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[[folder: Whitney Fordman]]

!!Whitney Fordman (Eric Johnson)

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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.

%%* AcademicAthlete
* BackForTheDead: In Season 2.
* TheBully: Played with; he's actually a decent guy somewhere in there, but he takes his jealousy over Lana waaaaay too far.
* TheBusCameBack: For roughly one minute, before BusCrash.
%%* CrazyJealousGuy: Though only at the level of a normal teenage boy.
%%* DroppedABridgeOnHim
* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler:Not of him, actually, but of his identity. [[{{Shapeshifting}} Tina Greer]] steals his identity in order to be able to date Lana. [[GlamourFailure It fails]], thanks to Clark's X-ray vision]].
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Attempts to carry one of his fellow Marines to safety while leading the others. Unfortunately, they are all killed when a landmine goes off]].
* HiddenHeartOfGold: He acts distant from Lana, but only because of everything she has been through, not wanting to add on to her emotional toll.
* JerkJock: This is initially his only characterization. [[HiddenDepths He turns out to be hiding a lot of baggage]].
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He was a good person, though a bit smug and over-protective.
%%* KilledOffForReal
* ProperlyParanoid: Yes, he is a CrazyJealousGuy. On the other hand, Clark really ''does'' spend all of Season 1 scheming to seduce Lana.
%%* PutOnABus
* RomanticFalseLead: For Lana.
* ShellShockedVeteran: He became a soldier at the end of Season 1.
%%* TheSouthpaw
* TookALevelInKindness: Eventually warmed up to Clark and formed a friendship with him.
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[[folder: Pete Ross]]

!!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 spaceship 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.
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%%* ActionSurvivor
* AdvertisedExtra: Despite being Clark's best friend, his character usually had the least amount of screen time, outside of Whitney, of the Lead characters, and had the least character development.
* BlackBestFriend: To Clark.
* TheBusCameBack: He returns briefly in the seventh season.
* ChildhoodFriends: With Clark.
* ADayInTheLimelight: "Duplicity" and "Velocity." Sadly, his much-trumpeted return appearance in Season 7 was more about Kara than him.
%%* DeadpanSnarker
* TheGenericGuy: Was originally the laid-back one to Clark's angst and Chloe's enthusiasm, but once Lana came along, he was relegated to this status.
* GuileHero: Often helped Clark come up with ways to hide his secret early on.
* InterspeciesFriendship: With Clark. While Pete is a human, Clark is a Kryptonian.
%%* IJustWantToBeSpecial
* KeepingSecretsSucks: Pete's attempts at keeping Clark's secret absolutely torture him, to the point where he moves to Wichita with his mom, in order to avoid being around people who knew Clark, in case he ever slipped up.
* PowerTrio: With Clark and Chloe. The three are initially seen as a trio of [[{{CoolLoser}} three nerds]], despite Pete's best efforts. Eventually, they all gain popularity.
* ProductPlacement: [[spoiler:For Stride chewing gum in Season 7's "Hero."]]
** And before that, there was Season 2's "Hey, Clark, check out the new Talon Mix!" *camera dwells on the CD for a few seconds* Clark: "Wow, I'll have to check it out!"
*** And before ''that'', there was the most infamous line of the Season 1 finale: Pete: [[{{Narm}} "Yeah! Remy Zero!!!"]]
* PutOnABus: Leaves with his mother, after an event in Smallville makes him fear for his life, as well as being frightened that he may accidentally reveal Clark's secret.
* RaceLift: Is Caucasian in the comics, but is portrayed by Sam Jones III, who's African-American.
* TheResenter: Despite being outwardly polite to him, he could not stand Lex, mainly due to [[GreenEyedMonster jealousy ]] of how close a friendship that both Lex and Clark formed with each other.
* SecretKeeper: The first lead character, outside of his parents to learn Clark is a Super-Powered Alien.
%%* SuperpowerSillyPutty
* ThreeAmigos: With Chloe and Clark.
* TokenMinority
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[[folder: Chloe Sullivan]]

