Character of the week

Lucas Luthor, son of Lionel and half-brother of Lex, is a normal human being and character of the week in episode 2x15.

Ryan James, a boy having telepathic abilities, is character of the week in episodes 1x16 and 2x08.

Kevin Grady, a benevolent metahuman, is the character of the week in episode 4x19.

Raya, a Kryptonian, is character of the week in episode 6x06 in addition to the Zoner Baern as villain of the week.

Clark Kent, having his attitude changed under the influence of red kryptonite, is character of the week in episodes 2x04 and 3x01.

Many episodes are centered on a specific character. Most of them only appear in this special episode or perhaps in one or two more episode(s). Others have recurring occurrences or even are part of the main cast, but are especially in the foreground in a specific episode.

Division

Some of the episodes centered on a specific character follow a specific formula. Among these are:

• Freak of the week: The character of the week has super-powers, in most cases achieved by contact with kryptonite. He threatens, hurts or kills people and is overcome in the end, usually by Clark Kent. This type of single episode characters was especially frequent in the first seasons of the show.

• Villain of the week: The character of the week is not a meteor freak, but a malevolent human or alien who may have or not have specific powers. He threatens, hurts or kills people and is overcome in the end.

• Hero of the week: The character of the week is a benevolent character with some specific powers or super-powers who gets into trouble and is helped by Clark. He eventually joins Clark and helps him overcoming some threat.

Other episodes centered on a specific character do not fit in a specific formula. The charakters of the week in these episodes may be for example normal human beings without specific abilities, or benevolent metahumans or aliens.

A character of such an episode may already have appeared in minor roles in previous episodes, but have a prominent role in a specific episode. Even one of the main characters may become a character of the week, developing a special characteristic in an episode, such as Clark when coming into contact with red kryptonite.

Characters by Season

Season One

Image	Episode	Character of the week
	1x06 Hourglass	Beside Harry Volk as the freak of the week, the episode also featured Cassandra Carver who had lost her vision in the meteor shower, but achieved the ability to see the future of people she touched. She died from the shock of the vision of Lex's future.
	1x11 Hug	Beside Bob Rickman as the freak of the week, the episode also featured Kyle Tippet, Bob's former business partner who was with him during the meteor shower and got the same abilities, but had retired himself. In order to stop Bob's crimes, he used his abilities to make Bob shoot himself to death.
	1x16 Stray	Ryan James, a boy who had the ability to read the minds of others, was used by his step-parents to commit robberies. He escaped them and went to live at the Kent Farm. He discovered Clark's secret, but promised not to tell anybody. He left Smallville with his aunt and reappeared in episode 2x08.
	1x20 Obscura	Beside Gary Watts as the villain of the week, the episode also focussed on Lana Lang who was caught by an explosion near Gary. Thereafter, she had visions seeing the abduction of Chloe with Gary's, the abductor's, eye, and was then herself abducted by Gary. She lost her ability to see with Gary's eye when he was shot to death by the police.

• For the episodes 9, 14, 20, and 21 see Villain of the week.
• For the episodes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 17, 18, and 19 see Freak of the week.
• The episode 15 is not focussed on a specific character.

Season Two

Image	Episode	Character of the week
	2x04 Red	Clark bought a ring, not knowing that it contained red kryptonite which changed his character. He turned into a rebellious and dangerous teenager using his powers for personal gain instead of good. With the help of Pete, Jonathan succeeded in destroying the ring, whereupon Clark returned to normal.
		The episode also featured Jessie Brooks, a new student on Smallville High School. Under the influence of the red kryptonite, Clark first flirted with her, but then stole CD's from her with data worth a million dollars. After Clark returned to normal, Jessie and her father left Smallville.
	2x08 Ryan	Ryan James from episode 1x16 was held captive in Summerholt Institute where his telepathic abilites were examined. He was freed by Clark, but soon knew he had an uncurable cerebral tumor. Before his death, he wanted to see the world from above, whereupon Clark gave him a ride on a hot-air balloon.
	2x10 Skinwalker	Kyla Willowbrook, a lovely Kawatche teenager with the ability to transform into a wolf, developed a romance with Clark. When she threatened Lionel in wolf form to make him leave the Kawatche Caves untouched, Clark intervened and she jumped out through a closed window and died from the cuts caused by the glass splinters.
	2x14 Rush	Pete and Chloe were infected by a parasitic worm from the Kawatche Caves which turned them into thrill-seeking daredevils. Pete used red kryptonite to get Clark to join them on a dangerous adventure. When the kryptonite fell out of his pocket, Clark saved Pete and Chloe as they drove their car off a cliff and brought them to the hospital.
	2x15 Prodigal	Lucas Luthor, illegitimate son of Lionel Luthor and half-brother of Lex Luthor, had a criminal past in Edge City. When Lex found him and brought him home, Lionel and Lucas united to get Lex out of LuthorCorp. When Lucas learned that Lionel betrayed him, he united with Lex against Lionel. Lex regained his position in the company, and Lucas went away.
	2x17 Rosetta	Virgil Swann, billionaire and scientist, had intercepted an extraterrestrial messsage and after years succeeded in deciphering it. He contacted Clark and told him about his real name Kal-El and his origin from the destroyed planet Krypton. He promised to keep Clark's secret and did so until his death in season 4.
	2x18 Visitor	Cyrus Krupp, a smallville high student, had achieved healing powers during the 1989 meteor shower. He had witnessed Clark's spaceship arriving, but believed himself to be the alien arrived by this chip. When healing a student who had bullied him at school and destroyed his space transmitter, Cyrus suffered a mental breakdown and was placed in a special hospital in Metropolis.

