Eve Teschmacher

"Crazy Lex Girlfriend"

- Kara Danvers about Eve Teschmacher.

Eve Teschmacher is the loyal henchwoman and girlfriend wannabe of Lex Luthor, who has secretly worked for him as a double agent posing first as the personal assistant of Cat Grant and James Olsen at CatCo Worldwide Media, and later as the research assistant of Lena Luthor, helping with her experiments on Lex's behalf. She later revealed her true alliance and betrayed Lena, giving Lex a cure for his disease and taking part in his Red Daughter's plot.

Early life
Eve was born in North Carolina and is implied to have had a strained relationship with her family, except for her older cousin, Bitsie, and her elderly aunt Mary. During her high school years, she spent a summer working at a children's theme park, playing a bunny and becoming familiar with how the park's theatrical machines operated. She took part on several beauty contests in her early teenhood, once becoming Junior Miss North Carolina.

Later, she attended Yale University and graduated at the top of her class, in physics and lieterature. During her time there, Eve also studied nuclear physics with Jen Steinmetz-O'Grady.

At some point in her life, Eve became a huge fan of Lex Luthor and developed a crush on him, writing him various letters. While he was being taken away from court after his trial, Eve waited amongst the crowd, calling out to him, which prompted Lex to have Otis Graves recruit her. After she visited him at Stryker's Island Penitentiary, revealing her will to help his anti-alien crusade, Eve started to work for Lex becoming one of his most faithful assistants and he sent her to infiltrate CatCo Worldwide Media to spy on Superman's pal James Olsen.

After moving to National City in order to carry out her mission, Eve mantained a secret lab in National City University.

Working for CatCo
Having sent her curriculum at CatCo, Eve was personally recommended to be her replacement as Cat's assistant by Kara Danvers herself, after she was promoted. Cat found her inadequate, particularly compared to Kara, and often screamed at her. She was apparently reduced to tears on more than one occasion because of this. At one point, Eve forgot Cat's coffee, and as a punishment, Cat made her call the dean of Yale and admonish him for having given her a diploma. Eve became James Olsen's assistant after Cat decided to take a leave of absence from CatCo. She was instantly infatuated with "Mike Matthews" (the fake identity of Mon-El) on his first day at work, and willingly helped him with his files. She and Mon-El are later caught having sexual relations in a copy room by Kara. Later on, she let Mon-El use her credit card to buy a suit to wear to go to Lena Luthor's charity event.

Some days later, while working one night, she witnessed Vibe and Gypsy duel, questioning to herself in the background why National City was getting "weirder" every day, as the two jumped into another universe.

After Kara rejected Mon-El, he decided to move on and went on a date with Eve, but it went badly for her as he could only talk about Kara the whole time. Eve told him that he had to get over his ex if he ever wanted to date anyone else, to which he quickly responded that he and Kara hadn't dated. A few days later, When Kara bumped into Eve, she asked how things were going with "Mike" as she thought they were dating and Eve told her the truth of what happened. Kara told Eve that she and "Mike" hadn't dated, and Eve slyly replied that this was what he had said, too.

When James chose to take a little Phorian named Marcus under his care, bringing him to his office, Eve cheerfully greeted the child, bringing him and James some snacks from Noonan's. Later, she was caught in the powerful telekinetic destruction that Marcus caused in the building due to his powers' involuntary reaction with the energy released from Rhea's Transmatter portal.

During the Daxamite invasion, Eve was among the CatCo employees who managed to escape when the building was attacked by the Daxamite army, thus saving herself. After CatCo reopened the activity following the invasion, Eve accompanied Professor Ben Lockwood to a meeting with James. The man tried to convince the media conglomerate's CEO that the invasion had deprived many people of their work and possessions and to also tell their story to the public. However, Eve interrupted their speech to inform James that CatCo's new owner, Lena Luthor, wanted him on the phone, prompting Lockwood to storm off.

