lois was clark kent's high school sweetheart.
lois was clark kent's high school sweetheart.
who was clark kent's high school sweetheart?
lois
bullet::::- the season 3 episode "tempus anyone?" in "", time traveler and author h.g. wells takes the lois lane from earth-one to a parallel universe metropolis where there is a clark kent, but no superman. here, she inspires him to become the man of steel to that world. she also runs into familiar faces in unfamiliar roles: jimmy olsen is now james olsen, owner of the daily planet; perry white is running for mayor; clark kent is engaged to high school sweetheart lana lang (who is keeping him from using his powers); she also realizes that the lois lane of that world died a few years earlier when she came upon her tombstone. needless to say, by the end of the episode, earth-two clark kent embraces his destiny as superman, but loses his identity as clark. earth-two clark later arrives in earth-one during the season 4 episode "lois and clarks". this occurs after another encounter with tempus that has the earth-one man of tomorrow locked away in a moment of time that threatens to erase him from existence.
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bullet::::- clark kent is real, superman the mask: with john byrne's more assertive revamp of clark kent as well as superman's greater grounding in earth culture and humanity (as opposed to the everpresent kryptonian heritage of the pre-"crisis" version), superman is considered the "mask" and clark the person. this is made explicit by clark himself in "superman" (vol. 2) #53, when following his revelation to lois of his role as superman ("action comics" #662), he states: "i'm clark, the man you love. superman is the creation – you named me, lois." in pre-crisis continuity, kal-el was already a toddler before leaving krypton, and retained memories of that childhood that later resurfaced, while, in post-"crisis" continuity, he was sent to earth pre-natally in a "birthing matrix" (more recently retconned as an infant) and raised entirely by the kents. as a result of their rearing, kal-el grows up to think of himself as clark kent, completely unaware of his alien heritage until he was well into adulthood (the fact that the kents found him sometime just after the cold war meant that the kents assumed the rocket they found him in was from an earth-based space program — possibly that of communist russia — and that clark had superhuman abilities because he was either a metahuman or some kind of genetic experiment). although the morals instilled in him by the kents have motivated kal-el to use his abilities to help others, he developed the superman persona to protect his clark kent identity. in the "" episode "the late mr. kent", wherein clark kent is presumed dead, superman expresses frustration at the idea of not being clark and having to be someone else instead ("i "am" clark. i need to be clark. i'd go crazy if i had to be superman all the time!"). in a previous episode, the third part of the "last son of krypton" arc, jonathan "pa" kent assures his adoptive son that he will "always be clark kent" and that "superman just helps out every now and then." in the "tempus fugitive" episode of "lois & clark", clark attempts to persuade lois that superman does not define him: "superman is what i can do. clark is who i "am"."
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