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The Worst Episodes of Smallville

The origins of the world’s greatest hero–from Krypton refugee Kal-el’s arrival on Earth through his tumultuous teen years to Clark Kent’s final steps toward embracing...
  1. Background image for Thirst
    6.5/10(1.4k votes)

    #1 - Thirst

    S5:E5

    Lana joins a sorority to get housing for her last-minute college registration, but the sisters have a deadly agenda which involves turning Lana into a vampire like themselves and sending her against Clark. Meanwhile, Chloe applies to become an intern at the Daily Planet and runs up against the editor-in-chief, Pauline Kahn.

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  2. Background image for Subterranean
    7.0/10(1.3k votes)

    #2 - Subterranean

    S6:E9

    An illegal immigrant comes to Clark for help, escaping from a nearby farm where he's working... a farm that houses a dark secret.

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  3. Background image for Nocturne
    7.1/10(17 votes)

    #3 - Nocturne

    S2:E5

    Lana has a new stalker - a boy imprisoned in his basement by his parents who sneaks out at night to visit her. Meanwhile Lionel hires Clark's mother as his personal assistant.

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  4. Background image for Hero
    7.1/10(1.1k votes)

    #4 - Hero

    S7:E13

    Pete Ross returns to town and finds a number of surprising changes since his departure. Besides resolving his feelings toward Clark since he learned of his friend's secret, Pete has to deal with the acquisition of a superpower of his own.

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  5. Background image for Ageless
    7.2/10(1.4k votes)

    #5 - Ageless

    S4:E20

    Checking out a crater in a cornfield, Clark and Lana discover a baby with no parents and take him back to the Kent farm. However, when the baby, Evan, ages from a newborn to a 7-year-old in less than a day, it becomes clear he is aging at a rapid rate and they turn to Lex for help. Meanwhile, Genevieve suspects Lex has the Chinese Kryptonian artifact and orders Lionel to either recover it...or risk putting Lex in danger of his life.

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  6. Background image for Tomb
    7.2/10(1.2k votes)

    #6 - Tomb

    S5:E14

    Chloe is possessed by the spirit of a young girl whose body is sealed in the Talon's walls, and goes searching for the girl's killer while Clark and Lois try to track her down.

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  8. Background image for Noir
    7.2/10(1.3k votes)

    #7 - Noir

    S6:E20

    Lana and Lionel have a secret meeting, after which Lana is shot. While Jimmy is observing photos of the encounter, he is knocked unconscious. While unconscious Jimmy dreams about what life in Smallville would have been like in the 1940s. Clark is a reporter at the Daily Planet, Lana is a siren who planned the demise of her magnate husband Lex, and Lois is a singer at a bar that Lionel owns.

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  9. Background image for Drone
    7.3/10(14 votes)

    #8 - Drone

    S1:E18

    Clark gets into a class election and one of his opponents is a krypto-mutant who can control bees. Meanwhile a reporter from Metropolis visits to do a story on Lex.

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  10. Background image for Magnetic
    7.3/10(15 votes)

    #9 - Magnetic

    S3:E7

    Clark is suspicious when Lana suddenly becomes attracted to a fellow student and begins to act rebelliously, which eventually lands her in jail. Clark's suspicions are confirmed when he discovers Lana's new boyfriend has magnetic powers that can move objects and alter human emotions, but when he tries to free Lana from the paranormal hold that is controlling her, she tries to kill him. Meanwhile, Lex discovers Chloe has been delving into Lionel's past and tries to get her to join forces against his dad.

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  11. Background image for Void
    7.3/10(1.2k votes)

    #10 - Void

    S5:E17

    Distraught over her break-up with Clark, Lana goes to a rogue medical student who experiments with a dangerous kryptonite-based serum that allows people to flat-line but see their dead loved ones. Lana attempts to see her dead parents using the serum and when Clark returns from Honduras to help her, the doctor injects him with the serum and Clark speaks with his dead father...who warns him that Lionel knows his secret. Meanwhile, Lionel continues working to get closer to Martha, and Lex has a near-death vision of his mother.

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  12. Background image for Static
    7.3/10(1.2k votes)

    #11 - Static

    S6:E8

    One of the escapees from the Phantom Zone has killed the crew of a ship in Seattle. Clark confronts the killer who feeds on the bones of his victim. In Smallville, a patient in LuthorCorp Labs escapes experimentation and seeks revenge on Lex by trapping him in a dimension where he can see and hear those around him, but they cannot see him.

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  13. Background image for Trespass
    7.3/10(1.2k votes)

    #12 - Trespass

    S6:E14

    Lana has a stalker which leads her to an unexpected hideout. Also, Chloe has to reevaluate her feelings for Clark after she and Jimmy break up due to Jimmy's belief that she isn't really over Clark.

