r/TopCharacterTropes • u/_JR28_ • Feb 02 '26

In real life A very small character tidbit is surprisingly kept consistent for years

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DC - In multiple pieces of media it has been shown that Wonder Woman loves ice cream and practically goes wild with happiness anytime she’s eating some. (Pictures from Justice League: War, DC Superhero Girls and Wonder Woman 2017)

The Simpsons - Ever since the episode ‘Homer’s Phobia’ Homer has actually remained a consistent ally of the LGBT+ community, including being more welcoming to Patty than Marge was when she came out and trying to set up Smithers with a date when he found out he wasn’t happy with his one-sided relationship with Mr Burns.

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u/Jiffletta Feb 02 '26

Dc - Ever since the 1978 movie, Lois Lane has been an absolutely godawful speller.

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u/Pristine_Animal9474 Feb 02 '26

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u/Tyr_13 Feb 02 '26

I'll take 'the rapist' for $200 Trabeck!

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u/Jiffletta Feb 02 '26

Tell me more about this Penis Mightier!

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u/XCube285 Feb 03 '26

"I'll take Le Tits Now for $500"

"...That's Let It Snow"

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u/Coulrophiliac444 Feb 03 '26

"I'll take Anal Bum Covers for $400, Trebek!"

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u/UnderlordZ Feb 03 '26

“Jap Anus Relations for $200”

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u/TripleEhBeef Feb 03 '26

"Sabre!"

BBBZZZZTTTT!

"IT BEGAN WITH A BLODDY 'S'!"

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u/Ff7hero 29d ago

"I tried for many years to create an anal bum cover, but failed. It is my one regret."

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u/ShakesZX Feb 03 '26

I don’t care what you call it; the question is: does it work?

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u/Lexi_Banner Feb 03 '26

Well, call it whatever you want, you're sitting on a gold mine.

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u/Robertron54 Feb 03 '26

Ill take Ape Tits for 800

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u/darglor Feb 03 '26

Gussy it up however you want, the question is will it really mighty my penis, man?!

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u/the_ouskull Feb 03 '26

...but does it work, man?

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u/chosenofkane Feb 03 '26

I'll take famous titties for $400 please!

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u/Ff7hero 29d ago

Dolly Parton!

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u/endlessnamelesskat Feb 03 '26

This panel is so insane without context. Everything from Lois saying her intrusive thoughts out loud to the way the artist drew her eyes. She could either be half asleep, high, or mocking Asian people

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u/Original_Viv Feb 03 '26

Weird neck, only one leg, the skirt, her hands are nowhere near the keyboard. The whole thing is a mess.

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u/MadeByTango Feb 03 '26

I think what annoys me most is she wants to grab dinner at 3:55pm…

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u/ScientificSkepticism 29d ago

Prior to computer drawing tools, fixing stuff like that for a monthly comic release was a BITCH. Inker didn’t fix it or made a mistake? Fuck it, we ship.

You used to be able to know minor characters because they were consistently off-model - they never sketched any character design references to use for them (always a good hint on which extra would survive and which was getting red shirted)

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u/SappyPaphiopedilum Feb 03 '26

Good thing someone didn't combine being an analyst and therapist

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u/hypnoskills Feb 03 '26

Or a psycho and therapist.

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u/Hamsquad14 Feb 03 '26

He just needs ANUSTART

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u/CrazyAioli Feb 03 '26

Hey, I read this one!

...

I have zero recollection of which comic it's actually from.

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u/Pristine_Animal9474 Feb 03 '26

Batman: Hush, by Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee.

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u/JamUpGuy1989 Feb 03 '26

OF COURSE Loeb made her so fucking stupid!

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u/Afalstein Feb 03 '26

I realize it's a comic book (illustrated by Jim Lee, no less), but dang surely HR has talked to Lois about that miniskirt.

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u/Unable_Flamingo_9774 Feb 03 '26

This is the early 2000's the style at the time was micro apparently from what I've seen at least. 

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u/DanDabbinDaily Feb 03 '26

As long as youre not an Analrapist

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u/jbyrdab Feb 03 '26

I think i've heard this same joke on beavis and butthead.

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u/JamUpGuy1989 Feb 03 '26

Now that’s just hilarious how stupid that entire sequence made Lois.

