User blog comment:Regulus22/Hated Characters./@comment-5062647-20120624091326/@comment-4928331-20120625071541

Well, DCAU Luthor was always a special case. He had many portrayals in the comics - first as an overweight mad scientist, then the supervillain with cancer, then the red-haired clone, then President of the United States, then that smarmy businessman.

S:TAS, JL, and JLU actually showed him as just about all of the above (except for that clone thing), beginning AND ending with Lex as the suave businessman (when he gave Darkseid the anti-life equation).

Too bad he was brought back as a villain in Batman Beyond ongoing series, but c'est la vie, yeah?