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Before the legend...before the icon...there was a teenager named Clark Kent. Someday, he'll master his powers and understand his true calling. For now, he just has to get through adolescence. Unlike his grown up counterpart, Clark doesn't wear glasses, there's no suit and he can't fly. Between the boy he thought he was and the man he is destined to become are the stories of Smallville.

Twelve years ago, a meteor shower burst from the heavens, raining destruction on the unsuspecting citizens of Smallville, Kansas. The intervening years have left the town's inhabitants with scars and secrets. From the ashes of tragedy, Clark Kent grows into an awkward teen. While adolescence always brings its challenges, Clark's transition from boyhood to adulthood is particularly difficult. He must come to grips with his emerging superpowers — and the effects of Kryptonite — while battling the strange things that have plagued this idyllic Midwest hamlet since the meteor shower.

The guardians of Clark's secret identity are his adoptive parents, Jonathan and Martha Kent. In the aftermath of the meteor shower, they discovered his crashed spacecraft in a cornfield and took him in as their own. As a result of his otherworldly origins, Clark often feels truly alone, like an outsider looking in. Even his best friends, Pete Ross and Chloe Sullivan, are in the dark about Clark's powers.

Lana Lang is the untouchable girl next door, the girl Clark worships from afar. Although she feels a strange kinship to Clark, Lana doesn't know much about him, especially the fact that he blames himself for her parents' tragic death in the meteor shower so many years ago. A true beauty and one of the most popular girls in school, Lana dates Smallville's resident heartthrob and high school quarterback, all-around golden boy Whitney Fordman. Clark's yearning to talk to Lana is complicated by the meteor fragment that she wears as a necklace. Whenever he gets near her, the green stone causes him to become literally weak in the knees.

Clark forges a remarkable new friendship with Lex Luthor, although neither has an inkling of how their destinies will ultimately collide. Bald from exposure to the meteor shower when he was a child, Lex returns to Smallville after college to help turn around the family company's struggling fertilizer plant. After Clark saves Lex's life in a death-defying rescue, the two become friends. Clark looks up to Lex as the big brother he never had, and Lex is surprised that this small-town boy is someone he can actually trust. The ill-fated friendship causes tension in the close-knit Kent family, as Jonathan fears Lex may take after his ruthless tycoon father.

With realistic portrayals and state-of-the-art special effects, Smallville reinterprets the Superman mythology from its roots. Smallville was developed for television by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, based on the DC Comics characters. The executive producers are Gough, Millar, Mike Tollin, Brian Robbins and Joe Davola. SUPERMAN was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster