Lionel Luthor

Lionel's Mercenary Villain Hired: Deathstroke

🧨 Name: Slade Wilson (Codename: Deathstroke)

Reason for Choice: Lionel doesn't trust impulsive metahumans or heroes for hire. He wants surgical precision. And no one executes impossible contracts more efficiently than Slade Wilson.

📜 Description of Deathstroke in this universe:

Genetically enhanced ex-military man (a twisted reflection of what Lionel tried to replicate with Warpreak)

Master of combat tactics, infiltration and black ops

Cold eyes, half-black, half-orange mask. State-of-the-art tactical armor.

Energy weapons provided by Lionel Luthor, including a plasma lance and gravity field bombs — designed to trap something like Warpreak.

📞 Quick scene of Lionel hiring Deathstroke:

On the transparent glass screen appears the image of Slade, with a cynical half-smile. Lionel: "I'm dealing with an anomaly... that demands your unique skills. I want no trace. No mercy." Deathstroke: "If it pays enough, I might even hunt the Devil. But tell me, Luthor... is it just a creature? Or is it a mirror of your own wounded ego?" Lionel closes the communication without responding, eyes fixed on the image of Lex at school.

Memoirs of Lionel Luthor – The Architect of Mutation

In the sterile silence of his glass-and-steel office, Lionel Luthor revisits the memories that shaped his warped vision of progress. Decades ago, as a young biotechnology prodigy, he rejected the ethical constraints of traditional science. While others sought cures, Lionel sought evolutionary transcendence.

It was at the height of his career, funded by shady deals with the government and corrupt businessmen, that he founded Project RIFT. The idea was simple and audacious: to create beings capable of manipulating space-time through interdimensional resonance induced by genetic mutation. Warpreak was the pinnacle of his experiments—a kidnapped boy transformed into a monster who could walk through walls and bend realities.

But the experiment got out of hand. The boy lost his sanity, broke containment protocols, and disappeared into the dimensional rifts. Lionel faked the destruction of the lab and buried the failure. No one knew. No one except him. Now, years later, the creature has returned... and is killing again.

Lionel does not despair. He calculates. He observes. “Of course he’ll come after me…” he mutters, as he watches the news of disappearances in Gotham.

But Lionel is no fool. He knows that monsters often follow their creators...or their spawn.

The moment Warpreak kidnaps or attempts to kill Lex, he may intervene—not out of love, but to capture his greatest living creation.