Meanings
- slanglifestyleThe love triangle/OT3 of characters Clark Kent, Lex Luthor, and Lana Lang from the television series Smallville.
Clark, Lex and Lana are thus 'shipped' (i.e. 'relation-shipped') into 'Clexana' (Kohnen, 214).
2018, Shawn Malley, Excavating the Future: Archaeology and Geopolitics in Contemporary North American Science Fiction Film and Television, page 1232 more examples
Gough and/or Millar were quoted as saying they thought 6 was their best season creatively, and they thought the whole "Clexana" thing was well done and they've never understood why the online fans don't like Lana.
2007 July 31, KalElFan [username], “"Kara, Supergirl" on CBS? (was Re: SV+ Supergirl Spin-Off Done Deal?)”, in alt.tv.smallville (Usenet)The writers should have really given Lexana more of a back story, if they intended to create a Clexana love triangle.
2008, Melanie E. S. Kohnen (quoting a 2006 post from Television Without Pity), "The Adventures of a Repressed Farm Boy and the Billionaire Who Loves Him: Queer Spectatorship in Smallville Fandom", in Teen Television: Essays on Programming and Fandom (eds. Sharon Marie Ross & Louisa Ellen Stein), page 15
Origin
Cite this entry
Clexana. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Clexana
“Clexana.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Clexana. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Clexana,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Clexana.
Source: Clexana on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.