I know what I need to do with my life now. Life is so precious, so beautiful and to be able to protect that, that's an amazing gift. Lana Lang, RequiemLana Lang is Clark Kent's childhood classmate and Lex Luthor's ex-wife as well as a super powered vigilante fighting to preserve life. Previously, Lana founded and managed the Isis Foundation, a non-profit devoted to helping meteor-infected metahumans, and also led the renovation of the Talon coffee shop.Lana's biological parents are Laura Lang and Henry Small, her legal father was Lewis Lang. Lana was adopted and raised by her aunt Nell Potter, following the deaths of her legal parents. Lana has two half-siblings ( they are her biological father's children) Tyler and Kaitlyn Small, who Lana never really got a chance to get close to since they attended boarding school in Metropolis.Growing up, Lana lived a mile away from the Kent family and was admired from afar by her neighbor Clark Kent for years. When they reached high school, Clark gained the courage to get to know her and she became an important part in his circle of friends.Lana was the love of Clark's life. She was the most important person to him.Clark and Lana have attempted to have a relationship several times, but for a long time he was unwilling to tell her the secret of his true origins to protect her from his enemies. Clark declared his love for Lana the day before their high school graduation, and ask her to give him another chance. She agreed, and the two officially started to date. The next day, Lana witnessed two aliens come out of the Black Ship and attack a cadre of police officers as a second meter shower hit the town.After high school, Lana moved to Metropolis, and enrolled at Metropolis University to study astronomy and meteors. Lana wanted to discover if there were possibly aliens living among them, much to the dismay of Clark. Clark attempts to get her to drop her investigation drove a wedge between them, especially since Lana knew Clark was hiding something. Unlike Clark, Lex supported Lana in her conclusions and helped her in her investigations. To protect Lana from getting hurt, Clark told her he didn't love her anymore so that she would break up with him. Lana was devastated and turned to Lex for comfort.Because of the time spent together with Lex, Lana grew to trust him, she started to develop an attraction towards him and started a relationship with him. Lex loved Lana and was afraid to lose her, so he set up a fake pregnancy in order to get her to marry him. The two later divorced after Lana found out about the fake pregnancy.After faking her death to escape and punish Lex for his betrayal. Lex found her and reassured her that she had nothing to fear from him, and agree to leave her with the $10 million dollars she had stolen from him as a form of divorce settlement. Lana later returned to Smallville and reunited with Clark, the two then made plans to reignite their relationship and this time more honestly. She moved into the farm with Clark to live with him and his cousin Kara. Lana later fell victim to the evil Kryptonian computer Brainiac in his attempts to control Clark and Kara and was put into a strange catatonic state for weeks. She awoke after Clark destroyed Brainiac. Tess Mercer, obeying Lex's orders, then forced Lana to give Clark a Dear John DVD breaking up with him, and then kidnapped her, but Lana managed to escape.Lana realized that Lex would always come after her and decided not to return to Smallville until she could defend herself. She tracked down a former military instructor and convinced him to train her in not feeling pain and torture. She later teamed up with Dr Groll and the two worked to fuse her with a Power suit, which was Lex's last lifeline intended to allow him to recover from his injuries when the Fortress of Solitude collapsed on him and dominate Earth.A vengeful Lex had Winslow Schott put a kryptonite bomb on the roof of the Daily Planet, forcing Lana to choose between Clark and the people of Metropolis. Lana chose to defuse the bomb to save Metropolis which devastated Clark. This infected Lana's superpowered nanoskin with kryptonite on a permanent basis, and as a result of this, she could no longer be near Clark. Lana left Smallville to protect Clark, and went to go on her own quest in protecting the world.Years later Lana is found in Africa protecting the local villages from African warlords as the vigilante Angel of the Plateau. Physical AppearanceLana is a gorgeous character. She is a young female who is approximately 5'3 and has a slender frame. She's known for being the prettiest girl in the school. There have been numerous comments about the beauty of her eyes, they seemed to draw all the men in. She has dark hair and hazel eyes and it is suggested throughout the series that she resembles her mother (a woman of French descent).In her senior year she had red highlights in her hair. Clark noticed that her nose wrinkles up when she gets serious and mentioned that it's very sexy.Clark has also described Lana as extremely, sometimes aggressively sexy on a number of occasions. Lana's beauty is recognized on many occasions and she was even voted 'most likely to be a cover girl' in her high-school year book.In high school, she usually wore clothing that were youthful and colorful. As she entered her senior year her clothing become more sleek and hip and she usually wore exotic jewelry. While she was running the Isis Foundation Lana started wearing reading glasses and dressed like a sophisticated businesswoman. An adult Lana continued to dress much more gracefully and elegantly than ever before, while still wearing jeans and sleek tops on occasion. She