Jimmy Olsen

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"Why do you think they call me Jimmy the Infuriator?" - Jimmy Olsen, Static

James "Jimmy" Olsen is a young photographer who lives in Metropolis and works at the Daily Planet.

Eager to advance his career and make a name for himself in the field, Jimmy is a dedicated journalist and is always determined to pursue a story or get to the bottom of an investigation to photograph current and sensational news. Usually risking his safety in the process, he doesn't hesitate to directly question people or go undercover. Jimmy is a skilled photographer and very good at manipulating digital images.

Since beginning a relationship with Chloe Sullivan, Jimmy has become friends with Clark Kent and Lois Lane. He has also found himself in the cross hairs of Lex Luthor and began a relationship with Clark's cousin, Kara Kent. However, when Kara lost her memory, Jimmy came to the conclusion that they might not have a connection after all and got back with Chloe. They are working on rekindling their relationship, even as Jimmy continues to question whether Chloe would rather be with Clark. Jimmy proposed to Chloe, but Chloe was arrested by the Department of Domestic Security before she had a chance to respond. (Arctic) When Chloe returned from montana a month later, Chloe accepted Jimmy's proposal.(Odyssey)

Contents 1 Personality 2 Season Six 3 Season Seven 4 Season Eight 5 In the Comics 6 Appearances 7 Trivia 8 References 9 See Also

[edit] Personality

"Look, I'm not your James Bond. I went to a Halloween party once as James Bond. Everyone thought I was the maître d'." -Jimmy Olsen in Sleeper

Jimmy is very high-strung but is also easy-going. He drinks a lot of coffee ^{[citation needed]} and likes to abbreviate things when he talks ^{[citation needed]}.

Jimmy dated Chloe Sullivan for the majority of the time since he began working at the Daily Planet, and their relationship illustrated many of Jimmy's personality traits. As Chloe's boyfriend, he was caring, thoughtful, and attentive. ^{[citation needed]} He is willing to help out Chloe or her friends. ^{[citation needed]} Additionally, he was very patient with Chloe's fierce devotion to her best friend Clark Kent and her tendency to keep secrets (related to Clark's alien heritage and her own meteor-rock infection). ^{[citation needed]} After they ended their relationship, Jimmy and Chloe tried to remain friends, which was facilitated by Jimmy's affable personality. Even though he is envious of Clark, they are on good terms and have begun a tentative friendship. ^{[citation needed]} When Chloe finally admitted that she was meteor-infected, Jimmy made a conscious effort to be more sensitive to the subject. ^{[citation needed]}

However, during their relationship, Jimmy was intimidated by Clark and Chloe's strong friendship, and Clark's size and good looks. Jimmy expressed that he felt he had to constantly compete for Chloe's affections, and when he finally broke up with her, it was probably due to a mixture of pride, jealousy and insecurity.

Jimmy enjoys amateur radio ^{[citation needed]} and basketball.^[1]

[edit] Season Six

"Some girls go for sports cars. I figure you're more of a lock-picking kind of girl?" - Jimmy Olsen, to Chloe Sullivan, Noir

He and Chloe investigated man-eating plants at Make-out Point in the woods. He ventured into the woods where he met Gloria. She spawned her seeds in him and Chloe and Clark rescued him. Chloe killed the plants inside him by shocking him with a defibrillator.

Jimmy had a conspiracy theory about Lex Luthor, so he followed him to a meeting with Dr. Groll, not knowing that it was actually Lana meeting the doctor. He later questioned Lex about the meeting. Angry, Lex kicked him out of the mansion, but Jimmy was able to take pictures of schematics of the Kryptonian black box first. Seeing the schematics at full scale, he figured Lex was working with the Egyptians. Jimmy went to the editor to see if he had anything credible, but Lex got him fired instead. Jimmy had to talk his way back into his job and was demoted to the basement in photography archives.

Chloe enlisted Jimmy's help when Lex was trapped in an alternate frequency by metahuman Bronson. Jimmy used his father's old HAM radio equipment to tune into the frequency and restore Lex and Lana to their right dimension.

Clark asked Chloe to help him figure out how migrant workers were dying on a nearby farm by babysitting young Javier Ramirez. Chloe and Jimmy successfully located Javier's mother in Granville, and the two were reunited.

