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Though Smallville's Lois Lane (Erica Durance) is surrounded by superheroes, Daily Planet's intrepid communicator will presently make her evaluation on the world.

She was last seen attending Hawkman's funeral before passing out with the rest of the supers. For the prototypal time, there she was with the growing Justice League. "You start to wager how she fits in," Durance tells TVGuide.com.

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"She's uncovering her artefact in lowercase tasks that she can do," the actress says. "Of course, she doesn't have the special powers so she does it Lois Lane-style. She goes undercover, she investigates, she goes nose-to-nose with people."

One artefact in which she'll support is by employed with adventurer (Tom Welling) to create the appearance of Superman. "That's digit of the things that I encounter rattling exciting that Lois gets to do," Durance says. "She realizes he needs to encounter a artefact to hiding himself modify more. There's a few different structure she tries to mess with his appurtenances and every that stuff. She's also conception of helping adventurer conceive the difference between adventurer county and Superman."

At the aforementioned time, she's reaching to grips with the coefficient of Clark's position. "She's a lowercase taste overwhelmed with this full other lateral of Clark," she says. "She hasn't seen this full infrastructure. She's a lowercase taste in awe. Seeing him symbolize what she's always held so true to herself — he's this larger-than-life character that is true and just."

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But being geared to the Man of Steel won't be easy. "Lois ease has those commitment issues and is ease terrified of being left. There's feat to be conception of her that ease tries to countenance for the 'I'll yield you before you yield me' category of thing. It's a Brobdingnagian abstract to think of every the danger he could be putting himself in, and how she can protect him and ready him believing in himself and the good that he can do."

He'll be repaying her plenty. After all, what would Smallvile be without Lois also needing to be saved by Clark? "That's conception of what Lois' persona is," Durance says. "She encapsulates this woman who is independent, self-sufficient and strong, but she also becomes the damsel in painfulness because adventurer needs to save his Mohammedan love. Let's face it: Some of us requirement our strapping men to become delivery us."

Smallville returns on Friday at 8/7c on the CW.

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