after Zod returns as a good guy on Clark's side who gets stabbed with a blue-k knife by Brainiac where unlike Clark in Lazarus, his soul stays permanently in the afterlife while General Zod's phantom takes over his body. The theory executed in such a manner would mean that the Alia who time traveled back to the events of Savior would have not really died, but just made Clark to believe she did. Once Clark buried her, she would dig herself out and move on to work with Lex. The 2nd Alia/Brainiac who didn't time travel would have sacrificed herself to keep the whole murderer of Jor-El, Lex, and the entire Lex-Brainiac deal, secret.
Like I said, I don't think Lex should be sacrificed for any of plot, and even better, the plot doesn't even need to be sacrificed/negated if it's revealed the Lex who was blown up was a cyborg or clone and was a puppet of the real Lex, who would have been behind the entire thing. The real Lex actually dying in an explosion just to seperate Clark & Lana isn't any sort of accomplishment unless he didn't die and used a cyborg or clone instead as his puppet.
Secondly, I hope "Requiem" Lex wasn't a clone. Because if he was that negates the entire point of the episode. Whatever you might think about how it was handled, the final collapse of Clark and Lana was a pivotal moment in the series, and to have anyone other than the real Lex Luthor behind it would seriously cheapen what emotion there was in it. It's also one of the few times that we see Lex acting like a legitimate supervillain. No whining about how his dad treated him, no "Clark didn't trust me," just pure unadulterated supervillainy. In "Requiem" Lex proved that even without his company, money, connections, and assets, stuck on an IV in the back of a truck and deprived of his very mobility, he was a lethal threat to the world's superheroes. He had them quaking in their boots when he was the one on life support.Take that away and what has Smallville's Lex done? Pulled a soap opera style fake pregnancy test on Lana, killed his dad in a temper tantrum, and been used by Brainiac. That's it. To justify him being the kind of threat this season has built him up to be, "Requiem" Lex needs to be the real deal.
And if you ask me, a prototypical cyborg would make more sense given:
1. Lex had been producing Lex clones at Cadmus and Lex could have gotten his scientists or the Toyman himself to remove the organs of one of them & outfit him with mechanical parts (this would tie into the fact that Lex bought Cyntechnics, which is the company that altered Victor Stone)
2. The involvement of Toyman, a master electronics & robotics genius, in Requiem
3. How the next time we saw Toyman in Echo he had a fully functioning cyborg of himself that had a bomb inside & seemed like an advanced version of the Requiem-Lex model cyborg (if he was a cyborg), and such a Toyman cyborg would have required serious funding that Lex could have given him
4. How there were devices & wires that were hooked up to Requiem-Lex that make it entirely possible he was an imperfect cyborg model that the Toyman whipped up
5. That it would not object to being set up to die by the real Lex like a clone may object.
6. How in Echo, besides seeing the Toyman with a bomb-containing cyborg of himself we also saw Oliver see Lex's reflection for a brief moment on the rooftop in that glass door, which would be entirely possible if there was a Lex-Toyman collaboration and had Lex been using the same technology we saw his scientists use on Wes Keenan in Prototype on himself to make him be able to cloak & decloak at will
And Lex wasn't behind the VRA. Godfrey and Darkseid were. And seriously, if Lex has been out there all this time and done nothing...what exactly does that say about his threat value. He knows Clark's secret, why isn't he on his front doorstep with Green K. Only the events of "Requiem" can justify that. Similarly, his soul was shown to be in some kind of limbo in an earlier episode. My best guess is Lex put himself there, and Darkseid isn't so much going to bring him back to life, as break him out. And it wouldn't be the first time Luthor has been in debt to darker forces. In the comics Luthor sold his soul to Neron in an effort to regain his mobility after his cloned body degenerated to the point of uselessness.
