In "Hypnotic", in an effort to stop hurting Lana emotionally, Clark told her that he no longer loved her. As the first season progresses, Lana grows closer to Clark, while Whitney begins to distance himself because of his father's medical ailments. I'm very interested in tying her back in to Metropolis and making sure that her world is a part of the Superman universe. Kreuk contends that Lana went to Lex because "she knows she will never really love him." In Superman/Batman #49, it is revealed that she sold Kryptonite to the government to prevent Lexcorp from going under, and had caches of Kryptonite placed all over the planet, as a last-ditch defense if Superman should ever go rogue. [1], Season two also showed Lana's transition from the "girl next door" to a more "self-reliant young woman". Pete began a career in politics that got him elected to the Senate. On her wedding day, Lana had second thoughts about marrying Lex when she discovered Clark’s powers, but Lionel told Lana if she did not marry Lex then he would kill Clark. She has been referred to as Countess, Countess Thoreaux, and, more commonly, Isobel. Clark Kent (of Smallville-Earth), is the alter ego of Superman, Earth's greatest hero. This made Clark more convinced than ever that he could not tell Lan… [50] She was nominated again in 2004,[51] 2006,[52] 2008 for the revised category Choice TV Actress: Action Adventure,[53] and finally in 2009. The character of Lana Lang, first created for comic books by Bill Finger and John Sikela in the 1950s as a romantic interest for Superboy, was adapted to television in 2001 by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar. Eventually, Lana and Supergirl decide together that Lana will accept the position, and that Supergirl will take on the secret identity of Linda Lang, niece of Lana Lang. Lana was a childhood friend of Clark Kent. Based on the comic book character of the same name, Lana was Clark Kent’s main love interest for most of the show’s 10-season run. [25] It is revealed at the start of season seven that her effort fails, but as part of the "settlement" of their divorce, Lex makes sure that Lana does not go to jail for her actions. [42], The beginning of season five saw, for the first time, Clark and Lana in a happy relationship together, one that was void of dishonesty and secrets. Lana was also Lex Luthors Girlfriend, Wife and eventual Ex-Wife during the sixth season. In the series' 100th episode, Clark finally took a chance and told Lana the truth. She has been a series regular since the pilot episode, and has been played continuously by Kristin Kreuk, with two other actresses having portrayed Lana Lang as a child and as an elderly woman. 116-119, Byrne, Craig, (Season 5 Companion) pp. ", Simpson, Paul, (Season 1 Companion), pp.116–119, Simpson, Paul, (Season 1 Companion), pp.116-119, Simpson, Paul, (Season 3 Companion) pp.116-119, Byrne, Craig, (Season 4 Companion) pp. Lana is aware that Chloe still has romantic feelings for Clark, but their friendship suffered the most when Chloe revealed that she had known where Clark had been hiding for months. Lana's "Birthright" history has been yet again re-made following the events of the Infinite Crisis, which has revived Clark's pre-Crisis Superboy alter-ego. In this story, set in the early 1950s, Lana Lang joins the Daily Star staff as a television critic. Lana and Lex first met when Lana was ten and Lex was sixteen. She also frames Lex for her murder, to punish him for his betrayal. [21] When her relationship with Clark hits a breaking point in season five's "Hypnotic",[22] she begins to grow closer to Lex. [37] In season two, Lana discovers that her mother had had an affair with a man named Henry Small, and that he was her biological father. As Gough explains, by the end of the sixth season, Lana has shown that she can beat Lex at his own games. The only reason Lana was with Lex was because Clark forced her in that direction and she ended up getting in over her head. Also appearing in some Silver Age stories was Lana's uncle, Professor Potter, an eccentric inventor. Kreuk realized that the character in the comics and her character on the show were two different people. When she leaves she breaks up with Whitney and starts dating Clark. He then divulged to her that he had superpowers, displayed by flying her around the world, before explaining that he felt he had to leave Smallville to help humanity as a whole. To answer viewers that hated to see Lana marry Lex, Dries contends that as viewers we are seeing all of Lex, including how evil he truly is, while Lana only sees the portion of Lex that appears good. [39], While in Paris, Lana begins a new romantic relationship with Jason Teague. [6], By the end of season two, Lana and Clark slowly try and start a romantic relationship, but fear backlash from Chloe because of her personal feelings for Clark. Lana served as the CEO of Lexcorp for a