Whatever Happened to Luthor's Daughter?

[Timothy Hunter]

Apparently from the late 90s to the early 00s, Lex Luthor had a daughter. I was completely oblivious to this fact until I read Superman Villains Secret Files and Origins. I looked on the internet and apparently this daughter was aged up into a teenage iteration of Brainiac in Our Worlds at War, was featured in Chuck Austen's Superman Metropolis, and apparently was never seen again.

Why did this character stop appearing in the comics and how would you incorperate her into the current Superman titles?

[Vordan]

Simple, Lex got deaged to be the same age as Superman, so they wiped her from continuity. They wanted both Supes and Lex to be “young-ish” and making Lex a dad didn’t mesh with that. I wouldn’t bring her back at all, the whole purpose she served of being the morality pet for Lex that Lex then brutally screws over to show there’s nothing he won’t do for power is fulfilled by his sister (also called Lena) now.

[Sacred Knight]

By the time she was last seen, sometime around the time that the President Lex stuff ended, she was back to an infant after all the age-ups. If they wanted to bring her back now? It would seem obvious to me. Bring her in as a ten year old who gets along with Jon assuming he's deaged too. She's technically a meta on a permanent level when we last left her, as even though she had been deaged, she retained the Brainiac symbol on her forehead.

[witchboy]

I really hated how Lena was erased from continuity, especially as it happened off page with no comment.
Even de aged Lex was plenty old enough to be a father.
I thought there was lots of potential that could've been done still with Lex as a father. I had the idea that Lex could go to prison, or go on the run or off planet or be presumed dead, whatever, and make Lois baby Lena's guardian. That would've created a lot of conflict, especially when Lex inevitably returned.
Or perhaps Lana as the guardian, and Lana could be persuaded to marry Lex to keep Lena when he returned.
With Jon around - at whatever age he winds up being post Future State, bringing back Lena would be a great idea.

[Timothy Hunter]

Simple, Lex got deaged to be the same age as Superman, so they wiped her from continuity. They wanted both Supes and Lex to be “young-ish” and making Lex a dad didn’t mesh with that. I wouldn’t bring her back at all, the whole purpose she served of being the morality pet for Lex that Lex then brutally screws over to show there’s nothing he won’t do for power is fulfilled by his sister (also called Lena) now.

I remember Luthor being deaged during the They Savex Luthor's Brain arc after his old body died due to long term exposure to Kryptonite, but I do not recall Luthor being deaged in the 2000s. Does this have to do with Infinite Crisis?

[Digifiend]

Simple, Lex got deaged to be the same age as Superman, so they wiped her from continuity. They wanted both Supes and Lex to be “young-ish” and making Lex a dad didn’t mesh with that. I wouldn’t bring her back at all, the whole purpose she served of being the morality pet for Lex that Lex then brutally screws over to show there’s nothing he won’t do for power is fulfilled by his sister (also called Lena) now.

Sister Lena is a villain herself, Ultrawoman.
https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Lena_Luthor_(Prime_Earth)

A version of her actually existed pre-Crisis.
https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Lena_Luthor_(Earth-One)

[Kuwagaton]

I remember Luthor being deaged during the They Savex Luthor's Brain arc after his old body died due to long term exposure to Kryptonite, but I do not recall Luthor being deaged in the 2000s. Does this have to do with Infinite Crisis?

Yeah he was retconned around then to be Clark's age.

Lena though was an infant after Our Worlds at War, so it wasn't age, but they phased out all of the older Metropolis plots to streamline.

[witchboy]

Yeah he was retconned around then to be Clark's age.

Lena though was an infant after Our Worlds at War, so it wasn't age, but they phased out all of the older Metropolis plots to streamline.

That's because of Birthright isn't it, with Lex aged down to be a contemporary of Clark's from Smallville.

[Laufeyson]

Went to Limbo like any other characters.

[Will Evans]

They erased all the Superman title babies.

Ron Troupe and Lucy Lane’s son Sam is gone.

Lana Lang and Pete Ross’s son Clark is gone.

Cat Grant having a son killed by Toyman is gone.

Luthor cucking Perry White with a son, is gone.

[Kuwagaton]

Adam was involved in a retcon, but not erased like Jerry. Originally Cat worked to cope with what happened and moved forward in the supporting cast while Schott went between hard time and an elevated villain status, only for Superman to try giving him a second chance due to his mental illness

Johns retconned so that Adam's death sent Cat out to the west coast. Then she came back as a hollow version of herself to hide what she went through I guess. Schott was absolved via Doombot. Which went well enough for Johns that he just gave Brainiac the same Doombot gimmick immediately after, haha.

That's because of Birthright isn't it, with Lex aged down to be a contemporary of Clark's from Smallville.

Something I believe they wanted to do regardless, because they ignored virtually everything else from Birthright

[marshal88]

[manofsteel1979]

Ah,Lena Luthor. I myself nearly forgot about her. At least the version that was Lex's daughter.

The fact is that Lena was one of the threads created by the Jurgens/Simonson era team that they had plans for,but didn't stay long enough to continue .


It looked like Mark Shultze (Simonson's successor on the Man of Steel book) had plans with Lena involving the "Quintessence" (remember them,anyone?) But he himself was soon gone and Lena's last canon appearance was the Metropolis maxiseries by Chuck Austin, and then it and pretty much any dangling threads left over from pre Loeb and Kelly was done away with after Superman #200 shifted continuity to the weird Birthright inspired limbo that led up to Infinite Crisis,which rebooted everything yet again.