See Lois discover Superman's dead body in harrowing “Superman & Lois ”final season trailer (exclusive)

"When you see the thing in its totality, the whole thing, the 'Death of Superman,' it's important and poignant," executive producer Brent Fletcher says.

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's...emotional damage when Superman & Lois returns for the final season.

Fans already know that Superman's (Tyler Hoechlin) fate is speeding towards an early grave since the show is adapting the iconic Death of Superman comic book arc from 1992-1993 by revealing that Clark ultimately dies in his battle against Doomsday. And Entertainment Weekly has your exclusive first look at the moment when Lois Lane (Elizabeth Tulloch) and their teen twin sons Jordan (Alex Garfin) and Jonathan (Michael Bishop) discover Clark's dead body after the brutal fight ends.

Prepare yourself, because even the quick flash of it in the trailer will absolutely destroy you.

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Superman & Lois showrunners Todd Helbing and Brent Fletcher tell EW that while it was never meant to be the end of the series, they had always planned to adapt the Death of Superman story in season 4. "When season 4 was announced to be the final season, it was like, 'Okay, we can really lean into Doomsday, we can do our own version of the Death of Superman,'" Helbing says. "It all worked out oddly in a really nice way. It's just sad that it had to be the last season."

The end result is 10 jam-packed episodes full of emotion and surprises that the showrunners say is their best season yet. "When you see the thing in its totality, the whole thing, the Death of Superman, it's important and poignant," Fletcher says. "And it turns out it's a great send off for our hero and our family and these iconic characters that you care about."

Helbing adds that it's the kind of arc that could only be done after multiple seasons to truly do it justice. "The reason why that storyline in the comics worked so well is it had the benefit of having years and years and years and years of Superman stories, so it was impactful," he explains. "We had the benefit of having 43 episodes of seeing Clark Kent and Lois Lane and his family and his community and all these characters, so you really got to fall in love with them. It has an impact that it might not have if you did that in a movie and you didn't have 10, 15, 20 hours of a history with that character."

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But killing Superman is no easy feat — with or without kryptonite, or a genetically-altered Bizarro Superman who became Doomsday — and the showrunners relished the challenge of writing themselves "into a corner" only to figure out "where do we go from here?"

"That excited us as we talked about that and then we came up with the ideas that we found to be really interesting," Fletcher adds. "Most of them deviate from the comic. This is our version of it, and it incorporates every character and the themes of the show in it. We felt we had a really good take on it that would be impactful, emotional, and surprising. From episode to episode, there are a lot of big surprises in it that are thrilling as an audience member, but there's also big emotion."

Watch EW's exclusive trailer above.

The final season of Superman & Lois begins with a two-hour premiere on Monday, Oct. 7, at 8 p.m. ET/PT, on The CW.

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