User:Kanamekun

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Hello, I'm a fan of Smallville. I've been watching the seasons in reverse order, and going through the Smallville Wiki articles as I watch each one.

I'm a huge fan of Superman (especially the original movies, and also Lois & Clark), so I am enjoying seeing the mythology unfold one power at a time.

[edit] PAGES

I've started writing articles and adding categories related to different powers and abilities:

And added a healing section to this article:

Clark Kent's powers and abilities

I've also added a few articles:

And some stubs:

And a few minor categories:

And helped out with some articles:

After making lots of random pages, I've started to make some pages that have really broadened my understanding of the show:

Meteor infection - I've been wanting to pull this together forever... maybe if only I could find some Kryptonite, I'm sure I could get a meteor power!
Kryptonite psychosis - This may be obvious, but I never realized exactly how psychosis worked and how rare Chloe's immunity is.
Rao's prophecy - This page really explains a lot (to me) about the actions of so many Kryptonians. It doesn't explain though, why so many of them are jerks (besides Kara, Raya, and arguably the duty-shirking Dax-Ur)
Clark Kent's secret - I didn't realize how the writers like to draw out the process of learning Clark's secret.. Chloe took many episodes to learn his whole secret! Same with Lana. Really masterfully done. On the flip side though, Pete pretty much learned it all at once... I guess b/c in his episode, he discovered the ship. Once you've seen the ship, you know most of Clark's secret!
Kryptonian vessel - You can't really understand Season 5 without understanding vessels and possession.

These pages were also fun to pull together, and taught me a lot:

Canon - I never fully realized how many sources there were!
Naming - This page really expanded my understanding of how naming works... thanks to Marikology for bringing up the subject and showing me the naming ropes!
Freak of the week - This page was fun to pull together, and helped me understand the first season or two a lot better.

[edit] PROJECTS

[edit] Sets

I recently realized that I had never really thought much about the sets that the show uses.

For example, the Isis Foundation has been a set for a lot of Season 7. The Ace of Clubs appeared a lot in the last few episodes, although it was pretty clearly a redressed version of Oliver Queen's loft (which suddenly stopped appearing after Siren). I also think it's interesting how they redressed the Fortress to look like it was from Krypton (Apocalypse). I read somewhere that the Kawatche Cave set used to be pretty big, but now it's just the Altar. Stuff like that might make for an interesting page (or prove that I think about this show waaay too much). --Kanamekun 23:55, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Ah found a link that pointed out that "Jimmy Olsen's loft" in the alternate universe is a dressed up version of the Isis Foundation set (you can see the exposed brick, and I think the glass doors are the same too). How did I not see that before! --Kanamekun 00:15, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Death

I didn't realize how often krypto-freaks got powers *after* dying! Death + kryptonite = metahuman? Somehow, I spaced that Sean Kelvin died (through drowning) before coming back to life as an ever-cold kryptofreak. Then there's Tyler Randall, who got his powers to turn things into ash after dying.

Two other people were "resurrected" - Chad Nash was brought back as Adam Knight, and Vince Davis came back to life. Neither of them got metahuman powers though.

Wes Keenan was seemingly resurrected before he was turned into a prototype after dying, but I don't think he actually died; I believe Lex faked his death.

[edit] Product Placements

There are a bunch of product placements on Smallville, including:

Sprint
Stride gum
Toyota Yaris
Accuvue
AOL

It might be interesting to catalog them all, especially since some of them involved ancillary content that's listed as Canon.

[edit] Nietzsche

Thinking about creating a page about Nietzsche, and how his books keep showing up in the series. But most of all, it's interesting how his philosophy pervades Lionel's (and eventually Lex's) approach to life. --Kanamekun 01:47, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Electricity

Writing an article about electricity on the show. It can be used to transfer Kryptonian powers when combined with kryptonite (Eric Summers, Lana Lang)... and some people are vulnerable to it (Gloria). Some people can manipulate it (Nick Yang, Jeremy Creek, Tommy Lee)... while other people use it to charge up like a battery (Brainiac, Tommy Lee). On a more boring level, it can cause amnesia in humans. It can also be combined with kryptonite to harm Kryptonians (the kryptonite cage, kryptonite taser). BTW, couldn't you use a kryptonite taser to steal Clark's powers? --Kanamekun 19:56, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Tasers

Random thought, but what's up with all the tasering on Smallville? I've never seen tasers used so often and so prominently in a show... --Kanamekun 17:24, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] New Krypton

It seems like almost every Kryptonian has the same two-part plan:

To destroy Earth's population and turn it into a new Krypton
To repopulate Earth with any remaining Kryptonians (or humans who have been turned into Kryptonian vessels).

