History Smallville / TropesAToC

** [[Series/StargateSG1 Michael Shanks]] playing [[Comicbook/{{Hawkman}} Carter Hall]], an AdventurerArchaeologist using technology left behind by AncientAstronauts. Oh, and his superpower is reincarnation.

** ''Smallville'''s [[Characters/{{Aquaman}} Mera]] is a SmugSuper who looks down [[{{Muggles}} on normal people]], traits that are absent from her comic counterpart. And while they're both {{Fiery Redhead}}s, ''Smallville'' Mera's feistiness is more [[TranquilFury cool and collected]] as opposed to comic Mera who's more prone to big outbursts.

*** "[[spoiler: [[Recap/SmallvilleS08E01Odyssey Odyssey]]": Clark loses his powers when Lex places the Orb laced with blue kryptonite in the Fortress of Solitude console. They get restored when Comicbook/MartianManhunter flies him into the heart of the yellow sun.]]

** Comicbook/MartianManhunter was stuck without powers till Comicbook/DoctorFate was able to restore his abilities.

** Played straight with Lionel Luthor, who is now canonically Lex's father. Lionel, and Creator/JohnGlover's portrayal of him, resonated so well that he [[BreakoutVillain was written into the comics]] as Lex's canonical (and deceased) father. While Lex had obviously always had a (deceased by the time of the "[[ComicBookTime present-day]]") father, this character had never had a consistent name or physical appearance and usually had no importance. But ever since ''Smallville'', Lex's father is explicitly named "Lionel Luthor" and flashback scenes have depicted him as looking very similar to the actor. A zombified, Black Lantern version of Lionel even showed up for revenge against Lex in ''Comicbook/BlackestNight''.
** Besides characters, various elements from ''Smallville'' that have made their way into the comics include the ''Smallville'' version of Comicbook/GreenArrow's costume which--as of the Comicbook/{{New 52}}--is now Ollie's official costume. Also, Oliver's clean-shaven appearance from ''Smallville'' has made its way into the comics as of the Comicbook/{{New 52}} (these last two changes can be attributed to the fact that ''Smallville'''s version of Ollie is probably the best-known version to the general public). Also the idea of [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Lex Luthor]] spending time in Smallville during Clark's teenage years--though originally an idea from the Silver Age ''Superboy'' comic books that was retconned away at the start of the Post-Crisis era--was brought back into continuity largely thanks to ''Smallville''. And more, Ma and Pa Kent in the comics have started to look like older versions of Creator/AnnetteOToole and Creator/JohnSchneider, even though it often [[DependingOnTheArtist depends on the artist]].

** This is why the sequel comic, ''Smallville Season 11'', proved so popular. It not only featured Clark ''finally'' cutting loose and using his powers in ways the show couldn't afford, but also had him interact with characters who could not have been done properly on live television, like [[ComicBook/GreenLantern John Stewart and the Green Lantern Corps]], or the [[Comicbook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths Monitors]].

** Tess Mercer is a combination of Mercy Graves (Lex Luthor's assistant from ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries''), Miss Tessmacher (One of Lex's underlings from ''Film/SupermanTheMovie''), and [[spoiler: Lena Luthor (Lex's sister from the comics).]] In the Season 11 comics she becomes Comicbook/RedTornado, essentially the ''Comicbook/{{New 52}}'' BrainUploading [[FemBot Gynoid]] version of the Tornado decomposited from Earth-2 Lois and composited onto Tess.
** ''Smallville's'' version of Comicbook/GreenArrow is essentially Oliver Queen filling [[Characters/BatmanTheCharacter Bruce Wayne's]] role in the DC Universe. Like the comics' Green Arrow, he's a BadassNormal vigilante from Star City with a Myth/RobinHood-themed M.O. and an arsenal of deadly arrows. Like Batman, he's the main force behind the founding of the [[ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica Justice League]] and Clark's closest ally in the superhero community. [[note]] This was likely done because the producers of ''Smallville'' couldn't get the television rights to Batman. They only made ''Smallville'' in the first place because they couldn't make a series about a young Bruce Wayne, as they'd originally intended.[[/note]]
** The Star-Spangled Kid is Sylvester Pemberton, but sports a BadassLongCoat and Cosmic Staff like the Jack Knight version of Comicbook/{{Starman|DCComics}}.

