u/LauraKay9

Why do so many Lois fans seem to want everyone except Lois to be Lois? 🤔

Ive always found this hilarious.

For years I've seen them argue that Chloe should've actually been Lois... or that Lana should've eventually become Lois.

And every time I read one of those takes, I end up wondering...

Do you guys actually like Smallville's Lois?

Because as a Lana fan, I've never once wished Lana was secretly Lois lmaooooo thats absurd. I like her because she's Lana. I love her story, her relationship with Clark, and the role she plays in the series AS LANA!

Same with Chloe. She's not even one of my favorite characters, but I'd never want her rewritten into someone else just to "improve" another character.

That's why I've always found this desire so strange.

If Chloe has to inherit Lois's identity...
If Lois has to inherit Lana's romance...
If Lois constantly needs someone else's history or emotional significance/impact...

...then what exactly is so great about Smallville's Lois on her own?

It always feels like an admission that the writers gave other characters the storylines and impact lois' fans actually wanted for lois, lmaooooooo, like, never in my life have i ever wanted lana to switch place with lois, i love lana and her story and her journey and i would not chnage a thing... lois/cloi's "fans" (its in quotes because if they were fans, they's life lois and clois the way they are lmaoo) solution becomes trying to transfer those storylines back onto Lois after the fact.

If you're happy with the Lois and the clois the show gave you, why is there such a recurring desire to rewrite someone else into being her?

I don't actually think some of y'all like Smallville's Lois.

I think you like the Lois Lane IP more than you like Smallville's actual version of Lois, you like the idea, the entity, the brand of Lois Lane. (mind you, i dont know anything about any other lana lang, i only care about the Smallville version lmaooo)

Because if you genuinely loved this version of Lois and this version of Clois, you wouldn't constantly be trying to graft Chloe's history onto her, or wishing she had Lana's romance with Clark.

At some point, it stops sounding like praise for Lois and starts sounding like an admission that the show gave the biggest emotional moments, the defining romance, and the strongest history with Clark to other characters.

And instead of accepting that... the solution becomes, "Well, what if they were actually Lois?"

As a Lana fan, I've never once thought, "You know what would make Lana better? If she stopped being Lana."

That thought has literally never crossed my mind.

So every time I see "Chloe should've been Lois" or "Lana should've been Lois," I can't help but laugh.

Because to me, it doesn't come across as confidence in Lois.

It comes across as wishing she'd had someone else's story, and its a bit pathetic to me, tbh.

do you think a relationship has to be endgame to be considered the defining romance of a story?

because i don't think those are automatically the same thing.

i feel like certain fandoms often treat "endgame" and "most important relationship" as if they're interchangeable, but i'm not convinced they are and never have been.

there are plenty of stories where the relationship that leaves the biggest emotional impact isn't the one that lasts to the end.

curious to hear what everyone thinks, both in smallville and in other fictions more generally.