Lois Lane
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Real Identity: Lois Lane
Affiliations: PlanetNWZ.com
Appearances (Movie): Justice League: Gods and Monsters
Appearances (Chronicles): Bomb
Appearances (Comics): Genesis Part One and Part Three
Powers/Skills: Journalism
Voiced By: Paget Brewster
Lois Lane is a reporter based in Metropolis. Lane believed monsters came in all forms from those hidden behind fine clothes and a handsome face to so called heroes. While reports of Batman were vague and confused early one, she knew he was a monster. After Wonder Woman saved a helicopter in San Francisco, Lane compiled a dossier and came to believe in and admire her but there still doubt about trusting someone who threw in with Superman. Lane first saw Superman close up after he stopped the Chaos Society's killing spree in the Metropolis Central Station. Her gratitude evaporated as she observed his posture as he hovered above reporters, the arrogant gleam in his eyes, and the smug entitlement in his voice. Lane asked him where he got the right to set himself up as judge, jury and executioner. Superman implored her to go inside the station and look at the mounds of bodies then tell him he was wrong. She hated Superman and has built up her career on trying to show the public and world what she sees. A monster and a menace.
Lane believed Superman was more a threat to humanity than the lunatics he killed and one day he would become tired of playing hero and turn on the world. As events surrounding Jackson Alpert and his Forever People unveiled, Lane wondered if Superman felt obsolete or was he happy to be united with others like him. After Superman and Wonder Woman went to the Eternity Institute, she wondered if they believed in Alpert's vision to remake the world or if Superman was exploiting a chance to increase his own power and control. Lane believed Superman took advantage of Wonder Woman's naivete and put Batman on some errand that took him on a rare trip away from Gotham City. When the Forever People started to assert their will on the world and offer their fiefdoms as alternatives to the human governments, Lane tried in desperation to expose them in vain. She watched the Mumbai battle between Bear and Superman in horror as civilians were killed, including her father Sam Lane, a traveling volunteer doctor.
As the Imperiex incident unfolded in Zurich, Lane watched the carnage on television from her PlanetNWZ.com office in Metropolis while simultaneously checking uploaded cell phone videos, emails from Zurich, and Twitter feeds. Despite their blank faces, Lane was not fully convinced Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman were under Imperiex's control. She wondered if they joined him voluntarily to subjugate humanity then changed their minds when it became apparent he was too strong and if their battles were just a performance. On the fourth day of protests outside the White House walls, Lane filed a report and pledged her support of opposition to Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman. She told an anecdote about her father Sam Lane, who was a traveling doctor that went to various war zones to porvide aid in the face of famine, disease, violence, and brutality. She noted he never used a gun nor raised his fist in anger. He died in service to humanity in the slums of Mumbai during the battle between Superman and Bear.
Lane implored her viewers not to lock themselves into a vision of the world where hideous violence was the acceptable form of problem solving or Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman would be the heroes they deserved. In conclusion, she declared they weren't heroes or gods - they were monsters. President Waller showed the report to Superman. He capitulated and asked Waller what she was proposing. The Justice League was formed. As they appeared more and more, Lane wondered if she was being too harsh and cynical in her judgments of them but she remembered her father and what he stood for. What a hero really was. She was renewed in her cause against them and their methods.
Weeks later, Lane interviewed Wonder Woman and learned more about what Mother Box did. Lane later interviewed Superman about Mumbai and called him out on the deaths. She said if he was a real hero, he would have figured out another way or died trying. Superman didn't respond. He gave Lane a hateful look and flew away. That look haunted Lane. Several months later, she spoke with Lex Luthor. Luthor confided he believed that out of the three, Batman was the one they could reach out to.
Luthor went on to tell Lane if thought the other two should be studied and destroyed if necessary. She read the government reports about the Imperiex incident with skepticism. She wondered if Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman suffered the same way the people of Mumbai suffered. Or if Superman felt afraid as Imperiex took over his mind. Two reliable sources informed Lane that Batman's testimony about Imperiex's defeat was written by Waller's speechwriters. Likewise, she was skeptical that Alpert was de-powered and taken into government custody since there was no trial nor was he ever seen again. She was told Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman to the Cheyenne Mountain Complex.
During the Brainiac incident, Lane reported live at Weisinger Square and reiterated the Civil Defense Corps' order for an emergency evacuation of the city, military was sending troops to the epicenter, and the government maintained a complete information blackout about what was going on. A helicopter crashed into a nearby building and Lane's feed was lost. Some time later, Lane reported on the Justice League's raid on a terrorist organization occupying a bunker under the Kasnian embassy in Metropolis. She noted at least 50 were dead from being dismembered, burnt alive, or sucked of their blood. She branded the League as a terrorist organization as well and played old footage of Dr. Luthor testifying against the League's formation years ago. The next day, Lane prowled around Silas Stone's lab trying to fish for information out of Steve Trevor. Since it was a crime scene, an agent eventually stopped Lane. Undaunted, she sneaked into the lab and approached Superman. A police officer escorted her outside.
The next day, Lane called up White House press secretary Pete Ross and inquired why Steve Trevor was looking into the deaths of three scientists who worked for President Waller. Ross replied Waller only wanted to make sure if there wasn't a security breach. Lane interpreted his answer as confirmation they worked for Waller. Ross denied saying that. Lane asked if Trevor's investigation included the Justice League. Ross remained coy. Lane pointed out the blaring implications in the crime reports. She noticed a lot of co-workers were gathered outside her office staring out. She turned around and saw that Superman was outside her window. Lane hung up on Ross and permitted Superman to come in. Superman revealed to her that Stone was working for him at the Tower on a project. He invited her to see. Lane was surprised since Superman never let anyone from the press inside. Rather than let Superman fly her to the Tower, Lane drove. Superman showed her the Tower's Kryptonian generators then the ship he came to Earth when he was an infant.
Superman revealed Stone was helping extract files from the ship. He played the footage they could recover, of his biological father General Zod. Lane knew what was going on. Superman took her to the Tower for spin-control in lieu of the League being implicated for the murders and he was showing his human side to her. Superman stated he wanted to reveal his world to her. Lane brought up how Dr. Luthor originally extracted this footage and never seemed impressed by it. Superman cast Luthor as a frustrated elitist who lost influence. He admitted to being raised by a migrant couple and seeing the harshness of life firsthand. He closed by stating he was there for his country while Luthor was absent. Wonder Woman interrupted and alluded to a call. The tour ended and Lane left the Tower. Wonder Woman expressed surprise he actually brought Lane. Superman remarked Lane was a bitch. That night, she went ahead and reported the forsenic evidence clearly proved the Justice League murdered the scientists.
The next day, Lane and a crew went to the Tower of Justice to cover the confrontation between the League and the government. Lane was alerted of a call from Jimmy Olsen. Olsen sneaked into the morgue with the dead scientists and was going to send her video. Near the battle's end, Lane was shocked to see Dr. Luthor appear. A week later, Lane reported on continued clean up efforts in the wake of the showdown with Will Magnus' robots. She admitted she was readjusting her opinion of the Justice League. Admitting to thinking of them as inhuman, Lane expressed gratitude for their part in saving the world at a terrible risk to themselves.