!!Chloe Sullivan (Allison Mack)

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One of Clark's 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 ''Smallville Torch'', the school newspaper, and helps Clark uncover information about the MonsterOfTheWeek. 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. Having become PlatonicLifePartners with Clark, she enters into a relationship with Jimmy Olsen, with whom she had a one-night stand between Seasons 1 and 2. She also discovers the secret identities of ComicBook/GreenArrow and most of the Franchise/{{Justice League|of America}}, and becomes Watchtower, their MissionControl. In Season 7, Chloe is fired from her job at the ''Daily Planet'', but becomes Watchtower full-time.
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* PutOnABus: Goes into hiding with his family, with Clark and the Kent's assistance.

%%* TookALevelInKindness: Eventually warmed up to Clark and formed a friendship with him.

%%* PutOnABus

%%* SecretKeeper

* BrainyBrunette
%%* BrokenBird

%%* IJustWantToBeSpecial

%%* HiddenHeartOfGold

* KeepingSecretsSucks: Lana's motto, which she repeated to Clark over and over from Seasons 2 though 6.

* SecretRelationship: With [[spoiler:Oliver]] in Season 9. It doesn't last -- the secret, that is ([[{{CrowningMomentOfFunny}} when Clark and Lois run into them at an inn, dressed in bathrobes]], it kind of becomes impossible to hide).

* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: With Clark many time throughout the series.

* ActionGirl: Tries hard to become one, especially in [[spoiler:Season 8]]. She apparently succeeded by [[spoiler:Season 11 thanks to her superpowers gained from kryptonite, when she makes a surprise appearance saving Lois' life]].

* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: With Clark MANY TIMES throughout the series. It's practically a RunningGag.
* ApologisesALot: Lana is the Queen of this trope. And Clark is the King of this trope as well.

* BareYourMidriff: More often than not.

* BrainyBrunette: [[InformedAttribute In theory]]. We're told Lana gets good marks, but nothing she does in practice would indicate this is true.

* ButtMonkey: She's supposed to be TheWoobie, but really comes off more like this.
* CharacterDevelopment: Lana changes from DamselInDistress to ActionGirl in the later seasons. It's not consistent.
* CharacterShilling: Oh so much. It began all the way back in Season 1, when everybody in the town kept gushing about how amazing and strong and wonderful Lana was, despite the fact that there was very little on screen to actually confirm this, and most fans found her to be kind of underwhelming. So the writers decided to emphasize Lana's talents to an unrealistic extent, having her start up a coffee shop at the age of 15, while apparently engaging in equestrian competitions and maintaining a high grade point average; fans found this unrealistic and quickly noticed the character shilling, and began to be annoyed. Then the writers apparently decided that the best way to address this was to...''shill her even more''. All the fan favorite characters--including Chloe and Lex--began gushing about how amazing Lana supposedly was. It still didn't work. So the writers began shoving her into every storyline they could think of, but all it did was make fans despise her even more. The pattern kept on going and became a vicious cycle--fans would dislike Lana, and the writers would attempt to change this by ramming her down the audience's throats even more, which in turn just made people dislike Lana to an even greater extent. It got to the point where Lana's send-off involved her essentially becoming a GodModeSue. Naturally, many fans threw up their hands in disgust at this development.
** The shilling even affected ''Lionel'' eventually. During the first few seasons, he was the one and only character who was, at best, largely indifferent to Lana (and found her to be a mere annoyance in "Transference"), but in the later seasons as Lana gets involved with Lex, Lionel suddenly started gushing about how Lana is truly ready to be a Luthor, and how Lex has finally met his equal in her. Even after the Lexana breakup, Lionel continues to gush about Lana, frequently remarking that she still has "the Luthor instincts."
** Averted in Season 11, as her vigilante persona is somewhat distrusted.

* ClingyJealousGirl: Oh so much in regards to Clark. She seemed to get rather jealous of other girls who paid attention to Clark, most notably Chloe.

* 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. It was especially telling (and Lex was especially thrilled) when Lana--after a trip to a museum in Amsterdam--begins gushing about how being Lex's girlfriend gave her VIP status.