** [[Characters/SupermanSupportingCast Lana Lang]] was a [[HeroesWantRedheads redhead]] in the comics, and [[Characters/SupermanLoisLane Lois Lane]] had [[BrainyBrunette jet-black hair]]. In this version, Lana is a brunette and Lois starts out with light-brown hair, before dying her hair darker in later seasons.

-->'''Alec/Devilicus:''' ''[threatening to push Chloe off a building]'' Lethal enforcers are way more interesting. They were big in the nineties.

** Lex's dad, Lionel, withholds affection and approval from his son in the warped belief that it will make him stronger. Their tortured relationship is one of the keystones of the series, and ends very badly when Lex kills his dad.

** Jor-El towards Clark. The reasons behind his behavior and actions toward Kal-El may have been well-meaning and noble, but the fact remains [=AI=]!Jor-El's actions were downright, often unnecessarily, cruel and [[SuperDickery dickish]]. He's burned the mark of Clark's Kryptonian ancestors onto his chest as part of his efforts to control his son, even {{brainwashed}} Clark outright, froze Clark in a solid pillar of ice, and even disowns him early in Season 10.
** Davis only meets his mother Faora a single time, but in that single meeting, she lectures him on not having killed enough people before running him through with a pole to activate his HealingFactor. She definitely counts, and given that it's Zod's plan, he does as well.

** Lana becomes one in season 8 after she TookALevelInBadass and donned the Prometheus Suit that gives her SuperStrength and SuperSpeed.

** Zod is depicted as more of a strategic planner due to being de-powered for the most part, he actually seeks out to befriend Clark, believing he can help their people gain their powers like him, and actually strikes up a friendship with Lois (mostly to manipulate her). His motivation is also changed; instead of wishing to rule ForTheEvulz, he was originally a noble, charismatic military leader [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds whose family died in the battle of Kandor, and was denied the chance to clone his beloved son, resulting in his]] StartOfDarkness. He's a literal WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds in this case too, as he's responsible for the destruction of Krypton in this continuity.

** The comic version of [[Characters/SupermanBizarro Bizarro]] is either a confused HarmlessVillain or an ObliviouslyEvil one. ''Smallville's'' version is [[AdaptationalIntelligence dangerously intelligent]] and fully intends to KillAndReplace Clark.

** Believe it or not, ''Jor-El'' is one of the main antagonists of Season 3. Even after the season, he still does pretty nasty stuff like [[TheyWereHoldingYouBack freezing Chloe almost to death and intending to trap Clark in a crystal until everyone he cares for has died.]] The GrandFinale does reveal [[WellIntentionedExtremist this was all to test Clark's will in order to make him the hero he's meant to be...]] though he did some pretty dark stuff in pursuit of that, and it's all fairly unneeded given how well Clark fared without Jor-El's intervention.
** Zor-El was a good guy in the comics, who sent his daughter [[ComicBook/SupergirlTheCharacter Kara]], to Earth as a protector for her cousin. ''Smallville'' made him an outright villain who sent his daughter to Earth as part of a plot to have himself resurrected as a conqueror.

** CriminalAmnesiac: Lex, on the other hand, immediately exploits the situation to learn something important about the Kawatche Caves.

** Lana suffered a temporary case of this when [[Characters/SupermanBrainiacCharacter Brainiac]] placed her in an "anesthesia awareness" state during the last few episodes of Season 7. According to what Brainiac told Clark, Lana was fully aware of her surroundings and in a constant state of excruciating pain, but she was also fully paralyzed so that she could do nothing to try to ease her pain or communicate with anybody else in any way. She was left in this condition for over a month until Clark finally defeated Brainiac and freed her. Brainiac could have been claiming this just to emotionally torture Clark as Lana did not seem to be suffering any psychological aftereffects from the experience when she returned as a SpecialGuest the following season.
* AndThenWhat: One could deconstruct Zod's motivation as failing to take this into account, since he doesn't appear to have ''any'' long-term goal other than to take over Earth to turn it into a New Krypton. In fact, the BadFuture seen in "[[Recap/SmallvilleS09E09Pandora Pandora]]" shows that the Kandorians don't seem to be doing more than spinning their wheels, rounding up humans in slave camps, all while letting the planet fall into a state of disrepair. Behold the ''[[SarcasmMode glorious]]'' New Krypton, folks?!

