Smallville Season 9 Episode 12: Warrior

This week, everyone in Smallville/Metropolis just happens to be hanging out at a Comic Book/Sci-Fi convention.  Lois Lane is on assignment, clunking around in a Storm Trooper costume. Yet, she still makes time to encourage Chloe to stop obsessing with her ridiculously bulky brick of a phone and start prowling for dates again. Sheesh, it hasn’t even been a year since Henry “Jimmy” Olsen has been cold in the ground or since Chloe stopped boinking Doomsday on the side. Good call, Lois.   

Meanwhile, a 12-year old kid named Alec Abrams steals a collector’s comic that’s under lock and key in a glass case entitled “Warrior Angel.”  After speaking aloud the words “Angel’s Might,” Alec turns into a super hero, just like Warrior Angel.  And also like the comic book superhero, the protagonist is really just a kid who, after speaking the magic words aloud, is transformed.  (This seems to be Smallville’s continuation of nods to the DC Universe, with Warrior Angel being eerily similar to “Shazam.”