Lois Lane is a world-famous Pulitzer-prize winning investigative journalist employed at the Daily Planet, alongside fellow reporters Clark Kent, Cat Grant and Steve Lombard, photographer Jimmy Olsen and the Daily Planet editor-in-chief Perry White. Raised in the military as a daughter of General Sam Lane, she is more than capable of handling herself in almost any situation, though this doesn't stop her from commonly being abducted by super-villains. She is one of Superman's fiercest and most dedicated allies. Lois was in love with both Superman and Clark Kent for a very long time, unaware that they were in reality the same person.
History[]
Lois is the older of two children, born to Sam Lane, a career military officer, and Ella Lane. Sam Lane had always wanted a son, thereby leading to a complex and tense relationship between father and daughter for many years thereafter. Her father subtly resented his children and treated each of them as if they were members of his unit during their childhoods. Lane raised both Lois and Lucy as if they were sons, ensuring that they were trained in hand-to-hand combat and given firearms training. This harsh upbringing caused Lois to become a model of self-sufficiency in response to her father's emotional distance, making her believe that she had to fight to get her rightful share from men in the world.
With her father in the military, Lois and her family moved around a lot while growing up. At the age of fifteen, while her family was living near Metropolis, Lois decided she wanted to approach a career in journalism. This led to her approaching Perry White at the Daily Planet for a job, stating that she was nineteen in an attempt to get employment as a reporter. While Perry saw through her lie and turned her request down, Lois was not deterred and, overhearing that whomever got a scoop on the new industrialist Lex Luthor would get in Perry's good graces, Lois decided to attempt to get that scoop. Sneaking out of the house on her father's military base, Lois managed to break into LexCorp tower and swiped some files. Regardless of her age, Perry was so impressed with her gumption that he agreed to hire her on a casual/part-time basis. Lois would later move to Metropolis and worked full time at the Daily Planet, rapidly becoming the Daily Planet's leading investigative reporter, winning many awards, including a coveted Pulitzer Prize, and a reputation for being a daredevil reporter who went to extreme measures to get her story.
Shortly before Superman's debut in Metropolis, the Daily Planet was having financial problems. Lex Luthor owned every media outlet in Metropolis and used it to enforce his public image as a wealthy benefactor, and the Daily Planet was the only source not controlled by him. Lois, as the Planet's best reporter, had also written several articles against Luthor. However, this rebellion had lead the Daily Planet to the brink bankruptcy. Despite this, Clark Kent was hired on as a reporter anyway, and Perry White introduced him to Lois and Jimmy. Lois offered to show Clark around the office, and the two bonded, even agreeing to do some covert work together to investigate Lex Luthor's shady business practices.
Lois and Clark sneaked into LexCorp after dark and witnessed the unveiling of a powered exoskeleton the company created. However, when Lois was discovered by security guards, she ran and tripped off the top of the building, falling dozens of stories towards the ground, but was thankfully saved by a mysterious flying man with an 'S' on his chest. Lois and the public were amazed by the new hero, but, before anyone had the chance to ask him questions, he flew away. Afterwards, Lois wrote and published an article about the flying man and gave him the name the world would soon know him as: Superman. Perry White would then assign Jimmy Olsen as Lois's photographer partner. The article was a success and skyrocketed the Daily Planet's reputation as the only honest news source, saving it from bankruptcy.
Arkham Knight - Riddler's Gambit Incident[]
Harley Quinn described Vicki Vale as a Lois Lane wannabe whilst bragging how easily she could kill Vale with a stick.
Before Kill the Justice League Incident[]
Lois is a very popular reporter, having many billboards around the city of Metropolis. She has a relationship with Clark Kent/Superman and only a few weeks before the invasion does an interview with Wonder Woman on her podcast. Batman sends a written final message to the Daily Planet and Lois Lane in the event of his demise. She also published a syndicated article about Flash’s rivalry with Captain Boomerang, who would later be a fan of her work, even having a clipping of that article in his cell at Arkham.
Kill the Justice League Incident[]
During Brainiac's invasion of Metropolis, Lois Lane broadcasts updates of the situation to the public and the remaining survivors in Metropolis,[1] using an outdated codec (namely her phone) at a high bitrate and attempting to stream to a service that was defunct since before the invasion took place, though the downside on her part was that the servers were gone, the appropriate people responsible for these services were probably already integrated, and she had a very insistent password manager.
