History Characters / SmallvilleKents

** In Season 8 he refuses to kill Davis and spares him due to his faith in his humanity, this leads to the death of Jimmy Olsen.

* DidNotGetTheGirl: Lana leaves in Season 8, to protect him after her absorbing kryptonite makes her mere presence a danger to him. As per tradition, subverted with Lois.

** In Season 5, Clark breaks his promise to return to Jor-El before sundown, which results in Jor-El taking his powers away. At first Clark is relieved and enjoys his human life, but then gets shot and dies. Jor-El resurrects Clark and reveals that someone he loves will have to die to compensate for his restored life.

** In Season 9 he uses his blood to save the depowered Major Zod from a gunshot wound, and ends up restoringZod's powers.

* MrFanservice: He is a ChickMagnet and shirtless scenes of him or when at least his build is emphasized are not uncommon at all.

* BadassAdorable: Throughout but increasingly so as the show goes on.
* BadassCape: In the series finale.

* BadassLongcoat: In Season 9. Come Season 10's "Shield," however, he returns to his red-and-blue threads.
* BashBrothers: With Oliver in later seasons.

* BoundAndGagged: Has had his fair share of moments.

* TheCape: Picks up traits of it as time goes by. He's definitely there by the finale.

* ClassicalAntiHero: For much of the series.

* DarkIsNotEvil: In season 9, he dresses in black clothes, but remains heroic.

* DeadpanSnarker: Not as much as Lex, Chloe, Lois, or Oliver, but he can definitely have a pretty dry wit at times. He REALLY dials up the snark whenever he's affected by Red kryptonite and reverts to his Kal persona, possibly enough to even outsnark ''Lex''.

* DoomMagnet: Meteor freaks, {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s, {{Wicked Witch}}es, alien invaders--if it can attack Clark, it has.

* FatalFlaw: His CharacterDevelopment over the course of ten seasons includes the acceptance that, as one of, if not THE most powerful being on earth, he cannot always blame himself for every tragedy he is involved in. No matter how clear it is to everyone else: in the end Clark is always ready to believe that everyone who died were people he let die. Sometimes it goes even further, with him thinking that he is the one to blame for the tragedies around him, coming close to the ItsAllAboutMe trope. In "Apocalypse" he openly declares that, had he never been born, the world would have been a better place, and it is only through Jor-El, who shows him a glimpse of what would have been the result of such a reality, that he realizes that this is not true at all.
* FlyingBrick: He qualifies, although he doesn't know to use flight for a long time.

* HappilyMarried: Clark is married to Lois in the GrandFinale. According to the [[WordOfGod show's producers]], in the flash-forward sequence set in 2018, Clark and Lois are happily married, although they chose not to display any rings at the ''Planet'' office due to their desire to keep their professional lives separate from their personal lives. By 2019, both have left the city life to live in the Kent farm with their two daughters.

** He expects everyone else to be completely honest with him about everything, but builds his relationships around lies and deceit, insisting on keeping his "secret" even among his closest friends. That's probably why he's so touchy about lies; he knows people keep secrets and that somebody can be deceiving you even when it doesn't seem like it--he does so himself.

* IJustWantToBeNormal: For about the first half of the show.

* ItsAllMyFault: He may as well be the living, breathing incarnate of this trope.

* LimitedWardrobe: A side-effect of ColorCodedForYourConvenience--Clark's blue shirt and red jacket combo. Every time he wears something else, he's probably at work, it's a special occasion or he is evil/"dead." [[LampshadeHanging It got to the point where]], in one episode, Jimmy, seeing a red/blue blur caught on camera, came to the conclusion that it was Clark going around saving people, just based on the colors.

** In fact, Clark whenever he's infected by [[GRatedDrug Red]] [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Kryptonite]].

* PlatonicLifePartners: With Chloe.

* ShamefulStrip: The whole point of the scarecrow prank which frightened Clark and caused him so much anxiety. A 14 year old Clark Kent is chosen by Whitney Fordman to be the scarecrow. Fordman restrains him, takes him to a cornfield, forcefully strips him to his boxers, draws a red "S" on his chest and ties him to a cross to shame and humiliate him.
* ShirtlessScene: Has quite a few of these.

** Clark does not apply this rule to machines. But then again, this is [[RoboticPsychopath Brainiac]]. Not even [[ArchEnemy Lex]] went to the [[MoralEventHorizon levels]] Brainiac went to. And the bastard's got a FromASingleCell thing going on, as well, so it ain't like it's ever been permanent.
** WordOfGod was Clark does not kill anyone; the villains are always either HoistByTheirOwnPetard or die under circumstances that Clark has no control over.

** In Season 5, Clark uses a Power Crystal to reverse time and save Lana from a fatal car accident, but this results in Jonathan suffering a fatal heart attack, to repay Jor-El debt for resurrecting Clark.

** In Season 8 he refuses to kill Davis and spares him due to his faith in Davis is humanity, this leads to the death Henry Olsen.
** In Season 9 he uses his blood to save the depowered Clone Zod from a gunshot wound, which restores Zod's powers.
** And in the Season 9 finale, his use of the Book of Rao to send away Zod and the Kandorians allowed {{ComicBook/Darkseid}} to come to Earth.

** And finally, in Season 10, his use of the Book of Rao to send away Zod and the Kandorians allowed {{ComicBook/Darkseid}} to come to Earth.

