The Season 5 opening credits appear near the beginning of each Season Five episode.
Cast Credits[]
Of the regular cast members of Season Four, Jensen Ackles has been replaced by Erica Durance who already had recurring appearances in season 4.
The cast is credited in the following order.
- Tom Welling as Clark Kent
- Kristin Kreuk as Lana Lang
- Michael Rosenbaum as Lex Luthor
- Erica Durance as Lois Lane
- Allison Mack as Chloe Sullivan
- John Glover as Lionel Luthor
- Annette O'Toole as Martha Kent
- John Schneider as Jonathan Kent
Screenshots[]
→ See also Category:Screencaps of opening credits from season 5
In the following, the settings which are included in the opening credits of season 5 are listed. Only few of the settings have been maintained from the opening credits of prior seasons. Most of the settings are newm ainly takn en from the season 3 episodes Slumber and Perry and from the season 4 episodes Crusade and Commencement. Ironically, there are no scenes from Season 5 in these opening credits. Even the beginning of the opening credits, which had been the same in seasons 1 through 4, has been changed. This new beginning is maintained for all the following seasons.
The style of the credits has been changed, too. The hair of the actors or actresses shown in the foreground is blowing in the wind, and the background setting is featured with a red margin on both sides. This style of the credits as well as the shot of the characters in the foreground are maintained for all the following seasons, only the background settings may change.
- Episode indicates the episode from which the corresponding setting is taken.
- Used indicates the season or seasons in which the corresponding setting is used for the opening credits.
| Screenshots | Description | Episode | Used |
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A comet approaches the sun | 3x05 Perry | S. 5 - S. 10 |
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Ruins of the comet fall into the sun and cause solar flares | 3x05 Perry | S. 5 - S. 10 |
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Meteor rocks from the 2005 meteor shower rain down on Smallville | 4x22 Commencement | S. 5 - S. 10 |
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Clark saves a young boy during the 2005 meteor shower | 4x22 Commencement | S. 5 - S. 10 |
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Character: Tom Welling as Clark Kent |
? | S. 5 - S. 10 |
| Background: Clark stops Morgan Edge's car in order to save Lex's life | 3x08 Shattered | S. 5 - S. 6 | |
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Lana comes to see Clark at the Kent Farm after he had slept for 36 hours. | 3x04 Slumber | S. 5 |
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Lana sees Clark at the Metropolis airport as she departs for Paris and tries to get to him. | 3x22 Covenant | S. 5 |
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Lana watching the tornadoes approaching. | 1x21 Tempest | S. 2 - S. 6 |
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Character: Kristin Kreuk as Lana Lang |
? | S. 5 - S. 7 |
| Background: Tornadoes head straight for Lana | 1x21 Tempest | S. 2 - S. 6 | |
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Clark meets Lex in Metropolis. | 3x11 Delete | S. 5 |
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Lex hits Clark with a Japanese sword which shatters upon impact. | 3x04 Slumber | S. 5 |
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Character: Michael Rosenbaum as Lex Luthor |
? | S. 5 - S. 7 |
| Background: Lex looking through a hole in a cabin wall after Clark broke into his jet in the air to get the Crystal of Fire. | 4x01 Crusade | S. 5 - S. 6 | |
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Lois runs from General Lane's helicopters | 4x02 Gone. | S. 5 |
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Lois stands in the exploded ruins of Chloe's safehouse | 4x02 Gone. | S. 5 - S. 6 |
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Character: Erica Durance as Lois Lane |
? | S. 5 - S. 10 |
| Background: Lois making sure she doesn't wake up Clark while sneaking out the Kent's House quietly | 4x02 Gone. | S. 5 | |
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Chloe watches Clark in the Kawatche Caves. | 4x22 Commencement. | S. 5 |
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Character: Allison Mack as Chloe Sullivan, |
? | S. 5 - S. 10 |
| Background: Chloe sneaking into the Summerholt Institute | 4x19 Blank | S. 5 | |
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Lionel visits Lex in Belle Reve. | 3x09 Asylum | S. 5 |
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Character: John Glover as Lionel Luthor, |
? | S. 5 - S. 7 |
| Background: Generic shot of the LuthorCorp Plaza skyscraper. | first seen in 2x12 Insurgence | S. 5 - S. 6 | |
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Unable to control his powers during a solar flare, Clark accidentally throws a tractor into the air. | 3x05 Perry. | S. 5 |
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Jonathan and Clark watching the tractor flying through the air. | 3x05 Perry. | S. 4 - S. 5 |
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Character: Annette O'Toole as Martha Kent, |
? | S. 5 - S. 6 |
| Background: Martha shortly after Jonathan falls from the roof and Clark saves him. | 3x17 Legacy | S. 5 - S. 6 | |
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Character: John Schneider as Jonathan Kent, |
? | S. 5 |
| Background: Jonathan at the Kent Farm as Helen Bryce comes to report that the vial containing Clark's blood had been stolen. | 2x22 Calling | S. 5 | |
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Lex's helicopter with Lana on board crashes during the 2005 meteor shower | 4x22 Commencement. | S. 5 - S. 8 |
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Lana sees Clark at Lex's funeral and tries to get to him. | 3x01 Exile | S. 5 |
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Chloe and Lois going to school. | 4x03 Façade | S. 5 |
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Clark in his dream swimming with Lana in the Crater Lake | 3x04 Slumber | S. 4 - S. 5 |
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William McBride fires a bullet at Clark. | 4x11 Unsafe | S. 5 - S. 6 |
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Lex in a LuthorCorp lab after an experiment with kryptonite goes wrong | 4x17 Onyx | S. 5 - S. 6 |
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Clark super-leaps on to a moving truck carrying the abducted Lois and her sister Lucy | 4x16 Lucy. | S. 5 - S. 8, S. 10 |
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The Mark of El on Clark's chest starts burning. | 3x01 Exile. | S. 4 - S. 7, S. 9 |
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Clark, reprogrammed as Kal-El, is called by the beacon of the Crystal of Fire. | 4x01 Crusade. | S. 4 - S. 6 |
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Kal-El launches himself into the sky from the Kent Farm. | 4x01 Crusade. | S. 5 - S. 6 |
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Kal-El flies above the clouds. | 4x01 Crusade. | S. 5 - S. 9 |
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Kal-El flies above the clouds. | 4x01 Crusade. | S. 5 - S. 8 |
Notes[]
Kristin misspelled as Kristen
- Kristin Kreuk's name was misspelled as "Kristen" in the original broadcast of Arrival, but this was corrected for the other episodes of season 5 and for the subsequent reruns of Arrival.
- This is one of only two opening credits of the series to not include any footage from its own season. The only other time this happens is for season 3, which shares the opening with the previous season.