Michael John Petty is a Senior Features Writer for Collider who writes mostly about Westerns but also loves superheroes and supernatural thrillers.
The Big Picture Having run for 10 years in the early 2000s, first on The WB and then later on the newly-formed The CW, Smallville has had a lasting impact on both television and the live-action superhero genre. In many ways, Tom Welling's Clark Kent paved the way for other comic book heroes to find new life on the small screen, and as a result, we experienced a boom in comic book-inspired television throughout the 2010s.
While Clark doesn't have much family around growing up, he occasionally writes to his maternal grandfather, William Clark , though he never receives a response. William does appear in Season 2's "Redux," but never takes a particular interest in Clark's life, especially given that he never approved of his daughter's choice of a husband . On the other side of the Kent family tree, Jonathan's parents, Hiram and Jessica Kent , die before Clark ever made it to Earth.
Additionally, Clark's paternal uncle, Zor-El , becomes an enemy of the House of El later in life, conspiring with General Zod to destroy Krypton. Decades later, Zor-El's clone would fail to murder Clark. But Zor-El does one good thing in life, and that is save his daughter Kara Zor-El from Krypton's end. Though Kara arrives on Earth at the same time as Clark, she is frozen in stasis for decades until she is freed.
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