Clark and Lois

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Clark Kent and Lois Lane's relationship began when they met at the beginning of his senior year of high school. (Crusade)

Clark and Lois bicker often but care a lot about one another. ^{[citation needed]} The banter, teasing, and the love/hate relationship between the two seemingly suggest the beginnings of a long-term relationship. According to Warner Brothers, they were not allowed to have any relationship foreshadowing their future romance on the show until the movie Superman Returns was released in June 2006. ^{[citation needed]} Since its release, the show's writers have been given the green light to do as much foreshadowing as they wish. ^{[citation needed]}

The relationship between Clark and Lois is usually called "Clois" by the fans.

Contents 1 Season Four 2 Season Five 3 Season Six 4 Season Seven 5 Sexual Escapades 6 In Other Media

[edit] Season Four

"Oh, Clark. I know how devastated you must be [that I'm leaving], but if you could just keep your tears to a minimum, I'd appreciate it."
"I'll try."-- Lois Lane and Clark Kent, Commencement

After Chloe's alleged death, she left behind a diary addressed to Clark Kent, and her cousin Lois Lane viewed the video and went to Smallville to find him. Coincidentally, she encountered Clark when he was returned as Kal-El, disoriented and naked, and suffering from amnesia. Lois put a red blanket over him that visually reminded of Superman's red cape. She took him to the hospital, and the desk nurse assigned her to watch over Clark until he could be identified. After Clark returned to normal, the only two things Clark could remember from his Kal El state were Lois Lane and flying. He offered to help Lois uncover Chloe's death, and suggested she stay at his house while she was in town. This included his mother finding the two of them half dressed in the bathroom to her shock. Lois and Clark's personalities wildly clashed as soon as they began their investigation, and even after finding Chloe alive, they continued to argue and trade insults. Clark was not sorry to see her father, Sam Lane collect Lois and leave town. However, Clark and Lois learned that she had in fact failed her last semester of high school and had to finish at Smallville High. She even helped Clark and Chloe write articles for the Smallville Torch. Early in the year, she dunked Clark in the school dunk tank. Eventually, Clark asked Lex for a favor and he got Lois enrolled in Metropolis University and out of Clark's hair. Lois was kicked out of the University shortly after, and tricked Clark into offering her to stay at the Kents' again. Lois wound up staying in Clark's bedroom for the remainder of the school year, and Clark slept on the couch. Although they usually fought, they sometimes had moments of friendship as Lois tried to adjust to small town life and the strange goings-on in Smallville. Lois returned to throw a party for Chloe's eighteenth birthday in Clark's barn, but she, Chloe, and Lana were possessed. Clark restored them to normal, Lois didn't remember any of her actions as Brianna Withridge, and Clark would be the one left with the memories. Together Lois and Clark bought Chloe an antique typewriter as a gift. When Clark's girlfriend died, he was consumed with grief and rage and almost killed her murderer, but Lois was able to reach out to him and keep him from doing it. When Lois' little sister Lucy ran away, Lois confided in Clark that she felt guilty about how Lucy had turned out, and Clark tried to reassure her that she was a good big sister.

Lois hit a dog and brought him to the Kent farm, and, even though she was highly allergic, Clark decided to keep him, Lois suggesting they name the dog 'Clarkie' (On the grounds that he was annoying and she couldn't come within ten feet of him without feeling sick). Lois was Clark's date to his Senior Prom, but she was possessed by the spirit of a would-be Prom Queen who had forced Clark to take her. Clark was gobsmacked at how beautiful Lois looked and couldn't refuse. The day Clark graduated from high school, Clark didn't even try to conceal his delight when Lois announced that she and her father were leaving town to locate her sister.

[edit] Season Five

"There are times when I think you don't know me at all. And others when I think you know me better than anyone..."
"Well that's what I'm here for, Smallville. One save at a time."-- Clark and Lois, Oracle, Season Five

Clark found Lois again, after the second meteor-shower. Clark thanked Lois for being there for his parents while he was trying to save Smallville. She said her goodbyes, leaving to Europe to find her sister.

Lois returned to Smallville shortly afterward. Arthur Curry saved Lois from drowning and stole Clark's hero day. He wasn't happy about it and when he warned Lois that he had seen Arthur blowing up a lab, Lois was angry and accused him of being jealous. After the confusion was set straight, Arthur left and Clark and Lois had an interesting conversation about finding someone special.

