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And now, a chapter probably everyone has waited for from the start. The clash of the Lex Luthors! Hope I do not disappoint.
Smallville Lex will be called Alexander while Arrowverse version will be called Lex.
Chaos Sorcerer: Thanks for the review. Yeah, quite a bit happened. Yes, it was surprise. I actually liked Jonathan Schaech as Hex so no problem. Yes, Zod sure would do it. Glad Brainy and Brainiac 5 was a good laugh. Yup, the content would crush Indigo. No kidding. Glad this fight was something else. Yup. Well, hope I don't disappoint. Thanks for the review on 'That is legally problematic' as well. Yeah, Matt served Ross like a boss. Glad I made your day there. That would be hilarious with Ross punching Matt and then Matt knocking him out. I can already imagine the views. IKR? What is wrong with the guy? IKR? The only thing more senseless than Asgardians signing the Accords would be Vegeta signing the Accords. He'd blow the UN building instead. As for how Odin would react to the Accords, see Michael Weyer's review on that one-shot. He hit the mark. This person also claims he has seen and experienced emotional/physical abuse in his real life but says that what Iris does to Barry in the show isn't any kind of abuse, when there is a lot of evidence to the contrary. So either he's a liar or plain stupid. Probably the latter. And he's also a journalist but couldn't find proof of something for days while it took me and Phillipe363 only a few minutes to find it. Yes, someone should have brought this all up. I'm pretty sure the studios interfered with this movie because the Russos make awesome stuff. If the entire movie had been as good as the Siberia bit, it would be near perfect. Yes, this would be an awesome way to introduce Matt Murdock in MCU movies indeed. Also, please check out 'Trolling Diaz' and 'Accidental heroes' whenever you get the chance. Anyway, enjoy the chapter.
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Guest 2: Thanks for the review and title, though I got a slightly better one. Just watch.
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Chapter 30- The Bald, the Bearded and the Genius
"Hello, people", Wade greeted cheerfully as he walked to the stage and all applauded hysterically for him. "Been two days since we were last here, isn't that right, huh?"
All nodded and applauded as Wade said. "This is the one thing that won't be shut down even with coronavirus around. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't be cautious. So stay safe from the damn stupid virus, ya all!"
All nodded and applauded again as Wade said. "Though I don't need to, as I can't get it."
All laughed and applauded again as Wade said. "Anyway, we got a Smallville joke to lighten the mood."
All listened as Wade said. "So what do the kids sing when Allison Mack approaches?"
All looked at each other, wondering what the right answer to this question was when Wade raised his voice and said in a sing-song voice-
"SOMEBODY SAAAAVEEE MEEEE!"
All laughed hysterically, almost falling from their seats at the joke Wade had just told until he raised his hand. "Okay people, that was fun wasn't it?"
All nodded and applauded as he said. "So we already had the Supermen battle. But today, we will have two versions of his biggest arch-enemy battle each other. Lex Luthor!"
All applauded hysterically again and it seemed like the building would explode as Wade raised his hand to calm everyone down.
"So, on one side, we have Alexander Luthor from Smallville, played by the talented Michael Rosenbaum", Wade said as all applauded hysterically and he had to raise his hand once more. "So he was a main character for the first seven Seasons of the show. He was son of Lionel and Lillian and the meteor shower had made him lose his hair. The Luthor name was something that tormented him for long, so he came to Smallville to try to atone for his father's sins. There, he was saved by Clark from an accident and that's how he became best friends with our hero. The two were very good friends for the first two Seasons, and Lex was a genuinely good man, seeing Clark as the brother he never had and being envious of his relationship with Jonathan. But he still had darkness within him and could act on it at times. Several factors in his life, including his war with his own father and Clark's secret, along with his own paranoia, slowly led him to darkness. The end of Season 3 is where the seeds were sown of his eventual falling out with Clark, and it became a reality in Season 5, with Brainiac accelerating the process, and by the end of it they were total rivals, even coming to blows at times as Lex did many things simply to hurt Clark. In Season 7, he finally embraced his darkness and became Clark's ultimate enemy, trying to control him, but after the collapse of the Fortress of Solitude, he went missing. He was alive of course, and manipulated Tess from behind the scenes, until she discovered his deception. He was presumably murdered by Oliver Queen, but Tess later found clones of him in Season 10. Lionel Luthor of Earth-2 gave himself up to finally revive Lex, and revived he was at last, meeting Clark as the two embraced their destinies as arch-enemies. He then murdered Tess, but she wiped out all of his memories before dying, thus redeeming herself. So Lex lost all of his memories, but his anger and distrust towards Superman still remained somehow, and that's how he became the Lex Luthor of the comics, plotting against Superman, which is in his very nature. But, anyone else find the memory wipe stupid? Makes the entire arc of Lex in the show pointless. And the anger and distrust remaining is just too convenient and bad writing."
All nodded and groaned and said. "Still, the show was amazing and Lex was the best character. And that's it for Smallville's Alexander."
All applauded as images of Michael Rosenbaum's Alexander Luthor appeared on the screen behind Wade who then continued. "On the other side, we have Alexander Luthor from Supergirl in Arrowverse, played by Jon Cryer. Now as good as Cryer is, those who have seen Two and a Half Men won't be able to take him seriously."