Getting along with the new boss
During Lena Luthor's first day as the owner of CatCo, Eve was thrilled to meet her up-close and warmly greeted her. As she went to get Lena some coffee, Lena suggested that Eve use the private elevator as it would be faster to traverse up and down the establishment that way. Eve initially shied away from the suggestion as that particular elevator was reserved only for those at the top of CatCo’s hierarchy. However, Lena stated that starting from that day on, anyone could use the elevator at their discretion, much to Eve's delight. Later that night, Eve was seen leaving the office with Lena.

Some weeks later, Morgan Edge accused Lena of being responsible for many children in the city suffering from lead poisoning due to the lead bomb she created to counter the Daxamite invasion. When Lena returned to CatCo, she requested Eve bring her then CDC's reports on the lead poisoning, the victims' medical reports, and the statistics Edge was using. Eve agreed, also expressing her sympathies for the situation. Shortly after, the father of a boy who lay comatose at Luthor Family Children Hospital due to lead poisoning stormed into CatCo, demanding to see Lena. Eve tried to calm him down, but Lena agreed to see him. The man accused Lena of carelessly putting his son and many other children at risk, vowing she would pay as security escorted him out.

Eve was at a staff meeting in CatCo when Morgan Edge, having survived an assassination attempt, stormed into the room blaming Lena of having tried to kill him. Afterwards, Eve brought Lena a coffee, which ended up poisoning the latter. As Kara took care of Lena, James asked Eve where she got the coffee, to which Eve indicated the cart in front of the building, right at the moment where Morgan's assassin was fleeing the scene.

When the Cult of Yuda Kal attacked CatCo to capture Tanya, Eve screamed in terror as Olivia pulled a gun on James, kneeling and covering her head. James briefly checked on Eve after the group left.

Becoming Lena's assistant
After Lena brought James an overabundance of pizzas, he told Eve they would need her stomach for at least two of them. Eve smiled joyfully and the asked them if they'll need something else, to which Lena asked a cup of coffee due to reading a "seriously dry" article. Eve promptly asked if it was the one written by Forrester from Scientific Universe Journal and recommended that Lena read Jen Steinmetz-O'Grady's work, whom she studied with at Yale. After Eve left, Lena was surprised that Eve had studied nuclear physics, to which James answered that nothing of Eve could surprise him anymore. Later, Lena offered Eve the position of her research assistant as the former was studying the Harun-El. While working in Lena's lab, an overjoyed Eve thanked her boss for bringing her on, showing enthusiasm at the prospect of working on a project for Supergirl. Lena then explained to her what the Harun-El is and what could be her potential.

After the Kryptonian witches known as the Children of Juru attacked the D.E.O., Lena received a phone call from Alex Danvers and informed Eve of what happened and that Sam wasn't getting better, to wich Eve responded that she hadn't good news either as she worked on the Harun-El to healing cells in Sam's blood but, instead of responding, they're getting weaker. Those world get Lena an illumination, making her understand how to use the rock to split Sam from Reign. After Reign and the Children of Juru were finally defeated, Lena, having secretly synthesized a portion of the Harun-El for secret experiments, called Eve to inform her that the second phase of their trials were ready to began.

When Mercy Graves broke into L-Corp building in order to destroy for good the image inducer used by National City's aliens to pass as humans, Eve entered alarmed into Lena's office to inform her that the building was lock down. She received some special earplugs to resist the super-sonic sound waves Mercy was using to incapacitate everyone in the structure, including the security team. Realizing the woman's intention, Kara, Lena and Eve decided to stand against her and reach the server's room in order to prevent her from the only way to shut down the image inducer: a manual override. The three managed to evade Mercy's men and got into one of the elevators, though the woman spoke and mock them all the time through various monitors. While on the east wing, third floor, corridor B, Mercy tried to block them activating remotely the watertight bulkheads but Kara (secretly using her Kryptonian's powers) stopped them. Then, before Mercy's man reach them, Eve was able to shut the bulkheads close by activating them manually. Later she was sent by Lena to the control room in order to take back the building's security system from Mercy, a task that Eve managed to accomplish.

