* In Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga novels, the inhabitants of the planet Komarr live in arcologies, because the surface of the planet is inhospitable.

* In episode 4, season 1 of " Family Guy ", " Mind Over Murder ", Lois Griffin is rocking a sleeping and teething Stewie Griffin while her piano student plays a lullaby.

In " Visitor ," Lois finds Superman at the Kent farm with Lana Lang and asks him point-blank if he is Clark Kent.

In the 2009 retcon of the mythos, Lois Lane is fully aware from the beginning, along with Perry White, that the meek, pudgy and bumbling Clark Kent deliberately holds himself back: however, still far from associating him to Superman, they simply believe he's hiding his qualities as a good reporter.

In the current continuity established by DC's " New 52 " relaunch in 2011, Lois Lane remains unaware that Clark is Superman.

" In the Smallville episode " Masquerade ", Clark tells Lois that Clark Kent is just a name, just two words, and that the Blur is who he really is.

2, with the character of Bill noting that Superman was not born into his alter ego ( Spider-Man was " Peter Parker " first, Batman was born " Bruce Wayne "), using the blanket he was wrapped in as his costume, and Clark Kent is a collage of mankind's less impressive traits meant to blend in with other humans ( as well as a device to pursue Lois Lane's affections ).

Superman is the creation – you named me, Lois.

While he quickly gains the respect of Planet editor Perry White, he is forced to contend with rival reporter Lois Lane, who often uses trickery to prevent Clark from pursuing a lead ( giving her the chance to scoop him ).

Clark Kent's character is given one of its heaviest emphases in the 1990s series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.

In Lois and Clark, Kent ( Dean Cain ) is a stereotypical wide-eyed farm kid from Kansas with the charm, grace and humor of George Reeves, but without the awkward geekiness of Christopher Reeve.

Emphasis is laid on the comic elements of his dual relationship with Lois Lane ( Teri Hatcher ).

The ban on Christopher Reeve's Superman having a relationship with a human while retaining his superpowers is entirely absent in the world of Lois and Clark.

In the 1940s Superman shorts, Clark is shown to have a wisecraking sense of humor and he and Lois are good friends.

In the Silver to Bronze Age stories as well as in the " Green, Green Glow of Home " episode of Lois & Clark New adventures of Superman Kryptonite is a stable transuranic element ( element 126 ) that finally decays to iron.

One of Niven's best known humorous works is " Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex ", in which he uses real-world physics to underline the difficulties of Superman and a human woman ( Lois Lane or Lana Lang ) mating.

One of the guards is not under Luthor's command and leaves a note in Clark's room which tells him Lois is in danger.

Luthor attempts to kill Superman after threatening to kill Lois, but despite being weakened by his destruction ray, Superman is able to destroy it.

He is shown making repeated attempts to court her during The Man of Steel, though Lois plainly does not return his feelings.

General Lane attempts to force Lois to tell them everything she knows about Superman, who is now a fugitive after he fled a military interrogation.

He along with Lois and Jimmy go into Glen Glenmorgan's hotel where Lex calls the Collector and it is revealed that Lex had made a deal with him.

Just as Luthor is about to marry Lois Lane, the truth about his evil nature is exposed and he takes his own life by jumping off a building rather than face imprisonment.

Wynn was initially cast in Superman ( 1978 ) to play Perry White ( the boss of Clark Kent and Lois Lane at the Daily Planet ) in April 1977.

After initially trying to help her, Lois and Clark discover that Lucy is using their friendship with Lex Luthor to con him out of money to pay off her debt.

On his return, Lois, Bonnie and Loretta initially demand he leave the neighborhood, then Ernie the Giant Chicken attacks Peter and starts a fight that causes huge casualties in and outside Quahog.

Introduced in the early 1960s, Htrae is a cube-shaped planet, home to Bizarro and his companions, all of whom were initially Bizarro versions of Superman, Lois Lane and their children.

He relents and calls Matty back, initially for wireless receiving (" godfather ") work in England, where she makes friends with fellow-trainee Lois Mountjoy ( Abigail McKern ).

In the final season, Clark Kent marries Lois Lane ( a few years after her almost-marriage to his arch-enemy Lex Luthor, whom she refused at the altar ), finding love, happiness, and completeness in this relationship which does not jeopardize his Superman persona.

