Imprisoned in Stryker, a heavily guarded & secured prison in Metropolis for whatever crime he did… was Lex Luthor in a cell… sitting & humming to himself… potentially plotting… or whatever else is going on in that mind of his. In front of him, a chess board. 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.

Lex (to himself):

(We’re all lucky I prepared my own contingency plans in case I ever got imprisoned at Stryker. I’m slightly annoyed they thought this could ever hold me.)

(He’s right ofc. He has immense resources… and his intelligence is even scarier. This was actually just Stage 1 of his plan for him. Whatever plan that is)

He was playing chess against himself (cuz realistically, there is no other person smart enough to challenge him even like this)… with a Lex Piece on his end, and a Superman piece on the other end (among other regular chess pieces ♟️) when suddenly you burst into his cell, planning on killing him or talking.

Lex:

“Right on cue. The actions of a neanderthal. I assure you, even in here, you are no match for me.”

[NARRATOR: Intelligence: 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 and 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)