Originally Posted by
John Venus
Smallville is when Superman felt the most Spider-man-like to me. Interestingly the creators of Smallville, Alfred Gough and Miles Miller would also go on to write the screen play for Spider-man 2 so the parallels may have been intentional.
On Smallville, Lana was Clark's 'Gwen Stacey', Lois felt like his 'Mary Jane' while Chloe was actually closer to comic book Lana Lang in being a reporter who helped Clark. The Lionel/Lex dynamic mirrored the Norman/Harry dynamic and Clark/Lex relationship had parallels with Peter/Harry relationship. Clark being a superhero in Smallville, albeit a secretive one, was from Superboy. Instead of 'responsibility', Clark was burdened by 'destiny' and his attempts to avoid his destiny ends up backfiring on him, much like it does for Peter. Clark even quits being his superhero self a few times. He lost his powers at the start of season 5 and when Tom Welling returned for the Crisis crossover, he had chosen to give up his powers and live a normal lives. He even has two kids (two daughters) , meanwhile Peter in MC2 has two kids (daughter and son).