Smallville
Summary
Tom Welling ’s Superman showed great abilities inSmallville , and some of the time Clark Kent used his powers were quite awe - inspiring . Welling played Clark for all ofSmallville ’s ten season , and while theDCseries only see him become Superman in its very final episode , Clark fought plenty of Superman ’s major villainsfrom the comics over the years . Some ofSmallville ’s best villainsinclude Doomsday , Darkseid , General Zod , and , obviously , Michael Rosenbaum ’s Lex Luthor . Every baddie brought out a dissimilar side of Clark , who had to keep evolving his powers to stop each new enemy .
Thankfully , Clark had a wide array of powersto pull out from to keep Smallville , Metropolis , and the whole world dependable . Clark ’s mightiness included tops speed , passion vision , first-rate earreach , freeze intimation , impregnability , and many more . Those abilities made Welling ’s version of Clark Kent quite formidable , with the hero being easily themost muscular member ofSmallville ’s Justice League , standing a step above characters like Impulse and Aquaman . While Clark had some of his powers already from the scratch of the serial publication , the submarine slowly developed them or discover new abilities as the seasons went by , and with that come some truly amazing displays of baron .
10Clark Leaps Tall Buildings In A Single Bound
Season 8, Episodes 6, 17 & Season 9, Episode 12
Before he could wing in the comics , Superman was know to " leap tall buildings in a individual bound , " which also harbor true forSmallville . The series had a strict " No leotards , no flights " ruleto keep the focus on Clark ’s journeying to become Superman and not on his destination , which keep escape scenes to a lower limit . In the late seasons ofSmallville , Clark proceed from his modest hometown to Metropolis , with the cityscape allowing him to jump to the top of edifice on multiple occasions . Clark was seen spring to the top of buildings to investigate , meet Zatanna , pull through a falling Chloe , and more .
9Clark Tunnels Through A Hole Underground And Sends Someone Flying
Season 6, Episode 9
Smallvillesaw a few unconventional uses of Clark ’s powers , and one such example was when Clark fought with someone underground . Clark fights Jed McNally , who is force immigrants to puzzle out on his farm and traps them with his powers to open tunnels in the earth . After getting pulled underground by McNally , Clark comprehend his own tunnel at super speed and punches the villain so hard that he goes flying from the hole and lands on the control surface . The view shows that Clark is as much of a threat underground as he is anywhere else .
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8Clark Crushes Coal Into Diamond
Season 5, Episode 12
In the comics and other media , Superman has been read to have the power to transmute coal into diamond thanks to his super force . Smallvillealso shows that Welling ’s Clark Kent has the necessary power to accomplish such a feat . Clark utilise enough pressure that he work a opus of ember into a diamondto propose to Lana Lang in the serial , which hap in the same installment that ultimately sees Clark walk back on the proposal after going back in time , with the episode end withJonathan Kent ’s tragical demise .
7Clark Punches Bizarro Through The Atmosphere
Season 7, Episode 1
Bizarro is one of the most powerful enemy that Clark went up against inSmallville . In the series , Bizarro was a Phantom Wraith that escape the Phantom Zoneand absorbed Clark ’s DNA to create a host dead body that was his adequate . Despite being passing powerful , Bizarro was still a step below Clark , who got into some world - shattering fights with the baddie , including a moment where he punched Bizarro so severely that he was send off fly into the air , render Superman ’s raw posture .
6Clark Swims Faster Than Aquaman To Get Ahead Of Him
Season 5, Episode 4
Alan Ritchson played Aquaman inSmallville , with the role being one of the serial ' most brawny torpedo . While Aquaman ’s in the altogether strength did not make him one ofSmallville ’s strongest characters , Arthur Curry ’s abilities underwater made him one of the most interesting heroes in the series , a terror like no other . Despite his power to swim keen distances at unbelievable speed , Aquaman was get by Clark in oneSmallvillescene , which visualize the immature Superman swim faster than him to get ahead of the escaping hero , who stopped dead in his tracks after getting surprised by Clark .
5Superman’s Arctic Breath Causes A Snowstorm
Season 9, Episode 17
While many of Clark ’s power were slowly innovate throughout the series , Clark develop his Arctic Breath off - concealment inSmallville . Clark got an private sequence to discover and master his super breathing place , and sometime after that , he seems to have developed the ability to use its variation , the Arctic Breath , which allows him to stop dead mass and objects . In the series , Clark apply his Arctic Breath at one point to create a blizzard over Seattle , showing how powerful his power is .
4Superman’s Heat Vision Vaporizes An Enormous Wave
While in early episode , Clark had a gruelling time controlling his heat visual sense , posterior seasons would see Welling ’s fictitious character become more comfortable with the power , which lead to some telling display of how far the ability could go . Perhaps the most exciting economic consumption of his heat vision was when Clark — at super velocity — used his estrus visual sense to vaporize an enormous wave before it could take any lives and pull up stakes a way of life of devastation . The conniption show thatClark was nearly subdue all his abilities , with the perfect combination of his super speed and heat visual sense express how potent Clark had become .
3Superman Moves So Fast To Save Chloe From Checkmate That Time Appears To Slow Down
Season 9, Episode 16
Clark ’s super swiftness was one of the powers he most frequently used inSmallville . Throughout the serial ' ten seasons , Clark would get to accomplish many impressive feats with his ace speed , like guide from one city to another in second , stopping speeding bullets , and many more . However , his most exciting display of super speed is when Clark breaks into Checkmate to rescues Chloe , which features a montage of Clark moving so tight that metre seems to slow down around him as he produce his way of life through a room full of broker and stops a bullet from killing Chloe .
2Clark Resists Getting Pulled Into The Phantom Zone
Season 5, Episode 1
Smallvilleshowed that Clark can reject getting hit by incredibly powerful villains and much more . However , themost impressive show of Superman ’s endurance in the seriesmight be the clip Clark manage to fend getting pulled into the Phantom Zone . Not only did Clark employ his lastingness to plug a hole into the reason to apply onto , but his electrical resistance was tested like never before when he handle to go against the gravitative pulling of the Phantom Zone and send two of Zod ’s followers fell into it while Clark remained on his feet , stare at the Phantom Zone portal .
1Superman Pushes Apokolips Away From The Earth
Season 10, Episode 22
Smallville ’s series finalesaw Welling ’s Clark Kent last fill his fate : becoming Superman . The final episode of the Superman prequel series included some impressive displays of world power from Clark , which included the poor boy pull through Lois and the Air Force One , but one of them rose above all . Superman simply managed to push away an entire planet , with Clark halt Apokolips from crashing down on Earth and sending it back into space single - handedly . Clark salvage Earth from Apokolips resist as his biggest display of major power inSmallville , which is only fitting , as it happened when the fibre finally became Superman after ten years of honing his powers throughout the series .
