Early on, Clark is trying the whole superhero thing, but is aggravated by this rabid bloodhound/stalker Lois Lane. Trying to protect your elderly parents with a secret identity is tough even with someone like Lane.
Then Clark gets a brainwave.
He allows Lois to pursue him - because she's a perfect decoy.
Loud, brash and as delicate as a bull in a china shop. Perfect to lure away gangsters and supervillians alike.
So he lets Lois pursue her increasingly more insane hijinks - she crossed the 'pursuing the story that will rank me along with Bernstein and Woodward' to 'demented stalker' long ago - because his enemies think she means more to him than she actually does.
Of course he saves her - he saves everyone. But he's not going to lose any sleep if one day she bites off more than she can chew.
Meanwhile, unexceptional but hardworking mild mannered reporter Clark Kent gets himself a fiancee, a wife, a family in relative peace. Because his decoy is hard at work.
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Early on, Clark is trying the whole superhero thing, but is aggravated by this rabid bloodhound/stalker Lois Lane. Trying to protect your elderly parents with a secret identity is tough even with someone like Lane.
Then Clark gets a brainwave.
He allows Lois to pursue him - because she's a perfect decoy.
Loud, brash and as delicate as a bull in a china shop. Perfect to lure away gangsters and supervillians alike.
So he lets Lois pursue her increasingly more insane hijinks - she crossed the 'pursuing the story that will rank me along with Bernstein and Woodward' to 'demented stalker' long ago - because his enemies think she means more to him than she actually does.
Of course he saves her - he saves everyone. But he's not going to lose any sleep if one day she bites off more than she can chew.
Meanwhile, unexceptional but hardworking mild mannered reporter Clark Kent gets himself a fiancee, a wife, a family in relative peace. Because his decoy is hard at work.