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This is a summary sheet for the characters in ''Series/{{Smallville}}''. Please place characters in the appropriate sub-pages.

** [[Characters/SmallvilleClarkKent Clark Kent]]

** [[Characters/SmallvilleLexLuthor Lex Luthor]]

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This is a summary sheet for the characters in ''Series/{{Smallville}}''. Please place characters in the appropriate sub-pages.
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* [[Characters/{{SmallvilleEarth-2}} Earth-2]]

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This is a summary sheet for the characters in ''{{Smallville}}''. Please place characters in the appropriate sub-pages.

* [[Characters/SmallvilleHouseOfEl The House of El and Associates]]
* [[Characters/SmallvilleHouseOfZod The House of Zod and Associates]]

* [[Characters/SmallvillePhantonZone Phantom Zone Escapees]]

* [[Characters/SmallvilleEarth-2 Earth-2]]

[[folder: Government Agents and Rogues]]

!!Checkmate -- Amanda Waller / White Queen (Pam Grier), Maxwell Lord / Black King (Gil Bellows)

An enigmatic government agency with a ChessMotif, Checkmate competes with Zod to be the main antagonist of Season 9. Run by the White Queen and the Black King, Checkmate keeps tabs on paranormal activity, and has a definite WithUsOrAgainstUs mentality.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Waller is far better looking than she is in the comics.
* BigBadDuumvirate: Waller and Lord.
* TheChessmaster: Waller, of course.
* ChessMotifs: No kidding. All agents are assigned a chess-themed codename (Pawn, Knight, Rook, etc.) that denotes their rank within the organization. Moreover, Checkmate itself is split into two halves: Intelligence, headed by the White Queen, and field operations, under the Black King.
* GovernmentConspiracy
* IronLady: Waller, of course.
* MindRape: Lord's specialty.
* NecessarilyEvil: How Waller sees the group.
* OutGambitted: By Zod.
* [[SuperHeroPackingHeat Super Villain Packing Heat]]: Lord.
* {{Telepathy}}: Lord
* WithUsOrAgainstUs: Waller's attitude towards Clark and superhumans in General.

!!Cameron Mahkent / Icicle II (Wesley Macinnes)

The son of a former enemy of the Justice Society, Icicle is recruited by Checkmate to serve as an assassin, with the promise that they will help him locate and kill off the Society's members. Appears in Season 9's "Absolute Justice."
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* AdaptationalBadass: Icicle in the comics is a competent, B-list supervillain. This one's a little stronger, to say the least. Not only did his father, Joar, manage to [[spoiler:kill Hawkgirl in the BackStory]], but Cameron himself has near StoryBreakerPower, his powers freezing anything that's within the immediate vicinity of his target. He's able to take out ''three'' members of the Justice Society, and might well have done more if [[spoiler:he hadn't put on the Helmet of Nabu]].
* AnIcePerson: Duh.
* AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance
* AvengingTheVillain: Hawkman put his father, the original Icicle, in a coma. Now he's out for revenge on the JSA.
* BladeOnAStick: Or, more accurately, a really long icicle.
* CareerKillers
* EvilAlbino
* HellBentForLeather: His jacket, complete with chains and studs.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Using the Helmet of Nabu interferes with his concentration and allows his defeat.]]
* InTheBlood: His dad was a contract killer with a freeze gun; Cameron is a [[CareerKillers government assassin]] with [[AnIcePerson cryogenic energies in his bloodstream]].
* LamarckWasRight: His father's use of freezing weaponry granted Cameron his powers.
* NotWhatISignedOnFor: When [[TheChessmaster Waller]] reveals her real goals to him.
* PsychoticSmirk: His usual facial expression.
* {{Revenge}}
* SelfMadeOrphan: His mom died of hypothermia giving birth to him, and he himself performs a MercyKill on his comatose father.
* UnwittingPawn: Of Waller and Checkmate. He's actually listed as a "Black Pawn."
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:May have been done to him by Waller.]]
* YoungerVillainVsOlderHero: Him versus the JSA. He's rather sneeringly contemptuous of their ages to boot.

!!SuicideSquad

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A squad of super-powered operatives retained to do jobs even Checkmate wouldn't touch, the Suicide Squad, led by superhero fan-boy Rick Flag, went rogue following the agency's destruction in Season 9. Opposed on principle to the Vigilante Registration Act, the squad is out to stop its implementation no matter what the cost. Along with Darkseid, they provide most of Season 10's conflict.
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* BadassCrew: Between [[BadassNormal Rick Flag]], [[ImprobableAimingSkills Deadshot]], [[PersonOfMassDestruction Plastique]], and [[VillainTeleportation Warp]] they count.
* TheChessmaster: The Squad as a whole is proving to be superb at warping events to their own advantage. Bonus points to Deadshot for his method of putting the Squad's mark on Clark.
* CoolCar: The Squad van, which appears in "Ambush." It's effectively a mobile base, equipped with state-of-the-art electronics, tracking equipment, satellite uplinks, and [[WeaponizedCar a missile launcher]].
* EvilCounterpart: The team as a whole to the Justice League. They both hate the VRA, they're both made up of superhumans and led by a BadassNormal, and they both try to stay under the radar. The Squad goes much, much further in their attempts at taking down the act, though.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The Suicide Squad, Deadshot, Warp, even Plastique. None of them are real reassuring, to say the least.
* WeaponizedCar: The Squad van is equipped with a homing missile launcher, in addition to all its other gadgetry.
* WesternTerrorists: See Flag's entry for how.

!!!Rick Flag (Ted Whittall)

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--> "Let's show these boys what it's like to mess with the Suicide Squad."

The Squad's leader. Flag is, to put it mildly, very damaged. Formerly the field leader for Checkmate's teams of super-powered agents, his lengthy association with metahumans has caused him to identify with them instead of normal people. He's violently opposed to the VRA, and wants to force every superhero to see things his way, regardless of their own feelings.
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* AntiHero: Flag's a [[SlidingScaleOfAntiHeroes Type V]] with delusions of nobility. Only his seemingly genuine regard for superheroes, and the fact that he seems to be gathering an army to fight off Darkseid, keeps him from being an even bigger psychopath than he already is.
* BadassNormal
* ColdBloodedTorture: Seems fond of it.
* ComplexityAddiction: As evidenced by his absolutely 1960s-ish plan to kill General Lane. He has Deadshot on the team. Does he use him? No. Instead he uses a laser in a pen given to the general's daughter Lucy to guide in a homing missile that he launches from the back of his van. There's complex, and then there's that.
* JerkAss
* JustBetweenYouAndMe: To Oliver about Chloe's [[spoiler:"death."]]
* LargeHam: Dear God. Flag chews more scenery in a few episodes than Zod did in a season, complete with reciting ''The Star-Spangled Banner'' as he fires a missile at General Lane.
* ProperlyParanoid: Flag would seem totally nuts if the guy running the Vigilante Registration Act wasn't General Slade Wilson.
* RightWingMilitiaFanatic: Has definite shades of this.
* SecretKeeper: Flag knows the identities of all the heroes. So far he's told nobody.
* SmugSnake
* SociopathicSoldier: Flag's a mix of Types I, II ''and'' III -- A radical milita-esque ex-soldier with PatrioticFervour and blatant insanity to spare, and whose previous missions for the government have more or less broken him.
* [[SuperheroPackingHeat Supervillain Packing Heat]]
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Flag's attempt at assassinating General Lane involved a missile. To kill one guy.
* WesternTerrorists: Flag's a US milita-esque nut who lashes out at anyone who wants to force super-powered vigilantes to register, complete with political assassinations, bombings and missile strikes.
* YouLookFamiliar: His actor played Lana's martial arts trainer in Season 8.

!!!Floyd Lawton / Deadshot (Bradley Stryker)

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-->"Somewhere out there, we ''all'' got a bullet with our name on it."

A contract killer at the top of America's Most Wanted lists, Deadshot is retained by Flag to mark the Blur with the Squad's symbol. Using Cat Grant as bait to draw Clark out in the open, Deadshot succeeds, although he's imprisoned for it; Flag and Plastique later bust him out. The best shot in universe, Deadshot affects a laid-back demeanor that conceals his [[TheFatalist fatalistic tendencies]] and disillusionment with life.
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* AmericanAccents: Deadshot has a very heavy Southern drawl to accompany his {{Cowboy}} get-up.
* {{Badass}}
** BadassBeard
** BadassLongcoat
** BadassNormal
* CareerKiller
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: His aiming skills are truly improbable, to the point where it almost borders on magic.
* {{Cowboy}}: Just look at the picture.
* TheFatalist: Big time. See the page quote.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Has a very ugly one over his eye.
* TheGunslinger
* ImprobableAimingSkills: He puts a bullet down the tailpipe of a car.
* MarkedBullet: Deadshot writes his victims' names on his bullets.
* NiceHat
* NietzscheWannabe: If his conversation with Cat is any indicator, definitely.
* SteamPunk: Possibly the best way to describe Deadshot's combo of WildWest appearance with grungy future-tech.
* [[SuperheroPackingHeat Supervillain Packing Heat]]
* VillainousValour: You gotta give Deadshot points for going after Clark with a gun, despite being fully aware of the latter's NighInvulnerable status. As it turns out, getting hit and going to prison was actually part of the plan, and Deadshot went through with it despite the risks. Pretty ballsy, that.

!!!Bette Sans Souci / Plastique (Jessica Parker Kennedy)

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First appearing in Season 8, Bette is a homeless girl with the power to project rings of explosive force from her body. On the run from [=LuthorCorp=]'s Black Creek facility, she is taken in by Chloe, whom she later turns on. Captured and imprisoned in Belle Reve after a brief battle with Clark, Bette was loosed by Tess Mercer on the condition that she join Tess's Injustice Gang (see [=LuthorCorp=] and associates) where she was codenamed "Plastique." Following the defeat of the Gang, she was recruited into the Suicide Squad by Flag sometime before Season 10. Best described as paranoid, selfish and bitter, she's a beautiful fit with the rest of the Squad.
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* BlackEyesOfCrazy: When Bette uses her powers, her irises glow yellow and her pupils narrow to black slits.
* BrokenBird: Plastique retains this status from her first appearance. She is a very damaged little girl.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: When she uses her powers.
* HellBentForLeather: After joining the Injustice Gang and the Suicide Squad.
* MadBomber
* PersonOfMassDestruction: She causes objects to explode, whether they're the size of a person, or the size of a bus. If you're name isn't Clark, you better run.
* RaceLift: Was a Quebecois terrorist in the comics. Here she's of Asian (perhaps French Indochinese) descent.
* SelfishEvil: Bette is out for herself and nobody else. She wants to stay free and safe, and anyone who she suspects might compromise that tends to end up dead.

!!!Emil [=LaSalle=] / Warp (Elias Toufexis)

* EvilForeigner: French, to be precise.
* MissionControl: For the Squad, doubling as their getaway man.
* TeleportersAndTransporters
* VillainTeleportation

!!General Slade Wilson (Michael Hogan)

An aging general with a long history of war-crimes charges behind him, Slade is the man chosen by the government to enforce the Vigilante Registration Act. Very much the ideological opposite of Rick Flag, Slade believes that no one can be allowed the power to threaten the government, and seeks to defend America from all threats, wherever they may come from. [[{{Understatement}} He's a little crazy]], to say the least. A key antagonist in the first half of Season 10.
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* {{Badass}}:
** BadassAbnormal: Heavily implied.
** BadassGrandpa
** FourStarBadass
** TookALevelInBadass: Between "Patriot" and "Icarus."
* ColdBloodedTorture: Of both AC and Oliver.
* CompositeCharacter: He's equal parts Slade Wilson/Deathstroke and General Wade Eiling.
* EvilOldFolks: Looks to be somewhere in his sixties or older.
* EyepatchOfPower: As of the end of "Patriot."
* GeneralRipper
* KatanasAreJustBetter: Which is rather ironic when one takes into account his PatrioticFervor and obsession with all things American.
* KnightTemplar
* MadeOfIron: Didn't flinch after getting hit with Hawkman's mace.
* MarkOfTheBeast: [[spoiler:Has the Omega sign tattooed on his skull, courtesy of Darkseid.]]
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: The reaction of other characters to his surviving the explosion in "Patriot."
* PatrioticFervor: His motivation.
--> "No civillian should have more power than the law."
* [[spoiler:SealedEvilInACan]]: Courtesy of Clark and [[spoiler:the PhantomZone]].
* ShutUpKirk: Clark gives him a speech about how he's stopping people from trusting the very government he's trying to defend, and demands that Slade let him save him from the exploding facility. Slade tells him to shut up, responding that he'd rather die along with the Blur than be saved by "an abomination."
* UnwittingPawn: Of Darkseid.
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[[folder: Apokiliptians]]

!!{{Darkseid}}

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--> "You so-called heroes are false gods, all of you...and when people stop believing in you, you'll shatter like glass."

Also referred to as "The Darkness" and "Our Dark Lord," Darkseid was unleashed when Clark used the [[TomeOfEldritchLore Book Of Rao]] to banish Major Zod and the Kandorians to another dimension. Briefly spotted forming out of ravens and smoke at the end of "Lazarus," he later body-jacks Gordon Godfrey, using him to spread a message of hatred and fear over the airwaves. Driven out of his host due to Kara's interference, Darkseid is later referenced by his agents Desaad, Granny Goodness and the newly-appointed Godfrey, at the end of "Abandoned."

Currently without a host body, The Darkness remains a dreaded figure within ''Smallville'''s tenth season. He is said to be the UltimateEvil that Jor-El warned Clark about, and is already making plans to bring the JusticeLeague and, eventually, the world, to its knees.
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* BodySurf
* BigBad: Of Season 10.
* TheCorrupter: Apparently, as of "Patriot."
* EldritchAbomination
* EvilSoundsDeep: Par for the course with Darkseid, though.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast
* UltimateEvil
* WeaksauceWeakness: He can't possess people who are "pure": that is free of fear and doubt. This isn't as handicapping as it might sound though, because no one can remain in that state permenantly. People who he fails to control the first time, may not be so lucky a second.

!!Gordon Godfrey (Michael Daingerfield)

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A right-wing DJ with an anti-immigration, anti-vigilante stance, Godfrey is possessed by The Darkness is Season 10's "Supergirl." Under Darkseid's control, Godfrey begins attracting a vastly-expanded audience and publishes a book that purports to be an exposé on vigilante activity. He also kidnaps Lois and uses her as bait to draw in Clark. Defeated by Clark and Kara, Godfrey is freed from Darkseid's control.

In "Abandoned" it is revealed that the Dark Lord isn't done with Godfrey yet though, with Desaad introducing him to Granny Goodness as the third member of their "Unholy Trinity." His task, according to Desaad, is to break humanity's spirit, forcing them away from their saviours and into the dark.
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* AlliterativeName
* BaldOfEvil
* BlackEyesOfEvil: When possessed by {{Darkseid}}.
* CoDragons: To Darkseid, with Desaad and Granny.
* CompellingVoice
* DarkMessiah: Seems to view himself as such, as of "Abandoned."
-->"I always knew I had a higher purpose in life."
* DemonicPossession: In "Supergirl", courtesy of Darkseid.
* DumbassDJ: Starts out this way.
* JerkAss: To the point where Darkseid [[GrandTheftMe body-jacked him]] and liked what he saw.
* MookPromotion: He's originally just another of Darkseid's host bodies. As of "Abandoned," however, he's been promoted to the same status as Desaad and Granny Goodness, acting as a villain in his own right, completing the third point of a very nasty PowerTrio. Not bad.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: A not-insignificant number of reviewers have compared his portrayal to GlennBeck.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity

!!Granny Goodness (Christine Willes)

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An old woman who runs an orphanage for girls, Granny Goodness is far more than she appears. She first shows up in the Season 9 finale where she [[spoiler:saves Tess from death at Zod's hands by delivering her to Cadmus]]. She later re-appears in "Abandoned", where the full truth about her is unveiled: She is one of Darkseid's agents, tasked with recruiting soldiers for Darkseid. Indoctrinating the girls from a young age, Granny mind-wipes them, then raises them to be {{Tykebomb}}s totally loyal to herself with no respect for human life.

Sweet and sugary on the outside, but with a ramrod spine, Granny is devoted to Darkseid's mission of WorldDomination, and her considerable psychic gifts make her uniquely suited to help him accomplish it.
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* AlliterativeName
* CoDragons: To Darkseid, with Desaad and Godfrey.
* EvilMentor: To the [[AmazonBrigade Female Furies]] and [[spoiler:Tess]].
* EvilOldFolks
* EvilVirtues: Seems to genuinely love her girls, at least in her own warped way.
* FamilyValuesVillain: If her disgust towards Desaad's {{Fetish}} clubs is any indicator.
* FluffyTheTerrible
* HannibalLecture
* IronLady: Despite her
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Deletes the memories of her girls, leaving them open to being manipulated into becoming Darkseid's minions.
* MindOverMatter: Given her ability to throw people around with a gesture, this is a pretty safe bet.
* MindRape: How she turns people into servants for Darkseid. She and Maxwell Lord would get along well.
* NeverMessWithGranny: Evil version.
* OrphanageOfFear: Runs one.
* StraightEdgeEvil: For a sharp contrast with [[NightmareFetishist Desaad]].
* {{Telepathy}}

!!Female Furies -- Harriet (Lindsay Hartley)

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A group of girls raised by Granny Goodness to become Darkseid's fighting elite. They are led by Harriet, a psychotic girl with WolverineClaws and a fondness for cutting people up. In "Abandoned," they manage to capture Clark, although he quickly escapes from them.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: Reproducing Harriet's green hair would have probably been tricky.
* AmazonBrigade
* AxCrazy: "Mad" Harriet.
* BareYourMidriff
* BreastPlate
* DarkActionGirl: All of them.
* DesignatedGirlFight: Harriet vs Tess.
* TheDragon: Harriet to Granny Goodness.
* PoisonedWeapons: The girls' weapons are forged in Kryptonite flames. They don't totally de-power Clark the way regular GreenRocks do, but they can cut him and act as a poison once in his system.
* {{Tykebomb}}: Raised from childhood to be {{Dark Action Girl}}s. They're all pretty damaged from it.
* WeaponOfChoice: Each of the girls seems to favor something different. So far we've had:
** BareFistedMonk: One of the girls comes after Clark with just hands and feet during the start of the fight.
** FemmeFatalons: Harriet
** SimpleStaff
** WhipItGood: From a girl who may or may not have been Lashina.

!!Desaad (Steve Byers)

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The third member of Darkseid's "Unholy Trinity," Desaad maintains a series of eponymously-titled fetish clubs. Sleazy and obsequious, he has stated that his task is to "break their [humanity's] bodies," while Godfrey and Granny attack their spirits and minds respectively.
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* BeardOfEvil
* CoDragons: To Darkseid, with Godfrey and Granny.
* CoolestClubEver: Runs {{Fetish}}-oriented Club Desaad. It's like a combination of BadGuyBar and VampiresOwnNightclubs.
* MeaningfulName
** NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Named for the Marquis De Sade. You know, the one that "sadism" is named after?
* NightmareFetishist
* PsychoticSmirk
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[[folder: Other Major Villains (Comics)]]

!!Morgan Edge (Rutger Hauer, Patrick Bergin)

A Metropolis crime boss and childhood friend of Lionel Luthor, Morgan Edge is the antagonist in the first half of Season 3, attempting to force Clark (who he knows as "Kal") to honor a deal he made while [[NotHimself under the influence of Red Kryptonite]]. He and Lionel later try to uncover Clark's secret; in the aftermath, Edge is killed when he drives his car into Clark's invulnerable body. [[spoiler:Is revealed to have helped Lionel murder his parents when they were both children.]]
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* AccidentalPublicConfession: Is taped confessing to [[spoiler:the murder of Lionel's parents]].
* DiabolicalMastermind: A leading figure in Intergang, the criminal underworld's equivalent of [=LuthorCorp=].
* ForgottenChildhoodFriend: Of [[BigBad Lionel]].
* FourEyesZeroSoul: When played by Rutger Hauer.
* GreenRocks: Carries a string of meteor beads in case he runs into Clark.
* MagicPlasticSurgery: To explain his change in appearance. {{Justified}} in-universe as he was on the run from Lionel.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste
* TheOtherDarrin: Rutger Hauer played him in his first two appearances, Patrick Bergin in his third.
* VillainTeamUp: With Lionel.

