I suppose she’s not all that important in the scope of Superman mythos, but her existence makes the list of characters with the initials “L.L.” at least fifteen strong:
- Lyla Lerrol
- Lex Luthor
- Lois Lane
- Lana Lang
- Lara Lor-van, Superman’s Kryptonian mother
- Lori Lemaris
- Letitia Lerner, a.k.a. Letitia Lerner, Superman’s babysitter
- Lois’s sister, Lucy Lane
- Lex’s father, Lionel Luther,
- Lori’s sister, Lenora Lemaris
- Linda Lee, a onetime alias of Supergirl
- Liri Lee, who at one point goes by the alias Liesel Largo
- Luma Lynai, one of the many Superwomen
- Lena Luthor, whose familial relationship to Lex varies in different continuities
- Linda Lake, a Smallville villain played by Tori Spelling
A message board at DVDtalk.com reprints a no-longer-extant online exchange about the mysterious initials. It notes that Lois came first and that Lex Luthor didn’t debut as an “L.L.” but just as one “L”: Luthor. Lana was invented to be a Lois analogue for the stories of young Clark Kent and therefore was giving the double initials as well. These three apparently made for enough of a trend that writers continued to name later characters — especially female characters and especially especially women that Superman falls for — in the same style. It seems as plausible an explanation as any other.
I do hope that any Superman-savvy people Googling their way here will share any thoughts on how this odd naming trend came to be.
Lotsa Luck!
ReplyDeleteThat's reaLLy odd. I never noticed it before.
ReplyDeleteWhile not as many double L's ; the original Halloween is loaded with the 12th letter of the alphabet
ReplyDeleteLaurie strode
dr. Loomis
Lonnie Lamb
Linda van der klok
sheriff Lee bracket
Lindsey wallace
and Michael Myers lived on Lampkin Lane
In real life, George Reeves had been engaged to a woman named Leonore Lemmon.
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