Lana Lang, first created for comic books by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in the 1950s as a romantic interest for Superboy, is a main character of Smallville, the famous Emmy award-winning series. At the start of the show, Lana Lang is characterized as the girl next door. As Kreuk describes her, she is the “beautiful, popular girl who is really lonely”. She has a “hole in her heart”, because of the loss of her parents, and feels empathy for everyone.