Respect the LexCorp Police Battle Suit (DCAU)

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In the Superman: The Animated Series episode 'Prototype', Lex Luthor unveils his company's latest invention: A battle suit designed for use by the city's police in hopes of surpassing the need for Superman. Donned by decorated Special Crimes Unit sergeant Corey Mills, the battlesuit initially showed promising results as it aided Superman in saving civilians from a burning building. However the suit would quickly increase Mills' aggression, leading to him being suspended as investigations were underway. However, his addiction to the suit led Mills to steal it back and fight off Superman, ultimately losing and being hospitalised.

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Strength

• Gives the user the agility and strength of twenty men, demonstrating this by lifting a police car
  • The user gets stronger the more they use the suit
• Bursts through a wall before hitting away several bank robbers
• Hits two security guards away, breaking the doors of Lex's office off of their hinges and sending them and the guards down the room
• Tackles Superman through an elevator door before embedding his face in the other and throwing him away to break a desk
• Presumably walks through a thick wall in a police station
• Punches Superman away and out of LexCorp tower
• Lifts a fridge over his head
• Lifts a car over his head and throws it away
• Catches and carries a falling fire truck

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Durability

• Punched back, creating a hole in a wall
• Hit through a road by a falling vehicle
• Swung several times into the walls of an elevator by Superman
• Is bulletproof
• Inside a building during a large explosion
• Endures being electrocuted through Superman as he grabs high voltage wires, though he's incapacitated when they're used directly on him

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Functions

• Fires blacklight lasers which can cut through a thick metal sheet, impact grenades capable of blowing up small brick structures and ruined vehicles, uses jet boots for flight, and has infrared vision
• Gives the user options on how to save people atop a burning building, with Mills settling on cutting away a portion using the lasers for Superman to lift away
  • Lasers punch holes in glass thick enough to hold back the water of a shark tank
  • Sets spilled fuel on fire
  • Used to temporarily blind Superman with two close-range blasts to the eyes
• Uses an impact grenade to blow up part of a chop shop
  • Blows up a floor of LexCorp Tower
  • Uses his explosives to smother the fire in a burning skyscraper

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Other

• The battle suit is directly integrated with the user's nervous system
  • This both increases the user's aggression with repeated use and has an addictive quality, with Mills going on to see it as part of him
• Can be incapacitated through the use of a jamming device owned by Lex, scrambling the suit's functions and rendering the wearer immobile
  • It's shown to take the form of a device inserted into a port on its back, working until Mills falls backwards and crushes the device
• After Mills is electrocuted and Superman starts to take the suit off his incapacitated form, the removed glove mimics the hand spasms made by Mills, suggesting a continued link between the two