** A good example is "[[Recap/SmallvilleS08E11Legion Legion]]", where despite having spent the last eight years dealing with meteor-infected humans, naturally occurring superheroes, and alien visitors from other worlds... apparently {{time travel}} is considered to be ''too'' ridiculous?! Clark himself had actually time-traveled at least twice ("[[Recap/SmallvilleS05E12Reckoning Reckoning]]" and "[[Recap/SmallvilleS07E18Apocalypse Apocalypse]]") beforehand.

* ArtifactAlias: Oliver Queen continues using his ComicBook/GreenArrow alias and costume, right down to the voice-changer that gives him a deep voice, even after revealing his identity on national TV at the end of "[[Recap/SmallvilleS10E03Supergirl Supergirl]]".

* AsideGlance: Halfway into the tenth and final season, Clark returns from the dystopian Earth-2, but not without someone tagging along for the ride: Earth-2's Lionel, still alive and well, takes in the sights while a newspaperman tries to fix him in his memory. Creator/JohnGlover buys a paper, looks straight in the camera, and basically says he's pumped for the series finale.

** Earth-2 Lionel (Creator/JohnGlover) also came back, and Zod returned for the episode "Dominion."
** Aaron Ashmore reappeared as Jimmy Olsen... the ''real'' Jimmy Olsen.
** Also, Jonathan Kent reappears multiple times in the finale, most notably appearing as a ghost to hand Clark his iconic suit in the Fortress of Solitude.

** Brainiac also gets one, although it helps to understand the context. Having been nearly destroyed by Clark in Season 5, it takes him until Season 7 to rebuild FromASingleCell. When [[EvilTwin Bizarro]] finds him halfway through Season 7, he is therefore weak, dying, barely holding himself together, and feeding off of people and animals in order to hold his {{Nanomachines}} in place. When he and Bizarro team up, he proposes that he be the one to kill Clark. Bizarro tells him: "You? You can barely catch a rat." Brainiac responds with the following short, but sweet boast:

--->'''Clark''': I don't wanna hurt you, Davis.\\
'''Davis/Doomsday''': Don't worry. You can't.

** The Luthors are a villainous example. Between [[ManipulativeBastard Lionel]], [[BadassLongcoat Lex]], and [[DarkActionGirl Tess]], they definitely count.
** There is also [[Characters/SupermanConnerKent Conner Kent]], who is the clone of Lex and Clark.

* BadFuture: Lois visited one between seasons 8 and 9 in which Major Zod and his Kandorian army conquered Earth. We only [[DreamingOfThingsToCome get glimpses of it via her confused memories]] in season 9, until we finally get see it in "[[Recap/SmallvilleS09E09Pandora Pandora]]". Most of humanity either dead or enslaved, the Earth turned into a post-apocalyptic wasteland, the Kent Farm—aka the homiest, warm and loving place on the show—being used as a gulag by the Kryptonian invaders, Green Arrow was shredded by a literal swarm of Kryptonians, and a very detailed shot of Alia impaling Chloe on a sword.

** The end of "[[Recap/SmallvilleS02E01Vortex Vortex]]". Nixon threatens to expose Clark to the world and there's nothing Jonathan can do about it... [[DeathBySecretIdentity Lex and a bullet though]]...
** "[[Recap/SmallvilleS09E17Checkmate Checkmate]]": Both the Justice League and Zod have a bone to pick with [[GovernmentConspiracy Checkmate]]. Oliver and John get captured at different points, although they managed to escape. Chloe is also kidnapped and almost killed in an attempt to blackmail Clark into revealing more about their team. Zod simply comes over to visit and burns down their entire castle base with [[EyeBeams heat vision]].

** "[[Recap/SmallvilleS08E09Abyss Abyss]]": Brainiac started [[LaserGuidedAmnesia removing Chloe's memories]], knowing that in his desperation, Clark would rebuild the [[DeusExMachina Fortress]] to save her, which allows Brainiac to take over the Fortress, fully morph Davis into Doomsday and possess Chloe, which is another gambit as Brainiac knows Clark will never hurt Chloe even with Brainiac inside her.
** The whole episode of "[[Recap/SmallvilleS09E05Roulette Roulette]]" is one courtesy of Chloe Sullivan, who's revealed to have hired the villain in order to get Oliver to return to heroism and did it right under Clark's nose. Like all things involving Oliver, it is of rather dubious morality. She claims [[IDidWhatIHadToDo she did what she had to do]], and for the most part she anticipated Oliver's actions, but with [[PhysicalGod Clark]] involved but not knowing the plan, it could [[GoneHorriblyWrong go horribly wrong]] very easily.
** [[Characters/SuicideSquadSupportStaff Amanda Waller]] pulls off one in "[[Recap/SmallvilleS09E11E12AbsoluteJustice Absolute Justice]]". It looks like she's having the members of the long-retired ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica killed as a continuation of the government frame that originally put them out of business. Reality is she's provoking the surviving JSA members to come out of retirement to get back in the game, and meet and inspire the new generation of superheroes, because of something coming that will cause the planet to need all of its heroes.

