Tim Westcott
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| Tim Westcott | |
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| Family | Father (deceased), Mother (unknown) |
| Occupation | Student (Smallville High School) |
| Powers and Abilities | Ability to dissolve into sand, super strength |
| Played By | Derek Hamilton |
| Status | Institutionalized (Belle Reve) |
| Appeared In | Pariah |
Tim Westcott is a metahuman teenager obsessed with fixing the morals of Smallville.
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[edit] Powers and Abilities
Tim has the ability to dissolve his body and the clothing he is wearing into sand. He can move his sand form at will, allowing him to get through keyholes and other small apertures. His sand form can even disaggregate into a cloud of sand which also has the ability to move around. He can also perform feats of superhuman strength, by transforming his body parts into sand fixtures.
[edit] Early Life
Tim was a student at Smallville High School, who was interested in the perfection of Smallville. According to Tim's father, ever since the meteor shower, everything in Smallville went wrong. That it brought an evil to the town. After his father died, his obsession with perfection and morality had twisted his mind, even when he found out he can become "the sandman".
[edit] Season Four
He was responsible for attacking Lana Lang and Jason Teague, because they seemed not to care about "right or wrong or morality." Lois Lane found out he was Lana and Jason's assailant. He also framed his fellow metahuman Alicia Baker. While looking for more evidence to incriminate Alicia, he killed her by hanging her from a noose. Lois told Clark about Tim, and when he found Alicia dead, Clark attacked Tim in a grief-stricken rage. He dissolved into a sand cloud and fought back until Clark was able to use his heat vision to heat the cloud and hurt Tim. He was forced to convert back into human form, where Clark easily overpowered and attempted to strangle him. Lois managed to calm Clark down and prevent him from killing Tim. Tim was later sent to Belle Reve.
[edit] In the Comics
The Sandman is the name of several DC comics characters, of whom the most recent, Sandy Hawkins, has the power to turn his body to sand. While his attitude is somewhat old-fashioned (due to decades in suspended animation) he is not as morally judgmental as Tim Westcott.
Tim Westcott seems to parallel the character Pariah from Crisis on Infinite Earths. Like Pariah, he "teleports" to where "evil" is and tries to stop it. Also, Tim tells Lois that the meteor show brought "evil" to Smallville, similarly in Crisis (and a few earlier 1960s Green Lantern comics) it was revealed that an Oan observed the creation of the universe, which fractures the universe into a Multiverse (and created the Anti-Matter Universe), which brought a "wave of evil" that spreads throughout the cosmos. The title of the episode he appears is also called "Pariah".
[edit] Trivia
- According to the High School Yearbook, Tim was most likely to "Become mayor of Smallville". [1]
- Tim's abilities of Super strength and sand is a very strong resemblence to the Spider-man villain Sandman.
[edit] References
- ↑ Smallville: The Visual Guide, page 51
