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== Clark's Allies -- Humans ==

 

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A wealthy scientist, Virgil Swann dedicated his life to seeking out and establishing contact with extraterrestrial life. In 1989, he received a transmission from outer space and eventually deciphered it as a message from Krypton telling of the destroyed planet's last survivor, Kal-El.

* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]: His death.

 

 

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]

* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]

 

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* [[The Coroner]]: Frequently gets to examine the bodies of the latest super-powered [[Serial Killer]]'s victims.

* [[Elvis Impersonator]]: {{spoiler|In "Fortune".}} Seriously.

** [[Battlestar Galactica|Gaeta]]?!

* [[Hollywood Nerd]]: Type II. Unlike many examples, however, he at least acts the part.

* {{spoiler|[[Home Porn Movie]]: Films one with [[Evil Genius|Tess]] while drunk.}}

* [[Non-Action Guy]]: Emil has no fighting skills and doesn't pretend to, panicking very easily when threatened with physical violence. He never betrays the team though, even under threat of torture.

* [[No Sense of Humor]]: Often played this way. It's not so much that he's humorless, but that he's a very serious person with no time for jokes.

* [[Pair the Smart Ones]]: With the equally bright (if in a [[Manipulative Bastard|different]] [[The Chessmaster|sort]] [[The Cracker|of]] [[Evil Genius|way]]) {{spoiler|Tess}}.

* [[Secret Keeper]]: For the entire [[Justice League]]. He keeps it in the face of {{spoiler|a VRA interrogation}} to boot.

 

== Clark's Allies -- Other Superheroes ==

 

* [[Action Girl]]

* [[Super Strength]]

 

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A billionaire playboy on the surface, Oliver was orphaned at a young age. This experience, combined with being stranded on an island a few years before the series began, prompted him to become a crimefighter, putting the archery skills he learned on the island to work as the Green Arrow, a leather-clad vigilante, with a sometimes shaky moral code.

Returning briefly in Season 7, Oliver had his secret outed in front of Lois during a battle with [[Black Canary]]. In Season 8, he became a regular cast member. This led to many revelations about his past, including his tortured relationship with [[The Baroness|Tess Mercer]], whom he assists in taking over LuthorCorp. Forced to {{spoiler|kill Lex in "Requiem"}}, Oliver would go on to struggle with an intensification of his already-existing feelings of self-loathing, emptiness and alienation, ultimately resulting in a {{spoiler|[[Driven to Suicide|suicide attempt]]}}. Entering a relationship with {{spoiler|Chloe}} seemed to help snap him out of it, but her disappearance early in Season 10 sent Oliver into another downward spiral. He has since {{spoiler|revealed his identity to the public, had several bad run-ins with the VRA, and resumed his relationship with Chloe}}. When [[Torture Technician|Desaad]] kidnapped her and lied to Oliver about having killed her, Oliver tried to beat the [[Serial Killer]] to death, {{spoiler|resulting in his apparent corruption by [[Big Bad|Darkseid]]. He is eventually freed from this corruption after attacking Clark in the [[Grand Finale]], and defeats the [[Co-Dragons|Disciples of Darkseid]], redeeming himself}}.

 

 

* [[The Alcoholic]]: Oliver's always had a drinking problem, but {{spoiler|in Season 9, he descends into this}}.

** Appropriate, given that intially [[Green Arrow]] was very much [[Poor Man's Substitute|the poor man's Batman.]]

* [[Framed for Heroism]]

** [[Everyone Can See It]]: That they feel for each other much more strongly than that.

* [[Gun Kata]]: Against Lex in Season 7's "Siren".

* [[Hell-Bent for Leather]]

* [[Heroic Self-Deprecation]]: Saying that Oliver hates himself is not an understatement.

* [[I Did What I Had to Do]]: Regarding his murder of {{spoiler|Lex}}.

* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]

* [[Secret Identity Identity]]: Oliver Queen really doesn't exist. Sometimes he's not sure Green Arrow does either.