* DamselInDistress: For most of Season 1-7, despite her near-episodic protests to the contrary.
* DarkActionGirl: In early Season 7, Lana, traumatized by her treatment from Lex, seeks revenge against the Luthors and attempts to become this trope for a while (including one moment where she smacks Lionel in the face with a shovel), culminating in "Wrath," when she absorbed Clark's powers and became DrunkWithPower before being downgraded back down to her usual self.

* DesignatedVictim: She was the female focal piece in a Superman series for the majority of the shows run, it was a given, before Lois took over the role.
* DeusAngstMachina: Lana is always angsting about something. It's almost a permanent emotion for her.

* EasilyForgiven:
** In "Rosetta," Lana decides to snoop around Chloe's computer and browses through her private files, viewing some pictures with very heavy emotional significance for Chloe. At first Chloe gets upset...[[ExtremeDoormat but then she very quickly forgives Lana, and even declares that she's going to consider Lana her sister from now on (going as far as to add her to the family tree she makes for a school project). This was just one of many occasions where Chloe easily forgives Lana despite Lana treating Chloe badly]]. She also emotionally manipulated Clark ''constantly'' for virtually the entirety of her run on the show (although you could make a case for her being more innocent in Season 1), constantly stringing him along, demanding that he allow her to invade his privacy, and doing incredibly passive-aggressive things just to spite him. Through it all, Clark kept coming back for more, and continued putting Lana on a pedestal.
** In early Season 7, she makes off with $10 million from [=LuthorCorp=], bashes an elderly man in the face with a shovel (granted, it was Lionel, but by that time he'd reformed), shoves Lois through a glass door with SuperStrength and injures her, and comes close to murdering Lex. [[EasilyForgiven It takes just one episode before she is firmly back on everyone's pedestal]]. She did briefly get [[IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer a stern talking to by Chloe about unintentionally hurting Clark]]...but by the very next episode, Chloe had [[AesopAmnesia apparently forgotten about all this]] and went back to unconditionally [[ExtremeDoormat worshipping the ground Lana walked on, as did Clark]], which only served to further Lana's status as EasilyForgiven.
** Perhaps the most glaring example was towards the end of Season 6: at the end of "Nemesis", Clark and Chloe realize that Lana was planning to let Lex die in the tunnels, and that she only decided to let rescuers know how to reach them after she found out Clark was in there as well; in other words, Clark and Chloe essentially caught Lana trying to cause another human being's death. Do they confront Lana with this information, or alert the authorities, or take any kind of action about it? Nope. By the next week, both Clark and Chloe are back to viewing Lana as some sort of heroic martyr or {{Ojou}} figure.

* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Lana gets a haircut in Season 8.

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Dated [[TheBully Whitney]], [[TheMole Adam]], and [[MommyIssues Jason]], and married [[ManipulativeBastard Lex]], while distrusting ''[[TheHero Clark]]''. And oh yeah, mistook [[EvilTwin Bizarro Clark]] for the real thing.

