Initially receiving only bit parts, she was soon spotted by Lois Weber, a highly regarded and influential director and producer of silent films for Paramount Pictures.

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 ).

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.

* In Family Guy season 9 episode " Brothers & Sisters ", an English ' local noblemen ' attempts to invoke his right of ' prima noctus ' on Lois ' sister after she agrees to a date with Mayor West.

When Bizarro encountered Superman once again, he had developed certain powers that were the opposite of Superman's ( such as possessing freeze vision as opposed to heat vision ), and unsuccessfully attempts to once again kidnap Lois Lane.

The monstrous clone survives and, although mute and possessed of only limited intelligence and vague memories of Clark Kent's life, attempts to mimic Superman ; he kidnaps Lois Lane and is finally destroyed when colliding with Superman in mid-air.

The merman attempts to force himself upon Lois before she pushes him down and leaves him flapping helplessly in the sand.

Jayna transforms into an attack dog and captures the politician as he attempts to flee the scene, while Zan transforms his body into a massive cloud of mist, providing the cover Clark needs to lower Lois safely to the ground unobserved.

From the first issue, stories centered on Lois ' romantic interest in Superman and her attempts to maneuver him into marriage, only to fail due to a comic plot twist.

* In January 1951, Dr. Dorrow attempts to exile Superman and Lois Lane to Venus by shutting them inside transparent cylinders filled with “ suspended animation gas ” and launching them into outer space, but Superman and Lois are released from their cylinders by friendly Venusians and soon succeed in returning to Earth ( Act No. 152, January 1951: “ The Sleep That Lasted 1000 Years ”).

Lucy references her former appearances, even mentioning her " dating boys in Lois ' circle " as failed attempts to live her life through her more successful sister, but she eventually chooses to sacrifice her life and live the military career her father intended for Lois, driving an even deeper wedge between the two sisters.

* In the 1979 James Bond film, Moonraker, the villainous henchman Jaws ( played by Richard Kiel ) attempts to kill 007 ( Roger Moore ) and the agent's ally, Dr. Holly Goodhead ( Lois Chiles ), on a cable car.

" Returning home depressed, Lois attempts to cheer up Brian by suggesting Peter take him to a laser rock concert that he was planning on attending, along with Quagmire and Cleveland.

Show producer David Goodman received many telephone calls complaining about the scene where Peter attempts to seduce his son Chris, mistakenly believing him to be his wife, Lois.

When Lois asks her family to help her with spring cleaning, Peter attempts to clean the house with a hose.

Lois decides to surrender and face the consequences, but as Joe attempts to detain her, he slips in the sewer and is almost swept off a nearby ledge.

As soon as Lois manages to convince Death to keep Peter alive, the fact that no one can die becomes top news.

* 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.

Lois ' affection for Superman and her rejection of Clark's clumsy advances have been a recurring theme in Superman comics, television, and movies.

In post-Crisis continuity, Lois Lane, feeling that someone like Clark could not be Superman, never suspected the dual identity beyond one isolated incident before Clark finally revealed it to her.

In the episode " Tempus Fugitive ," the time-traveler Tempus mocks Lois, saying that future historians laugh at her for being fooled by a pair of glasses.

Wells tells Lois that in truth the people of the future simply considered Lois to be blinded by love, and that this has made her story a compelling one throughout the intervening years.

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 ).

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.

In Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga, Cordelia Naismith frequently muses on the axiom All Cretans are liars in her inner monologue.

" He sends his two henchmen to get Clark, they find Lois in his room and seize her to prevent her speaking, then take her up to the base where she meets Luthor.

Clark then takes Lois to a doctor who revives her, and proceeds to cover the story.

Lois is then kidnapped after meeting her double, bound and gagged by Arianna, and drugged before Superman arrives.

Superman uses his heat vision to send water from a fish tank onto the face of Lois, reviving her and enabling her to remove the Kryptonite.

But after kidnapping Lois in an attempt to reclaim her, he is traced to his sewer lair by Superman.

Luthor later escapes after a whole year in prison, through an elaborate plot involving clones: first using a clone of the President to grant him a pardon, then kidnapping the real Lois and replacing her with a clone just before her wedding to Clark.

The widow dies shortly after Superman's return to Earth, and Luthor immediately sets out to avenge himself, first by ransacking the Fortress of Solitude, and later through the abduction of Lois Lane and her son Jason.

It's also common to use this technique to simultaneously portray both participants in a telephone conversation, a long-standing convention which dates back to early silents, as in Lois Weber's triangular frames in her 1913 Suspense, and culminating in Pillow Talk, where Doris Day and Rock Hudson share a party line.

In 1895, while working on a case, Marshall met Lois Kimsey who was working as a clerk in her father's law firm.

Lois took him to see many doctors and spent all her available time trying to nurse him back to health, but his condition worsened and he died in February 1920, just before his fourth birthday.

Lois Marshall moved to Arizona and remained widowed the rest of her life, living on her husband's pension and the $ 50, 000 she earned by selling his memoir to the Bobbs-Merrill publishing company.

* 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 " 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.

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.

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.