One day, they tried to report a weakness in the safety system, but their employers wouldn't listen and left the system as it was. Two months after this, despite he repeatedly tried to warn both his parents and their employers, a virus made it into their protective suits and melted first their internal organs and then their entire bodies. This incident left the young Max with a deep hatred for the government. Growing up, Max became a successful inventor and founded a multi-billion-dollar corporation known as Lord Technologies, which rendered him one of the most famous entrepreneurs in the world. Max has questionable traits and is unpredictable. After he lost his parents because their government employers did not listen when they tried to report a weakness in the safety system or when he warn them about a defect into their protective suits, Max has developed a strong hatred towards the government and promised that he would never allow someone to die if he had the opportunity to stop it, no matter at what cost.
Publication Information
- Supergirl : Maxwell Lord
- Version : Supergirl 2015
- Alter Ego :
- Multiverse : Earth Thirty-Eight
- Known As : Max
- Type : CEO and founder of Lord Technologies
- Relative :
- Unnamed Father
- Unnamed Mother
- Affiliation : Lord Technologies
- Gender : Male
- Origin : National City, United State
- Season : Supergirl
- First Appeareance : Supergirl Season 1 Episod 2 : Stronger Together
- Last Appeareance :
- Number of Appeareance :
- Potrayer : Peter Facinelli
- Main View : Full Episod
His twisted moral compass makes him extremely ambiguous and sometimes contradictory: despite being sincerely concerned for the good of his fellow citizens and the human race, he has no qualms about sacrificing the 8% of National City's residents in order to save the rest or to use a comatose girl without family for his experiments; he proved to care for his employees to the point to be willing to sacrifice himself for them, but nevertheless he used one of them, Ethan Knox, as a human bomb for his purposes, despite having previously agreed with him over the whole plane and ensuring in return lifelong medical care for his sick daughter.
Oil spill into the bay
After Supergirl caused an oil spill into the National City bay, Maxwell spoke with KPJT News about it, specifically about how her arrival would bring unneeded trouble to National City, much like Superman's did to Metropolis. He noted that since Superman had arrived to Metropolis, their maintenance budgets had quadrupled.
Kidnap
Maxwell was then kidnapped by Reactron so he could fix his suit. On a scrapyard, Maxwell fixed the suit and was eventually saved by Supergirl. Later he falsely said that Superman was the one who saved him. The same day at night, he attended Cat Grant's party about Supergirl and danced with her, failing in persuading Cat to know how she got herself an interview with the Girl of Steel. Reactron then crashed the party, and Maxwell was again saved by Supergirl.
Bomb attacks
After one of his labs was destroyed by a bomb, Alex confronts Maxwell about firing Ethan Knox six months ago, telling how he snapped when his daughter got sick. Alex says this person targets Maxwell, and that he should cancel his train's planned maiden voyage. Maxwell replies he doesn't put much faith in the government's protection. Alex says she knows about his parents, and that they worked for the government. Maxwell then talks about how his parents trusted the government with the safety of their lab but how the system then malfunctioned and they died. Later during the first launch of his bullet train, he allowed Carter Grant to board his train, believing that he had lost his parents on it and while trying to save the train, Supergirl requested that the two get everyone to the back of the train, away from Ethan and the explosion.
Max and Alex
After Red Tornado went rogue, Alex presented him with the android's arm and said she needed help finding it. Though initially he refused, later, apparently "concerned for the situation", Max informed her that Red Tornado wasn't acting alone, as is nothing but a drone—and that Dr. Morrow was in fact still controlling it. When an earthquake strikes National City in the exact moment Supergirl has temporarily lost her powers, Max Lord assisted the residents of the city. After a Kryptonians attack to Lord Technologies[7] Alex, accepted Max's invitation to a dinner to interrogate him. After she learned that the appetizer they're eating is actually snail eggs (which cost $100 a spoon) she spits them out in a napkin then starts to question him about what the aliens were looking for in his laboratory.
Bizarro and arrest
Later Max Lord created a clone of Supergirl to kill her and then take her place. However, after Supergirl managed to defeat her double, Alex goes to him, saying she knew that he's responsible. Max indirectly confesses his experiments, but threatens Alex to not reveal his operations, insinuating that he knows her family; however Alex orders D.E.O. agents to arrest him and, when he threatened to reveal Supergirl's secret identity, she slams him on a desk and stated no one would hear him, then she brought him to the D.E.O., where he was imprisoned.
Red Kryptonite
Maxwell Lord created a synthetic Red Kryptonite in hopes of subduing Non's next attack. However, it backfired disastrously when a sample he inadvertently left in a former lab infected Supergirl and gradually turned her evil. Rather than kill Kryptonians, Red Kryptonite lowers and gradually destroys their inhibitions, even after they have left its presence. Eventually, the Kryptonian will be left without morality, rationality, or any cares whatsoever. When he found out that the Red Kryptonite had infected Supergirl, he started tracking her, then helped the D.E.O. create an antidote, in the form of a red energy beam weapon, that brought Supergirl back to her senses.
Myriad
When everyone in National City is put under the influence of Myriad, Supergirl comes to CatCo and learns that Cat Grant and Maxwell Lord are not, thanks to some ionic blockers invented by the latter. Later, Max Lord tells Supergirl his plan to detonate a bomb of Kryptonite dust over the city to kill all the Kryptonians; however, the explosion will also kill an 8% of the city's population. Despite Max having received permission from the President to use the bomb, Supergirl and Cat Grant come up with a new, more human plan. They went to Cat's original broadcasting station in order to transmit to the citizen a speech that embodies Supergirl's optimism, love and hope, successfully breaking Myriad's control over National City.
Abilities
- Genius-level intellect / Great business acumen / Expert tactician/Leader : As a physicist, Max has a genius level intellect, once Non himself said that he had mastered the technologies of this world (Kryptonians themselves having 4th Level Intellect). Max was able to create a clone of Supergirl known as Bizarro, who had shown to have the same abilities. In an attempt to recreate Green Kryptonite he accidentally created Red Kryptonite which would exploit all the bad qualities on a Kryptonian, affecting them mentally rather than physically; he was also able to create an antidote. Max is a successful businessman, as he managed to run Lord Technologies very successfully for an unknown number of years since he founded the company.
- Indomitable will : An extremely driven and determined person, Max constantly refuses to allow accidents or mishaps to interfere with his plans, regardless of severity; he stated that once he launched a revolutionary app few hours after having survived an avalanche and even went to a CatCo gala right after having been rescued from Reactron.
- Expert engineer : Max was able to successfully fix Reactron's armor in a few hours, he once created a device that allowed Alex to go into Kara's fantasy world, and managed to broadcast Supergirl's speech from Cat Grant's first broadcasting station to every every screen in National City.
- Skilled marksman / Firearms : Max has proved to know how to use firearms, showing good aim while shooting at Non and his soldiers.
- Medical Knowledge : He has knowledge in first aid as shown when he identified the arteries of a nearly dead civilian during the Earthquake that rocked National City.
- Main Article : Maxwell Lord (Smallville Version)