* {{Hypocrite}}: She complains constantly about Clark and Lex hiding things from her, but the minute she has a secret (the black spaceship, the fact that Lex is still alive, etc.), she goes out of her way to hide it from Clark. Also in Season 6's "Hydro," Lana gets understandably upset when she mistakenly believes that Chloe has outed one of her secrets (it was actually a one-episode villain who did this), but then at the end of the ''very same episode'', Lana rips into Chloe for protecting Clark's secrets and outright ''demands'' that Chloe give up Clark's secret to her. Lana does this despite whining about her own secrets being outed earlier in the same episode. When Chloe refuses to divulge Clark's secret, Lana makes a nasty comment to her and storms out in a huff. Apparently in Lana's mind, her own secrets must remain hidden but everyone else's are somehow fair game.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Dear Lord, Lana, it's ''not'' all about you for crying out loud! Sadly, the other characters seem to happily indulge Lana's ItsAllAboutMe mentality. They continually shower her with unwarranted praise and apologies, and elevate Lana's desires above everyone else's.
* {{Jerkass}}: Lana became infamous for her [[ItsAllAboutMe selfishness]], as well as her passive-aggressive behavior towards Clark, emotionally tormenting him and demanding that he allow her invade his privacy, despite his saving her life on a near-weekly basis. She also treated her best friend Chloe badly at times, and often took advantage of her kindness. Lana was often hypocritical about her opposition to "secrets and lies," harping at the other characters about how they shouldn't keep secrets, while simultaneously keeping plenty of her own. In general, she tended to torment others (and the audience) for the pettiest reasons imaginable, and crossed many moral boundaries along the way. Through it all, the character was almost never called out on it, and when she was, she was then EasilyForgiven. This resulted in Lana becoming an immensely unpopular character online.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite it all, her actions were generally towards what she though was the greater good, and her final action on the show [[spoiler: absorbing Kryptonite into her body to diffuse Lex's bomb in the middle of Metropolis despite knowing it would make her hazardous to Clark,]] proves she was never a truly bad person.

* KeepingSecretsSucks: Lana's motto, which she repeated to Clark over and over from Seasons 2 though 6...not that it stopped her from keeping her own big secrets during that time period.
* TheLoad: In the early seasons; somewhat mitigated by Seasons 7 and 8, at least in the eyes of some fans.

* NoSympathy: Especially for Clark, but Chloe gets hit with this a lot as well due to Lana's ItsAllAboutMe mentality.

* PsychoExGirlfriend: Quite disturbingly, Lana started displaying elements of this trope during Seasons 6 and 7, first towards Clark and then towards Lex. In Season 6, while dating Lex, she takes an extremely antagonistic stance towards her ex-boyfriend Clark despite his saving her life multiple times over. Later in the season, she decides that she still loves him after all (she still keeps dating Lex, though), and secretly starts spending her nights sneaking around the Kent Farm with a camera trying to photograph clues about what her ex-boyfriend's secret might be, particularly looking for any clues that might confirm his having superpowers, and it certainly seems like an obsession. Then the following season (after Lex's own psychotic machinations are exposed to her and they break up), Lana develops a rather terrifying level of obsession with Lex and Lionel, and begins spying on the Luthor Mansion from a command center hidden at her newly-founded Isis Foundation (fans at the time nicknamed the computer room "Lana's Batcave"). Furthermore, she ''arranges for Lionel to be kidnapped and tortured by an utter psycho for weeks'' and she herself smacks the elderly Lionel in the face with a shovel to prevent him from escaping. It all culminates when Lana gains Clark's superpowers, instantly becomes DrunkWithPower, and nearly murders Lex (she also injures Lois during her rampage earlier in the episode, and also threatens Grant Gabriel, the ''Daily Planet'' editor at the time, while caught up in her quest for revenge).

* StepfordSmiler: Outwardly very sweet and friendly, but hides a LOT of emotional baggage.

* TooDumbToLive: Lana doesn't always make the best choices, putting herself in danger.
** She goes swimming after dark which, in Smallville, has never been a good choice.
** In late Season 5 and early Season 6, she is often mistrustful of Clark and too trusting of Lex given the track record of both.
* TookALevelInBadass: Between Seasons 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...at least until Lex's GambitRoulette comes into play and results in the [[spoiler: kryptonite poisoning]].
* TookALevelInJerkass: In the earlier seasons, she was friendly, but after returning from Paris she became less and less friendly with time. In her latest seasons in the series, she becomes anti-heroic.
* UngratefulBastard: Towards Clark, frequently. He saves her life on at least a weekly basis, and she returns the favor by emotionally tormenting him for not revealing his secret to her, picking on whatever real or imagined inadequacies he has, and in general acting HolierThanThou towards him. Sometimes she'd very briefly say "Thank you"...but then quickly follow it up with angry accusations and attempts to pressure him into revealing his secret, despite his being clearly uncomfortable about it.

