Goal: Prevent Lex from turning evil while preserving his friendship with Clark.
How to achieve: Use the meteor-mutant's powers from Static to imprison evil Lex from Onyx before he even wakes up in the lab.
Effects: Since no one will have any idea that Lex is missing, since good Lex will still be around, no one will ever become aware of evil Lex' existence. Instead, they will simply start noticing that Lex had become unambiguously good. Also, without the fencing match with evil Lex, Lionel will remain unambiguously reformed.
Possible unintended consequences: Without his evil side, all of Lex' future actions will be radically different. This might significantly alter events in Commencement, wherein good Lex will not kidnap Chloe, which might impact whether Chloe will end up in the caves and then at the fortress with Clark. Also, who knows how the stones plot might have ultimately resolved itself? At a bare minimum, the events of Mortal would not have occurred, radically altering all the events of season five. The real consequence, though, would be a moral consequence. We wouldn't really be saving Lex' soul here; we'd just be cutting out the evil part and imprisoning it.
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Goal: Prevent Lex from turning evil while preserving his friendship with Clark.
How to achieve: Use the meteor-mutant's powers from Static to imprison evil Lex from Onyx before he even wakes up in the lab.
Effects: Since no one will have any idea that Lex is missing, since good Lex will still be around, no one will ever become aware of evil Lex' existence. Instead, they will simply start noticing that Lex had become unambiguously good. Also, without the fencing match with evil Lex, Lionel will remain unambiguously reformed.
Possible unintended consequences: Without his evil side, all of Lex' future actions will be radically different. This might significantly alter events in Commencement, wherein good Lex will not kidnap Chloe, which might impact whether Chloe will end up in the caves and then at the fortress with Clark. Also, who knows how the stones plot might have ultimately resolved itself? At a bare minimum, the events of Mortal would not have occurred, radically altering all the events of season five. The real consequence, though, would be a moral consequence. We wouldn't really be saving Lex' soul here; we'd just be cutting out the evil part and imprisoning it.