Smallville’s Black Kryptonite & Powers Explained
In Smallville season 4, the series created a new variation of Superman’s weakness, Black Kryptonite. Here’s what it is, and what it does to Clark.
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Black Kryptonite is a unique variation of Superman’s weakness that appeared first in Smallville. It was featured in a handful of episodes, and also played a key role in Clark’s plan to deal with Doomsday in the Smallville season 8 finale.
In the beginning of the series, Clark (Tom Welling) realized that the green meteor rocks render him sick and are capable of killing him. Smallville season 2 revealed that green isn’t the only form of Kryptonite. After buying a class ring, Clark experienced a sudden personality change, and it took a while for anyone to understand why. An explanation came when Pete (Sam Jones III) discovered that the class ring was made from red meteor rocks. Apparently, while green Kryptonite affects him physically, the red Kryptonite affects him emotionally. Since then, Clark and his friends have come across multiple different colors of Kryptonite, with each one having a different effect on Kryptonians. Most of these exist in DC Comics, as Superman’s comic book counterpart has had similar troubles with various forms of Kryptonite.
In the Smallville season 4 premiere, the series introduced black Kryptonite, which was new to the world of Superman. It was brought on to the show by Margot Kidder’s Dr. Bridget Crosby, who visited Martha (Annette O’Toole) at a time when Clark had been taken over by the Kryptonian side of his personality, Kal-El. Armed with a piece of black Kryptonite, Martha “split” him in two, allowing his human side to battle it out with his Kryptonian side. Clark had to use the power of the black Kryptonite to rid himself of Kal-El for good.
In the same season, it was learned that it can alter humans too (not just Kryptonians). An experiment with it caused Lex’s dark side to emerge as a separate entity. As a result, the real Lex (Michael Rosenbaum) was left without any of his negative traits, and the other was pure evil. Clark had to use black Kryptonite to merge them back together again. Clark, having remembered what it did to both him and Lex, used it in season 8 to split Doomsday off from his human persona, Davis Bloome (Sam Witwer).
Though Smallville’s black Kryptonite was technically new, it seems that it was actually based off of a previous version. In Superman III, synthetic Kryptonite was used to create an evil Superman from Clark Kent’s body. Smallville’s black version isn’t synthetic, but it can be created by humans. In season 4, Lex’s scientists engineered a piece of black Kryptonite by hitting the green meteor rocks with intense heat. Following its introduction on Smallville, black Kryptonite was added to DC Comics canon with the same abilities. It was also incorporated into the Arrowverse through an episode of Supergirl, where Kara (Melissa Benoist) had her own encounter with it. Black Kryptonite serves as an example of how Smallville has expanded on the Superman mythos.
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