In Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again, set in a world where heroes have been publicly 'retired' for years, Lex Luthor is depicted as obese with a hunchback. He has teamed up with Brainiac and controls the U. S. government using a hologram known as " President Rickard " as a figurehead. He has also blackmailed Superman, Wonder Woman, and Captain Marvel into doing the government's bidding by holding their loved ones hostage. When Batman and Catgirl emerge from hiding, they take on Luthor and Batman slashes a Z into Luthor's face before leaving. In retaliation, he orders Superman and Wonder Woman to kill an alien, which is really Brainiac hoping Superman would get killed. That plan, however, failed when Superman and Wonder Woman's daughter, Lara, saved him. Then Luthor launched satellites to destroy most of the world's population, but they were destroyed by the Green Lantern. Lex Luthor is eventually killed by the son of Hawkman and Hawkgirl.