Tobias Rice

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Tobias Rice
Family	Parents (deceased)
Powers and Abilities	Identifying the meteor rock-infected
Played By	Greyston Holt
Status	Alive
Appeared In	Freak

"You must be talking about a different Clark Kent, because the Clark I know is the most normal guy I've ever met." - Tobias Rice, Freak

[edit] Early Life

Tobias Rice is a former Smallville High student. His parents were killed in the second meteor shower and Tobias himself was blinded.

[edit] Powers and Abilities

The meteor shower gave him the ability to "see" other metahumans. When someone who is meteor-infected is in his vicinity, they glow an eerie green outline from within his point of view. His ability to identify people with abilities is limited only to those who acquired them by meteor rock exposure, evident by the fact that he didn't identify Clark Kent on their first meeting considering his abilities are only natural and not as a result of being influenced by kryptonite.

In the Book of Tobit (one of the books in the Roman Catholic/Eastern Orthodox Bible that the Jewish/Protestant Bible excludes), a character named Tobias looses his eyesight and has it restored at the end of the story.

[edit] Season Six

Used by Dr. Robert Bethany with the promise of restoring his sight with a cornea transplant, Tobias was able to identify Daniel Kim, the telekinetic bowling alley shoe clerk, as having metahuman powers. Daniel Kim was subsequently abducted and taken to Level 33.1 to have his DNA extracted and tagged with a GPS homing beacon and his memory of the event, including the abduction, wiped. Tobias was later confronted by Clark and Chloe Sullivan to ascertain his involvement.

In that encounter, Tobias observed Chloe as meteor-infected and contacted Dr. Bethany. Chloe Sullivan was later abducted by Lex Luthor's men and treated in the same manner as Daniel. Later, Lana Lang tried to persuade Tobias to stop what he was doing. After Dr. Bethany's and Lex Luthor's scheme was exposed, Lex ordered Dr. Bethany to bring Tobias back to him alive and unharmed to help tie up loose ends. Dr. Bethany, believing he would be killed after handing over Tobias, tried to kill Tobias. Lana, who had arrived at Tobias's home minutes before, complicated the plan, causing Dr. Bethany to come up with the cover story about his corneas being available. After feigning compliance to leave with Dr. Bethany, Tobias turned off the lights and pointed a gun at Dr. Bethany, who in turn attacked Tobias in the dark. Dr. Bethany intended to shoot Tobias with a taser gun, designed to stop his heart instantly to make it look like Tobias died from a heart attack.

However, in the confrontation, Lana picked up the discarded gun and fired at Dr. Bethany, saving Tobias's life. Clark Kent super sped into the scene to prevent Lana from shooting Dr. Bethany. Clark deflected the bullet meant for Dr. Bethany and absorbed the taser barbs meant for Tobias. In an unforeseen circumstance, the charge from the taser backfired and struck Dr. Bethany, inducing a heart attack, killing him instantly.

Afterward, Tobias admitted to Clark that he was sorry he helped Dr. Bethany and regretted his involvement. Clark arranged for Oliver Queen to put up the resources to have Tobias get his cornea transplant.