* WaifFu: Season 3 and onward. A trait often mocked by the fans. Especially since she managed to beat the snot out of a large goon after only ''one'' lesson from Lex. Mind you, Lex is the guy who keeps getting knocked unconscious in every episode, so how he managed to train Lana to be this effective after one lesson is anyone's guess.

!!ComicBook/LanaLang (Kristin Kreuk)

Lana is Clark's LoveInterest from Seasons 1 to 8. Lana's parents were killed in the meteor shower that accompanied Clark to Earth, leaving her to be raised by her aunt Nell. She originally dated Whitney Fordman until he went off to join the Marines, then went on to have an on-and-off relationships with both Clark and his eventual ArchEnemy, Lex Luthor.

* ActionGirl: Tries hard to become one, especially in [[spoiler:Season 8]], apparently has succeeded by [[spoiler:Season 11 thanks to her superpowers gained from kryptonite, when she makes a surprise appearance saving Lois' life]].

* BlessedWithSuck: [[spoiler: Her exposure to Kryptonite has given her superpowers similar to Clark's, but on the reverse side, she can never come near the man she loves, due to his averse reactions to it, ever again]]

* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Clark and Lana have known each other since they were children, but they were only friends who were next-door neighbors. This changed when they have an RelationshipUpgrade in Season 2.

* DarkActionGirl: In early Season 7, Lana, traumatized by her treatment from Lex, seeks revenge against the Luthors and attempts to become this trope for a while (including one moment where she smacks Lionel in the face with a shovel), culminating in "Wrath," when she absorbed Clark's powers and became DrunkWithPower before being downgraded back down to her usual self.

* EasilyForgiven: In "Rosetta," Lana decides to snoop around Chloe's computer and browses through her private files, viewing some pictures with very heavy emotional significance for Chloe. At first Chloe gets upset...[[ExtremeDoormat but then she very quickly forgives Lana, and even declares that she's going to consider Lana her sister from now on (going as far as to add her to the family tree she makes for a school project). This was just one of many occasions where Chloe easily forgives Lana despite Lana treating Chloe badly]]. She also emotionally manipulated Clark ''constantly'' for virtually the entirety of her run on the show (although you could make a case for her being more innocent in Season 1), constantly stringing him along, demanding that he allow her to invade his privacy, and doing incredibly passive-aggressive things just to spite him. Through it all, Clark kept coming back for more, and continued putting Lana on a pedestal.
** In early Season 7, she makes off with $10 million from [=LuthorCorp=], bashes an elderly man in the face with a shovel (granted, it was Lionel, but by that time he'd reformed), shoves Lois through a glass door with SuperStrength and injures her, and comes close to murdering Lex. [[EasilyForgiven It takes just one episode before she is firmly back on everyone's pedestal]]. She did briefly get [[IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer a stern talking to by Chloe about unintentionally hurting Clark]]...but by the very next episode, Chloe had [[AesopAmnesia apparently forgotten about all this]] and went back to unconditionally [[{{ExtremeDoormat}} worshipping the ground Lana walked on, as did Clark]], which only served to further Lana's status as EasilyForgiven.
** Perhaps the most glaring example was towards the end of Season 6: at the end of "Nemesis", Clark and Chloe realize that Lana was planning to let Lex die in the tunnels, and that she only decided to let rescuers know how to reach them after she found out Clark was in there as well; in other words, Clark and Chloe essentially caught Lana trying to cause another human being's death. Do they confront Lana with this information, or alert the authorities, or take any kind of action about it? Nope. By the next week, both Clark and Chloe are back to viewing Lana as some sort of heroic martyr or [[{{TheOjou}} Ojou]] figure.

%%* IJustWantToBeSpecial
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: In Season 11, after learning from Lois that she's engaged to Clark, Lana admits she always knew that Lois could make Clark happy, and genuinely congratulates her, wishing the two well.

* LoveInterest: To various different male characters, but most notably to Clark from Seasons 1 to 8.

* TheOjou: Heavily lamphshaded in the early seasons, especially Season 1.