* [[Secret Relationship]]: With {{spoiler|Chloe}} in Season 9. The relationship is soon discovered by Clark and Lois, though...

* [[Shoot the Dog]]: Seems to be his job description some days.

* [[Vigilante Man]]

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Courtesy of Chloe, after {{spoiler|his murder of Lex}}. He turns it around on her by pointing out that she would have done exactly the same thing.

 

== [[Justice League of America]] ==

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* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Often

* [[Cheap Costume]]: Bart wears sunglasses and a red hoodie with a lightning bolt sewn on. Oliver wears green leather and, again, sunglasses. A.C. dresses in green scuba pants and an orange shirt. Victor wears a silver-grey jumpsuit. Dinah relies on a makeup mask, a [[Hell-Bent for Leather|black leather outfit]] and a wig in her [[Secret Identity]]. Clark, of course, had his red jacket/blue shirt combo (later a black [[Badass Longcoat]]). For bonus points, compare their looks with those of the JSA, who all wear their classic spandex costumes.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: All of them on occasion, but especially Victor.

* [[La Résistance]]: How they see themselves.

* [[Superhero]]: They move closer to the archetype with every episode, but aren't quite there yet, having yet to move into the public eye or wear their classic costumes.

* [[Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters]]: The government considers them terrorists for attacking holding facilities and blowing up Lex's 33.1 installations. The League sees themselves as [[La Résistance|freedom fighters]], keeping people like Lex and Slade Wilson from experimenting on metahumans.

 

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A former thief gifted with [[Super Speed]], Bart first met Clark when he saved Jonathan Kent from being hit by a car... only to immediately pick his pocket. After a rough beginning, he and Clark became friends, and Bart left town looking for other people like themselves. He later returned as a member of the [[Justice League]] and has been a key member ever since, able to respond to crises moments after they begin.

 

* [[Big Eater]]

* [[Gratuitous Spanish]]: In "Justice".

* [[Handsome Lech]]: Of the childish variety.

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: From sneak thief to superhero. Not bad, Bart.

* [[Mythology Gag]]: His fake identities are "Jay Garrick", "Barry Allen" and "Wally West", the first three Flashes from the comics. Bart himself in the comics became the fourth Flash.

* [[Required Secondary Powers]]: He seems to have the "super-stopping" and "resistance to friction" things down.

* [[Smug Super]]: A mild, almost likeable version. Bart's incredibly cocky about his [[Super Speed]], and it tends to get him into trouble.

* [[Super Speed]]: Duh

* [[Wild Mass Guessing]]: So which Flash is he again?

** Likely none of the above; his code name within the series is "Impulse", which coincides with the first alias of the comics' Bart Allen.

 

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* [[Battle Couple]]: With [[Action Girl|Mera]] in Season 10.

* [[Walking Swimsuit Scene]]

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: A.C. bordered on this in his first appearances, what with sinking ships and blowing up factories in order to [[Animal Wrongs Group|save the environment]].

 

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Presumed dead in the car crash that killed his parents and sister, Victor Stone was saved by LuthorCorp and resurrected as part of an experiment in cybernetics. Clark saved him from Lex's men and reunited him with his girlfriend, Katherine. Sometime afterwards, Victor and Katherine broke up, which led to him living on the streets; he was recruited by Oliver, who gave him a place to stay and a reason to keep on going.

 

* [[Genius Bruiser]]: He's their muscle and their computer hacker.

* [[Hollywood Cyborg]]: Was re-built by LuthorCorp after a very nasty accident.

** [[Twofer Token Minority]]: If [[Cyborg]] counts as a minority, then yes.

 

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A right-wing vigilante with a passionate interest in justice, Dinah first appeared in Season 7, when she was hired by Lex Luthor to arrest Green Arrow, whom she believed to be a common criminal. After realizing she was on the wrong side, Dinah joined Oliver's team, helping to fight injustice round the world. She participated in the hunt for Clark in Season 8, helped battle Doomsday and Major Zod, and was most recently seen breaking out of the VRA's virtual prison in Season 10, alongside Clark, Oliver, Chloe and Lois.