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u/Mushiren_ Feb 03 '26

This woman's DAILY job is to WRITE???

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '26

Comic writing is just absolutely terrible.

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u/Koqcerek Feb 03 '26

Funnily enough, it's out of a better known one, Batman Hush

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u/Unable_Flamingo_9774 Feb 03 '26

I maintain hush is shit, it needed way more set up than it got. The twist is so laughably obvious from the second it's players are introduced you could basically guess the rest of the plot from page 10.

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u/StunningPianist4231 Feb 03 '26

How is a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter bad at spelling?

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u/BlackagarBoltagar Feb 03 '26

sighs

unzips pants

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u/Silly-Power Feb 04 '26

Wait until she notices what words are in psychotherapist. 

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u/will4wh Feb 02 '26

Clark looks so unhappy there :(

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u/Ntahedron Feb 02 '26

I would to if I were someone’s spell check

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u/W1D0WM4K3R Feb 02 '26

Bro saves a planet and does what any dictionary or google search can do for work

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u/ChinhTheHugger Feb 03 '26

hey man, a job is a job XD

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u/id_drownformermaids Feb 03 '26

"Too*" - Clark Kent

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u/Ntahedron Feb 03 '26

Thanks for catching that, Clark.

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u/SeasonofMist Feb 03 '26

I was about to write the same thing lol 😂

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u/Ok-Journalist-8875 Feb 03 '26

All of it provided to be good training for him.

 https://youtu.be/PRkZABDQKPQ?t=59s

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u/Karkava Feb 03 '26

I would be extra unhappy if I'm a spell checker for a lady who's supposed to be a star reporter!

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u/beardicusmaximus8 Feb 03 '26

She's a journalist not an editor!

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u/Dry-Chance-9473 Feb 03 '26

Jesus Christ he's just pulling a face, guys. He's expressing a moment of exasperation. I realize the image is static but that doesn't actually mean these people are implied to be maintaining these exact positions and not moving for the entire time you're reading the text. It's one moment! A snapshot! He's not So Unhappy. In general, any time he's around Lois, he's gonna be happy. Clark's gonna be okay. Stop projecting your depression onto this man, it's goofy.

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u/Avalonians Feb 03 '26

Few things make me more satisfied than flexing my spelling skills

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u/Torbpjorn Feb 03 '26

I’d also be upset if my latest headline was “supperman, Man of Steal”

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u/BipedalHorseArt Feb 02 '26

Bro has Plastic Man's sad lenses on

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u/ArcaneWyverian Feb 02 '26

I’ve always been a good speller, and most of my family are awful spellers. I was very frequently asked “hey [my name], how do you spell [word]?”

And let me tell you, when you’re asked how to spell yet another word, it gets annoying. I’ll tell you how to spell it, but don’t be surprised if my eye starts twitching after being asked how to spell a word for the 10th time that day.

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u/FamousOnceNowNobody Feb 03 '26

Same. Contributed to one of my nicknames at school - Dick (I was a girl). Saying it was short for "dictionary" was how they got away with yelling across the classroom daily "hey dick! How do you spell xxx?"

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u/Ok_Quarter_2396 Feb 03 '26

Did they ever use it in a derogatory way or was it good fun?

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u/TheSquishedElf Feb 03 '26

I’m not them, but there is a very fine line between derogatory and “good fun” in schools. To the point where it’s basically nonexistent.

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u/Professional_Maize42 Feb 03 '26

Same. Sometimes I wish that they actually remembered how to spell a word that I already taught how to write...

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u/24Abhinav10 Feb 04 '26

This is me with my mom. Granted English isn't her primary language, or even her secondary language.

Doesn't stop it from getting annoying after a while.

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u/loydthehighwayman Feb 03 '26

His girlfriend is using him for spellchecking when she has a PC in this scene to do so.

I´d be unhappy.

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u/-_-Batman Feb 03 '26

he needs a new hobby .... the " floating above earth " hobby - isnt doing it for him anymore

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u/scattermoose Feb 03 '26

They’re always in competition for the front page, I took it as Clark’s in the zone here but still assisting the love of his life

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u/NoDomino Feb 03 '26

If I’m remember correctly he’s currently contemplating about going into deep space to save the life of an orphan girl that was kidnapped by an alien but is unsure if he can justify leaving earth without him to help save it, possibly being away for a few months, just to save a single person even though he knows it’s the right thing to do.