Acting independently of each other, Clark and Lois went undercover to investigate the murder of a stripper tied to Jonathan's oldest friend, Jack Jennings. Lois posed as a stripper and gave a memorable performance while Clark infiltrated the club as a visitor. Although embarrassed, Clark's eyes seemed drawn to the barely-clad Lois. She even made him slip her a twenty after the lapdance that she performed to question him about his presence.. Lois ended up kidnapped by Mr. Lyon. He took Lois out by helicopter from the rooftop heliport when Clark arrived and supersped up there, hooked the helicopter with a line, and started pulling it down. The pilot was knocked out and Clark yanked it back, and Lois took out the other thugs. Later Clark helped Lois move out of the Kent house and into the apartment at the Talon. Clark also saved Lois when Michael Westmore kidnapped her and Chloe and almost stabbed Lois.

After Lois moved out, her and Clark's relationship became more mature. They continued to tease each other and banter back and forth, but also became better friends, having thoughtful conversations about their shared uncertainty of their own futures. Lois believed that Clark kept his feelings bottled up, so she gave him a diary for his nineteenth birthday. She even gave him advice after he broke up with Lana. Lois suggested that maybe Lana wasn't everything Clark had been hoping for in a relationship after all.

[edit] Season Six

"Wow - Whitesnake - I must have really liked you."-- Lois Lane to Clark Kent, Crimson

Lois, who became Martha's Chief of Staff, ended up trapped with her in a plane, while Clark was exiled in the Phantom Zone, but managed to get out of it. The plane Lois was boarding crashed near the Fortress of Solitude and Martha talked to Jor-El, who sent them back home. Lois was hurt and Martha took her to the hospital where Clark visited her. It is there that he grabbed her hand unexpectedly and they shared an awkward moment.

When Oliver Queen came to Smallville, and he and Lois started a relationship. Oliver suggested Clark was a bit jealous and possibly had feelings towards Lois that he himself wasn't really aware of. Series creator Alfred Gough told TV Guide:

"The issues Clark had with [hiding his identity from] Lana come up again because obviously, he doesn't want to see Lois get hurt."

When Oliver turned out to be a good guy, he told him that if he continued to keep his identity a secret from Lois, their relationship was doomed to fail. When Lois began to suspect that he was the Green Arrow, she enlisted Clark's help to find out. Instead, Clark worked with Oliver to hide Oliver's identity. Clark dressed up as the Green Arrow and Lois kisses him, unaware that he was Clark. This was Clark and Lois' first kiss. After Oliver showed up Lois slapped Clark and he sped away. When he took off his disguise, he was shocked at Lois' actions. Lois later declared the Green Arrow a fabulous kisser, saying "Ollie's a good kisser, don't get me wrong. But that Green Arrow... he could teach Ollie a thing or two!" Clark seemed amused and slightly pleased with himself.

On Valentine's Day, Jimmy attempted to set Lois and Clark up a date, reasoning that the two of them had chemistry, but, after they were left alone, Lois and Clark parted company, reasoning that a relationship between them would be like hot fudge and halibut (With Clark as the halibut). While depressed, Lois tried on a red kryptonite lipstick and fell madly in love with Clark. She pursued him aggressively and infected him as well by transferring her lipstick to his lips when kissing him, therefore causing it to enter his system.

As Kal, Clark revealed his powers to Lois and took her on a moonlit leap from the Daily Planet rooftop to Oliver Queen's apartment. The two carried on until Kal crashed Lex and Lana's engagement party. He dumped Lois at the party to kidnap Lana and she was heartbroken until she was cured, with no memory of the events, apart from a temporary "Lois and Clark Forever" tattoo. Later Clark attempted to tease Lois until she witnessed the Whitesnake CD she had given him, prompting her to comment "...I really must have liked you", at which point they almost shared a meaningful look.

When Lois learned that her childhood friend Wes Keenan had been used by Lex as part of the super-solider program Project Ares she risked her life in an attempt to rescue him, unaware that Clark was keeping an eye on her. Forced to use his heat vision against an increasingly unstable Wes to save Lois's life, Clark could only watch sorrowfully as Lois wept over the body of her old friend.

[edit] Season Seven

Clark saved Lois along with Chloe when they were trapped in Reeves Dam. Later at the hospital, Lois told Clark how she was stabbed and then healed. When she left to go find Lex, Clark tried to stop her saying that Lex is dangerous but Lois left anyway. At Lex's mansion, Clark's doppelganger Bizarro grabbed Lois' behind, for which she later reprimanded Clark.

Lois and Clark took a walk around the dam and Clark told her that he was leaving Smallville to head up north. Lois really didn't want to see him go and asked who she was going to harass. Clark replied that he was sure she'd find someone.

Clark later decided that he would stay in Smallville, when he found out Lana was alive. He and Lois didn't talk much for that time. She was busy with her job at the Daily Planet and her new relationship with the editor, Grant Gabriel, while Clark was too caught up in his renewed relationship with Lana and handling his newly-arrived Kryptonian cousin. However, Clark did help to comfort Lois after her final break-up with Oliver, where Lois admitted that she couldn't continue the relationship because she wasn't sure she could handle always being second to Oliver's committments as Green Arrow.

