It has recently come up that in the episodes Home is Where the Hurt Is and Ordinary People, Lois mentions having a brother. This is clearly a goof, but...what if it wasn't? What if Lois really had a brother?

So! Is this brother older, younger, or twin? Half or step, maybe? Does he try to push her towards Clark, or does he go into stay-away-from-my-sister mode? What about Superman? How did the Lanes' train-wreck of a marriage impact him?

If you can't commit to a whole story yet, feel free to just spitball here!

Soul...Mates?

I remember reading this one by Wendy and Tank years ago that sees Clark meeting Lucas (Luc) Lane who turns out to be Lois’ twin. I don’t remember the whole story as it was a very long time ago when I read it

The "brother" was actually the family dog.


On a more serious note, what if the brother was older by, say 10 years? And maybe when the brother was 20 and Lois was 10, the brother was murdered? The police have no leads, no one is ever arrested. This makes Lois livid and right then and there, she decides to become an investigative journalist (despite her parents disliking the idea) so that she can a) maybe find his killer(s) and bring him/her/them to justice and b) make sure no other families have to go through what her family did.

Feel free to nab the bunny if you like it. My yard is way too full of reproducing little bunnies to even attempt to take a stab at the idea.

What if Lois's brother was trying to push her toward his good buddy and college bestie Clark, an all-around decent and upstanding guy who would never treat a woman poorly and thinks Lois hung the moon, but trying to ward off Superman - this stranger who appears to be after his sister, seems to be interfering with Clark's chances, and is definitely not from around here?

Lois has a half-brother she doesn't know about. One day, while dangling over the jaws of death like an hors d'oeuvre, she is rescued by this dashing guy and her boring partner, Clark Kent. The attraction is immediate -- and immediately raises the hackles of Clark, Lex Luthor, and Ellen Lane, who knows that guy reminds her someone, but can't quite put her finger on who.

Meanwhile, Lois and her new boyfriend bond over the mutual experience of having absentee fathers ...

CarolM's On the Other Hand and its sequel, Unanswered Prayers, address this in a unique way.

Spoiler:

I checked the DVDs. In Ordinary People, Lois said it was her sister not her brother, and the whole section of her family at Christmas wasn't included in Home Is Where the Hurt Is. Apparently the brother was corrected by the time the final versions were released, at least on DVD. And as a matter of trivia, both episodes had the same writers and apparently in early versions the same error.

Hmmm... If I were an investigative reporter, I'd suspect a coverup.

Joy,
Lynn