Summary

• Smallville featured its fair share of weird and filler episodes.
• Jimmy Olsen's character was cheapened when his younger brother was revealed to be the real Jimmy.
• Smallville had several bizarre storylines, such as Lana becoming a vampire and Lana, Chloe, and Lois being possessed by witches.

Despite great stories and characters, Smallville's ten seasons included several exciting original characters, such as Lionel Luthor, Chloe Sullivan, Tess Mercer, and more, as well as a number of iconic characters from the pages of DC Comics, with some names being Lois Lane, Green Arrow, Aquaman, and Lex Luthor.

While Smallville did include exciting characters and introduce new additions to the Superman mythos, the series ended up suffering from a problem that impacts any long-running show. As the seasons went by, it became clear that Smallville was stretching its story at points, which led to many filler episodes over the years. While some of those stories led to fun events or much-needed opportunities for character development, there were multiple instances of Smallville introducing truly bizarre stories that made little sense. Those kinds of episodes, added with a few major decisions, led to 10 weird storylines making their way onto Smallville.

10 Jimmy Olsen Was Not Actually Jimmy Olsen

Season 8, Episode 22 & Season 10, Episode 22

Aaron Ashmore first appeared as Jimmy Olsen in Smallville season 6. Ashmore would then return for seasons 7 and 8 as a series regular. During his time on the show, Jimmy would develop a close bond with many of Smallville's central characters, even going on to fall deeply in love with Chloe Sullivan, marrying her before they ended up divorcing and reconciling. However, Jimmy would die in the season 8 finale, with Smallville surprisingly revealing that his younger brother was the actual Jimmy Olsen from the comics, which cheapened the role of Ashmore's character — though the actor played the real Jimmy in the series finale.

9 Lana Lang And Lex Luthor’s Relationship

Season 5 & Season 6

While the will-they-or-won't-they between Lana and Clark would grow tiresome over the series, Smallville managed to outdo that by having Lana in a truly awful relationship with none other than Lex Luthor. The story was incredibly weird and one of the worst plot points of the show. While Lex was a complex character, the fact that he lied to Lana by injecting her with huge doses of hormones to make her believe she was pregnant with their child, and thus not leave him for Clark, was terrible. Lex and Lana also married after Lionel Luthor blackmailed her into doing so or he would kill Clark.

8 Pete Ross Gets Elastic Powers From Radioactive Gum

Season 7, Episode 13

Sam Jones III's Pete Ross was Clark Kent's best friend at the start of the series. The character was part of the show during its high school years, with Pete leaving the series at the end of season 3. Fans kept asking for the character to return; however, when Smallville brought Pete back during season 7, it was for one of the series' worst episodes. Pete weirdly got elastic powers due to chewing on a Kryptonite-laced piece of gum. The whole episode felt more like an ad for Stride Gum than the actual heartfelt reunion fans wanted to see Pete and Clark have.

7 Smallville Goes Noir Over Who Shot Lana Lang

Season 6, Episode 20

"Noir" is a clear case of Smallville doing a filler episode. The story saw the series switch tones by picturing a black and white world where Jimmy Olsen's fantasy saw Clark, Lana, and the rest of the gang get turned into film noir stereotypes. Although there is some fun to be had in the episode, the mystery of who shot Lana Lang would have been better served with a healthy dose of direct Smallville reality rather than an entire episode that saw the show switch tropes drastically for seemingly no reason.

6 Clark & Lana Find A Baby That Ages Incredibly Fast

Season 4, Episode 20

Clark and Lana's relationship was not going so well at this point in season 4, so Smallville found a way to have the duo grow closer again: They raised a baby. Clark and Lana found an abandoned baby and took the infant in. However, the bizarre twist was that the baby stored energy at an alarming rate and then expelled it in a major burst, which translated to Evan growing rapidly. In a day, Evan went from a baby to a seven-year-old. That would continue until Evan released a burst of energy so big that he killed himself, while Clark could do nothing but keep him company.

5 Clark’s Time In Smallville High Almost Lasts Forever Thanks To A Villain

Season 4, Episode 21

Smallville spent four seasons with Clark getting to learn and control his powers while still in high school. While Clark and the rest of his friends were ready to move on from Smallville High at the end of season 4, one of the show's villains was not. High school photographer Brendan Nash set up a fake version of the school and used his power to petrify people to keep the students there in an effort to stop his time at high school ending. The story was ridiculous and proved that Smallville's early seasons' "villain of the week" method was running thin.

4 Lana Lang Becomes A Vampire

Season 5, Episode 5

Despite running for many seasons, Smallville was mostly good throughout its run. That said, "Thirst" was not one of the show's best episodes, and it focused on one of the series' most bizarre plot points. The story saw Lana become a vampire after ing a sorority in college. That was completely out of the blue, as Smallville had never really dealt with elements such as vampirism. Lana going after Clark's blood made for one of the weirdest and worst stories in Smallville.

3 Lana, Chloe, And Lois Are Possessed By Witches

Season 4, Episode 8

Smallville's supernatural forays did not start with Lana becoming a vampire. In fact, that was not even Lana's first transformation, as the character had previously been inhabited by an old witch a season before. After coming into with a spell book from the 1600s, Lana gets possessed by the spirit of an old ancestor, Countess Margaret Isobel Thoreaux. Another two witches also took over Chloe and Lois' bodies, leading to one of Smallville's most absurd stories.

2 Lana Calls Clark From The Future

Season 3, Episode 16

One of the most bizarre stories from Smallville came when Clark got a frantic call from Lana just as she was about to get shot. While there was nothing Clark could do to save her fast enough, he was puzzled to rush over and find out that Lana was safe and sound. Throughout the episode, it would be revealed that Lana's call actually came from the future, with the reason for why that was possible being that Lana made a call in the middle of the rain and some electric wires short-circuited next to pieces of the meteor shower, and thus the Kryptonite made the time traveling call possible.

1 Amy Adams’ Character Needs To Drink People’s Fat To Survive

Season 1, Episode 7

Years before she would get the chance to carve her place in the Superman mythos by playing Lois Lane in Man of Steel and the DCEU, Amy Adams appeared in a minor villain role in Smallville's first season. Adams' Jodi Melville came at a time when everyone in the series was getting weird powers due to the meteor shower, and somehow, the character got the most bizarre of them. By drinking a vegetable shake that had been tainted by Kryptonite, Jodi started to lose weight at an alarming rate, only being able to counter that by sucking other people's fat. That resulted in what might be Smallville's most bizarre story.

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  2026-10-02