* PrincessPhase: Her first scene of Smallville shows her as a child of 3 years old, pretending to be a fairy princess. Throughout Season 1, the townspeople still view Lana as [[{{TheOjou}} some sort of princess archetype]] and treat her accordingly.

* PutOnABus: Leaves Smallville and Clark at the end of Season 7.
* CommutingOnABus: Returns in time for Chloe's wedding in Season 8, briefly rekindles her love affair with Clark, [[spoiler: then is forced to absorb Kryptonite by Lex, making her deadly to Clark, leaving for good this time, to prevent him harm.]]

* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler:Starting in 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 Seasons 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...at least until Lex's GambitRoulette comes into play and results in the [[spoiler: kryptonite poisoning.]]

* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler:Not of him, actually, but of his identity. [[{{Shapeshifter}} Tina Greer]] steals his identity in order to be able to date Lana. [[GlamourFailure It fails]], thanks to Clark's X-ray vision.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Attempts to carry one of his fellow Marines to safety while leading the others. Unfortunately, they are all killed when a landmine goes off.]]

* JerkJock: This is initially his only characterization. [[{{HiddenDepths}} He turns out to be hiding a lot of baggage]].

* ADayInTheSpotlight: "Duplicity" and "Velocity." Sadly, his much-trumpeted return appearance in Season 7 was more about Kara than him.

* ActionGirl: Probably the weakest of the heroes in a physical fight, but she easily could (and does) beat the hell out most regular humans.

* BloodSplatteredWeddingDress: In ''Bride'' and ''Legion''.

* BigBrotherIsWatching : It is even [[DiscussedTrope discussed]] in Season 9.
* {{Bookends}}: [[spoiler:The GrandFinale starts with Chloe reading a ''Smallville'' comic book to her son and, not counting the obligatory final scene of {{Superman}} going off the save the world, it ended with her finishing the story and tucking him into bed.]]

* ButNowIMustGo: In the Season 10 episode ''Fortune''.

* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Chloe seems to be the unlucky childhood friend, especially since we all know that Clark marries her cousin Lois.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Towards Clark, in the early years. [[{{CharacterizationMarchesOn}} She gets over it though.]]
* CompositeCharacter: Of Lois and Lana. Like Lois, she is an intrepid reporter; like Lana from the comics, she's Clark's UnluckyChildhoodFriend from high school with an unrequited crush on him who eventually learns his [[SecretKeeper secret]]. She also tried often to expose Clark's secret, much like Lois and Lana did in the Silver Age. She also eventually takes on a [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Barbara Gordon]]-like role during the second half of the show.

* CursedWithAwesome: [[spoiler:In Season 6, it was revealed that Chloe had the meteor ability to heal.]]

* DamselInDistress: in the earlier seasons. Gradually, years of protecting Clark's secret--and [[{{ActionSurvivor}} experiencing all the physical trauma that often comes with that]]--ends up toughening her up.

* TheDeterminator: One of the most determined characters in the series. Chloe never gives up, especially when it's something that is important to her.

* EmpoweredBadassNormal: In "Collateral", Chloe's virtual world avatar demonstrates SuperSpeed, {{intangib|leMan}}ility, MindOverMatter and SelfDuplication abilities. She has none of these powers in the real world.

* EveryoneCanSeeIt: [[spoiler:Chloe and Oliver clearly feel for each other much more strongly than that.]]

* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:Season 10's "Shield." Also in Season 3's "Covenant," albeit not voluntarily.]]

* HollywoodHacking: Started off realistically in Season 1, with Chloe using her computer to uncover info that, while hard to find, wouldn't have been impossible to locate. But as being "Clark's Tech Support" increasingly became of her hats, Chloe's computer skills grew to such magnitudes that, by Season 7, she was able to control power grids and hack NASA satellites. In Season 8, she even hacks into a piece of crystalline alien technology! [[Film/IndependenceDay (Jeff Goldblum would be proud.)]]

-->'''Davis'''(after he kills [[spoiler: Jimmy]]): You are the only who ever loved me. Why? WHY?!

