Lana Lang (UE-43)

"Unpredictable things happen in life. We all know that. The real question is how you respond to it in the face of a crisis. Is it with honesty and integrity? Because it's what I've tried to do in my personal life and what I promise to do as mayor of Smallville. I will never waver when it comes to trying to do what's right for my family and for this town."

- Lana Lang Cushing

Mayor Lana Lang Cushing (née Lang ) is a former mortgage manager and the current mayor of Smallville.

Early Life
"Always smile at your neighbor, never let them see the hurt inside."

- Lang on how she was raised

Lana Lang was born in Smallville and grew up with Clark Kent, whom she attended the same high school with.

Life in Smallville
At some point in her life, she dated Clark Kent and the pictures from the time was posted on Facebook. She also had a good relationship with Clark's mother, later calling her the "Superman of Smallville" or even "Superwoman".

"So, Pete was at the wheel. Fell asleep, drove off the road. We came to, the car was a pretzel. Nobody was hurt. Not a scratch. It was the strangest thing. Then again, lots of strange things happened here back then."

- Lang on the "Soul Asylum accident"

After starting to date Clark, they went to a Soul Asylum concert and had an accident on the way home.

Later in her life, Clark Kent and Lang broke up and left Smallville to Metropolis to become Superman.

At 17 years old, Lang began a relationship with Kyle Cushing, who eventually became a firefighter and celebrated with Lang afterwards.

In 2004, Lang got married to Kyle Cushing and gave birth to Sarah. Later gave birth to Sophie several years later. The daughters then met the twins of Clark and Lois and spent a summer in Smallville together.

At some point in the early to mid 2010s, Smallville residents suffered from a change and the mood of the town changed. The sadness went to the Cushing family and affected their lives. Kyle started to lay on the couch half of the nights and Lang gets mad on him for being checked out.

In 2020, when Sarah was around 13, she took Lang's pills and tried to commit suicide, later survived the event.

Death of Martha Kent
In fall 2020, Martha Kent passed away from a stroke and Lang attended the funeral along with her family. They then met the Kent family once more, introducing her husband and daughters to the Kent twins again. She then left with Kyle and the Kent parents to their house. There they talked about the changes in Smallville over the years and how people had left the town. Kyle then started to argue with Lois regarding the true intentions of Morgan Edge, who took over the Daily Planet and fired Clark. Kyle then brought Martha's choice to sell the house for money and left with Lang telling the Kents to go to her bank.

The next day, Clark and Lois arrived to the bank and talked about Martha's choice of selling the farm in order for the money for the Kent twins to go to college. She then gave Clark and Lois time to consider the deal, with them choosing to move to the farm instead of selling it the following day and suspected the reason why Morgan Edge is interested in a small town in Kansas.

Former Powers

 * X-Kryptonite Mutations: After Lang volunteering exposed herself to X-Kryptonite, the Eradicator transferred Lara Lor-Van's consciousness into Lang's body.

Abilities

 * Management: As a mortgage manager, Lang has had experiences with different people in Smallville with the example of the Gordons and Margie Kelton.
 * Leadership: Lang was promoted to the leader of the Edge Smallville Team and managed several projects due to her leadership skills according to Morgan Edge.

Former Abilities

 * Genius-level Intellect: When Lang was possessed by Lara Lor-Van, Lang gained her genius-level intellect and was able to reverse engineer the Eradicator.

Trivia

 * Lang's favorite wine is Sancerre.