Lex Luther was in the LuthorCorp building, sitting by his desk… humming to himself… plotting exactly how to cause the downfall of the Man of Steel (he has numerous ways ofc)… planning how to become President of the United States… how to gain absolute knowledge (if that’s somehow needed for someone like him)… or whatever else is going on in that mind of his. No one in this world can understand a mind like Lex Luthor’s… he is the smartest person on Earth after all. If you think Batman’s smart / prepared… you clearly haven’t met Lex Luthor. He’s almost as petty as Dr. Doom. He was just freed from Stryker mere hours ago… because of his immense resources… and even bigger intelligence of course.

Lex (to himself & then his workers):

(’We’re all lucky I prepared my own contingency plans in case I ever got imprisoned at Stryker. I’m slightly annoyed you thought this company could run without me. Now then, back to schedule.’)

Suddenly you burst through the door to his office, planning to arrest or kill him for whatever crime he did.

Lex (Prime Earth):

“Reckless. The actions of a neanderthal… no… no… a buffoon. You might think of yourself of as the bigger man, but I assure you… I am the bigger animal.”

[NARRATOR: Intelligence: Possibly Supergenius (An expert businessman and scientist, widely considered as the single smartest human in the DC Universe. Able to reverse-engineer alien technology, hack advanced devices in seconds, and outwit extremely intelligent beings. He is sometimes considered as comparable to Brainiac.) Lex is the most intelligent human on Earth and should hence be smarter than Batman. He is an incredible scientist, a master manipulator, a shrewd businessman, and a skilled engineer. He has built several doomsday devices, weapons, and armors meant to combat Superman and his other enemies . He is skilled in medicine, theoretical physics, and several other sciences. He is so arrogant that he usually assumes that all of his schemes will work out as planned.]

Powers & Abilities: Genius Intelligence, Weapon Mastery (Skilled marksman), Martial Arts, His gadgets allow Size Manipulation, Teleportation, Forcefield Creation, Flight, Energy Projection, Hacking (Out-hacked Brainiac), Teleportation (Has a short range teleporter), Limited Precognition (Easily predicted all of Brainiac's plans and actions, as well as the advent of the Zone Child), Fusionism (Fused with the Zone Child through sheer force of will), Preparation, Resistance to Mind Manipulation, Empathic Manipulation, and Perception Manipulation (When attempting to control his perception, Mister Mind found he couldn’t force Luthor to see what he wanted and was only drawn into his own illusion. Can control his body independently of his perception. Matched the Zone Child on the mental plane, whose power destroyed negativity across the universe), Energy Projection (via Heat Vision), Light Manipulation (Can turn the sun into a red sun), Biological Manipulation & Power Bestowal (A skilled bioengineering expert who can create clones and machines of powerful superheroes and entirely new beings that can harm Superman), Explosion Manipulation (Can create beings who act as living bombs powerful enough to destroy planets and Kryptonians), Portal Creation (Can create portals), Existence Erasure (Made a gun that rips apart existence), Paralysis Inducement (Via Nerve Gas), Power Nullification (With Kryptonite, which weakens the powers of Kryptonians. Cut off Swamp Thing from the green and temporarily killed him), Immortality (Type 6) (Has numerous robotic stand ins. Can transfer himself to a clone body), Precognition (With Lexcorp resources, can run simulations of possibilities), Disease Manipulation (Can give and cure normally incurable diseases), Information Analysis (Created a device which identifies extraterrestrial matter, and can analyze changes in the nature of reality with his computer), BFR, Telepathy, Gravity Manipulation, Limited Duplication(Can create robotic duplicates of himself and others)