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When Superman of Earth-8566 is stranded in an alternate version of his hometown, he is also forced to navigate a world brimming with threats even more frustrating than a mischievous interdimensional imp. Namely, the softhearted heir to the LuthorCorp fortune, an overeager reporter for a high school paper, a world that is not used to metahumans or superheroes (which he realizes far too late)…
And a younger, repressed, far more insecure version of Clark Kent. Who does not like getting shown up, whether it’s intentional or not.
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- Part 1 of Strangers in Smallville-167
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Jonathan Kent used to hate Lex Luthor. The kid was probably just like his father. That was the case. Until he saw how the father acted with his only son...
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Man of Tomorrow: Volume 2 by EmilyWulfStudios
Fandoms: Superman - All Media Types, Superman (Movie 2025)
09 Feb 2026
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About six months after the Brainiac Incident, Lex Luthor and Kal-El try to actually make a relationship work...
Until Lionel Luthor enters Lex's life again after watching the public Brainiac Trials intent on ruining Lex's life and taking his company back.
All the while, Superman has to deal with a new Kryptonian showing up to Earth while trying to get his powers, hormones, and identity under control in this strange, sudden wave of heightened existence. -
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Lex is finally released from Belle Reve, but everyone seems to have turned their back on him. Faced with a life-or-death situation, he begrudgingly decides to accept Superman’s help.
He’s not happy about it. Clark isn’t either, but he just wants to do the right thing.
Maybe they’ll get used to one another… eventually.
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Lex Luthor creeps on a teenager, gets mind-controlled, seriously contemplates distilling Clark Kent's sweat for regular application to keep his noggin gleaming (probably).
Clark's just sort of there.
For now.
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Five Star Ratings of Supervillain by tropicallover for LittleMissNovella
Fandoms: Justice League - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types, Supergirl (TV 2015), Superman - All Media Types, The Flash (TV 2014), Green Arrow (Comics)
05 Feb 2026
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Lex Luthor is just a misunderstood person, meaning he's trying to convince the world he isn't the bad guy. Doesn't help he's interested in having a romantic interest in four seperate heroes: Bruce Wayne, Oliver Queen, Kara Danvers, and Barry Allen. The world's finest superheroes find out that Lex Luthor is even more dangerous when he's actually being nice and dating them. Crack ship, humor.
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This doesn’t change anything. They’re not really married. Even if they are in the bodies of two people who are. It’s not them. It will never be them.
And Clark isn’t about to forget everything that’s happened just because the version of Lex from this entirely different universe may have been someone Clark could love.
Someone Clark could have saved.
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Platonic Superman One-Shots by Hero_of_Stone_in_the_Wood
Fandoms: Superman (Movie 2025), Superman - All Media Types, Smallville
01 Feb 2026
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Just one shots focusing on the characters from Superman 25 interacting that we didn’t see in the movie/multiple AUs and takes on them. Expect angst, comfort, fluff, found family/family drama, and possible crossovers 100% platonic with any triggers as notes at the beginning of chapters, and even those won’t be anything graphic. Just platonic family fluff angst with some vague mention of cannon ships if necessary.
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One shots of 25 Lex getting to be a Kent, sometimes permanently sometimes just missing the mark. I just think it’d be interesting if they had known each other before the movie akin to Smallville or last days of Lex Luthor.
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I hate you with all my being (why do you not hate me too?) by ratratratratsillyyyyyyyyy
Fandoms: Superman (Movie 2025), DCU
01 Feb 2026
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"We need to shut down the rift-!"
Lex Luthor let out an involuntary yelp as his eyes flew open in a sudden flash of pain. He blinked, and he was very confusingly alive and not laying dead on the cold metal floor of a prison van leaking blood from his head.
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Lex Luthor is stuck in a time loop and is slowly going insane, because no matter what he does he always wakes back up at the beginning and Superman is always a stupid, gullible, kind, buffoon who refuses to allow Lex Luthor to die.
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Clark Kent's Kissing Experiment by Gabi3301
Fandoms: Superman - All Media Types, Superman (Movie 2025), Smallville, Batman - All Media Types, DCU
28 Jan 2026
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For Elizabeth Harper, the universe has always made sense through equations and logic. She is the girl who finds order in chaos, who believes every problem has a solution. But the heart of Clark Kent—her best friend and childhood neighbor—is a chaotic variable she cannot solve. When he asks for help to win over Lana Lang, Beth agrees, disguising her own desire for Clark under the logical pretext of applying a 'scientific method' to the problem, treating their kisses as a controlled experiment. The result, however, is an explosion of data she cannot predict: primitive jealousy, buried secrets, and an attraction that defies any law of physics. It is a journey about a girl who tries to control the uncontrollable, only to discover that the most powerful—and devastating—emotions are those that defy any formula.
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The summer after graduation, Clark becomes human.
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- Part 11 of recursion
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What if the alternate universe in S10x10 “Luthor” wasn’t one in which Clark had been raised by Lionel, but one in which Clark was married to Lex? Canon divergence S10x10. Clex.
