'Superman & Lois' Kills [SPOILER], Showrunners Explain Why They Made This Decision

Superman & Lois killed off a character in last night’s episode, and we’re learning why the showrunners decided to make this move.

Spoilers ahead if you have not seen season 4, episode 3.

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General Sam Lane (Dylan Walsh) died at Doomsday’s hand, while injecting himself with the concoction containing Superman’s blood.

Showrunner Brent Fletcher told TV Insider, “It was a tough call. We love Dylan so much as an actor and love Sam so much as a character. It’s not something we did without thinking about it a lot, but there [have] to be real consequences for something, [and] we just felt like if we were going to bring Superman back, there had to be a great sacrifice to do it. It had to be earned, it had to be important.”

Brent added, “We felt like there’s no better way than to have it come from Sam Lane and to tell the story of their relationship in those flashbacks, how it went from cold to understanding and let that be the underpinnings of this giant decision that he makes, which is to give his life to bring back to Superman. We thought that earned the decision that we made to bring him back and we knew that an actor like Dylan could perform it in a way that was worth it and he did.”

Showrunner Todd Helbing also shared, “It also completed Sam Lane’s arc from the beginning of the show to the end and you see the growth and he didn’t always do the right thing. He was trying to be a good dad, but he failed and multiple times and it caused a lot of friction between he and Lois [Elizabeth Tulloch]. And then if you go back and you watch all four seasons and you see his arc, it felt like to us the perfect way to complete it.”

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