short while. Lana also had various adventures with Superboy, and several with the futuristic superhero team the Legion of Super-Heroes. Upon his arrival home, a disappointed Clark is told that Lana left some time prior and has not been heard from since. She is the first main love interest of Clark Kent and one of the many ex-wives of Lex Luther. She has a "hole in her heart", because of the loss of her parents, and feels empathy for everyone. The two shared a mutual attraction for each other throughout their youth and even has adults maintain a certain degree of romantic tension between them. [7] Just as the two give in to their feelings fully, Clark unexpectedly runs away from Smallville in the season two finale. To be clear, I think all of this makes sense for THE villain in comics to do because he wants to overwhelmingly destroy Clark and adding a layer of creep to a psychopath makes sense, but still, it’s gross to watch! The only reference to Lana in Finale comes via some old footage from previous episodes. By the end of the episode, the procedure is complete, and Lana becomes just as strong and invulnerable as Clark. The character was written out of the show during Season Eight. Kreuk thinks that it can be hard to believe that a sixteen-year-old girl could become co-owner of a coffee shop, but she believes that it helps to provide more independence for the character and establish her more within the show. He faced his worst nightmare when LuthorCorp accidentally released a dangerous toxin into the air, causing Clark to hallucinate that Lana had discovered his secret and wanted vengeance for her parents' death, killing him with a piece of kryptonite. In Superman #654, Perry White reported that Lana had become CEO of Lexcorp following the ousting of founder Lex Luthor. [23] The relationship with Lex eventually leads to marriage in the season six episode "Promise", but not before Lana discovers Clark's secret and realizes why he has been lying to her all these years. Despite this, Lana developed a reputation for being a sweet girl – pleasant, caring, as well as eager to help others. Lana's history is once again altered in "Superman Secret Orgins". Lana reveals that she has been using her abilities to help and protect children from people who would exploit them after Lana had settled in Africa. While recovering, Lana is visited by Supergirl, who tells her she can no longer be a part of her family due to her lies about her condition. Who does Clark Kent marry in Smallville? Around the same time. She relates to Clark Kent that she and her family left Smallville when she was very young, explaining why they hadn't met during their youth unlike the Earth-One versions. In the post-Crisis version of events, Lana was a childhood friend of Clark, with a certain degree of romantic tension in the air as Lana had long pined after Clark, who had loved her only platonically in return. When Superman and Batman come to remove the Kryptonite, Lana refuses to hand it over, and pushes a button which turns the caches into "dirty bombs" which spread Kryptonite molecules through the entire planet, forcing all Kryptonians to vacate. The full extent of her history and her connection to Superboy/Clark has not yet been fully disclosed. New Supergirl writer Sterling Gates tells Newsarama "We're integrating Supergirl's book more into the Superman universe, and that includes having a supporting cast that overlaps with that world. In Smallville, Lana is the first main love interest for Clark Kent, though, in the first season she is dating Whitney Fordman. [58], Lana made a non-speaking cameo appearance in the ninth issue of the show's comic book continuation Smallville: Season Eleven, written by executive story editor Bryan Q. Miller. [47] She would receive two more nominations in that category, one in 2004 and one in 2006, before she departed from the show. The character was written out of the show during Season Eight. Lana realized that Lex was possessed by General Zod, who took her captive and brought her to the Luthor Mansion. Lana moved in with Lex shortly after he was healed and discovered she was pregnant on Thanksgiving. Kissing her goodbye "like a brother," Lana was left in considerable shock, not only over the revelation of Clark's superpowers, but also over the final realization that he held no reciprocal romantic feelings towards her, leaving Lana heartbroken and alone. Her successful run as CEO was brought to and end, when she attempted to use Lexcorp's resources to help Superman, facing the time-traveling strongman Atlas, by sending the Luthor Squad. 