!!Brainiac / Milton Fine / [[spoiler:Brainiac 5]] (JamesMarsters)

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--> ''"I am the Brain Inter Active Construct. No matter my form, my intellect remains formidable. Do not underestimate me."''

When Clark began attending college in Season 5, his World History Prof. was one Milton Fine, who claimed to be another surviving Kryptonian. Fine convinced Clark to assist him in taking down Jor-El, who had supposedly been a brutal dictator back on Krypton. In truth, Fine was a Kryptonian AI, under [[spoiler:the control of General Zod, who he sought to release from the PhantomZone]]. When the truth of Fine's plans were revealed, Clark tried to defeat him; ultimately Brainiac's "death" [[spoiler:was revealed to the very thing required to release Zod from his imprisonment]].

In Season 7, Brainiac returned under his own control, albeit in a badly battered condition. Manipulating Bizarro and Clark into helping him repair himself, Brainiac 2.0 subsequently [[spoiler:trapped Kara in the Phantom Zone and revealed Clark's secret to Lex]]. Clark destroyed his body, but Brainiac returned once again in Season 8 by body-jacking Chloe and attempting to gain control of Doomsday. He was finally defeated with the aid of the Legion of Super-Heroes, and taken to the future for re-programming; [[spoiler: he returns in Season 10 as Brainiac 5]].

He is the main antagonist of Seasons 5 and 7, and is a recurring threat in Season 8, giving him the distinction of being the only non-regular to serve as the BigBad for more than one season.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: We're led to believe this is what happened, but it's ultimately subverted. See RoboticPsychopath below.
* {{Badass}}:
** BadassBoast: Following his defeat in Season 5, Brainiac, in Season 7, is trapped in a nearly powerless, deteriorating body that can barely hold itself together. Bizarro accuses him of "barely being able to catch a rat." His response is the page quote. Given the circumstances, it's very {{Badass}}.
** BadassBookworm: He's a skinny guy masquerading as a Professor of World History. He's also a Kryptonian A.I. capable of fighting {{Superman}} to a draw.
** BadassTeacher: Goes hand-in-hand with his BadassBookworm status.
* BadFuture: Causes one in an AlternateUniverse shown in Season 7's "Apocalypse."
* BigBad: For Seasons 5 and 7, and the first half of Season 8.
* BodySurf: Seasons 7 and 8.
* TheChessmaster: So very much.
* CompleteMonster: See his entries on the trope's and {{Smallville}}'s YourMileageMayVary page for more...[[HighOctaneNightmareFuel details]].
* DeadpanSnarker: Both pre- and [[spoiler:post-HeelFaceTurn]].
* TheDragon: For [[spoiler:Zod]] in Season 5.
** [[spoiler:DragonInChief: Take Brainiac away from Zod, and there's not much [[SealedEvilInACan the General can do]].]]
* EarthShatteringKaBoom: Blew up Krypton under Zor-El's control.
* EvilGenius: Not "TheEvilGenius" in a FiveBadBand sense, as he's generally the BigBad or TheDragon, but definitely ''an'' EvilGenius. In terms of actual IQ points, he's probably the smartest being on the show.
* EvilMentor: To Clark in early Season 5.
* EvilTeacher
* [[spoiler:GuileHero: After his HeelFaceTurn.]]
* [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn: It's thanks to being reprogrammed though, so it doesn't gain him a lot of sympathy.]]
* HumansAreBastards...
** MisanthropeSupreme: ...And thus deserve to die.
* InYourNatureToDestroyYourselves: He claims this is the truth about humans.
* KillAllHumans: Season 8.
* ManipulativeBastard
* NanoMachines: His real body is a black, liquid metal composed of these.
* [[spoiler:NotSoDifferent]]: [[spoiler:Brainiac 5 invokes this with Clark in Season 10's "Homecoming." For a good cause, to boot.]]
* OmnicidalManiac: Plans to destroy Earth in Seasons 7 & 8, and implies he'll do the same thing to the next planet he visits. Within the context of the setting, it's quite omnicidal.
* PowerAtAPrice: Specifically:
** PowerDegeneration: In Season 7, following his near destruction by Clark in the previous season. It takes a visible effort for him to shape-shift, and his body takes on the appearance of someone with a very serious illness.
** PowerSource: Is shown recharging himself at a power plant in Season 7. Coincidentally, an overload of electricity is every bit as bad for him as not getting enough.
* RoboticPsychopath: His programming didn't [[AIIsACrapshoot malfunction]]: it was deliberately corrupted by Zod.
* [[spoiler:ScienceHero: Post-reprogramming. He's the AI behind the Legion Flight rings and most of their other tech.]]
* SelfMadeOrphan: In a way. He not only kills his designer Dax-Ur, but helped General Zod wipe out Krypton, killing his creator, Jor-El, in the process.
* TheSociopath: Hits every point on the check list.
* SuperiorSpecies: Pretends to be a Kryptonian with this attitude.
* SuperPowerLottery: A major winner. He can fake most of the Kryptonian powers, and has a few of his own, all in addition to his EvilGenius status. Here's the full list:
** EyeBeams
** FromASingleCell: He's been utterly destroyed numerous times, but as long as a few pieces of him remain, he can regenerate completely, although it does take time.
** GrandTheftMe: Body-jacks several people in Season 7 in order to drain their trace minerals and rebuild himself. In Season 8, he takes control of [[spoiler:Chloe]] following the destruction of his own body, increasing her intelligence in order to make her a better host.
** MesACrowd: Can duplicate himself, and does so frequently.
** MindProbe: Typically by means of inserting a finger through the person's eye or temple. Yes it's as [[{{Squick}} vile]] as it sounds.
** NighInvulnerability
** PuppeteerParasite: Related to GrandTheftMe. He enters in his liquid metal form and can be extracted the same way.
** ShapeShifter: Easily transforms into people, and mimics them with frightening accuracy.
*** ShapeshifterWeapon: Regularly forms blades, MindControl cables, and other weapons out of his hands.
*** VoluntaryShapeshifting
** SuperSpeed
** SuperStrength
* [[spoiler:ThanatosGambit: Clark stabbing him in Season 5 is what lets Zod take control of Lex.]]
* TreacherousAdvisor: To Clark, Bizarro, and eventually, Lex.
* TheVirus: Uses them repeatedly as part of his plans, shutting down most of the planet on at least two separate occasions.

!!Maxima (Charlotte Sullivan)

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An alien queen from Almerac, who arrives on Earth in Season 8, looking for her Kryptonian soul mate. Unfortunately for anyone who ''isn't'' a Kryptonian, her [[KissOfDeath kiss is fatal to humans]]. She kills several men, hospitalizes Jimmy and almost seduces Clark, before he breaks from her control and sends her home.
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* AllAmazonsWantHercules: She got turned on when Clark slammed her through a brick wall and pinned her.
* CombatSadomasochist: Implied.
* TheEmpath
* EvilRedhead
* EvilIsSexy
* HellBentForLeather: Initially.
* HotAmazon
* [[HypnotizeThePrincess Hypnotize Clark Kent]]
* KissingUnderTheInfluence
* KissOfDeath
* LackOfEmpathy: Has no sympathy for the men who die after kissing her.
* MsFanservice
* MurderTheHypotenuse: Tries it on [[spoiler:Lois]].
* MySensorsIndicateYouWantToTapThat
* NighInvulnerability
* RapeIsOkayWhenItsFemaleOnMale: No, it isn't! And the show makes a point of acknowledging that. Her pheromones and callous attitude towards other people nicely cement that what she is doing is a bad thing.
* StalkerWithACrush
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Nice bondage gear, Maxima.
* SuperSpeed
* SuperStrength

!!Winslow Schott / Toyman (Chris Gauthier)

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A weapons engineer formerly employed by Queen Industries, Winslow was fired when he cracked under stress and began bringing toys to work...and filling them with explosives. Having reverted at least partially to childhood, Winslow remains a dangerous adversary due to his mechanical genius and disregard for human life. Smart, eccentric and, in a word, nuts.

First appearing in Season 8, he murders most of the [=LuthorCorp=] Board of Directors, makes an attempt to kill Oliver Queen, and nearly brings down the ''Daily Planet'' with a gigantic kryptonite bomb. He returns in Season 9, once again attempting to get his revenge on Oliver, who had [[spoiler:framed him for the murder of his boss, Lex Luthor]]. Captured and imprisoned at last, he is freed by Tess, who puts him to work repairing Metallo.
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* BerserkButton: Being treated as though he were childish, or otherwise not being taken seriously. Oliver causes him to snap just by calling him a clown. Interestingly it makes him less dangerous, not moreso, as he stops using his head and just attacks you.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Who'd a thunk the overweight guy delivering balloon-o-grams could be dangerous?
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Schott is a little eccentric, to say the least. But whether you're hiring him as a technician or a MadBomber, you're probably getting your money's worth.
* TheDragon: To [[spoiler:Lex]] in "Requiem."
** DragonInChief: In much the same way Brainiac was to Zod. [[spoiler:Lex]] crippled and on a respirator can't do much without Schott to carry out his plans for him.
* EvilGenius: And not just in the scientific department. Schott's got a real talent for disguising himself, getting into places he shouldn't be, and then talking his way out again.
* FatBastard
* FatSlob
* FourEyesZeroSoul
* GreenRocks: Uses them to fuel his bombs in "Requiem."
* HappyFunBall: Between bombs that resemble dolls, Newton's Cradles, and {{Cymbal Banging Monkey}}s, gas-filled Mylar balloons, and a wide variety of other {{Lethal Joke Weapon}}s he definitely counts.
* LethalJokeCharacter: Holy crow, yes!
* MadArtist: Sees his toys and his weapons as works of art.
* MadBomber: Schott really, really likes his explosives.
* MadScientist: An expert weapons designer and technician, with a fondness for placing explosives in his toys. All he needs to add is MadDoctor and he's got the whole "mad" foursome.
* MessyHair
* PsychopathicManchild
* {{Revenge}}: Wants it on Oliver for firing him.
* TalkativeLoon: He doesn't really shut up. Ever.

!!John Corben / Metallo (Brian Austin Green)

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A war correspondent assigned to Afghanistan, John Corben returns to Metropolis early in Season 9, where he is assigned to a desk opposite Lois Lane, to whom he is attracted. Nearly killed in a car accident, Corben is re-built as a {{Cyborg}} by Major Zod and the Kandorians. Driven nearly mad by the resultant adrenaline rush, Corben attempts to hunt down and kill the Blur, only to be defeated. He is later re-built by Tess, with an assist from Winslow Schott (see above). Escaping her lab, Corben ultimately assists Chloe and Lois in [[spoiler:capturing a Red K-infected Clark and returning him to normal]]. He leaves at the end of the episode and has not been seen since.
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* ActorAllusion: Brian Austin Green as [[TheSarahConnorChronicles a cyborg]].
* {{Badass}}: [[spoiler:He takes on [[NotHimself Red K Clark]] and [[BigBad Zod]] at once. That likely qualifies him.]]
** BadassBeard
* BeardOfEvil
* BigBrotherComplex
* BodyHorror: You can see the tubes and struts sticking out of his arms and ribs. It's unpleasant, to say the least.
* CreateYourOwnVillain: The Blur's saving of a busload of convicts resulted in his sister's death, which fuels his hatred of the hero and subsequent StartOfDarkness.
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: {{Justified}}. The Green K causes an adrenaline rush, accompanied by emotional and mental instability, impulsiveness and irrationality.
* DeadLittleSister: His motivation.
* DoggedNiceGuy: With Lois.
* GreenRocks: Serve as his power source.
* KnightTemplarBigBrother
* [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn: Of course, seeing as he's still a villain in the comics, this may not last.]]
* HollywoodCyborg
* NighInvulnerability: Seeing as he's a robot, this is to be expected. Explosions, freezing—nothing so much as dents Metallo.
* RoboticPsychopath: Zod specifically designed him to be AxCrazy, so he falls under this.
* StartOfDarkness: The adrenaline rush from the Green K causes Metallo to hyper-focus on The Blur as the cause of all his problems.
* SuperSpeed
* SuperStrength
* TinMan
* WalkingShirtlessScene: {{Justified}}, as his shirtless status increases the effectiveness of the Green K. [[FanDisservice Not a pretty sight, though]].
* WeCanRebuildHim: Courtesy of Zod, [[spoiler:and then Tess]].
* WildCard
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Other Major Villains (Smallville Original)]]

!!Van [=McNulty=] (Jesse Metcalfe)

* BadassNormal
* FantasticRacism: Of any "freaks", regardless of whether they are good or evil.
* FreudianExcuse: Tina Greer murdered his father. Ironically, they never meet.
* TheHunter
* KilledOffForReal: Courtesy of Ian Randall.
* VanHelsingHateCrimes: To Van all meteor freaks deserve to die, whether they've done anything yet, or not.
* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame

!!Adam Knight (Ian Somerhalder)
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A boy who befriends Lana in Season 3 and begins rooming at the Talon. He is eventually revealed to be a) a spy for Lionel Luthor, and b) to have died several months before and been resurrected by the Lazarus Serum. Cut off by Lionel, Adam is kept alive by the doctor who brought him back, and eventually escapes, going on a rampage in an attempt to avoid dying again. It fails, and he succumbs to the effects of his disease.
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* AxCrazy: In "Crisis."
* BackFromTheDead
* KilledOffForReal
* TheMole: For Lionel.
* PsychoSerum: The Lazarus Serum does not have a positive effect on his sanity.
* SanitySlippage
* TearsOfBlood

!!Jason Teague (JensenAckles)

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* BrokenAce: He was a good-looking football coach and successful athlete, dated the girl most people seemed to consider the prettiest one in the school and, to top it off, he was from a rich, successful family. He was also the product of an abusive relationship with his EvilMatriarch mother, and had no self-esteem or ability to control himself without her help.
* [[spoiler:TheDragon: His mother's.]]
* FaceHeelTurn
* ForgottenFallenFriend: [[spoiler:Oliver Queen and Patricia Swann never mention him or ask about the strange circumstances of his death, even though he, they and Lex Luthor were friends as children.]]
* HotForStudent: With Lana.
* KilledOffForReal
* MadeOfIron: He [[spoiler:is shot by Lionel and falls of a cliff. He returns slightly the worse for the wear, manages to overpower Mr. and Mrs. Kent, and is finally killed when a ''meteor'' hits the house.]] Who does he think he is, [[RasputinianDeath Rasputin]]?
* [[spoiler:MommasBoy]]
* [[spoiler:MommyIssues]]
* MotiveDecay: [[spoiler:He goes from refusing to help his mother after learning she may be manipulating him and Lana, to being a fully clued-in accomplice to her plan and treated as though he always was. It smacks of rushing him out of the show.]]
* RomanticFalseLead

!!Countess Margaret Isobel Thoreaux (Kristin Kreuk)

* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Enchants various weapons so they can pierce Clark's skin.
* AristocratsAreEvil
* BackFromTheDead: Though only as a ghost.
* BigBad: [[BigBadEnsemble Competes]] with Genevieve for this role.
* DarkActionGirl
* EvilForeigner: She's French.
* GrandTheftMe: Consistently possesses Lana.
* KungFuWizard: Or whatever that martial art she was using was.
* MindOverMatter
* PlayingWithFire: She generates bright purple flames as one of her main powers.
* PowerTattoo: The presence of her tattoo on Lana is what lets Isobel keep [[GrandTheftMe bodyjacking]] her.
* PurpleEyes: How to distinguish her from the real Lana.
* SinsOfOurFathers: She was betrayed by Duchess Gertrude, one of the Teagues' ancestors; now she wants payback.
* SuperStrength
* VillainTeleportation
* WaifFu: {{Justified}}. She's a witch, after all.
* WickedWitch

!!Genevieve Teague (Jane Seymour)

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* AbusiveMom: She's pretty much destroyed her son's self-esteem, turning him into little more than a puppet.
* AncientConspiracy: Her ancestors have been guarding the secrets of the Stones of Power and the Traveler for centuries.
* AristocratsAreEvil: Descended from Duchess Gertrude of France, who had Isobel burned at the stake so she could find the Stones of Power for herself. Genevieve isn't much better.
* BigBad: Season 4's.
* DistaffCounterpart: To Lionel.
* EvilBrit
* EvilCounterpart: To Lionel in Season 4. They're both AbusiveParents, with a lot of money and an obsession with alien life and the Stones of Power. Where they're different is in the why: Lionel abused Lex to try and make him stronger; Genevieve abused Jason in an attempt to control him and hurt his father. Additionally, Lionel turns around and tries to connect to Lex, whereas Genevieve never does and uses her son until the end. And when it comes to the Stones of Power, Lionel is driven by curiousity and the desire for power, Genevieve by paranoia, and the need to defeat Isobel.
* EvilMatriarch
* EvilRedhead
* HotMom
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: By Isobel.
* KilledOffForReal
* MyBelovedSmother: Tries to control every aspect of Jason's life.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Margot Kidder's Dr. Bridgette Crosby was supposed to be Season 4's BigBad, but left the show following Christopher Reeve's death. Genevieve was created to fill the gap.
* SelfFulfillingProphecy: Her attempt to kill Lana before Isobel can get her, results in Isobel bodyjacking Lana for the last time, leading to Genevieve's death.
* TheUnfought: Clark never even meets her.
* YourCheatingHeart: Heavily implied to have cheated on her husband, Edward Teague.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Earth-2]]

!!Clark Luthor / Earth-2 Clark / Ultraman (Tom Welling)

--> ''"This world won't know what hit it."''

* AxCrazy: "It feels strange not having blood on my hands before breakfast."
* BastardUnderstudy: To Earth-2 Lionel. {{Darwinist}} that he is, Lionel's disappointed Clark hasn't made his move yet.
* [[spoiler:[[BrotherSisterIncest Adoptive Brother-Sister Incest]]: With Earth-2 Tess.]]
* CainAndAbel: With [[TheUnfavourite Earth-2 Lex]] in the BackStory. Their rivalry got Lex killed and left Ultraman with a permanent scar on his arm.
* TheDragon: To Lionel, who's upset he isn't TheStarscream.
* DressedToKill
* EvilTwin
* FlyingBrick
* ForTheEvulz
* ManOfWealthAndTaste
* OverlordJr: And he's pretty resentful about it.
* PsychoForHire: He's implied to be his father's assassin, and complains at one point that it feels strange "not having blood on my hands before breakfast." He's in for the privilege and [[ForTheEvulz the kicks]], not whatever Earth-2 Lionel pays him.
* PsychoticSmirk: His default expression.
* ReallyGetsAround
* ScarsAreForever: Courtesy of Earth-2 Lex and Gold Kryptonite.
--> "There's no take-backs with Gold K. Lex really knew how to leave an impression, didn't he?"
* ShoutOut: His codename is a ShoutOut to the comic book [[MirrorUniverse Earth-3/Antimatter Universe]], where Ultraman, an EvilCounterpart of {{Superman}} (who Clark Luthor resembles only superficially), led the Crime Syndicate, who were PsychoRangers to the Earth-1 JusticeLeague.
* TheSociopath
* ThreeWaySex: Is seen waking up after a night with two hookers.
* [[spoiler:VillainousIncest: With Earth-2 Tess.]]

!!Earth-2 Lionel Luthor (John Glover)

-->''"I am your father and I alone raised you in my own image to become the man that you are today."''

