Lois Lane

Lois underwent a character alteration beginning with John Byrne's The Man of Steel (comic book) miniseries, which completely rewrote Superman's origin and history.

In this modern version of events, Lois was portrayed as a tough-as-nails reporter who rarely needed rescuing.

She was depicted as strong, opinionated, yet sensitive.

Another major change made was that Lois did not fall in love with Superman (though she may have harbored a slight crush at first).

One reason was the revised nature of the Superman/Clark Kent relationship.

In the original Silver Age stories, Superman had been the man who disguised himself as Clark Kent.

In this new revised concept, it was Clark Kent who lived a life in which his activity as Superman was decidedly secondary.

Lois initially resented the rookie Clark Kent getting the story on Superman as his first piece when she had spent ages trying to get an interview, but she eventually became his best friend.

Lois' first real relationship in this version was with Jose Delgado, a Metropolis vigilante whose legs are shattered in a battle with a Lexcorp cyborg/human hybrid gone amok. Delgado eventually recovered.

He and Lois would have several on and off experiences together before the relationship completely disintegrated, mainly due to Clark and Lois becoming much closer as friends.

Following Clark's brief rampage under the influence of The Eradicator, Lois was hesitant to forgive Clark for "selling out" to Collin Thornton and running Newstime Magazine, but forgave him in a span of mere minutes when he returned to "grovel for his job back".

Clark elected to repay Lois by finally letting go of his self-imposed inhibitions and passionately kissed her.

The two became a couple, and eventually Lois accepted a proposal of marriage.

Clark shortly after revealed to her that he was Superman.

DC had planned on Lois and Clark being married in 1993's Superman #75.

However, with the then-upcoming Television show Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, DC decided they did not want to have the two married in the comics and not married on TV.

Partially as a result of this, Superman was killed in Superman #75 instead, dying in Lois' arms after a Battle royal with the monster Doomsday (comics).

After a period of time, Superman returned to life, and both he and Lois resumed their relationship, though not without a few problems (such as a brief reappearance of Clark's former college girlfriend, the mermaid Lori Lemaris).

Lois eventually decided to take an overseas assignment to assert her independence and not be dependent on Clark, who had begun to overprotect her.

When Clark became convinced Lois was in danger, he and her father Sam allied to aid her secretly.

When Lois returned to Metropolis, she had been through several life-threatening exploits, and was slightly amused when Clark informed her his powers had been recently depleted, and that he was her editor (due to Perry White's cancer).

Upon discovering Clark still had her wedding ring within a handkerchief, Lois warmly broke down, teasing Clark and finally agreeing to become his wife.

In 1996, coinciding with the Lois and Clark television program, Lois and Clark were finally wed in the one-shot special Superman, which featured the work of nearly every then-living artist who had ever worked on Superman.

The Wedding Album itself, however, was forced to spend part of its opening pages accommodating and reconciling the then-current comic storyline of Lois and Clark having broken off their engagement (the television program's producers had failed to provide adequate lead time for the Superman comics' writers).

Since their marriage, Clark and Lois's continue to remain one of the stronger relationships in most comic series.

In 2007, the couple recently took the "next step" in adopting a newly arrived Kryptonian boy, who they name Chris Kent (comics).

The boy is discovered to be the son of Jor-El's arch-foe, General Zod.

Although initially uneasy about raising a super-powered boy, Lois has shown immense aptitude of being 'Mommy Lois'.

However, following a devastating battle with Zod, Chris sacrificed himself to seal the Phantom Zone rift, trapping himself inside with Zod's forces, leaving Lois without her son.

In the second issue of Final Crisis, Lois and Perry are caught in an explosion triggered by Clayface destroying the Daily Planet and apparently Lois is seriously injured.

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