Smallville/Fridge

Fridge Brilliance

• Why couldn't Clark fly earlier in the series? Because in Superman's first appearance, he could only leap tall stories in a single bound as opposed to actual flight, which he could do later.
  • Or, more likely, it's a combination of the two. Studio didn't want flying, so the fridge brilliance is that this is the story of how someone who fell from the sky learned to get back up there.
  • Clark can't fly because he's afraid of heights. It's all in his head. This has been expressly stated.
  • No, Clark can't fly because of the "No Tights, No Flights" rule that Alfred Gough and Miles Millar set up since the beginning of the show. Unfortunately, this rule only applies to Clark. Other Kryptonians were exempt.
• In "Bulletproof" towards the end, Clark, Ollie, and J'onn discuss brotherhood and how having each other as surrogate brothers makes them feel like they can accomplish anything. One second later, the scene changes to Tess, who has just discovered how Lex Luthor betrayed and manipulated her, chewing him out and saying goodbye to him. We later learn that Lex was in fact Tess's biological half-brother.
• In the fifth season of Smallville, I hated how Cyborg didn't look a slight bit like his comicbook counterpart, but just recently, it occurred to me; the point was his comicbook look wasn't necessary since it would be too conspicuous for a giant robot guy walking around and the Cyntechnics guys did him a favor by making him look 100% human since this could've been easily fixed in the comics. No real reason is given for not fixing him in the comics, so it works here.
  • The show, however, does briefly acknowledge this when Clark scans Victor with his x-ray vision for the first time. The configuration of his metal endoskeleton looks just like his appearance in the comics.
• People might say that this show messes up the Superman Mythos for prolonging the series for 10 years but, when you think abut it, it actually makes more sense that it would take him a long time to realize his destiny, rather than him waking up and deciding to parade around in red and blue tights just cause he survived an accident.
• I'll admit, I'm not a fan of the show. But I can now understand why they kept the name "Smallville", even though the show now takes place in Metropolis. Instead of applying to the town, it now applies to Clark himself. Think about it. Lois' nickname for Clark is "Smallville". Until he goes by the name Superman by the end of the show, Smallville was the best moniker for him in the viewers' eyes (it even sounds better than "The Blur", ugh!)

• Fridge Logic: In Bart's first appearance, there's a Mythology Gag where it's revealed that he has different ID cards in the names of each Flash from the comics. But in the comics, Bart is a Dead Guy, Junior for Barry.
  • And? Clearly that isn't the case in this continuity. What is a tad odd is that Jay Garrick is another ID and Jay does exist in the Smallville 'verse.
  • After Martian Manhunter saves Clark by flying into the Sun, he says he lost his powers in the process. But he still maintains his human appearance, despite having supposedly lost his ability to shapeshift.
    • Above comment: No Ontological Inertia doesn't always apply. He lost the ability to shapeshift while in human form, so in human form he stays.

• Fridge Horror: Gordon Godfrey, and perhaps the other two of the Unholy Trinity, were just innocent people possessed by Darkseid. Oliver killed them all.
  • In "Supergirl", Godfrey was possessed. In his next appearance, I believe they stated that Godfrey had now voluntarily joined Darkseid. He was a Strawman after all.
  • Lionel-2 to, too an extent, and Clark killed him without even trying to separate him from Darkseid first. Sure, Lionel was already dead and heartless, but I don't think Clark knew that.
    • I dunno, he looked pretty damn dead.
  • When Clark first used the Mirror-box, he woke in Clark-2's bed in the Luthor Mansion, which seems to imply that the box swaps your physical location to wherever your counterpart was. Now remember that in our reality, Lionel is dead. Wouldn't that mean that Lionel-2 found himself in his counterpart's coffin?
  • Also, by that logic, doesn't that mean that Watchtower-2 found themselves with Lionel's decomposing corpse?