Smallville
“Destiny is now.”
The origins of the world’s greatest hero–from Krypton refugee Kal-el’s arrival on Earth through his tumultuous teen years to Clark Kent’s final steps toward embracing his destiny as the Man of Steel.
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Between the boy Clark Kent thought he was and the man he is destined to become lie the compelling stories of Smallville, the popular action series that reimagines the Superman saga from its roots.
1.Pilot
7.916-10-200145 minThe first episode tells the story of the meteor shower that hit Smallville and changed life in the Kansas town forever. Clark Kent meets Lex Luthor for the first time and encounter...
2.Metamorphosis
7.423-10-200145 minClark must deal with Greg, a nerdish bug collector with a crush on Lana who gains the ability of various insects and uses them to lash out at anyone who opposes him.
3.Hothead
7.530-10-200144 minAn abusive and hot-tempered football coach gains the ability to control and project fire.
4.X-Ray
7.606-11-200144 minClark begins experiencing "vision problems" as his x-ray vision begins manifesting. Meanwhile a mysterious shapeshifter is going about town using his or her abilities to steal and...
5.Cool
7.813-11-200143 minA jock named Sean gains the ability to absorb heat from everything and everyone around him, and begins preying on people to gain the heat he needs to survive.
6.Hourglass
8.020-11-200144 minAn old man uses green meteor rock to reverse the aging process, then gain vengeance on the children of the jury that put him away decades earlier. Meanwhile, another woman at the s...
7.Craving
7.827-11-200143 minA weight-obsessed teen dieting on kryptonite-infected vegetables gains her fondest dream...but must feed on the fat of others to maintain her enhanced appearance.
8.Jitters
8.011-12-200141 minAn experiment at the Luthor fertilizer plant makes an old friend of the Kents literally shake and jitter, and he seeks vengeance against the Luthors, who hide the secret of his tra...
9.Rogue
7.815-01-200244 minClark visits Metropolis, and does a secret good deed - a police detective witnesses this and decides to look into it.
10.Shimmer
7.429-01-200244 minLex and Victoria are victims of a suspected household poltergeist. As the disturbances become more violent, suspicion lands on Amy, the daughter of a house servant who is obsessed...
11.Hug
8.205-02-200244 minA guy in charge of a rival fertilizer firm to LuthorCorp's arrives in Metropolis. He is intent on buying up the Kent farm and using the land to build a rival company to Lex's. Clar...
12.Leech
8.412-02-200243 minClark's powers are transferred into a classmate during a freak juxtaposition of meteor and storm. Clark must deal with being normal for the first time, and his classmate Eric is u...
13.Kinetic
7.626-02-200243 minWhitney falls in with some former jocks who have kryptonite tattoos that give them the power to walk through walls. Meanwhile, Chloe is seriously injured and Lex has his own plans.
14.Zero
7.712-03-200241 minA man from Lex's past stalks him in conjunction with a mysterious death at Club Zero that Lex may have been responsible for. Meanwhile Chloe looks into Clark's past as an adopted c...
15.Nicodemus
8.219-03-200244 minA flower that comes from a reopened "Level Three" of the fertilizer plant brings strange reactions from several people, including Jonathan, Lana, and Pete.
16.Stray
8.616-04-200243 minA young runaway, Ryan, has the power to read minds and flees his abusive stepparents. The Kents take him in and Clark soon discovers the boy's powers and that he's immune to them....
17.Reaper
7.423-04-200244 minTyler gains the power to destroy organic matter with a touch, and resolves to put the dying out of their misery...and Whitney's father is his next target. Meanwhile Lionel and Lex...
18.Drone
7.430-04-200242 minClark gets into a class election and one of his opponents is a krypto-mutant who can control bees. Meanwhile a reporter from Metropolis visits to do a story on Lex.
19.Crush
7.807-05-200243 minFormer Smallville High cartoonist Justin returns to Smallville after he loses the use of his hands in a hit and run accident. Meanwhile, Lex's former nanny, Pamela, comes back to s...
20.Obscura
8.014-05-200243 minAfter an explosion Lana finds herself getting visions of a serial killer...and his next target is Chloe. Meanwhile Lex and Roger look further into the meteor shower and determine t...
21.Tempest
8.521-05-200243 minLex is hit with a surprise by his father. Clark prepares for his date with Chloe, but Mother Nature has other plans.
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