• For the episodes 1, 7, 12, 13, 19, and 22 see Villain of the week.
• For the episodes 2, 3, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 20, and 21 see see Freak of the week.
• The episodes 16 and 23 are not focussed on a specific character.

Season Three

Image	Episode	Character of the week
	3x01 Exile	Clark Kent went to Metropolis committing robberies under the influence of red kryptonyte. He was restored to his normal self when the kryptonite ring was destroyed in his fight with Jonathan at the beginning of episode 2x02.
	3x04 Slumber	Sarah Conroy had fallen into a coma at a car accident and was kept asleep by her uncle with intravenous drugs. Due to an exposure to meteor rocks during the car accident, she had got the ability to manipulate other person's dreams. After Clark prevented her uncle from giving her drugs, she woke up.
	3x06 Relic	Jor-El was sent by his father to Smallville in 1961 where he became involed in a love affair and a murder. He finally returned to his father.
	3x08 Shattered	Lex Luthor was drugged so that he got  hallucinations in order to make people believe he was schizophrenic. He was then taken to the Belle Reve Sanatorium from which he was released after an electroshock therapy to make him forget his last weeks in episode 3x09 .
	3x12 Hereafter	Beside Joseph Altman as the villain of the week, the episode also featured Jordan Cross, a new Smallville High student who could foresee other people's death. He helped Clark seve Lana and the other girl and lost his ability in the explosion caused by Altman.
	3x13 Velocity	Beside Jason Dante as the villain of the week, the episode also focussed on Pete who was the champion at Dante's illegal street races. When Pete refused to intentionally throw a race, Dante tried to kill him by placing a bomb into his car. Pete, however, was saved by Clark.
	3x18 Truth	Chloe Sullivan inhaled a gas which gave her the ability to make anyone but Clark tell the truth. She returned to normal when Clark injected her an antidote in order to save her life.
	3x19 Memoria	Lex Luthor had himself treated in the Summerholt Institute to regain seven weeks lost from his memory by the electroshock therapy of episode 3x09. The Therapy let him remember scenes from his childhood.
	3x22 Covenant (season finale)	Lindsey Harrison, a girl who had disappeared at the meteor shower, was taken into custody in the Kawatche caves by Jor-El and programmed to be the vessel of Clark's cousin Kara. She was disintegrated by Jor-El after she had brought Clark to him into the caves.

• For the episodes 2, 3, 5, 12, 13, 15, and 20 see Villain of the week.
• For the episodes 7, 10, 11, 14, 16, and 21 see Freak of the week.
• The episodes 9 and 17 are not focussed on a specific character.

Season Four

Image	Episode	Character of the week
	4x03 Façade	Abigail Fine, a Smallville High student, was exposed to a kryptonite-powered plastic surgery by her mother Elise Fine. The operation had the side effect to provoke violent hallucinations in everybody she kissed. It is left open whether she finally returned to normal.
	4x06 Transference	Clark Kent's and Lionel Luthor's spirits switched bodies when they both touched the Crystal of Water. Clark stayed in prison, but succeeded in getting Lionel there again and touching him with the stone so that they both switched back.
	4x17 Onyx	Lex Luthor was "split into two" after a kryptonite explosion with Lex as his good side and Alexander as his evil side. Alexander took Lex hostage. Clark came to free Lex, but Alexander subdued him with green Kryptonite. When Clark used his heat vision to turn the green kryptonite into black one, Alexander and Lex united again.
	4x19 Blank	Kevin Grady, who had achieved a memory erasing ability during a memory alteration treatment in Summerholt Institute, accidentally wiped out Clark's entire memory. When they broke into Summerholt to restore it, Clark had to use his super strength. Kevin promised to keep Clark's secret and made the other eyewitness forget it.
	4x20 Ageless	Evan Gallagher was found as a baby by Clark and Lana and taken to the Kent Farm. He aged in steps from a baby to a child and the next day to a boy of 16 years, each time setting free large amounts of energy. At the next step, he aged so far that he died, and Clark had to shield the energy which would otherwise have destroyed the surroundings.

