Lois Lane: Difference between revisions

[[File:Supermans_Girlfriend_Lois_Lane_878.jpg|frame| At least get her a [[Cool Car]], man!]]

 

 

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.

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 Paolo]] 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.

 

 

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.

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.

 

* [[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.