* AbusiveParents: Earth-2 Lionel! Making the real thing look like a nice guy!
* [[spoiler:BackForTheFinale]]: [[spoiler:[[FourthWallObserver Looks right at the camera and says: "Wouldn't want to miss how it all turns out."]]]]
* BeardOfEvil
* TheCoatsAreOff: During his beatdown of Clark.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Has transformed [=LuthorCorp=] into the most powerful entity on Earth-2. He's more or less implied to be a CEO version of TheEmperor.
* {{Darwinist}}: As demonstrated by the epic FeedMe moment below. He's actually angry at Earth-2 Clark for not succeeding in killing him.
--> "It's got to be survival of the fittest. Whether you're on this earth, or any other, I am the most fit! I will be the survivor!"
* DiabolicalMastermind: By fusing [=LuthorCorp=] and the Metropolis underworld, he's effectively become the most powerful man on the planet.
* EvilGenius
* EvilTwin: Is the Eviler Twin to Earth-1 Lionel.
* LargeHam
* MagnificentBastard: He's the TropeCodifier regardless of universe.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Of Clark.
* OffingTheOffspring: Tries it on Clark, may have done it to Earth-2 Tess, definitely let it happen to Earth-2 Lex.
* OhCrap: [[spoiler:He followed Clark back to Earth-1!]]
* TheSociopath: To a far greater degree than the real Lionel. Not only is he tyrannical, manipulative and downright sadistic, but he lacks all of Earth-1 Lionel's [[EvenEvilHasStandards standards to boot]].
* {{Ubermensch}}
[[/folder]]
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<<|CharacterSheets|>>

This is a summary sheet for the characters in ''{{Smallville}}''. Please place characters in the appropriate folders.

[[folder: The Kents]]

!!Clark Kent / Kal-El / The Blur (Tom Welling)

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The main character of the show, we all know his story -- he was rocketed to Earth as a baby from the planet Krypton just before it was destroyed in an EarthShatteringKaboom and found by Jonathan and Martha Kent after his spaceship crash-landed in Smallville during a meteor shower that devastated much of the town. In the show's early seasons, Clark spent most of his time fighting [[MonsterOfTheWeek meteor freaks]], hopelessly pining for Lana Lang, [[IJustWantToBeNormal wishing he were normal]], and befriending his future ArchEnemy, LexLuthor. From Season 8 onwards, he began working at the ''Daily Planet'' alongside Lois Lane and taking steps towards embracing his destiny as {{Superman}}.

For his [[spoiler:Earth-2 counterpart, Clark Luthor / Ultraman, see the folder below]].

* AcrophobicBird
* AlliterativeName: Possibly the originator of the trope, as Clark Kent/Superman was the first ComicBook SuperHero, and possibly started the trend of ComicBook and SciFi characters having alliterative names.
* [[spoiler:BackFromTheDead]]
* {{Badass}}: He's {{Superman}}. What did you expect?
** BadassLongcoat: In Season 9.
*** [[spoiler:Come Season 10's "Shield," however, he returns to his red-and-blue threads.]]
** TookALevelInBadass
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Clark is a calm, friendly guy, but do ''not'' [[BerserkButton threaten the people he cares about]].
* {{Bishonen}}
* ChickMagnet: Humorously, he usually either seems innocently unaware of it or, when he does realize that a girl is attracted to him, he gets extremely shy and bashful.
* TheChosenOne: Repeatedly stated by Jor-El, who knew that Clark would gain powers on Earth and, since WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility, he would need to use those powers to help people.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome
* CoolLoser
* TheCombatPragmatist: Clark's usual strategy seems to be "clock you from behind at 500 miles an hour."
** And he's willing to use weapons, especially when BroughtDownToNormal.
* DoomMagnet: Meteor freaks, {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s, alien invaders--if it can attack Clark, it has.
* EstrogenBrigadeBait
* FarmBoy
* FlyingBrick: The original.
* HellBentForLeather: As [[SuperPoweredEvilSide Kal]]. In Season 10 he dons [[spoiler: a red and blue leather outfit of his own, complete with stylised House of El symbol]].
* HeroicNeutral: In the early seasons.
** NeutralNoLonger: As of Season 8.
* HeroicSelfDeprecation
* HollywoodNerd
* HonorBeforeReason
* HurtingHero
* IJustWantToBeNormal
* ILetGwenStacyDie
* ItsAllMyFault
* TheMessiah
* MessianicArchetype: ''Definitely''...
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Is guilty of this numerous times. [[spoiler:In the second season finale, he uses a kryptonite key to destroy his ship (so he can get rid of Jor-El) but ends up triggering an explosion that causes Martha to miscarry her unborn child. In the fourth season, he, through inaction, causes [[CataclysmClimax another meteor shower to bombard Smallville]]. In the Season 5 finale, he stabs [[BigBad Brainiac]] with a Kryptonian knife, opening a portal for [[BiggerBad General Zod]] to escape from the PhantomZone and [[GrandTheftMe possess Lex]]. In the sixth season finale, he tries using a Kryptonian crystal against the last Phantom Zone prisoner who instead clones Clark and becomes [[EvilTwin Bizarro]].]]
** [[spoiler:And in Season 10, we find out that his use of the Book of Rao to send away Zod and the Kandorians allowed {{Darkseid}} to come to Earth.]]
* TheParagon: According to Doctor Fate in Season 9's "Absolute Justice" two-parter.
* StealthHiBye: The number of times that someone has been speaking to Clark and then turned around to find him gone would make a good drinking game. It's practically a RunningGag.
* {{Superman}}: He's not there yet, but he's getting there.
* TechnicalPacifist: Murder is wrong! Smacking someone over the head from behind, however, is not.
* ThouShaltNotKill: He comes dangerously close to [[spoiler:killing Old Lex and the guy who killed Alicia Baker]], but pulls back at the last moment. Clark believes there is always a better option than murder.
* UnwittingPawn: On occasion. He's getting better about it, though.
* WideEyedIdealist

!!Jonathan Kent (John Schneider)

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Clark's adoptive human father. In Season 5, he ran for the Kansas State Senate and won...only to die of a heart attack a short while later [[spoiler:following a confrontation with Lionel Luthor (and as a consequence of Clark altering history)]].

* AesopAmnesia
* BadassNormal: At his best, he can go toe-to-toe with [[MagnificentBastard Lionel]] and survive anything the FreakOfTheWeek can throw at him.
* FormerTeenRebel
* GoOutWithASmile
* HappilyMarried: To Martha.
* HardHead: How many times has Mr. Kent been knocked out now?
* HotDad
* JerkAss: Was this at times, usually toward Lex in the early seasons.
* KilledOffForReal
* KnightTemplarParent
* [[MuggleFosterParents Muggle Foster Parent]]
* PapaWolf: If you mess with Clark, Jonathan will come for you. With a shotgun.
* ProperlyParanoid: Jonathan can come off as a paranoid KnightTemplarParent, but you know what? He was right about [[CompleteMonster Brainiac]]. He was right about [[{{Yandere}} Alicia]]. He was right about what Lex would do if [[spoiler:he ever found out Clark's secret]]. Pick a person that Clark trusted and who then betrayed him; chances are, Jonathan predicted it.
* SecretKeeper
* SoProudOfYou
* SpiritAdvisor

!!Martha Kent (Annette O'Toole)

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Clark's adoptive human mother. In Season 5, she took over Jonathan's Senate seat after his death and moved to Washington, D.C. at the end of Season 6. Returns in Season 9.

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Her relationship with Lionel. Not that it ever goes anywhere
* [[spoiler:ChessMotifs: Season 9.]]
* [[spoiler:ConvenientMiscarriage: At the end of Season 2.]]
* HappilyMarried: To Jonathan.
* HotMom
* [[spoiler:KnightTemplarParent: In Season 9's "Hostage."]]
* [[spoiler:LawOfChromaticSuperiority: The Red Queen. She even dresses all in red.]]
* [[spoiler:MamaBear]]
* [[MuggleFosterParents Muggle Foster Parent]]
* PutOnABus
** TheBusCameBack
* SecretKeeper
* TookALevelInBadass
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Smallville High Alumni]]

!!Lana Lang (Kristin Kreuk)

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Clark's LoveInterest for most of the series ([[spoiler:until her departure in Season 8]]), Lana's parents were killed in the meteor shower that brought Clark to Earth. She originally dated Whitney Fordman until he went off to join the Marines ([[spoiler:and was killed in action in Season 2]]), then went on to have an on-and-off relationship with Clark. In Season 5, after breaking up with Clark (again), she begins dating Lex.

In Season 6, Lana finds out that [[spoiler:she's pregnant with Lex's child and finally learns Clark's secret, and is about to leave Lex at the altar until Lionel blackmails her into going through with the wedding. After marrying Lex, Lana finds out that her pregnancy was faked by Lex to get her to marry him (according to WordOfGod)]]. She [[spoiler:[[FakingTheDead fakes her own death]], only to return to Smallville and]] get back together with Clark in Season 7, at the same time seeking revenge against Lex, which causes some friction between her and Clark until she decides to tone it down.

Lana is later [[spoiler:attacked by Brainiac and left in a comatose state until Clark defeats Brainiac and she recovers]], then leaves town ([[spoiler:in reality, she was kidnapped by Tess Mercer]]). She returns yet again in Season 8 with an ImportantHaircut. [[spoiler:Thanks to some [=LuthorCorp=] technology, Lana gains superhuman powers along with the ability to absorb kryptonite radiation. Lex, in a major XanatosGambit, forces her to choose between saving Metropolis by absorbing kryptonite radiation from a bomb or walking away; she chooses the former, thereby absorbing enough kryptonite radiation so that Clark can't come within an inch of her ever again. She then leaves Smallville for good.]]

* ActionGirl: Tries hard to become one, especially in [[spoiler:Season 8]].
* AlliterativeName
* ButtMonkey
* CorruptTheCutie: After Season 3, Lana came back from Paris DarkerAndEdgier. Gradually, over the course of the middle seasons, Lana seemed to embody this trope more and more, especially following her relationship with Lex.
* DesignatedGirlFight: With Tess, in Season 8.
* DesignatedVictim
* DistressedDamsel: For most of Seasons 1-7.
* DoomMagnet: Between frequent bouts of StalkerWithACrush, [[MagnificentBastard Lionel]] and [[ManipulativeBastard Lex]]'s manipulations, and people out to hurt Clark through her, she probably counts.
* GirlNextDoor
* GrandTheftMe: In Season 4, thanks to [[WickedWitch Margaret Isobel Thoreaux]]. See Isobel's entry for more on that.
* {{Hypocrite}}: She complains constantly about Clark and Lex hiding things from her, but the minute she has a secret (the spaceship, the fact that Lex is still alive, etc) she goes out of her way to hide it from Clark.
* ImportantHaircut: When she sheared off most of her hair, leaving it much shorter, [[spoiler:after escaping from Tess]].
* OutGambitted: Season 8. She [[spoiler:belived that stealing the Prometheus skin graft from Lex would a) leave him to die of his injuries while, b) allowing her and Clark to be together. Instead, it allows Lex to infect her with Kryptonite, permanently ending her relationship with Clark]].
* PutOnABus
** CommutingOnABus
* RaceLift: Is [[HeroesWantRedHeads a red-headed]] Caucasian in the comics, but portrayed by Kristin Kreuk, who's Asian-Canadian (albeit with Dutch ancestry, as well).
* {{Revenge}}: Wants it on Lionel and Lex at differing points.
* [[spoiler:SecretKeeper: And get this--she doesn't find out Clark's secret until late Season 6.]]
* TrainingFromHell: Had a former Special Forces trainer teach her to lose her DistressedDamsel status. It involved things like dunking herself in ice and holding burning hot steel in her hands.
* TookALevelInBadass: Between Season 7 and 8, courtesy of TrainingFromHell. It doesn't put her on the level of the other characters, but it does make her marginally more useful.
* UnwittingPawn: Of Lex, frequently.
* WaifFu: Post-Season 4.
* WomanScorned: To Clark and Lex on alternate occasions.

!!Whitney Fordman (Eric Johnson)

Lana's boyfriend during Season 1. A football jock who torments Clark after seeing him with Lana, Whitney later makes peace with Clark. After his father dies of a heart attack near the end of the first season, he decides to enlist in the Marines and asks Clark to look after Lana while he's away. [[spoiler:He gets KilledOffForReal in the second season while fighting in Indonesia.]]

* BackForTheDead
* TheBully
* DroppedABridgeOnHim
* HiddenDepths
* JerkJock
* KilledOffForReal
* PutOnABus
** BusCrash
* RomanticFalseLead: For Lana.

!!Pete Ross (Sam Jones III)

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Clark's best friend since childhood. Pete finds out Clark's secret in Season 2 after he finds Clark's ship in a cornfield. Near the end of the third season, his parents divorce and he moves away from Smallville with his mother when keeping Clark's secret becomes too much of a burden. He returns in Season 7 and gains temporary superpowers which he uses to try and be a hero, only to get into trouble. Once back to normal, Pete leaves Smallville again.

* BlackBestFriend
* DeadpanSnarker
* TheGenericGuy
* IJustWantToBeSpecial
* ProductPlacement: [[spoiler:For Stride chewing gum in Season 7's "Hero."]]
* PutOnABus
** TheBusCameBack
* RaceLift: Is Caucasian in the comics, but is portrayed by Sam Jones III, who's African-American.
* SecretKeeper
* SuperpowerSillyPutty
* TokenMinority

!!Chloe Sullivan (Allison Mack)

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One of Clark closest friends since the eighth grade, Chloe begins the show as a wannabe reporter with a huge crush on Clark. From Seasons 1-4 she works as a reporter at the high-school school newspaper, the ''Smallville Torch'', and helps Clark uncover information about the FreakOfTheWeek. As of late Season 4, she becomes a SecretKeeper for Clark and begins to play a much more important role in his life; in Season 5, after graduating high school, she starts working at the ''Daily Planet''.

Season 6 sees major changes in Chloe's life. Finally getting over her crush on Clark, she enters into a relationship with Jimmy Olsen, with whom she had a one-night stand between Seasons 3 and 4. She also discovers the secret identities of GreenArrow and most of the JusticeLeague, and becomes Watchtower, their MissionControl. In Season 7, Chloe leaves her job at the ''Daily Planet'' to be Watchtower full time.

In Season 8, Chloe marries Jimmy, a relationship that ends tragically when [[spoiler:Doomsday, who views her as his MoralityChain, murders him]]. Season 9 sees her withdraw from humanity in much the same way as Clark and Oliver do. Living in the centre of a stream of information, she becomes someone who just watches the rest of the world go by. Entering into [[spoiler:a relationship with Oliver helps her overcome some of this and when he is captured by [[SmugSnake Rick Flag]] and the Suicide Squad, she dons Doctor Fate's helmet and uses it to exchange herself for him]].

* [[spoiler:BackFromTheDead]]

** BadassNormal: She may not be a great physical combatant, but her fearlessness in the face of danger and willingness to throw herself into it definitely qualify her.
** TookALevelInBadass: By Season 9. She still gets her ass kicked by [[DarkActionGirl Tess]], but the fact that she doesn't die inside of about a minute says a lot about how far she's come.
* BreakTheCutie
* CanonForeigner / CanonImmigrant
* TheChessmaster: Becomes this in Season 9.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Towards Clark, in the early years.
* ControlFreak
* CoolLoser
* DeadpanSnarker
* {{Expy}}: For Lois Lane in the early seasons.
* [[spoiler:FakingTheDead: As of Season 10.]]
* GenkiGirl
* GirlFriday
* GrandTheftMe: Via [[RoboticPsychopath Brainiac]] in Season 8. See his entry for more on that.
* TheHeart
* HollywoodHacking
* HollywoodNerd
* HotScoop
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: With the exception of Jimmy, every important male in her life towers over her.
* IronWoobie: Not much can dent Chloe's optimism, despite the horror show her life often becomes.
* LovingAShadow: In Season 8, with [[spoiler:Davis]].
* [[MrExposition Miss Exposition]]
* MissionControl
* MoralityChain: For [[spoiler:Davis/Doomsday]] in Season 8.
* NerdsAreSexy
* [[spoiler:PutOnABus]]
* SecretKeeper
* SecretRelationship: With [[spoiler:Oliver]] in Season 9. It doesn't last--the secret, that is.
* TechnoWizard
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: To Clark, although it's at least partially her own fault.
* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection

[[folder: [=LuthorCorp=] and Associates]]

!!LexLuthor (Michael Rosenbaum)

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The son of multi-billionaire Lionel Luthor, Lex befriends Clark after the latter saves him from drowning following a plunge off a bridge in the pilot episode. He is initially Clark's best friend and goes out of his way to protect him, eventually deposing his father and seizing control of [=LuthorCorp=]. However, Clark's refusal to trust him, combined with Lex's inability to overcome his own upbringing, and their rivalry over both Lana and how best to protect Smallville cause Lex to slide into villainy, ending in a FaceHeelTurn of epic proportions when he [[spoiler:murders his reformed father and attempts to do the same to Clark in the Season 7 finale]].

He returns in Season 8 [[spoiler:and despite being reduced to an EvilCripple, manages to ruin Clark and Lana's future together before apparently being killed by Oliver Queen. Doctor Fate confirmed Lex was alive in Season 9's "Absolute Justice," and with all of Lex's clones currently on the loose in Season 10, it appears to be only a matter of time before he himself resurfaces]].

Defined by his obsessions and need for control, Lex can be vengeful, spiteful and, at times, downright petty, but also has flashes of pure Machiavellian brilliance. He is a fitting ArchEnemy for a {{Superman}}.

It has repeatedly been suggested that he will [[PresidentEvil seek the US Presidency]] at some point in the future.

* AbusiveParents: Oh boy, is Lex ever the mother-lode of this trope. Lionel's abusive way of raising Lex is a big part of what led to his StartOfDarkness.