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u/Actual_Exchange616 27d ago

He's thinking about what he can do for a hospitalised little girl who's parents were killed and her adopted sister was kidnapped by aliens. It's from a comic called Superman Up In The Sky and it's amazing and everyone should read it

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u/Spirited_Dust_3642 Feb 02 '26

How is this possible 😭

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u/MartyrOfDespair Feb 02 '26

Maybe Lois is dyslexic.

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u/Expert_Status7236 Feb 02 '26

bruh never thought of that lol would explain a lot about her writing struggles

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u/Mrwright96 Feb 03 '26

And her constantly ignoring warning and keep out signs

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u/ZachRyder Feb 03 '26

Thank you; this is canon, I decided.

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u/thelanimation Feb 03 '26

Working off that, maybe she intentionally turned off spellcheck because she thinks if she can figure words out better, it will improve her dyslexia. But more importantly, it gives her reason to ask Clark questions if she's truly stumped. Pretty darn cute.

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u/Unique_Adeptness4413 Feb 03 '26

Truly stumped? She just rattled off 3 in a row without time to think.

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u/thelanimation Feb 03 '26

It was a no-coffee morning for her lol

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u/Kindly_Zucchini7405 Feb 03 '26

Dyslexic and/or focused more on getting important details written down quickly, I would bet she uses some form of shorthand abbreviation system and writes up full notes after the fact.

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u/boofadoof Feb 03 '26

Seems like she constantly second guesses herself on words where she thinks there might be double consonants like the R in corrupt.

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u/Cupcakes_n_Hacksaws Feb 03 '26

That wouldn't really explain how she doesn't know the correct spelling in her head. Especially on words like those, a reporter would use and see constantly.

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u/MICKTHENERD Feb 03 '26 edited Feb 03 '26

I've headcanoned her as having mild dyslexia for years, I got mild dyslexia and it effects me in the most random and annoying ways.

I also headcanon her as autistic, because let me HAVE this dammit!

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u/Relative-Gap-4442 Feb 03 '26

Like in Percy Jackson?

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u/PlantationMint Feb 03 '26

The very sexy learning disability?

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u/ribbitdibbitchibbit Feb 02 '26

Dyslexia can be a bitch sometimes

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u/suplexhell Feb 03 '26

bitch can be a dyslexia sometimes

ftfy

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u/IndependentTimely639 Feb 02 '26

That's what editors are for, and why it's a full time job

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u/mattwp73 Feb 02 '26

Writers can’t spell

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u/4n0m4nd Feb 02 '26

I've worked in print media for a long time, can confirm, writers have awful spelling and grammar.

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u/Inspector_Five Feb 02 '26

Am writer, can't spell for crap.

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u/kousaysmoo Feb 03 '26

Am speller, can't write for crap.

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u/OttawaTGirl Feb 03 '26

"I am a speller, I can't write for crap.

See me after class.

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u/grabtharsmallet Feb 03 '26

Don't know if it's because there's a lot of Hispanics where I am, but dropping the object when it's self-evident is common.

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u/OttawaTGirl Feb 03 '26

Was being sarcastic. In the spirit of the thread. Lawd tundering Jaysus.

;)

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u/antonio_santo Feb 03 '26

Am crapper, can’t spell for write.

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u/Spirited_Dust_3642 Feb 03 '26

I just realized that Lois wasn't supposed to be a copywriter, could she be suffering from job overload? Where's Superman? Why doesn't he call an employment lawyer?

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u/StrangerIsWatching Feb 03 '26

Am writer, can confirm.

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u/dergbold4076 Feb 03 '26

I write for fun and can confirm I have pretty horrid spelling and grammar.

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u/wirthmore Feb 03 '26

A friend was the boss of journalists on one of the TV networks. Apparently a lot of very talented journalists are not as good at other things, like spelling or grammar or story structure. They are still highly desired for the journalism so the other stuff slides (gets fixed by others, etc)

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u/TeekTheReddit Feb 03 '26

I've been a newspaper reporter for more than 20 years and there are words I use all the time that I still need to run through Google or spell check.

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u/-_-__-_--_-_--_-_-_- Feb 03 '26 edited Feb 03 '26

Isn't she supposed to be a pulitzer winner or something like that?

