The Sullivans are a family from Metropolis who relocated to Smallville in the year 2000.
Known Members[]
- Gabe Sullivan was the husband of Moira Sullivan, and father of Chloe Sullivan. He was a manager at the LuthorCorp Fertilizer Plant in Smallville and was the breadwinner of the family.
- Moira Sullivan (maiden name unknown) is the wife of Gabe Sullivan, and mother of Chloe Sullivan. As of 2007, she is clinically alive but in a catatonic state, and is currently under the care of Queen Industries in Star City.
- Chloe Sullivan is the daughter and only child of Gabe and Moira Sullivan. She is the only known remaining member of the Sullivans who are still active after 2005, although her mother Moira briefly returned in 2007.
Extended relatives[]
- The Lane family is a military family related to Moira Sullivan through the marriage of her sister Ella.
- Ella Lane (maiden name unknown) was the late sister of Moira Sullivan, the aunt of Chloe Sullivan and the great-aunt of Jonathan Queen.
- Sam Lane is the widowed husband of Ella Lane, the brother-in-law of Moira Sullivan, and uncle-in-law of Chloe Sullivan. He is a four-star general of the United States Army.
- Lois Lane is the older daughter of Ella and Sam Lane, niece of Moira Sullivan, and older maternal first cousin of Chloe Sullivan. Lois later also becomes the wife of Chloe's best friend Clark Kent, making the Kent family a close associate.
- Lucy Lane is the younger daughter of Ella and Sam Lane, niece of Moira Sullivan, and younger maternal first cousin of Chloe Sullivan.
- The Olsen family is a family that Chloe Sullivan was briefly married into.
- Henry James "Jimmy" Olsen was the late ex-husband of Chloe Sullivan and her first serious spouse. Chloe and Henry married in 2008-2009, but the marriage broke down merely months later.[1] It is unknown if the divorce was finalized, as they soon reconciled though only shortly prior to Henry's untimely death.
- James Bartholomew "Jimmy" Olsen is the younger brother of the late Henry Olsen, and ex-brother-in-law of Chloe Sullivan. He and Chloe only met and talked briefly at Henry's funeral, where Chloe personally entrusted Henry's camera to the young James.
- The Queen family is a prominent upper-class family that Chloe Sullivan is currently married into.
- Oliver Queen is the second and current husband of Chloe Sullivan. He is the billionaire owner and current CEO of technology giant Queen Industries, and the founder of a team of superhero vigilantes under the alias "Green Arrow".
- Jonathan Queen is the son of Chloe Sullivan and Oliver Queen, grandson of Gabe and Moira Sullivan, and great-nephew of Ella Lane.
Other Realities[]
- Clark Kent was Chloe's husband in an alternate reality of Lex Luthor during his post-gunshot coma. (Lexmas)
- Chloe's fiancé was an unnamed man who was engaged to be married to Chloe Sullivan in an unidentified alternate reality. (Apocalypse)
- Chloe Sullivan (Earth-2) was a native of Earth-2 and a parallel universe doppelgänger of the Chloe on Earth-1, and was the cousin of Lois Queen and a secret lover of the late Oliver Queen. She fled to Earth-1 during the Crisis to warn Clark Kent, but was killed by a pursuing Monitor before she could reveal much information to her Earth-1 counterpart.
History[]
Gabe Sullivan married Moira and had a daughter named Chloe in 1987. They separated in 1995 (unknown if formally divorced) when Moira had herself admitted into a mental hospital. Five years later, Gabe relocated to Smallville to take on a managerial job at the LuthorCorp Fertilizer Plant Number Three, and brought along his daughter Chloe to attend the local Smallville High School. For the next four years, the Sullivans lived in Pleasant Meadows, a LuthorCorp housing development in the Smallville town center. Gabe momentarily contemplated moving back to Metropolis in 2002 when Lionel Luthor threatened to shut down the Smallville plant, but later decided to stay and continue working for LuthorCorp. Gabe and Chloe also took in Chloe's schoolmate Lana Lang, whose legal guardian aunt Nell had moved out of Smallville, and were like an informal foster family for her.
Gabe was promoted in late 2003 after Chloe started working for Lionel Luthor to dig up information about Clark Kent, and mortgaged for a new house in Bratt Flats. However, after Chloe refused to continue spying for Lionel, the Luthor punished her by having Gabe fired and maliciously blacklisted from any further employment, causing the Sullivans to lose their home. After Chloe decided to work with Lionel's estranged son Lex and testify against Lionel's past crimes, she and Gabe were placed under FBI witness protection, but their safehouse was blown up before the trial, presumably killing them. However, it was later revealed that Lex collaborated with Chloe's uncle-in-law General Lane and arranged for them to be relocated and hidden away before the explosion. After Lionel's conviction and imprisonment, the Sullivans lived in a small one-bedroom apartment for the following year.
