On tonight’s episode of Supergirl, titled “Luthors,” fans got their first look inside the messed-up family dynamic of the Luthors — and it brought with it a pretty significant twist.
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Warning: spoilers ahead for tonight’s episode of Supergirl.
During a visit to her adoptive mother in jail, Lena Luthor learned something that could change her whole life: she really is a Luthor.
As in, biologically.
When Lena shows up at the start of the episode, she’s standing alongside Lionel while Lillian and Lex. Lillian objects to Lena’s presence, but Lionel quickly overrules her and introduced Lena to her new family.
Later on, Lena learns something that the audience didn’t know when that scene first took place, but which makes perfect sense in context: Lena isn’t just a child the wealthy, evil family decided to randomly adopt. She is a Luthor, the product of an affair between Lionel and Lena’s mother, who passed away shortly before she was brought into the family fold.
(We’ll just leave you to ponder what the odds are Lionel or Lillian was behind her mother’s death.)
What’s arguably most interesting about this is the fact that the final season of Smallville revealed that longtime supporting character Tess Mercer was in fact a Luthor, too. We had previously speculated about ties to Tess and Checkmate due to the footage of Lex and Lillian playing chess in the teaser for tonight’s episode.
The fact that the Luthor portion of the episode ends with young Lena beating Lex at chess, using that piece and saying “checkmate,” well…
…let’s keep our eyes on that one, shall we?
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Distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. International Television Distribution, SUPERGIRL is executive produced by Greg Berlanti (Arrow, The Flash), Ali Adler (The New Normal), Andrew Kreisberg (The Flash, Arrow) and Sarah Schechter (Blindspot, The Mysteries of Laura). Supergirl is based on the characters created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster and appearing in DC Comics, by special arrangement with the Jerry Siegel Family.
“Luthors” episode of Supergirl airs tonight at 8 p.m. ET/PT on The CW.
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