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Line 1: {{~~trope~~work}} [[File:~~Supermans_Girlfriend_Lois_Lane_878~~Superdickerygocart.jpg\|frame\| At least get her a [[Cool Car]], man!]] '''Lois Lane''' is ([[~~Everybody~~Pop ~~Knows~~Cultural ~~That~~Osmosis\|of course]]) the [[Romantic Interest]] of [[Superman]]. She first appeared in ''[[Action Comics]]'' #1 (June, 1938), the first published Superman story. As such, she's the [[Trope Codifier]] for (a type of) superhero love interest- the one who doesn't realize that [[Loves My Alter Ego\|the hero she loves is also someone close to her]]. The characters [[Captain Ersatz\|inspired by her]] are countless. ▼ Over the decades, Lois has been [[Straw Feminist\|a symbol]] both for ''and'' against feminism; while she is a career woman (an [[Intrepid Reporter]]) who speaks her mind and goes for [[Going for ~~The~~the Big Scoop\|the big scoop]] regardless of danger, she has also been the object of mockery for [[Clark Kenting\|not noticing that her fellow reporter Clark Kent]] is Superman. On this front she is normally joined by Clark Kent's other close friends, but she is closer to either of them than anyone else who does not know they are the same, and even in ''Lois and Clark'' where she does figure out the fact that Clark Kent is Superman before he tells her, she has made out with him on at least one occasion under both identities before that. She also gets marked down by some since she is [[Damsel in Distress\|constantly getting in trouble that she needs to be rescued from]]. However at least in some incarnations this often involves her as a bold, fearless attacker who will ~~grad~~grab whatever large object is around and go after the local evil force, at times when such a force is in the process of defeating Superman without the use of Kryptonite.▼ ▲Lois Lane is ([[Everybody Knows That\|of course]]) the [[Romantic Interest]] of [[Superman]]. She first appeared in ''[[Action Comics]]'' #1 (June, 1938), the first published Superman story. As such, she's the [[Trope Codifier]] for (a type of) superhero love interest- the one who doesn't realize that [[Loves My Alter Ego\|the hero she loves is also someone close to her]]. The characters [[Captain Ersatz\|inspired by her]] are countless. ▲Over the decades, Lois has been [[Straw Feminist\|a symbol]] both for ''and'' against feminism; while she is a career woman (an [[Intrepid Reporter]]) who speaks her mind and goes for [[Going for The Big Scoop\|the big scoop]] regardless of danger, she has also been the object of mockery for [[Clark Kenting\|not noticing that her fellow reporter Clark Kent]] is Superman. On this front she is normally joined by Clark Kent's other close friends, but she is closer to either of them than anyone else who does not know they are the same, and even in ''Lois and Clark'' where she does figure out the fact that Clark Kent is Superman before he tells her, she has made out with him on at least one occasion under both identities before that. She also gets marked down by some since she is [[Damsel in Distress\|constantly getting in trouble that she needs to be rescued from]]. However at least in some incarnations this often involves her as a bold, fearless attacker who will grad whatever large object is around and go after the local evil force, at times when such a force is in the process of defeating Superman without the use of Kryptonite. During the [[Silver Age]] of comics, Lois had her own series, titled ''Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane''. Which lasted for 137 issues, from March-April, 1958 to September-October, 1974. In this series, which had a more humorous tone, Lois became a shrew who constantly tried to prove that Clark was Superman on the assumption that he would have to marry her then. Instead of, you know, simply courting him the regular way. (Note that Superman himself was openly courting her, but Lois apparently felt that she still needed to prove herself smarter than him. No wonder she became a target of his [[Super Dickery]] so often. It should also be noted that this was how most superhero [[Love Interest\|love interests]] flew anyway). To be fair, they DID truly love each other, both just had a lot of quirks to overcome. Line 11 ⟶ 10: Eventually, an adult version of the character of Lana Lang (originally created to serve the same role as Lois but in the Superboy series) also joined the cast, in order to force Superman into a [[Love Triangle]] (though Lana had pretty much the same personality as Lois, making you feel even sorrier for him.) Other stories had Lois fall in relationships with other superheroes, including (in one [[Time Travel]] story) ''Superman's own father, Jor-El''. Mostly she was just trying to make him jealous, or just happened to attract the attention of other Superman-like characters. Those stories always ended with Lois and Superman [[Status Quo Is God\|back in their original situation]] by the end, often because the [[~~The~~Romantic False ~~Paolo~~Lead]] turned out to be evil/a shape-shifting ameoba/from a planet with a toxic atmosphere/all of the above. Sometimes she became a superhero herself, also only briefly. In some "imaginary" stories (meaning, [[What If...?