A freak of the week (or FOTW) refers to a "meteor freak" villain who is prominently featured in a Smallville episode, typically appearing only in a single episode. A FOTW villain is often a "meteor freak", or temporarily metahuman, as a result of kryptonite-inspired powers. The "freak of the week" formula was heavily used in Season One.

The typical formula for a "freak of the week" episode has three key elements:

1. The freak of the week gains kryptonite-inspired powers (either from one of the meteor showers or from a more recent exposure to kryptonite).
2. They become psychotic and use their powers to attempt to somehow hurt or terrorize someone else.
3. The freak of the week is eventually subdued by a hero (usually Clark Kent), and either end up somehow dying or, alternatively, are institutionalized in Belle Reve. Occasionally they lose their superpowers and go back to being normal human beings.

Contents 1 Season One 2 Season Two 3 Season Three 4 Season Four 5 Season Five 6 Season Six 7 Season Seven 8 Season Eight 9 Season Nine 10 Season Ten 11 Comics 12 Notes 13 External Links

Season OneEdit

• Pilot – Jeremy Creek, a metahuman with the ability to manipulate electricity.
• Metamorphosis – Greg Arkin, a metahuman with the powers of insects.
• Hothead – Coach Walt Arnold, a metahuman who can control fire.
• X-Ray – Tina Greer, a metahuman who can assume any form.
• Cool – Sean Kelvin, a metahuman who can drain body heat.
• Hourglass – Harry Volk, a metahuman who could regain his youth. Also featured Cassandra Carver, a metahuman with tactile precognition.
• Craving – Jodi Melville, a metahuman who could suck the fat out of other people.
• Jitters – Earl Jenkins had developed the "jitters" from kryptonite exposure.
• Shimmer – Jeff Palmer became temporarily metahuman (and invisible) when he used a kryptonite cream.
• Hug – Bob Rickman, a metahuman who could convince people with his handshake. His business partner Kyle Tippet also had the same abilities.
• Leech – Eric Summers became temporarily metahuman after leeching Clark Kent's powers.
• Kinetic – Wade Mahaney, Derek Fox and Scott Bowman became temporarily metahuman after they used kryptonite tattoos to become intangible.
• Reaper – Tyler Randall, a metahuman who could turn humans into ash.
• Drone – Sasha Woodman, a metahuman who could command swarms of bees.
• Crush – Justin Gaines, a metahuman who had telekinetic powers.

Season TwoEdit

• Heat – Desirée Atkins, a metahuman who could use pheromones to manipulate human males.
• Duplicity – Steven Hamilton, a metahuman with powerful seizures similar to Earl Jenkins'.
• Nocturne – Byron Moore, a metahuman who got super strength in sunlight.
• Redux – Chrissy Parker, a metahuman who could suck youth out of humans to be forever young.
• Dichotic – Ian Randall, a metahuman who could split into two different Ians.
• Skinwalker – Kyla Willowbrook, a metahuman who can transform into a white wolf.
• Witness – Eric Marsh, a metahuman who gained super strength from a kryptonite inhaler.
• Accelerate – Emily Dinsmore, a metahuman clone who had super speed, kinetic powers and could vibrate so fast she could walk through solid walls.
• Calling - Frederick Walden a metahuman with ability manipulate energy.

Season ThreeEdit

• Extinction – Jake Pollen, a metahuman with amphibious abilities.
• Slumber – Sarah Conroy, a metahuman who could manipulate dreams.
• Magnetic – Seth Nelson, a metahuman who developed magnetic control over metal and mind.
• Whisper – Nathan Dean, a metahuman who can shriek massive sound waves.
• Obsession – Alicia Baker, a metahuman who could teleport.
• Truth – Chloe Sullivan had the ability to make anyone but Clark tell the truth temporarily.

Season FourEdit

• Gone – Trent MacGowen, a metahuman who can turn his body into metal.
• Façade – Abigail Fine, a metahuman who caused violent hallucinations after being exposed to her mother's kryptonite-powered plastic surgery.
• Devoted – Cheerleaders of Devotion, created kryptonite-laced drinks to control the jocks with devotion.
• Jinx – Mikhail Mxyzptlk, a metahuman who could control other people.
• Pariah – Tim Westcott, a metahuman who can dissolve his body and the clothing he is wearing into sand.
• Recruit – Geoff Johns, a metahuman who can paralyze people.
• Spirit – Dawn Stiles, a metahuman spirit who can possess others.
• Forever – Brendan Nash, a metahuman who can turn people into wax.