Examples include:

The Disciples of Zod - They want Kal-El to help them turn Earth into a utopia
Brainiac and Zod - They try to destroy Earth through a computer virus and worldwide blackout (Dark Thursday). Zod plans to repopulate the planet with Lana Lang.
Zor-El - He tries to destroy humanity using a Fortress-powered eclipse, planning to repopulate the planet with Lara-El's replicant.
Brainiac and Lex - In an alternate universe, Brainiac gets Lex to destroy Earth using nuclear weapons. He plans to repopulate the planet with Kara and Lex Luthor, a vessel for General Zod.

Even Jor-El tries to get Clark to repopulate Earth through "Kara of Krypton", a Kryptonian vessel designed to lure Clark into training.

I'm thinking about turning this into an article, but am not sure what to call it. New Krypton? Hmm, maybe I'll just add it as a section under Kryptonian...

This ended up going into an article on Rao's prophecy --Kanamekun 23:55, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Writers and Directors

Noticed that a lot of the Writer and Director names were either unlinked, or linked to outside sources (Wikipedia, IMDB). So been going through the site and linking them to their Smallville Wiki pages... which in a bunch of cases don't exist. Also been expanding the Writer/Director pages, and fleshing them out with details on the Episodes they've worked on... whether or not they work on a writing or directing team... any patterns in the type of episodes they like to do (FOTW versus mythology eps, etc.).

We've made a ton of progress here! But haven't finished yet... there's a good number of writers and directors still without pages. Gotta get on that... if anyone has time to help, that'd be great! --Kanamekun 02:21, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks to everyone who helped out! I can't believe this day has come, but we finished creating pages for all writers and directors for season 1-7! :-) --Kanamekun 01:30, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Abilities

I've started writing articles about different abilities that several metahumans share. The first article was about teleportation and healing. The next one will be about possession; Kryptonians seem to do it a fair amount, as do some Krypto-infected metahumans and witches. I'd especially like to write up the concept of Kryptonian vessels, which have been featured on the show a fair amount but haven't really been written up on the wiki.

I hope to slowly add articles about all the major abilities displayed on the show (at least, the ones that are displayed by more than one character). These abilities will all be nested under the uber category, Category:Abilities

[edit] Amnesia

I love how they keep revealing Clark's powers to everyone, and then find new ways to make people forget them. I wrote an article about that called Amnesia. Next, I'll link to it from the various places that articles mention "forget" and "memory".

[edit] High Pitched Whine

Many Kryptonian devices can emit a high-pitched whine under certain circumstances. In one episode, somebody (Raya in Fallout maybe?) explained that every Kryptonian family had its own sound and that the sound is recognizable to others. I think it'd be interesting to make a list of all the times the high-pitched sound has occurred, and see if all the devices who made it are from the House of El. For example, the three Stones of Power... were they created by members of the House of El? Also, under what circumstances do Kryptonian devices make the high-pitched noise? I remember once the Key made noise and bothered Jonathan Kent, who had agreed to be a vessel for Jor-El. Was the Key psychically activated by Jor-El? These are the sorts of geeky questions that I am curious about.

Just some notes: in Season's 4 Transference, Clark refers to this sound as this "ringing sound". I'm looking for other references to the sound, so I can name the article. If you know of any, please let me know on the talk page!

Someone called this sound a "beacon"... I guess that could be the name of it. Will have to go back to Fallout and see if they use the phrase.

Ah the quote is from Season Six's Fallout:

Raya: Every Kryptonian family has a unique tone -- a beacon to identify itself. Baern's sure to recognize yours.

After Persona, this has all been cleared up. I helped expand an article on the Kryptonian beacon. There are still some more quotes from Persona to transcribe on beacons (and some more analysis of beacons to do), but the guts of the article should be there...

[edit] Power Transfers

The show has made some attempts to explain the science of Kryptonian powers works. For example, Bizarro is said to sample Clark's DNA. Also, Lex gets Kryptonian powers from Zod (through Possession but also through the vaccine)... and also Lana gets some powers from Clark (when she bites him after being infected with krypto-bat blood). And in Season 7, there was that "incomplete transfer" from Clark to Lana. So far, the variables in play seem to be DNA, electricity, and kryptonite. Maybe also Kryptonian technology and/or possession, since those seem to be involved with power transfers too.