All laughed hysterically at that and applauded again on remembering Alan Harper as Wade said. "Anyway, he too was raised by Lionel and Lillian, and Lena was adopted by his dad. He was close to her when they were kids. When they got older, he had dealings with some Bruno Mannheim, which is what slowly led him to his dark path. He was also best friends with Superman for a while, but his methods drove Superman and they became arch-enemies, with him using every trick in the book to bring him down. In 2016, after the horrific Red Sun incident, Lex was finally incarcerated while Lena controlled LuthorCorp, though he tried to have her killed by Metallo. In 2018, after learning of Red Daughter, he decided to return to the game properly, manipulating Lena into creating the Children of Liberty with Ben Lockwood at the head and also manipulating the Red Daughter. His machinations also made sure that he ended up getting the Harun-El Lena was making, thus giving him powers as well, which he used to escape. It was also revealed that President Baker was his pawn. He 'killed' Red Daughter, becoming a hero to the public and the country's leader. However, the good guys didn't give up and fought him, with Red Daughter taking a fatal blow meant for Kara. Kara tried to save Lex but he sent himself plummeting to the ground while everyone cheered as Lex's crimes were exposed. But Lex teleported himself to his and Lena's childhood cabin where she extracted the Harun-El and killed him, but not before he revealed to her that Kara was Supergirl and all had kept this secret from her, destroying her friendship with Kara. The Monitor brought him back to help in the Crisis as they made a deal and in the Crisis, Lex killed several Supermen in the Multiverse, made Routhman battle Super Cuckold, replaced Routhman as the Paragon of Truth, helping make the new Multiverse by reading the Book of Destiny. On Earth-Prime, he was still head of his company and owned the DEO, looking like a good guy on the surface but still being a bad guy underneath. That's all we know so that's it for this guy."
All applauded as images of Jon Cryer's Alexander Luthor appeared on the screen behind Wade while he said. "Now let them decide who is the better one."
Alexander and Lex sat on opposite ends of the table, a chessboard between them as the two simply regarded each other.
"The beard looks ridiculous", Alexander said, angering Lex.
"Oh come on! At least I look like a man", Lex simply shrugged.
"A man who is ragged on by his older brother, his mother, his stupid son and ex-wives", Alexander reminded and Lex was even more angered at the reminder.
"Yeah well, at least it makes me more recognizable", Lex said.
"As an idiot with luck worse than Peter Parker", Alexander drawled and Lex decided to drop this subject for now.
Alexander then made the first move, moving the pawn in front of the queen by one square as Lex said. "The memory wipe at the end of the show made it all pointless for you and you married Lana Lang of all people. I thought you were supposed to be smart!"
Alexander looked down and sighed. He was lucky Lex had brought this up after he had already made his move, or he would have made a bad move. What Lex said did work against him though.
"Your backstory was copied from mine to an extent", Alexander said. "At least your friendship with Superman. Best friends turning enemies due to your methods? Yeah, sounds suspiciously familiar."
Lex snarled and moved the pawn in front of the bishop by one square while saying. "My schemes worked for a long time. I controlled the President of the US and even became a hero for a time in the public's eyes. I manipulated Lena into creating the Harun-El for me. You couldn't even win the seat of Kansas' Senator."
"You said you controlled the President, right?" Alexander asked and Lex nodded as Alexander moved the pawn in front of his king by two squares. "That's cute. I became President, like my comic book counterpart. You sure you're the more comic accurate one?"
An angered Lex moved his pawn in front of the knight by two squares and said. "But none of your schemes were equal to mine during Crisis. I became Paragon and managed to undo my bad reputation, becoming a good guy in the public's eyes."
"You're supposed to be smart", Alexander said. "If you had the book, why didn't you simply use it to be on top of everyone, instead of being at a decent place and continuing your manipulations?"
With that, Alexander moved his queen diagonally to a corner and managed to corner Lex's king. There was no escape now.
"Checkmate."
"What? How?" Lex asked in shock as he got up and looked at the board in shock. "I am humanity's best!"
"You are, in your world, but I, being the better one, figured out your weak points and used them to get you to make bad moves", Alexander smirked as he got up while Lex looked at him. "But you're still good, even if you aren't as good as me. We will continue to take down our enemies even after this because you see, I used to think it was our families that made us who we are. Then I hoped it was our friends. But if you truly look at history, the great men and women of this world have always been defined….by their enemies."
He gave Lex one last look and walked out as the second best Lex pondered over the best one's words.
"And Smallville wins another one once more", Wade said as all applauded happily. "While Jon Cryer is great and infinitely better than Eisenberg, no one compares to Rosenbaum, except Clancy Brown from the animated stuff. But at least Lex put up a decent fight. Got to give him props for that."
All nodded and applauded as Wade said. "Scoreboard!"
Smallville: 18
Arrowverse: 10
"Well, Smallville is getting closer to a 20", Wade said. "And next time we meet, the sisters of these two will clash to see who is the better character."
All applauded again as Wade said. "Until next time."
And done at last.
If this disappointed, I apologize, but no normal human brain can comprehend two good Lex Luthors properly.
And I'm no master chess player so I decided to have Alexander trick Lex into making bad moves as that worked.
Still, hope the points I brought up were good enough.
So hope everyone enjoyed and see you all next time where the two versions of Lutessa Lena Luthor clash. Until then, stay safe from the coronavirus ya all!
