Lucy Lane
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| Lucy Lane | |
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| Family | Sam Lane (father), Ella Lane (mother, deceased), Lois Lane (sister), Chloe Sullivan (cousin), Gabe Sullivan (uncle), Moira Sullivan (aunt) |
| Occupation | Student |
| Played By | Peyton List |
| Status | Alive (In hiding) |
| Appeared In | Lucy |
Lucy Lane is the trouble-making, teenaged younger sister of Lois Lane.
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[edit] Personality
Lucy is characterized as being very independent for her age. She speaks three foreign languages fluently (German, Mandarin, and Spanish), is a straight-A student, and plays classical violin. She is also a very good skier. During her first appearance, she seems to reveal an attraction to Clark Kent, much to his delight and Lois' slight annoyance.
Lucy is also very manipulative, and a skilled liar. Despite the Kent's hospitality to both her and her sister, she felt no remorse at attempting to steal from them. She also knew exactly what to say to Clark to manipulate him into asking Lex for the money. Lois played a big part in raising Lucy after their mother died, but Lucy simply told her to stop trying to be her mother, and revealed that she was always jealous of Lois for being able to spend so much time with their father. It is apparent that Lucy is used to using her big sister to clean up her messes, with little gratitude or appreciation.
Lucy and Lois' relationship seemingly bears some similarities to the one between Lex and his younger brother Lucas.
[edit] Early Life
Lucy was shipped off to boarding school in Switzerland by her father, General Lane.
[edit] Season Four
While overseas, Lucy met the Swiss criminal and loan shark Marcus Becker. They thought up a plan to extort money from Lex Luthor. Lucy showed up in Smallville with a story about how she had got in with the wrong crowd, ran up her credit cards, and now owed a loan shark $50,000.
Clark went to Lex for help, and Lex seized the opportunity to apprehend Becker, who happened to be an old business acquaintance. But while exchanging the money, Becker pistol-whipped Lex and kidnapped Lois and, seemingly, Lucy as well. He held them all hostage in the back of an 18-wheeler. However, Lois and Clark realized at the same time that Lucy was using them all. Clark intercepted the truck and was able to use his powers to incapacitate and apprehend Becker.
In the confusion, Lucy got away with Lex's money and went into hiding.
[edit] Letter to Lois
Lucy left an apology note to Lois in Lex's car.
- Lo,
- The General always said, "If you want inner peace, prepare for mental war." Well, my emotional troops are about to give up the fight, so I'm off to search for the lesson to be learned from all of this on my own. I hope you can forgive me.
- I do love you. And I am sorry.
- Lucy
Lucy's reference to "the General" refers to Lucy and Lois' father, General Sam Lane. As military brats, Lucy and Lois often used military metaphors (e.g. "prepare for mental war", "my emotional troops are about to give up the fight") when they talked about their family.
[edit] In the Comics
In the comics, Lucy and Lois eventually make up. She has been portrayed as a flight attendant and air traffic controller. She was Lois' Maid of Honor when she married Clark. Different versions of the character have shared a room with the cousin of Clark Kent, Kara Kent. In the Eighties Superman reboot she became blind and even attempted suicide but was saved by a Bizarro who was a damaged clone of Superman after the Bizarro's fight with Superman it was crushed into a dust that cured Lucy of her blindness somehow. Lucy had a brief relationship with Jimmy Olsen but started dating Daily Planet reporter Ron Troupe the two had a son and married. After a long disappearance from the principal storylines, Lucy Lane returns in the one shot Superman: New Krypton. Her past with Ron Troupe is not referenced (despite Troupe having resurfaced in the current storylines, working again with the Daily Planet). Her long disappearance is explained by her joining the military, in a desperate, post-mortem attempt to appease her (presumed) dead father's desire to have a son able to carry on his career in the military. Bitter and angrier than in her former appearances, she still blames Lois for General Sam Lane's death during the war against Imperiex. Essentially, she thinks Lois broke his heart by putting her love for Superman before her duties as a daughter.
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. However their father is still alive, and working with the government secretly.
Whether Lucy's marriage to Ron Troupe, or the birth of their child Samuel Troupe, are still in continuity, or were erased by the time-altering effects of the Infinite Crisis are still unknown.
In the most recent issue of Supergirl, she is unmasked by Kara and revealed to be the evil Superwoman who had been battling against Supergirl she gained the appearance of Kryptonian powers via a powered up costume. Lucy seemed to have died in battle against Supergirl. Lucy was brought back to life in Supergirl Annual #1