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Man of Tomorrow: Volume 1 by EmilyWulfStudios
Fandoms: Superman (Movie 2025), Superman - All Media Types
18 Jan 2026
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After an intimate night with Superman, Lex Luthor proceeds to (events of the 2025 movie) and now finds himself tied to the Kryptonian as Superman vouched for Lex's release from prison to be a test for a high-risk metahuman rehabilitation program he would like to oversee.
What could go wrong when you have a sexual situationship with your parole officer who also happens to be a god-like alien you've convinced yourself you hate but deeply care about?
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A Smallville Fanfiction where Lex gets the love he deserves and Laura gets a place to live.
This is an original character I created about 20 years ago when SMALLVILLE first aired. She was a fleeting idea I had for a love interest worthy of Lex Luthor. I have to admit, even though I’ve been in love with the idea of Lex I stopped watching at some point when the direction he turned got too dark - also…… the caves. Come on… Anyway, Laura was always on my mind and I finally wanted to give her a place to live. Even if just in this Fanfiction. So here goes nothing.
Disclaimer: I do not own Smallville. I do not own any creative part of the DC universe. I do own Laura, my original character. I do not give permission to publish, distribute, repost or translate my work in any way. This story was written for “Archive Of Our Own” (AO3) by TheBetterEnding in 2023. Read at your own discretion (Don’t Like, Don’t Read).
I will keep my tags up to date, currently it is at General Audiences with No Archive Warnings Apply. Again, it’s an Original Character with slight Canon Divergence. Comments and feedback are appreciated.
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North Star by FrusteratedNovelist
Fandoms: DCU, Superman - All Media Types, Superman (Movie 2025), Smallville
08 Jan 2026
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Before Superman, before they became archenemies, Clark Kent and Lex Luthor were best friends in high school trying to navigate their last two years. What caused them to fall apart?
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- Part 4 of LKDCU
- Part 3 of Mindless Self Indulgence
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I'm as human as anyone else by Le0_04
Fandoms: Superman (Movie 2025), Superman - All Media Types
02 Jan 2026
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“A-and I made you that way,” incoherent words keep spilling out. “I did that. I-I laughed while you were suffering. I toasted to your agony. And all this time - Clark, all this time - you were here.”
Lex trembled. “You let me plan your death. You listened to me talk about killing Superman. And you - you said you were proud of me. Every night. Every damn night!”
“I’m sorry-” Clark’s voice was strained as he tried to stand, wincing. Still, he moved closer, one agonized step at a time.
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What if Lex Luthor was in love with Clark Kent — and had no idea that the man he kissed goodnight was the alien he vowed to destroy?
What if Clark loved Lex so much he’d rather lie in silence, night after night, listening to Lex whisper bedtime stories about torturing Superman... than tell him the truth?
And what if, one night, Lex came home to find Clark bloodied in their kitchen — with injuries that matched the ones Lex made sure Superman would suffer?
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AU where Clark Kent as journalist of Superman was kidnapped by Lex instead of Malik Ali
(In all other ways doesn't touch the events of the film btw)
little bit of inspo from IAMX - Kingdom of Welcome Addiction
important note: it's an experiment as it's my first fic written in english since the beginning, it's not translation, i've made this shit up myself. english is not my first language so if i fucked up somewhere pls let me know
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- Part 4 of clex week 2025 by charming fiction
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Where the Strong Bend by BroBroBar
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Superman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics), DCU
24 Dec 2025
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"You are dying," Diana said, not as a question, but a gentle, clinical fact.
Clark Kent is running out of time.
Bruce Wayne is trying to rebuild his family.
This is the story of two years they have left.
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alien by Descending_into_the_abyss
Fandoms: Superman - All Media Types, Superman (Movie 2025), Superman (Comics)
24 Dec 2025
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The alien looked up and caught his eye, then quickly glanced away. Lex felt like his lungs were curling up and withering away in his chest and his heart squeezed so tight he thought it might explode. He turned away sharply, exhaling deeply through his nose. Whatever. Who cared what he thought, how he felt, who he loved. He wasn’t even capable of love, not really, not in the way human beings were. Yet staring at him out there, smiling and laughing and holding onto a woman he looked at with such adoration in his eyes, Lex had to admit, even if it was only to the sad, vast recess of his mind, that perhaps Superman knew more about what it meant to love and be loved as a human than he did.
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Movie Lex and Smallville Lex swap places after the events of Superman 2025.
The man laughed. “The name’s Clark. Clark Kent. How about yours?”
Immediate alarm bells rang in Lex’s head. Clark Kent? The reporter? He was extremely familiar with him, having looked into him for Superman annihilating reasons. He looked nothing like this man- the only similarities being their hulking size and prominent dimples. From Lex’s research, the Kent he knew lives in Metropolis. His eyes narrowed slightly. He didn’t know he was Lex Luthor.
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- Part 1 of Superman Fics!! Mostly Clex