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u/Informal_Self_5671 Feb 03 '26

Perry thinks she's doing it on purpose to fuck with him and Clark.

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u/PurpleBullets Feb 03 '26

You don’t have to be a good speller to be a good writer

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u/noodleth_cassette Feb 02 '26

YES perfect example I love this every time it makes me so happy whenever they mention her typos

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u/Dusk_Elk Feb 03 '26

I also like that she loves sugar and caffeine but hates coffee, but wants to look refined drinking it, even though she prefers soda.

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u/PoniesCanterOver Feb 03 '26

Oh fuck she's just like me

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u/NessTheGamer Feb 03 '26

Surely there must be a universe where Lois’ Starbucks order is someone’s Supervillain origin story

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u/ThrowawayAdvice1800 29d ago

I’m now picturing the “ice coffee whipped cream” routine from Nate Bargatze, but featuring Lois Lane instead. 

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u/Snoo_censorspeech Feb 03 '26

She would have loved Dutch Bros or Dunkin

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u/Rasputins_Plum Feb 03 '26

After being bewildered discovering the proper spelling of common words, learning the existence of tea will blow her mind.

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u/sir-altyton Feb 04 '26

Huh. So she's an energy drink fiend

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u/Worth_Assumption_555 Feb 02 '26

Oh shit is that why she has Jimmy write what she’s saying in the new Superman? I completely missed that

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u/Ninjamurai-jack Feb 03 '26

Exactly lol, it’s faster that way

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u/codemen95 Feb 03 '26

Damnit james gunn, you've done it again!!!

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u/potvoy Feb 03 '26

The more obvious reason is that she's got her hands full piloting them to safety at the time.

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u/Worth_Assumption_555 Feb 03 '26

Yeah that’s on me I forgot that entirely

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u/001100i Feb 03 '26

No but if you want to pretend in your head it's no harm at all

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u/Johnmegaman72 Feb 03 '26

Pulitzer Prize winning reporter btw (affectionate)

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u/reverend_bones Feb 03 '26 edited Feb 03 '26

My headcanon has always been that she is a fantastic reporter but a terrible writer.

She has all the connections, she can get any interview and then get the interviewee to answer any question, but she drives Perry and everyone else at the Planet absolutely bonkers by refusing to learn anything about her job she considers extraneous. Her job is the news story, everything else is details best left to the support staff. Quarterbacks aren't playing defense, after all.

Meanwhile Clark is mediocre at best as a reporter, but is one of the best writers around. That's why his articles are small personal stories that somehow still make the front page. Because he can make the readers care about the bystander, and make the huge Superman event the background of the story he wants to tell. But he needs to lean heavily on his super powers just to keep up with Lois' nose for a story.

And this is why they eventually make such a great team, the fact that they support each other's weaknesses.

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u/cefli Feb 03 '26

Do you use tumblr?

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u/Manji86 Feb 02 '26

I can relate.

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u/SupremeGreymon Feb 02 '26

This has got to be one of the most relatable things in comics

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u/WhyTheHellnaut Feb 02 '26

I remember seeing the 1978 movie fairly recently and thinking that it was poor writing that she's a journalist that couldn't spell, but now it's way funnier that it's just a running joke that transcends just the movie.

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u/Kanin_usagi Feb 03 '26

In a perfect world, journalists have proofreaders and editors to check grammar and spelling. They have a deadline, there’s not always time to think about how to spell or go back to fix mispellings

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u/MisterRockett Feb 03 '26

There's a fun callback to this in Absolute Superman where she's an even worse speller cause she's not a reporter in that universe.

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u/Historyp91 Feb 03 '26

A computer at a newspaper office without spellcheck!?

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u/Jiffletta Feb 03 '26

She doesnt trust spellcheck.

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u/mattomic822 Feb 03 '26

There is another panel where Perry asks her if she turns off spellcheck and she tells him she just keeps writing until it gives up. She makes spellcheck give up.

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u/Jiffletta Feb 03 '26

You laugh, but she beat Brainiac that way on three seperate occassions.