After Lex's death by a clone of The Flash, Wonder Woman locks the Suicide Squad in a container and throws it into the Daily Planet building due to frustration and her wanting them to get out of the way of her inevitable fight with Superman. Lois frees the squad and quickly goes back into hiding but uses the video feed to ask if Superman is okay and why they are in Metropolis. At one point, Captain Boomerang offered to provide Lois with an expose, while admitting that some of what he is doing is classified. At this, Lois surmised that the squad was working with mysterious special forces, to which Harley nervously concurred, leading Lois to believe that the squad was acting under duress. Due to not understanding Lois’ words, Captain Boomerang told her that they were forced to help.
During Wonder Woman's fight with Superman, Lois is seen outside on the broadcasts for the fight and presumably relocates to a different hideout for the remaining broadcasts.
She would later conduct an independent investigation into Amanda Waller’s secret plans for the Justice League, starting by interviewing those who may have information about A.R.G.U.S. personnel. She started by checking in on Toyman, only to find that he did not flee Metropolis as had been agreed upon, even voicing her misgivings about saving the world at his age, and rebuking him for not checking in often. She also interviewed King Shark about his interactions with Rick Flag, and attempted to get intel from Harley Quinn, who was touched by her behavior to such a point that she was too excited to give her any straight answer. She spoke with Captain Boomerang, who fanboyed over her and offered his services to provide a source, but it is unknown if anything came of it. She also spoke with Hack, who revealed that she was responsible for ensuring that her broadcasts reached public ears, by using her technokinesis powers to angle the broadcasting satellites to the left to ensure that they hit the city’s monitors, and it comes with benefits on Hack’s part as well, and although she archived and posted Lois’ broadcast, she advised Lois to hire a digital archivist. At this, Lois mentioned that she had attempted to suggest this to Perry White for years, to no avail.
Sometime later, Deadshot contacted Lois and instructed her to inform his daugter, Zoe, that he was all right, in order to dispel any rumors of him being dead, and then instruct her to get to a distant relative’s house, and then pay from a specific account to fund her tuition at Gotham Academy, and then deposit to another account to cover expenses. Before he could give any more instructions, something interrupted the conversation, forcing Deadshot to terminate the call. After that, he called her again to check on the deal. Lois reported that she was able to track her down, though her actions had alerted Amanda Waller to security errors in A.R.G.U.S.‘s protocols. Nevertheless, she succeeded in ensuring that Zoe was well set up, but she had run into another complication. Before she could say more, Deadshot panicked, only for Lois to reassure him that she would look into whatever was happening. At this, Deadshot told her not to disrupt her life as a whole. Lois then discovered that she was doing a sort of “extracurricular activity” and surmised that she may be doing something dangerous. At that point, Deadshot started to panic and worry that she may be a teenage vigilante, though Lois was uncertain of what she was doing, but promised to do what she could.
Deadshot later found out about the mysterious vigilante known as Lawless, though he was unaware that she was in fact, Zoe. He did however, surmise that Waller was closing in on Lawless, and so he asked Lois to do what she could for Lawless, feeling that no one else needed to be brought into Task Force X. Lois eventually discovered that Zoe had amassed what she would describe as a “stream team”. She then asked Deadshot how much he knew about his daughter’s activities since he had last seen her. Soon, he realized that Lois was trying to tell him something, and she revealed her status as an influencer in a somewhat roundabout manner. In an unexpected twist, Lois later discovered that Zoe had left Gotham for reasons unknown and vanished off the face of the Earth, much to Lawton’s panic. She then promised to keep looking, despite pointing out the other matters she had to deal with. Lawton then reminded her that if she gets Zoe somewhere safe, Lawton would tell her everything he knew about Waller’s plan.
Later, she surmised that every time Waller sent the Suicide Squad on a mission, when they phased, there was a power spike, and when someone returned to Earth-1 with the squad, the spike was larger. She determined that there had been six larger power spikes, one of them early, and the rest at later, even intervals. She could not find anything on the first, but she determined that the next was when the Elseworlds Joker came back, and there was no other power spike at that time, although she mused that she would be afraid of anything else from his world. She surmised that the next power spike was when Mrs. Freeze emerged, with a larger spike than Lois expected, though she initially assumed that it was due to her tall, athletic physique. She also gathered that if her story aligned with that of the late Victor Fries, then the answer lay in Nora Frias, Mrs. Freeze’s comatose wife.