116-119, Byrne, Craig, (Season 6 Companion) pp. Clark Kent and Lois Lane’s wedding was held in Smallville in 2011. [16][17] In the season four finale "Commencement", Lana is confronted by Jason's mother Genevieve (Jane Seymour), who is also after the three stones of knowledge, and during a struggle Isobel comes forward and kills Genevieve. She briefly returns to Smallville to attend Jonathan Kent's funeral. [40], — Kristin Kreuk on Lana's relationship with Lex. The holographic copy of Luthor informs Lana that by helping Superman she has violated the Lexcorp standard contract of employment ("very, very fine print"), that forbids Lexcorp employers to use Lexcorp resources for helping Kryptonians, under the penalty of termination. Following another collapse, Lana is taken to hospital and operated on. Her obsessions also begin to affect her relationship with Clark by the episode "Wrath". She had walked in on him skinny dipping with Patricia Swann after Lionel Luthorhad invited her and her aunt to stay with him during a riding competition. When Winslow Schott puts a kryptonite bomb on the roof of the Daily Planet under Lex's orders, Lana is forced to absorb all of the kryptonite to deactivate the bomb. [39] In season four, Kristin Kreuk felt like Lana is "going a little crazy and is uncertain about her direction, and feels people aren't validating her beliefs". When it resulted, indirectly, in her death and he was allowed to live the day over again Clark chose not to tell her his secret. During the 1970s and early 1980s, Lana became an anchorwoman for WGBS-TV's evening news in Metropolis, as a co-anchor to Clark Kent. Lex proposed and Lana eventually accepted. The Queen reveals to Supergirl that during her last encounter with Lana, she injected her with a portion of her DNA and has been slowly taking control of her body for the past year, with the ultimate goal of capturing a Kryptonian to use as a template for an army of hybird insects. Lana created a yellow honeybee-like costume and mask, and took the name "Insect Queen", under which identity Lana had several adventures. Years later, the post-Crisis Lana eventually married Pete Ross. Lana goes on to date and marry Lex Luthor after discovering that she is supposedly pregnant. After they graduated from high school Clark took Lana on a private walk, saying that he had to tell her something important, which Lana honestly expected to be a marriage proposal. Does he love me? [57] In Smallville: Dragon, Lana visits an antiques dealer, Mrs. Mayfern, looking for a gift for her boyfriend, Whitney. She was from the village Castelnois de Montmiral. One of the early turning points for the character came in season one's "X-Ray", when Lana discovers information about her parents that changes her perspective on them. The resulting death of Genevieve, who was revealed to have been the cause for Isobel's death centuries prior in the episode "Bound",[18] releases Isobel's control over Lana. [43], In 2001, Kristin Kreuk was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Actress, as well as Female Cinescape Genre Face of the Future. Recently, ANDREW WILLIAMS of Metro.co.uk interviewed Smallville's Kristin Kreuk, and topics of discussion included her departure from the Superman TV series. Lana gives her blessing to Lois, and decides to remain in Africa as the Angel. [1] Eventually, in order to really get to know herself, and find her role in life, Lana leaves Smallville for Paris. By season two, with Whitney's departure, Lana and Clark begin to grow closer. Even if Lex and Lana was a controversial couple, Smallville insisted on getting them married in season 6. Lana Lang does not appear in the Smallville finale. [1] She eventually becomes a tragic figure in Smallville, as the decisions made by Clark and Lex change the character over the course of the show. Lana changes her personality depend on the person she's dating. [44] After the series ended, Gough and Millar expressed regret with Lana's characterization throughout the course of the show, which they felt damaged Lana in the audiences' mind. [45], When Smallville first began, Lana was in a romantic relationship with Whitney Fordman, the star quarterback of the football team. [28] Eventually, Lana realizes that, even though she loves him, the only way for Clark to help the world to the best of his ability would be if she left Clark and Smallville for good, which she does in the season seven finale. Kara is having a nightmares about the genocide of New Krypton; an one night the nightmare quickly turns into her friends and family in hell, telling her she hurts everyone she touches. Yeah but it doesn't last long. After Clark and Lana graduated from high school, Lana went to college, and eventually became a television reporter; as an adult, she became a rival to Lois Lane for Superman's romantic affection in various 1960s stories, often appearing in the title Superman's Girlfriend, Lois Lane. Lana Lang is a fictional character on the television series Smallville. What does he think? The two divorce when Lana learns that Lex faked her pregnancy to get her to marry him. This drove Lana into Lex's arms. Lois Lane is a fictional character on the television series Smallville; she was portrayed continually