* BeneficialDisease: In "[[Recap/SmallvilleS02E08Ryan Ryan]]", the titular character has a brain tumor that gives him {{telepathy}}. It's revealed to be fatal, however, and they are unable to reach an expert who could possibly save him before it's too late.
* BetrayalInsurance: Chloe has (or had) caches of Kryptonite stashed around the world. It is not clearly stated if it is for the Kandorians or Clark, but Clark is understandably upset when he finds out.

** Season 1 to 3 has Lionel Luthor as the overarching antagonist, although other secondary antagonists, like reporter [[{{Paparazzi}} Roger Nixon]], [[SuperPoweredEvilSide Kal]] and [[GoodIsNotNice Jor-El]] also took a stab at this role in each season respectively.

** Season 5: [[RoboticPsychopath Brainiac]] with [[SealedEvilInACan General Zod]] as the GreaterScopeVillain he was seeking to unleash.
** Season 6: [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Lex Luthor]]. Yeah. The [[MonsterOfTheWeek Zoners]] are out there, and [[EvilTwin Bizarro]]'s waiting in the wings, but Lex is TheHeavy for the season, and is behind almost every problem in series.

** Season 8: The most complicated season, with a huge BigBadEnsemble, including [[TheBaroness Tess Mercer]], [[TheManBehindTheMan Faora]], [[EvilCripple Lex]], and DiscOneFinalBoss [[OmnicidalManiac Brainiac]] all vying for the role. All of them have their own agendas, and the [[{{Chessmaster}} complicated plans]] to back it up. Yet when [[EvilerThanThou the smoke clears]] it's SerialKiller and {{Antihero}} [[DrivenToVillainy Davis Bloome]] and his SuperpoweredEvilSide [[PersonOfMassDestruction Doomsday]] who step up to the plate as TheHeavy, providing most of the drama in the season's latter half, and serving as the FinalBoss to boot.

* BloodSplatteredWeddingDress: Chloe in "[[Recap/SmallvilleS08E10Bride Bride]]" and "[[Recap/SmallvilleS08E11Legion Legion]]" after Doomsday attacks her wedding and it becomes a component of strong horror when she is [[DemonicPossession possessed by Brainiac]].

** The witches in season 4 are capable of possessing people via magic, with Lana becoming the vessel of [[FamilialBodySnatcher of her ancestress]] Countess Isobel after touching her tomb, which allowed Isobel to possess Lana seemingly at will. In "[[Recap/SmallvilleS04E08Spell Spell]]", Isobel (possessing Lana) uses her magic that allows the spirits of her fellow witches to possess Lois and Chloe. After Clark destroyed Isobel's spellbook, the possessions were all lifted. However, Isobel still had power over Lana and would resume to possess her in later episodes, until she finally exacted her revenge on her ArchEnemy descendant and her spirit was finally laid to rest.

*** In Season Five, Brainiac prepares Lex Luthor to become a vessel for General Zod, which came to happen in the season 5 finale but Clark managed to return General Zod to the Phantom Zone using the Crystal of El, and Lex's possession is lifted, leaving him with no memories of his time as Zod.

*** Bizarro had to hop from person to person, [[PossessionBurnout wearing each body out as he went]]. When he attempted to possess Clark, it resulted in the creation of a new, cloned body and he became Clark's EvilTwin instead and sought to KillAndReplace Clark.

** An almost perfect example--in the "[[Recap/SmallvilleS01E01Pilot Pilot]]" episode, Lex rescues Clark from a prank of being strung up on a scarecrow post in the middle of a field. In the first episode of the last season, the Old Lex clone ties Lois up on the same post as bait for his and Clark's TheLastDance. The clone actually [[LampshadeHanging comments]] on this to both of them.

