- "We already lost one world. I can't just stand by and watch while another one's destroyed. This time, I have to fight."
- —Natalie to John Henry Irons[src]
Natalie "Nat" Lane Irons is the daughter of John Henry Irons and the late Lois Lane, and the girlfriend of Matteo Mannheim.
When Superman and an army of Kryptonians attacked Metropolis, Natalie and her father hid in a bunker, while her mother revealed Superman's weakness, which led to him killing her. Natalie was devastated and helped her father build an armor that would be able to fight the Kryptonians. Eventually, John had to go and ended up on another Earth, with Natalie following him as her world was destroyed by a wave of antimatter.
When she arrived on Earth-TUD25, Natalie found her father and her mother's doppelgänger, which left her confused. Natalie and her father moved to Metropolis under the names Henry and Natalie Johnson, but she didn't adapt to the new school so Lois offered them to stay at the Kent Farm for the time being, which Natalie accepted. However, she and John eventually moved into a rented residence belonging to a friend of Clark Kent. When Ally Allston tried to merge Earth-TUD25 with the Inverse World, Natalie built her own exosuit and later became a vigilante like her father, eventually being given the alias Starlight.
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Biography[]
Life on her Earth[]
Early life[]
Nat and her family.
At some point, Natalie was born to John Henry Irons and Lois Lane on Earth-TUD22. After she was born, John recorded a video of Lois holding her.[1] Years later, Natalie attended Metropolis High School, where she met her friends Annika and Regan.[2] She liked to play the guitar.[3] At some point, Natalie had a crush on Travis Michaels.[4] Natalie and her grandfather Sam Lane also watched horror movies every Friday night.[5]
Death of her mother[]
The Irons family witnesses the destruction of Metropolis.
- "Forged in fire, strong as steel."
- —Natalie Lane Irons and John Henry Irons[src]
At some point, Natalie went to her parents' bedroom, where they noticed the explosion of a building. They saw through the window an army of Kryptonians destroying the city, to everyone's horror. At night, Natalie woke up her father to see Lois giving an report on TV, exposing the Kryptonians' weakness. Superman suddenly appeared and killed Lois using his heat vision.
Natalie says goodbye to her father.
Natalie was comforted by her father and they decided to build an exosuit to stop Superman. At some point, Natalie wrote a journal that she called "Nat's war journal", which contains draft prototypes and weapon projects for her father' war against Superman. Later, John had to go on a mission to stop the kryptonian and promised Natalie that he would come back to her.[6][2]
Escape during a Crisis[]
On December 10, 2019,[7] John was fighting Superman in space; Natalie immediately became worried and used a pod to try to save her father. However, her A.I. Hedy told her it was very dangerous as something was destroying the entire universe. John then went through a portal to Earth-TUD25, while Natalie was too late and ended up stranded in nothingness for six months. After Natalie awoke from hibernation, Hedy was able to pick up John's exosuit's geolocator. Hedy warned Natalie that she might not be able to survive the journey but she insisted that they try.[8]
Another Earth[]
Reunited with her dad[]
- "An anomalous vessel has just linked to your war suit CPU, and is approaching at a dangerously high velocity."
- —A.I. Device[src]
Natalie reunites with her father.
As Natalie arrived on Earth-TUD25, her ship locked onto her father's exosuit's CPU and approached the Kent Farm at a dangerously high velocity. Natalie crash landed on the farm and exited her ship. She reunited with her father and was surprised to see her mother's Earth-TUD25 doppelgänger.[9] Natalie tried to hug her, but John stopped her and explained that she was not her mother. The two set off in John's trailer. Lois tried to contact Natalie for the next three months, but Natalie refused to speak to her.[10]
A new beginning[]
John and Natalie settled in Metropolis under the names Henry and Natalie Johnson and she enrolled at Metropolis High School. However, on the first day of school, she encountered the Earth-TUD25 counterpart of her best friend who did not recognize her, leaving Natalie frustrated. Natalie left and wandered around the city for hours. She eventually returned to the trailer and told John that they didn't belong on this Earth, and that she wished she had died with the rest of her world.
