Smallville's Secret Easter Eggs Were A Perfect Superman Trick
Over its ten-season run, Smallville included several Superman Easter eggs, which helped the series establish its place within the wider Superman mythos. Smallville was conceived to explore Clark Kent's formative years leading up to him taking to the skies as Superman. Over its ten-season run from 2002 to 2011, Smallville introduced many of DC's heroes and villains, and while the show's core tenet was that Clark would never officially become Superman, it was able to show an impressive amount of reverence for its source material nonetheless.
As Smallville addresses Superman's origin, it naturally includes many aspects of the character's history. However, the series also took some creative liberties with its aforementioned source material, such as introducing numerous original characters and having Clark Kent (Tom Welling) and Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum) be best friends. While these differences set Smallville apart from many other Superman stories, the show was also packed with Easter eggs that prove it deserves its place within the Superman canon.
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Smallville's Superman Easter eggs are peppered throughout the show's ten seasons and, in many ways, shaped the show itself. Some are barely perceptible nods to pieces of behind-the-scenes Superman trivia, while others are more overt references to Superman himself or his supporting characters. The nature of Smallville's many Easter eggs actually improved the show's credibility among the more skeptical part of its audience, helping boost the show's status as a true origin story for Superman.
Throughout Smallville's run, some of its most commonly-used Superman references came in the form of vague
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