[[folder: Clark Kent/Kal-El/The Blur/Superman]]

[[folder: Martha Kent]]

[[folder: Kara Kent/Kara Zor-El/Supergirl]]

[[folder: Conner Kent/Kon-El/Superboy]]

!!! '''Played By''': Creator/TomWelling
!!! '''Voiced By''': Creator/LuisDanielRamirez (Latin-American Spanish), Creator/KenjiNojima (Japanese)

-->'''Clark''': ''(effortlessly catches Lex-38's punch in his right hand, decks him with his left)'' Still stronger.

* DeadpanSnarker: Not as much as Lex, Chloe , Lois, or Oliver, but he can definitely have a pretty dry wit at times. He REALLY dials up the snark whenever he's affected by Red kryptonite and reverts to his Kal persona, possibly enough to even outsnark ''Lex''.

-->'''Clark''': I've always tried to forget I was an alien or a creature. I've always tried to pretend I was human. I was raised to believe it was my Kryptonian part that was dangerous, Chloe, but I was wrong. It's my human side. It... It's the side that gets attached, the side that makes decisions based on emotions. That's my enemy. And Davis proved that to me.\\
'''Chloe''': So, because of some psychopath, you're gonna cut the rest of us out of your life? Clark... human emotion is what made you the hero that you are today.\\
'''Clark''': They're what's stopping me from being the hero I could be. It's what the world needs now.

!!! '''Played By''': Creator/JohnSchneider

-->'''Jonathan''': No, I didn't shoot Lionel. But I let my anger get the best of me. I... I haven't exactly kept it a secret how Jonathan Kent feels about the Luthors. What jury could possibly believe me now?

!!! '''Played By''': Creator/AnnetteOToole

!!! '''Played By''': Creator/LucasGrabeel

!!! '''Played By''': Creator/DeanWray and Creator/KendallCross

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: An alternate Lex Luthor thinks he can take him because he no longer has powers. However, he forgets to account that while he may have given up his powers, he still has fighting skills and is three times bigger than him. Clark manages to catch his punch effortlessly and stagger him with a punch of his own.

* In Season 8 he refuses to kill Davis and spares him due to his faith in Davis is humanity, this leads to the death Henry Olsen.

* InspiteOfANail: Despite living different lives to each other both himself and his ''Series/{{Arrowverse}}'' counterparts from [[Series/SupermanAndLois Earth-Prime]] and [[Film/SupermanReturns Earth-96]] are parents as revealed in ''Crisis on Infinite Earths''.

* TheKlutz

* ThatManIsDead: At the end of Season 8, he decides this for a while, embellishing himself in his training with Jor-El and declaring to Chloe that "Clark Kent is dead."

* WideEyedIdealist

* WouldHitAGirl: Given the sheer number of female villains, he'd be an idiot not to.

* TheHero: Of the entire series. This is understandable considering that the series is about Clark's growth and journey from a teenager to a superhero destined for greatness.

* HonorBeforeReason

* BoxingLessonsForSuperman: From Season 9 onwards, he picks up legitimate fighting skills, thus allowing him to hold his own against experienced combatants with or without his powers.

* CloningBlues: When he found out that not only was he half-Clark, but half-''[[BigBad Lex]]''. He's over it now.

* CoolLoser: Especially in earlier season, while he was in general well liked on campus and around Smallville for being a kind, upstanding, handsome, if shy young man, he wasn't portrayed as having that many friends outside of Pete, Chloe, Lana and Lex, and more than once other students could be heard calling him a freak.

!![[Franchise/{{Superman}} Clark Kent/Kal-El/The Blur/Superman]]

The main character, hero and protagonist of the show. In the show's early seasons, Clark spent most of his time fighting [[MonsterOfTheWeek meteor freaks]], hopelessly pining for [[LoveInterest Lana Lang]], [[IJustWantToBeNormal wishing he were normal]] and befriending his future ArchEnemy, ComicBook/LexLuthor. In Season 8, he began working at the ''Daily Planet'' alongside ComicBook/LoisLane (with whom he began to have feelings) and taking steps towards embracing his destiny as Franchise/{{Superman}}.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Gets this treatment a couple times. He's got the usual SuperSpeed, but [[Franchise/TheFlash Impulse]] is a faster runner and ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} is a faster swimmer. Even during ''Crisis'' out of the three Supermen to appear he was this, mainly since he had given up his powers while his ''Arrowverse'' counterpart still had them and his ''Returns'' counterpart was the [[AlternateUniverseReedRichardsIsAwesome Paragon of Truth]].

* ThouShaltNotKill: He comes dangerously close to killing the guy who killed [[TemporaryLoveInterest Alicia Baker]] and Lx-3, but pulls back at the last moment. Nonetheless, Clark believes there is always a better option than murder, and calls out the likes of ComicBook/GreenArrow and the Franchise/{{Justice League|of America}} whenever they cross the line.

!![[Franchise/{{Supergirl}} Kara Kent/Kara Zor-El]]

* FlyingBrick: Has demonstrated NighInvulnerability, SuperStrength, SuperSpeed, [[EyeBeams Heat Vision]], SuperSenses and [[Franchise/{{Superman}} other Kryptonian abilities]].

!!! '''Played By''': Dean Wray and Creator/KendallCross

* HurtingHero: Clark may be powerful and possess many superhuman abilities, but the secrecy that comes along with it hasn't been too easy for Clark.