"You know how they say everyone in life has a double? I had to look twice." – Roy Rothman, Zero
"Clark, that drawing looks exactly like you." – Lana Lang, Relic
"You bear a striking resemblance to your great-aunt. Has anyone ever told you that?" – William Tate, Relic
"You don't recognize me, but you are the spitting image of your father." - Faora, Bloodline
Over the years, Smallville would re-use actors, or have actors portray more than one character. As a result of this, the universe of Smallville became inhabited by a number of doubles or look-a-likes. Not to be confused with clones (ex. Bizarro) or Multiverse counterparts (ex. Clark Luthor), where a resemblance is motivated by other factors.
Related doubles[]
Some doubles have established familiar ties to each other, giving a genetic explaination for the characters resemblance.
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These doubles represents the majority of known cases. In these cases, the doubles have no known familiar ties with each other. In one case (Eric Summers), the resemblance to two other characters is brought on by the show having casted the twin brother (Shawn Ashmore) of the actor (Aaron Ashmore) portraying Henry James and James Bartholomew Olsen, as opposed to them re-using an actor.
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Human-Kryptonian doubles[]
There are known cases of Kryptonians having Human doubles.
Notes[]
- Outside of the young Jor-El in the Season Three episode Relic, the show never had Tom Welling portray a character resembling Clark Kent (not counting people like Bizarro or Clark Luthor). However, in Absolute Justice, Part 2, Lois Lane mistakes an unnamed Daily Planet employee (played by Jason Cecchini, Tom Welling's stand-in) for Clark.
- Not all instances of an actor portraying multiple roles creates the existence of doubles. For example:
- Fraser Aitcheson portrayed Ethan Carter in Season Three and the Persuader in the Season Eight episode Legion. However, he wore a mask (that was never taken off) during his performance as the Persuader, leaving the appearance of the character's face (from an in-universe perspective) unestablished. As a result, while it is a case of an actor portraying multiple roles, Ethan Carter and the Persuader are not considerable as doubles of each other.
- Mackenzie Gray portrayed Dr. Alistair Kreig in the Season Five episode Cyborg, and the Lex Luthor clone LX-13 in the Season Ten episode Lazarus. Tess Mercer describes that latter as a Lex clone, who looks 20 years older than the original. This would indicate that, from an in-universe perspective, that LX-13 looks like a 50-something Michael Rosenbaum, rather than being a double of Dr. Kreig.
- In Bloodline, Davis Bloome is established to be an exact double of his father, General Zod, with Sam Witwer even portraying Zod in the Season Eight finale Doomsday. However, Witwer declined to return for Season Nine (reasoning that you could not have Zod run around Metropolis with the face of Davis Bloome, a known serial killer), leading to Zod being recast with actor Callum Blue.[1] In the Season Eleven story Argo, both Davis Bloome and Zod appears in flashbacks, seemingly resembling each other.[2]
In the Comics[]
Wonder Woman meets nurse Diana Prince
Doubles or look-a-likes is a rather common concept in comics. Possibly one of the most notable examples happens in Sensation Comics #1 (January, 1942), the first appearance of Wonder Woman. After arriving in the United States of America, Princess Diana/Wonder Woman comes across an American nurse named Diana Prince, who is her exact double. Wonder Woman convinced the nurse to let her borrow her identity, while giving the real Diana Prince some money (allowing her to travel to her fiancé). In Sensation Comics #9 (September, 1942), Wonder Woman (while using the Diana Prince identity) runs into Dan White (the former fiancé, now husband of the real Diana Prince), who mistakes her for his wife. Even when Diana (Wonder Woman) speaks, Dan fails to realize that this woman is not his wife (indicating that even the voices of Princess Diana of Themyscira and nurse Diana Prince are identical).
There are a number of Superman-related storylines involving doubles.
Adventure Comics #191 (August, 1953), Clark Kent's identity is taken over by a juvenile delinquent named Johnny Larsen, who is a double of Clark.
In Adventure Comics #192 (September, 1953), Lana Lang is shown to be the double of a queen named Marianne, and finds herself having to stand in for the real Marianne.
Superboy #42 (July, 1955) features a story involving a Jonathan Kent double.
In Adventure Comics #303 (December, 1962), Superboy (Clark Kent) travels to the country of Sardonia, where he is mistaken for his double: Prince Mark. In Superboy #130 (June, 1966), Clark is revealed to also be a double of Prince Rama of the kingdom of Bosmir.
In Superman #186 (March 17, 1966), Superman assumes the identity of master forger Pete the Penman (who looks like his twin, apart from a scar and a moustache), to infiltrate a criminal gang, while the real Pete the Penman's in a coma.