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    Director:Mike Rohl
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    7.3/10(1.1k votes)

    #13 - Sleeper

    S7:E17

    While Clark seeks out Brainiac to force him to fulfill his side of their bargain and restore Lana, Chloe and Jimmy go up against the government.

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    7.4/10(14 votes)

    #14 - Shimmer

    S1:E10

    Lex and Victoria are victims of a suspected household poltergeist. As the disturbances become more violent, suspicion lands on Amy, the daughter of a house servant who is obsessed with Lex. Not is all as it seems...

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  16. Background image for Reaper
    7.4/10(14 votes)

    #15 - Reaper

    S1:E17

    Tyler gains the power to destroy organic matter with a touch, and resolves to put the dying out of their misery...and Whitney's father is his next target. Meanwhile Lionel and Lex spar over Lionel's rising success in Smallville.

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  17. Background image for Redux
    7.4/10(15 votes)

    #16 - Redux

    S2:E6

    Martha's father William comes to town after many years of estrangement due do his disapproval of Jonathan. Meanwhile Clark must deal with a series of old-age deaths at Smallville High, and the new principal puts his foot down.

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  18. Background image for Lucy
    7.4/10(1.3k votes)

    #17 - Lucy

    S4:E16

    Lucy Lane, Lois' younger sister, comes to Smallville but Clark catches her stealing money from the Talon to pay off a European crime syndicate. Lex offers to help but everything is not what it seems. Meanwhile, a thief breaks into Lana's apartment and steals the crystal, and Jason suspects Lionel.

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    Director:David Barrett
    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for Fanatic
    7.4/10(1.2k votes)

    #18 - Fanatic

    S5:E10

    The Senatorial race between Jonathan and Lex heats up when Jonathan receives an anonymous threat warning him to drop out of the election. When Clark finds Jonathan badly beaten he determines to find the attackers. Lois is thrown into the mix when she is captured and she is forced to assassinate Jonathan during his speech.

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    Director:Mike Rohl
  20. Background image for Hypnotic
    7.4/10(1.3k votes)

    #19 - Hypnotic

    S5:E16

    Clark is hypnotized by a woman who uses a supposedly magical charm to control others - he reveals his super powers and is sent to kill Lex. Meanwhile, Lex has tracked down the missing Professor Fine and plans to confront him, unaware that Clark is coming to murder him.

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  21. Background image for Wither
    7.4/10(1.2k votes)

    #20 - Wither

    S6:E3

    Clark and Chloe pursue a plant creature that uses male humans to recreate, one which has taken Jimmy Olsen as its next human breeding ground. Meanwhile, Oliver Queen asks a reluctant Lois to be his date at a charity ball held by Lex.

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  22. Background image for Fierce
    7.4/10(1.2k votes)

    #21 - Fierce

    S7:E3

    Kara takes to life in Smallville by getting a job at the Talon, and entering the Miss Sweet Corn Pageant as a contestant, overruling Clark's objections. However, Lex takes an interest in her and three of the other contestants discover she has super-powers and decide to use her to steal a valuable time capsule.

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  23. Background image for Witness
    7.5/10(15 votes)

    #22 - Witness

    S2:E20

    Clark runs up against super-strong robbers who are apparently tied to LexCorp. And Chloe begins to ally with Lionel, while Lana and Henry Small bond.

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  24. Background image for Bound
    7.5/10(1.3k votes)

    #23 - Bound

    S4:E9

    Lex is accused of killing a young woman and Clark turns to Lionel for help. Meanwhile, Lana has a dream of her ancestor and a mysterious second woman - a dead ringer for Jason's mother Genevieve, who arrives to visit her son and his new girlfriend.

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  25. Background image for Forever
    7.5/10(1.3k votes)

    #24 - Forever

    S4:E21

    Clark must stop the school photographer after he sets up a fake high school and uses his ability to petrify people to kidnap students - including Chloe and Lana - to keep the glory days of high school going forever. Meanwhile, Lex and Lionel are kidnapped and tortured by the Teagues in an effort to find the Kryptonian artifact, revealing that...Lana has it.

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  26. Background image for Fade
    7.5/10(1.2k votes)

    #25 - Fade

    S5:E20

    Clark saves a man who in gratitude decides to help Clark in return...by using his ability to turn invisible and his skill as a hitman to kill Lex so Clark can reunite with Lana. And Clark and Lana finally square off about Lana's new relationship.

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Thirst" is the worst rated episode of "Smallville". It scored 6.5/10 based on 1450 votes. Directed by Paul Shapiro and written by Steven S. DeKnight, it aired on 10/27/2005. This episode scored 0.5 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Subterranean".