* AntiHero: Lex started the series as a [[SlidingScaleOfAntiHeroes Type IV]] AntiHero since he was generally trying to do the right thing and get rid of [[BiggerBad his father Lionel]]...but then of course, around Season 4 and on, the ForegoneConclusion begins to start...
** AntiVillain: Season 4 and 5, before he [[FaceHeelTurn dove into full on villainy]].
* ArchEnemy: Well on his way to being Clark's.
* AssholeVictim: In the later seasons.
* [[spoiler:BackFromTheDead: Thanks to Chloe's healing powers.]]
* BadBoss: After his [[FaceHeelTurn turn to villainy]].
* {{Badass}}: He fought GreenArrow, the biggest BadassNormal in series' one-on-one and accquited himself well. And that's just one example.
** BadassBoast: "You were right, Clark. I am the villain of the story."
** BadassLongcoat: Lex's trenchcoat is every bit as iconic as his [[DressedToKill nice]] [[ManOfWealthAndTaste suit]].
** BadassNormal: Both physically and mentally.
** [[spoiler:HandicappedBadass: Season 8, in both the literal and metaphorical sense. Bereft of his [[CorruptCorporateExecutive company]], [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney money]], [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections connections]], and his very mobility, a quadrapalegic Lex keeps the superhero community quaking in their boots, and proves that even trapped in the back of a truck on life-support, and breathing through a respirator he's still one of the most dangerous villains out there.]]
* BaldOfAwesome --> BaldOfEvil: Courtesy of his FaceHeelTurn.
* BigBad: [[BigBadEnsemble Competes]] with [[RoboticPsychopath Brainiac]] for this title in Season 7. Considered by some to have held it since Season 6.
* BrokenAce: Very much so. He's rich, successful, handsome, self-loathing and caught up in a [[WellDoneSonGuy desire for parental approval]] all at the same time.
* TheChessmaster
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: After he turns evil.
* CorruptTheCutie: Lionel was determined to teach Lex about how to be ruthless and Machiavellian...even when Lex was still just a ''child''. For one of his birthdays when Lex was young, Lionel bought a replica of the Battle of Troy and used it to try to teach Lex about ruthless strategy. It's also been mentioned that Lionel once gave Lex a copy of Sun Tzu's ''The Art of War'' on another childhood birthday.
** Arguably CorruptTheCutie can also be used to describe how Lex affected Lana's personality [[spoiler:after they got together]], although to be fair, she wasn't exactly a saint beforehand, either.
* DeadpanSnarker
* [[spoiler:TheDreaded: As of Season 8. Other characters treat him as though he were a HeroKiller (even though he's really not) and the possibility of his return is always spoken of as though it were a prophecy regarding TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. Not bad for a BadassNormal who hasn't appeared for two-and-a-half seasons.]]
* DressedToKill
* [[spoiler:DroppedABridgeOnHim]]
** [[spoiler:And then NotQuiteDead.]]
* [[spoiler:EvilCripple: In Season 8. He's on a respirator and barely able to breathe.]]
* [[spoiler:EvilIsPetty: His incredibly petty and vicious plan in Season 8 revolves around breaking up Clark and Lana through the nastiest way possible.]]
* EvilIsSexy: According to many of his fans.
* [[spoiler:EvilSoundsDeep: Season 8, complete with VaderBreath.]]
* FaceHeelTurn: Pretty much a ForegoneConclusion, but still heartbreaking to watch.
* FriendlyEnemy: Until the events of ''Arctic''.
* [[spoiler:GeniusCripple: Season 8]]
* GuileHero: Pre-FaceHeelTurn.
* GunsAkimbo: Against Green Arrow and Black Canary in "Siren." Complete with...
** GunKata
* HardHead: Holds {{Smallville}}'s record for being knocked unconcious.
* KlingonPromotion
* LargeHam
* LonelyRichKid
* MadDictatorsHandsomeSon --> OverlordJr: He never loses his hatred for his father, but he gets a whole lot more evil himself.
* MagnificentBastard: Unlike his father who starts out here, Lex evolves into one of these as the show progresses, moving from a competent ManipulativeBastard and {{Chessmaster}} into true Magnificence.
* ManipulativeBastard
* [[spoiler:TheManBehindTheMan: To Tess and Winslow Schott in Season 8.]]
* ManInWhite: In the various {{Bad Future}}s where he's PresidentEvil.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste: In the later seasons, and the {{Bad Future}}s.
* [[spoiler:TheOtherDarrin: In Season 8, a body double is portraying him, with his face obscured so that the door is still open for Michael Rosenbaum to possibly return.]]
* PresidentEvil: In several {{Bad Future}}s.
* RedRightHand: In every one of the BadFuture episodes, PresidentEvil Lex is shown as a ManInWhite with a single black-gloved hand. Might be a ShoutOut to the comics where constantly wearing a Kryptonite ring caused Luthor to develop cancer in one of his hands and have it replaced with a mechanical one.
* [[spoiler:{{Revenge}}: Season 8.]]
* [[spoiler:SelfMadOrphan: "Descent." Seen by many as his MoralEventHorizon.]]
* TheUnFavorite: To his own father, no less. And he's an only child to boot.
* [[spoiler:VaderBreath: Season 8.]]
* WellDoneSonGuy: Lionel withheld affection from Lex so much that not only does he desperately seek Lionel's approval in the early seasons, but also the approval of ''Clark's'' dad!
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Perhaps best stated by Lex himself in "Descent":
--->'''Lex:''' "Come on, Clark! This is Smallville! Meteor freaks, alien ships, cryptic symbols...somebody HAD to take control to ensure people's safety!"
* WickedCultured
* TheWoobie --> JerkassWoobie: Lex garners a ''lot'' of audience sympathy before, and even after his FaceHeelTurn.
* XanatosGambit: [[spoiler:His SadisticChoice in Season 8. Either Lana absorbs the Kryptonite radiation and can't go near Clark again, or they let the bomb go off, thus proving they aren't the heroes they claim to be. One could also add the very creation of the Prometheus skin graft here: either he puts it on, recovers and uses it to kill Clark, or Lana puts it on and the above plan goes into action]].

!!Lionel Luthor (John Glover)

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Lex's father and the founder of [=LuthorCorp=], Lionel rose from poverty to become one of the wealthiest men in the world. Claiming to be descended from Scottish nobility, he raised his son with little warmth and less love, believing that such things only bred weakness. He is the chief culprit behind his son's shattered psyche and [[WellDoneSonGuy need for approval]], and is the main antagonist in Seasons 1-3. Affable, sarcastic and always capable of coming out on top, Lionel is one of the few ''agreed upon'' examples of a MagnificentBastard.

Imprisoned at the end of Season 3 when Lex and Chloe reveal that he [[spoiler:murdered his parents]], Lionel is freed by [[EvilMatriarch Genevieve Teague]] and undergoes the beginnings of a HeelFaceTurn. Failing to re-connect with Lex despite his best efforts, Lionel grows closer to Clark, eventually learning his secret and becoming his ally, while at the same time serving as the host body for Jor-El (and nursing an enormous crush on Clark's mother Martha). [[spoiler:He's killed by Lex in Season 7's "Descent" when he refuses to reveal Clark's secret to him.]]

For [[spoiler:his Earth-2 counterpart, see the folder below]].

* [[AbusiveParents Abusive Dad]]: Though much, much more sympathetic than most television ones. Season 3 implies that he had one himself, meaning that the cycle of abuse is in full swing.
* AffablyEvil: Definitely. If you weren't in his way--or related to him--Lionel could be a downright pleasant guy, even before his HeelFaceTurn.

* AntiVillain --> AntiHero: In the later seasons.
* ArchnemesisDad: To Lex, remaining so even after his HeelFaceTurn.
* AscendedExtra: A recurring villain in Season 1, he recieved his PromotionToOpeningTitles in Season 2.
* AssholeVictim
* {{Badass}}: On the merits of both his physical prowess, and his sheer presence.
** BadassBeard
** BadassLonghair: One almost thinks it's in deliberate contrast to [[BaldOfEvil Lex]].
** BadassLongcoat: Frequently.
** BadassNormal
** CulturedBadass

* BigBad: Seasons 1-3; start of Season 4.
* BrokenAce: A villainous example. Lionel's obsession with wealth, power and material success cover up a great deal of self-hatred, an inability to identify with other people, and a childhood he's still running away from.
* CanonForeigner --> CanonImmigrant
* CoolOldGuy
* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* DeadpanSnarker: Where do you think Lex got it from?
* DisneyVillainDeath
* DressedToKill
* EvenEvilHasStandards
* EvilIsCool: One of the reasons for his sizeable fanbase.
* FanNickname: The MagnificentBastard, the MB. Seriously, visit any ''Smallville'' forum where he's discussed; at least one or two people (and probably far more) will refer to him as such.
* HeelFaceTurn: Slowly. He shifts from BigBad (Seasons 1-3) to AntiVillain (Seasons 4 and 5) to a [[SlidingScaleOfAntiHeroes Type III or IV]] AntiHero (Seasons 6 and 7).
* ImportantHaircut: At the end of Season 3. He grows it back.
* KilledOffForReal
* KnightTemplarParent
* LargeHam
* MagnificentBastard: TropeCodifier.

* MessyHair: And the longer it gets, the messier (and greasier) it is.
* PapaWolf: Starts showing this trait towards Lex and then Clark after Season 4.
* ParentalSubstitute: Tries hard to be one for Clark.
* RagsToRiches: In the {{Backstory}}.
* ReallyGetsAround / YourCheatingHeart: He's had affairs with other women in the past, resulting in two illegitimate children, Lucas and [[spoiler:Tess]].
* RedemptionEqualsDeath
* SecretKeeper
* SelfMadeOrphan: He and Morgan Edge conspired to kill his alcoholic parents, Lachlan and Eliza.
* [[HeroesWantRedheads Villains Want Redheads]]: Had a serious crush on Martha. To the bastard's credit, he never did much about it. Also, his late wife Lillian was a redhead. As was Pamela Jenkins, Lex's childhood nanny and [[spoiler:Tess' biological mother]].
* WickedCultured
* XanatosSpeedChess
* ZenSurvivor

!!Lucas Luthor (Paul Wesley)

* AlliterativeName

!!Lillian Luthor (Alisen Down)

The deceased wife of Lionel, and the mother of Lex and Julian (also deceased). It is [[spoiler:eventually revealed in Season 3 that she smothered baby Julian in his crib]], creating the beginnings of the Lex/Lionel feud that persists throughout the show.

* AlliterativeName
* HotMom
* MissingMom
* PosthumousCharacter

!!Tess Mercer (Cassidy Freeman)

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Lex's protégé and his successor as CEO of [=LuthorCorp=], Tess has a complicated history with Oliver Queen. Domineering, [[ManipulativeBitch calculating]] and extremely [[BrokenBird broken]], Tess is a force to be reckoned with, though whether it's for good or evil is often up in the air.

First appearing in Season 8, Tess is a secondary antagonist throughout, trying to uncover the truth about Lex's disappearance, discover Clark's secret and eliminate both Doomsday and his host body. At the Orb's instruction, Tess releases the Kandorians at the end of Season 8 and spends most of Season 9 alternately allying with and opposing Zod's designs. [[spoiler:She is apparently killed at the end of Season 9, but is resurrected by Granny Goodness and pulls a HeelFaceTurn, becoming Watchtower II]]. She is eventually revealed to [[spoiler:be Lutessa Lena Luthor, the illegitimate daughter of Lionel Luthor and Pamela Jenkins, as well as a candidate Female Fury]].

* [[spoiler:AlliterativeName: Lutessa Lena Luthor.]]
* TheAtoner: In Season 10.
* [[spoiler:BackFromTheDead]]
* BadassNormal: Confirms this by taking on [[FlyingBrick Zod]] and later [[AxeCrazy Harriet]].
* TheBaroness
* BrokenBird: Life in general, and her interactions with the Luthors in particular, have left her very, very damaged.
* CompositeCharacter / {{Expy}}: [[Film/{{Superman}} Eve Teschmacher]] and [[SupermanTheAnimatedSeries Mercy Graves]]. Possibly of the Con''tess''a as well, who was Luthor's ex-wife in the comics.
** It turns out she's also [[spoiler:Lena Luthor...]]
* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* DarkActionGirl: She's lost some of the evil lately, but none of the edge.
* DesignatedGirlFight: Against Lana, Lois and, most recently, Harriet.
* DeadpanSnarker
* ElectronicEyes: Implanted by Lex. It's revealed that [[spoiler: he is actually spying on her through them, which prompts her HeelFaceTurn]].
* EvilIsSexy

* EvilSoundsDeep: Has the deepest voice in the female cast, and, what a shocker, is one of the bad guys.
* FemmeFatale
* FieryRedhead
* GreeneyedRedhead
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Although it seems to have settled on Face for the moment.
* [[spoiler:InTheBlood: Her being Lionel's daughter explains both her [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative nature]] and her HeelFaceRevolvingDoor.]]
* JerkassWoobie
* ManipulativeBitch
* MisanthropeSupreme: [[spoiler:She sides with the cloned Kryptonians over humanity, believing that they will be better stewards of the planet than humans.]]
* [[spoiler:MissionControl: Becomes Watchtower II in Season 10, due to Chloe's absence.]]
* [[spoiler:ParentalAbandonment]]
* [[spoiler:PromotionToParent: Seemed to be going this route with [[CloningBlues Alexander Luthor]] prior to his FaceHeelTurn.]]
* TheReveal: In Season 10's "Abandoned," she's revealed [[spoiler:to actually be a Luthor.]]
* RichBitch
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: She's pretty much Lex in drag, at least initially.
** Which kinda makes sense since [[spoiler:it's recently been revealed that she's Lex's half-sister.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist

!!Injustice League -- Bette Sans Souci / Plastique (Jessica Parker Kennedy), Rudy Jones / Parasite (Brendan Fletcher), Eva Greer (Anna Williams), Leslie Willis / Livewire (Anna Mae Routledge), Neutron (Jae Lee)

A team of super-powered operatives assembled by Tess in Season 8 to track down Doomsday. After the deaths of Livewire, Neutron and Eva, Parasite and Plastique turn on Tess but are stopped by Clark.

For more on Plastique, see "Suicide Squad."

* BroughtDownToNormal: Parasite does this to Livewire.
* EnergyAbsorption: Parasite
* HellBentForLeather
* MadBomber: Plastique
* PsychoElectro: Livewire
* ShapeShifter: Eva
* ShockAndAwe: Livewire
* VampiricDraining: Parasite's power drains both your powers, and your LifeEnergy.
* WhyAmITicking: The chip in their heads that keeps them loyal doubles as a bomb.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Tess does this to Livewire and Eva.

!!Alexander Luthor (Jakob Davies, Connor Stanhope, Lucas Grabeel)

A clone of Lex created sometime after Season 7, Alexander was part of the mad billionaire's plan to save himself from the injuries he sustained at the end of Season 7 [[spoiler:following his face-off with Clark at the Fortress of Solitude]]. He is released from Cadmus Labs by Tess in the Season 10 opening, and at first appears to be a relatively normal child. However, his accelerated aging and possession of Lex's memories [[spoiler:eventually drive him to begin imitating his namesake, to the point of abandoning Tess. His current whereabouts are unknown]].

* [[spoiler:BaldOfEvil: As of the end of "Harvest".]]
* CheerfulChild: At least, at first.
* CloningBlues: Complete with accelerated aging.
* DoNotCallMePaul: [[spoiler:"My name is Lex!"]]
* [[spoiler:EnfanteTerrible: Given that he has Lex's mind in a child's body, this should surprise no one. He's creepy, manipulative and downright abusive towards Tess. And then there's his murderous agenda regarding Clark. "Born bad" is putting it mildly.]]
** [[spoiler:TeensAreMonsters: If the trailer for next year is any indicator.]]
* [[spoiler:EvilGenius]]
* [[spoiler:EvilOrphan: Despite Tess's best efforts.]]
* [[spoiler:EvilRedhead: "Harvest"]]
* [[spoiler:FaceHeelTurn]]
* ImportantHaircut: Recently [[spoiler:shaved himself in imitation of Lex.]]
* [[spoiler:PsychoticSmirk: Sports a beautiful copy of Lex's.]]
* [[spoiler:TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Ruthlessly deconstructs Tess' desire to help him, claiming that she's only trying to exorcise her own internal demons.]]
* ShadowArchetype: To Lex, of course.
* SharpDressedMan: Well, boy really.
** [[spoiler:ManOfWealthAndTaste: As of his FaceHeelTurn.]]
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: "He's just as smart as Lex was. Maybe even smarter."
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Not to the degree of Old Lex, but he's getting there.

!!Old Lex (Mackenzie Gray)

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Another one of Lex's clones, this one degenerated to the point where he resembles a much older man. He is released in the Season 10 opening and goes on a killing spree that starts with the other clones and ends with separate attempts on Lois and the entire ''Daily Planet''. Utterly insane, he possesses all of Lex's memories and brains, but none of his suave demeanor.

* AxCrazy: To the point where Lex himself had him locked up.
* BaldOfEvil
* CloningBlues: He's far older than the real Lex, and dying to boot.
* CloneDegeneration: The only real explanation for his positively [[{{Nosferatu}} Orlockian]] appearance.
* EvilOldFolks
* {{Expy}}: Of previous villain Adrian Cross, who was cloned from Lex's younger brother Julian. Both have aging problems, identity issues and a lust for revenge, as well as [[TheLastDance limited time to put their plans in motion]].
* KillItWithFire: Does it to the other clones; tries to do it to Lois.
* TheLastDance: He's already dying when he gets loose. Trying to hurt Clark is just a final F-U before he goes.
* LooksLikeCesare: Rail skinny, with sunken, baggy eyes, a pale complexion, and a sickly cast to his features.
* LooksLikeOrlok: He's not a vampire, but with the BaldOfEvil, vaguely PointyEars and jutting teeth, he does a remarkable impression.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste: Is dressed as such when he confronts Clark.
* SadisticChoice: Tries to force Clark to choose between saving Lois or the people of Metropolis.
* ShadowArchetype: To the real Lex. Old Lex is what the real Luthor would by like if he lost the [[ManipulativeBastard charisma]], and his few [[EvenEvilHasStandards remaining]] [[AffablyEvil scruples]], while turning up the AxCrazy a notch or [[UpToEleven eleven]]. That darkness inside him Lex was constantly being warned about? It's more or less this guy.
* SmugSnake: Has all of Lex's cunning and evil and JerkAss qualities with none of the sympathy or [[MagnificentBastard Magnificence]].
* ThereCanBeOnlyOne: Lex Luthor, that is.
* YouLookFamiliar: His actor, Mackenzie Gray, also portrayed EvilBrit and MadScientist Dr. Alister Kreig in Season 5's "Cyborg".
* YoungerThanTheyLook: His CloningBlues have left with the body of a much older man.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: The House of El and Associates]]

!!Jor-El (Terence Stamp, Julian Sands)

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[[caption-width-right:300:Jor-El in his pre-Fortress days.]]
Clark's Kryptonian biological father. A scientist, Jor-El was regarded as one of Krypton's greatest heroes. When Krypton was about to go boom, he copied his brain patterns into the spaceship that would carry his son to Earth.
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* AllPowerfulBystander
* AssholeVictim: The Fortress AI has this happen to it a lot, courtesy of Brainiac, Lex, Lionel and various others.
* BackFromTheDead: Thanks to [[CloningBlues cloning]] in Season 9's "Kandor."
* BecauseDestinySaysSo: The AI is a total douche about this.
* CainAndAbel: With Zor-El and [[spoiler:Zod]].
* GeniusLoci
* GoodIsNotNice
* HappilyMarried: Screwed up as he is, there are no indications that his marriage to Lara was less than happy.
* [[spoiler:HeroicSelfDeprecation: Both the clone and the real Jor-El have rather negative views of their own achievements.]]
* HumansAreFlawed: And so are Kryptonians.
* JerkAss: In the early seasons, at least.
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In later seasons.
* TheJorEl: [[spoiler:True, he's the TropeNamer, but he's this for an entirely different reason, as shown in Season 9's "Kandor" when he tries to warn the Kryptonian Council that sending cloned Kryptonians to Earth might not be such a great idea.]]
* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal: Clone Jor-El.]]
* LighterAndSofter: [[spoiler:The clone (and presumably the real) Jor-El are shown to be much nicer than the Fortress AI.]]
* ManInWhite: When he was alive on Krypton.
* [[MeddlingParents Meddling Parent]]
* MinoredInAssKicking: [[spoiler:His clone in Season 9's "Kandor" showed some decent fighting skills.]]
* MisterExposition
* TheParalyzer: [[spoiler:Clone Jor-El demonstrates the ability to knock out his enemies via {{Pressure Point}}s.]]
* PosthumousCharacter
* SealedGoodInACan: [[spoiler:In the Season 9 episode "Kandor."]]
* SinkOrSwimMentor
* SoProudOfYou: Said by the Fortress AI to Clark in Season 8's "Abyss" and later by his younger clone to Clark in "Kandor."
* SoulJar
* SpiritAdvisor
* TheSpock
* TheVoice
* [[spoiler:WeUsedToBeFriends: Real and clone Jor-El with Major Zod.]]

!!Lara-El (Kendall Cross, Helen Slater)

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Clark's Kryptonian biological mother.
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* BackFromTheDead: Thanks to [[CloningBlues cloning]] and a PowerCrystal in Season 7's "Blue."
* CloningBlues
* FlyingBrick: Although she only really gets to demonstrate her NighInvulnerability.
* HappilyMarried: To Jor-El, much to [[{{Yandere}} Zor-El]]'s disgust.
* HotMom
* MetaCasting / RemakeCameo: Her actress originally played Supergirl.
* PosthumousCharacter
* SealedGoodInACan
* UnwittingPawn: Of Zor-El.

