Man Of Steel Spoiler: Does Lois Lane Know Who Superman Is?

Warning: Possible spoilers ahead for Man of Steel.In the just-released publicity featurette for [...]

AMY ADAMS as Lois Lane in Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Legendary Pictures’ action adventure “MAN OF STEEL,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release.

Warning: Possible spoilers ahead for Man of Steel.

In the just-released publicity featurette for Man of Steel, we get a piece of footage that seems to tease the answer to one of comics's enduring questions: Why the heck can't a supposedly-smart person like Lois Lane see through a pair of glasses and a change of hairstyle to connect the dots that the two most important men in her life are actually the same guy? The answer, if we're reading a certain clip correctly, is that she can. And does. "Mrs. Kent," Lois says in the video embedded below (around 11:12), "I'm Lois Lane from the Daily Planet. I'd like to talk to you about your son." Given the fact that we know Lois isn't being played as a total moron, that certainly seems as though she's got to the bottom of something big.

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Of course, this is hardly the first time Lois has sussed out Superman's identity. Even in the New 52, where it hasn't been expressly spelled out yet, it's certainly been implied that Lois knows who Superman is. Again, as happens in the film, she's put in a position where any reporter worth her sale would be able to put two and two together, so even if you're not told outright that she knows, it's safe to assume that Lois (who, prior to the New 52 relaunch, was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist) probably has an inkling. Does this mean that in sequels, Lois will need to help cover Clark's tracks? Or that perhaps she's the one who gets him a job at the Daily Planet? Furthermore, it certainly seems as though she's written an article about it all for Perry - did she already know who Clark was by then? Because that would make for a very interesting job interview. Of course, since Perry is identified in the same documentary as a former investigative reporter himself,  you could pretty easily transition all those criticisms of Lois not seeing through Clark's disguise right onto Perry in the next film and keep moving. So...stay tuned for that. Lois has already done something like this on Smallville, where she spent the time between when her wedding was planned, and when it actually happened (that's about seven years), pretending that Clark was a bumbling dolt that she merely tolerated in the service of both keeping his secret and syncing the series as much as possible with Richard Donner's Superman films.

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