Clana

**Clana** is the Friendship/romantic pairing between Lana Lang and Clark Kent from the Superman, Smallville and Arrowverse fandoms.

## History

### Smallville

Lana was one of Clark's best friends and first love. During their close relationship, Clark never revealed his secret to her on the fear that if Lana found out he was a Kryptonian, she would reject him as well as fearing it could endanger her to his enemies such as Lionel Luthor. This is what initially prevents them from having an intimate and trusting relationship. For most of the years on the TV show, The Lana / Clark pairing was mostly an on and off relationship.

Since the beginning, Lana and Clark have had a secret connection since the day he arrived during the 1989 meteor shower, with one of them killing Lana's parents. Clark and Lana developed crsuhes on each other. However, whenever he got the courage to talk to her, Clark was unable to do so because Lana's Kryptonite necklace weakened him.

By the time they were in high school, Lana was already dating Whitney Foreman, the quarterback of the football team. Even though she was a popular girl at school, Lana never looked down on Clark or his friends because of their status. The two first shared a tender moment at her parents' graves, where they made a "conversation" between themselves and Lana's parents. Apart from this, It was also the longest time that Clark and Lana actually had a conversation together. As the first season progresses, Clark and Lana grow close.  Lex tries fixing them up together; however, Clark never acts out on his feelings for Lana because she doesn't want to intrude on her relationship with Whitney. During "Shimmer," Clark has a chance to be with her; however, he changes his mind when he learns that Whitney has been distancing himself from Lana because of his father's heart condition. At the end of the season, rather than stay with Chloe during the springformal, Clark senses that Lana is in danger when she is swept into a tornado. He immediately rushes into save her and rushes Lana to the hospital.

Throughout season 2, Lana begins to realize her romantic feelings for Clark, but this ultimately falls apart when he is under the influence of red kryptonite. After dealing with a sickly boy, be cured of his Dr.Jekyll/Mr. Hyde illness, they eventually recovered their friendship. The clone of Emily Dinsmore haunting her, Clark saved Lana from drowning after Emily pushed her over the bridge.  However, their romantic relationship was brief and ended in disaster when Clark was poisoned with red kryptonite, causing him to abandon his family and friends in Smallville.

During the summer of 2003, Clark fully embraced his "Kal-El" persona and began acting out, even treating Lana coldly when she tried bringing him back home. Despite some restrainment in their relationship, Clark and Lana decided to just remain friends, they still helped each other out, which involved them saving Sarah Conroy, solving the murder of Lana's great-aunt Louise McCullum, and trying to hide Lex from Lionel. Despite choosing to keep their relationship platonic, Clark and Lana still had romantic feelings for each other, with Clark getting jealous of boys Lana was hanging out with like Seth and Adam Knight. Clark and his friend Jordan Cross save her and her friend Megan from dying in a burning building, preventing their deaths in the future. While Clark has been protective of Lana, she has returned the affection. For example, wanted tolerated her new tenant in the Talon building, Adam, despite him having recurring nightmares and causing disturbances. When Lana learned he was spying on Clark, it was the final straw and she conspired with Lex to get Adam evicted. During the last fateful night with Adam, Lana was chased by him with a gun. She called Clark for help instead of the police, knowing he would be there to save her like he always did. After Alicia Baker attempted to kill her in order to keep Clark for herself, Lana decided to move on from her relationship with Clark and start a new place at Paris.  After this, Clark finally decided to tell Lana his secret near the end of season 3, hoping it would be a reason for her to. However, Clark decided not to after Pete was accosted by one of the FBI agents spied on him during the Lionel Luthor investigation. Instead, Clark told Lana he hoped she found what she was looking for in Paris. He was supposed to say a farewell to her, but Clark was kidnapped by his biological father's AI, Jor-El, in exchange for his adoptive father's safety.

At the end of Season 5, Clana breaks up because Lana saw him cheat on her with Simone the siren.

In season 6, Lana realizes she still loves Clark despite being engaged to Lex. This is further exemplified when she witnessed Clark use his powers to rip a the fridge door off of hinges in order to help Chloe after Lana had been trapped her intentionally. After seeing this, Lana realized that Clark had been lying because he was protecting her. Later, Clark sneaks into the Luthor mansion, where he confesses to Lana he can't live without her hand can't stand the fact that she's marrying Lex.  To his surprise, Lana confirms she doesn't want to go through her marriage and that she loves Clark. She tells him to wait by the barn and she will see him at five o'clock. They suddenly hear footsteps and Clark is forced to leave before someone sees him. After Clark leaves, Lionel sees the note Lana was leaving Lex about her doubts of going through with the wedding.  Lionel threatens to kill Clark with kryptonite if Lana she does not marry Lex. Since then, Lana has tried everything in her power to protect Clark for a change.  After learning she was never pregnant and Lex goes missing, Lana angrily confronted Lionel about his threats against her love interest. Mr. Luthor confirms he forced Lana to break Clark's heart because he is trying to protect him from Lex too. Shocked, Lana reluctantly  joins Lionel in his quest to stop Lex to save the man she loves.

In the season six finale, Lana returns to Clark and reveals she knows he has his abilities. She also tells Clark about the threat that Lionel gave her about killing him. Enraged, Clark  attacks Lionel at his office, angrily confronting him about it. Later that day, Lana is seemingly killed in a car explosion, leaving Clark both vengeful and devastated. Lionel comfort and attempts to stop him from attacking Lex for Lana's apparent assassination.

They break up in Season 7 episode 20, but briefly got together with each other in Season 8. However, their romantic relationship officially ended when Lex purposefully created a kryptonite bomb that Lana had to defuse. Her blood was infected and not wanting to be a risk to Clark, left to protect him.

When Lana was reunited with Clark in the season 11 comics, she saw he was very happy with Lois and couldn't help but feel proud for their relationship and that Clark finally found happiness with the right woman.