#poor livewire doesn't even know she's the third wheel

[shinynewwriting]

I am frankly never going to recover from the fact that the Superman (2023) run started with the reveal that:

Lex is constantly doing a running commentary about his day to Superman because he knows Clark instinctively listens to him. This includes trying to backseat drive all of Superman's fights.

Clark's reaction to Lex's steady stream of "CRUSH KILL MAIM DESTROY" during combat is to gently shush him, like he's a dog getting slightly too amped up about the mailman being outside.

and the two of them only got weirder about each other from there. Clex shippers have truly been given such a rich bounty in the recent years.