Tonight, Cartoon Network showed Superman: Doomsday, a Superman animated movie which apparently came out in 2007, but which I fortunately missed. It was written by Duane Capizzi, one of my usual favorite cartoon writers. Usually. Maybe not, after this plot twist.
In this Superman movie, see, Lois Lane had been dating Superman for six months, knew he was an alien from Krypton and his name was Kal-El, was apparently sleeping with the guy(!) up at the Fortress of Solitude(!), and STILL DIDN’T KNOW HE WAS CLARK KENT.
Hang your head in shame, Duane Capizzi.
Look, Superman does not have Sailor Moon powers to disguise him. His face is plainly visible. She may be blind for fairy tale/swashbuckler angst purposes, but she’s not that blind. You can’t claim to be making Lois Lane all feminist and strong, and then have her whining about how Superman has fear of commitment — when she’s apparently not only willing to sleep with a guy whose name she doesn’t know, but also is so little interested in the man and so poor an investigator as NOT TO BE ABLE TO FIGURE THIS OUT. FOR SIX MONTHS. WHILE SLEEPING WITH THE MAN!
I expected better of you, Duane Capizzi. What the heck were you thinking?! Do you have any respect for female comics characters at all, anymore?
UPDATE: OK, so she did apparently figure it out but wasn’t telling Superman that she had. As a relationship test, apparently. Which is also pretty darned sick. In fact, it makes her not just stupid and foolish, but also conniving and cruel. Woohoo.
And no, this stupid plot element didn’t come from the comics. In the comics, Supes apparently told Lois the truth long before all this stuff happened, and did not treat her like a coward and cad, nor she treat him with so little respect.