Chloe graduated from high school and moved back to Metropolis to attend Metropolis University in 2005, while landing an intern job in the bullpen of Daily Planet. After her college dorm closed due to Dark Thursday, she moved back to Smallville and lived in the Talon Apartment with her cousin Lois for the next four years, despite still working daily in Metropolis. She worked for the Planet for three years until the new owner Lex Luthor fired her along with a number of other staff, forcing her to take over the running of her friend Lana's Isis Foundation, which she managed into a decent charity organization up to 2009.
Meanwhile, Chloe also started working for Oliver Queen, serving the role of mission coordinator (known as "Watchtower") for his crime-fighting superhero team. However, after being rendered amnesic by Brainiac, having her wedding violently crashed, and her first marriage with Jimmy Olsen breaking down tragically, the emotionally distraught Chloe retreated into the digital world, until her budding relationship with Oliver eventually pulled her back to the real life. Her activity as Watchtower also caught her in the government's crosshair, first resulting in an abduction by Checkmate, then forcing her to trade herself as a hostage to secure the release of Oliver. After faking her death and disappeared, Chloe successfully extorted the Suicide Squad under her command, and resurfaced to save Clark, Lois, Oliver and others from the VRA enforcers. After returning, she decided to retire and entrusted the role of Watchtower to Tess Mercer.
Chloe and Oliver got married in a small private party together with Clark and Lois's engagement, although they were pranked by an enchanted amnesic champagne from Zatanna Zatara. Chloe then decided to move away with Oliver to Star City and took up a reporter position in the Star City Register, while secretly continuing to search and recruit new superheroes into Oliver's team. She returned for Clark and Lois' wedding and saved them from a conspiracy to cripple Clark plotted by Darkseid's Prophets. After the Crisis ended, Chloe gave birth to a son named Jonathan.
Notes[]
- The Sullivan family is original to the continuity of Smallville.
- The show itself never established how Lois Lane and Chloe Sullivan were cousins (i.e. if Moira Sullivan and Ella Lane were sisters, or if Moira was the sister of Sam Lane or Ella was the sister of Gabe Sullivan). In a 2010 Tweet, Kryptonsite (a usually trustworthy source) stated that he (Craig Byrne, the website's creator) had heard in Vancouver that Moira and Ella are sisters.[2] Their maiden name is unknown. A computer screen in Icarus states that Lois Lane has relatives with the last name "Troupe", among them a male named Samuel Troupe.[3] In the comics, "Samuel Troupe" is the name of the son of Lucy Lane and Ron Troupe. However, the episode Ambush makes no indication that Lucy has children, while a wedding guest list in Finale, Part 1 confirms that she does not have children,[4] meaning that, whomever the listed Samuel Troupe is, he is not an offspring of Lucy (with or without Ron Troupe). It is unknown if "Troupe" could be the family name of Moira and Ella's family.
Trivia[]
- The life status of Gabe Sullivan after the end of Season 3 has never been revealed, and Gabe's actor Robert Wisden only briefly cameo-ed in a flashback in the Season 4 episode Gone. However, Lois Lane mentioned in the Season 4 episode Recruit that she, having been expelled by college and exiled from home by her father as a punishment, cannot go live with the Sullivans because "they've got a tiny one-bedroom apartment. I can't do that to them", implying that Gabe was still alive and living with his daughter at least as of early 2005.
- In the episode Obscura, Chloe mentions that she will be "crashing in my cousin's dorm" in Metropolis, but the exact identity of this cousin was never established. Chloe had two known cousins in the show, Lois and Lucy Lane, who both appeared onscreen from Season 4 onwards. Lois moved repeatedly with her military father around the world and only graduated high school in 2004, having to spend an extra while at Smallville High School to earn enough school credits (implying she had been missing classes) before being able to attend college[5]; Lucy is younger than both Lois and Chloe, and had been living overseas at a prestigious boarding school in Switzerland.[6]
- It is also unknown if Gabe Sullivan had any other siblings or relatives, or if Moira Sullivan had other siblings besides Ella Lane, so Chloe might or might not have other cousins other than Lois in Metropolis that she could temporarily stay with. In Apocalypse, Lois (from an alternate timeline) makes a passing reference to an uncle (no name is given) with a phony hairpiece. A description that does not match the appearance of Gabe Sullivan. Either Gabe, in the alternate timeline, had gone bald (and taken to wearing a bad headpiece), or Lois was refering to a different uncle (who could also be Chloe's uncle, depending on whether he is a maternal uncle or paternal uncle to Lois Lane).
- Finale, Part 1 introduces some more relatives of Lois Lane, at Clark and Lois' wedding. The first page of their guest list identifies some of the guests as James and Sandra Lane, Mirtle Lane, John Lane, and Paul Lane. The first two might be her aunt and uncle, while the others might be cousins of Lois. All through Sam Lane (given the last name).[4] The appearances of these characters confirms that, at least Lois, has aunts, uncles, and cousins, outside of Chloe and Gabe Sullivan.
