Oh in that case, we could probably add them to my list.
Yeah, that might be for the best.
Supergirl - Season Four
- Thread starter Kai "the spy"
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It ain't the writers who are looking insecure and weak here...
Lana Lang and Pete Ross were characters from Superboy comics originally, but they were folded into Superman's present-day adventures after a while, with Lana being Lois's main romantic rival for Superman in Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane in the '50s and '60s and a TV anchor alongside Clark in the '70s. Pete had a smaller present-day role, but in the early-2000s story arc when Lex Luthor became US president, Pete Ross was his vice president. (Lois's father Sam Lane was his Secretary of Defense, and a retired Black Lightning was his Sec'y of Education.)
As for Chloe, yes, she was created for Smallville and only briefly added to the comics continuity in 2010. But she already exists in Supergirl's universe; in "Midvale," teenage Kara and Alex corresponded with her by e-mail to help solve the crime they were investigating. She was described much like the original character, as a childhood friend of Clark's who maintained a "Wall of Weird" involving strange phenomena.
I'm not sure it's necessary to retire the character of Chloe because of what's happened with her actress. That's like saying they should've retired Superman as a character when George Reeves shot himself (or was murdered, as Jack Larson always insisted). Granted, it would be easier to separate them if more than one actress had played the role, but still, the character isn't to blame for what her actress ended up doing.
Lana is also active as Superwoman in the post-Flashpoint (Rebirth) comics.
You can say that all you want, but you're flat out wrong. Calling out a bunch of writers with a chip on their shoulder is not insecurity--it's just reality. If writers have to dumb down male characters to make female ones look strong, then they are about as anti-feminist as it gets. It shows a lack of confidence and weakness if they have to do that, and it makes the female characters look weak.
Speaking of the recent Superwoman comics, they actually established that Lena was smarter than Lex in the DC Comics Universe, as well.
Could you be any more wrong and insulting to people?
Don't tempt him.
Good idea.
If the female characters were really as weak as all that, you wouldn't be so obviously, consistently, desperately threatened by them.
I've noticed over the last couple months that this is pretty much SOP for Kirk Prime.
You do realize you're only proving my point by continuously whinging about this, right?
Kirk's a little right, but only in so that what is happening to boys in this show is what usually happens to women everywhere else: Someone has to be an ineffectual feckless dimwit that needs to be saved by the Superhero, and on this show that person is most often a lad.
It doesn't matter.
Women get a safe space where they are trumps.
It doesn't matter.
Women get a safe space where they are trumps.
Um. We haven't even seen Lex Luthor yet, so how can we say how dumb he'll be portrayed as?
This is great! It also makes me wonder if these rumors I hear about them doing a Superman show might be real. You already have a Superman to use and one they are bringing back in the Batwoman crossover, event. Maybe they will create a Luthor that can also become a series regular down the line. Especially since I have a feeling "Supergirl" is going to be canned in the not to distant future. The ratings aren't very good plus you hear about them making a Supergirl movie and maybe they don't want them to compete. I'm not so sure they much liked having two versions of "Flash" when "Justice League" came out.
Jason
^ Those rumors talk about the "Elseworlds" crossover being used as a 'backdoor pilot' for a Superman series, and Lex isn't involved in those episodes, so his arrival really doesn't confirm anything about the validity of said rumors.
I know but once you got Lex established as a character and with a actor it wouldn't be hard to bring him over to a Superman show that is created. Even if it's in another universe you can just have the actor play another version of the one we will see on "Supergirl." I doubt that any backdoor pilot would go into much depth about any potential show but simply sort of establish a generic premise that will be filled in more completely once they start actually working on the show.
Jason
I can't see why?
Lex doesn't have to be a super genius to do his job, just a xenophobe with an inferiority complex.
Lex doesn't have to be a super genius to do his job, just a xenophobe with an inferiority complex.