• For the episodes 4, 8, 9, 14, and 16 see Villain of the week.
• For the episodes 2, 7, 11, 12, 13, 18, and 21 see Freak of the week.
• For the episode 5 see Hero of the week.
• The episodes 1, 10, 15 and 22 are not focussed on a specific character.

Season Five

Image	Episode	Character of the week
	5x05 Thirst	Beside Buffy Sanders as the freak of the week, the episode also focussed on Lana Lang who was bitten by Buffy and also turned into a vampire. When Lana bit Clark, she acquired Clark's powers. In the end, Clark succeeded in injecting her an antidote into the heart whereupon she returned to normal and did not remember anything that happened.
	5x06 Exposed	Chloe and Lois investigated the dead of Melissa Paige. They found out she was a stripper in a club, and Lois started working in the club. She was abducted by Mr. Lyon, the murderer of Melissa Paige, who tried to fly her out of the country. Lois was saved by Clark, and Mr. Lyon was arrested at his return to Europe.
	5x07 Splinter	Clark was infected by a splinter of silver kryptonite. He got halluzinations that everybody was betraying him and begun to mistrust everybody, even Lana. When he attacked her, he was stopped by Milton Fine who claimed to be himself a Kryptonian and removed the splinter from Clark's body.
	5x09 Lexmas	Lex Luthor was shot and fell into a coma. He had visions of his mother showing him how his future would be if he gave up power and money. He passed a Christmas with his wife Lana and their son. Im the end, however, Lana died because Lex could not afford the medical treatment she needed. Lex therefore decided not to renounce power and money.
	5x14 Tomb	Gretchen Winters had been murdered and hidden behind a wall of the Talon. From a kryptonite-gemstone bracelet, her spirit got the power to possess Chloe when she and Clark found the corpse. She made Chloe search for her murderer, Michael Westmore. She then took possession of him and made him kill himself.
	5x18 Fragile	Beside Tyler McKnight as the freak of the week, the episode also featured his daughter Maddie Van Horn who had the same ability to control glass as her father. After Clark had saved her from her father, she went to live at the Kent Farm and helped Clark to overcome her father. She finally went to live with her grandmother.
	5x22 Vessel (season finale)	Lex Luthor was abducted by Milton Fine and prepared to be a vessel for Zod. He was endowed with the super powers of a Kryptonian. Jor-El ordered Clark to kill Lex with a kryptonian knife to prevent Zod from leaving the Phantom Zone. Clark threw the knife into Fine, instead, thereby opening a portal to the Zone, whereupon Zod took possession of Lex.

• For the episodes 1, 3, 8, 10, 11, 16, 17, and 19 see Villain of the week.
• For the episodes 2, 5, 18, and 20 see Freak of the week.
• For the episodes 4, 13 and 15 see Hero of the week.
• The episodes 12 and 21 are not focussed on a specific character.