In Kaznia
Eve, alonside Lex and Otis, went to Kaznia after the Minister of Defense informed Lex of the existence of the copy of Supergirl; they eventually found the girl in a cabin in the woods after she saved a young boy from some thieves. After Lex accepted the offer of the Kaznian government to condition the copy in order to make her a weapon, Eve recognized a soldier who had made the copy "uncomfortable" so, Lex ordered for him to be executed and later scolded Eve for flinching during this. As Lex was about to came back to prison due to his seventy two free hours being nearly expired, he asked Eve how the copy's existence could be possible, to wich she replied revealing him about the Harun-El and her experiments with Lena. Lex complimented Eve and ordered her to ensure she got results with her research, then explained his plan to force a war between United States and Kaznia to foil it and become a hero in the eyes of public opinion.

Further experiments with the Harun-El
After arriving late at work because of the depliants spread on her car by the Children of Liberty, Eve apologized to Lena, who told her not to worry and that she hoped James would denounce the group's actions on Sean Chiu's TV show "The Counterpoint Daily" wich Eve claimed to love. Then one of the tumorous hearts under glass on which they were testing the healing capabilities of the Harun-El started to collapse despite the attempts to get him beat again with electric shocks. After finding that the tumors were still growing at the time of collapse, Lena ordered Eve to perform a biopsy and then destroy the sample; Eve tried to cheer up her boss by stating that they got still two protocols left, and that she was trying to cure cancer, so time would have definitely be needed. Later that day, after more hearts "died", Eve and Lena noticed that instead of shrink the tumors keep getting bigger, so Eve suggested to spend the night test the protocol again but Lena told to come back home to her family. Despite her assistant's protests Lena insisted to take a break from the work until the following day and ordered her to incinerete the heart but, as she tried to do what requested, Eve discovered that the heart had become fireproof, shocking both women. Realizing the Harun-El can potentially gave humans superpowers, and that the world is on the verge of a civil war between humans and aliens, Lena told Eve that the people they love would have need their protection an that she had decided to move forward with the "Protocol Harun-El", asking Eve to find a human subject.

Sometime after this, Eve performed the "Metallo Procedure" over various subjects in her secret lab, before she finally managed to revive Otis Graves, who was previously killed in action by an Hellgrammite.

The following morning Eve entered Lena's office informing that their first human subject has arrived early; she started to describe him as a "really nice guy" with bright green eyes like Lena's, but the latter cut her speech stating that making experiments on human is extremely serious and she won't make it less difficult if she made her empathize with the subject. Eve sincerely apologize to Lena and told her of how much she admired her for all the good her experiment would bring to the Country and the whole Planet. Lena then asked Eve to gave her the subject's folder, stating that they would refer to him only as "Subject 0331".

When Lex took Supergirl's copy to National City under the alias of "Linda Lee", in order to let her see how dissolute it's inhabitants lives are and she decided to stay a little longer, even approaching Lena at CatCo, Eve confronted the copy in an elevator scolding her behavior and later informed Lex that the copy "has a conscience" and it could be a problem for their project, being then instructed to infiltrate an American aircraft carrier and stage the bombardment of the house of the child that the copy saved months prior, in order to strengthen her resentment towards the Americans.

A couple of months later, when the copy had a shock while training for no apparent reason and entered a coma for some sort of disease, Lex decided to enter a radioactive chamber in order to developed an inoperable cancer, in order to obtain Lena's assistance, Eve advised him not to do it, but to no avail and watched helplessly as he proceed poisoning himself with radiation.

