Superman and Lois Season 4 Episodes 1 and 2 Recap and Ending Explained

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Superman & Lois season 4, episodes 1 and 2.

The two-episode long Superman & Lois Season 4 premiere kicks off the final season of the DC show with a series of major twists, turns and huge events for the series. Superman & Lois Season 3’s major cliffhanger ending meant that Season 4 was set up from the start to be a big deal – and it has already delivered on that in its first two episodes alone. With eight more episodes left before the show ends, the premiere does a solid job of setting the stage for a no-doubt colossal Superman & Lois Season 4 finale, even as it ties up loose ends from the previous chapter of the story.

Emotional moments and revelations are promised for Superman & Lois Season 4, and Superman’s death coming in the first episode of the final season cements this as reality from the first possible opportunity. What this means for the Kent family and Superman & Lois‘ wider universe is not yet clear – and neither is Tyler Hoeklin’s live-action version of Superman can be brought back, because the show plays with that to a considerable degree. However, one thing is clear: the final chapter of Superman & Lois is closing the show in style.

Superman and Lois Season 4 ends off Doomsday and Superman’s cliffhanger fight

Superman and Lois season 4 begins with a major action ending

Naturally, the biggest moment that audiences knew to expect from Superman & Lois The Season 4 premiere marked the end of the fight between the Man of Steel and Doomsday, which gave Season 3 a cliffhanger ending. As the trailer suggests, season 4 opens with the climactic conclusion to the fight, which shows the pair going all out against each other throughout episode 1.

This is combined with a series of flashbacks throughout the show and over Clark’s life, showing him revealing his secret identity to Lois, Lois giving birth to the twins, and a series of romantic and meaningful moments between the two. While this raises hopes that Clark will use the powerful emotions he gets from the memories to help him defeat Doomsday, things don’t work out that way, making the eventual outcome even more devastating.

finally, The fight ends with Superman & Lois‘ Mutated Bizarro-Reverse-Doomsday Killing Superman and bring his body back to earth. Disturbingly, Doomsday doesn’t leave it there, as while leaving Superman’s body with the Kent family – back where the pair’s fight initially began – he actually takes Superman’s heart with him, per Luthor’s orders at the end of season 3 .However, Jordan then moves Superman’s body to the Fortress of Solitude where he is kept in suspended animation, meaning there is still a chance to bring him back forward.

Superman and Lois Season 4 saves an unexpected character

General Lane returns from being kidnapped by Lex Luthor

Although it seemed like he was potentially already dead going in Superman & Lois Season 4 – Because he finished last season kidnapped and thus possibly killed off – General Lane manages to finish the events of the premiere episodes aliveAlthough his initial attempt to escape Luthor and his lackeys fails. After Luthor makes General Lane dig his own grave and then bury him, Jordan is able to find his grandfather, with Jordan and Lois then rescuing the General after the woman who kidnapped him reveals where he is hidden.

This makes it clear to Lois that Luthor is actively attempting to destroy her life – explaining to her father that this is why he is targeting Superman and General Lane, as he is aware of her alliance with both of them. That said, Lois also importantly says that she thinks he will try to turn her sons against her as well, replicating how Luthor feels that Lois turned his daughter Elizabeth against him. With General Lane supposedly the only person who knows where Elizabeth is, the conflict between him and Lex Luthor is likely to crop up again down the line.

Some new people know the Kent family secret

Lex Luthor knows Superman’s secret identity – and he’s not the only one

Superman & Lois Season 4, episode 2 comes with some major twists of fate, including the revelation that one of Smallville’s residents – a seemingly friendly man named Chuck – realized Superman was Clark Kent after seeing the Kent family’s reaction to the hero’s death. Interestingly, Chuck is shown trying to protect the boys when Lex Luthor arrives to threaten them, suggesting the news may have earned the Kents at least one new ally going forward.

maybe more innovation, Luthor seems to finally register that Superboy is Jordan Kent – and thus that Clark Kent is Superman – Still the young hero tries to threaten Luthor in order to regain his father’s heart. Previously, Luthor seemed unaware of the Man of Steel’s secret identity altogether, although he accused Lois of going against him to try to protect Superman in flashback scenes between the two.

The revelation that Lois is married to Superman, unsurprisingly, only reinforces this idea for Lex years later, seemingly encouraging him to double down on his plans to destroy the Kent family and all they love. This also puts the Kent brothers in more danger, as Lex’s hatred of Lois and Superman is sure to define his actions towards them.

Lex Luthor’s Season 4 plans get even more extreme

Lex Luthor goes all out on the evil plans

Lex Luthor’s villainy is amped up to eleven Superman & Lois Season 4With the antagonist getting Superman’s heart from Doomsday and keeping it in a case he specially commissioned from one “Milton Fines” – which is notably an alias for Brainiac in the comics, and thus could have big implications for future episodes. Luthor uses this to set a trap for the Kent family, which culminates in Jordan taking the bait and trying to save his father’s heart in order to try to allow Clark’s healing factor and Kryptonian technology to bring him back once he is whole.

Instead, Jordan finds the heartbeat he thought was his father’s was instead a fake implanted in a Superman figurine, and the trap is then sprung, with Luthor’s crew subduing Jordan and forcing him to watch as Luthor stomps on the heart of his Beloved father. This would be enough on its own, but the villain also uses this moment to come to Lois, through a phone call that forces her to choose between which of her children she wants to protect.

Interestingly, the beginnings of how Luthor’s plans might be crushed are also clear here, with family friend and Smallville mayor Lana Lane deciding to stand up to Luthor by undermining his legal claim to property around Smallville, and Luthor’s own people declaring that stocks have plumed. Since he got out of prison, and that he needs to return to Metropolis so that his business can thrive. As such, it doesn’t seem like the villain’s empire is untouched, even if he manages some terrifying tricks during the first two episodes.

Superman returns – but not in the way you’d expect

Superman returns to the screen in an unexpected way

Surprisingly, the Superman & Lois The season 4 premiere saw Taylor Hoechlin’s Kal-El return in a sensation after his fight with Doomsday – just not in the way audiences might expect. Episode 2 sees Superman return in hologram formMuch in the same way that his own mother and father appear in the series as hologram versions who give Clark advice and information throughout the show.

It’s an effective way to allow a version of Superman to be part of the Season 4 conversation where he otherwise might not be, but it also makes it less clear whether Clark himself will definitely be coming back — since it’s a version of ​​Superman for his sons to talk to. And reconcile with. However, because the show adapts the comic death of Superman – which also revives Superman – hopefully Superman & Lois Season 4 will see the iconic DC hero be brought back in the flesh as well.

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