According to Lois’ sources, the next spike was when the Flash returned, which would match the sightings that had been posted. She then found out that Lawless had appeared in the then-most-recent spike, realizing that the reason she could not find her earlier, was because she had phased much like the Suicide Squad did. She initially thought about asking her about her experiences, before refocusing herself. She surmised that based on Lawless’ confirmation and Lois’ corroboration, that the power spike before her was Green Lantern, leading her to deduce that Waller was not only bolstering the ranks of Task Force X, but also collecting the Justice League, though she did not know why, speculating if she had a method of controlling them and musing who the first spike was, and that her speculations would fee less like “crackpot muttering to [her]self” with Clark Kent or Jimmy Olsen present.
Later, she was contacted by Rick Flag, who claimed to be interested in meeting with her for an interview. However, when she greeted him, he revealed his true colors: his contacting her was merely a ploy to get her attention so that he could forcibly cease her investigation. He flippantly remarked that “[his] daddy didn’t raise no fool”. In response, Lois asked if he was referring to Flag’s father, Richard Flag, Sr., who was stationed in Virginia, and mentioned that her father was also stationed in Virginia when Lois was a child. Flag brushed this off and politely asked if they were clear with one another, only for Lois to use psychological manipulation to distract him, by mentioning that as he was the son of a military officer, life would be hard for him as a child, never being in one place long enough to make friends, and having no real connection with his parents, only for Flag to interrupt her and remark that he saw through her attempts to manipulate him, and correct her on one point: he actually had a pleasant relationship with his father, and then tell her that she was taking the wrong approach to her investigation. Lois then chose to listen, to which Flag revealed that he knew that she had been communicating with the Suicide Squad, and revealed that they know nothing about the true nature of Waller’s plan, before questioning her intellectual capacity for focusing on what the squad knew about Waller’s plan, to which she told him that she was good at piecing things together, and asked how he felt about Waller’s plan to control metahumans, to which Flag dismissed this as speculation, and told her that it was not about him, and remarked that he had made his peace with what his job entailed a long time ago. He presumably warned her against investigating any further, but she did not listen, for reasons that ought to be obvious.
Sometime later, she contacted Lawless, who assumed Lois to be a fan, though she knew that knew who she was and her position as reporter, for a meetup. Lawless initially assumed this meetup to be “a bit”, only for Lois to reveal that Deadshot had enlisted her aid in seeking her out, much to Lawless’ shock. Lois then revealed that what she was investigating was much more serious than that, and revealed that Waller had an ulterior motive, though Lawless did not seem too surprised by this, as Waller was the leader of A.R.G.U.S. and the handler of Task Force X, and thus this was part of the present theme. Lois then asked for Lawless’ aid in exposing what Waller was planning. She agreed, as long as she had gotten something in return, though she had not decided what it was yet. She did however predict that whatever Waller had planned, it was going to get worse.
She then contacted Aaron Cash to meet up with him, though he did not understand why Lois would be seeking him out in particular. Lois asked Cash about the Suicide Squad’s incursions to the Elseworlds, to which he commended Lois for getting straight to the point and saying that he was proud of what the squad had achieved, and indicated an awareness of her reports on the squad and their actions. Lois agreed, but asked him if he believed that the squad’s coerced aid absolved them of past transgressions, to which Aaron reminded Lois of the ostensibly corrupted Justice League’s actions (not knowing that they were clones). Lois then asked Cash if he believed in second chances, to which he subtly concurred that he did and reassured Lois that the squad was in good hands as well as the Justice League. Lois then inquired about what Waller had planned for both parties concerned, only for Aaron to reply that this sort of information was above his pay-grade, though he promised that if he does not like what he was getting into, he would contact Lois, much to her gratitude.
Later, she had found innuendoes that the Lex Luthor she had previously surmised to be the original Lex Luthor was, in fact, not the original, namely, his movements, his speech patterns, and his formal way of addressing Lois. She then listened back to old interviews to find the truth and sort out the differences. She then surmised that the original Lex Luthor was younger compared to the one she had interviewed after the first Brainiac had died, and was egotistical and bombastic and eager to engage in battle. She then began to realize that she was correct from the start—Lex did in fact, die by the Flash’s hands (though she did not realize that it was a clone of the Flash). She later mused that Lex had always been ambitious to a fault, with the obvious draw being Brainiac’s advanced technology, which Lawless had proven compatible with Earth’s own technology, and that the new Lex could revolutionize the way people live and aspire to being more of a technology leader, or any sort of leader, and perhaps run for President of the United States. She then speculated that it was a new Lex she had spoken to previously, and that both Luthors had collaborated, and also that perhaps the new Luthor was worse than the original, before offhandedly musing that at this point, Jimmy Olsen would make a joking remark about him, and that Clark Kent would muse that he could be a better person, only to muse that she missed those interactions at the Daily Planet.