!!Raya (Pascale Hutton)

Jor-El's lab assistant, she helped construct the ship that Clark escaped Krypton in. Raya was later put into the PhantomZone so she could survive Krypton's destruction. Years later, she meets Clark after he's sent to the Phantom Zone himself by Zod and helps him escape, but is believed to have been killed by two of Zod's henchmen. Later on, Raya shows up in Smallville and helps Clark battle Baern, one of the Phantom Zone escapees. She is killed by Baern in the Fortress of Solitude.
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* CuteBruiser
* HotScientist

* MinoredInAssKicking
* [[MisterExposition Miss Exposition]]
* MsFanservice: When Clark first meets her, she's in a toga.
* TellMeAboutMyFather
* TemporaryLoveInterest
* WaifFu

!![[{{Supergirl}} Kara Kent]] / Kara Zor-El (Laura Vandervoort)

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Clark's Kryptonian cousin, the daughter of Jor-El's brother Zor-El. She was sent to Earth by her father to ostensibly find and look after her cousin Kal-El, only to be trapped in suspended animation shortly after her arrival. Eighteen years later (in Season 7), Kara awakens following a battle between Clark and Bizarro.
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* ActionGirl
* AlliterativeName: Once adopted into the Kent family.
* BadassFamily: Part of Clark's.
* BareYourMidriff: Often. Just look at the picture.
* ClarkKenting: In Season 7. By [[spoiler:her return in Season 10, she has adopted a wig and glasses as a disguise]].
* CuteBruiser

* HumanPopsicle: Was trapped in stasis lock until the start of Season 7.
* [[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter]]: No, seriously. Her dad Zor-El has got some issues.
* MinidressOfPower: Season 10.
* MsFanservice
* OlderThanTheyLook: She's actually twenty or so years older than Clark. Thanks to her getting trapped in stasis, though, Clark both looks, and acts, a fair bit older than her.
* PutOnABus
** TheBusCameBack
** CommutingOnABus
* UnskilledButStrong: In Season 7. Unlike Clark, she has access to the full range of Kryptonian powers, allowing her to fly, lift cars, SuperSpeed, and take bullets with the best of them, but she has almost no control over her lesser abilities. Clark can carve a pumpkin with his [[EyeBeams heat vision]]; Kara tends to make them explode.

!!Zor-El (Christopher Heyerdahl)

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Clark's Kryptonian uncle, Jor-El's brother and Kara's father. Zor-El and his brother [[CainAndAbel didn't get along very well]], probably since Zor-El was in love with Jor-El's wife Lara and [[MurderTheHypotenuse tried to kill Jor-El so he could have Lara all to himself]]. He later became an ally to General Zod, but only so he could fulfill an ancient Kryptonian prophecy by destroying the planet. Years later, Zor-El and Lara are resurrected by a PowerCrystal he sent with Kara to Earth. He tries to take over Earth, only to be stopped when Clark destroys the crystal that brought him and Lara back to life.

* BackFromTheDead: Thanks to [[CloningBlues cloning]] and a PowerCrystal in Season 7's "Blue."
* BadassLongcoat
* BrokenPedestal: To Kara.
* EarthShatteringKaboom: Caused Krypton's, alongside Brainiac and Zod.
* EvilUncle: To Clark.
* TheFundamentalist: Fervently believed in a Kryptonian prophecy about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, leading him to cause it using Brainiac.
* FlyingBrick
* KillAllHumans
* LargeHam
* LoveMakesYouEvil
* MadScientist
* MurderTheHypotenuse
* OmnicidalManiac: Helped Zod blow up Krypton.
* SealedEvilInACan
* SmugSnake
* WeCanRuleTogether: To Lara, Clark and Kara at various points.
* XanatosGambit
* {{Yandere}}
[[/folder]]

[[folder: The House of Zod and Associates]]

!!General Zod (Michael Rosenbaum)

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A Kryptonian general and war criminal, Zod's body was destroyed and his soul thrown into the PhantomZone following an attempted coup against the Kryptonian ruling council. Freed in the Season 5 finale by [[spoiler:Brainiac (who pulls a ThanatosGambit on Clark)]], Zod body-jacks Lex Luthor, using the billionaire's newly-gained superpowers in an attempt to bring the world to its knees. He is defeated by Clark in the Season 6 opening and imprisoned by the Crystal of El.

In Season 8, it is revealed that Zod and his second wife, Faora, had been unable to have children. Genetically engineering a child, they sent him to Earth as genetic material attached to Kal-El's spaceship. Said child grew up to be Doomsday, and was intended to kill Clark and destroy the world.

In Season 9, Major Zod's arrival leads to important revelations about his genetic predecessor, namely that Zod was once a war hero from the battle against Black Zero and that his hatred for Jor-El stemmed from the latter's refusal to [[spoiler:clone his son, following the death of Zod's family when Kandor was destroyed]]. The Major was eventually banished by the Book of Rao (see his entry for more on that); whether the General is even capable of returning remains unknown.
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* {{Badass}}
** BadassLongcoat: While possessing Lex.
** BadassMoustache: On his real body.
** FourStarBadass
* BaldOfEvil: When possessing Lex.
* BiggerBad: In Season 5.
* DemonicPossession: As Zod's physical body was destroyed, this is the best he can do. Unlike the other Zoners, he has to have his vessel specially prepared to boot.
* FallenHero: Was once one of Krypton's greatest military leaders (see Major Zod for more on that).
* FlyingBrick
* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler:Of Lex.]]
* KneelBeforeZod: Naturally.
* LargeHam
* OmnicidalManiac: When he couldn't take over Krypton, he corrupted the Brain Inter Active Construct, and helped Zor-El blow up the planet.
* SealedEvilInACan
* SecondLove: Faora
* SinsOfOurFathers
* UnholyMatrimony: With Faora.

!!Faora ([[spoiler:Erica Durance]], Sharon Taylor)

Zod's second wife, Faora escapes the Phantom Zone in Season 8, possesses [[spoiler:Lois Lane]] and goes hunting for her son Doomsday, whom she and Zod genetically engineered due to her own inability to bear children. Finding him in his human form as [[spoiler:Davis Bloome]], Faora murders him in order to kick-start his mutant genetics and transform him into the killing machine she and Zod intended him to be. She is sent to the Phantom Zone once again by Kara, through the use of the Martian Manhunter's crystal.

In Season 9, we learn that Faora was originally one of Zod's soldiers during his days with the Kryptonian army. She grew close to her commander after [[spoiler:his first wife and son's deaths]], eventually becoming his partner in the plot to take over or destroy Krypton.
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* AbusiveMom: [[spoiler:To Davis/Doomsday.]]
* DarkActionGirl: She's one of Zod's soldiers. This surprises anyone?
* EvilMakeover: Gives a subtle one to [[spoiler:Lois]].
* EvilIsSexy
* FlyingBrick
* GoodLookingPrivates
* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler:Of Lois.]]
* [[LukeIAmYourFather Luke I Am Your Mother]]: [[spoiler:Reveals to Davis that he is the son of General Zod and herself.]]
* SealedEvilInACan
* SecondLove: To Zod.
* SociopathicSoldier: She got her start as a member of Zod's Kandorian army.
* UnholyMatrimony: Played straight with her and Zod. To hear her tell it, they're quite HappilyMarried.

!!Nam-Ek and Aethyr (Leonard Roberts and Alana de la Garza)

Two of Zod's henchmen (or "disciples"), Nam-Ek and Aethyr come to Earth during the second meteor shower that strikes Smallville at the end of Season 4, having escaped Krypton before its destruction inside of a black spaceship (which also contained Brainiac). After they raise some hell in Smallville searching for Clark, Clark finds them and manages to send them to the Phantom Zone. They return in the Season 6 premiere. Nam-Ek is killed by Raya; Aethyr's fate remains unknown.
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* BaldOfEvil: Nam-Ek
* CurbStompBattle: Them vs. the Smallville police.
* EliteMooks: To Zod.
* {{Flying Brick}}s
* GreenEyes: Both of 'em.
* [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Hoist By Their Own Petard]]
* TheOtherDarrin: Aethyr was played by a different actress in the Season 6 opener.
* {{Revenge}}
* ScaryBlackMan: Nam-Ek
* WeCanRuleTogether

!!Davis Bloome [[spoiler:/ Doomsday]] (SamWitwer [[spoiler:/ Dario Delacio]])

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A paramedic who befriends Chloe in Season 8, Davis suffers from constant blackouts and memory lapses, and has his own connections to Krypton and Zod. [[spoiler:Faora eventually reveals that he is the genetically-engineered son of herself and Zod]], news Davis does not take well. At first [[DrivenToSuicide determined to end his own life]], the knowledge that this is more or less impossible, combined with his growing crush on Chloe and his obsession with protecting his secrets, slowly drive Davis mad, turning him into a dark mirror of Clark Kent. [[spoiler:Discovering that he can keep Doomsday under control by committing murders as Davis, the paramedic becomes a SerialKiller in both his identities; while this prevents Doomsday from hurting others, it causes Davis to become increasingly evil, transforming him into the season's BigBad. The two are separated by Black Kryptonite in the finale; in the aftermath, Doomsday is imprisoned underground, while the de-powered Davis {{FaceHeelTurn}}s, kills Henry James Olsen, and is in turn killed by Henry]].
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* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Until "Doomsday", when he gets split from Doomsday...and later kills Jimmy before being killed himself.]]
* [[spoiler:BigBad]]: For Season 8. Sort of.
* [[spoiler:BiologicalMashup]]
* DeusAngstMachina
* [[spoiler:EnemyWithin --> EnemyWithout]]: [[spoiler:After he gets separated from Doomsday in the Season 8 finale.]]
* EstrogenBrigadeBait
* [[spoiler:HealingFactor: To the point where death doesn't stick.]]
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor --> [[spoiler:FaceHeelTurn]]
* [[spoiler:ICannotSelfTerminate]]
* IJustWantToBeNormal
* [[spoiler:{{Immortality}}]]
* [[spoiler:JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope]]
* [[spoiler:KarmicDeath]]
* TheKillerInMe: From the beginning, Davis suspects he might be the SerialKiller who's on the loose in Metropolis. [[spoiler:He's right.]]
* [[spoiler:LoveMakesYouEvil: Interesting variant]]
* [[spoiler:NighInvulnerability: As Doomsday, and later, Davis.]]
* ParentalAbandonment: He was bounced from one lousy foster home to the next.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: He begins killing those he deems evil [[spoiler:as a way of suppressing Doomsday]].
* [[spoiler:PersonOfMassDestruction: It's Doomsday. No kidding.]]
* [[spoiler:RedEyesTakeWarning]]
* [[spoiler:SerialKiller]]
* [[spoiler:SpikesOfVillainy: As Doomsday.]]
* [[spoiler:SuperStrength]]
* ShadowArchetype: To Clark. They're both [[spoiler:the sons of important Kryptonian leaders, have a connection to Chloe and, most importantly, a secret they are determined to keep. Clark became a hero; Davis let his obsession with secrecy drive him nuts.]]
* [[spoiler:SuperpoweredEvilSide]]

!!Major Zod (Callum Blue)

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A clone of the original Zod from his time as a major, he and his cloned Kandorian army arrive in Season 9, following Clark's defeat of Doomsday and Tess's activation of the Orb. Determined to gain Kryptonian powers for his initially depowered army, Zod is nevertheless horrified by the knowledge that his own future self destroyed Krypton. Clark attempts to use this knowledge to save the Major from himself, but to little avail; Zod slides further into villainy even as people within his own army begin to question his leadership. Following the collapse of his alliance with Tess Mercer, and his own murder of [[spoiler:Faora]] whom he regards as a traitor, Zod declares war on the entire world. Clark is able to reveal the full extent of his crimes to the Kandorians, however, and the entire army is ultimately returned home by the Book of Rao, though not before Zod and Clark engage in an epic KnifeFight to see who will truly control Earth's future.

In a BadFuture, it was revealed that Zod and the Kandorians had conquered the world. In the main timeline, he stays one step ahead of Clark by posing as the Blur and convincing Lois to give him information.

The main antagonist of Season 9, Zod is a quick study, and a capable political and business leader, in addition to being the superb tactician and strategist that one would expect Krypton's greatest war hero to be.
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* AffablyEvil: At first. When he drops the facade, things get worse in a big way.
* BackFromTheDead: Thanks to [[CloningBlues cloning]], as revealed in "Kandor."
* {{Badass}}
** [[spoiler:BadassAbnormal: Was already {{Badass}}. Then he gains the Kryptonian powers he should have had all along, and holy crap.]]
** BadassArmy: Leads one.
** BadassBoast: "Unlike you, I would lead from the throne, not from the shadows. Every human, including the woman you love, will ''[[ThisIsSparta kneel before Zod]]!''"
** BadassLongcoat
** [[ColonelBadass Major Badass]] --> FourStarBadass (after his promotion in "Sacrifice")
* BadFuture: In a truly bad one, he is the ruler of a post-apocalyptic Earth.
* BigBad: For Season 9.
* CatchPhrase: "Kneel before Zod" pretty much becomes this.
* CloningBlues
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Briefly. He founds the RAO Corporation, fully intending for it to be bought out by Tess and [=LuthorCorp=] so that they can fund RAO's solar energy towers.
* CulturedWarrior: He quotes Shakespeare and ''ParadiseLost'', enjoys a good fine wine, and is in obsessed with Kryptonian culture and history.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler:His wife and son were killed during a war on Krypton, and the reason he turned evil is because Jor-El refused to clone his son.]]
* EvilBrit
* EvilCounterpart: To Jor-El, or Clark, depending on how you look at it.
* FallenHero: He was one of Krypton's greatest military heroes. He grew up to become [[OmnicidalManiac General Zod]].
* FlyingBrick: Once he gets his powers back.
* AGlassOfChianti
* GoodLookingPrivates
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor --> FaceHeelTurn
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope
* KneelBeforeZod: Of course.
* KnifeNut: Carries two Kryptonite knives, one Green and the other Blue. This leads to a KnifeFight between him and Clark in the Season 9 finale.
* LargeHam
* MagnificentBastard
* [[spoiler:{{Necromantic}}: His StartOfDarkness was when Jor-El refused to clone his son.]]
* [[spoiler:OffingTheOffspring: When he murders the Faora clone. Turns out she was pregnant with his child. Whoops.]]
* OhCrap: The look on his face as [[spoiler:the Book of Rao forcibly ascends him]].
* RousingSpeech: "Let Black Zero feel the bite of your weapons and the bravery in your hearts!" Very {{Badass}} considering he's yelling it in a trench with death and destruction surrounding him, Jor-El and his troops. However, the glimmer of hope is shot down when [[spoiler:[[DoomedHometown Kandor]] is destroyed]].
* SealedEvilInACan
* {{UST}}: With [[spoiler:Tess]].
* WickedCultured
* WorldDomination: His goal. He convinces Tess that he'd be a benevolent tyrant, but as the BadFuture shows, it's more of a case of ZeroPercentApprovalRating, at least among humans.
* YouCantFightFate: "Krypton will rise again...and all humankind will [[CatchPhrase kneel before Zod]]."

!!Clone Faora (Sharon Taylor)

A clone of Faora (duh) from before she and Zod were in a serious relationship. At first loyal to Zod, Faora eventually begins to gravitate towards Kal-El (Clark) as she attempts to create a new life for herself on Earth. [[spoiler:She is slain by the Major in cold-blood when he discovers she know longer wants a part in his WorldDomination scheme; he then discovers she is carrying his child after the one night they spent together]].
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* GoodLookingPrivates
* HeelFaceTurn: Comes to believe in Clark/Kal-El more than she does in Zod.
* UnholyMatrimony: Subverted. The original Faora and General Zod were HappilyMarried. Things between her clone and Major Zod [[spoiler:[[{{Understatement}} don't]] [[YouHaveFailedMe go as]] [[MoralEventHorizon well]]]].

!!Alia (Monique Ganderton)

One of Zod's cloned soldiers. Clark faces an alternate timeline version of her who kills herself by accident. [[spoiler:The real her is revealed to have killed the clone Jor-El; Zod shoots her in retribution.]]
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* ActionGirl[=/=]DarkActionGirl
* AfraidOfNeedles
* AlasPoorVillain: ''Twice''.
* BlueEyes
* CloningBlues
* GoodLookingPrivates
* HotChickWithASword
[[/folder]]

[[folder: The Lanes]]

!!Lois Lane (Erica Durance)

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* AlliterativeName
* AscendedExtra
* [[spoiler:BackFromTheDead: Thanks to Chloe's healing powers.]]
* BadassNormal
* DeadpanSnarker
* GenkiGirl
* GoingForTheBigScoop
* HotScoop
* IntrepidReporter
* TheLoisLane: Well, duh!
* MilitaryBrat
* MsFanservice
* OverShadowedByAwesome: Lois is a perfectly competent BadassNormal, but she keeps going up against {{Cyborg}}s, aliens, and meteor freaks.
* PromotionToParent: When her mom died, her dad put her in charge of her sister Lucy.
* [[spoiler:SecretKeeper: As of Season 10.]]
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Her relationship with Clark.
* WaifFu

!!General Sam Lane (Michael Ironside)

* KnightTemplarParent: Has the NSA investigate Clark when he starts dating Lois.
* OverprotectiveDad
* ParentalNeglect: More or less left Lois in charge of Lucy.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: [[spoiler:Puts Lois' boyfriends through Hell. If she stands up for them, he knows she loves them.]]

!!Lucy Lane (Peyton List)

* AlliterativeName
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling

!!Ella Lane (Teri Hatcher)

* ActorAllusion: Her actress portrayed Lois Lane on ''LoisAndClark''.
* MissingMom
* PosthumousCharacter
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Daily Planet Staff]]

!!Perry White (Michael [=McKean=])

* NoMoreForMe
* PutOnABus
** TheBusCameBack

!![[spoiler:Henry]] James 'Jimmy' Olsen (Aaron Ashmore)

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* AscendedExtra
* ButtMonkey
* DeadpanSnarker
* [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice]]
* HollywoodNerd
* [[spoiler:ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice]]
* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]
* NiceGuy: At least until Davis ruins his life.
* ShipperOnDeck: Starts shipping Clark and Lois as of Season 6.

!!Grant Gabriel (Michael Cassidy)

* [[spoiler:CloningBlues: Of Lex's brother Julian.]]
* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]
* JerkAss: Often
* TemporaryLoveInterest: To Lois.

!!Cat Grant (Keri Lynn Pratt)

* BettyAndVeronica: Veronica to Lois's Betty
* DistressedDamsel
* InspectorJavert: Really does not trust superheroes.
* MamaBear: For her son Adam.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Clark's Allies--Humans]]

!!Dr. Virgil Swann (Christopher Reeve)

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* GeniusCripple
* {{Herald}}: "You must write your own destiny, Kal-El."
* KilledOffForReal
* MentorArchetype
* MetaCasting / RemakeCameo: Played by the late Christopher Reeve, who played Superman in the film series of the [[TheSeventies 1970s]]/[[TheEighties 1980s]].
* MisterExposition: He's the one who tells Clark all about Krypton.
* TheProfessor
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: His death.

