The three search for a solution and Max tells them that he has a plan. When James refuses to talk, Lord beats him up. She returns to Lord, who tells her that Supergirl made her a monster and, would he be in her place, that he'd kill everyone Supergirl loves. Lord is a middle-aged Caucasian man with black and gray hair. Maxwell Lord first appeared in the humorous Keith Giffen/J.M. After, Superman attacked Wonder Woman. to take down the rogue military combat android When an earthquake hits National City, Lord is one of the first ones to go out to help the people. Kara decides to prevent this from happening at any cost, even her own life. He is like a mob kingpin you do not want to trust with your life. Although, again, only hypothetically admitting that he's responsible he hints that she is aware of Alex' relationship to Supergirl and threatens that things would get very ugly should she continue to go down that path. After loudly exclaiming her hate for Kara, she flies off again. A few weeks later, Lord helps the D.E.O. She created a diversion lasting long enough for her to race back to Max Lord's location and demand that he tell her how to free Superman from his control. Kara replies that this will not happen because Lord would reveal her identity and put her family in danger. How many crazed psychopaths spin plots just to entangle or destroy them? After Lord realizes the mistake, he started tracking Kara to find out what exactly the effect of his kryptonite was. He is portrayed as a tech genius and tycoon who owns his own company, Lord Technologies. He reveals this to Alex and Kara, also telling them that the kryptonians are increasing the signal to that extent that humans brain cannot cope with it. Although Kara is not able to directly link Lord to the crime, she claims that she will be watching him and that things weren't over yet.
When Lord claims that he only wants to save the planet, Kara is shocked because Lord sees her as such a threat. Lord developed telepathic powers himself during the invasion of the Earth that was masterminded by the Dominators, but he remained the Justice League’s chief executive rather than become a hero. If you go up against me, you will lose! Later, Lord rebels against the computer and (seemingly) destroys it.
Once free of the computer's influence, Lord is portrayed as an Originally a normal human, Lord is one of many people on Earth gifted with superpowers during the After he is shot and placed in a coma at the start of the 15-part Lord pulls together several former JLI members, including At the "Crisis Counseling" panel at Wizard World Chicago, Lord reappeared in 2007 in the first two-story arcs of the new Lord is among the other resurrected heroes/villains featured in the Captain Atom tells the others that an explosion, seen in When Captain Atom and Magog battle in the heart of Chicago, Captain Atom is able to convince Magog that he's being used,While the JLI learns Jaime is alive, the team also learns that Lord not only manipulated them, but also wanted the JLI to chase him to distract Checkmate. However, he adds that the blast would kill roughly 300.000 civillians.
Screaming that Kara owes him her life, Lord is told in return that the world is a better place without him. Eventually, he was freed from the computer’s influence and continued to operate as the Justice League's benefactor and caretaker. This version of the character is exclusive to the continuity of the television series Smallville and its tie-in and comic book series, Smallville and Smallville Season 11. He is later stopped by Clark.