I'd like to make a list of all the times that powers have been transferred, and detail the various ways that the show has explained the science behind it. The problem is, I don't really know what I would call that article. So this idea is on hiatus for now.

[edit] Krypto Infection

Have you noticed how most people go nuts when they get powers? Lana's a great example... she really went drunk with power when she got Clark's abilities! I was kind of shocked by that, because it was really similar to how the Freaks of the Week acted in Season 1.

Compare that to Chloe, who since she got her healing tears power, has been totally normal. And as a counter example, Chloe did kinda go drunk with power when she temporarily got her Truth power.

So what's the difference between the two Chloe situations? In one case, her primary motivation at the time was wanting to find out the truth about everything. But now she seems more geared towards wanting to help people like her hero Clark (her journalistic desires seem to be tamped down quite a bit recently, as she's settling into the basement and focusing more on helping Clark fight the bad guys).

I have a (very nascent) theory that kryptonite-infection can't turn a normal person crazy... it can only exacerbate the feelings and emotions that already are inside of someone. A good example is Kyle Tippet versus Bob Rickman (the two handshake persuasion guys)... one wanted to use his abilities for evil, and the other wanted to help the world. As Clark put it to Greg Arkin, when you're infected with kryptonite, "you're a slave to your instincts".

The very few Kryptonite Infected People Using Their Abilities For Good (Category:Benevolent metahumans) were all people who wanted to help people and were humble, rather then wanting to use their powers to achieve personal gain.

A counter example is Andrea Rojas, whose primary emotion was vengeance. Kryptonite infection enhanced her feelings for vengeance, and made her more vengeful. Actually, that was very similar to what kryptonite powers did to Lana in Wrath.

Anyway this theory is still very premature. I'll be taking a pass at applying it to all the villains we've seen so far, and seeing if it holds water at all.

This is now an article at kryptonite psychosis. --Kanamekun 23:55, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Process of Krypto Infection

As I've been doing research into power transfer (from Kryptonians to humans), I've been noticing that the principles are not so different from how humans sometime acquire powers from kryptonite. Electricity is often involved, but heat and magnetism can also do the trick. Also, the kryptonite often works its way into the body (through a bug bite, or a wound - like when Lana's lab partner got hit in the head with a Krypto snow globe).

Experimental medication often does the trick as well, ala Duncan Allenmeyer and Tina Greer. Same goes with organ transplants.

Powers can also sometimes transfer genetically, as it seems to have done for Jordan Cross and Maddie Van Horn.

Death + kryptonite can also cause krypto-powers. Also, ingesting kryptonite (the love potion in Devoted, Jodi Melville in Craving.

Regarding kryptonite getting into the body through bug bites: that's happened twice... Greg Arkin and Sasha Woodman. Also, Buffy Sanders infected Lana through a bite (not a bug bite, but same idea).

Another random thing: whatever the person happens to be doing when infected seems to possibly affect things. Desiree was in an intimate moment when hit.

One more: water seems to come into play more than once. Linda Lake, Sean Kelvin... I guess that's it, unless you count Jake Pollen. --Kanamekun 02:14, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

This is now an article here: meteor infection. --Kanamekun 23:55, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Destiny

I've been expanding this article on Destiny and wow, it's turned out to be a lot harder then I thought. The stuff I've added to the article is a bit academic and reads like a term paper... it's coming together though (hopefully).

I think what I want to say is that Destiny can be seen as Fate (you have no choice over your final destiny) or Choice (you have a choice over your destiny). And both Clark and Lex have a few various destinies to choose from...

Finally, Lana Lang has the same basic choice as Lex Luthor: between being a good person, and a person who believes that the ends justify the means. Interestingly, Oliver Queen and Bart Allen also represent the idea that the ends justify the means... but they are somehow good, while Lana seems to be willing to cross the line into more evil acts (like letting Lex die, and almost killing Lois and Lex when she had powers). I guess there are limits to what they will do with their powers (rob from the rich to give to the poor?)

Strangely, I don't know if Chloe or Lois struggle with a choice in their destiny? I guess I don't think they really do... except maybe Chloe is choosing between being a journalist and being Clark's helper-bee. So far, she seems to be skewing towards being the helper bee!

In any case, I finally feel like the Destiny article is in decent shape. I don't know if it's worth adding more people's destinies (e.g. Lana and Chloe). I really believe that the concept of fate versus choice is one of the dominant themes on the show, and both Clark and Lex's struggle with "free will" drives the engine of the plot in most seasons. I'll probably step away from the article for a bit, and view it with fresh eyes some time later.