Season FiveEdit

• Mortal – Tommy Lee, a metahuman with the power to control electricity, and the Twins, metahumans who can generate a force field.
• Thirst – Buffy Sanders, a metahuman with vampiric abilities.
• Vengeance – Andrea Rojas, a metahuman who received her powers due to receiving a heart transplant from another metahuman.
• Fragile – Tyler McKnight, a metahuman who can control glass with his mind, pretty much like his daughter, Maddie Van Horn.
• Fade – Graham Garrett, a metahuman with the power to disappear at will.

Season SixEdit

• Reunion – Duncan Allenmeyer, a metahuman who could astral project and use psychokinesis.
• Static – Bronson, a metahuman with the ability to travel to different frequencies.
• Subterranean – Jed McNally, a metahuman with the ability to tunnel underground.
• Hydro – Linda Lake, a metahuman with the ability to turn herself into water.
• Freak – Tobias Rice, a blinded metahuman with the ability to see other meteor-infected people.

Season SevenEdit

• Fierce – The Weather Girls, three metahumans with the ability to control the elements.
• Cure – Curtis Knox has the ability to live forever, although it is unclear where his powers came from.
• Wrath – Lana Lang became temporarily metahuman after leeching Clark Kent's powers
• Hero – Pete Ross develop stretching powers temporarily after chews some kryptonite-laced gum.

Season EightEdit

• Plastique – Bette Sans Souci, a metahuman who creates explosions.
• Prey – Randy Klein, a metahuman who can transform into a shadow creature.
• Identity – Sebastian Kane, a metahuman with the ability of memory control.
• Injustice - Injustice League of metahumans assembled by Tess Mercer.

Season NineEdit

• Metallo – John Corben is transformed into a cyborg powered by a kryptonite heart after Major Zod and his Kryptonian army operate on him after he was hit by a bus.
• Warrior – Alec Abrams develops metahuman super powers after steal an enchanted comic book.

Season TenEdit

• Abandoned – Harriet was trained by Granny Goodness and her kryptonite powered claws to attack Clark Kent.
• Icarus – Slade Wilson displayed healing factor, but it is unknown whether he is a metahuman or not.

ComicsEdit

• TV Guide Comic Elemental - Jacob Snell, a metahuman who could control hailstones.
• Smallville The Comic Raptor - Greg Fox, a metahuman who turned into a Raptor.
• Smallville Paterfamilias - Kenny Cavanaugh, a metahuman who can turn invisible through camouflage

NotesEdit

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• In Season One, only Rogue, Zero, Nicodemus, Obscura, Stray, and Tempest did not feature a "freak of the week" villain.
• "Freak of the week" alumni sometimes show up in future episodes. Notable examples include Tina Greer (Visage), Emily Dinsmore (Forsaken), Alicia Baker (Unsafe and Pariah), Sasha Woodman (Cure), Linda Lake (Infamous), John Corben (Upgrade) and Greg Arkin (Homecoming).
• "Freak of the week" alumni sometimes also team up in future episodes. A notable example is Eric Summers and Ian Randall teaming up with Van McNulty (Asylum).
• Season Six features Clark tracking down alien prisoners of the Phantom Zone. Several of these prisoners (Gloria, Baern, Titan, Aldar, and Dr. Hudson) appear in only one episode in a format that is evocative of the "freak of the week" formula.
• Four series regulars have had FOTW-style episodes where they temporarily become metahuman and then follow the "freak of the week" formula. These include Whitney Fordman in Season 1 (he gains intangibility powers from kryptonite tattoos), Chloe Sullivan in Season Three (she gains truth powers from kryptonite-based truth gas), Lana Lang in Season Five and Season Seven (in Season 5, she becomes a vampire after being bitten by a metahuman vampire and, in Season 7, gains Clark's powers after being struck by lightning while near kryptonite), and Pete Ross in Season 7 (he gains elasticity powers from kryptonite-contaminated chewing gum). All of their personalities change while possessing powers, and all of them revert back after losing or giving up their powers.
• In Season Eight, although the "freak of the week" formula is used in Identity, this is used for the B-plot, while the A-plot focuses on Clark trying to hide his identity.

External LinksEdit

• Villain of the week - Wikipedia link