* MissingMom: Chloe's mom, Moira, left her when she (Chloe) was only 8 years old so that she could voluntarily commit herself to a hospital in order to protect Chloe from her meteor ability.

* SmugSnake: A rare heroic example. She may be {{Adorkable}}, but her smirk and condescending attitude sometimes just make you want to reach through the television and punch her in the face. In "Truth," she temporarily gains the ability to compel people to tell her the truth about their secrets, instantly becomes DrunkWithPower and starts prancing around the school with a smirk on her face as she casually forces hapless students to reveal their innermost secrets and then announces them to the entire school in the newest edition of the ''Torch''.
** Actually [[{{LampshadeHanging}} lampshaded]] in-universe in Season 10. In the episode where Desaad attempts to corrupt Clark's allies by exploiting each of their greatest character flaws, Desaad (who can read minds) notes that Chloe's greatest character flaw is arrogance. That being said, Chloe is ''usually'' nice enough that it's forgivable. Plus, she still overcame that particular temptation.

* TookALevelInJerkass: Chloe takes a few levels in the latter seasons. Her husband Jimmy had evidence that Davis was a psychotic serial killer and not only does Chloe refuse to give Jimmy the benefit of the doubt, but it becomes blatantly obvious that she indeed does harbor romantic/sexual feelings for Davis, despite having just married Jimmy. So from Jimmy's perspective, not only does his wife refuse to believe his warnings that this other guy is a murderous psycho, it becomes blatantly obvious that she's been (and continues to be) lusting after this other man. Jimmy was put in a nightmarish situation that broke his heart and left him isolated. His friends all treat him like he's gone crazy (even though it turns out that Jimmy was actually right about everything) and Chloe isn't there for him. His dumping Chloe was thus completely understandable and warranted. Then in Season 9, after Jimmy and Davis are both killed as the culmination of the aforementioned situation, Chloe decides to go Big Sister Is Watching on everyone (including monitoring Clark and Oliver's phone calls and emails, even setting up hidden cameras at the Kent Farm), putting Oliver in a series of life and death "games," stealing money from Oliver when she could have just asked to make kryptonite weapons, and more.
* TraumaCongaLine: She may cross to an IronWoobie but, good God, the stuff that happens to her, it's amazing she didn't snap.
** She actually ''did'' snap for a while at the end of Season 8 and throughout Season 9, as a result of her feeling responsible for what happened [[spoiler:to Jimmy]]. The post-traumatic stress caused by the events of the Season 8 finale actually become a huge plot point for her, Oliver, Clark and the rest of the Franchise/{{Justice League|of America}} for most of the season. It was actually quite realistic, as the healing from it was shown to be a long process rather than an easy light switch.

* UnrequitedLove: In regards to her teenaged love for Clark. Chloe's feelings for Clark were never reciprocated on Clark's part. She grows out of it eventually.

* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Averted. Clark and Lana have known each other since they were children, but they were only friends who were next-door neighbors. This changed when they have an RelationshipUpgrade in Season 2.

%%* HotScoop

* BerserkButton: DO NOT hurt anyone she cares about. You'll regret it. Hurting Clark in any way is a huge no-no for Chloe.

* ActionSurvivor: Probably fits this much better than an ActionGirl.

** Averted in Season 11, as her vigiulante persona is somewhat distrusted.

%%* spoiler:BackFromTheDead

* BookEnds: [[spoiler:The GrandFinale starts with Chloe reading a ''Smallville'' comic book to her son and, not counting the obligatory final scene of {{Superman}} going off the save the world, it ended with her finishing the story and tucking him into bed.]]

* EveryoneCanSeeIt: [[spoiler:They clearly feel for each other much more strongly than that.]]

