Superman & Lois Accidentally Creates A Smallville Plot Hole Post-Crisis

Because of Tom Welling’s character, Clark Kent and his family moving back to Smallville in Superman & Lois is a post-Crisis plot hole.

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Because of Smallville’s Clark Kent (Tom Welling), Tyler Hoechlin’s character moving back to his hometown in Superman & Lois is a post-Crisis on Infinite Earths plot hole. What was established about the fate of Smallville’s Superman after the Crisis interferes with what the Arrowverse is doing with the Kents on Earth-Prime, bringing them back to the Kent Farm in Smallville.

Crisis on Infinite Earths famously brought a number of DC TV shows and movies into the Arrrowverse through some exciting cameos. Two of the biggest came from Tom Welling and Erica Durance, who played Clark Kent and Lois Lane, respectively, on the Superman prequel series. During Crisis, Iris (Candace Patton), Superman (Tyler Hoechlin), and Lois (Elizabeth Tulloch) visited Smallville’s Earth and met Clark on the Kent Farm. While there, they found out that, sometime after becoming Superman, Clark made the decision to give up all of his Kryptonian powers so that he could start a family with Lois. Offscreen, his world – along with all other Earths in the multiverse – was wiped out by the Anti-Monitor and his anti-matter waves. It, unfortunately, wasn’t revived when the multiverse was rebooted.

Then-Arrowverse producer Marc Guggenheim explained that, though Smallville’s Earth is gone, Clark is still alive. Guggenheim has confirmed that Crisis on Infinite Earths didn’t undo Smallville’s new ending, and that Clark and Lois are still living happily, just as they were in their cameos [TV Line]. It appears that the two were moved to Earth-Prime, which is now the new home of all the Arrowverse shows, while the other Earths are reserved for the active DC shows outside the Arrowverse. Of course, the big issue with him being on Earth-Prime is that he would have to share it with Hoechlin’s Kal-El. With that in mind, it’s not clear how that can work, especially since Clark moved the family back to Smallville in the Superman & Lois series premiere.

Batwoman showrunner Dries believes that, in this case, it would work for there to be two versions of the same person on Earth-Prime [via TV Guide]. That’s because unlike Hoechlin’s character, Tom Welling’s Clark Kent has walked away from being Superman and is now focusing on being both a father and a farmer on the Kent Farm with his wife and children. Meanwhile, the Arrowverse’s Last Son of Krypton was living a totally separate life as the Man of Steel. Superman & Lois, however, has complicated that situation by taking the main characters to the Kent Farm, which obviously isn’t being inhabited by Smallville’s Clark.

This post-Crisis plot hole raises more questions about how Clark and Lois could have survived the Crisis. His survival has been officially confirmed, but it’s clear at this point that whatever happy ending he’s having, it can’t be the same one he had before Crisis on Infinite Earths. He’s not on the Kent Farm, which means he must be somewhere on the planet. Perhaps living in a city or town that’s somewhere far-removed from Superman’s corner of Earth-Prime is the only way that he and Tyler Hoechlin’s character can both exist on the same planet.

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