10 Worst Things Lex Luthor Has Done To Superman
7. Created Some Of His Greatest Enemies
Like all good business moguls, Lex Luthor knows that sometimes it's best to delegate.
After the story 'Crisis on Infinite Earths' rewrote DC's continuity, Lex Luthor was responsible for creating some of Superman's greatest foes.
Bizzaro was created as part of Lex's attempts to clone Superman so that he could have a version of the Man of Steel under his control. At the time, Lex and his scientists were unaware that Superman was an alien and just assumed he was a superpowered human.
This mistake created the backwards and childlike Bizzaro, who tried to live the same life as Clark Kent by kidnapping Lois Lane. The first version of Bizarro died fighting Superman when his body fell apart, but Lex later created a second version with a slightly higher mental capacity.
Later, it would be revealed that Lex was also responsible for manipulating Rudy Jones into consuming the toxic chemicals that turned him into the energy draining Parasite.
After continuity was rebooted again as part of the New 52, Lex was the mastermind behind another Superman enemy. Luthor was the head of "Project Steel Soldier", an attempt by the American military to create a counter to Superman, and was responsible for creating the kryptonite powered cyborg Metallo.
Ironically, in the previous continuity, Lex nearly killed Metallo by removing his kryptonite heart to make his ill-advised ring.