Lex is a classic case of a megalomaniac, he's a power hungry egotist and will stop at nothing to be number one, no matter how much blood, sweat, and tears he has to sacrifice to achieve whatever goal he's trying to attain. Then here comes Clark/Supes with the abilities of gods that come to him naturally and Luthor realizes he will always be second to him, which absolutely kills Lex.
shareHe explains exactly why in the finale. Clark had everything and didn't even want it. He claimed to be Lex's best friend and lied to him at every turn.
shareThe OPwas talking about after the events in the finale. Where Tuesday use that stuff lex created to rob lex of all his memories. Lex then had no memory of even meeting Clark everything that happened between them was vanished from lex's memory in the finale.
So why does lex who has no memory of Clark and what happened between them hate superman. That was what the OP was asking. Also Clark lied for good reason considering lex was just pretending to be his friend from day one. When all he really wanted was to gain more knowledge and power which he in his Clark obsession thought Clark could give him. It's the typical villian reaction to try to blame all of their choices and actions on the hero lex is no different. Doing the whole if you hadn't lied to me I would have been evil and the choices I made were all your fault blah blah blah. It's the weakest argument anyone can come up with.
I disagree. I believe Lex and Clark truly were friends at the very beginning but throughout the course of the series that all changed.
To be fair many things that Clark did, DID guide Lex into being the evil guy that he was. The lying, cheating and him using Lex over and over again. Lex wasn't the only one that used other people for his own gain if people think about it, even Clark did.
Nah man I wish it was true but it's not. Lex only got close to Clark to try and find out what exactly happened that prevented him from drowning and to figure out how Clark survived getting hit by the car. Probably so he could steal those abilities for himself if he ever got the answer.
Who knows what Lex does if he learns Clarks secret early on? If Lionel can figure out how to swap bodies then so can Lex, and if not by himself they'd possibly do something like that together. Both Luthors vs Clark is certainly not a good thing for Clark. They have the power and money to take over the whole town. Resources to get anything they need to take him down and knowledge on the people Clark cares about the most.
There are so many answers to this, but none of them really feel right or true.
His hatred for the Kryptonians was justifiable and his insatiable desire to research and destroy them made sense. The fact that it made him a little if not a lot crazy that no one else but him really seemed to care that Smallville was casualty central, that makes sense too. Even the slow but sure continual ingestion of green kryptonite, eating away at his mental state, that's reasonable.
But really, none of that explains his hatred for Superman. He knew Clark personally and knew he wasn't the kind of person to ever become like the other Kryptonians. Even if Lex took precautionary measures, in the event Clark did become evil, he had no need to fear him and he knew that.
As for his "breakup" with Clark as a friend - that comes down almost entirely to him wanting to hook up with Lana. Clark and Lana were going through a rough patch, and Lex took advantage because Lana was on his side about all the weirdness in Smallville and actually egged him on in his pursuit of information to destroy the Kryptonians.
It has almost nothing to do with Clark personally. The whole 'but tell me your secret' bs was just icing. The cake of the story is the writers wanting Lana in the story line no matter what, so they killed the Lex/Clark friendship to make it so. I'm in the middle of re-watching for like the third or fourth time, and I still find myself yelling "but why?" at my TV when Lex and Clark argue about nothing - it's all because Lex wants to be with Lana, and there's no real way to justify going after his best friend's ex. I guess this was the big signal that Lex was 'truly bad' but him pursuing a good friend's ex is a shit way to do that.
Honestly, that's the only flaw is Lex having complete amnesia. If they had simply erased his memories of Clark, I'd be fine with it.
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