** Jor-El is likely the most notable example, having brainwashed an innocent human girl into believing she was a Kryptonian, giving her new memories, Kryptonian-like abilities, and longevity, all so he could manipulate Clark. He also ends up doing it to Clark himself at the end of season 3, re-programming as Kal-El of Krypton, [[BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood a more obedient version of Clark who fully embraces his destiny]], although it doesn't stick past the first episode of season 4.
** Moira Sullivan's MindControl powers leave the person in a brainwashed state, she doesn't fully control them, only gives them orders. In "[[Recap/SmallvilleS08E01Odyssey Odyssey]]", Moira's abilities have been [[AppliedPhlebotinum manufactured into a serum]] that briefly leaves the person brainwashed.

** Brainiac 5 inverts the BrainwashedAndCrazy part, as he's is quite sane and nice after he is reprogrammed.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Earth-2 Lionel Luthor gives us this:

** Clark ends up losing his powers several times through the course of the show. [[StatusQuoIsGod It never sticks]]. The longer it stuck was for three episodes, longer than it's ever stuck in a Superman series outside of the comics.

*** At the end of "[[Recap/SmallvilleS05E01Arrival Arrival]]", Jor-El [[DePower takes away Clark's powers]] at the end of the episode, because Clark disobeyed Jor-El's orders to return to the Fortress before sundown. "[[Recap/SmallvilleS05E02Mortal Mortal]]" has Clark spend the entire episode without his powers, [[IJustWantToBeNormal happy to pursue a normal life]] without a "Kryptonian destiny" and he still [[BroughtDownToBadass manages to save the day without his powers]]. In "[[Recap/SmallvilleS05E03Hidden Hidden]]" Clark's is fatally wounded, but Jor-El brings him BackFromTheDead with all his powers, but at the price of having [[BalancingDeathsBooks the life force of someone close to him in exchange]]. Clark is less than pleased.

*** "[[Recap/SmallvilleS07E08Blue Blue]]": Clark is tricked into putting on a Blue Kryptonite ring that acts as a PowerLimiter and they don't return until he manages to destroy it.
*** "[[Recap/SmallvilleS08E01Odyssey Odyssey]]": Clark loses his powers when Lex places the Orb laced with blue kryptonite in the Fortress of Solitude console. They get restored when Comicbook/MartianManhunter flies him into the heart of the yellow sun.

*** "[[Recap/SmallvilleS09E09Pandora Pandora]]": In the BadFuture, Clark due to Zod's Solar tower that turns the yellow sun into a red sun.

** When Jimmy Olsen discovers Clark's secret:
--->'''Jimmy:''' You're some kind of super... [[BaitAndSwitch guy!]]

* TheBusCameBack: Pete Ross returned for one episode in Season 7, and Lana returned partway through Season 8 for a small story arc. Kara in Season 8's "[[Recap/SmallvilleS08E08Bloodline Bloodline]]" and Season 10's "[[Recap/SmallvilleS10E03Supergirl Supergirl]]". Season 10 had practically ''every'' major character who had departed the show BackForTheFinale during the season. Notably, Pete and Lana were the only living characters not to return during the season, whilst any other characters who didn't come back had been KilledOffForReal. Not that being dead managed to stop Jonathan, Lionel, and Lex from returning in some capacity.

** In Season 7, Lex ends up creating his own CainAndAbel, when it's revealed he made Grant Gabriel as a clone of his dead baby brother. When Grant discovers this, he becomes very angry and hateful of Lex. Grant tries to form a familial relationship with their father Lionel against Lex's wishes. So Lex hires a hitman to gun him down. Then Lex goes outside to [[SkywardScream scream in the rain]].
** ''Smallville'' also has Zor-El, Kara's father, who is antagonistic towards his brother Jor-El because of his love for Jor-El's wife Lara.
** Lex and Clark have been billed as being in a Cain-and-Abel relationship since the very first episode, it seems. On Earth-2, Clark was adopted by Lionel Luthor and it didn't end well for Lex. And Lionel is OK with that because he [[TheSocialDarwinist believes in social Darwinism]]. However, Lionel was furious that his adoptive son hadn't killed him yet, as should be expected. After coming to "our" universe, he soon began to miss his son and planned to revive "our" Lex. Which he did.
** Lex ultimately ends up the Cain to yet another sibling: younger half-sister Tess Mercer, who he murders in the GrandFinale. His reasoning is that it's a version of a MercyKill so that she doesn't end up [[CardCarryingVillain like him]], but few people buy that; he almost definitely killed her so that she was out of his way, since at the time she had control of [=LuthorCorp=].