\|not intended as part of the official canon]]) Lois ''did'' get to marry Superman, though almost always with bad consequences for her (having to hide from criminals, raising bratty superpowered kids, etc.) In one such story she married a (reformed) [[Lex Luthor]] instead! By the 1970s, her series attempted to modernize: Lois no longer tried to rope Superman into a wedding, dressed less conservatively and the stories tackled more serious subjects. Unfortunately, one of them was racial injustice, which it tried to explore by... having Lois be transformed into a Black woman for one day. While the intention was good, the story felt very awkward, especially towards the end when she asked Superman if he would still love her if she never changed back. Line 19 ⟶ 18: Lois was eventually allowed to finally marry Superman; the first time, it was the ''original'' Lois Lane (the one from the 1940s comics) since that version was declared to exist in a [[Parallel Universe]] and was not [[All the Myriad Ways\|the "current" version]]. Ironically, in this story Superman (due to a magic spell) forgets he's a superhero and marries Lois as Clark Kent. But then she discovers he's really Superman and helps him regain his memory. She expects him to declare the marriage null, but instead, he marries her again, this time as Superman (in a private ceremony.) The modern Lois also got to marry Superman in the 1990s, first in the TV show ''[[Lois and Clark]]'' and then in the comics. This was the post-''[[Crisis Onon Infinite Earths]]'' version, who was the 1970s version only more so. Most notably, her relationship (before she learnt his identity) was clearly with Clark, not Superman, in keeping with the [[Post -Crisis]] Superman's belief that "[[Secret Identity Identity\|Superman is what I do, Clark Kent is who I am]]". There had been elements of this in the [[Bronze Age]], but it was still mostly presented as "Lois is dating Clark because she suspects he's Superman". As of the ''[[New 52]]'' reboot, Lois is no longer married to Clark, and is dating someone else. The first Lois died during the events of ''[[Infinite Crisis]]'' (as did the first Superman) only for both to be brought back during the ''[[Blackest Night]]'' crisis as [[Our Zombies Are Different\|Black Lanterns]]. Neither marriage has had children, so far (except for her son in ''[[Superman Returns]]''.) You also could count the adoption of Christopher Kent, a young Kryptonian boy who turned out to be {{spoiler\|the son of General Zod}}.) Lois continues to be an inextricable part of the Superman mythos and appears in virtually every version of the character, be it comics, movies or animation. ~~===~~ {{tropelist\|In addition to the Tropes potholed above, Lois Lane gives us: ~~===~~}} * [[Action Girl]]: The modern version. She got smarter, too. * [[Badass Damsel]]: She provides the page image. This is a woman who gets caught by villains all the frickin' time, but only because she's [[Genre Savvy]] enough to know that if she does so, she'll not only get the scoop on the front page story, but also somehow survive to write it. And not just by getting rescued — if Superman doesn't know/is depowered/is busy, she'll pretend to fall in love with the drug lord who captured her, then blast herself out of their wedding, veil, gown, and all, with a [[Mook]]'s stolen machine gun. Line 46 ⟶ 45: * [[Old Shame]]: The "I'm Curious- Black!" story was ''never'' referenced to again. ** Though it ''was'' included in at least one collection of classic Superman tales. * [[Sealed Evil in Aa Can]]: [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero\|Lois let these out quite often]], [[Took a Level In Dumbass\|in spite of repeatedly being]] [[Don't Touch It, You Idiot!\|told not to]], [[Aesop Amnesia\|even after all the other times she'd done it]]. * [[Single Woman Seeks Good Man]]: Lois is in love with Clark not because he is Superman, but because he is a sweet, kind-hearted farmboy from Kansas. * [[Transformation Comic]]: Often rivaled the [[Jimmy Olsen]] comics for this. * [[Tsundere]]: The [[Trope Codifier]]. * [[Weak -Willed]]: During the [[Golden Age]] she was ''very'' frequently (and easily) hypnotised. Oddly this was much more a trait of the [[Golden Age]] Lois who was assertive and had a very strong personality than the less feisty [[Silver Age]] version. * [[Weirdness Magnet]]: As much as Jimmy Olsen. Heck, look at the Trope image, then know she's been aged prematurely, forced to marry a ''gorilla'', and much, much more. * [[What Could Have Been]]: Jerry Siegel intended to have Lois learn Superman's dual identity early on and get a [[Relationship Upgrade]] back in 1939 or so; as it happened, this did occur...in the mid-1990s {{reflist}} [[Category:~~Superman (Franchise)~~{{PAGENAME}}]] [[Category:DC Comics Characters]] [[Category:The DCU]] [[Category:The Great Depression]] [[Category:~~Lois Lane~~Superman]] [[Category:~~Trope~~Character]]