Season Six

Image	Episode	Character of the week
	6x06 Fallout	Beside Baern as the villain of the week, the episode also featured Raya, a Kryptonian who had been assistant to Jor-El and had escaped with Clark from the Phantom Zone. She told Clark about his parents and helped him find Baern. She was killed by Baern in the Fortress of Solitude.
	6x07 Rage	Oliver Queen used a drug called RL65 to heal wounds he had received during his missions as Green Arrow. The drug, however, had the side effect to make him more aggressive. When he and Lex shot each other, Clark saved Lex by injecting him the drug, too. Oliver then realized that the drug led him to kill people and stopped taking it.
	6x09 Subterranean	Beside Jed McNally as the freakof the week, the episode also featured Javier Ramirez, a boy from Mexico who came to the USA with his friend Francisco in search of his mother. They were held as a slaves by McNally, but Javier succeeded in escaping. Clark helped him expose McNally and find his mother.
	6x13 Crimson	Lois Lane used a lipstick containing red kryptonite and became infatuated with Clark. When she kissed him, he also got infected. Together, they crushed Lex's and Lana's engagement dinner. Chloe and Jimmy cured Lois with a spray containing an antidote, while Clark was brought back to normal by Martha using green kryptonite.
	6x15 Freak	Tobias Rice, a former Smallville High student, was blinded during the 2005 meteor shower and had the ability to identify other meteor infected humans. He was used by Dr Bethany to collect metahumans for Lex's 33.1 experiments. When Bethany tried to kill him, Tobias was saved by Clark and taken away in a car of Oliver to get a cornea transplant.
		The episode also featured Daniel Kim, a shoe clerk at a bowling alley who had the power of telekinesis. He gave Lana bowling tips in an attempt to flirt with her and used his power to move Lana's ball to make it hit he pins. He was identified by Tobias Rice as a metahuman, abducted, and later killed.
	6x18 Progeny	Moira Sullivan, Chloe's mother, had the power to control other meteor infected people. Lex tried to use her to bring back a metahuman who had escaped from Level 33.1. When Chloe was brought to the place where her mother was held captive, they escaped with the help of Lowell and Clark. Soon after, Moira fell back into a catatonic state.
	6x20 Noir	Jimmy Olsen was knocked unconscious after he took a picture of someone running away from a crime scene. He found himself in a black-and-white world of the 40es as a star reporter who got involved in a plot including Lana, Lex and Lionel as well as Clark as a detective. When he woke up, he remembered from his dream that a cigarette case was the clue to solve the crime.

• For the episodes 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 12, 14, 17, 19, 21, and 22 see Villain of the week.
• For the episodes 5, 8, 9, and 10 see Freak of the week.
• For the episodes 4 and 11 see Hero of the week.
• The episode 16 is not focussed on a specific character.

Season Seven

Image	Episode	Character of the week
	7x05 Action	Beside Ben Meyers as the villain of the weak, the episode also featured Rachel Davenport who played the role of the heroine in the Warrior Angel movie filmed at the Kent Farm. She was saved by Clark from Meyers' attempts to kill her and went to live first on the farm and then in the Queen Tower.
	7x06 Lara	Kara Kent searched for the blue crystal she got from her father. After breaking into a government lab, she was arrested by Agent Carter who subjected her to a memory treatment in order to learn her secret. Kara was rescued by Clark who then participated in Kara's memories of her past and learned about his mother Lara-El.
	7x07 Wrath	Lana Lang achieved Clarks powers when both were struck by a lightning in the presence of green kryptonite. She wanted to use her powers to take revenge on Lex. When she choked him, Clark intervened. In their fight, green kryptonite was set free. Clark then electrocuted Lana by which she lost her powers again.
	7x08 Blue	Beside Zor-El as the villain of the weak, the episode also featured Lara-El, the mother of Clark, who also was re-created as a clone. She helped Clark to take down Zor-El and advised him to destroy the Blue crystal, whereby her clone was annihilated together with Zor-El's clone.
	7x12 Fracture	Lex Luthor found Kara who had amnesia in Detroit. He was shot in the attempt to take her home. Clark entered Lex's mind, using the Project Intercept by LuthorCorp, to learn where Kara was. During the session, Lex died, but he was brought back to live by Chloe's healing powers.
	7x13 Hero	Pete Ross has got the ability of stretching his body by chewing some kryptonite-enhanced gum. He saved Kara from being slain by a piece of scaffolding falling down upon her. When he choked Lex, he was beaten up by one of Lex's men. He was saved by Clark, but had lost his powers.
	7x14 Traveler	Patricia Swann, the daughter of Virgil Swann, appeared in Smallville to find The Traveler of whom she had read in her father's journal. When she met Clark, she talked to him of her father's work and gave him the journal. On her way back to Metropolis, she was shot to death by her driver.
	7x18 Apocalypse	Clark Kent was tranferred by Jor-El to an alternative reality in which he never had come to earth. His friends were doing fine, but Lex, who had become president of the United States, had been manipulated by Brainiac to start a nuclear war in order to destroy Earth. Clark then travelled back in time to Krypton to prevent Brainiac from killing baby Kal-El.

• For the episodes 1, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 15, 17, 19, and 20 see Villain of the week.
• For the episode 3 see Freak of the week.
• For the episodes 2 and 11 see Hero of the week.
• The episode 16 is not focussed on a specific character.