Working with the D.E.O.
After Lena accepted Colonel Lauren Haley's offer to share with the government her research over the possibility to give superpowers to humans, she and Eve moved into the D.E.O. headquarter's laboratory in order to continue their experiments with the organization's resources for a couple of weeks. The move upset a lot Eve, who was very buisy trying to find the gel electrophoresis apparatus when Director Alex Danvers came to visit her and Lena to ask if they needed something. Alex told Eve where she used to keep hers when that was her laboratory before watching Lena's research deducing what she was doing and prompting the woman to ask her not to divulgate the procedure with the government, since she had only agreed on giving them the finished product. Few days later, while Eve was reading the results of some new tests, she stumbled upon Alex, who entered the lab, deactivated the cameras and telling both her and Lena that there was something wrong with the government and that she wanted to help their research.

Some days later, James called Eve to his office, telling her that one of his reporter had found a lead regarding a black budget used by L-Corp, knowing James and Lena had recently broke-up and supposing hat they were still in a "rough patch", Eve spoke kindly telling him that she needed to ask Lena before to comment anything regarding it, but assured him that it wuold probably be because of some kind of measure to prevent industrial espionage, and that they're on the part of the "good guys". Then, Eve leave, promising to ask Lena and clear the situation as soon as she can, but right after she enter the lab and tried to talk with her, Lena quickly told her it was not the right moment as she wanted to concentrate only on the project due to the pressures she received from Colonel Haley. After the aliens' peaceful protest on National City, Colonel Haley told Lena that there could still be hope for the Country and granted her a free day telling that, for now, time was on their side. Eve cheerfully commented that "tomorrow is another day" but Lena pointed out that it could still be too late.

Later she shot James in the back following Lex's orders and used his signal watch to call Supergirl onto the scene as part of a larger plan.

Betraying Lena
After Lex Luthor obtained to serve the rest of his sentence under house arrest and was transported to his mansion, while he was talking to Lena regarding the Harun-El experiment he secretly financed, Eve interrupted the entering the room in panic and was mocked by Lex who asked for a macchiato, telling her to call him "Lex" as it was easy to write; Eve ignored the latter's comment and informed Lena about James being shot and currently fighting for his life. Later, when Lena started to work alongside Lex in order to finish the Harun-El drug and save both James and Lex's lives, Eve reached for her in the mansion's garden while she was calling Alex to check on James' condition, and told her about her concern on giving her brother full access to all their research, to wich Lena replied that despite knowing what Lex was capable of, she tought his main goal at the time was simply to live. Entering back into the mansion, the two women helped Lex after he was assaulted by an utterly indifferent government agent and unhooked his handcuffs. When Alex informed them that James was about to undergo a surgical operation with high risk of death, Eve and Lena went to National City General Hospital, meeting with her and Kara to wait until the operation is over. However, after the power outage caused by Manchester Black, Eve eavesdropped the conversation between Alex and Kelly Olsen about using the Harun-El drug on James and, having a sample of it with her propose them to let Lena use it, eventually saving him. The next day, Lena realized that Lex was responsible of both the cut off of the backup power and James' assassination attempt, in order to gave her the incentive and the subject on which she could test the drug to guarantee its safety to be used as a healing agent, the woman replied that she would never gave him the cure and Lex, not being surprised at all, revealed that he already had someone adminisreted it to him. In that moment, the FBI agent in the room revealed to be Otis Graves disguised by an image inducer, and while he was bonding Lena to Lex's wheelchair, Eve entered, revealing her true colors to an astonished Lena and killing an FBI agent in front of her before to reveal that she had always worked for Lex. Then, after Lena was chloroformed by Otis, Eve was instructed by Lex to "take care of her", before he left the mansion.

Then, Eve brought the handcuffed Lena back into her office and sneaked away leaving behind a letter on her former boss' desk with a confession from Lex in wich he stated that what he had done to her was in fact personal. Exposed as Lex's accomplice, Eve became a fugitive and risked her freedom to visit her cousin Bitsie to administer her the Harun-El cure saving her life.

