Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman - Season 1, Episode 6
Title: “Requiem for a Superhero”
Medium: television series episode
Original airdate: 17 Oct. 1993
Publisher:
9 characters in this story:
| Character (Click links for info about character and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.) |
Religious Affiliation |
Team(s) [Notes] |
Pub. | # app. |
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Kryptonians; Super Friends...  |
 |
13,409 | ||||||
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Raleigh College [Superman's girlfriend, then wife] |
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3,859 | ||||||
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The Legion of Super-Heroes [Superman's pal] |
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1,896 | ||||||
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[Superman's (Clark Kent's) boss; Daily Planet editor] | |
1,574 | ||||||
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[Superman's adoptive father] | |
816 | ||||||
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[Superman's adoptive mother] | |
827 | ||||||
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Injustice League; Secret Six... |
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1,508 | ||||||
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[Daily Planet gossip columnist; co-worker of Clark Kent] | |
140 | ||||||
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[Lois Lane's father] |  |
84 |
BELOW: Lex Luthor obsessively throws darts into cardboard cutout picture of Superman:
Source: Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman - Season 1, Episode 6 (17 Oct. 1993). Written by Robert Killebrew. Directed by Randall Zisk.
Timecode: 14 minutes, 26 seconds: Already, by episode 5 of the first season of Lois & Clark, Lex Luthor is so obsessed with Superman that he is seen spending some of his leisure time throwing darts into a cardboard cutout of Superman.
Timecode: 17 minutes, 22 seconds: Lex Luthor orders the murder of Allie Dinello, a boxing trainer who happens to be a friend of Lois Lane's. After Lex Luthor receives word that the killing has gone as planned, he talks to himself in the mirror. This monologue illustrates something of the depths of Luthor's moral depravity and sociopathy. He truly thinks of nobody but himself and thinks of himself as being above the religious values, ethics and morality of "common man."
Assassin (or his go-between, on phone): It's done.
Lex Luthor: Are you sure?
Assassin: Positive.
Lex Luthor hangs up the phone. He begins speaking, as if to another person. But at the end of his monologue we see he is only looking at a mirror.
BELOW: Lex Luthor disppoints himself whenever he commits murder:
Source: Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman - Season 1, Episode 6 (17 Oct. 1993). Written by Robert Killebrew. Directed by Randall Zisk.
Lex Luthor: It's . . . always such an embarrassment . . . having to do away with someone. It's like announcing to the world that you lack the savvy and the finesse to deal with the problem more creatively. I mean, there have been times, naturally, when I've had to have people eliminated, but it's always . . . saddened me. I've always felt like . . . I've let myself down somehow.