by Erica Durance since her first appearance in the season four premier "Crusade" to the series finale. Lex Luthor hits Lana Lang in his mansion after she tells him that their marriage is over and confronts him about making her falsely think she was pregnant. [39] This developing friendship between Lex and Lana puts a strain on Lana's relationship with Clark. In current comics continuity Lana found out about Clark abilities when they were children when he saved her life, also most of Clark powers activate for the first time when he is with Lana or when Lana is in danger (when they shared their first kiss it activated Clark's heat vision and when Lana was swept up in a tornado Clark flew for the first time and saved her).Lana later attended Metropolis University and pursued a degree in Business and became a successful businesswoman. Kreuk sees this filled void as the reason why Lana would gravitate toward Lex. In this new history, Lana had a deep romantic relationship with Clark, that was often interrupted by her two obnoxious brothers (which she lacked in previous versions). Though Clark and Bart Allen do not notice her, she watches them race over the coast of Cameroon. Clark's dishonesty over the secrets he is hiding causes their relationship to end. Lana goes on to date and marry Lex Luthor after discovering that she is supposedly pregnant. Byrne's miniseries The Man of Steel, which was designed to rewrite Superman's origin from scratch. [38] By season three, Kreuk had decided to "invest" herself less in her character, as she felt that her character's ultimate development was entirely in the hands of the producers. Her effort is rendered moot when Lex Luthor and Dr. Donald Jacobi, a con artist that comes to Smallville, pick up Stewart's medical bills after a meteor rock removes all of the malignant cancer cells in his brain. Lex and Lana start dating fast, and Lana is even loyal to him when he is possessed by Zod. This continued the idea established in season one that Lana's perception that her parents were this perfect couple was wrong. In gratitude, the alien gave her a "bio-genetic" ring which allowed Lana to gain insect (and insect-like, such as arachnids) characteristics. She attended elementary and high school with Clark Kent, with whom she had a romantic relationship. Cat Grant will be a regular supporting cast member, as will Lana Lang.". It was later revealed that this entire event wasn't real but, in fact, was a hologramic scenario created by Batman. However, Toyman uses special nanobots to remove all of the Kryptonite molecules, undoing the damage. Lana Back to 'Smallville'! [30] In the season eight episode "Power", it is revealed that Lana really returned so that she could steal Lex's "Prometheus" technology, which harnesses alien DNA to give the wearer of a "super-suit" superhuman abilities, for herself. Kreuk believes that by the time of the pilot Lana had grown “comfortable” with Whitney, and that was where their relationship ended. [14] Season four shows that Lana, while in Paris, began a romantic relationship with Jason Teague (Jensen Ackles). The Countess Margaret Isobel Thoreaux, more commonly called Isobel, (of Smallville-Earth), was an infamous and royal witch of France who lived in the early 17th century, as well as the ancestress and past life of Lana Lang. She wakes up and Lana lets her know that she thinks of Kara as family. It began with her mother's graduation speech, which showed that her mother was not as happy as her aunt had led her to believe. [1] Kreuk has been nominated for various awards for her portrayal of Lana Lang. As a result, Kreuk learns about the development of Lana as Lana is learning in the show, just as Welling does with Clark Kent. Lana tries to kill Lex/Zod. Initially, Lana is characterized as the intelligent "girl next door". For instance, he convinces her to fight back against a rival coffee shop that is spreading rumors about The Talon – the coffee shop that she joint owns with Lex. This act activates a dormant program inside the Lexcorp mainframes, an holographic version of Luthor. At one point, Lana once rescued an insect-like alien trapped by a fallen tree in Smallville. [42], At the start of the show, Lana Lang is characterized as the girl next door. "[40] Kreuk says her strangest moment on the show was playing a vampire in season five's "Thirst", an experience she remembers as "uncomfortable" due to the fake blood they covered her in.