I specifically referred to the example of Neron as something that would not be consistent with Lex being bailed out by Darkseid in Smallville. If the real Lex in Smallville died in Requiem, then it means he had no role in being put into that situation since he died involuntarily. Requiem-Lex did not want to die, but was rather killed by Oliver. So if Requiem-Lex is the real Lex, then Lex was put into the position of needing to be saved by Darkseid by someone else (Oliver). But in the comics, the only reason Lex had to make that deal with Neron was because of Lex's own evil nature. His evil nature is what led to him wearing the ring, which gave him cancer, which led to him cloning himself and transplanting his brain to his clone, where he then posed as his own son when he crashed a plane containing his original body to make it seem like Lex Luthor died. But ultimately his cloned body began deteriorating and he was forced to sell Neron his soul, which itself was a voluntary thing Lex did. And all of this is rooted in his obsession in wearing the green-k ring for so long. And Lex selling his soul is what paid any debt he would have to Neron. So in the end, comics Lex sold his soul to keep himself alive all because of his own nature. But Requiem-Lex would have died & be brought back by Darkseid all because of Oliver Queen, not because of himself.
As far as Lex's soul in the afterlife as we saw it in Lazarus is concerned, what I have been suggesting is that Lex has been using an enhanced & safer version of the death serum seen in Void to enter the afterlife and learn the same knowledge about the future from the afterlife that Jonathan exhibited in Void & Lazarus and Lillian Luthor also exhibited in Void. I've been saying that in the end, revealing a Lex Luthor who uses the invisibility technology his own scientists developed (which they would have originally obtained after studying Graham Garrett's corpse from Fade & used on Wes Keenan in Prototype in a device that was hooked up to him) to get around undetected and spy on his enemies during his assumed death and who uses an enhanced version of the death serum from Void to learn the secrets from the afterlife to feed his neverending thirst for knowledge would create the type of Lex Luthor I want Superman to face. He would be a Lex Luthor who would go beyond death itself (without sloppily killing himself) to gain the upper hand while learning everything he needed to about his enemies and playing the puppetmaster behind the scenes while choosing the best time to strike & reveal himself. It would also be amazing continuity to go back and tie to the plots of episodes like Void, Fade, Prototype, Requiem, and Echo. Because it would show a Lex who did not die but used every tool at his disposal to keep himself hidden until the right time.
Lex would also stay hidden because of all the Kandorians who showed up and he would be able to do more damage that way that Clark wouldn't be able to detect. I still think the real Lex was who murdered the Jor-El clone because Alia being Jor-El's murderer never made sense. If I was writing this show, I would execute my Alia-Brainiac-orb theory by having the Brainiac crystal that Tess stole from Clark use the orb as its mouthpiece to communicate with Tess & trick her to bring the crystal next to the orb so it would absorb into the orb, making Tess believe it was destroyed, and ultimately release the final copy of Brainiac when the orb opened. And that final copy would take the form of the person we believed to be Alia, explaining why she had powers under both suns. Lex & Brainiac/Alia would have collaborated to rid Earth of the Kandorians so that Brainiac could release General Zod's phantom & have it merge with Major Zod's body as a fatal wound is delivered to Major Zod where he would be healed after General Zod permanently takes over his body. Then Brainiac & Zod would leave Earth according to Lex's deal with him since Lex wouldn't want Zod on Earth. But this plan would have been derailed by the events of Salvation. So if I'm writing the show, Zod would return this season & Brainiac would return & make his presence known briefly taking the form as Alia & changing back to himself while smirking at Clark to confirm my theory & Brainiac would merge the 2 Zods and leave Earth to travel in space like he does in the comics to fight Clark as Superman again in the future while a merged General Zod is moments later sent to the Phantom Zone in corporeal form by Clark. This would all happen after Zod returns as a good guy on Clark's side who gets stabbed with a blue-k knife by Brainiac where unlike Clark in Lazarus, his soul stays permanently in the afterlife while General Zod's phantom takes over his body. The theory executed in such a manner would mean that the Alia who time traveled back to the events of Savior would have not really died, but just made Clark to believe she did. Once Clark buried her, she would dig herself out and move on to work with Lex. The 2nd Alia/Brainiac who didn't time travel would have sacrificed herself to keep the whole murderer of Jor-El, Lex, and the entire Lex-Brainiac deal, secret.
Dying in a truck explosion may not be a glorioius way to go. Yet he did a huge amount of damage in that episiode before he went. That fear in Clark's voice when he talks about Lex? It's because of "Requiem". If that wasn't the real Lex, than his threat value and his accomplishments drop to zero. And that's far worse character wise than being in debt to Darkseid.
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