!!Sheriff Nancy Adams (Camille Mitchell)

* DeadpanSnarker
* KilledOffForReal
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure

!!Dr. Emil Hamilton (Alessandro Juliani)

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A doctor at Metropolis General Hospital, Emil is kept on retainer by Oliver Queen beginning in Season 8; as Green Arrow's inside man, his job is to look the other way when a [[JusticeLeague member of the team]] comes in with bullet wounds or even weirder injuries. Emil's role quickly evolves, however, and he becomes the team's tech-guy, biologist, coroner and confidant--all roled into one. He's been to Watchtower, examined Doomsday's blood and whipped up cures for [[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies zombie]] [[TheVirus viruses]], among other things. All in a days work for a SuperHero's MD.
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* TheCoroner: Frequently gets to examine the bodies of the latest super-powered serial killer's victims.
* GadgeteerGenius: EMP grenades, high-tech cars--you name it.
* HollywoodNerd: Type II. Unlike many examples, however, he at least acts the part.
* TheMedic
* MessyHair
* NerdGlasses
* SecretKeeper: For the entire JusticeLeague. He keeps it in the face of [[spoiler:a VRA interrogation]] to boot.
* TheSmartGuy: Frequently plays this role to Oliver, Clark and company.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Clark's Allies--Other Superheroes]]

!!Oliver Queen / GreenArrow (Justin Hartley)
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* TheAlcoholic: Oliver's always had a drinking problem but [[spoiler:in Season 9 he descends into this]].
* AntiHero: When we first meet him, he believes that if a CorruptCorporateExecutive buys valuable artifacts from evil warlords or TheMafia, that it's justifiable to steal the artifacts away from them and use them to fund charities. He provides the cynicism to Clark's idealism, and unlike our hero, is willing to stray from ThouShaltNotKill if it gets the job done.
* TheArcher: Well, duh.
* AscendedExtra: He started out as a recurring guest character for the first half of Season 6, after which Oliver left town. But fan response was so overwhelmingly positive to the character that Ollie was brought back to guest star again in an episode of Season 7, and then brought on as a full cast member from Season 8 onwards.
* {{Badass}}
** BadassNormal: Very much so.
* BrokenAce: Oliver is rich and successful, moonlights as a superhero, and has more women than he can handle. And he ''hates'' himself, as demonstrated by his self-destructive tendencies, alcoholism, inability to commit to anything, and [[spoiler:attempted suicide]] in Season 9.
* CheapCostume: A green leather hoodie and sunglasses. Somehow he makes it look {{Badass}}.
* CompositeCharacter: He's more like {{Batman}} than Green Arrow, really...
%% Please, no natter.
* DeadpanSnarker
* EstrogenBrigadeBait
* {{Expy}}: There are some sharp similarities between his characterization and relationship with Clark, and that of {{Batman}}. Throw in the fact that the ''DarkKnightTrilogy'' likely means the writers can't use Bruce, and that makes a lot of sense all of a sudden.
* HellBentForLeather
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Saying that Oliver hates himself is not an understatement.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Regarding his attempted murder of [[spoiler:Lex]].
* ImprobableAimingSkills
* [[spoiler:InterruptedSuicide: Clark stops Toyman's bomb before Oliver can use it to kill himself in Season 9's "Echo."]]
* TheLancer: Starts out as TheHero to the JLA, but is rapidly shaping up to be this to Clark.
* TheManWhoShotLibertyValance
* TheMasqueradeWillKillYourDatingLife: It certainly blew up his relationship with Lois, and helped ruin the one with [[spoiler: Chloe]] as well.
* ReallyGetsAround: Tess, Lois, [[spoiler:Chloe]]...not to mention all his other conquests.
* SecretIdentityIdentity: Oliver Queen really doesn't exist. Sometimes he's not sure Green Arrow does either.
* SecretRelationship: With [[spoiler:Chloe]] in Season 9. The relationship is soon discovered by Clark and Lois, though...
* ShootTheDog: Seems to be his job discription some days.
* SunglassesAtNight
* TrickArrow: Tasers, gas--what will he think of next?
* VigilanteMan
* WhatTheHellHero: Courtesy of Chloe, after [[spoiler:his attempted murder of Lex]].
* YouShallNotPass: [[spoiler: In the BadFuture episode. BadAss.]]

!!JusticeLeagueOfAmerica

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[[caption-width-right:250:The Original Five]]
* {{Badass}}: All of them.
** BadassCrew: Let's see--we got the [[TheFlash Fastest Man Alive]], an ActionGirl with a [[MakeMeWannaShout sonic scream]], a {{Cyborg}} armed with SuperStrength, and [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower Aquaman]]. All led by the biggest BadassNormal in the show, with the occasional assist from {{Superman}} and [[MartianManhunter Mar's Last Survivor]]. I'd say they count.
* BigDamnHeroes: Often
* CheapCostume: Bart wears sunglasses and a red hoodie with a lightning bolt sewn on. Oliver wears green leather and, again, sunglasses. AC dresses in green scuba pants and an orange shirt. Victor wears a silver-grey jumpsuit. Dinah relies on a makeup mask, a [[HellBentForLeather black leather outfit]] and a wig in her SecretIdentity. For bonus points, compare their looks with those of the JSA, who all wear their classic spandex costumes.
* DeadpanSnarker: All of them on occasion, but especially Victor.
* FiveManBand: One could make the case that, in "Justice," [[BadassNormal Green Arrow]] was TheHero, [[{{Superman}} Clark]] TheLancer, AC TheBigGuy, [[GeniusBruiser Victor]] TheSmartGuy, and [[BrattyHalfPint Bart]] TheChick. The addition of Black Canary and the MartianManhunter to the team, as well as Clark and Oliver's more or less joint leadership has altered this dynamic considerably, however, and it likely no longer applies.
* LaResistance: How they see themselves.
* {{Superhero}}: They move closer to the archetype with every episode, but aren't quite there yet, having yet to move into the public eye or wear their classic costumes.
* WesternTerrorists: How the government--and [[BigBad Lex]]--see them.
* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: The government considers them terrorists for attacking holding facilities and blowing up Lex's Level 33.1 installations. The League sees themselves as [[LaResistance freedom fighters]], keeping people like Lex and Slade from experimenting on metahumans.

!!![[AquaMan Arthur "AC" Curry]] / Orin (Alan Ritchson)

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* BattleCouple: With Mera.
* TheBeastmaster: Has been shown to have some degree of ability at communicating with and controlling animals. The degree has not yet been explored.
* HappilyMarried: As of Season 10's "Patriot."
* KnownOnlyByTheirNickname: Not quite, but Arthur is usually referred to as "AC."
* MakingASplash: Can form water into blasts or compress it into missiles. He also gains his SuperStrength and SuperSpeed from contact with it.
* SuperSpeed: In the water.
* SuperStrength: Not quite to Clark's level, but the boy can do some damage, from breaking shackles to beating five or six [=LuthorCorp=] guards to a pulp with his bare hands.
* SurferDude: In his earlier appearances. Softened later, but not entirely dropped until "Patriot."
** [[AmericanAccents Surfer Speak]]
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Receives a LampshadeHanging from Victor.
* WalkingSwimsuitScene
* WellIntentionedExtremist: AC bordered on this in his first appearances, what with sinking ships and blowing up factories in order to [[AnimalWrongsGroup save the environment]].
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: Arthur manages to be pretty {{Badass}} despite this.

!!![[TheFlash Bart Allen]] (Kyle Gallner)

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* BigEater
* BrattyHalfPint
* GratuitousSpanish: In "Justice."
* HandsomeLech: Of the childish variety.
--> '''Chloe to Bart'': "I still have a boyfriend."
* HeelFaceTurn: From sneak thief to superhero. Not bad Bart.
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: He seems to have the "super-stopping" and "resistance to friction" things down.
* SmugSuper: A mild, almost likeable version. Bart's incredibly cocky about his SuperSpeed, and it tends to get him into trouble.
* SunglassesAtNight: In "Justice," as part of his sort-of costume.
* SuperSpeed
* WildMassGuessing: So which Flash is he again?

!!!Victor Stone (Lee Thompson Young)

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* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: After his girlfriend left him, he ended up living on the streets until Oliver found and recruited him.
* GeniusBruiser: He's their muscle, and their computer hacker.
* HollywoodCyborg: Was re-built by [=LuthorCorp=] after a very nasty accident.
* HollywoodHacking: Victor can interface with any system and download himself into it, allowing him to easily break any codes.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: In his first episode. He seems to be over it by "Justice."
* IOweYouMyLife: Towards Oliver.
* SuperStrength: He can tear steel blast doors off their hinges. No kidding.
* TokenMinority: Initially, Victor is the only black member of the Justice League. The MartianManhunter later joins, removing this status from him.
** TwoferTokenMinority: If {{Cyborg}} counts as a minority, than yes.

!!![[BlackCanary Dinah Lance]] (Alaina Huffman)

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* ActionGirl: She was pretty dark in her first appearance. She later became one of the good guys, but lost none of her {{Badass}} points.
* AntiHero: Is a flawed and misguided, but well-intentioned heroine in her first appearance. In her later appearances, she's a genuine heroine.
* BlondeRepublicanSexKitten: Pretty, capable, and ''hard'' right-wing.
* HellBentForLeather
* HiredGuns: Initially contracted by Lex to hunt down Green Arrow.
* KnifeNut: Of the throwing variety.
* MakeMeWannaShout
* SecretIdentity: Dinah Lance, which she maintains via a long, brown-haired wig, over her short blonde hair.
** SecretIdentityIdentity: Black Canary is very much her real identity.
* TheSixthRanger
* StrawmanPolitical: Subverted. While her hard-right wing views are mocked by Chloe, Clark and Oliver, the show never dissects them, thus making it impossible to prove her wrong in or out of series.
* StockingFiller: Fishnet style.
* WomanInBlack: A non-evil example. Her outfit color nicely accentuates how dangerous she is, though.

!!MartianManhunter / John Jones (Phil Morris)

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* AlliterativeName
* {{Badass}}
** BadassBoast: "I'm Mars' last survivor. There's a reason for that."
** BadassLongcoat
* BigDamnHeroes
* BroughtDownToNormal: [[spoiler:At the start of Season 8 as a result of flying a dying Clark (who [[BroughtDownToNormal lost his powers]] yet again) to the Sun in order to restore his powers.]]
** [[spoiler:However, this gets reversed in Season 9's "Absolute Justice" [[HeroicSacrifice thanks to Doctor Fate]].]]
* CoolOldGuy
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Why he normally appears as a black guy, instead of a green-skinned Martian.
* LastOfHisKind
* {{Mentor}}: To Clark, and the rest of the League.
* ModeLock: Gets trapped in human form in [[spoiler:Season 8]].
* TheObiWan
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: In his guise as a cop.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Well, if you're a villain, anyway.
* SuperHeroPackingHeat: Following his ModeLock, yes.
* SuperPowerLottery: Like [[RoboticPsychopath Brainiac]], John is a major winner. Let's see:
** EyeBeams
** FlyingBrick: Has SuperSpeed, SuperStrength and {{Flight}}. While he lacks the usual NighInvulnerability he compensates by having a HealingFactor (that unfortunately doesn't work in Earth's atmosphere) and being...
** MadeOfAir: He can turn intangible, allowing attacks to pass through him.
** ShapeShifting
*** VoluntaryShapeshifting
* TwoferTokenMinority: Black and a Martian.

!!Zatanna Zatara (Serinda Swan)

* AlliterativeName
* BlueEyes
* HotWitch
* [[HypnotizeThePrincess Hypnotize Clark Kent]]
* KissingUnderTheInfluence
* MsFanservice
* PungeonMaster
* StockingFiller

!!TheLegionOfSuperHeroes -- Rokk Krinn (Ryan Kennedy), Imra Ardeen (Alexz Johnson), Garth Ranzz (Calum Worthy)

* ExtraOreDinary: Rokk
* HumanAliens
* {{Kuudere}}: Imra comes off like TheStoic thanks to her {{Telepathy}}, but as the episode shows, she really does have a heart in there.
* OmniscientMoralityLicence: Think they have one, due to being from the future.
* MythologyGag: Garth asks Clark to sign a baseball for his sister. Those who've read the Legion comics know that she's Light Lass, one of the other Legionairres.
* PowerTrio: Garth's the Id, Rokk the Ego, and Imra the Superego. This is more or less consistent with their portrayal in the comics.
* RedHeadedHero: Garth
* ShockAndAwe: Garth
* ShootTheDog: Their objective.
* {{Telepathy}}: Imra
** MindProbe: Although it backfires horribly against Brainiac.
* ThouShaltNotKill: Pick it up from Clark.
* ThreeAmigos / TwoGuysAndAGirl: Rokk is TheHero, Imra TheChick, and Garth TheLancer.

!!JusticeSocietyOfAmerica -- Carter Hall / Hawkman (Michael Shanks), Kent Nelson / Doctor Fate (Brent Stait), Courtney Whitmore / Stargirl (Britt Irvin)

* ActionGirl: Stargirl
* {{Badass}}: Hawkman
* BareYourMidriff: Stargirl
* BoomStick: Stargirl's rod.
* CarryABigStick: Hawkman's mace. His wife seems to have favored an EpicFlail.
* CuteBruiser: Stargirl
* DawsonCasting: Britt Irvin was born in 1984. She plays a high-school sophomore. To be fair to Miss Irvin, she doesn't do a bad impression of a teenager.
* DeathSeeker: Hawkman, and possibly Dr. Fate.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:Hawkman. He fights Slade, is mortally wounded and set on fire, yet still flies to Lois' rescue before going out like the {{Badass}} he is.]]
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:Hawkman. He tells Clark that he'll have no problem defeating {{Darkseid}}, apologises that he won't be there to help him, and cracks a joke about how he's the expert on dying, then closes his eyes and appears to go to sleep. Generally speaking, it's a pretty dignified way to go.]]
* GlassCannon: Doctor Fate's a RealityWarper, but goes down in one hit. He does seem to be a bit of a DeathSeeker, though.
* TheGwenStacy: [[spoiler:Hawkgirl]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Star-Spangled Kid, Sandman, Doctor Fate, Hawkman.]]
* {{Herald}}: Doctor Fate could be seen as this with the quote:
-->''"[[TheReveal And when you show yourself to the world]]...[[JusticeLeagueOfAmerica it will be a different age than]] [[JusticeSocietyOfAmerica ours]], Clark. A [[TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age of heroism]]...that will start when they look up into the sky at you with [[HopeSpringsEternal hope for tomorrow]]. [[TheParagon You will help everyone to embrace it]]."''
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Doctor Fate sacrifices his own life to restore MartianManhunter's powers.]]
** [[spoiler:Hawkman in "Icarus."]]
* LittleMissBadass: Stargirl
* MaskOfPower: The Helmet of Nabu grants whoever wears it Doctor Fate's powers. God help you, though, if you aren't its personal choice.
* {{Nakama}}: "Family isn't just about blood."
* RealityWarper: Doctor Fate's powers.
* {{Reincarnation}}: Hawkman and Hawkgirl.
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Doctor Fate.]]
** And [[spoiler:Hawkman in "Icarus."]]
* TalkativeLoon: Doctor Fate in his human form as Kent Nelson.
* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:Implied with Hawkman and Hawkgirl.]]
* TheWoobie: Doctor Fate.

!!Mera (Elena Satine)

* ActionGirl
* BattleCouple: With AC (or "Orin," as she prefers to call him).
* HappilyMarried
* HeroesWantRedHeads
* InnocentFanServiceGirl: Changes clothes in front of Lois without even stopping to think about it.
* MakingASplash
* NoSocialSkills
* RaisedByWolves: Or at least Atlanteans. Boy, does it show. From her lack of a nudity taboo, right down to how she speaks.
* SatelliteCharacter: Her role in the plot revolves around being AC/Orin/Aquaman's wife.
* SmugSuper: Mocked Lois for not having powers, and said she couldn't understand what Arthur, Oliver and Clark saw in her. Mera gets over herself when Lois helps them defeat Slade.
* StrangeGirl: Not that AC seems to mind.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Meteor Freaks]]

!!Greg Arkin (Chad E. Donella)

* TheGlassesGottaGo
* HeelFaceTurn: In Season 10.
* SelfMadeOrphan
-->"Do you know what pharaoh spiders do when they hatch? They eat their mother!"
* ShoutOut: To {{Spiderman}}.
* SuperSpeed
* SuperStrength
* StalkerWithACrush: For Lana.
* TheWormThatWalks: When Clark defeats him, his body breaks into dozens of bugs.

!!Tina Greer (Lizzy Caplan)

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice
* PsychoLesbian
* StalkerWithACrush: For Lana.
* SuperStrength
* VoluntaryShapeShifting
* {{Yandere}}

!!Cassandra Carver (Jackie Burroughs)

* BlindSeer
* {{Herald}}
* PsychicPowers

!!Eric Summers (Shawn Ashmore)

!!Ryan James (Ryan Kelley)

* TheDanza
* LivingLieDetector
* {{Telepathy}}

!!Dr. Steven Hamilton (Joe Morton)

!!Ian Randall (Jonathan Taylor Thomas)

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Backstabs his teacher, Lana and Chloe, Van, and eventually tries it on Eric. That last one doesn't end so well.
* KilledOffForReal: Courtesy of Eric Summers.
* MesACrowd: Can split into two.
* TheSociopath: Some meteor freaks are sympathetic. Others are clearly insane. Then there's this guy. Ian's a liar, a backstabber, and a total psychopath without a shred of empathy in him. He killed a teacher because he was threatening to bring his average down. I mean, jeez!

!!Kyla Willowbrook (Tamara Feldman)

* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent
* TemporaryLoveInterest

!!Alicia Baker (Sarah Carter)

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A girl with the power to teleport and a serious crush on Clark. She's an antagonist in Season 3, attempting to murder Lana, but returns in Season 4, having seemingly reformed.

* AchillesHeel: She can't teleport if she touching or surrounded by lead.
* BlondesAreEvil: Or at least very {{Yandere}}ish.
* ClingyJealousGirl
* TheGwenStacy
* HeelFaceTurn
* IGotBetter: Overcomes her insanity.
* KilledOffForReal
* NotMeThisTime: When citizens start getting attacked in her final episode.
* TakingTheBullet
* TeleportersAndTransporters
* TemporaryLoveInterest
* VillainTeleportation
* {{Yandere}}: To Clark.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Phantom Zone Escapees]]

!!Gloria (Amber [=MacDonald=])

* {{Darwinist}}
* GreenThumb
* KryptoniteFactor: Electricity
* SuperStrength

!!Baern (Bow Wow)

* GrandTheftMe: Uses the body of a teen as his host.
* ILoveNuclearPower
* NighInvulnerability
* SuperSpeed
* SuperStrength

!!Aldar ([[{{Batista}} Dave Batista]])

* [=~I'm A Humanitarian~=]: And he only eats the bones.
* NighInvulnerability
* RedEyesTakeWarning
* SuperStrength

!!Dr. Hudson (Matthew Walker)

* EvilOldFolks
* GrandTheftMe: Attempts this with Clark.
* LotusEaterMachine

!!Titan ([[Wrestler/{{Kane}} Glenn 'Kane' Jacobs]])

* BloodKnight
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Is impaled on his own spike.
* SuperStrength
* NighInvulnerability
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy

!!Bizarro (Tom Welling)

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The last and most dangerous of the Phantom Zone escapees, he uses a cloned body of Clark as his host. A serious recurring problem in Season 7.
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* BodySurf: Before cloning Clark.
* CloningBlues
* DemonicPossession: Before creating his cloned body of Clark, he had to hop from person to person, wearing each body out as he went.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Just watch his interactions with Brainiac.
* EvilSoundsDeep
* EvilTwin
* FlyingBrick
* FreakLabAccident
* GlamourFailure
* TheNthDoctor
* PhlebotinumRebel
* SealedEvilInACan
* UnwittingPawn: Of Brainiac.
* VillainousCrush: On Lana.
* VoiceOfTheLegion
* WeaksauceWeakness: Direct sunlight not only causes GlamourFailure, but badly weakens him.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Government Agents and Rogues]]

!!Checkmate -- Amanda Waller / White Queen (Pam Grier), Maxwell Lord / Black King (Gil Bellows)

An enigmatic government agency with a ChessMotif, Checkmate competes with Zod to be the main antagonist of Season 9. Run by the White Queen and the Black King, Checkmate keeps tabs on paranormal activity, and has a definite WithUsOrAgainstUs mentality.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Waller is far better looking than she is in the comics.
* BigBadDuumvirate: Waller and Lord.
* TheChessmaster: Waller, of course.
* ChessMotifs: No kidding. All agents are assigned a chess-themed codename (Pawn, Knight, Rook, etc.) that denotes their rank within the organization. Moreover, Checkmate itself is split into two halves: Intelligence, headed by the White Queen, and field operations, under the Black King.
* GovernmentConspiracy
* IronLady: Waller, of course.
* MindRape: Lord's specialty.
* NecessarilyEvil: How Waller sees the group.
* OutGambitted: By Zod.
* [[SuperHeroPackingHeat Super Villain Packing Heat]]: Lord.
* {{Telepathy}}: Lord
* WithUsOrAgainstUs: Waller's attitude towards Clark and superhumans in General.

