Lois Lane was always in charge.

That much was clear at the New York Comic Con panel celebrating the 25th anniversary of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. Co-stars Teri Hatcher and Dean Cain played the titular characters on the show for four years in the 1990s, and the panel’s moderator asked if it was an exciting moment to find out that the female lead would get top billing in the title.

For Cain, the name order made total sense. In his eyes, Lois was the one who truly drove the episodes and storylines of the show, and it was her character who continually kept things going. He also noted that the name order wasn’t really something that he thought about, even back then.

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“The funny thing is that nowadays if you did that? Someone would say, ‘Oh, how progressive it’s going to be starring the woman first.’ That wasn’t even a thought back then. It was just like saying it’s cloudy outside, it was just stating a fact," he said "I think it was a testament to some advanced thinking.”

Hatcher also noted that they had a female show creator (Deborah Joy LeVine, who developed the show for ABC), which certainly set the tone for the series.

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For Hatcher, the title decision was exciting, but not because of the billing order: She too didn’t really think about that aspect. The title, in her eyes, demonstrated that, “what they were going to put forth first and foremost was the romance and the relationship between Lois and Clark, and Lois and Superman.”

“I thought that was an exciting, new way to tell the story, as opposed to how it’s usually told through the adventures, and the fighting, and the saving the world and all of that,” said Hatcher. “But this was putting the relationship first, and I think that’s really exciting. And I think at the time that’s what audiences responded to. It’s what I responded to! I loved that part of our journey on the show.”

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