Note: I added a list of quotes about Destiny as a sub-page - feel free to add to the page! [1]

I went back and reread this, and the page isn't as good as I hoped back when I worked on it (I take all the blame). I cut some of the opening material, but it's still a bit academic alas. --Kanamekun 23:55, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Opening Sentences

I've been working on making the opening sentence (or paragraph) a better summary of each character. For example:

Lana Lang is Clark Kent's first love and Lex Luthor's ex-wife. She also led the renovation of the Talon coffee shop, and later founded the Isis Foundation, a non-profit devoted to helping meteor-infected metahumans.

I've been going through the main character pages for a while now, and working my way through recurring characters too. I've discovered that female characters tend to be defined in terms of their relationships to male characters, rather than based on their own accomplishments. I've been trying to address that, while keeping in mind that many of the female characters on the show are actually defined in terms of their relationships with Clark (which isn't necessarily a bad thing).

[edit] PERSPECTIVES

I've started to draft some more high-level perspectives for Characters and Relationship pages.

For example, a big story arc for Chloe and Clark has been her obsession with finding out the truth about the meteor shower... and then after she discovers his powers and origin, her desire to help him save the world. Where would something like that go... as a Section on their Relationship page? And if so, what would we call that Section... Dynamic? Perspective? Trends? None of those feel quite right.

Same goes for Lex and Lana's shared obsession with preparing for the next alien invasion... and later, Lana's rejection of that goal once she realizes how many lives Lex is willing to sacrifice to achieve his goals.

Basically, there are these big Trends/Perspectives that don't really have a place in the wiki now. Any ideas on where to stick em? Feel free to add any suggestions to my Talk page - thanks!

[edit] Lex's friendship dynamic

A little psychoanalysis of Mister Luthor :-)

Lex Luthor's friendships and relationships are dominated by his desire for control. Strangely enough, this desire pushes him to help others. He truly wants to help people... as long as it is on his own terms. He often insists on finding out the "truth" about people, often secretly and without their knowledge. He can't abide it when people hide the truth from him, as it prevents him from achieving the control that he so greatly desires. The biggest example of this is in the first few seasons, where he often offers to help Clark (and the Kents) and yet simultaneously secretly searches for the truth about Clark's powers. In Zero, he says, "The truth is, I'd do anything to protect my friends." In Season 3's Magnetic, he tells Chloe that he will protect her against his father: "I'll protect you, Chloe. You have my word. But in order to do that, I need to know what you found out about my father." In Season 4's Commencement, he tells Lana (after she killed Genevieve Teague), "Now, I'll do anything I can to protect you including supporting whatever story of self-defense you want to run with."

As long as he can control someone through gifts and obligation, he will do in anything in his power to protect them. As soon as he can no longer control someone, they quickly become his enemy. Examples include Clark Kent, Lana Lang, Chloe Sullivan, and Grant Gabriel. He promised to do anything to protect Grant from Lionel, including transfer him to an overseas posting at another newspaper. When Grant refused his help, Lex had him murdered.

Lex has recreated this dynamic even with Kara Kent in Season 7. After she saved him from drowning, he told her, "Your secret's safe with me. I've already protected you, like I would have protected others close to me if they would have told me the truth. This time, I'm hoping to change all that. I just need you to be honest with me."

Interestingly, Lex's desire to protect people goes beyond individuals. In Season 6's Prototype, he builds an army of superpowered soldiers to protect Earth against aliens and kryptofreaks. Or as he put it, "What you're being asked to do is help protect the world, doctor. Unstable criminals with dangerous powers are becoming more and more common. Humanity's only chance of surviving the onslaught is this project. So, kick that big brain of yours into high gear and figure out what the hell went wrong!"

Lex views himself as a great man who is on a search for truth, and who wants nothing more than to help people and humanity. He is blind to the idea that his help is purely conditional: if the person he's helping doesn't completely depend on him or reveal the entire truth to him, he will turn on them completely and make them his enemy. He often blames others for not coming to him right away with the truth, or for not asking for his protection. He has a narcissistic belief in his own importance, and sees himself as a victim: in his mind, his relationships would be successful if only other people trusted him or came to him for protection. He is oblivious to his own role in this dynamic, and how his desire for control consistently turns friends and lovers into enemies.

I went ahead and added this to a new "Relationships" section on Lex's page. --Kanamekun 23:55, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

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