later cut her hair, and it grew out in curls.Personality I can see how strong you are, then for some stupid reason, you retreat into this 'hurt little girl' facade. Adam Knight.The death of her parents when she was three was very influential in shaping Lana's personality. Despite the fact that her aunt raised and cared for her, Lana has felt like an abandoned orphan her whole life and idolizes her dead parents. She often states that she feels isolated and out of place and dreams about leaving Smallville forever for something more. Despite this, Lana developed a reputation for being a sweet girl pleasant, caring, and eager to help others. She found herself without any family before she graduated from high school. With no one to rely on but herself, Lana is also quite driven to pursue her goals. She successfully managed the Talon coffee shop as a high school student and lived alone during her senior year.Lana was initially characterized as the gullible girl next door archetype, always demanding the truth and thus believing whatever lies are told to her, which has put her and Clark's relationship into trouble more than once.Lana took self-defense classes, but seems to always find herself in threatening situations, needing to be rescued. She once stated that she always felt she would die young. Having been attacked multiple times by meteor freaks, she became critical of meta-humans and aliens; at the beginning of their relationship, Lana and Lex grew close over their shared belief that humans need to be protected from dangerous aliens and meta humans. Clark seemingly picked up on Lana's opinion and it was part of his reluctance to trust her with his secret; despite this, Clark is convinced that they are meant to be together. In addition, it is shown in Phantom that her feelings for Clark surpass her fear of super powered beings, and she immediately accepted the fact that he was actually an alien and not a meteor freak as she herself (and Chloe before her) originally believed. Due to Lex's inhumane treatment of super powered beings in his Level 33.1 and Project Ares experiments, Lana's justified disdain for meta humans and other super powered beings has lessened considerably, and she developed the Isis Foundation to provide emotional support to the meteor-infected and help them lead a normal life.Lana's romantic relationships also reflect her personality; she places great trust in her partner and expects the same in return. Lana values honesty within her relationship and will build a relationship with someone she perceives will trust her. Whitney Fordman was simple and unassuming, but they were not soul mates. Jason Teague swept her off her feet in Paris, but he too began to hide things from her. Her attraction to Lex Luthor was intensified by her belief that Lex was always honest with her. Yet Lex kept secrets of his own, leading her to question his loyalty and seemingly rekindle her feelings for Clark.Lana started to show her dark side early on, when a rival coffee shop called The Beanery tried to put the Talon out of business. The owner even stopped by to inform Lana that he was making it his mission to run the place into the ground, and that it wasn't personal, just business . Lana found out from her friend Amanda, that apparently the rival coffeehouse has had several health department violations they've been trying to cover up. She told Chloe, who got her reporter friend to look into it. It was revealed that the Beanery was in fact breaking the law and was forced to close down. Lana was of two minds about what she did. She later told Clark that she didn't like what she did, because she felt she had to choose between doing the right thing and being successful. However, Lana admitted that she kind of enjoyed being underhanded.After learning that her pregnancy was faked, Lana became a stronger person. No longer waiting to be saved or wanting help, she has taken action into her own hands to make sure that the people who have done her and others wrong pay, revealing a strong vengeful streak. She retaliated against Lex and Lionel Luthor with both violence and theft. Over the years she has evolved from a soft and naive girl to a much stronger woman. Lana is an accomplished horseback rider and an avid reader.Powers and AbilitiesAfter undergoing treatment as part of Project Prometheus, Lana was successfully fused with nanotechnology and alien DNA and was granted powers similar to those of Project Ares:-Invulnerability - Lana is extremely durable and has a high pain tolerance which includes resistance to extreme heat. [citation needed] -Super speed - Lana can move nearly as fast as Clark and has accelerated reflexes. [citation needed] -Super stamina - Lana is able to maintain long term physical action without any signs of fatigue. [citation needed] -Super strength - Lana was able to send grown men across a room with a single shove. Later, she ripped open Tess Mercer's wall safe to destroy her copies of Project Prometheus. [citation needed] -Kryptonite absorption - Lana was able to absorb green kryptonite from a microchip (registered by Queen Industries); likewise she absorbed massive amounts of that same type of kryptonite from a kryptonite enhanced bomb (designed by Winslow Schott) positioned on the roof of the Daily Planet. [citation needed] -Skilled hand-to-hand combatant: Lana first learned to fight from Lex (Precipice) after she was attacked by Andy and his gang, taking him down with a spin kick. Following her training with Carter Bowfry, she has proven that her fighting skills are among the elite, she and Oliver Queen fought to a standstill (Bride), and fought against Tess Mercer and won (Bulletproof). Show less «