Emily Dinsmore was the daughter of Pete Dinsmore. Following Emily's death, her father created several clones of her.
Emily Eve Dinsmore (original)[]
Emily Eve Dinsmore (January 20, 1986 - April 14, 1996) was a childhood friend of Lana Lang.
Biography[]
When Emily and Lana were children, they were friends and loved playing together, including going to the river to make boats from flowers. On April the 14th when they were ten years old, they were at the river during a rainstorm, and Lana slipped and fell in. Emily jumped in after her and encouraged her until Lana swam to safety, but there was no one to do the same for Emily, and she drowned. Following her death, Emily's parents divorced, and her father devoted himself to try and bring Emily back by cloning.
Appearances[]
- Season Two: Accelerate (appears in a film and as a skeleton only)
- Season Three: Forsaken (Photograph only)
- Season Four: Gone (Photograph only)
- Season Ten: Harvest (Mentioned only)
Notes[]
- Even after her two near fatal encounters with one of Emily's clones, Lana kept a photograph of the real Emily Dinsmore among her belongings.[1]
Emily Dinsmore (clone)[]
- "This time it will be you!"
- — Emily Dinsmore's clone to Lana Lang, Accelerate
Emily Dinsmore was one of several clones of Emily Eve Dinsmore.
Powers and Abilities[]
As a result of the cloning process and meteor rocks, Emily gained several special abilities, most of which she mastered from early infancy:
- Accelerated aging: Emily was cloned by her father, Pete Dinsmore, under Lionel Luthor's supervision and with the aid of LuthorCorp. He was able to produce a duplicate of Emily, but the clone was unhealthy and mentally unstable. (Accelerate). A year later, she had grown at such an accelerated rate, she had the appearance of a teenager. (Forsaken)
- Super speed: Emily could run at supersonic speeds that just about rivaled Clark Kent's ability. (Accelerate, Forsaken)
- Intangibility: Emily's superspeed caused her molecules to vibrate so fast, she developed the ability to pass through solid objects, including a concrete wall in a graveyard and her own father's body. When he tried to take her back to the lab, she killed him by putting her arm through his chest. (Accelerate, Forsaken)
- Superhuman Strength: Emily could easily overpower Lana, pushing her into the river or flicking her across the room with just a haymaker. (Accelerate, Forsaken)
- Enhanced durability: While not physically invulnerable, Emily was still more durable than most humans. She was able to survive being hit by all the water that was in a water tower, though it still knocked her out.
- Healing factor: After Lana knocked her out by shattering a kettle on her head, Emily recovered in less than half a minute. Also, even after she was knocked out after being hit by a tremendous amount of water and was heavily sedated, Emily still managed to recover enough to use her powers to escape from Belle Reve.
Season Two[]
Six years later, Emily's father was moderately successful in using refined meteor rocks to create a clone of his daughter. She was beautiful, sweet, and smart, but her accelerated growth caused severe chromosomal damage. She also had no sense of morality; she did not know right from wrong. That defect, combined with her abilities of super strength and super speed, made her very dangerous.
The Emily clone ran from Granville to Smallville to find her friend Lana Lang. Because Emily was still ten years old, Lana thought she saw a ghost and the poor girl was very confused by her friend's fear. Emily seriously injured her father using her unnatural strength and speed when he tried to stop her from seeing Lana. Upon discovering that Lana didn't save her, an enraged Emily threw her into the river, though Clark Kent arrived in time to save her. Lionel eventually captured Emily again, bribing her with a gift of a white rabbit, but Lionel refused to allow her father to continue working with her.
Season Three[]
When she reached adolescence, she escaped her confinement by walking through a wall. She went to the Talon and killed the new owner. She pretended to be his daughter in an attempt to get close to Lana. She killed her father when he tried to interfere. She captured Lana and locked her in a glass cell in the middle of nowhere. She made up a story for Clark about Lana's departure, but Clark figured it out. When he confronted her, she fled. When Lana tried to escape, Emily gassed her with chlorine. Clark found Lana in the nick of time. Emily escaped custody on her way to Belle Reve. It is unknown what happened to her after that.
Notes[]
- It is unknown what became of the Emily clone after Season Three. Later clones Adrian Cross and LX-13 suffered from short lifespans due to accelerated aging. However, unlike Emily, neither Adrian or LX-13 possessed metahuman abilities. Conner Kent also suffered from accelerated aging, but was cured by his healing factor, which canceled it out, when Conner reached adolescence.[3]
- Unlike later clones (ex. Grant Gabriel, Adrian Cross, Model 503, LX-13, Conner Kent), Emily was never assigned a name or designation of her own onscreen that would distinguish her from the original Emily Eve Dinsmore. Though, while posing as the daughter of Wendell Kerns, she briefly assumes the name "Emma Kerns".[2]
Appearances[]
The Sleeping Girls[]
The Sleeping Girls were three out of the four known clones, that Pete Dinsmore created of his daughter, Emily Eve Dinsmore.
Season Two[]
Clark Kent and Lana Lang found the Sleeping Girls in the basement of Pete Dinsmore's house in Granville. Lana became scared when one of the three opened her eyes. Clark and Lana left the house, and called law enforcement. However, Lionel Luthor had the Sleeping Girls removed by the Deletion Force,[4] leaving the authorities with nothing but an empty basement to find. It is unknown what happened to the Sleeping Girls after their removal.
Notes[]
- It is unknown if Pete Dinsmore ever assigned the three clones any kind of designation (similar to Model 503 or LX-15). The main Emily clone dubs them "the Sleeping Girls".[5]
- It is unknown if the Sleeping Girls were created before or after the main Emily clone (and had not yet emerged from their pods).
- It is unknown if the Sleeping Girls possess the same powers as the main Emily clone.