[38][41]. It began with her mother's graduation speech, which showed that her mother was not as happy as her aunt had led her to believe. Ultimately, it is Clark's own lack of honesty that forces Lana to leave Smallville and go to Paris at the end of season three. According to Malkowski, Lana's strong feminist stance, and her request that people should stop protecting her and start telling her the truth, are diluted by her willingness to believe whatever pieces of information she gets, even if they are lies. [2] In the pilot episode, when her parents are killed in the first meteor shower, Lana (Jade Unterman) is adopted by her aunt Nell (Sarah-Jane Redmond). That was a lot of fun for me because the show [sometimes] isn't realistic so, as actors, we get to play with different types of things. Lana Lang is Clark Kent's friend and teenage love interest during the time he lived in Smallville. Dries believes that the progression of the show demonstrates that Lex earned Lana's love. But by seasons five and six, she’s becoming more like Lana Luthor than Lana Lang, and that dark side of her is rough to watch. [29], In the season eight episode "Bride", Oliver Queen (Justin Hartley), believing he is tracking Lex Luthor who has been missing since the season seven finale, discovers Lana instead. [37] When asked if her being cast as a traditionally red haired character caused outcry from fans, Kreuk believes that whoever did "got over it pretty fast". In the first season, Lana and Clark Kent (Tom Welling) are just beginning their friendship, as she is a popular cheerleader dating star quarterback Whitney Fordman (Eric Johnson), and Clark cannot get near her without getting sick from the kryptonite necklace she wears. Lana's relationship with Clark is altered in 2003's Superman: Birthright limited series by Mark Waid, which again revises Superman's origins. * I can't believe it's ending. What happened to Lex and Lana baby? Perry White has been actively pursuing Lana to take over the Business section of the Daily Planet, a position which Lana was afraid to accept, following her bad experience with Lexcorp. In the original Superboy stories, Lana was the girl who lived next door to the Kent family in Smallville, and was a romantic interest of Superboy. Just as Clark is beginning to realize the truth about Lex and his lies, Lana is starting to trust Lex more. She can care about Lex and want the best for him, but I don't think she could fall blindly in love with him. [34] Jade Unterman and Louise Grant portrayed the character as a child and an elderly woman, respectively. She loved those people. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. [20] The spaceship becomes Lana's primary focus in season five, officially teaming up with Lex Luthor to discover the mystery behind the ship in the episode "Splinter". I'm going to miss Smallville. Unlike the pre-Crisis Earth-One continuity, Lana did not go on to have a journalistic career, compete with Lois for Superman's affections, nor play a significant role in Clark's life in Metropolis (all this was later erased). In Smallville - Season 11 (comic book series) after she left Smallville to protect Clark, she resided in Africa protecting local villages from African warlords, disguising herself as a vigilante called The Angel of the Plateau.While still in Africa, Lana's code name for the Watchtower is changed to Valkyrie. She apparently dies on the operating table, but her body is later encased in a cocoon by black insect-like creatures, which then starts to crack open. The death of her parents when she was three was very influential in shaping Lana's personality. [19], During the second meteor shower, Lana witnesses the landing of an alien spacecraft, and two alien beings emerging and killing everyone in sight in the season five premiere. When Lana finally aired her grievance with him years later, Clark felt very badly over how he had hurt her. As Green Arrow, Oliver dresses in green and black and utilizes a variety of arrows and gadgets for many forms of defense. [37] Though Lana had growing feelings for Clark, Kreuk feels that the producers rushed the coupling of Clark and Lana at the end of the second season. In 2000, Senator Ross became Lex Luthor's vice presidential running mate in Luthor's bid to become President, and after the two won, Lana moved to Washington, D.C. Clark saves Lana in their new history "Superman secret origins". After Superman flies off, someone is shown watching Lana crying on a screen, saying to her "you did perfect". Lana's perception of her mother drove the way she led her own life, which was based on the idea of everyone perceiving her in a good light. Even though Lana eventually marries Lex in season six, Al Gough argues that Lana still loved Clark and Clark still loved her. Zod told her that the reason he needed her was because he wanted to sire an heir with her. Superman responds by telling her that, while he does sometimes wonder what things would have been like if he had married her rather than Lois, there is a reason he is with Lois instead of her: Lois would never have pushed the button. Eventually, Luthor was forced from his office, and Pete Ross became President (and Lana the First Lady). Who does Lana Lang end up with? In the early 1980s, with the use of the multiverse system DC had in place, Lana Lang was also shown in several stories to have had an