So John took Natalie to Smallville ostensibly to try out a restaurant he liked, where Lois found them. Natalie left in a rage and Lois followed, and told Natalie that even though she wasn't her mother, she still wanted to meet and be friends with her, and eventually convinced Natalie to move to Kent Farm in town, where Lois officially introduced Natalie to her family.[10]
Natalie started attending Smallville High School with Jordan and Jonathan Kent and told everyone that she and her father were old friends from the Kent family from Metropolis. During recess, she met Jordan's girlfriend Sarah Cushing, who soon bonded over her mechanical skills. Sarah invited her to come over to her house to help fix an old car that Sarah's father was working on. She realized that Sarah and Jordan were having relationship problems and Sarah confided in her that she had kissed another girl over the summer. Natalie encouraged Sarah to be honest with Jordan. At the Kent farm, Nat apologized for interrupting the brothers and said that Sarah was outside waiting for Jordan.[11]
Moving out[]
Natalie bonded with the Kent brothers, giving them relationship advice and playing video games with them. Although John promised Natalie he would stay away from vigilantism, he investigated the Shuster Mines to determine the cause of the recent earthquakes and he and Superman were attacked by the latter's Inverse World counterpart that came from underground. John's armor was badly damaged and Natalie reluctantly decided to help him repair it.[12]
Back from school, Natalie noticed that Jon was acting strange and asked what happened, he said it was "his meds" and she replied that if they were the ones who made him like this, he better stop taking it. Eventually, John used the armor before it was ready to help Superman fight his Inverse World counterpart and ended up in a coma. Natalie was devastated and blamed Superman.[13] Natalie stayed in the hospital instead of going back to the Kent Farm.[14]
John eventually regained consciousness and was released, though he still had memory lapses, worrying Natalie. She blamed Clark for what happened and was hostile towards him when they returned to the farm, admitting that she was scared of him because he was identical to the man who killed her mother. Clark suggested that she would be more comfortable if she and her father had their own place, and they moved into a rented residence owned by a friend of his.[15]
The Inverse World[]
Becoming a vigilante[]
On the anniversary of Lois' death, Natalie tried to make waffles for breakfast using her recipe as a remembrance, but John couldn't remember what day it was, due to replacing Superman as a hero after he disappeared while hunting Ally Allston. John took Natalie to Lana Lang's campaign headquarters to help and she was angry that him had apparently forgotten about Lois, and when she saw him apparently flirting with Lana, she demanded that they go home. Sarah realized that she was angry and tried to comfort her, so Natalie told her that this was the day her mother died. Sarah suggested that Natalie use a photo of her mother to make an altar to celebrate her life like in Día de los Muertos, but Natalie said she didn't have any photos (as her mother was a Lois Lane doppelganger). When they got back, Natalie yelled at John for forgetting about her mother and went to her room. Later, John apologized to her, saying that he was trying to move on from Lois' death because her grief drove him to extreme actions. He made waffles and they watched old Lois videos together, including Natalie's birth video.[1]
Natalie tries to revive Superman.
Natalie secretly built an identical but superior exosuit to her father's. She offered Jonathan Kent to use it to protect himself.[16] When her father discovered it, he tried to destroy it, but to no avail. The exosuit was eventually used by Natalie to try to stop Ally Allston,[17] Lana-Rho, and Jonathan-El.[18]
Helping the Kents[]
Eventually, Natalie and Sarah decided to go to a party in Metropolis organized by Jonathan's ex-girlfriend, Eliza, where she meets Travis Michaels' doppelgänger from this Earth.[4]
After discovering Lois had stage-three inflammatory breast cancer, Natalie offered to give Jon and Jordan a watch made of kinetic energy that belonged to Lois' doppelgänger as a gift to get her through chemo. After Jonathan's truck was stolen, Nat and Jordan agreed with him that Candice's father, Emmitt Pergande, was the one behind the crime. While Jon didn't want to get Candice into trouble by reporting the incident, Nat and Jordan agreed to help him take matters into their own hands. Tracking the truck to a warehouse, they helped Jon recover the truck by taking down all the goons while he drove away from the warehouse.[19]
Conflict with Intergang[]
Relationship with Matteo Mannheim[]
Superman's Death[]
Joining the DOD against Lex Luthor[]
Losing her suit[]
A new family[]
Flashforward[]
Starlight flying in her new suit with the Super-Family
After the defeat of Lex and the marriage of her father, Natalie created a new armor with her father's help, with new improvements such as adding Superman's chest logo. Since then, the now nicknamed Starlight and Steel flew together with Superman and his sons, becoming a team of superheroes. For the next 25 years, Natalie and John were the main faces of Steelworks Industries on Smallville.[20]
Personality[]
- "I build things. I don't destroy them."
