Like the Supermen and the Lois Lanes of Earths One and Two, Lois 4XR, there were a number of doppelgängers of both parallel planets mirroring each other within the Superman Family. A pair of these, actually related to each couple, were the women named Lois 4XR, residing in the 30th century.
Criminal genius Lex Luthor and research scientist Professor Wilson developed devices which projected rays distorting temporal fields. When exposed to this radiation, the Men of Steel were propelled from their native era of the mid to latter half of the 20th century, into the 30th century!
In the years 2961 and 2949, those citizens of the future rebuilt Metropolises displayed powers on par with the Supermen themselves. How did this bizarre future develop, the caped crusaders born Kal-El and Kal-L wondered? Was it from outside causes, or genetics passed from generation to generation? And how was Lois 4XR connected to the Superman of long ago?
Each Lois 4XR explained that massive comets collided on their respective Earths, in the year 2441 on Earth-One and the year 1970 on Earth-Two. These comets devastated the city of Metropolis on each world, with chemical gases releases from these celestial objects imbuing the human survivors of the cities with superhuman powers. However, the question was then asked, was it these gases which granted each Lois 4XR her powers? What made her the latest version of Superwoman?
After a series of adventures, or rather misadventures, in which each Lois 4XR found it difficult to control her superhuman abilities... it fell to the Supermen to save these future women. These included Lois 4XR inadvertently causing a cave in underneath New Metropolis, losing control of her flight in the upper atmosphere, and being pulled along by the magnetic core of a comet.
The pair discovered photos taken shortly after the Supermen had left their own time periods, where they were standing alongside each Lois following a wedding ceremony. Perceiving this was evidence that he would soon marry Lois, and together have children culminating in a great-granddaughter (several times over) named Lois 4XR, the Supermen returned to their own century. However, the pictures were of the Supermen and Lois Lanes attending different couples' weddings. Still, the evidence suggests that Lois 4XR was the descendant of the Kents.
It seems that these future timelines the Supermen traveled to were alternate histories, as no comet collided on Earth-Two in 1970 (although it had collided into the sun years earlier, during an adventure involving the Flash of Two Earths), nor is their a reference of this event having transpired in 2441 on Earth-One when Eobard "Reverse Flash" Thawne existed. However, the Lois 4XR of each world did exist, with the Earth-One version becoming the mother of future Legion Academy recruit Laurel Kent, and the Earth-Two version becoming the mother to future Federal Man agent Jor-L (who’s arch-enemy Nira-Q the Bandit Queen was the Earth-Two counterpart of Earth-One’s Cosmic King, who opposed Laurel and the Legion Academy).
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