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Lois Lane (Amy Adams)
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Debut Man of Steel (film)
Portrayed by Amy Adams
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Lois Lane is a reporter for The Daily Planet.

Biography[]

Man of Steel (film)[]

In 2013, Lane is sent to cover the discovery of a mysterious craft in Northern Canada for the Daily Planet, meeting up with Col. Nathan Hardy, Dr. Emil Hamilton, and General Calvin Swanwick at a U.S. military installation. Upon seeing Clark Kent, who had taken a job at the base and a false alias to get close to the ship, sneak out at night, Lane follows Kent into the ship and accidentally triggers the craft's security system, which badly wounds her. Kent comes to her aid and cauterizes her wound with his heat vision, then returns her to safety before flying the ship off with a key given to him by his biological father, Jor-El.

Touched by Kent's kindness and intrigued by his mysterious nature, Lane begins tracking down his previous stops, finding commonality between each of his guises and heroic deeds, before arriving in Smallville, Kansas, Kent's hometown. She plans to publish an article about her mysterious rescuer for the Planet, and when her superior Perry White rebuffs her story, she leaks it to Glenn Woodburn, a tabloid reporter. Lane later finds Martha Kent, Clark's adoptive mother, and is found by Kent himself at his adoptive father Jonathan's grave. Clark explains Jonathan's sacrifice to keep his identity a secret and persuades Lois to drop the story, telling her that it is not the time to reveal himself. Returning to the Planet in Metropolis, Lane is berated again by White, though he reveals that he believes her story and is pleased when she informs him of dropping her story on Kent.

Nonetheless, the world is forced to learn about Kent when General Zod, an exiled warlord from Kent's destroyed home planet Krypton, discovers his presence on Earth and demands that Earth's citizens hand him over, referring to him by his birthname Kal-El. Lois is arrested by the FBI after Woodburn rats her out. Kent, wearing a Kryptonian uniform from the ship and hiding his identity, surrenders to the U.S. military knowing that they have Lois in custody. He is shackled and placed in an interrogation room with Lane, bonding with her until Hamilton tries to sedate him. After Kent convinces Hamilton and Swanwick to trust him, he spends a final moment with Lane before the Kryptonians arrive for him, though Faora-Ul, Zod's top ranking military officer, demands Lane to accompany them. Before Kent meets with Zod, he slips Jor-El's key to Lane, who upon using it on a key port in her cell, activates a holographic artificial intelligence modelled after Jor-El. The AI aids Lane in escaping and restoring Kent's powers on the ship, also informing her on how to defeat Zod. When Lane' escape pod begins to disintegrate in Earth's atmosphere, Kent breaks her out of the pod upon escaping the ship himself and lands her safely before engaging in a fight with Faora and other Kryptonian soldiers outside Smallville.

Lane informs Kent, now nicknamed "Superman" at her suggestion, and the military on how to send Zod and his troops back to the Phantom Zone when they begin to terraform Earth into Krypton-like conditions. She accompanies Hardy and Hamilton on an air-carrier with the spacecraft that brought Kent to Earth, intending to activate that ship with Jor-El's key and drop it on Zod's mothership. However, Faora ambushes the aircraft after Superman destroys the World Engine terraforming the Earth, and Hardy is forced to crash the plane into Zod's ship shortly after Hamilton activates Kent's infant spacecraft when Faora approaches the cockpit, killing everyone aboard except Lane, who jumps out of the plane. When a gravitational singularity forms from the collision and pulls Zod's troops and ship back into the Phantom Zone, Superman rescues Lane once again at the risk of being pulled in himself, but pulls her to safety. After Lane shares a kiss with him, Kent encounters Zod, who had survived the battle, and engages in a destructive fight with him across Metropolis that results in Superman reluctantly snapping Zod's neck when the latter threatens more civilians. Lane comforts Kent, who is distraught at having to kill the last known surviving member of his race. In the aftermath of the battle, Kent gets a job at the Planet in order to get closer to action while discreetly maintaining his civilian identity, and Lane welcomes him to the news agency.