%%* TheTeamNormal

* {{Jerkass}}: Lana became infamous for her [[ItsAllAboutMe selfishness]], as well as her passive-aggressive behavior towards Clark, emotionally tormenting him and demanding that he allow her invade his privacy, despite his saving her life on a near-weekly basis. She also treated her best friend Chloe badly at times, and often took advantage of her kindness. Lana was often hypocritical about her opposition to "secrets and lies," harping at the other characters about how they shouldn't keep secrets, while simultaneously keeping plenty of her own. In general, she tended to torment others (and the audience) for the pettiest reasons imaginable, and crossed many moral boundaries along the way. Through it all, the character was almost never called out on it, or if she was, she was then EasilyForgiven. This resulted in Lana becoming an immensely unpopular character online.

* GoneHorriblyRight: A meta example. In the early seasons, the writers used Chloe as an {{Expy}} for ComicBook/LoisLane. However, it was apparently a little ''too'' effective, and once the real Lois was introduced in Season 4, there was a very vocal faction known as the "Chlois Theorists" who refused to accept Erica Durance's Lois as the real thing and clung to the idea that Chloe would inevitably turn out to be the "real" Lois. The producers, the writers and even Allison Mack herself repeatedly stated that the Chlois Theory was never going to happen, but the Chlois Theorists adopted the attitude that the showrunners were simply "hiding the truth," as if this were some grand conspiracy and insisted that, by the time ''Smallville'' ended, the theory would come true (Super Secret Spoiler: It didn't). Eventually, though, the exasperated writers decided to make a joke out of it and spoof the idea in Season 8's "Hex," [[{{Functional Magic}} via a magical spell by Zatanna]] (everything goes back to normal by the end). The episode's ending even has Chloe pointedly note "I will never be ComicBook/LoisLane" as she fully embraces her new role as Watchtower.

!!Lana Lang (Kristin Kreuk)

* TheAtoner: During their last meeting, [[spoiler: after her being exposed to kryptonite radiation has made her mere presence lethal to Clark]] she promises Clark to use [[spoiler: her new abilities]] to become this.

%%* CuteBookworm

%%* DesignatedVictim

%%* PutOnABus
%%* CommutingOnABus

* TookALevelInBadass: Between Seasons 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...at least until Lex's GambitRoulette comes into play and results in the kryptonite poisoning.

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: In Season 11, after learning from Lois that she's engaged to Clark, Lana admits she always new that Lois could make Clark happy, and genuinely congratulates her, wishing the two well.

* MsFanservice: The show doesn't shy away from showing off Kristen Kreuk's legs and body. Especially apparent in season 4, when they posses her with a free thinking, free spirited, wicked witch, who after taking control would strip off Lana's conservative clothing in favor of [[EvilIsSexy more revealing attire.]]

%%* MsFanservice

* MrExposition: Some people on message boards affectionately nicknamed her "The Exposition Queen" until her detractors began using it to make fun of her. KryptonSite even banned the term eventually due to the latter development.

%%* TheNicknamer

Lana is Clark's LoveInterest from Seasons 1 to 8. Lana's parents were killed in the meteor shower that accompanied Clark to Earth, leaving her to be raised by her aunt Nell. She originally dated Whitney Fordman until he went off to join the Marines, 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, becomes engaged to Lex, and (finally) learns Clark's secret; she is about to leave Lex at the altar until Lionel {{blackmail}}s her into going through with the wedding]]. [[spoiler: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. [[spoiler:Thanks to [=LuthorCorp=] technology, Lana gains superhuman powers along with the ability to absorb kryptonite radiation. Lex forces her to [[SadisticChoice 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]].

Lana received a lot of CharacterShilling over her run of the show, which many fans weren't happy about; in fact, many judge Seasons 9 and 10 to be better ''just because Lana isn't in them''. Needless to say, this isn't one of the brightest moments for the character, and admitting that you liked Lana's story in the later seasons is a pretty sure way to get laughed off the Internet.

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 Season 2 while fighting in Indonesia.]]

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 initially do. Living in the center 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]]. She returns to [[spoiler:free the League from the Vigilante Registration Agency's clutches mid-way through Season 10]].

%%* {{Badass}}

* {{Badass}}: Chloe is highly capable of defending herself when she has to.

* AdaptationDyeJob: In the comics, Lana is [[RedheadedHero a redhead]]. In ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', Lana is a brunette.