* [[Strawman Political]]: Subverted. While her hard-right wing views are mocked by Chloe, Clark and Oliver, the show never dissects them, thus making it impossible to prove her wrong in or out of series.

* [[Stocking Filler]]: Fishnet style.

 

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* [[Alliterative Name]]

* [[The Obi-Wan]]

* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: In his guise as a cop.

* [[Shapeshifter Mode Lock]]: Gets trapped in human form in {{spoiler|Season 8}}.

* [[Superhero Packing Heat]]: Following his [[Shapeshifter Mode Lock]], yes.

* [[Twofer Token Minority]]: Black and a Martian.

 

 

* [[Book Dumb]]: Garth is implied to be this.

* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Have suffered it, courtesy of radical Humanists.

* {{spoiler|[[Gadgeteer Genius]]: Brainiac 5. He's the one behind the Flight Rings and most of their other tech}}.

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: The Legion re-programs {{spoiler|[[Robotic Psychopath|Brainiac]] into [[Gadgeteer Genius|Brainiac 5]]}}.

* [[The Hero]]: Rokk

* [[Human Aliens]]: Imra, Garth, and Rokk all look pretty darn human.

* [[Kuudere]]: Imra comes off like [[The Stoic]] thanks to her [[Telepathy]], but as the episode shows, she really does have a heart in there.

* [[Mythology Gag]]: Garth asks Clark to sign a baseball for his sister. Those who've read the Legion comics know that she's Light Lass, one of the other Legionnaires.

* [[Redheaded Hero]]: Garth

* [[Shock and Awe]]: Garth, again.

** [[Mind Probe]]: Although it backfires horribly against Brainiac.

* [[Thou Shalt Not Kill]]: Pick it up from Clark.

 

 

* [[Alliterative Name]]

* [[Stocking Filler]]

 

 

* [[Action Girl]]: Stargirl

* [[Cute Bruiser]]: Stargirl

* [[Dawson Casting]]: Britt Irvin was born in 1984. She plays a high-school sophomore. To be fair to Miss Irvin, she doesn't do a bad impression of a teenager.

* [[Dying Moment of Awesome]]: {{spoiler|Hawkman. He fights Slade, is mortally wounded and set on fire, yet still flies to Lois' rescue before going out like the [[Badass]] he is.}}

* [[Glass Cannon]]: Doctor Fate's a [[Reality Warper]], but goes down in one hit. He does seem to be a bit of a [[Death Seeker]], though.

* [[The Gwen Stacy]]: {{spoiler|Hawkgirl}}

* [[Happily Married]]: For all their issues, Carter and Shayera.

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Doctor Fate sacrifices his own life to restore [[Martian Manhunter]]'s powers.}}

** {{spoiler|Hawkman in "Icarus".}}

* [[You Look Familiar]]: Jim Shield, who played Sylvester Pemberton aka The Star-Spangled Kid, previously played Ryan James' abusive step-dad in Season 1's "Stray".

 

 

* [[Action Girl]]

* [[Making a Splash]]

* [[No Social Skills]]: Whatsoever.

* [[Satellite Character]]: Her role in the plot revolves around being A.C./Orin/Aquaman's wife.

* [[Smug Super]]: Mocked Lois for not having powers, and said she couldn't understand what Arthur, Oliver and Clark saw in her. Mera gets over herself when Lois helps them defeat [[General Ripper|Slade]].

* [[Strange Girl]]: Not that A.C. seems to mind.

 

 

* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]: Or at least assholes.

* [[Throwing the Fight]]: Booster deliberately lost matches for the money. In doing so, he also lost his sports career and all of his fans.

 

 

* [[Hollywood Nerd]]

* [[Power Armor]]: The Blue Beetle armor.