When Lois Lane began to suspect that the Green Arrow was her boyfriend, Oliver Queen, she met Jimmy online and offered to buy pictures of the Green Arrow from him. When they met to exchange the photographs, they were shocked to already know each other. Lois was disappointed that all of Jimmy's photographs were of body parts such as his legs and arms. He and Lois devised a plan to draw the Green Arrow out, but Clark and Oliver worked together as well to throw them off the trail. Jimmy was ecstatic to finally get a full-on face shot of the Green Arrow but when his pictures were processed, he was dismayed to find that he disappeared from the shot. Jimmy decided to hook up Clark and Lois together on Valentine's Day. After Lois and Clark were infected by the red kryptonite aphrodisiac, Jimmy was sent by Chloe to pick up an antidote made from green kryptonite. He sprayed Lois with the antidote and she was cured. Later, Clark asked Jimmy to help him locate a paparazzi who was stalking Lana. Even though he turned out to not be Lana's stalker, Clark and Jimmy successfully found the paparazzi's apartment and tracked him down. When Chloe turned up missing, Jimmy was extremely worried and panicked, but Clark was able to calm him down and helped him search for her. Chloe was returned seemingly unharmed and Jimmy helped her figure out who was behind her abduction. Jimmy was startled and appalled when he discovered that Clark had picked a tracking chip out of Chloe's shoulder with what they told him was a pocketknife.

Jimmy surprised Chloe with a romantic classic movie screening at the Planet offices the same night Lana Luthor was shot. Jimmy took a photograph of the assailant, but was knocked out before he could retrieve it. While unconscious, he dreamed of Smallville in 1940. Images from the dream helped him solve the case upon awakening. He realized Lana's reason for being at the Planet that night and provided valuable clues towards finding the culprit. His work on the case got him a promotion, and he left Smallville to document a swim club for elderly men in Milwaukee.

[edit] Season Seven

" You know it's true love when you fight off caffeine-pumped preppies to get a girl her favorite treat." - Jimmy, Cure

When Jimmy was photographing the Miss Corn Pageant in Smallville, he and Kara Kent exchanged several long looks, clearly drawn towards each other. However, three of the competitors noticed him taking pictures and attempted to kill him by freezing him into his car. Kara saved him and he recovered in the hospital. Later, Jimmy declared that he wanted to help his girlfriend Chloe "clean up" the city and rid it of meteor freaks.

When he was saved by Clark Kent's cousin Kara, the two seemed to connect. Jimmy helped Kara restore images of her missing ship. They bonded over their love of extraterrestrials. With his help, she learned that it was housed in a government warehouse. Jimmy and Kara took a surfing trip together in Coast City.

Apparently avoiding each other for some time, Jimmy and Chloe wound up awkwardly sharing an elevator just before Christmas. However, Chloe was unknowingly targeted by Adrian Cross. He trapped them in the elevator with an explosive device, but they were saved by Bizarro, posing as Clark.

Trying to help Kara's memory with familiar things, Jimmy took Kara to a OneRepublic concert, where they met Pete Ross after Pete saved Kara from a falling speaker. He wanted to interview Pete about his new stretching meteor-power, thinking that Pete could prove that meteor-infected individuals did not have to live in secret or be ashamed. Chloe and Clark tried to talk him out of the article. He went with Clark to investigate Pete's power, and witnessed Lex blackmailing Pete into stealing for him, but still believed the interview would be beneficial. When Pete got in over his head, he changed his mind about the interview, and Jimmy understood. After Pete left town, Jimmy wondered if he could rekindle his relationship with Chloe. However, he seemed annoyed that Chloe was preoccupied with helping Clark and asked Lois if she wanted to collaborate on an article, saying he was trying to avoid getting fired. They went undercover to interrogate Lionel Luthor about the death of Patricia Swann. Lionel was not intimidated by their questions and promptly threw them out. Jimmy and Lois continued to follow Lionel to the Isis Foundation and learned that Lex Luthor was the one responsible for Patricia's murder.

After the death of Lionel Luthor, Jimmy managed to get a glimpse of Lionel being pushed out the office window. When they went to go to the Isis Foundation, they were caught by Lex's assistant. Lois was shot for trying to stop her, and was placed in a freezer with Jimmy. Clark used his heat vision to keep them warm to prevent them from dying of hypothermia.

