Smallville

Before he was a hero, he was an ordinary boy with extraordinary abilities. Smallville is a fictional TV series based on Superman's life as a teenager. Smallville is a fictional town in the United States, where an ordinary boy Clark Kent grows up to be Superman. This is the town where most of his crime-fighting adventures take place and where he spends his childhood and teenage years before moving to Metropolis. A meteor shower in 1989 caused destruction to the unsuspecting citizens of the pleasant town of Smallville, Kansas. Smallville is a friendly town with friendly people, but an unusually high crime rate. After a tragic childhood, Clark finally reaches his teens and tries to decipher the meaning of life and his dark past, an age where he realizes his duties and responsibilities towards his people, an age that all his enemies awaited all this while. For all these years his parents had been hiding a secret that he was not born but found inside a spaceship when the meteor hit the town. Now in his teens, Clark Kent learns about his superpowers and understands his true calling; but before he understands any further he has to make it through adolescence. As Clark struggles through the transition from boyhood to adulthood, his strange abilities and strength sets him apart from his peers. He struggles to come to terms with his rising super powers and the various forms and effects of kryptonite. Noted residents of Smallville town include the Kent family, Lana Lang, Chloe Sullivan, Pete Ross and police Chief Parker. Smallville's economy mainly consists of locally owned businesses, surrounded by farms. The plot moves on to an interesting twist where Clark realizes the criminal involvement of best friend Lex Luthor's father in the criminal activities that had plagued Smallville; he finally begins to accept his destiny and works towards becoming 'the Man of Steel'.