John Shea as Lex Luthor in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman

John Shea portrayed Lex Luthor in the 1990s TV series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman as a charming and debonair philanthropist and polymath, the owner of the massive LexCorp.

The first one Jaxon Xavier ( played by Andy Berman ) who was also a top scientist in one of Lex's companies called Lex Labs, entrapped Lois and Clark in a virtual reality world to steal information for mind control before the two with the help of Jimmy Olsen tricked him into letting them out by stealing his wrist watch escape window leaving him stranded.

They discovered that the real Lex Luthor is at large having been the one who mailed Lois the Red Kryptonite necklace and that the one in jail was a robotic duplicate.

One such story is in Action Comics # 156 ( May 1951 ), in which Lois accidentally gains those powers through an invention of Superman's arch-foe, Lex Luthor.

In 1994, on the Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman first season episode " Vatman ", He played Dr. Fabian Leek, a cloning expert who creates a Superman clone that belonged to corporate mogul Lex Luthor ( John Shea ).

The character is later given the civilized name of ' Clark ' by Lois Lane, and is captured along with his friends, and used for profit by Lex Luthor, who is also eventually slain.

Co-stars included Margot Kidder as Lois Lane, Marlon Brando as Jor-El and Gene Hackman as archvillain Lex Luthor.

When Superman is turned evil by the Red Kryptonite necklace that was unknowingly given to Lois Lane by Lex Luthor, Krypto teams up with Batman to hold off Superman until the effects of the Red Kryptonite wore off.

Lori is one of several Superman characters with the alliterative initials " LL ", including Lex Luthor, Lana Lang, Linda Lee, Linda Lang ( Supergirl's latest secret identity ), Letitia Lerner, Lena Luthor ( Luthor's sister pre-Crisis, and daughter post-Crisis ), Lyla Lerrol, Liesel Largo, Lenora Lemaris ( one of Lori's sisters ), Leta Lal ( Lori's ancestor ), Lightning Lad, Lightning Lass ( sister of Lightning Lad ), Lightning Lord ( brother of Lightning Lad ), Lorraine Lewis ( scientist jealous of Lois Lane, Lana Lang and Lori Lemaris ), Lucy Lane, Luma Lynai, Lionel Luthor and Lois Lane.

In the sequel, Lex Luthor, Lois Lane, and others go to Krypton, where Jor-El and Lara have rebelled against Krypton's xenophobia and Lex Luthor mutates Clark into a hulk-like powerhouse with red kryptonite as Krypton's core is returned to its path of self-destruction.

For the remaining episodes we have various villains aiming to destroy Lois and Clark, some hoping to use various methods to split them up, often out of a desire to avenge Lex Luthor.

Lex Luthor returned in one episode and many other villains began to appear from the comics, such as The Prankster, Metallo, the Toyman and the criminal group known as Intergang, and the show featured new love interests for the ace reporters: Dan Scardino ( Jim Pirri ), a government agent interested in Lois, and D. A. Mayson Drake ( Farrah Forke ).

The long-anticipated wedding was put off to coincide with the characters ' marriage in the comics, which led to many storylines designed to delay and interrupt the wedding on the TV series Another controversy erupted when ABC announced that the wedding would actually take place Valentine's Day weekend, even sending out heart-shaped " wedding invitations " to ABC News staff, only to present viewers with a bogus wedding in which Clark unwittingly married a clone of Lois, developed by a mad scientist whose creations were required to ingest frogs periodically which started a main thrilling climax of a special five-part story with Lois being kidnapped by Lex Luthor who had put the clone in her place and later after a sharp hit on the head had amnesia and needed to regain her memory.

In the story " Dead Men ," Amanda Waller sends a Squad consisting of Deadshot, Killer Frost, and Solomon Grundy after Lois Lane in order to silence her investigations into Lex Luthor's presidency.

In season four's " Gone ", Clark and Lois team-up and discover that Lex ’ s security team found the explosives in the safe-house, pulled Chloe and her father to safety before they detonated, and that he has been hiding her ever since.

They are greeted by Lois Luthor with the last weapon, a small note written by Lex that reads, " Why don't you just put the whole world in a bottle, Superman?

Lois Lane was the impact of Superman's presence and on the idea of Superman in general, Lex Luthor was about how his rivalry with Superman was like a love story between him and Metropolis, and Lana Lang finally gave and explained the heroism of both Clark and Superman.