Could a seemingly-throwaway line of dialogue in last night’s episode of Superman & Lois have revealed a major, upcoming plot twist? It seems unlikely, but given the twists and turns that have already happened in the freshman superhero drama, anything is possible.
In the episode, Superman finds himself flashing back through his life, with a heavy focus on his relationships with Jor-El, Lois, and Martha.
Using the knowledge of Superman’s secret identity, and the fact that he has children to protect, as leverage, Rho tried to extort the Man of Steel into joining him.
Now, there are pretty obvious reasons why Jor-El would say Tal-Rho wasn’t Superman’s brother .
It’s likely that Jor-El was simply speaking hastily, or perhaps was responding to a slightly different line from an earlier draft of the script.
Such a move would be evocative of a similar plot point in the never-aired third season of Krypton, in which Nyssa Vex would have turned out to be Thanagarian, with her family hiding as Kryptonian nobility for strategic reasons.