Recap of Superman & Lois
Season 1, Episode 5
The Best of Smallville
Tropes:
- Back from the Dead: Derek claims to have been resurrected.
- Blatant Lies: Both Chrissy and Lois immediately spot that Sharon and Derek's story is BS.
- Chronic Hero Syndrome: Even as a teenager, Clark is already shown to have been like this, being berated by Martha for it.
- Cliffhanger: The final scene has Tag suddenly speed in and ambush Jordan, blaming him for his condition while pummeling him.
- Drowning My Sorrows:
- Kyle gets drunk after one of his fellow firefighters, Tom Mitchell, suffers possibly permanent lung damage from smoke inhalation during the fire at the community center.
- Jonathan sneaks some liquor with some friends at the harvest festival after Eliza breaks up with him. He's hammered in no time flat.
- Due to the Dead: Martha Kent gets a bench dedicated to her honour.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Leslie Larr and Derek Powell seem to be an item, as they are seen kissing.
- Flashback: To Clark as a teenager, a year after his father died.
- Irony: Captain Luthor, under his civilian identity of Marcus Bridgewater, has been working for this Earth's version of Lex Luthor in the past.
- Just Friends: Sarah wants to keep her relationship with Jordan at this level for now.
- Mythology Gag: Clark mentions that Smallville was founded in 1949. This is the year the town was first named in a Superboy comic.
- The Nose Knows: Clark is able to smell that Jonathan is drunk well before he's close enough for Lois to do the same.
- Popcultural Osmosis Failure: A reference to REO Speedwagon flies right over Jordan's head.
- Possession Burnout: Implicitly the case with Derek, who seems to be inhabited by the essence of another Kryptonian. After a brief fight with Superman, his powers go haywire and his heat vision immolates his body.
- The Reveal:
- Edge's talk of resurrection involves literally resurrecting Kryptonian spirits in human bodies. The process doesn't seem to be stable.
- Captain Luthor was married to the Lois Lane of his world.
- Title Drop: The episode's title appears on the plaque dedicating the bench to Martha.
- Trauma Button: Seeing Jonathan drunk sets Sarah off, as her father seems to be drunk on a regular basis. It's enough to get Jonathan to sober up a little.
- Villain with Good Publicity: After replacing the destroyed donations for the harvest festival, Morgan Edge further gets into the town's good graces, Lana included.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Derek Powell gets killed after barely being introduced as a character.
- Wham Line:
- Derek calls Superman "Kal-El" and tells him he's no longer alone.
- Captain Luthor notes Lois is almost exactly like the one from his world "except she married someone else."