Exposing Lex Luthor[edit][]

Further information: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

Two years later, Lane and Kent are dating, having moved in together. Lane is assigned to interview the warlord Amajagh in the nation of Nairomi alongside photographer Jimmy Olsen, but as Olsen and the other Americans in their party are quickly found to be CIA operatives, Amajagh and his men execute them and holds Lois hostage. Kent arrives as Superman and rescues her, but some of Amajagh's men, working as double-agents for the Russian mobster Anatoli Knyazev, cross Amajah's true soldiers and burn their bodies to make it appear that Superman killed them. Lois secretly keeps a bullet from the confrontation after returning to Metropolis. She and Kent talk about his seemingly reckless decision to rescue her and the controversy arising due to Amajagh's men appearing to have been killed by him, but Kent reassures her that he killed no one in Nairomi. Lane also expresses doubt about their relationship, but he reaffirms his love for her before the two have sex.

Lane begins investigating the bullet's origins, discovering it is not made from any known metals or manufacturers after talking to S.T.A.R. Labs scientist Jenet Klyburn. She then contacts Swanwick, now Secretary of Defense, and he reveals to her the bullet is a prototype made by LexCorp. She brings this to White, but he dissuades her from publishing the article to prevent Lex Luthor from "suing the Daily Planet out of existence" even if Lane is correct. Lois later covers Superman's public trial at the United States Capitol, but a bomb planted there by Luthor explodes, killing hundreds inside. Superman survives unscathed, but is guilt-laden by his failure to detect the bomb in time and goes into hiding. Lane contacts Klyburn again, and finds that the bomb was encased in lead to prevent Superman from seeing it. She then goes to the suspected suicide bomber's house to find evidence, but discovers he had no idea he would die at the trial, with Klyburn providing evidence of Luthor's direct involvement. Meanwhile, Bruce Wayne, the CEO of Wayne Enterprises who moonlights as Batman, dreams of an evil Superman taking over the world after being driven mad by the loss of "her" and encounters a time-traveling Flash telling him Lane is "the key".

In retaliation and to draw Superman out of hiding, Luthor kidnaps Lane and Martha Kent. He brings Lane to the top of LexCorp Tower and taunts her before pushing her off the skyscraper, but Superman arrives in time to save her before confronting Luthor. When Superman is blackmailed by Luthor to fight Batman to prevent Martha's death, Lois returns to the Planet and immediately requests a helicopter to Gotham City in order to prevent Superman and Batman from killing each other. She arrives just as Batman is about to impale Superman with a kryptonite-tipped spear, and Superman pleads with Batman to "save Martha", causing the latter to suffer a flashback about his own parents' deaths. Lois explains what Superman meant, diffusing the fight between the two superheroes and allowing them to band together against Luthor. She discards the spear in the water, but realizes its usefulness when a Kryptonian deformity created by Luthor emerges and threatens the city. She swims underwater to retrieve it but is trapped, leading to Superman assisting her to his own harm. After resurfacing, Kent bides goodbye to Lane before sacrificing himself to kill the monster with the spear, with the kryptonite allowing Doomsday to fatally stab Superman in return. Batman and Wonder Woman return Superman's body to a grief-stricken Lane.

Lane writes a cover-up story saying that Kent also died in the battle covering it in order to protect his identity as Superman, while Luthor is arrested for his crimes. She attends his funeral in Smallville with Martha, Wayne, Diana Prince, and several colleagues from the Planet, with Martha giving Lois an envelope containing an engagement ring from Clark. After Lois drops the first handful of dirt on Clark's coffin in the grave, the dirt begins to levitate after she leaves.

Superman's resurrection[edit][]

Theatrical cut[edit][]

Further information: Justice League (film)

In 2017, Lane is still mourning the death of Kent/Superman while continuing to work at the Daily Planet. After the Justice League resurrects Superman, Wayne's butler Alfred Pennyworth sends Lane to calm him down. Kent leaves with Lane to his childhood home in Smallville before helping the Justice League defeat Steppenwolf. Following the battle, Kent and Lane re-enter each other's lives at the Kent Farm in Smallville. Lane also writes an article at the Daily Planet about the Justice League and their heroics as well as darkness against hope.

Director's cut[edit][]

Further information: Zack Snyder's Justice League

Following Superman's death, Lane leaves her job at the Daily Planet and visits Kent's monument regularly. Lane only returns to work when Swanwick, using his ability as the Martian Manhunter to disguise himself as Martha Kent, persuades her to. Sometime later, Lane spontaneously witnesses the Justice League resurrect Superman through the Mother Boxes, and calms an angry, amnesiac Kent before leaving with him to Smallville, where he regains his memories and they confirm their engagement. Lane is also revealed to be pregnant with Kent's child.

In the "Knightmare" reality, Darkseid kills Lane, allowing Superman to be corrupted with the Anti-Life Equation.

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