Eve Teschmacher

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Eve Teschmacher, or simply Miss Teschmacher, is the name of a

Created by Richard Donner and Mario Puzo, Eve Teschmacher first appears in Superman and Superman II, portrayed by Valerie Perrine. Miss Teschmacher is Lex Luthor's assistant and shares a relationship with her employer similar to that of a gun moll. In the film series, Eve is Lex Luthor's closest assistant and apparently his love interest, although she is also attracted to her employer's arch-foe Superman. She frequently questions Luthor's evil schemes, and is clearly disloyal during his planned "Crime of the Century", rescuing Superman from certain death to thwart Luthor. However, this only happens after she makes Superman promise to save her mother in Hackensack, New Jersey, to which Lex has sent a nuclear missile. Throughout the film, Luthor would typically call for Tessmacher in a forceful and angry tone with "Miss Tessmacher!", with emphasis on the last part of her name.

In Superman II, she uses a hot-air balloon to rescue Lex from the State Penitentiary, along with his assistant Otis, whom Luthor leaves behind since he weighs down the balloon. According to the Superman II: Richard Donner Cut, she talks of going on a vacation with Lex to somewhere romantic, but Lex insists on going north to Superman's Fortress of Solitude to learn the secret of Superman's abilities. Miss Teschmacher reluctantly goes along with his plan.

Superman Returns

A character similar to Eve Teschmacher named Kitty Kowalski appears in Superman Returns, portrayed by Parker Posey.

The real Eve appears in Superman Returns: Prequel Comic #3, a tie-in comic to the titular film.

Superman (2025)

A version of this character, portrayed by Sara Sampaio, will appear in the upcoming film, Superman.

Comics

• Eve Teschmacher first appeared in
  JLA: Earth-2. She worked as Lex Luthor's secretary. At one point, she was unaware that her boss was replaced by a counterpart from another universe, who gives her some vacation time and $80,000 into her account.^[4]
• Eve Teschmacher is mentioned in Superman: Red Son #2 (
  Earth-30
  ).
• Eve Teschmacher appears in
  Superman Family Adventures
  #5, 9 and 12.
• Eve appeared in the DC Rebirth comics Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen.

In other media

• A character loosely based on Eve Teschmacher appears in
  Tess Mercer, who is a composite of Eve, Mercy Graves, and Lena Luthor. The name Tess Mercer is a reference to Teschmacher.^[5]
• Andrea Rojas cuts her off, Lena reveals that she mapped out the loyalty parts of Eve's brain and uses her A.I. Hope to control Eve's body. After the attempt to use a weapon satellite, Hope takes the blame and is arrested by the FBI. Sometime after the Crisis on Infinite Earths
  and the creation of Earth-Prime, Eve is shown as an employee at Obsidian Tech. In the episode "Deus Lex Machina," Eve was mentioned to have been coerced into working for Leviathan as their assassin after her father was killed. In a flashback, Luthor found her on one of her assignments and persuaded her to work as her inside person while providing protection for her mother and planning to give the information of the person who killed her father. Some of the events she helped Luthor with was the actions caused by Amy Sapphire and Richard Bates. Eve was then tricked into killing Jeremiah Danvers who Luthor claimed was the one who killed her father. Following Supergirl stopping the Sun-Eater and Luthor killing Margot to rescue those trapped in virtual reality, Luthor revealed his lie about Jeremiah killing her father and has the footage of it as a way to keep her loyalty and to keep her from being at the other end of Supergirl's eye beams. When Eve states to Luthor that he is worse than Leviathan, Luthor replied that he is better, and threatens Eve’s mother if she tries to double cross him. After defeating Leviathan, Supergirl focuses her attention on Luthor. Supergirl rescues Eve’s mother from Lex’s assassins. Luthor is arrested for his multiple crimes and put on trial. Eve testifies against him, telling the court about his plans for world domination. Acting as his own attorney, Luthor discredits her testimony by citing their romantic history and claims her testimony is nothing more but slander from a scorned lover. The jury believes this argument and acquits Luthor of all charges.
• Eve Teschmacher will appear in Superman, portrayed by Sara Sampaio.^[7]