Smallville/YMMV: Difference between revisions

*** In Chloe/Clark shipper fics or Chlois Theory fics, poor Lois will often be made out to be some kind of [[The Ditz|ditzy]] alcoholic and [[Memetic Slut]] who doesn't "deserve" the identity of Lois Lane. She will then bumble her way to an embarassing death at the hands of the [[Big Bad]], or occasionally (in the more extreme fics) even turn out to be the [[Big Bad]]'s evil [[Dragon]] sidekick, in which case she will be unceremoniously defeated and banished to the Phantom Zone. Chloe will then assume the identity of "Lois Lane" (for... some reason) and becomes the reporter character we know from the comics. Naturally the Chlois Theory and all related fanfics are ''extremely'' far from canon.

*** Even '''Clark''' gets this treatment very often in fanfic. That's right folks: the future ''[[Superman]]'' often gets made out to be a [[Complete Monster]] in fanfic, usually in fics that involve Chloe shipping with Lex, Ollie or Davis. These fanfics often bash on Clark for [[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?|committing the horrible crime of seeing Chloe as *gasp* just a friend and not a love interest.]] Apparently, Clark deciding that he and Chloe are [[Better As Friends]] is enough to justify portraying Clark as a borderline retarded, selfish, and sniveling asshole who genuinely ''wants'' to make Chloe as miserable as possible. Chloe will then rush into the waiting arms of Lex/Davis/etc., who will usually get ''heavy'' [[Draco in Leather Pants]] treatment. Naturally, this is the ''farthest'' thing from canon. In the show's actual canon, Clark is a genuinely nice person (and [[The Cape]] in fact) who cares deeply about Chloe (as his best friend) and shares a [[Like Brother and Sister]] relationship with her from Season 5 onwards... but don't tell that to the shippers.

* [[The Scrappy]]/[[Creator's Pet]]: Lana. No matter how irrelevant her plot lines were, or how annoying the fans found her, she kept getting more and more screen time, until Seasons 4 through 6 were nicknamed "Lanaville" by the fans. The writers arguably kept the character on board way past the point of her usefulness to the plot, and in the case of Al Gough and Miles Millar even seemed to care more about Lana than any other character (even Clark). It really says something that in the DVD commentary, co-creators Gough and Millar actually declare that "she is the true magic of the show."

** Apparently it came out that Gough and Millar actually did the casting for Lana ''before they did the casting for Clark.'' That is all.