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A spiritual realm or afterlife are a place where souls go after death.

Unidentified Realm[]

Smallville heaven

This unnamed realm is where the spirits of Jonathan Kent, Lillian Luthor, Lewis and Laura Lang went after their deaths. In early 2006, Clark, Lex and Lana each visited this realm, when they died for a moment.[1]

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John Zatara in the Afterlife
  • In the Season Eight episode Hex, the spirit of John Zatara appears within a spiritual realm/afterlife. It is unknown if it is the same realm where Jonathan Kent, Lillian Luthor, Lewis Lang and Laura Lang went, or one of the several others that have been established to exist.

The Underworld (Gaelic)[]

This Underworld is a realm inhabited by the imprisoned spirit of Siobhan McDougal.[2]

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The Underworld (Egyptian)[]

This Underworld is a realm inhabited and ruled by an Egyptian god of death named Osiris.[3]

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Tartarus[]

This is a hellish realm ruled over by the Olympian god of death Hades.[4]

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The Abyss of Life and Death[]

The Abyss of Life and Death is a spiritual plane of existence where wavering souls are transported.[5]

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Season Five[]

When Clark is stabbed with the limbo drug, he enters an afterlife realm. He has a warm, heartfelt reconvening with his father, before he's pulled back to Earth.

Season Eight[]

Zatanna wanted to resurrect her father from the afterlife but Clark convinced her otherwise and to respect the natural order.

Season Ten[]

Shortly after Clark Kent stabbed himself with a dagger with blue kryptonite, his soul arrived at the Abyss and was faltering on the edge of life and death itself. Because Clark didn't cross over right away, Jor-El was able to talk to him. After enduring Jor-El's condescending remarks, Clark saw Lex Luthor. Immediately afterwards, Lois Lane removed the dagger from Clark's body, causing the spiritual backlash to return Clark's soul to his body while Lex's soul went into his composite clone.

Trivia[]

  • In Egyptian mythology the Underworld consisted of the Duat, where souls went for judgement (however, the Duat is not an equivalent of the Christian concept of Hell). Souls that managed to balance the scales of good and evil, in a test, went on to another part of the Underworld called the Aaru (where they would be for all eternity in pleasure). The souls that failed the test, proving themselves too evil, were eaten by Ammit, and denied continued existence.
    • In the episode Isis, Oliver incorrectly equates the Egyptian Underworld to the concept of Hell in Christian mythology.
  • In Greek mythology Tartarus was the part of the Underworld, where wicked souls received punishment. Other sections of the Underworld were the Asphodel Meadows (where the souls of people who weren't particularly good or evil, and neither spoke out nor distinguished themselves) and Elysium (the place for souls of heroes and people who were notably goodhearted).

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