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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 his destiny as the Man of Steel.

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Smallville Season 6 Episode 20 - Noir
    7.1/10(12 votes)

    #1 - 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.

    Director:Jeannot Szwarc
    Writers:Brian Peterson, Kelly Souders

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  2. Smallville Season 2 Episode 5 - Nocturne
    7.2/10(19 votes)

    #2 - 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.

    Director:Rick Wallace
    Writers:Brian Peterson, Kelly Souders

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  3. Smallville Season 6 Episode 14 - Trespass
    7.2/10(12 votes)

    #3 - 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.

    Director:Mike Rohl
    Writer:Tracy Bellomo

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  4. Smallville Season 5 Episode 5 - Thirst
    7.3/10(14 votes)

    #4 - 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.

    Director:Paul Shapiro
    Writer:Steven S. DeKnight

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  5. Smallville Season 6 Episode 9 - Subterranean
    7.3/10(14 votes)

    #5 - 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.

    Director:Rick Rosenthal
    Writer:Caroline Dries

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  6. Smallville Season 7 Episode 3 - Fierce
    7.3/10(14 votes)

    #6 - 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.

    Director:Whitney Ransick
    Writer:Holly Harold

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  7. Smallville Season 1 Episode 2 - Metamorphosis
    7.4/10(27 votes)

    #7 - Metamorphosis

    S1:E2

    Clark must deal with Greg, a nerdish bug collector with a crush on Lana who gains the ability of various insects and uses them to lash out at anyone who opposes him.

    Directors:Michael W. Watkins, Philip Sgriccia
    Writers:Miles Millar, Alfred Gough

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  8. Smallville Season 1 Episode 10 - Shimmer
    7.4/10(17 votes)

    #8 - 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...

    Director:D.J. Caruso
    Writers:Mark Verheiden, Michael Green

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  9. Smallville Season 1 Episode 17 - Reaper
    7.4/10(16 votes)

    #9 - 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.

    Director:Terrence O'Hara
    Writer:Cameron Litvack

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  10. Smallville Season 1 Episode 18 - Drone
    7.4/10(16 votes)

    #10 - 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.

    Director:Michael Katleman
    Writers:Michael Green, Philip Levens

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  11. Smallville Season 3 Episode 7 - Magnetic
    7.4/10(17 votes)

    #11 - 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.

    Director:David Jackson
    Writer:Holly Harold

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  12. Smallville Season 1 Episode 3 - Hothead
    7.5/10(21 votes)

    #12 - Hothead

    S1:E3

    An abusive and hot-tempered football coach gains the ability to control and project fire.

    Director:Greg Beeman
    Writer:Greg Walker

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  13. Smallville Season 2 Episode 6 - Redux
    7.5/10(17 votes)

    #13 - 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.

    Director:Chris Long
    Writers:Garrett Lerner, Russel Friend

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  14. Smallville Season 4 Episode 16 - Lucy
    7.5/10(13 votes)

    #14 - 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.

    Director:David Barrett
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Smallville Season 7 Episode 13 - Hero
    7.5/10(14 votes)

    #15 - 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.

    Director:Mike Rohl
    Writers:Todd Helbing, Aaron Helbing

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  16. Smallville Season 10 Episode 3 - Supergirl
    7.5/10(15 votes)

    #16 - Supergirl

    S10:E3

    Clark is stunned when Kara returns to Earth and tells him Jor El sent her to stop the dark force that is coming because he doesn’t believe Clark can handle it. Meanwhile, Lois confronts Gordon Godfrey, a shock jock radio DJ who has been crusading against heroes, after he threatens the Green Arrow. However, after Godfrey is possessed by the dark force, he takes Lois hostage and Clark and Kara have to come to her rescue.

    Director:Mairzee Almas
    Writer:Anne Cofell Saunders

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  17. Smallville Season 1 Episode 13 - Kinetic
    7.6/10(16 votes)

    #17 - Kinetic

    S1:E13

    Whitney falls in with some former jocks who have kryptonite tattoos that give them the power to walk through walls. Meanwhile, Chloe is seriously injured and Lex has his own plans.

    Director:Robert Singer
    Writer:Philip Levens

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  18. Smallville Season 2 Episode 20 - Witness
    7.6/10(16 votes)

    #18 - 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.

    Director:Rick Wallace
    Writer:Mark Verheiden

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  19. Smallville Season 6 Episode 8 - Static
    7.6/10(12 votes)

    #19 - 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.

    Director:James L. Conway
    Writers:Shintaro Shimosawa, James Morris

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  20. Smallville Season 8 Episode 3 - Toxic
    7.6/10(13 votes)

    #20 - Toxic

    S8:E3

    When Oliver is poisoned, he starts having flashbacks to the period when he gained his archery skills... and met Tess. Meanwhile, Chloe has to make a decision which surprises Clark.

    Director:Mairzee Almas
    Writer:Caroline Dries

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  21. Smallville Season 1 Episode 4 - X-Ray
    7.7/10(20 votes)

    #21 - X-Ray

    S1:E4

    Clark begins experiencing "vision problems" as his x-ray vision begins manifesting. Meanwhile a mysterious shapeshifter is going about town using his or her abilities to steal and get others in trouble.

    Director:James Frawley
    Writer:Mark Verheiden

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  22. Smallville Season 1 Episode 14 - Zero
    7.7/10(17 votes)

    #22 - Zero

    S1:E14

    A man from Lex's past stalks him in conjunction with a mysterious death at Club Zero that Lex may have been responsible for. Meanwhile Chloe looks into Clark's past as an adopted child.

    Director:Michael Katleman
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Smallville Season 2 Episode 19 - Precipice
    7.7/10(16 votes)

    #23 - Precipice

    S2:E19

    After Lana is almost assaulted by a college student, Clark injures the boy while helping her. When the Kents are sued for damages that could cost them the farm, Clark tries to find a way out of the lawsuit. Meanwhile, Helen's obsessive ex-boyfriend comes to Smallville to win her back but when she turns him down, he stabs her, prompting Lex to take the law into his own hands.

    Director:Thomas J. Wright
    Writer:Clint Carpenter

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  24. Smallville Season 3 Episode 3 - Extinction
    7.7/10(18 votes)

    #24 - Extinction

    S3:E3

    Clark discovers someone is hunting people affected by the kryptonite rocks and the killer's next target is Lex. Clark uses his powers to save Lex, but is caught off guard when the killer learns his weakness and shoots him with a kryptonite bullet.

    Director:Michael Katleman
    Writers:Todd Slavkin, Darren Swimmer

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  25. Smallville Season 6 Episode 3 - Wither
    7.7/10(10 votes)

    #25 - 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.

    Director:Whitney Ransick
    Writer:Tracy Bellomo

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Noir" is the worst rated episode of "Smallville". It scored 7.1/10 based on 12 votes. Directed by Jeannot Szwarc and written by Brian Peterson, Kelly Souders, it aired on 5/3/2007. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Nocturne".