Smallville/Characters/Daily Planet

Perry White (Michael McKean)

• The Alcoholic: Initially
• Intergenerational Friendship: With Clark and especially Lois.
• Intrepid Reporter: After he kicks his drinking problem.
• Love Interest: To Martha Kent in Season 9.
• No More for Me
• Put on a Bus
  • The Bus Came Back

Henry James 'Jimmy' Olsen (Aaron Ashmore)

• Ascended Extra
• Butt Monkey
• Deadpan Snarker
• Drugs Are Bad
• Heroic Sacrifice
• Hollywood Nerd
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
• Identical Grandson: Ashmore returns in the Distant Finale as his character's younger brother.
• Intrepid Reporter: Or at least Intrepid Photographer.
• Killed Off for Real
• Love Interest: For Chloe in Seasons 6-8.
• Nice Guy: At least until Davis ruins his life.
• Secret Keeper: Keeps Chloe's illegal activities under wraps.
• Shipper on Deck: Starts shipping Clark and Lois as of Season 6.
• You Look Familiar: Aaron Ashmore's twin brother, Shawn, portrayed meteor freak Eric Summers earlier in the show.

Grant Gabriel (Michael Cassidy)

• Cloning Blues: Of Lex's brother Julian.
• Killed Off for Real
• Jerkass: Often. Especially towards Chloe.
• Temporary Love Interest: To Lois.
• Younger Than They Look: Being a clone, he's only a few months old.

Cat Grant (Keri Lynn Pratt)

• Character Development: In her final appearance.
• Damsel in Distress
• Horrible Judge of Character: Doesn't trust superheroes, but thinks that Gordon Godfrey is a great guy.
  • She equally doesn't like people who support superheroes, including Lois. And presumably Martha Kent, despite liking her son a lot.
• In Name Only: Most of the Smallville characters depart from their comic book versions, but this character is pretty much the opposite of her comic book counterpart. The comic book version of Cat sleeps her way into interviews, wears slutty outfits, has breast implants, and couldn't care less about politics. On the other hand, the TV version dresses very conservatively and is pudgy (by Smallville standards), can't even say the word "sex" and has to spell it, and is passionately Straw Conservative.
• Inspector Javert: Really does not trust superheroes. Or at least superheroes that hide their identities.
  • However, in recent episodes, that may be changing, especially when not only the Blur saved her, but she actually sees him (albeit from his back). And she made peace with Lois.
• Mama Bear: For her son Adam.