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In 2001, The WB took a risk: a Superman show without Superman.
No cape. No flight. Just a teenager in flannel trying not to destroy his truck.
Smallville turned Lex Luthor into a tragic friend, made the Kents the emotional core, and introduced a generation to “meteor freaks” before superheroes ruled TV.
Tom Welling gave us a Clark Kent who was vulnerable, angry, and heroic in small, human ways.
Michael Rosenbaum’s Lex? Still one of the best villains in any comic book show.
And that soundtrack — Remy Zero, Lifehouse, John Mayer — pure 2000s nostalgia.
Smallville walked so Arrow and the entire CWverse could run.
Even now, it holds up not as a perfect show, but as a meaningful one.
Because before he saved the world… he saved a small town.

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Long before TikTok edits, Smallville fans were the masters of the fan-made music video. The show’s melancholic tone—Clark as the lonely alien—paired perfectly with the emo, post-grunge, and alternative rock of the 2000s. In 2001, The WB took a risk: a

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