!!Cameron Mahkent / Icicle II (Wesley Macinnes)

The son of a former enemy of the Justice Society, Icicle is recruited by Checkmate to serve as an assassin, with the promise that they will help him locate and kill off the Society's members. Appears in Season 9's "Absolute Justice."
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* AdaptationalBadass: Icicle in the comics is a competent, B-list supervillain. This one's a little stronger, to say the least. Not only did his father, Joar, manage to [[spoiler:kill Hawkgirl in the BackStory]], but Cameron himself has near StoryBreakerPower, his powers freezing anything that's within the immediate vicinity of his target. He's able to take out ''three'' members of the Justice Society, and might well have done more if [[spoiler:he hadn't put on the Helmet of Nabu]].
* AnIcePerson: Duh.
* AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance
* AvengingTheVillain: Hawkman put his father, the original Icicle, in a coma. Now he's out for revenge on the JSA.
* BladeOnAStick: Or, more accurately, a really long icicle.
* CareerKillers
* EvilAlbino
* HellBentForLeather: His jacket, complete with chains and studs.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Using the Helmet of Nabu interferes with his concentration and allows his defeat.]]
* InTheBlood: His dad was a contract killer with a freeze gun; Cameron is a [[CareerKillers government assassin]] with [[AnIcePerson cryogenic energies in his bloodstream]].
* LamarckWasRight: His father's use of freezing weaponry granted Cameron his powers.
* NotWhatISignedOnFor: When [[TheChessmaster Waller]] reveals her real goals to him.
* PsychoticSmirk: His usual facial expression.
* {{Revenge}}
* SelfMadeOrphan: His mom died of hypothermia giving birth to him, and he himself performs a MercyKill on his comatose father.
* UnwittingPawn: Of Waller and Checkmate. He's actually listed as a "Black Pawn."
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:May have been done to him by Waller.]]
* YoungerVillainVsOlderHero: Him versus the JSA. He's rather sneeringly contemptuous of their ages to boot.

!!SuicideSquad

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A squad of super-powered operatives retained to do jobs even Checkmate wouldn't touch, the Suicide Squad, led by superhero fan-boy Rick Flag, went rogue following the agency's destruction in Season 9. Opposed on principle to the Vigilante Registration Act, the squad is out to stop its implementation no matter what the cost. Along with Darkseid, they provide most of Season 10's conflict.
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* BadassCrew: Between [[BadassNormal Rick Flag]], [[ImprobableAimingSkills Deadshot]], [[PersonOfMassDestruction Plastique]], and [[VillainTeleportation Warp]] they count.
* TheChessmaster: The Squad as a whole is proving to be superb at warping events to their own advantage. Bonus points to Deadshot for his method of putting the Squad's mark on Clark.
* CoolCar: The Squad van, which appears in "Ambush." It's effectively a mobile base, equipped with state-of-the-art electronics, tracking equipment, satellite uplinks, and [[WeaponizedCar a missile launcher]].
* EvilCounterpart: The team as a whole to the Justice League. They both hate the VRA, they're both made up of superhumans and led by a BadassNormal, and they both try to stay under the radar. The Squad goes much, much further in their attempts at taking down the act, though.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The Suicide Squad, Deadshot, Warp, even Plastique. None of them are real reassuring, to say the least.
* WeaponizedCar: The Squad van is equipped with a homing missile launcher, in addition to all its other gadgetry.
* WesternTerrorists: See Flag's entry for how.

!!!Rick Flag (Ted Whittall)

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--> "Let's show these boys what it's like to mess with the Suicide Squad."

The Squad's leader. Flag is, to put it mildly, very damaged. Formerly the field leader for Checkmate's teams of super-powered agents, his lengthy association with metahumans has caused him to identify with them instead of normal people. He's violently opposed to the VRA, and wants to force every superhero to see things his way, regardless of their own feelings.
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* AntiHero: Flag's a [[SlidingScaleOfAntiHeroes Type V]] with delusions of nobility. Only his seemingly genuine regard for superheroes, and the fact that he seems to be gathering an army to fight off Darkseid, keeps him from being an even bigger psychopath than he already is.
* BadassNormal
* ColdBloodedTorture: Seems fond of it.
* ComplexityAddiction: As evidenced by his absolutely 1960s-ish plan to kill General Lane. He has Deadshot on the team. Does he use him? No. Instead he uses a laser in a pen given to the general's daughter Lucy to guide in a homing missile that he launches from the back of his van. There's complex, and then there's that.
* JerkAss
* JustBetweenYouAndMe: To Oliver about Chloe's [[spoiler:"death."]]
* LargeHam: Dear God. Flag chews more scenery in a few episodes than Zod did in a season, complete with reciting ''The Star-Spangled Banner'' as he fires a missile at General Lane.
* ProperlyParanoid: Flag would seem totally nuts if the guy running the Vigilante Registration Act wasn't General Slade Wilson.
* RightWingMilitiaFanatic: Has definite shades of this.
* SecretKeeper: Flag knows the identities of all the heroes. So far he's told nobody.
* SmugSnake
* SociopathicSoldier: Flag's a mix of Types I, II ''and'' III -- A radical milita-esque ex-soldier with PatrioticFervour and blatant insanity to spare, and whose previous missions for the government have more or less broken him.
* [[SuperheroPackingHeat Supervillain Packing Heat]]
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Flag's attempt at assassinating General Lane involved a missile. To kill one guy.
* WesternTerrorists: Flag's a US milita-esque nut who lashes out at anyone who wants to force super-powered vigilantes to register, complete with political assassinations, bombings and missile strikes.
* YouLookFamiliar: His actor played Lana's martial arts trainer in Season 8.

!!!Floyd Lawton / Deadshot (Bradley Stryker)

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-->"Somewhere out there, we ''all'' got a bullet with our name on it."

A contract killer at the top of America's Most Wanted lists, Deadshot is retained by Flag to mark the Blur with the Squad's symbol. Using Cat Grant as bait to draw Clark out in the open, Deadshot succeeds, although he's imprisoned for it; Flag and Plastique later bust him out. The best shot in universe, Deadshot affects a laid-back demeanor that conceals his [[TheFatalist fatalistic tendencies]] and disillusionment with life.
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* AmericanAccents: Deadshot has a very heavy Southern drawl to accompany his {{Cowboy}} get-up.
* {{Badass}}
** BadassBeard
** BadassLongcoat
** BadassNormal
* CareerKiller
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: His aiming skills are truly improbable, to the point where it almost borders on magic.
* {{Cowboy}}: Just look at the picture.
* TheFatalist: Big time. See the page quote.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Has a very ugly one over his eye.
* TheGunslinger
* ImprobableAimingSkills: He puts a bullet down the tailpipe of a car.
* MarkedBullet: Deadshot writes his victims' names on his bullets.
* NiceHat
* NietzscheWannabe: If his conversation with Cat is any indicator, definitely.
* SteamPunk: Possibly the best way to describe Deadshot's combo of WildWest appearance with grungy future-tech.
* [[SuperheroPackingHeat Supervillain Packing Heat]]
* VillainousValour: You gotta give Deadshot points for going after Clark with a gun, despite being fully aware of the latter's NighInvulnerable status. As it turns out, getting hit and going to prison was actually part of the plan, and Deadshot went through with it despite the risks. Pretty ballsy, that.

!!!Bette Sans Souci / Plastique (Jessica Parker Kennedy)

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First appearing in Season 8, Bette is a homeless girl with the power to project rings of explosive force from her body. On the run from [=LuthorCorp=]'s Black Creek facility, she is taken in by Chloe, whom she later turns on. Captured and imprisoned in Belle Reve after a brief battle with Clark, Bette was loosed by Tess Mercer on the condition that she join Tess's Injustice Gang (see [=LuthorCorp=] and associates) where she was codenamed "Plastique." Following the defeat of the Gang, she was recruited into the Suicide Squad by Flag sometime before Season 10. Best described as paranoid, selfish and bitter, she's a beautiful fit with the rest of the Squad.
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* BlackEyesOfCrazy: When Bette uses her powers, her irises glow yellow and her pupils narrow to black slits.
* BrokenBird: Plastique retains this status from her first appearance. She is a very damaged little girl.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: When she uses her powers.
* HellBentForLeather: After joining the Injustice Gang and the Suicide Squad.
* MadBomber
* PersonOfMassDestruction: She causes objects to explode, whether they're the size of a person, or the size of a bus. If you're name isn't Clark, you better run.
* RaceLift: Was a Quebecois terrorist in the comics. Here she's of Asian (perhaps French Indochinese) descent.
* SelfishEvil: Bette is out for herself and nobody else. She wants to stay free and safe, and anyone who she suspects might compromise that tends to end up dead.

!!!Emil [=LaSalle=] / Warp (Elias Toufexis)

* EvilForeigner: French, to be precise.
* MissionControl: For the Squad, doubling as their getaway man.
* TeleportersAndTransporters
* VillainTeleportation

!!General Slade Wilson (Michael Hogan)

An aging general with a long history of war-crimes charges behind him, Slade is the man chosen by the government to enforce the Vigilante Registration Act. Very much the ideological opposite of Rick Flag, Slade believes that no one can be allowed the power to threaten the government, and seeks to defend America from all threats, wherever they may come from. [[{{Understatement}} He's a little crazy]], to say the least. A key antagonist in the first half of Season 10.
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* {{Badass}}:
** BadassAbnormal: Heavily implied.
** BadassGrandpa
** FourStarBadass
** TookALevelInBadass: Between "Patriot" and "Icarus."
* ColdBloodedTorture: Of both AC and Oliver.
* CompositeCharacter: He's equal parts Slade Wilson/Deathstroke and General Wade Eiling.
* EvilOldFolks: Looks to be somewhere in his sixties or older.
* EyepatchOfPower: As of the end of "Patriot."
* GeneralRipper
* KatanasAreJustBetter: Which is rather ironic when one takes into account his PatrioticFervor and obsession with all things American.
* KnightTemplar
* MadeOfIron: Didn't flinch after getting hit with Hawkman's mace.
* MarkOfTheBeast: [[spoiler:Has the Omega sign tattooed on his skull, courtesy of Darkseid.]]
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: The reaction of other characters to his surviving the explosion in "Patriot."
* PatrioticFervor: His motivation.
--> "No civillian should have more power than the law."
* [[spoiler:SealedEvilInACan]]: Courtesy of Clark and [[spoiler:the PhantomZone]].
* ShutUpKirk: Clark gives him a speech about how he's stopping people from trusting the very government he's trying to defend, and demands that Slade let him save him from the exploding facility. Slade tells him to shut up, responding that he'd rather die along with the Blur than be saved by "an abomination."
* UnwittingPawn: Of Darkseid.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Apokiliptians]]

!!{{Darkseid}}

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--> "You so-called heroes are false gods, all of you...and when people stop believing in you, you'll shatter like glass."

Also referred to as "The Darkness" and "Our Dark Lord," Darkseid was unleashed when Clark used the [[TomeOfEldritchLore Book Of Rao]] to banish Major Zod and the Kandorians to another dimension. Briefly spotted forming out of ravens and smoke at the end of "Lazarus," he later body-jacks Gordon Godfrey, using him to spread a message of hatred and fear over the airwaves. Driven out of his host due to Kara's interference, Darkseid is later referenced by his agents Desaad, Granny Goodness and the newly-appointed Godfrey, at the end of "Abandoned."

Currently without a host body, The Darkness remains a dreaded figure within ''Smallville'''s tenth season. He is said to be the UltimateEvil that Jor-El warned Clark about, and is already making plans to bring the JusticeLeague and, eventually, the world, to its knees.
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* BodySurf
* BigBad: Of Season 10.
* TheCorrupter: Apparently, as of "Patriot."
* EldritchAbomination
* EvilSoundsDeep: Par for the course with Darkseid, though.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast
* UltimateEvil
* WeaksauceWeakness: He can't possess people who are "pure": that is free of fear and doubt. This isn't as handicapping as it might sound though, because no one can remain in that state permenantly. People who he fails to control the first time, may not be so lucky a second.

!!Gordon Godfrey (Michael Daingerfield)

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A right-wing DJ with an anti-immigration, anti-vigilante stance, Godfrey is possessed by The Darkness is Season 10's "Supergirl." Under Darkseid's control, Godfrey begins attracting a vastly-expanded audience and publishes a book that purports to be an exposé on vigilante activity. He also kidnaps Lois and uses her as bait to draw in Clark. Defeated by Clark and Kara, Godfrey is freed from Darkseid's control.

In "Abandoned" it is revealed that the Dark Lord isn't done with Godfrey yet though, with Desaad introducing him to Granny Goodness as the third member of their "Unholy Trinity." His task, according to Desaad, is to break humanity's spirit, forcing them away from their saviours and into the dark.
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* AlliterativeName
* BaldOfEvil
* BlackEyesOfEvil: When possessed by {{Darkseid}}.
* CoDragons: To Darkseid, with Desaad and Granny.
* CompellingVoice
* DarkMessiah: Seems to view himself as such, as of "Abandoned."
-->"I always knew I had a higher purpose in life."
* DemonicPossession: In "Supergirl", courtesy of Darkseid.
* DumbassDJ: Starts out this way.
* JerkAss: To the point where Darkseid [[GrandTheftMe body-jacked him]] and liked what he saw.
* MookPromotion: He's originally just another of Darkseid's host bodies. As of "Abandoned," however, he's been promoted to the same status as Desaad and Granny Goodness, acting as a villain in his own right, completing the third point of a very nasty PowerTrio. Not bad.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: A not-insignificant number of reviewers have compared his portrayal to GlennBeck.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity

!!Granny Goodness (Christine Willes)

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An old woman who runs an orphanage for girls, Granny Goodness is far more than she appears. She first shows up in the Season 9 finale where she [[spoiler:saves Tess from death at Zod's hands by delivering her to Cadmus]]. She later re-appears in "Abandoned", where the full truth about her is unveiled: She is one of Darkseid's agents, tasked with recruiting soldiers for Darkseid. Indoctrinating the girls from a young age, Granny mind-wipes them, then raises them to be {{Tykebomb}}s totally loyal to herself with no respect for human life.

Sweet and sugary on the outside, but with a ramrod spine, Granny is devoted to Darkseid's mission of WorldDomination, and her considerable psychic gifts make her uniquely suited to help him accomplish it.
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* AlliterativeName
* CoDragons: To Darkseid, with Desaad and Godfrey.
* EvilMentor: To the [[AmazonBrigade Female Furies]] and [[spoiler:Tess]].
* EvilOldFolks
* EvilVirtues: Seems to genuinely love her girls, at least in her own warped way.
* FamilyValuesVillain: If her disgust towards Desaad's {{Fetish}} clubs is any indicator.
* FluffyTheTerrible
* HannibalLecture
* IronLady: Despite her
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Deletes the memories of her girls, leaving them open to being manipulated into becoming Darkseid's minions.
* MindOverMatter: Given her ability to throw people around with a gesture, this is a pretty safe bet.
* MindRape: How she turns people into servants for Darkseid. She and Maxwell Lord would get along well.
* NeverMessWithGranny: Evil version.
* OrphanageOfFear: Runs one.
* StraightEdgeEvil: For a sharp contrast with [[NightmareFetishist Desaad]].
* {{Telepathy}}

!!Female Furies -- Harriet (Lindsay Hartley)

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A group of girls raised by Granny Goodness to become Darkseid's fighting elite. They are led by Harriet, a psychotic girl with WolverineClaws and a fondness for cutting people up. In "Abandoned," they manage to capture Clark, although he quickly escapes from them.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: Reproducing Harriet's green hair would have probably been tricky.
* AmazonBrigade
* AxCrazy: "Mad" Harriet.
* BareYourMidriff
* BreastPlate
* DarkActionGirl: All of them.
* DesignatedGirlFight: Harriet vs Tess.
* TheDragon: Harriet to Granny Goodness.
* PoisonedWeapons: The girls' weapons are forged in Kryptonite flames. They don't totally de-power Clark the way regular GreenRocks do, but they can cut him and act as a poison once in his system.
* {{Tykebomb}}: Raised from childhood to be {{Dark Action Girl}}s. They're all pretty damaged from it.
* WeaponOfChoice: Each of the girls seems to favor something different. So far we've had:
** BareFistedMonk: One of the girls comes after Clark with just hands and feet during the start of the fight.
** FemmeFatalons: Harriet
** SimpleStaff
** WhipItGood: From a girl who may or may not have been Lashina.

!!Desaad (Steve Byers)

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The third member of Darkseid's "Unholy Trinity," Desaad maintains a series of eponymously-titled fetish clubs. Sleazy and obsequious, he has stated that his task is to "break their [humanity's] bodies," while Godfrey and Granny attack their spirits and minds respectively.
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* BeardOfEvil
* CoDragons: To Darkseid, with Godfrey and Granny.
* CoolestClubEver: Runs {{Fetish}}-oriented Club Desaad. It's like a combination of BadGuyBar and VampiresOwnNightclubs.
* MeaningfulName
** NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Named for the Marquis De Sade. You know, the one that "sadism" is named after?
* NightmareFetishist
* PsychoticSmirk
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Other Major Villains (Comics)]]

!!Morgan Edge (Rutger Hauer, Patrick Bergin)

A Metropolis crime boss and childhood friend of Lionel Luthor, Morgan Edge is the antagonist in the first half of Season 3, attempting to force Clark (who he knows as "Kal") to honor a deal he made while [[NotHimself under the influence of Red Kryptonite]]. He and Lionel later try to uncover Clark's secret; in the aftermath, Edge is killed when he drives his car into Clark's invulnerable body. [[spoiler:Is revealed to have helped Lionel murder his parents when they were both children.]]
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* AccidentalPublicConfession: Is taped confessing to [[spoiler:the murder of Lionel's parents]].
* DiabolicalMastermind: A leading figure in Intergang, the criminal underworld's equivalent of [=LuthorCorp=].
* ForgottenChildhoodFriend: Of [[BigBad Lionel]].
* FourEyesZeroSoul: When played by Rutger Hauer.
* GreenRocks: Carries a string of meteor beads in case he runs into Clark.
* MagicPlasticSurgery: To explain his change in appearance. {{Justified}} in-universe as he was on the run from Lionel.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste
* TheOtherDarrin: Rutger Hauer played him in his first two appearances, Patrick Bergin in his third.
* VillainTeamUp: With Lionel.

!!Brainiac / Milton Fine / [[spoiler:Brainiac 5]] (JamesMarsters)

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--> ''"I am the Brain Inter Active Construct. No matter my form, my intellect remains formidable. Do not underestimate me."''

When Clark began attending college in Season 5, his World History Prof. was one Milton Fine, who claimed to be another surviving Kryptonian. Fine convinced Clark to assist him in taking down Jor-El, who had supposedly been a brutal dictator back on Krypton. In truth, Fine was a Kryptonian AI, under [[spoiler:the control of General Zod, who he sought to release from the PhantomZone]]. When the truth of Fine's plans were revealed, Clark tried to defeat him; ultimately Brainiac's "death" [[spoiler:was revealed to the very thing required to release Zod from his imprisonment]].

In Season 7, Brainiac returned under his own control, albeit in a badly battered condition. Manipulating Bizarro and Clark into helping him repair himself, Brainiac 2.0 subsequently [[spoiler:trapped Kara in the Phantom Zone and revealed Clark's secret to Lex]]. Clark destroyed his body, but Brainiac returned once again in Season 8 by body-jacking Chloe and attempting to gain control of Doomsday. He was finally defeated with the aid of the Legion of Super-Heroes, and taken to the future for re-programming; [[spoiler: he returns in Season 10 as Brainiac 5]].

