Warning: This article contains spoilers for the season 2 finale ofSuperman & Lois.
After two seasons of dodging the question,Superman & Loisfinally explained its place in the Arrowverse.
It’s not in it!
Jordan Elsass, Tyler Hoechlin, Elizabeth Tulloch, and Alex Garfin on ‘Superman & Lois’.The CW
Well, it kind of is.
Let’s back up.
And as it turns out, he’s Earth’sonlyhero.
Grant Gustin, Melissa Benoist, Tyler Hoechlin, Ruby Rose, and Brandon Routh on ‘Supergirl’.Dean Buscher/The CW
“I’ve been working for the DOD for a long time,” he said.
“Maybe it’s not that binary.
Does that clear things up?
TODD HELBING:It goes back to season 1.
How did you feel about that?
And that stuff is tremendously fun to work on and satisfying.
I don’t know, it’s conflicting, for sure.
Why wait until the season 2 finale to finally answer that question?
Ultimately, these decisions are not up to me.
How relieved are you that you finally won’t have to keep answering all these Arrowverse/crossover questions?
Look, I get it.
I get it if the fans are disappointed.
or “Why isn’t the Flash showing up?”
Does this mean no more crossovers in the future?
No, not necessarily.
I mean,Supergirlwas on CBS and came over toFlash, and vice versa.
We’re doing a comic book show, so it doesn’t necessarily mean that this will never happen.
I think the odds of it looking exactly the way that it has in the past are slim.
He’s a doppelganger.
It was giving me flashbacks to theSmallvilleseason 4 finale.
Yeah, that whole sequence, we did a solar flare season 1, but not like that.
Our visual effects team is off-the-charts good.
How is this new fortress going to be taking the show in a new direction next season?
In seasons 1 and 2, obviously Clark was there with Jordan quite often.
It just felt like Jonathan kind of got siloed a little bit in that regard.
We certainly want to fold Jonathan more into the superhero stories.
With Jonathan, we’ll see.
We haven’t really talked about season 3 in earnest yet.
We’ll continue to have that dynamic for sure in the show.
Going back to Diggle’s conversation with Johny Henry, he name-dropped Bruno Manheim and Intergang.
Is that going to be the big bad for season 3?
Yeah, at least one of them.
We just like to have multiple characters on our show have multiple villains.
We know that’s Lana Rho, but he doesn’t yet.
What can we expect to see from that story next season?
I’m not sure yet.
[Laughs] We’ll see.
Yeah, that will be a lot of fun.
What are you most excited to explore next season?
For all of us, the most exciting part about this show is the family dynamic.
The family stuff, the relationships, that’s the stuff that we all get most excited about.
We really attempt to offset that as much as we can.