In the alternate reality Clark visited where he never came to Earth, he rescued Lois- here a Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist- when she was abducted by agents of Linda Danvers, this reality's version of Kara. Despite lacking any knowledge of Clark as a person, Lois nevertheless helped him to infiltrate the White House and learn what Lex Luthor and Brainiac were up to, being clearly impressed by his powers (Although she assumed he was simply a meteor freak or an android). Having returned to the real reality, Clark and Lois left the Daily Planet to have a drink together when Lois found Clark looking up coma information on the Internet, Lois offering to be there for Clark like he had been there for her in the aftermath of her break-up with Oliver. Following Lana's video break-up with Clark, Lois helped to offer Clark comfort even after he rejected her earlier offer to apply for an internship at the Daily Planet.

[edit] Sexual Escapades

Despite the fact that they have never slept together, both Lois and Clark have been in a variety of sexually-suggestive situations, and have seen each other completely in the nude. This usually adds a certain amount of hilarity to their interactions.

• The first occurred in the Season 4 episode Crusade, when Lois is run-off the road by the bolt of energy that returns Clark to Smallville after his rebirth. Lois encounters him in a field, completely in the nude, and tells herself to "Look at his face."
• The second occurred in Gone, when Lois walks into a bathroom, wearing nothing but Clark's shirt, while he is showering. She acts oblivious to his nudity, stating that she has already seen "Clark Junior". However, Martha Kent catches them in the bathroom, and gives them a questioning look. The Kents call them downstairs in order to question the nature of their time in the bathroom.
• In the Season 5 episode Exposed, Lois is forced to give him a lap-dance, while undercover as a stripper. She later threatens to hurt him if he ever tells anyone about it.
• In Fade, while showering, Lois becomes aware of someone watching her. She turns off the shower, and notices the shadow of someone at the door. Without bothering to dress, she grabs a makeshift weapon and thrusts open the bathroom door, exposing herself to a flabbergasted Clark.
• In Season 6's Hydro, Clark dressed up as the Green Arrow and saved Lois and Jimmy from thugs. Afterward Lois kissed him, thinking he was Oliver Queen and unaware that he was actually Clark. Later she told Chloe that she could tell Green Arrow wasn't Oliver Queen because he was a better kisser than Oliver, prompting an amused smile from Chole and a stunned expression from Clark.
• In Season 6's Crimson, Lois kisses Clark while under the effect of a red kryptonite-infused lipstick. Clark is infected by the red kryptonite in her lipstick, and the two of them fool around in Queen Tower. The two reach the point of undressing each other, when Clark notices an invitation to Lana and Lex's wedding. Later, Lois forgets about the entire experience and questions Clark (under the false knowledge that he has also forgotten) as to whether he thinks that they had sex. He sarcastically tries to make her define what she is talking about, due to her not outright stating it. He eventually denies it, but although they both appear repulsed at the idea, they share a look when Lois comments that she must have 'really liked' Clark to give him a Whitesnake CD.
• In the Season 7 episode Bizarro, the phantom Clark makes several suggestive comments towards Lois, who is under the impression that he is Clark. He also makes advances towards her. Lois proceeds to slap him, and then depart. Later, she encounters the real Clark, telling her that she forgives him for hitting on her, because he must have been insane with grief over Lana's death. She then hugs a naturally confused Clark, expresses her condolences, and then threatens to "tear his head off" if he ever does it again, leaving Clark bewildered.

[edit] In Other Media

In the Superman universe, the Lois Lane character is traditionally the true love and soulmate of Clark Kent. In current comics, Clark immediately had strong feelings for Lois upon meeting her. He persistently courted her, and she eventually discovered that she loved him as well. The relationship eventually culminated with the two characters getting married. Currently, they remain married, and adopted Lor-Zod (General Zod and Ursa's child) as thier son who was renamed Christopher Kent. Christopher Kent is supposed to be anagolous to Jason White in Superman Returns.

In the Superman feature films, Clark and Lois worked together, and Lois likes Clark as a friend, but is in love with Superman. She later extends her feelings to Clark after she discovered his true identity. However, in the storyline continued by the latest film, Superman Returns, Lois has moved on in another relationship although clearly still in love with Superman, while Clark is almost exclusively Superman, fulfilling his destiny to save the world.

Because Smallville is its own continuity and not guaranteed to follow any particular storyline, it remains to be seen if Clark and Lois will be happily married like in the comics, or tragically apart as in the feature films.