- —Natalie Lane Irons[src]
Natalie has very much been brave in the face of danger, but cautious and protective of those for whom she cares. She never backs down in wishing to keep those around her alive, even if it leads to conflict with friends and family. She is the contrasting caution to her father's immediate movement into action, and will have him confront this when she can.
Powers and abilities[]
Powers[]
- Starlight Exosuit capabilities: Natalie's exosuit enhances her physical strength and durability. After her first suit was destroyed by Jonathan and Jordan, she rebuilds a new one that access the following abilities.
- Flight: Natalie's suit allows her to fly, hover, and glide through the air. These speeds are incredibly fast, as she is able to fly at the same speeds of Kryptonians.
- Superhuman durability: Natalie’s suit allows her to go toe-to-toe with Kryptonians and even Doomsday. To make her suit even more tough, it was applied with a special X-Kryptonite lacquer to better protect herself while in battle. However, the suit was unable to withstand the combined might of Jonathan and Jordan’s heat vision, causing it to be melted into tiny pieces.
- Superhuman speed: Natalie can travel at super fast speeds in the suit. These speeds are incredibly fast, as she is able to move at the same speeds of Kryptonians.
- Power Suit: Natalie's suit is capable of storing energy through the use of a battery in the suit. With the stored power she is able to power is weaponry and functions of the suit.
- Defibrillator: Natalie's suit can build up enough of an electric charge in order to restart someone's heart. However, it needs to be at maximum charge in order to restart one of a Kryptonian.
- Cryogenic cannons: Natalie used cryogenic cannons to extinguish Milton Fine’s burning car.
Abilities[]
- Genius-level intellect/Expert engineer: Natalie, along with her father, designed and built his exosuit. Natalie also designed her own suit and applied a layer of X-Kryptonite to better protect herself. Additionally, she also helped to fix an old car in the Cushing's garage when Sarah could not.[11]
- Skilled musician: Natalie played guitar.[3]
Equipment[]
Natalie's exosuit.
- Exosuit: Natalie built her own high-tech battle suit more advanced than her father's. The suit was later taken over by Milton Fine to kill Jordan and Jonathan, to which the brothers were forced to destroy it by melting it with their combined heat vision.[21] Natalie eventually built a new suit a year later with her father's help.[20]
- Hedy: To be added
Former equipment[]
- Ship: Natalie acquired a pod and was able to travel to Earth-TUD25.[9] The pod was later destroyed to defeat Ally Allston.[22]
Appearances[]
Superman & Lois[]
Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
Season 4
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Comics[]
EARTH-PRIME[]
- "Controlled Burn" (name seen)
Gallery[]
Promotional images[]
Superman & Lois[]
Season 2[]
Trivia[]
- Natalie is vegan.[11]
Behind the scenes[]
- In the DC comics, Natasha Irons, also known as Steel, Starlight, and Vaporlock is the niece of Steel and an extremely intelligent engineer. She debuted in Steel #1 (February, 1994).
- Unlike the most recent incarnation of the character in the comics, Natalie is not a lesbian, sharing this detail with her pre-Flashpoint counterpart.[23]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "30 Days and 30 Nights"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Man of Steel"
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Holding the Wrench"
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Uncontrollable Forces"
- ↑ "Closer"
- ↑ "Controlled Burn"
- ↑ "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Three"
- ↑ "Into Oblivion"
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Last Sons of Krypton"
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 "What Lies Beneath"
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 "The Ties That Bind"
- ↑ "The Thing in the Mines"
- ↑ "The Inverse Method"
- ↑ "Girl... You'll Be a Woman, Soon"
- ↑ "Into Oblivion"
- ↑ "Lies That Bind"
- ↑ "All Is Lost"
- ↑ "Worlds War Bizarre"
- ↑ "In Cold Blood"
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 "It Went By So Fast"
- ↑ "Sharp Dressed Man"
- ↑ "Waiting for Superman"
- ↑ "Uncontrollable Forces"