*** In "[[Recap/SmallvilleS10E16Scion Scion]]", while confronting Conner (who's on [[GRatedDrug Red Kryptonite]]), Clark tells him "You're coming home with me," the exact same words that Jonathan said to him in the final scene of "[[Recap/SmallvilleS03E01Exile Exile]]" while he was on Red Kryptonite.
* CallForward: As mentioned elsewhere, this happens constantly and in spades. Though it comes up rather [[{{Prequel}} naturally]]. Properly the most notable one is Clark becoming Superman, [[OfficialCouple Lois and Clark hooking up]], and [[StartOfDarkness Lex becoming the villain]]. However, there were twists that did come out of nowhere, such as [[Characters/SupermanConnerKent Conner Kent]] in ''Season 10'' and Jonathan Kent dying in ''Season 5'' but do occur if you have seen the right clue.
* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: Jor-El knows more than where Clark lives. He is perfectly fine in (usually indirectly) harming his loved ones if it drives him to fulfill his destiny. Like freezing Chloe half to death in "[[Recap/SmallvilleS05E01Arrival Arrival]]" and intending to trap Clark in the Fortress until ''everyone he loves is dead'' in "[[Recap/SmallvilleS07E09Gemini Gemini]]".

** Lex's story of being possessed by an alien warlord is also ridiculed.

** "[[Recap/SmallvilleS04E22Commencement Commencement]]": The season 4 finale has another meteor shower hitting the town.
** "[[Recap/SmallvilleS05E22Vessel Vessel]]": The Season 5 finale has Brainiac unleashing a computer virus that causes all technology on Earth to shut down, causing mass hysteria.

** Lionel, too. At the beginning of the series, he was TheChessMaster and Season 3 featured him as the show's true villain, while Lex during these seasons was a somewhat dark but generally good man. By the time both Luthors exited the show in Season 7, Lex had transitioned all the way to TheDarkSide, while Lionel had been redeemed by Clark.

** Season 2 introduces Henry Smalls who is Lana's biological father. The two try to have a relationship for a while before Henry decides to focus on repairing his marriage. Henry is never seen nor mentioned after Season 3.
** The second episode of Season 6 had a Queen Industries employee named Wagner whom Oliver hired to kidnap Lex and find out how he acquired superpowers in the Season 6 premiere. Wagner is never seen nor mentioned after this one episode.

** During season 8, Chloe successfully manages to stab Clark, Jimmy (her fiance and then husband), and villain Davis in the back almost simultaneously. Then in Season 9, she implements Orwellian measures against Clark's will, ostensibly to "protect Metropolis." This includes putting up cameras in Clark's house and casually mentioning that she spends large chunks of the day surfing through everyone in Metropolis's cell phone conversations.

* CliffhangerCopout: The season 3 [[SeasonFinale finale]] "[[Recap/SmallvilleS03E22Covenant Covenant]]" ends with Chloe's house exploding the instant she closes the door upon entering it, but a {{flashback}} in the second episode of Season 4, "[[Recap/SmallvilleS04E02Gone Gone]]", shows her escaping, with the time between closing the door and the explosion miraculously expanding to fit Lex's men getting her to safety.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Chloe was this during early seasons, to the point where, by her own admission later on, she was willing to sell Clark out to Lionel Luthor after she saw him with Lana. "[[Recap/SmallvilleS04E04Devoted Devoted]]" centered on her being slipped a "LovePotion" which made all who drank it this trope temporarily, during which she tried to [[MurderTheHypotenuse kill her cousin Lois in a jealous rage]]. Thankfully, she outgrows this mindset and becomes a more mature person as the show goes on.

** Season 4: Alicia Baker, Bridgette Crosby, Genevieve and Jason Teaque.

** Season 7: [[BackForTheDead Sasha Woodman]], Agent Carter, clone Lara and Zor-El, Patricia Swann, Gina, Edward Teague.

** Season 9: Alia (twice, ItMakesSenseInContext), clone Jor-El, Basqat, Doctor Fate, Faora, Zod may have killed more of the C-List [[GovernmentConspiracy Checkmate]] agents offscreen.
** Season 10: Hawkman, Earth-2 Lionel Luthor.
* ClonesArePeopleToo: Alexander Luthor is considered his own person in ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', and not just a clone of Lex. Tess even raises him as her own son in an attempt to keep him from turning out like his progenitor. Eventually we find out that half of his DNA comes from Clark and he changes his name to Conner Kent, becoming like Clark's little brother.

* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: The "Prometheus Suit" is a {{Nanomachine|s}} skin graft that is capable of providing SuperStrength and SuperSpeed to its wearer. It was made by [=LuthorCorp=] for Lex, but Lana convinces the scientist in charge to give it to her instead.

* ColonyDrop: Apokolips comes within a few miles of impacting Earth before Clark, as Superman, pushes it away].

** Clark (Red Jacket/Blue Top) and Bizarro (Blue Jacket/Red Top).
*** Though something of a subversion, since Clark has been shown in the blue jacket/red shirt combo on several previous occasions. The actual episode with both Clark and Bizarro play it straight, once we know that they're both active.

** In Season 8, Clark only wore red and blue when operating as a hero. In Season 9, after [[HeroicBSOD declaring himself "dead" after the death of Henry "Jimmy" Olsen and disappearance of Lois]], he wears black, the color he wore as Kal-El in the Season 4 opener.

** Tess Mercer is a combination of Mercy Graves (Lex Luthor's assistant from ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries''), Miss Tessmacher (One of Lex's underlings from ''Film/SupermanTheMovie''), and Lena Luthor (Lex's sister from the comics). In the Season 11 comics she becomes Comicbook/RedTornado, essentially the ''Comicbook/{{New 52}}'' BrainUploading [[FemBot Gynoid]] version of the Tornado decomposited from Earth-2 Lois and composited onto Tess.

* CrapsackWorld: "[[ForWantOfANail Luthor]]" has an establishing shot of Earth-2, home of Clark... ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Luthor]]'' ([[EvilCounterpart Ultraman]]). [[WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong What would be the results of]] [[TemptingFate the Luthors adopting Clark]]? Seriously, [[OhCrap what]] [[ThisIsGonnaSuck could]] [[BringMyBrownPants go]] [[BewareTheSuperman wrong]]? [[http://smallville.wikia.com/wiki/File:Sv10x10luthorhdmkv_000659658-1-.jpg Well...]].

* CoolLoser: Clark, Chloe, and Pete are shown this way at first. They grow out of it. Chloe even becomes Prom Queen in Season 4, and Clark becomes the star quarterback. In Season 1, when Clark is running for Class President, Pete even points out that Clark is actually well-liked and has looks and charm. Pete himself is shown to have friends and respect outside of the group, likely due to being on the football team.
** Lampshaded to heck and back when Clark goes back to Smallville high for a class reunion. Despite Clark still feeling like a loser, Lois gets told all about how he led the football team, dated the most popular girl, and was pretty well-liked.
** This trait actually becomes a problem for Clark in later seasons. Turns out it's hard to disguise your identity [[ClarkKenting by seeming nerdy]] when your nerdy self still seems like a superhero. Even in [[FlashForward flashforwards]] to several years after the show, his bumbling reporter act is noticeably more put on than most other depictions.

** Comic [[Characters/SupermanSupportingCast Lana Lang]] was Clark's {{Childhood Friend|s}}, with her, Clark and Pete being ThreeAmigos during their younger years. She's often one of his closest's confidants, being the first person to learn about his powers and [[ChildhoodFriendRomance her romantic interest on him]] is often one-sided on her part. In ''Smallville'', while they both grow up in the same town they're not particularly close until late high-school, and Clark is the one that's pinning for her attention, with Lana being portrayed as the Girl of his dreams that's just out of reach. Most of Lana's comic traits are instead given to Chloe.

** Chloe has several aspects taken from [[Characters/SupermanLoisLane Lois Lane]] (Being an IntrepidReporter) and [[Characters/SupermanSupportingCast Lana Lang]] (Being part of Clark's ThreeAmigos crew along with Pete and being his closest confidant and SecretKeeper), this is despite both Lois and Lana being part of the cast. In later seasons she also took aspects from [[Characters/{{Batgirl}} Oracle]], both being [[TechnoWizard tech experts]] that become the MissionControl and information broker to the members of the superhero community.

* CoolLoser: [[ThreeAmigos Clark, Chloe, and Pete]] are shown this way at first. They grow out of it. Chloe even becomes Prom Queen in Season 4, and Clark becomes the star quarterback. In Season 1, when Clark is running for Class President, Pete even points out that Clark is actually well-liked and has looks and charm. Pete himself is shown to have friends and respect outside of the group, likely due to being on the football team.