In Smallvile Why Does Lex Luthor

When does Lex Luthor turn evil in Smallville?

I think we can actually pin it down to one specific episode: Onyx.In Onyx, Lex splits into two different people, Good Lex and Evil Lex. When they recombine, he seems to be back to normal. But in every episode after that, he acts much more like a villain, all of a sudden.This is confirmed on the Smallville Wiki for the episode Onyx:"It could be argued that when the two halves of Lex were merged at the end, that his evil side remained dominant and thus this is the episode where Lex began to truly change from good to evil. Lex's smirk in the end when Lionel reveals he's cancelled the charity he was going to start could indicate this. In his remaining Season Four episodes, Lex is noticeably more unscrupulous than in the past, particularly in Ageless and Commencement. His friendship with Clark will come to a permanent end early in Season 5, and soon after he will deliberately torture Arthur Curry in Aqua, which would seem to go beyond the pale of any good justification he could come up with."This is both a satisfying explanation and a slightly disappointing one. On the one hand, we can pinpoint his exact moment of change, which is pretty cool from a writing standpoint. It's sharp, clean, and easy to spot once you know what to look for.On the other hand, it's a little disappointing because his moment of change comes not because of anything that happens to him on a character level. Rather, it happens because of an unfortunate experiment with kryptonite gone wrong.I think that's the reason why fans are eager to point to Lexmas as his turning point, since he actually gets to make a moral choice that determines his ultimate fate. But he was acting like a villain way before then, especially in the Season Four finale, Commencement. By that point, he's pretty much full-on Lex Luthor from the comics. After that, he spends more time pretending to be good in order to deceive people than genuinely being good.Lexmas is when he makes a choice to turn down the dark path. But his actual pivot point happens in Onyx. Which, in retrospect, is fitting, because it acts as the character's midpoint.Because Michael Rosenbaum only starred in the first seven seasons of Smallville, Season 4 was his midpoint. So we get to see three-and-a-half seasons of Lex as a good guy and three-and-a-half seasons of Lex as a bad guy, which gives his arc a nice bit of symmetry.

What was the Lex Luthor character like in Smallville?

Thanks for A2A, I would love to answer this question to the best of my abilities.There’s an opposite to everything. Yin has Yang, Black has White, Day has Night and Clark Kent has Lex Luthor! In Smallville, the character of Lex Luthor is written in a manner which has never been touched on screen before in any of the movies. Very few people know that at one time, Lex and Clark were best of the friends. Its the obsession with the meteor rocks that led Lex to turn maniac in the later stages of the series.The character of Lex Luthor is played by Michael Rosenbaum which he has done with great finesse and conviction. There are times, when you would actually feel sorry for Lex as he is often seen to be at the receiving end of the ploy called Life. At one hand there is Clark whose parents are supportive enough to raise an alien child after shielding him from the world, on the other its Lional Luthor, who despite claiming to love his son sometimes gives in to the temptations of being the most powerful man in the world. The temptation, which later turns into Lex’s obsession is beautifully portrayed in the series and every vandetta is backed by l logic and incident.In short, the character of Lex Luthor is a treat to watch as its important to know the anti-thesis of every thesis, which in this case happens to be our famed boy from Smallville - Clark Kent.