Attacking the White House
The following day, she went to Washington, D.C. alongside the Red Daughter and instructed her regarding her role during that evening's operation while inspecting the sewers under the White House; after Red Daughter protested for being treated like she doesn't understand English stating that she knew it better than Eve herself, the latter smirked and commented that she looked exactly like Supergirl. Later that evening Eve, disguised by an image inducer, infiltrated the White House and blackmailed senator Granberry in order to vote in favor for the official repeal of the Alien Amnesty Act. Due to a (likely voluntary) glitch in the inducer, Supergirl managed to find her position and patrolled Washington to find her, finally locating an car clocked by a device that shields the x-ray vision; after Supergirl swallowed the car's doors, Eve asked her how she had found her, to wich the super-heroine answered but, as she tried to grab her, Eve turned out to be just a remotely controlled hologram and, proving she had outsmarted her, she blocked Supergirl against a wall by enclosing her in a Lexosuit alimented via Kryptonite, from which the Girl of Steel managed to free herself only after Red Daughter, posing as her, had killed all the congressmen in the Oval Office and Eve had managed to escape.

Personality
"She cries more than Halle Berry at award shows."
 * -|False personality=

- Cat Grant about Eve's façade.

Initially, Eve appeared to be a kind, caring, selfless and intelligent individual, who has a sense of justice, honor and good morals, considering the anti-aliens movements as "creeps" and being praised by Kara herself for her sweetness and smartness. However, she was also very sensitive and prone to crying to the point to being described as a weeper by Cat Grant. Nevertheless, Eve is an extremely hard-working woman dedicated to her job. She also has the habit to apologizing even when it's not necessary,  and it's extremely rare to see her mad at someone or something.

Despite appearing as an airhead and a klutz, Eve is actually quite smart, intuitive and seemingly empathic, always proving to be supporting and full of attention for her friends and co-workers, as demonstrated when she realizes of Kara and Mon-El's feelings for one another before themselves, when she tried to comfort Lena Luthor over the time needed for their experiments and their importance for the World, or when talking with James Olsen about his break-up with Lena.

Although usually pretty mild and kind of cowardly, Eve proved to be very brave if necessary, facing with absolutely no qualm the seige of L-Corp at the hands of Mercy Graves and her terroristic group.

It also seem that Eve has developed some sort of fear for Cat Grant.


 * -|True personality=

However, Eve's kind and timid traits are nothing more than a façade, in truth, Eve is actually a cold-blooded murderer and a traitorous sociopath who's been working as Lex Luthor's loyal double-agent for years. She considers Lex the brightest mind on Earth as well as the only one who really protect humanity from destruction and has proven to be willing to do (literally) anything for him. Eve has a twisted, dark and witty sense of humor, as demonstrated while mocking Lena after revealing her betrayal saying it was nothing personal, or while making fun of the American's lifestyle or her accent when she scolded Red Daughter.

In stark contrast with her façade, Eve is incredibly brave and nearly fearless, making no problem to infiltrate an American aircraft carrier, to directly confront both Supergirl's copy and Supergirl herself or threaten a US Senator.

However, Eve has been demonstrated not to be completely immoral or without a conscience as she might seem, being (genuinely) worried when Lex voluntarily poisoned himself with radiations, as well as getting disturbed by the sight of the execution of a Kaznia soldier she recognized as the one who had made Red Daughter "uncomfortable" or risking her freedom in order to save Bitsie's life.

It is also implied that Eve is in love with Lex, although not reciprocated.

