Jane Lane is a fictional, animated character who appeared regularly on the MTV cartoon show Daria. In the show, she was main character Daria Morgendorffer's best (and only) friend and as of the show's final season was aged 18 years. She lived at 111 Howard Drive in Lawndale, and graduated in 2002 from local high school, Lawndale High. She is an aspiring artist and has created many unusual paintings, drawings, and sculptures. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Daria is an American animated television show created by Glenn Eichler and Susie Lewis Lynn and was a spin-off of Beavis and Butt-head. ... Daria Morgendorffer Daria Morgendorffer is a fictional animated character from MTVs animated series Beavis and Butt-head and Daria. ... There are several locations in the United States that are named Lawndale: Lawndale, California Lawndale, North Carolina Lawndale, Illinois Lawndale is the fictional town that serves as the setting for the former MTV cartoon Daria. ... Lawndale High was a fictional location that featured regularly in MTVs animated series Daria. ...

Like Daria, Jane too is cynical with biting wit, but is more well adjusted. Her longest relationship so far has been with one Tom Sloane; after they broke up, he started dating Daria, a situation that temporarily caused tension between the girls. Jane planned to lose virginity at 11 pm on her first day of college, which is currently Boston Fine Arts College.

In the fictional novel The Daria Diaries, Jane's motto is quoted as being, "Every cloud has a smoky gray lining." Her voice is provided by Wendy Hoopes. Wendy Hoopes is an Malaysian-born, American actor, most widely celebrated for her roles on MTVs animated series Daria, where she provided voices for three different characters (Helen Morgendorffer, Quinn Morgendorffer and Jane Lane). ...

Personal History

Jane's date of birth is considered by avid, unoffical scholars of the series to be July 27, 1983. This theory is based the original airdate of Episode #212 "Pierce Me" (in which Jane has her 17th birthday), which was 27 July, 1998. The year of her birth was calculated by subtracting her age in that particular episode from the year it was aired, taking into account that each season of the series spans over half a year. Jane's age was revealed, along with brother Trent's, in 1998 (before Episdoe #212 aired) as then being 16 when MTV hosted a "Daria Day" marathon, which included specially written segue material for introducing episodes. (For more information on the ages and birthdates of various Lane family members, see essay Jane and the Lanes, posted on Outpost Daria) July 27 is the 208th day (209th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 157 days remaining. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Early history about Jane's life that was revealed during the show is scarce, but there are a few facts that were confirmed by the character herself. She was, in her prepubescent years, a member of the girl scouts, during which time she was forced to attend a nature camping event, a memory she detests. This was revealed in Episode #402 (Antisocial Climbers). The Girl Scouts of the United States of America is a youth organization for girls in the United States based on the Scouting principles developed by Robert Baden-Powell. ...

Other camping events Jane has partaken in include Mr O'Neill's overnight fieldtrip to local woodlands (as depicted in Episode #402, Antisocial Climbers) and a summer vacation to the Ashfeild Artist's Colony (as depicted in the Daria telemovie, Is It Fall Yet?). Despite these numerous occasions, Jane remains adament in behavior that she does not enjoy camping in any sense of the word. Timothy ONeill is a fictional animated character who appeared regularly on MTVs animated series Daria. ... A television movie (also TV movie, TV-movie, made-for-TV movie, etc. ... Is It Fall Yet? is the first of two movie-length instalments featured in MTVs animated series Daria. ...

Jane had her first serious romantic relationship at the age of 17 with Tom Sloane, only son of wealthy local family and then student of Feilding Prepatory Academy. The relationship ended almost one year later when they both realized, amongst a personal controversy of Daria kissing Tom, that it had run its course. Jane and Tom remain casual friends.

At the age of 18, Ms. Lane graduated from Lawndale High School and was accepted by Boston Fine Arts College into the midterm freshman class. Because the show ended before Jane actually began attending the college, her current status is ultimately unknown, but it is assumed that she still attends the college, socializing with Daria, who attends a college in the same city, on her free weekends. Whether she achieved her goal of loosing virginity the day she entered college, or not, remains to be known.

Note: Information on characters' current ages and birth dates are highly speculative and solid, irrefutable conclusions cannot be drawn. Due to the show's "flexible reality", things such coherent timelines are often unattainable and fundamentally nonexistant, as story and character take constant prioty over historical continuity. The issue is further complicated by the show's inconsistant depiction of time passage: seasons one though to four all spanned over half a year each (in the fictional world established by the show) whereas season five was in itself an entire year. This raises great confusion as to how to convert measures of time in the series to measures of time in existential reality.

Family

Jane's parents are Vincent and Amanda Lane, two artistic personalities with a very relaxed, uninvolved approach to parenting. She is the youngest of the Lane family, her older sibling being, in presumed ascending order, Trent, Penny, Wind and Summer Lane. Trent is a perpetually lazy grunge rock musician who performs in garage band Mystik Spiral, Penny a disillusioned backpacker with a fondness for animals, Wind an emotionally damaged divorcee of three instances and Summer a worn out mother of four, including Jane's neice Courney and nephew Adrian. Jane and Trent were the only two Lanes residing in the Lane household for the duration of the series. With Jane at college, it is presumed the Trent is now living alone in the house, but still with a firm loving relationship to sister Jane. Mystik Spiral is a fictional band from the popular MTV show Daria. ...

For further information on the Lanes, see Characters in "Daria". The following is an extensive list of the fictional characters featured in MTVs animated series Daria (1997-2002). ...

Likes and Dislikes

Jane's primary interest is art; she enjoys creating, painting, sculpting, drawing and sketching. She also has a vauge interest and substantial talent for running, which she usually participates in when emotionally overwhelmed. Her favourite food is pizza and her favourite television show is fictional oddity news program Sick, Sad World. The opening screen from Sick, Sad World Sick, Sad World was a fictional television show on the popular MTV cartoon Daria. ...

Jane's only real dislikes are materialism, conventionalism and commercialism, all of which her personality overtly disowns as components of a society and as social expectations.

See also

Daria
Characters in Daria Daria is an American animated television show created by Glenn Eichler and Susie Lewis Lynn and was a spin-off of Beavis and Butt-head. ... The following is an extensive list of the fictional characters featured in MTVs animated series Daria (1997-2002). ...

External link

• Outpost Daria - Characters: Jane