He is the main antagonist of Seasons 5 and 7, and is a recurring threat in Season 8, giving him the distinction of being the only non-regular to serve as the BigBad for more than one season.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: We're led to believe this is what happened, but it's ultimately subverted. See RoboticPsychopath below.
* {{Badass}}:
** BadassBoast: Following his defeat in Season 5, Brainiac, in Season 7, is trapped in a nearly powerless, deteriorating body that can barely hold itself together. Bizarro accuses him of "barely being able to catch a rat." His response is the page quote. Given the circumstances, it's very {{Badass}}.
** BadassBookworm: He's a skinny guy masquerading as a Professor of World History. He's also a Kryptonian A.I. capable of fighting {{Superman}} to a draw.
** BadassTeacher: Goes hand-in-hand with his BadassBookworm status.
* BadFuture: Causes one in an AlternateUniverse shown in Season 7's "Apocalypse."
* BigBad: For Seasons 5 and 7, and the first half of Season 8.
* BodySurf: Seasons 7 and 8.
* TheChessmaster: So very much.
* CompleteMonster: See his entries on the trope's and {{Smallville}}'s YourMileageMayVary page for more...[[HighOctaneNightmareFuel details]].
* DeadpanSnarker: Both pre- and [[spoiler:post-HeelFaceTurn]].
* TheDragon: For [[spoiler:Zod]] in Season 5.
** [[spoiler:DragonInChief: Take Brainiac away from Zod, and there's not much [[SealedEvilInACan the General can do]].]]
* EarthShatteringKaBoom: Blew up Krypton under Zor-El's control.
* EvilGenius: Not "TheEvilGenius" in a FiveBadBand sense, as he's generally the BigBad or TheDragon, but definitely ''an'' EvilGenius. In terms of actual IQ points, he's probably the smartest being on the show.
* EvilMentor: To Clark in early Season 5.
* EvilTeacher
* [[spoiler:GuileHero: After his HeelFaceTurn.]]
* [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn: It's thanks to being reprogrammed though, so it doesn't gain him a lot of sympathy.]]
* HumansAreBastards...
** MisanthropeSupreme: ...And thus deserve to die.
* InYourNatureToDestroyYourselves: He claims this is the truth about humans.
* KillAllHumans: Season 8.
* ManipulativeBastard
* NanoMachines: His real body is a black, liquid metal composed of these.
* [[spoiler:NotSoDifferent]]: [[spoiler:Brainiac 5 invokes this with Clark in Season 10's "Homecoming." For a good cause, to boot.]]
* OmnicidalManiac: Plans to destroy Earth in Seasons 7 & 8, and implies he'll do the same thing to the next planet he visits. Within the context of the setting, it's quite omnicidal.
* PowerAtAPrice: Specifically:
** PowerDegeneration: In Season 7, following his near destruction by Clark in the previous season. It takes a visible effort for him to shape-shift, and his body takes on the appearance of someone with a very serious illness.
** PowerSource: Is shown recharging himself at a power plant in Season 7. Coincidentally, an overload of electricity is every bit as bad for him as not getting enough.
* RoboticPsychopath: His programming didn't [[AIIsACrapshoot malfunction]]: it was deliberately corrupted by Zod.
* [[spoiler:ScienceHero: Post-reprogramming. He's the AI behind the Legion Flight rings and most of their other tech.]]
* SelfMadeOrphan: In a way. He not only kills his designer Dax-Ur, but helped General Zod wipe out Krypton, killing his creator, Jor-El, in the process.
* TheSociopath: Hits every point on the check list.
* SuperiorSpecies: Pretends to be a Kryptonian with this attitude.
* SuperPowerLottery: A major winner. He can fake most of the Kryptonian powers, and has a few of his own, all in addition to his EvilGenius status. Here's the full list:
** EyeBeams
** FromASingleCell: He's been utterly destroyed numerous times, but as long as a few pieces of him remain, he can regenerate completely, although it does take time.
** GrandTheftMe: Body-jacks several people in Season 7 in order to drain their trace minerals and rebuild himself. In Season 8, he takes control of [[spoiler:Chloe]] following the destruction of his own body, increasing her intelligence in order to make her a better host.
** MesACrowd: Can duplicate himself, and does so frequently.
** MindProbe: Typically by means of inserting a finger through the person's eye or temple. Yes it's as [[{{Squick}} vile]] as it sounds.
** NighInvulnerability
** PuppeteerParasite: Related to GrandTheftMe. He enters in his liquid metal form and can be extracted the same way.
** ShapeShifter: Easily transforms into people, and mimics them with frightening accuracy.
*** ShapeshifterWeapon: Regularly forms blades, MindControl cables, and other weapons out of his hands.
*** VoluntaryShapeshifting
** SuperSpeed
** SuperStrength
* [[spoiler:ThanatosGambit: Clark stabbing him in Season 5 is what lets Zod take control of Lex.]]
* TreacherousAdvisor: To Clark, Bizarro, and eventually, Lex.
* TheVirus: Uses them repeatedly as part of his plans, shutting down most of the planet on at least two separate occasions.

!!Maxima (Charlotte Sullivan)

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An alien queen from Almerac, who arrives on Earth in Season 8, looking for her Kryptonian soul mate. Unfortunately for anyone who ''isn't'' a Kryptonian, her [[KissOfDeath kiss is fatal to humans]]. She kills several men, hospitalizes Jimmy and almost seduces Clark, before he breaks from her control and sends her home.
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* AllAmazonsWantHercules: She got turned on when Clark slammed her through a brick wall and pinned her.
* CombatSadomasochist: Implied.
* TheEmpath
* EvilRedhead
* EvilIsSexy
* HellBentForLeather: Initially.
* HotAmazon
* [[HypnotizeThePrincess Hypnotize Clark Kent]]
* KissingUnderTheInfluence
* KissOfDeath
* LackOfEmpathy: Has no sympathy for the men who die after kissing her.
* MsFanservice
* MurderTheHypotenuse: Tries it on [[spoiler:Lois]].
* MySensorsIndicateYouWantToTapThat
* NighInvulnerability
* RapeIsOkayWhenItsFemaleOnMale: No, it isn't! And the show makes a point of acknowledging that. Her pheromones and callous attitude towards other people nicely cement that what she is doing is a bad thing.
* StalkerWithACrush
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Nice bondage gear, Maxima.
* SuperSpeed
* SuperStrength

!!Winslow Schott / Toyman (Chris Gauthier)

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A weapons engineer formerly employed by Queen Industries, Winslow was fired when he cracked under stress and began bringing toys to work...and filling them with explosives. Having reverted at least partially to childhood, Winslow remains a dangerous adversary due to his mechanical genius and disregard for human life. Smart, eccentric and, in a word, nuts.

First appearing in Season 8, he murders most of the [=LuthorCorp=] Board of Directors, makes an attempt to kill Oliver Queen, and nearly brings down the ''Daily Planet'' with a gigantic kryptonite bomb. He returns in Season 9, once again attempting to get his revenge on Oliver, who had [[spoiler:framed him for the murder of his boss, Lex Luthor]]. Captured and imprisoned at last, he is freed by Tess, who puts him to work repairing Metallo.
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* BerserkButton: Being treated as though he were childish, or otherwise not being taken seriously. Oliver causes him to snap just by calling him a clown. Interestingly it makes him less dangerous, not moreso, as he stops using his head and just attacks you.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Who'd a thunk the overweight guy delivering balloon-o-grams could be dangerous?
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Schott is a little eccentric, to say the least. But whether you're hiring him as a technician or a MadBomber, you're probably getting your money's worth.
* TheDragon: To [[spoiler:Lex]] in "Requiem."
** DragonInChief: In much the same way Brainiac was to Zod. [[spoiler:Lex]] crippled and on a respirator can't do much without Schott to carry out his plans for him.
* EvilGenius: And not just in the scientific department. Schott's got a real talent for disguising himself, getting into places he shouldn't be, and then talking his way out again.
* FatBastard
* FatSlob
* FourEyesZeroSoul
* GreenRocks: Uses them to fuel his bombs in "Requiem."
* HappyFunBall: Between bombs that resemble dolls, Newton's Cradles, and {{Cymbal Banging Monkey}}s, gas-filled Mylar balloons, and a wide variety of other {{Lethal Joke Weapon}}s he definitely counts.
* LethalJokeCharacter: Holy crow, yes!
* MadArtist: Sees his toys and his weapons as works of art.
* MadBomber: Schott really, really likes his explosives.
* MadScientist: An expert weapons designer and technician, with a fondness for placing explosives in his toys. All he needs to add is MadDoctor and he's got the whole "mad" foursome.
* MessyHair
* PsychopathicManchild
* {{Revenge}}: Wants it on Oliver for firing him.
* TalkativeLoon: He doesn't really shut up. Ever.

!!John Corben / Metallo (Brian Austin Green)

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A war correspondent assigned to Afghanistan, John Corben returns to Metropolis early in Season 9, where he is assigned to a desk opposite Lois Lane, to whom he is attracted. Nearly killed in a car accident, Corben is re-built as a {{Cyborg}} by Major Zod and the Kandorians. Driven nearly mad by the resultant adrenaline rush, Corben attempts to hunt down and kill the Blur, only to be defeated. He is later re-built by Tess, with an assist from Winslow Schott (see above). Escaping her lab, Corben ultimately assists Chloe and Lois in [[spoiler:capturing a Red K-infected Clark and returning him to normal]]. He leaves at the end of the episode and has not been seen since.
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* ActorAllusion: Brian Austin Green as [[TheSarahConnorChronicles a cyborg]].
* {{Badass}}: [[spoiler:He takes on [[NotHimself Red K Clark]] and [[BigBad Zod]] at once. That likely qualifies him.]]
** BadassBeard
* BeardOfEvil
* BigBrotherComplex
* BodyHorror: You can see the tubes and struts sticking out of his arms and ribs. It's unpleasant, to say the least.
* CreateYourOwnVillain: The Blur's saving of a busload of convicts resulted in his sister's death, which fuels his hatred of the hero and subsequent StartOfDarkness.
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: {{Justified}}. The Green K causes an adrenaline rush, accompanied by emotional and mental instability, impulsiveness and irrationality.
* DeadLittleSister: His motivation.
* DoggedNiceGuy: With Lois.
* GreenRocks: Serve as his power source.
* KnightTemplarBigBrother
* [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn: Of course, seeing as he's still a villain in the comics, this may not last.]]
* HollywoodCyborg
* NighInvulnerability: Seeing as he's a robot, this is to be expected. Explosions, freezing—nothing so much as dents Metallo.
* RoboticPsychopath: Zod specifically designed him to be AxCrazy, so he falls under this.
* StartOfDarkness: The adrenaline rush from the Green K causes Metallo to hyper-focus on The Blur as the cause of all his problems.
* SuperSpeed
* SuperStrength
* TinMan
* WalkingShirtlessScene: {{Justified}}, as his shirtless status increases the effectiveness of the Green K. [[FanDisservice Not a pretty sight, though]].
* WeCanRebuildHim: Courtesy of Zod, [[spoiler:and then Tess]].
* WildCard
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Other Major Villains (Smallville Original)]]

!!Van [=McNulty=] (Jesse Metcalfe)

* BadassNormal
* FantasticRacism: Of any "freaks", regardless of whether they are good or evil.
* FreudianExcuse: Tina Greer murdered his father. Ironically, they never meet.
* TheHunter
* KilledOffForReal: Courtesy of Ian Randall.
* VanHelsingHateCrimes: To Van all meteor freaks deserve to die, whether they've done anything yet, or not.
* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame

!!Adam Knight (Ian Somerhalder)
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A boy who befriends Lana in Season 3 and begins rooming at the Talon. He is eventually revealed to be a) a spy for Lionel Luthor, and b) to have died several months before and been resurrected by the Lazarus Serum. Cut off by Lionel, Adam is kept alive by the doctor who brought him back, and eventually escapes, going on a rampage in an attempt to avoid dying again. It fails, and he succumbs to the effects of his disease.
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* AxCrazy: In "Crisis."
* BackFromTheDead
* KilledOffForReal
* TheMole: For Lionel.
* PsychoSerum: The Lazarus Serum does not have a positive effect on his sanity.
* SanitySlippage
* TearsOfBlood

!!Jason Teague (JensenAckles)

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* BrokenAce: He was a good-looking football coach and successful athlete, dated the girl most people seemed to consider the prettiest one in the school and, to top it off, he was from a rich, successful family. He was also the product of an abusive relationship with his EvilMatriarch mother, and had no self-esteem or ability to control himself without her help.
* [[spoiler:TheDragon: His mother's.]]
* FaceHeelTurn
* ForgottenFallenFriend: [[spoiler:Oliver Queen and Patricia Swann never mention him or ask about the strange circumstances of his death, even though he, they and Lex Luthor were friends as children.]]
* HotForStudent: With Lana.
* KilledOffForReal
* MadeOfIron: He [[spoiler:is shot by Lionel and falls of a cliff. He returns slightly the worse for the wear, manages to overpower Mr. and Mrs. Kent, and is finally killed when a ''meteor'' hits the house.]] Who does he think he is, [[RasputinianDeath Rasputin]]?
* [[spoiler:MommasBoy]]
* [[spoiler:MommyIssues]]
* MotiveDecay: [[spoiler:He goes from refusing to help his mother after learning she may be manipulating him and Lana, to being a fully clued-in accomplice to her plan and treated as though he always was. It smacks of rushing him out of the show.]]
* RomanticFalseLead

!!Countess Margaret Isobel Thoreaux (Kristin Kreuk)

* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Enchants various weapons so they can pierce Clark's skin.
* AristocratsAreEvil
* BackFromTheDead: Though only as a ghost.
* BigBad: [[BigBadEnsemble Competes]] with Genevieve for this role.
* DarkActionGirl
* EvilForeigner: She's French.
* GrandTheftMe: Consistently possesses Lana.
* KungFuWizard: Or whatever that martial art she was using was.
* MindOverMatter
* PlayingWithFire: She generates bright purple flames as one of her main powers.
* PowerTattoo: The presence of her tattoo on Lana is what lets Isobel keep [[GrandTheftMe bodyjacking]] her.
* PurpleEyes: How to distinguish her from the real Lana.
* SinsOfOurFathers: She was betrayed by Duchess Gertrude, one of the Teagues' ancestors; now she wants payback.
* SuperStrength
* VillainTeleportation
* WaifFu: {{Justified}}. She's a witch, after all.
* WickedWitch

!!Genevieve Teague (Jane Seymour)

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* AbusiveMom: She's pretty much destroyed her son's self-esteem, turning him into little more than a puppet.
* AncientConspiracy: Her ancestors have been guarding the secrets of the Stones of Power and the Traveler for centuries.
* AristocratsAreEvil: Descended from Duchess Gertrude of France, who had Isobel burned at the stake so she could find the Stones of Power for herself. Genevieve isn't much better.
* BigBad: Season 4's.
* DistaffCounterpart: To Lionel.
* EvilBrit
* EvilCounterpart: To Lionel in Season 4. They're both AbusiveParents, with a lot of money and an obsession with alien life and the Stones of Power. Where they're different is in the why: Lionel abused Lex to try and make him stronger; Genevieve abused Jason in an attempt to control him and hurt his father. Additionally, Lionel turns around and tries to connect to Lex, whereas Genevieve never does and uses her son until the end. And when it comes to the Stones of Power, Lionel is driven by curiousity and the desire for power, Genevieve by paranoia, and the need to defeat Isobel.
* EvilMatriarch
* EvilRedhead
* HotMom
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: By Isobel.
* KilledOffForReal
* MyBelovedSmother: Tries to control every aspect of Jason's life.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Margot Kidder's Dr. Bridgette Crosby was supposed to be Season 4's BigBad, but left the show following Christopher Reeve's death. Genevieve was created to fill the gap.
* SelfFulfillingProphecy: Her attempt to kill Lana before Isobel can get her, results in Isobel bodyjacking Lana for the last time, leading to Genevieve's death.
* TheUnfought: Clark never even meets her.
* YourCheatingHeart: Heavily implied to have cheated on her husband, Edward Teague.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Earth-2]]

!!Clark Luthor / Earth-2 Clark / Ultraman (Tom Welling)

--> ''"This world won't know what hit it."''

* AxCrazy: "It feels strange not having blood on my hands before breakfast."
* BastardUnderstudy: To Earth-2 Lionel. {{Darwinist}} that he is, Lionel's disappointed Clark hasn't made his move yet.
* [[spoiler:[[BrotherSisterIncest Adoptive Brother-Sister Incest]]: With Earth-2 Tess.]]
* CainAndAbel: With [[TheUnfavourite Earth-2 Lex]] in the BackStory. Their rivalry got Lex killed and left Ultraman with a permanent scar on his arm.
* TheDragon: To Lionel, who's upset he isn't TheStarscream.
* DressedToKill
* EvilTwin
* FlyingBrick
* ForTheEvulz
* ManOfWealthAndTaste
* OverlordJr: And he's pretty resentful about it.
* PsychoForHire: He's implied to be his father's assassin, and complains at one point that it feels strange "not having blood on my hands before breakfast." He's in for the privilege and [[ForTheEvulz the kicks]], not whatever Earth-2 Lionel pays him.
* PsychoticSmirk: His default expression.
* ReallyGetsAround
* ScarsAreForever: Courtesy of Earth-2 Lex and Gold Kryptonite.
--> "There's no take-backs with Gold K. Lex really knew how to leave an impression, didn't he?"
* ShoutOut: His codename is a ShoutOut to the comic book [[MirrorUniverse Earth-3/Antimatter Universe]], where Ultraman, an EvilCounterpart of {{Superman}} (who Clark Luthor resembles only superficially), led the Crime Syndicate, who were PsychoRangers to the Earth-1 JusticeLeague.
* TheSociopath
* ThreeWaySex: Is seen waking up after a night with two hookers.
* [[spoiler:VillainousIncest: With Earth-2 Tess.]]

!!Earth-2 Lionel Luthor (John Glover)

-->''"I am your father and I alone raised you in my own image to become the man that you are today."''

* AbusiveParents: Earth-2 Lionel! Making the real thing look like a nice guy!
* [[spoiler:BackForTheFinale]]: [[spoiler:[[FourthWallObserver Looks right at the camera and says: "Wouldn't want to miss how it all turns out."]]]]
* BeardOfEvil
* TheCoatsAreOff: During his beatdown of Clark.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Has transformed [=LuthorCorp=] into the most powerful entity on Earth-2. He's more or less implied to be a CEO version of TheEmperor.
* {{Darwinist}}: As demonstrated by the epic FeedMe moment below. He's actually angry at Earth-2 Clark for not succeeding in killing him.
--> "It's got to be survival of the fittest. Whether you're on this earth, or any other, I am the most fit! I will be the survivor!"
* DiabolicalMastermind: By fusing [=LuthorCorp=] and the Metropolis underworld, he's effectively become the most powerful man on the planet.
* EvilGenius
* EvilTwin: Is the Eviler Twin to Earth-1 Lionel.
* LargeHam
* MagnificentBastard: He's the TropeCodifier regardless of universe.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Of Clark.
* OffingTheOffspring: Tries it on Clark, may have done it to Earth-2 Tess, definitely let it happen to Earth-2 Lex.
* OhCrap: [[spoiler:He followed Clark back to Earth-1!]]
* TheSociopath: To a far greater degree than the real Lionel. Not only is he tyrannical, manipulative and downright sadistic, but he lacks all of Earth-1 Lionel's [[EvenEvilHasStandards standards to boot]].
* {{Ubermensch}}
[[/folder]]
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* [[spoiler:AttemptedSuicide: Season 9]]

* AntiHero: When we first meet him, he believes that if a CorruptCorporateExecutive buys valuable artifacts from evil warlords or TheMafia, that it's justifiable to steal the artifacts away from them and use them to fund charities. Not only that, he is willing to [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism contrast with Clark's views]]. [[spoiler:Out of all these, though, the biggest act to secure his position as an AntiHero is his attempted murder of Lex Luthor]].

* IDidWhatIHadToDo

* ShootTheDog

* MesACrowd
* TheSociopath

* EvilGenius: And not just in the scientific department. Schott's got a real talent for disguising himself, getting into places he shouldn't be, and then talking his way out again. One of the few recurring villains who has never been captured.

* ActionGirl/ DarkActionGirl

One of Zod's soldiers. Clark faces an alternate timeline version of her who kills herself by accident. [[spoiler:Revealed to have killed the clone Jor-El; Zod shoots her in retribution.]]

* ActionGirl

* [[BettyAndVeronica Veronica to Lois's Betty]]

* {{FlyingBrick}}s

One of Zod's soldiers. [[spoiler:Revealed to have killed the clone Jor-El; Zod shoots her in retribution.]]

* BettyAndVeronica

* StalkerWithACrush