Final Project Prometheus version
Project Prometheus is a LuthorCorp Nanotechnology Division project intended for the survival of Lex Luthor and allow him to recover from the injuries that he sustained from the Fortress of Solitude's collapse. It was headed up by Dr. Edward Groll, a scientist that Lex hired to investigate alien technology. Later Lana Lang convinced Dr. Groll to use the suit on her and not on Lex, because Lex would be too dangerous to use it, and Dr. Groll realized that he didn't want to be remembered as the person who made a superpower suit for evilness and not for goodness.
Known Subject
Powers and Abilities
- Super strength: The wearer is strong enough to effortlessly tear through reinforced steel safes.
- Super speed: The wearer is granted the ability to run at an incredible speed that almost reaches the level of fully-powered Kryptonians. In this, they're able to perceive the world in slow motion.
- Enhanced Mental Process: The wearer's mental capacity and senses are significantly enhanced. They naturally absorb and process information at an accelerated rate, allowing them to perceive the world at a rate attuned how fast they are moving, thus enabling them to instantly and automatically notice, process and understand the details of any situation no matter how small without effort. Such as when Lana was able to see all the pieces of glass that broke while running at super speed, to catch a bullet.
- Invulnerability: The wearer's muscle mass and physical attributes are restored to their prime, enhanced and perfected, and they develop an impenetrable and indestructible anatomy. Their resilience increases to the point that they become impervious to all forms of physical harm, injury or pain and possess absolutely no internal or external weakness. Their bodies cannot be damaged by any forces, chemicals and energies. They are able to intercept bullets without harm.
- Healing factor: The wearer's cellular regeneration rate and immune system are augmented to extremely high degrees that enable them to instantly or near-instantly heal all physical damage, and render them immune to all diseases, toxins and afflictions.
- Super dexterity: The wearer becomes extremely agile and flawlessly precise in all forms of strenuous movement. Able to instantly by hand catch a bullet that was fired at them between their thumb and forefinger in midair.
- Kryptonite absorption: The nanites are able to absorb Kryptonite radiation.
Vulnerabilities
Because of the presence of Kryptonite in the suit, it could be removed by someone or something that can absorb Kryptonite. As a result, the wearer would instantly lose their powers.
Season Eight
Lana discusses Chloe after she tells her the suit can be dangerous for her.
Project Prometheus Version 01
The project is a specialized suit that grants the wearer extraordinary superpowers. The first version of the suit (seen in Bulletproof) was bulky and made of metal and was to be worn externally by Lex whereas the second version (seen in Power) uses nanotechnology and is made by the subject being burnt so that the skin becomes damaged and then the nanotechnology is placed underneath the skin.
Lana learned of this information and agreed with Dr Groll that Lex would corrupt its power and so they moved the Project to a safe location and decided that Lana should become the subject instead. Lana then stole the information on Project Prometheus from Tess Mercer when she visited her at the mansion. This led to Lana taking possession of the project, which prevented Lex from recovering and at the same time grant him superpowers. When the suit was placed on her body, Lana was given superpowers. Tess broke into the facility and tried to destroy the suit. She and Dr. Groll fought before she shot at him but Lana broke out and stopped the bullet knocking Tess out before leaving at super speed. In her first rescue, Lana displayed super speed, super strength and invulnerability.
Lana in the suit.
Lana join Clark in protecting Metropolis and plan their future together. After Lana called for Clark to meet her at the rooftop of the Daily Planet and then explained to Clark that now he no longer had to worry about her safety, because nothing can hurt her anymore and that she wanted to devote her powers to working side-by-side with Clark in Metropolis, to save people with him and then they kissed very passionately as the sun rose over the horizon. Lana and Clark both have superpowers and, one night, they are in bed making love, causing the bed to break.
However, the suit was eventually the reason why Lana and Clark had to separate. When Clark and Lana discovered a kryptonite bomb on the roof of the Daily Planet, Lana used the suit to absorb the kryptonite and defused the bomb, saving Metropolis. This ultimately meant that Lana was permanently irradiated with kryptonite preventing Clark from being able to get near her without being weakened. As a result, Lana left Smallville forever to protect Clark and to use her gifts to continue to save lives and help the world.
Season Eleven
Years later the kryptonite nanites were absorbed by John Corben's kryptonite heart during a fight Lana had with him.
Appearances
Notes
Lex´s power suit as he appears in the comics
The DC Comics villain Prometheus
- Project Prometheus was similar to Project Ares, which created a super-solider with a combination of several metahuman abilities that were harnessed via the experiments and the infusion of genetic material from an alien.
- In Greek mythology, Prometheus stole fire from the Deities and gave it to the people. In the film Superman Returns, Lex also refers to this story, identifying himself with Prometheus.
- The suit appears to be based on Lex's green battle suit from the comics which the first version of it closely resembles.
- The source for the suit's alien DNA was never established. However, the only introduced alien, capable of absorbing Kryptonite was Bizarro. In such a scenario, it is unknown if Blue kryptonite would also be lethal to the wearer, as it was to Bizarro or it could make Kryptonians powerless in the wearer's presence.
- In Lois & Clark, the Prometheus was a space station project, a laboratory for research of diseases on zero gravity. This project was going to be cancelled when Lex decided to go on with it and built his own private space laboratory.
- In the comics, Prometheus was a villain who infiltrated and brought down the Justice League. He was killed by Oliver Queen during the "Cry For Justice" story arc.
Lana Lang in Smallville
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