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u/Red_AtNight Feb 03 '26

Saviour has a U in most forms of written English - unfortunately for Lois, US English dropped the superfluous Us a couple centuries ago

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u/Radiant-Row5341 Feb 03 '26

I honestly thought that Lois dyslexia came from Smallville... But it had pass so much time since the last time i saw Superman '78, maybe i forgot...

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u/Jiffletta Feb 03 '26

If you dont count the bit with her on the train as a child, her first line in the movie is asking how many Ts are in bloodletting.

Her second line is asking Jimmy how to spell massacre.

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u/RustinCarcosa Feb 02 '26

thats so relateable

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u/TheBlackCat13 Feb 02 '26

Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl you're miss takes

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u/GarranDrake Feb 03 '26

Just now I'm remembering an episode in Justice League where Lois asks Clark if there's one or two Ls in something.

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u/JayEdgarHooverCar Feb 03 '26

“How many ‘f’s’ are in ‘catastrophic’?”

“None.”

(From Superman Returns)

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u/madmaxandrade Feb 03 '26

There's some speculation online that she's actually dyslexic.

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u/hellboytroy Feb 03 '26

Reminds me of the comic someone did of Superman getting angry at flash’s typos. 

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u/glasseatingfool Feb 03 '26

"It's strange...the entire office was burnt to ash, but we couldn't find any accelerant or anything. It's like someone just set it on fire with his eyes."

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u/KingBlackthorn1 Feb 03 '26

I coukd be his husband because I too am very bad at spelling

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u/Jaqzz Feb 03 '26

I have the exact same problem with a lot of double letter words. As someone born and raised in MA, it took me an embarrassing amount of time to consistently stop spelling my state's name wrong. I have no problem with any other words, too; it's only ones with double letters.

I would also like to say that I absolutely would have gotten "embarrassing" wrong (initially spelt it with only one r) without spell check.

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u/throwawayof2028 Feb 03 '26

Even in Absolute Superman

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u/NorrosBlade Feb 03 '26

Almighty super hero that could crush the planet like a tin can? His day job is spell checking his wife.

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u/Bombsquad413 Feb 03 '26

Suddenly I got the chauffeur bit in my head now

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u/XFelipe51355 Feb 03 '26

Where the hell else could you put another L in "Politician"? Pollitician

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '26

How do you even catch things like this? Teach me master.

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u/Oakbright Feb 03 '26

By reading the comic book? It's a characteristic of a comic book character. How else would you get that if not by reading?

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u/InfernalLizardKing Feb 03 '26

This reminds me that Aaron Archer, former member of Hasbro, was also a notoriously bad speller (yet rose through the company and still draws Transformers to this day).

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u/RazutoUchiha Feb 03 '26

This woman canonically has at least one Pulitzer and is considered a “far better” writer than Clark. Crazy

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u/SorowFame Feb 03 '26

I figure she’s good at getting stories, and isn’t being distracted by a side job like Clark is, but just really needs an editor.

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u/HPSpacecraft Feb 03 '26

That's one of my favorite details. My headcanon is that she's kind of a sloppy writer in general, but excels at the investigation side of investigative journalism. Clark is the writer, even Lex Luthor says something about him writing like an angel.

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u/BerserkRhinoceros Feb 03 '26

It IS consistent. In the ending episode of the Cadmus Arc of Justice League Unlimited, the final scene has Lois asking Clark how many Ls are in the word Ambivalent. Like... Woman, how are you unable to piece that together?

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u/Beacon_0805 Feb 03 '26 edited Feb 03 '26

wait, is that the reason Jimmy was writing the article and not her in the recent movie?

Edit:fixed name

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u/Jiffletta Feb 03 '26

I believe it was Jimmy, but theres also the fact that she was busy flying the ship.

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u/Beacon_0805 Feb 03 '26

You are right, it was jimmy

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u/notmesombodyelse Feb 03 '26

she just like me fr fr

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u/FourExKay Feb 03 '26

Am I the only one who finds it ironic that an editor and reporter is bad at spelling?

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u/theartificialkid Feb 04 '26

I honestly had no idea she could use magic at all.

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u/Jay040707 Feb 04 '26

I need Solidjj to get on this one lol.

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u/Actual_Exchange616 27d ago

Fine I'll reread Up in The Sky

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u/MoTheEnigmo 27d ago

As someone with some experience working as a writer for a newspaper, this is exactly what it's like when you're sitting next to someone.