Cassandra Carver
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| Cassandra Carver | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Retired |
| Powers and Abilities | Tactile precognition |
| Played By | Jackie Burroughs |
| Status | Deceased |
| Appeared In | Hourglass |
"More than once, I've touched people, and I've seen such pain and despair. But then you appeared and the pain was gone. I think that's your destiny: to help people, to save them from fear and darkness." - Cassandra Carver, to Clark Kent, Hourglass.
Cassandra Carver was an elderly, blind, metahuman living at the Smallville Retirement Center. In 1989, a meteor struck near her home and blinded her; shorty thereafter, she could see glimpses of the future of anyone she touched. She met Clark Kent and gives him two visions of his own future; one featuring Clark standing in the middle of a graveyard surrounded by the graves of his family and friends, and one of multiple people in trouble. She knows something of his future since she has seen him in the futures of so many of the people she has touched, telling him that he takes away their pain and fear. When she and Clark last met, before he departed to save his mother, she assured him with a smile that his secret was safe with her.
Lex Luthor visited Cassandra and asked her to see his future. Although he wasn't aware of it, she saw a vision of him in the White House, then surrounded by flowers, which turned to corpses while he was bathed in a rain of blood. The shock of the vision killed her.
[edit] Notes
- Cassandra's vision of Lex's future is very similar to his own vision of his worst nightmare in Scare.
- Clark's presence in Cassandra's visions of many people's futures suggests his destiny to become Superman.
- The name Cassandra is based on Greek mythology. Cassandra was given the gift of prophecy by Apollo, but when she did not return his love, she was cursed so that no-one would believe her predictions.
- Given that Clark could also see Cassandra's visions when no other person could, there are similarities between her power and the power of Sarah Conroy, as both of them were able to at least partly manipulate Clark's mind in a pacifistic manner due to his non-human status.
- Cassandra marked the first person outside of Clark's family or his various meteor-rock-based adversaries to become aware of his secret.
[edit] Quotes
- Cassandra: "You can fear the future or you can embrace it. The choice is yours."
- Cassandra: "Clark, your secret is safe with me."
