Fic is here! Hope you enjoyed!

This spawned from a convo with folc4evernaday, where I asked what would become of poor Clark if Lex were to die of natural causes in the next sentence. She then told me the idea of Lex dying of natural causes seemed ridiculous because of how often he's died in the show and in fics. That in turn launched the "Natural Causes" challenge here and this came out of it.

Lol, I almost think this is true justice for Luthor, to die in a way that has nothing going to do with anything instead of from the consequences of his actions. Kind of like dying in a random mugging or an auto accident. Just completely by chance. Thanks for sharing, mouserocks!

Wow! Well done! I wish it would have happened this way in the series. Would have saved Lois & Clark (and us) so many hardships.

Deliciously evil, Mouse! Love it! Seems poetic somehow, that the self-proclaimed god finds himself powerless and at the mercy of God/fate/the universe. And, of course, in true Luthor fashion, he's still touting how great he is, rather than focus on his (rapidly decreasing) mortality and time left on Earth. Well done!

Hahaha, glad you liked it! I thought so too. It's something Lex would never expect of himself. I think his suicide in the series goes to show that he's such a control freak that he'd even take the terms of his death into his own hands. So it was fun to take that control away. Thanks for commenting!

Yep! Would have solved some problems, but I'm sure it would have caused some others. With Clark's luck, Lois would have romanticized Lex's heart attack and mourned for months, if not years after, thereby ruining his own life in the process. Or Clark might not have escaped. Or Nigel could have found Lex and taken over, trying to become an even bigger, badder Boss...

But it still was fun to explore, and it seemed to be justice served! Glad you liked!

Haha, thanks! I was shooting for poetic so glad all that came across! Luthor's not much for reflecting on his life, but the irony of it all made it too sweet to resist. Thanks for the comment!

I love that after all that planning Lex succumbed before he could reap his reward --from something as common as a heart attack no less. Given his false sense of Godlihood it's highly ironic that Lex would lose his life to something so...common. Nicely done.

Hmmm, comparing yourself to Alexander the Great does make a weird kind of sense, after all, he did kill his best friend while roaring drunk. Maybe that is the reason why Lex holds himself in rigid control?


So sad. He might laugh at those last fleeting moments, but later on their will be no one to mourn him. Perhaps that is the greatest tragedy.

Excellent work Mouse!

A great fic that perfectly captures Luthor’s megalomania till the (very) end. Bravo, Mouserock! I enjoyed it very much.

What a bitter irony if Luthor could have been saved, if he had called out! This paragraph was a great morsel inside Lex’s psychology, as was the Alexander the Great pattern.

To get into Lex's mind. You are right he was no Superman, but he sure thought he was. Enjoyed this very much.

Hi Mouse!

Yeah, and in the end he ventured too far out into the world and met with a force he couldn’t defeat.

And just like him, he got defeated when he bit oof more than he could chew and then returned, only get defeated even more soundly. (The buzzing when he gripped the high-voltage lines was louder than the splat he made the first time.)

Yep, Attila, too, passed beyond the veil on his wedding day.

Et tu, Brute?

The love of a woman brought him to his knees.

Yes, and in the end Cleopatra sold him out, trying to save her own skin.

And once she partook from the fruits of the underworld, she, too, was destined to a life in the dark. Just like he tried to have Lois pull the trigger on Superclark.

Yeah…nah…

Oops? Maybe Mrs. Cox poisoned him?

Yeah, he probably didn’t plan for the time after he was gone, did he?

I guess given his heart condition, it was a good thing he never actually got married to Lois, huh?

Michael

Thanks! I thought it was appropriate lol. Sorry I'm getting around to commenting so late on this.

Hmm... You know we've seen glimpses of Luthors past through some fics in the past (yours in particular comes to mind Morgana ). But I'd love to see more pics that explore Lex's life before the show, maybe how he gets out of trouble, etc... I smell a challenge coming on...


Thanks! Yeah, I thought it would be fitting to have him perih so unspectacularly, and for a moment I debated giving him a fourth quarter change of heart but... Nah. It's Lex Luthor. He's rotten to the core. Glad you enjoyed!

Thanks, glad you enjoyed! I thought the pattern would be a great way to showcase just how off the rocker he got. His level of megalomania is only paralleled by these figures and a few others.

Large part of why I think Lex goes after Superman so much is jealousy, or perhaps more like envy that anyone could surpass him in any way. Glad you enjoyed!

Hi, Michael!

Yep. There was a double sided purpose for choosing all these "great leaders" according to Lex. Lex clearly never heard that if you don't learn from history, you're doomed to repeat it.

*snort*

Okay, that one I didn't know. Very fortuitous coincidence.

Bingo!

I know! Isn't this a fun compare and contrast? I loved playing with these. The Attila thing is still boggling my mind tho haha.

In Lex's mind, that's exactly what he would plan to happen once they were married. Well, something between that and breaking Lois down completely. Although I don't wonder if Lois had taken a different tack with Lex and pretended to be super interested in the criminal activity side, she could have probably brought him down quicker. The whole "we'll rule the galaxy together" thing might be tempting enough to trap Lex.

Haha, that would have been a fun twist.


*Tires screeching* Aw, man! That would have been good too! Assuming Lex would in fact leave her everything, which of course he wouldn't have... eh, would have required too many changes. And no, I don't imagine Lex planned for his demise ever, save for a contingency plan for resurrection should it happen.

Thanks for your comments, Michael! As always, I had more fun reading them than I did even writing this.

Hi Mouse!

LEX: I’ve always been there first!

Oops Yes, he according to available information, he had a nose bleed or some such thing and given he was passed out from excessive partying, drowned in his own blood.

Yes, it *was* a lot of fun puzzling them together. I’m always one for getting challenged.



Although I *was* referring to his wedding night and strenuous activity detrimental to his heart condition.

You’re very welcome! The one’s with the greatest snark potential are the easiest one to leave fun comments with

Michael