Season Eight

Image	Episode	Character of the week
	8x03 Toxic	Oliver Queen was poisened and had only 12 more hours to live. In his agony, he remembered his time as a shipwrecked on an island where he was poisoned by a toxic plant and saved by Tess. Clark fetched an antidode from Brasilia and arrived just in time to save Oliver's life.
	8x12 Bulletproof	Beside Talbert as villain of the week, the episode also featured Dan Turpin, a Metropolis police officer whom Talbert and Joe Simmons wanted to involve in their illegal police activities. When Talbert tried to force him to shoot Green Arrow, Dan refused and was shot by Talbert. Oliver and Dan were finally saved by Clark.
	8x13 Power	Lana Lang learned of Lex's Project Prometheus and wanted to have the Prometheus suit for herself. She underwent a painful medical treatment at the hands of Dr. Groll. In flashbacks, it is shown how Lana had been trained by Carter Bowfry to endure pain. Finally, the suit was fused with Lana's skin, giving her super powers.
	8x16 Turbulence	Beside Davis Bloome as villain of the week, the episode also focussed on Jimmy Olsen who was in Metropolis General Hospital where he witnessed Davis killing a man. He searched Davis's ambulance car and found another corpse. When he accused Davis, he drugged him so that people believed Jimmy was hallucinating. Since also Chloe believed Davis, he left her, saying that their marriage was the biggest mistake in his life.
	8x18 Eternal	Davis Bloome was captured by Tess who had figured out that he had come to earth with Kal-El's ship as a boy. In flashbacks, Davis' past with the Luthors was revealed. Davis escaped and asked Chloe to help him die. In Dr. Groll's lab, Chloe emptied a tank of liquid green kryptonite on Davis so that he appearently died. He survived, however, because he was immortal.
	8x19 Stiletto	Lois Lane posed herself as a vigilante called Stiletto and then pulished articles about this invented super-hero in order to come into contact with the Red-Blue Blur. When Clark, weakened by green kryptonite, was knocked down by Bruno Mannheim, Stiletto came to his rescue, but was herself saved by Clark from being shot by Bruno. Thereafter, she received her first phone call by the Red-Blue Blur.
	8x20 Beast	Beside Davis Bloome as villain of the week, the episode also focussed on Chloe Sullivan who was harboring Davis in the Talon basement and tried to calm down the beast within him. When Clark took Davis to the Fortress of Solitude to send him to the Phantom Zone, Chloe followed them to prevent Clark from doing so, and left the town with Davis.

• For the episodes 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 16, 20 and 22 see Villain of the week.
• For the episodes 2, 6, 7, 15, and 21 see Freak of the week.
• For the episodes 11 and 17 see Hero of the week.
• The episode 1 is not focussed on a specific character.

Season Nine

Image	Episode	Character of the week
	9x05 Roulette	Oliver Queen
	9x07 Kandor	Jor-El's clone from the orb arrived at the Kent Farm where Chloe told him about his son Kal-El. Zod abducted Jor-El because he believed that he had robbed him and his army of their powers, but kept them himself. When he learned that Jor-El had a son, he let him free in order to be led to the Blur. Clark found Jor-El with a mortal wound, and he died in his arms.
	9x09 Pandora
	9x14 Conspiracy
	9x15 Escape
	9x16 Checkmate
	9x17 Upgrade
	9x18 Charade
	9x19 Sacrifice
	9x20 Hostage
	9x21 Salvation (season finale)

• For the episodes 1, 2, 4, 10, and see Villain of the week.
• For the episode 2 see Freak of the week.
• For the episodes 8, 11 and 12 see Hero of the week.
• The episodes 3, 6, and 13 are not focussed on a specific character.

Season Ten

Image	Episode	Character of the week
	10x02 Shield	Beside Deadshot as villain of the week, the episode also featured Cat Grant
	10x04 Homecoming	Brainiac had been reprogrammed by the Legion of Super-Heroes and was now a member of the Legion himself, called "Brainiac 5". He returned from the 31th century and took Clark with him on a journey through time to make him overcome his doubts about his past and his destiny and to show him that Lois would know his secret and always be with him.
	10x07 Ambush
	10x09 Patriot
	10x10 Luthor
	10x12 Collateral
	10x13 Beacon
	10x14 Masquerade
	10x15 Fortune
	10x17 Kent
	10x19 Dominion
	10x20 Prophecy
	10x21 Finale, Part 1
	10x22 Finale, Part 2 (series finale)

• For the episodes 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, and see Villain of the week.
• For the episodes 8 and 11 see Freak of the week.
• For the episodes 16 and 18 see Hero of the week.
• The episodes are not focussed on a specific character.

See also

• Freak of the week
• Hero of the week
• Villain of the week