History Headscratchers / Smallville

** Not being able to have children of her own could of had a very negative effect as well.

* Speaking of Lucas, how easy would it have been for the showrunners to feature Lucas in another episode instead of making him BrotherChuck? His S2 ep left the impression that he would return to cause more trouble down the line, but he was never seen or mentioned again. Even worse, in a later episode, Clark--horrified at Lionel's latest abuse of Lex--gasps "But Lex is your child! Your only son!" apparently, forgetting the misadventure he, Lex, and Pete had had involving Lucas.

** Maybe mind control email works differently on Clark because he is [[{{Superman}} Clark]]. He was repeatedly shown to be immune to various meteor mind-related powers like compelling voices, mind reading or make-you-speak-the-truth voice. It's possible he couldn't resist the email completely but, since it was making him do something he really didn't want to, he subconsciously decided to not try particularly hard.

*** If anything, Lana is Clark's teenage crush and there is barely any development past the "telescope stalking" stage other than that now Lana is into him too. All the time in season five Clark and Chloe has so many beautiful moments (Beginning ''and'' ending with two of the most[[note]]I know you can run faster than a speeding bullet, Clark... Take me along for the ride.[[/note]] powerful[[note]]Clark...I don't know if I'm ever gonna see you again *NowOrNeverKiss*[[/note]] Chloe/Clark scenes, or just two greatest scenes period). Probably why they had to suddenly brought back Jimmy - are they grasping at straws to keep them apart or something? Last time I checked Jimmy is mentioned only once before, two seasons ago; a very brief summertime fling, a guy who took Chloe's virginity and left without a word for ''over four years'' (as implied in ''Zod''). Then Chloe just went back to him before you could blink. Seriously, even ''{{Superman}}'' had a lot more difficulty with ComicBook/LoisLane[[note]]a.k.a. the character Chloe is something of an {{Expy}} of[[/note]] in ''Film/SupermanReturns'', with a much more believable reason for his absence[[note]]you'd think the "checking out my home planet because there is a chance I might not be the last of my kind after all" thing gets him off the hook[[/note]]. What were the producers thinking?

** Not evil, no, but still illegal in the eyes of the law. Actually, I could have even lived with an example one often sees with The Punisher and his relationship with the cops (at least in the ''ComicBook/ThePunisherWelcomeBackFrank'' story). The cops support what he does but of course they have to make a show of trying to catch him. ''Especially'' when the Mayor is in bed with the Mafia. So they create a "task force" of the department's biggest loser and a civilian psychologist with EXTREME issues of his own. As a character explains, "it's like saying 'you got it boss,' and 'drop dead asshole' to the Mayor at the same time."

*** He hasn't appeared because of the Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy. The rights to those movies prevent him from appearing on the show.

** Because they usually want to eat or mate with Lana, and without Clark's Main/NighInvulnerability, they'd die from [[Main/TastesLikeDiabetes sugar overdose.]]

** Because the producers haven't caught onto the Main/{{Meganekko}} or Main/NerdsAreSexy trends and don't want their Bishonen model-actor star covering his face too much.

** Not evil, no, but still illegal in the eyes of the law. Actually, I could have even lived with an example one often sees with The Punisher and his relationship with the cops (at least in the "ComicBook/WelcomeBackFrank" story). The cops support what he does but of course they have to make a show of trying to catch him. ''Especially'' when the Mayor is in bed with the Mafia. So they create a "task force" of the department's biggest loser and a civilian psychologist with EXTREME issues of his own. As a character explains, "it's like saying 'you got it boss,' and 'drop dead asshole' to the Mayor at the same time."

*** I agree you forgot about the MoralMyopia of the show things are only bad if lex foes it. When she first met him the first thing lois said was that he was a spoiled rich kid trying to buy peoples votes when he insulted her back he had to pay. Experimenting on meteor freaks is wrong but lana can find a sick person lying in the street and instead of taking her to the hospital she locks her in a room and watches her die. Oliver killed lex because lionel killed his parents. Tess tried to kill lex because she found out he put a chip in her eye yet later she put nano bombs in the brains on the injustice league. Lex main flaw was his need to be liked by everyone and to that in he was accountable for his actions but the good guy’s are to blame as well that is why he’s so sympathetic. Everyone kept pushing his buttons repeatedly. They dragged him kicking and screaming towards the edge then had the gaul to act surprised when he jumped off. So with they final they were hoping the viewers would forget that by showing that he was always going to be evil regaurdless of what the hero’s did.

*** Actually, post-Crisis (the only Crisis that actually matters) Superman was nowhere near capable of that level of power, because... well, it was overpowered and ridiculous, even the writers realized that Superman not solving everything that came at him in a single page meant that he was basically screwing around and entertaining himself for thirty pages. Of course, Smallville is based off of a lot of ridiculous Golden/Silver age stuff (like multicolored Kryptonite) mixed with a dash of ridiculous [[RunningTheAsylum retro-reintroduced Golden/Silver age stuff]], so I guess nonsense like shoving planets around still fits.
*** Creator/GeoffJohns and Creator/GrantMorrison are now practically [[{{RunningTheAsylum}} running the DC Universe]], and are unnecessarily reintroducing tons of wall-banging [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] details, such as the silly "Superman can juggle planets" stuff, and Creator/GeoffJohns became at least somewhat involved with Smallville in the last two seasons, so we can assume that he and Morrison may have had a hand in this.

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*** He hasn't appeared because of the Film/TheDarkKnightSaga. The rights to those movies prevent him from appearing on the show.

*** To elaborate, the "rights" to DC characters belong to Warner Bros., which owns DC Comics. Both ''Smallville'' and ''Film/TheDarkKnightSaga'' are produced by the same studio, because that studio '''owns''' the rights to the characters, and isn't simply renting them. They simply didn't want Batman on the show because they thought ViewersAreMorons and would be confused if they had two different Batmen running around.

* How did Tess exposing Earth-2 Lionel as a fraud actually work? Someone above noted the issue with Earth-2 Lionel passing himself off as a NotQuiteDead Lionel Luther despite FakingTheDead being a serious legal problem, but as he seemed to pull the trick off and take LuthorCorp over without any real hassle, Tess's method of exposing him seems legally questionable. She showed that fingerprints that she had collected him were actually a mirror image of the "real" Lionel's fingerprints. This seems to have instantly nullified all of Lionel's claims of ownership of the company without so much as a cursory investigation. Were federal officials readily won over by the argument that the "mirror match" of fingerprints was a result of "Lionel" being a doppelgänger from a parallel universe because the idea that either the fingerprints submitted as evidence or the fingerprints existing on file were accidentally reversed was so much less plausible?