This article is about the show's fictional character. For the series writer, go to Geoff Johns (writer).
Geoff Johns was a college football star at the Metropolis University, nicknamed the "Teflon Tailback". A Smallville native and an ex-Crows player, he is secretly a metahuman with the ability to paralyze other people simply by touching.
Powers and Abilities[]
- Paralysis Inducement: Geoff had the metahuman power to paralyze others simply by touching them. He could control the degree of paralysis, from causing partial paralysis for a few seconds to total paralysis lasting for days. This power apparently affects only the motor nerves, leaving sensations and autonomic functions like breathing and heartbeats still unaffected. He can also "charge" an item (such as a football), so it will stun the next person that touches it. His powers however do not work on Kryptonians, likely due to their immense physical endurance.
Season Four[]
Geoff Johns was a record-setting running back at high school playing for the Smallville Crows, which earned him a scholarship into the Metropolis University. He became the all-time leading rusher for the Metropolis Bulldogs.
Geoff was able to play fair and square without using his powers while playing high school football, but college football was way more competitively demanding, and he started cheating using his powers on the field. Geoff found himself under intense pressure to hide this secret, and started paying other students for urine samples to pass physicals out of fear that his metahuman status could be exposed. When his roommate and fellow player Coop found out, Geoff fully paralyzed him, rendering him unable to move or speak. After Coop was admitted to Metropolis General Hospital, Geoff smothered him with a pillow.
Geoff was sent back to Smallville to help recruit Clark Kent to come and play for Met U, but Clark quickly realized Geoff was hiding something. After seeing Lois Lane approaching Marcus, the student selling Geoff his urine samples, Geoff paralyzed and kidnapped her, leaving her to drown in the sewers. Clark tracked down Geoff and subdued him easily, as Geoff's powers had no effect on him, and forced him to reveal where Lois was. Clark saved her and Geoff was arrested for his crimes.
Notes[]
- The show character Geoff Johns is presumably named after the DC Comics writer of the same name. Johns is well known for writing titles like Green Lantern, JSA and co-writing the miniseries 52, as well as Action Comics for DC Comics. He has written the Season Eight episode, Legion, about the Legion of Super-Heroes, and the Season Nine episodes, Absolute Justice, Part 1 and Absolute Justice, Part 2, about the Justice Society of America. He also wrote the season ten episode Booster.
- It is possible that Geoff Johns was later released by Checkmate (before the agency's destruction). In the episode Absolute Justice, Part 2, a conversation between Lois Lane and Clark Kent establishes that Checkmate has been secretly releasing all the bad guys (that fought the members of the Justice Society of America), and collecting them, by 2010.[1] In Charade, Checkmate is shown to have arranged for the life sentence of Ray Sacks (who had been put away by Clark and the Wonder Twins) to be overturned. One scene has Chloe Sullivan show Clark a list of other people, whose release has been arranged by Checkmate. Clark identifies the people on the list (which is not shown to the viewers) as people that he put away.[2] In Shield, Bette Sans Souci (who had been put away in 2009 by Clark Kent and Green Arrow) is shown to have been released from her incarceration, and joined the Suicide Squad.[3] In the episode Homecoming, Clark spots Greg Arkin (one of Clark's earliest foes) at their high school reunion, and identifies Greg as one of the people that he put away in high school (with Clark's panic at the sight of him indicating that Greg would have been unlikely to simply been released, having served whatever sentence he was given).[4] In Prophecy, Vordigan (who had been put in prison, through the combined effort of Clark and Green Arrow)[5] is shown to be out of prison.[6]