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1	* CompleteMonster:
2	** "Bringing Down the House": [[AxCrazy Judd Faust]] is a famous musician studying for a masters degree at Schuster University. Although he [[WolfInSheepsClothing seems nice at first]], he has a lot of sinister hobbies in his spare time. Faust wants to force a amusement park owner to sell to him (simply because he wants something he know he can't have), and to do this he sends his henchman Charles to bomb a baseball game being played at the amusement park. After Superboy foils that scheme, Faust sends Charles to kidnap the park owner, cover him with alcohol and put him in a roller coaster track so that he gets run over. Meanwhile Faust has started to date Lana Lang, and one night takes her to see his special collection. Faust takes her to his basement which is filled with ghoulish torture devices; Faust plans to torture Lana on the rack and [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming record the screams for his personal enjoyment]], having done this to 3 other women already. Faust is so vile, Superboy briefly considers killing him.
3	** "Carnival": [[SatanicArchetype Deville]] is an ageless demon all but explicitly stated to be Satan himself. He set up a traveling carnival to study human nature and [[TheCorrupter tempt others]] into acts of sin on its grounds, taking the souls of all those who fall to his wiles and locking them in a box in [[AndIMustScream howling agony for all eternity]]. Seeking to possess the soul of Clark Kent himself, Deville tries to tempt him into betraying his morals to claim his soul, eventually trying to force Clark to resort to murder on the threat of raping Lana right in front of him, in the form of a despicable SerialRapist Clark had apprehended earlier.
4	** "A Change of Heart" two-parter: [[MisanthropeSupreme Adam Verrell]] is a [[VillainWithGoodPublicity respected philanthropist]] who is beloved by the public of Capitol City for his charitable deeds. Verrell donates a series of TV screens to Capitol City that have uplifting messages on them. However, Verrell is secretly a nihilist who believes that humanity is collection of moral degenerates and plans to prove this by destroying Capitol City. The TV screens are actually [[MindControlDevice mind-control devices]] designed to [[DrivenToMadness drive people insane]]. A priest looks at one of Verrell's screens and flies into a rage, pushing 2 strollers with babies in them into traffic (they are saved by Superboy). Later at a public event, a screen causes the mayor to go into a rage and take a gun from a cop and start firing on the crowd. After Superboy disarms the mayor, the screen causes the crowd to riot. Meanwhile, Verrell is dating Lana Lang and puts a drug in her wine that makes her appear dead, and frames Superboy for her death. Verrell takes Lana to his basement lair and puts her in a cage, threatening to electrocute her if she gets out of line. Verrell then kidnaps a MadScientist named Tommy Puck who was recently released from prison and forces him to increase the power of his mind-control machine so that he can affect the entire city at once. Later, Verrell wants Puck to further increase the machine's power, so that people will actively try to murder each other.
5	* EnsembleDarkhorse:
6	** Ron Ely's alternate-universe Superman only appeared in one episode but is fondly viewed by fans as one of the more underrated portrayals of Superman, given his relative obscurity and never getting to wear the suit or even be called by name. This Superman has retired after helping make his Earth into a utopia and even reforming Lex Luthor permanently. He is totally believable as TheParagon with his wise and warm demeanor, and despite being visibly older than Superboy he can still kick ass when required.
7	** Lex's DarkMistress Darla was written to be a potentially one-shot villain in season 2. However, fans enjoyed her performance enough for her to recur for the rest of the show (and even appear in a few issues of the tie-in comic), get temporary superpowers in one episode, and [[spoiler:have a HeelRealization]] in her final appearance.
8	** Lena Luthor only appears in one two-part episode. Still, her role as a MoralityPet who is ashamed enough of what her brother has done to [[spoiler:fake her own death]] is very powerful. It helps that she is one of the few non-{{Canon Foreigner}}s besides Clark, his human and Kryptonian loved ones, and his RoguesGallery A-list.
9	* HilariousInHindsight: The two alternate-universe Superboys in "Roads Not Taken" resemble versions of Superman/Superboy that would later appear in the comics. The Sovereign dresses similarly to the Soviet dictator Superman from ''ComicBook/SupermanRedSon'', while the reclusive Superboy (who killed his world's Lex Luthor in a fit of rage) wears an outfit that looks a lot like the [[ComicBook/{{Superboy}} 90s Clone Superboy]], complete with jacket and sunglasses. And of course, The Sovereign is [[VideoGame/InjusticeGodsAmongUs an evil Superman who's taken over the world in a parallel Earth]].
10	* RetroactiveRecognition:
11	** The dirty cop in "Terror from the Blue" is played by Creator/CaryHiroyukiTagawa, best know as Shang Tsung in ''Film/MortalKombatTheMovie'' and ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11''. This becomes HilariousInHindsight given that [[VideoGame/MortalKombatVsDCUniverse Mortal Kombat and the DC Universe have crossed over]] and both properties are now owned by Warner Bros.
12	** Billy Hercules, the kid in the first season episode who wore a Superboy costume was played by a young Creator/JoaquinPhoenix, billed as Leaf Phoenix. Becomes HilariousInHindsight when Joaquin ends up being cast to play the titular character of ''Film/Joker2019'', a ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' Villain. This is pretty much a case of [[Film/TheDarkKnight "You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain"]] kind of thing.
13	*** [[HarsherInHindsight "Superboy" deals with bullies in the opening of the episode; the scene ends with his EvilLaugh echoing in the background.]]
14	** Lana Lang's actress, Stacy Haiduk, would later be a prominent soap opera actress, as well as Katherine Hitchcock from ''Series/SeaquestDSV'', and, of all people, Akaavi Spar from ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic''!
15	** Ma Kent (Salome Jens) became [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine the Female Changeling]].

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