Later, she contacted Toyman to find out more. Upon meeting with him in secret, Toyman eagerly reported that Flash and Green Lantern were safe and that Mrs. Freeze, as well as Morgan Kolchak and Lex Luthor were helping them recover, and he then offered Lois a pen drive that Hiro had made himself. When Lois asked what was on it, he revealed that it had the voice notes that Brainiac had recorded, which had been compiled by Hack. He then mentioned his theory based on the recordings: the first Brainiac that the squad had dealt with, was the original Brainiac, running from a future Brainiac who believed that the death of his original self would stop the destruction of Colu. Lois promised to listen to the recordings, and then advised him to take care of himself and keep his head down. Toyman was excited to be helping Lois Lane, and told her to contact him with her opinion on his theory, and offered to compare notes, though he did not realize that she had lost interest and hung up.
Lois then contacted the Earth-2 Lex Luthor to confront him. She insinuated he had vanished from the Earth. Lex tried to be evasive, but Lois mentioned that Lex Luthor had abandoned Metropolis before, when the Justice League first assembled to defeat Starro the Conqueror, while Lex secured himself away and made it appear as if he were still in the city, and that Superman had faced multiple threats to Metropolis that Lex was nowhere near. At this, Lex attempted to get rid of Lois by reminding her of how busy he was, only for Lois to call Lex out as a multiversal duplicate, to which Lex begrudgingly admitted that she was correct, and defended his reasoning by saying that as his world was dead, it seemed a perfect opportunity to do as he did, Lois accused Luthor of plotting to start a new life in a world with no Justice League, before asking if he was responsible for the original Lex’s death, to which Lex assured Lois that he was not, and revealed that he simply wished to save Earth-1 from the fate of Earth-2, and boasted that he was successful in doing thus far, and gloated that the original died because of his hubris. Lois then ended her talk with Luthor by challenging his claims and his identity, to which Lex brushed this off, and wished her and himself to survive to enjoy their debates.
Codex[]
From the Files of Lex Luthor[]
I fail to understand Lois Lane. Is she resilient or desperate? Who but a woman struggling for relevance would cling to her reports even at the end of the world, taking over the airwaves with some saccharine patronizing advice and useless accounts of someone else’s heroism, broadcast to a scattering of still-living civilians?
I suppose there is one benefit to her continued presence in Metropolis: a live feed of emotional torment and overly charitable eulogies to the meta-humans whose failures destroyed this world in the first place.
That aside, I suppose she’s a decent writer.
Trivia[]
- It is never stated if Lois is aware of Superman's secret identity by the point of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League's events.
- The status of the Clark and Lois' relationship is unknown, as the characters don't get to interact on screen.
- Although the location 1938 Sullivan Place, which in the comics is the location of the home Clark and Lois share after they are together, can be found in the game.
- According to Brainiac, there were a few Earths where Lois was Superwoman.
- Lois' exact whereabouts 3 weeks following Brainiac's invasion isn't revealed in game, however, given that she has access to filming equipment and is able to live stream updates on the events going on in the game's story, it's more than likely that she's taken shelter somewhere in the Daily Planet.
- Lois stays in contact with the outside world in order to keep broadcasting up-to-date news to survivors and Metropolis citizens outside the war zone. Plus Lex-2, Aaron Cash, Toyman, and Lawless keep her up to date. Rick Flag is the only individual to take any form of action against her, and yet she continues to investigate and broadcast anyway.
- Deadshot said he's done an interview with Lois Lane and that Lois was very nice and kept his daughter out of the public light (prior to her becoming Lawless).
- King Shark is a fan of her work; notably that she is an award winner for reporting.
- Captain Boomerang is an avid fan of Lois Lane, even following her career from within his cell at Arkham Asylum.
- She is said to have done some war reporting in her time.
Gallery[]
| Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League |
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| Characters |
| Heroes |
| Batman/Bruce Wayne - Flash - Green Lantern - Superman - Wonder Woman |
| Villains |
| Brainiac - Captain Boomerang - Deadshot - Gizmo - Harley Quinn - Ivy - Joker (Elseworlds) - King Shark - Lex Luthor - Penguin - Riddler - Toyman - Zalika |
| Other Characters |
| Aaron Cash - Amanda Waller - Jack Ryder - Lois Lane - Rick Flag |
| Locations |
| Arkham Asylum - Batcave (Metropolis) - Gotham City - Hall of Justice - LexCorp - Metropolis - The Batman Experience - Wayne Manor |
| Terms |
| Batarang - Batsuit - Riddler Trophy |
External Links[]
Lois Lane on the DC Comics Wiki