Earth-Two counterpart (Earth-Two at the time the home of the Justice Society of America and DC's Golden Age versions of its characters, versus its mainstream universe of "Earth-One"). One of the early turning points for the character came in season one's "X-Ray", when Lana discovers information about her parents that changes her perspective on them. However, it is hinted at the end of Finale, Part 2 that they are going to do it in full again. [15] In season four's "Spell" and "Sacred", the tattoo acts as a doorway for the spirit of Isobel to inhabit Lana's body; each time Isobel takes over Lana's body she sets out to find the three stones of knowledge, which are also being searched for by Clark and Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum). [43], Reviewer Jennifer Malkowski feels that Lana is one of the most gullible characters on television. [46] The following year, alongside co-star Tom Welling, Kreuk was nominated for a Best Actress Saturn Award again. This need to fill that emptiness was fulfilled in "Void", when Lana took a drug to induce death so that she could see her parents in the afterlife. [11][12] By the season three episode "Crisis", it is discovered that the relationship Adam attempted to form with Lana was just a ploy so that Adam could investigate Clark. The return of Clark's powers in "Hidden", as well as the secrets and lies that accompany them, caused stress on their relationship. Following the fall of Lex Luthor during his most recent attack against Metropolis and the chairmen of LexCorp having finally voted him off of the board. [39], Kreuk enjoyed the fourth season because it gave her the chance to stretch her acting abilities with Lana's storyline involving the spirit of Countess Margaret Isobel Thoreaux. [13], Season three's "Forsaken" reveals that Lana, in order to move on with her life, applies and is admitted into a program to study in Paris, France. Her attraction to Superman during this time had also died off, leaving Superman to Lois. [55], DVD Verdict's Brian Byun felt that the casting of the series was "pitch-perfect"; noting that Kreuk is "painfully luminous" as Lana Lang, which makes it obvious why she is the object of Clark's obsession. The two settled into a quiet life in Smallville, where they had a son they named after their mutual friend, Clark, after Lana asked Clark to save the baby's life when a car accident caused him to be born eight weeks premature; although Clark's efforts to take him to receive care were interrupted by the attack of the. According to Kreuk, before Lana can experience successful relationships with other people she will need to know what it is like to truly be in a relationship with Clark, because of the "intense connection between [the] two". At the beginning of the season Lana is forced to come to terms with her diminished feelings for Whitney, as well as her growing feelings for Clark. Does Lana have Lex’s baby? While attending a student journalism award ceremony with Jimmy Olsen and Cat Grant, Lana suddenly collapses, with blood pouring out her nose. Gough and Millar believed that Lana's behavior toward Clark (for refusing to reveal his secret) made her come across as cold and unsympathetic. Casting director Coreen Mayrs sent David Nutter, the director of the pilot episode, a tape of 69 people and the second person on the tape was Kreuk. Most recently, Lana Lang was revealed to be a character on the upcoming Superman & Lois, a live-action series spun off from Superman's appearances on … Does lana marry lex in Smallville? Supergirl breaks free and is able to expel the Queen from Lana's body with help from Kryptonian technology, and Lana returns to her normal state. Lana would soon clash with Superman and after their battle, the Insect Queen fell under the mental influence of Superman's enemy, the Ultra-Humanite, who kept her under the spell's compulsion and prevented her from reverting to normal. [37] Unfortunately, that tough side is not seen in the first season. This is evident in "Nemesis" when Lana manipulates her way into seeing Lionel, only to interrogate him about why he forced her to marry Lex, as well as leaving Lex to die in the tunnels. 01:15 Clark Kent and Lois Lane 's wedding was held in Smallville in 2011. [33] They loved her audition tape so much they immediately showed her to the network. Gay Panic at 'Grey's'! Her uncle, who owned a comic book shop, filled her in on the details and she learned more from the producers. It was interrupted when Clark was attacked by a corrupted Oliver Queen, and the marriage ceremony was never completed. [34] For one of her auditions, she read the graveyard scene with Tom Welling; the network thought they had "great chemistry". However, Lana bravely kept Clark's identity a secret and upon his rescuing her their relationship became more healthy once again, albeit still at a distance.
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