Abilities

 * Genius-level intellect/Expert tactician/Leader: Despite her apparent scatterbrained demeanor, Eve is is an extremely intelligent and savvy woman, to the point that Kara Danvers praised her intellect to Cat Grant. Eve graduated at the top of her class from Yale University, where she extensively studied nuclear physics. Eve proved to be a valuable asset to Lena Luthor, helping the latter with her experiments on the Harun-El. She was also able to act as a spy inside both CatCo and L-Corp while remaining unnoticed and unsuspected by anyone, programmed some Metallo-like cyborg of her own creation to protect her secret lab, and managed to orchestrate a terroristic attack at the White House following Lex's orders, leading Red Daughter and outsmarting Supergirl herself.
 * Expert of deception/Manipulator: Eve is extremely skilled in the art of deception; as she managed to successfully portray herself as a kind and timid individual for years, as no one, including James Olsen, suspected that she was not who she appeared to be. Eve also managed to keep her alliance with Lex Luthor a secret for years, even from Lena, a genius in her own right.
 * Master scientist: Eve is very proficient in the field of genetics and bioengineering, as she was able to help Lena study a cure to Samantha Arias' condition as well as to help with the Harun-El experiments on human empowering. After receiving data on the Metal Protocol, Eve was able to reproduce it on numerous subjects and, finally, resurrect Otis Graves.
 * Expert engineer: Eve has displayed familiarity with many different forms of technology. For example, she used a bobby pin to trigger a hidden quick-release in the circuitry of an L-Corp door in order to close it. Eve managed to build and mantain a secret laboratory at National City University.
 * Computer specialist/Expert computer hacker: Eve is a skilled computer specialist; she was able to monitor the security system of the L-Corp building from a laptop and later taking control of it from it's own designer, Mercy Graves; she was also able to realize how to activate manually the building's watertight bulkheads just by looking at them, remotedly activate an hologram of herself and even a Lexosuit.
 * Expert hand-to-hand combatant/Martial artist: Eve is quite a highly proficient hand-to-hand combatant, she has proven to be skilled enough to knock out a grown man with a single punch.
 * Expert markswoman: Eve is an expert in using firearms; as she effortlessly killed a federal agent when she revealed that she was working for Lex Luthor all along and was later revealed to be the sniper who shot James Olsen.
 * Stealth/Infiltration: Eve is quite elusive, as she was able to infiltrate undetected and witout any assistence into a US Navy aircraft carrier, as well as to evade the police to visit her cousin and sneak into the White House.

Equipment

 * Guns/Firearms: Eve primarily makes use of pistols and firearms, wielding them quite effectively.
 * Image inducer: Eve has uses an image inducer to disguise herself as a White House staff member.
 * Lexosuit: Despite she didn't wore it, Eve maneuvered a portable Lexosuit in order to hold Supergirl against a wall.

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Trivia

 * Eve is the second Supergirl character to be in another show in the Arrowverse, following Kara Danvers herself.
 * Eve is the only Supergirl character that appeared in an episode (​​​​​) without Kara.
 * She hates salmon.
 * Eve is the 17th character in the Arrowverse to have an episode named after her in a civilian sense in some way, after Pamela Ferrer, Stanley Dover, Emiko Adachi, Sara Lance, Felicity Smoak, Harrison Wells, Oliver Queen, Alex Danvers, Zari Tomaz, Harry Wells, Iris West, Winn Schott, Ava Sharpe, Nora West-Allen, Gary Green and Nate Heywood.
 * According to Eve herself, she has the "nasty habit" of eavesdropping on other people's conversations.
 * Eve is very good at bowling, Bitsie describes her as "the family's bowling champion".

Behind the scenes

 * Eve Teschmacher first appeared in the 1978 film Superman as the assistant of Lex Luthor, famously portrayed by actress Valerie Perrine.
 * Eve becoming Lena's assistant and helping her with her experiments, as well as the revelation that she worked alongside Lex all along, are nods to it.
 * The way Cat Grant and Lex Luthor scream "Ms. Teschmacher!!!" during Eve's first appearance on the show and during her betrayal of Lena respectively, is identical to the way Gene Hackman's Lex Luthor screams it throughout Superman. Andrea Brooks shared on instagram, a video comparing Eve's entrance scene from the original Superman to its ode in on the day the episode aired.
 * The cast calling name for her was Janice.