Jimmy made a strong effort to rekindle his relationship with Chloe, but felt that she wasn't working as hard as he was. He was approached by an agent of the Department of Domestic Security, Vanessa Webber, and was told to watch over whatever Chloe Sullivan does. She gave him a case full of spy gadgetry. He then went to Isis, only to discover a confidential document of United States Security. He went to Clark for advice, wondering why someone would lie to someone they loved. Clark told him that sometimes people lie to protect their loved ones. When Vanessa approached him again, she instructed him to accompany Chloe to the Ace of Clubs where he later wowed her with some impressive dance moves. While at the Ace of Clubs, Jimmy, disguised, sneaked up on a man and stole his briefcase after he knocked him out. He managed to absorb the information stored within the briefcase using a computing-device and changed back into his formal party clothes undetected. After failing to get the right information, Jimmy went back to save Chloe from Vanessa. Once they returned to the Talon, Jimmy expressed his feelings for Chloe by kissing her. The next day, Jimmy returned to the Planet to thank Lex for helping him to help Chloe. Lex reminded him that in time Jimmy will have to pay him back.In an alternate universe, Jimmy wears a bow tie and admires Lois Lane. He was also a reporter and photographer.

Jimmy Olsen followed Lex's ambulance and managed to take a picture of the Kryptonian symbol that was carved on Lex's chest. He then told Chloe about Kryptonian symbols found around Smallville in the past. Jimmy began to compile this information to write his first article for the Daily Planet. Lex told Jimmy to feed Lois a fake story to keep her out of his business. Feeling guilty for what he did, Jimmy told Lex he could not do it any longer. For that, Lex called the Department of Domestic Security on Chloe. They arrested her just as Jimmy proposed.

[edit] Season Eight

Jimmy visits Chloe Sullivan at the Talon after he found out that she arrived home from being away for a month. He told her that he did not want an answer to his proposal thinking it will destroy what they had, but Chloe gave him one anyways; she said yes, that she will marry him because he was perfect for her by being imperfect.

Jimmy later found a letter to Clark that Chloe had wrote six years ago. Jimmy questioned Chloe's love for him and drowned his sorrows at the Ace of Clubs. There, he was seduced by Maxima and started to die from hormone overload. Jimmy almost fell off the balcony, but Clark caught him. Later at the hospital Jimmy explained that he doubted Chloe loved him and gave Clark her letter. Chloe arrived but Jimmy and Clark didn't say a word about the letter.

Jimmy leaves the hospital two days later, and talks to Chloe about the letter again. Chloe explained that her feelings for Clark were in the past, and that her true love is Jimmy.

[edit] In the Comics

Jimmy Olsen's full name is James Bartholomew Olsen. Jimmy is traditionally depicted as a bow tie-wearing, red-haired young man who works as a cub reporter and photographer for the Daily Planet, alongside Lois Lane and Clark Kent, whom he idolizes as career role models.

[edit] Appearances

• Season 6 - Zod, Wither, Fallout, Static, Subterranean, Hydro, Crimson, Trespass, Freak, and Noir.

• Season 7 - Fierce, Cure, Lara, Gemini, Hero, Traveler, Veritas, Descent, Sleeper, Apocalypse, Quest and Arctic.

• Season 8 - Odyssey, Instinct.

[edit] Trivia

• According to Chloe in Season Two's Heat, Jimmy went to Metropolis High School (as did Victor Stone).
• Chloe lost her virginity to Jimmy when they were interns.
• Jimmy refers to Clark as "C.K."- a characteristic of the Jimmy Olsen from "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman".
• Altough Jimmy didn't exactly appear in Plastique, he is shown in the opeining theme and the opening flashbacks from the previous episodes and referenced various times throughout the episode.
• Jimmy bears a strange resemblance to Eric Summers. (The two actors are identical twins).
• Jimmy's radio handle is "Jimmy the Infuriator".
• Even though Jimmy is a main character, he does not appear in every episode because, like Erica Durance, Aaron Ashmore is contracted to appear in a set number per year.
• As of Season Seven's Sleeper, Jimmy lives at 200 North Hamilton Drive, Metropolis.
• It's interesting to note that Jimmy's appearance in Traveler was reduced to a non-speaking role appearing for a few seconds walking behind Chloe and Lana, making him the shows first main character to appear in the fewest episodes during a season.

[edit] References

1. ↑ Jimmy proposes that he and Clark settle any differences they may have over a "game of hoops" in Subterranean.

[edit] See Also

• Chloe and Jimmy- Details on their on-again, off-again relationship.
• Jimmy and Kara - Details about Jimmy's budding relationship with Clark Kent's cousin Kara.
• Jimmy Olsen's near-death experiences - A chronological list of Jimmy's near death experiences.
• Episodes featuring Jimmy Olsen (this is a list still in progress)