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Before the first episode of Smallville this year, there was a group attempting to get the term #Smallville to be listed as one of the top 10 trending topics on the Twitter homepage. So I decided to do my part to help out. So I started preparing posts to make about Smallville. I thought I would combine those Twitter posts and post them below.

Some of the punctuation may be off a bit, but chalk that up to the fact that I had to keep my posts under 140 characters for Twitter. Each line below represents a separate post on Twitter, and each one needed to include "#Smallville" in order to help get the term to trend. I did not include the "re-tweets" that I added as the night went along.

Apologies to those who don't care, but I'm going to help #Smallville trend on Twitter tonight, which will require multiple posts.

So I'll be posting up with several different tweets all with #Smallville in them somewhere. I've been planning this for four days.

The last time I helped #Smallville trend was in November, which was a big episode, and the last episode of the year (We suceeded!)

#Smallville and #Mythbusters are my 2 favorite shows on TV. I also like #Heroes and #DirtyJobs with Mike Rowe.

#Smallville #FollowFriday @kryptonsite @sv_awareness @SHoEpodcast @CW_Smallville @SV_Writers @cmhoughton

Tonight marks the first new #Smallville of the year (and the decade), and a return after more than two months off.

#Smallville airs on the CW at 8 p.m. Eastern Friday nights (that's tonight!) That would be channel 4 WTTV here in Central Indiana.

For those not aware, #Smallville is a action-adventure/drama TV show about a young Clark Kent before he takes on the Superman persona.

Clark Kent is currently about 23 years old in #Smallville, although the actor who plays him is actually 32

Clark's birth planet is Krypton, and his birth name is Kal-El. We have seen Krypton a few times on #Smallville, even though it was destroyed

The name #Smallville comes from the DC comics and is the name of the town in Kansas were Clark Kent grew up

Earlier seasons took place almost entirely in the town of #Smallville, but lately they have spent most of their time in Metropolis

#Smallville stars Tom Welling as Clark Kent, Erica Durance as Lois Lane, Allison Mack as original character Chloe Sullivan

#Smallville also stars Justin Hartley as DC hero Green Arrow/Oliver Queen and Callum Blue as DC villain Major Zod

The final current regular character on #Smallville this season is original character Tess Mercer, played by Cassidy Freeman

Clark Kent and Chloe Sullivan are the only 2 #Smallville regular characters left from the first season. Lois Lane was added in season 4.

Past regular #Smallville characters included Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum), Lana Lang (Kristen Kruek), Henry "Jimmy" Olsen (Aaron Ashmore)

Martha Kent, Clark's adoptive mother will make a return visit later this season on #Smallville. She was played by Annette O'Toole.

The character of Jonathan Kent died of a heart attack in season 5 in #Smallville. He was played by John Schneider, from Dukes of Hazzard.

Side note: One #Smallville season 5 episode reunited John Schnieder with Dukes' co-star Tom Wopat and a 1969 Dodge Charger.

Tonight's #Smallville episode will feature Elise Gatien as DC sidekick Mia Deardon/Speedy and Steve Bacic as DC villain Dark Archer

#Smallville is currently in its 9th season, and there are strong indications it will be back for a 10th season, although that's not offcial

Of course, the big #Smallville event is the two-hour TV movie scheduled for next week (Feb. 5) at 8 - "Smallville: Absolute Justice".

The #Smallville movie will feature Clark meeting several members of the Justice Society of America

Characters expected on next week's #Smallville include DC heroes Doctor Fate, Stargirl, and Hawkman, with several additional references.

The #Smallville TV movie was written by comics writer Geoff Johns, who wrote an episode last year featuring the Legion of Superheroes.

Previous DC heroes to be on #Smallville include Flash, Aquaman, Cyborg, Zantanna, Black Canary, Supergirl and Martian Manhunter.

DC has not allowed Batman to be on #Smallville yet, although Green Arrow is a similar character in many ways.

Previous DC villains on #Smallville include Lex Luthor, Doomsday, Brainiac, Toyman, Maxima, Metallo, Morgan Edge, and Mxyzptlk

#Smallville first aired in 2001 and originally had Clark Kent as a freshman in high school

At that time on #Smallville, Clark had the powers of speed, strength, and invulnerability. Other powers have been added over the years.

Clark in #Smallville has most of Superman's powers except a big one... he is unable to fly, although he did fly once in season 4.

More traits that Clark lacks in #Smallville is he doesn't wear glasses, nor does he have a cape.

#Smallville typically had Clark dress in red, blue and/or yellow, but this season, he has spent a lot of time in black

I don't care for Clark's black look in #Smallville It makes him look too much like Batman

Last season on #Smallville Clark was caught on camera saving a person, but he was moving so fast, he only showed up as a blur

#Smallville consequently gave him the nickname "The Red-Blue Blur", since that is all the picture showed

Before then, most of Clark's saves on #Smallville were attributed to coincidences, lucky breaks, and miracles.

This season on #Smallville, since he isn't wearing red and blue anymore, he is known simply as "The Blur"

Lois Lane and Clark Kent are both working at the Daily Planet in #Smallville although they aren't the star reporters yet.

One season-long story arc in #Smallville involves a group of Kryptonians on Earth who have lost their powers. They are led by Major Zod.

Zod in #Smallville is becoming obsessed with getting the powers they should have, and sees Clark as the key.

#Smallville introduced Green Arrow in season 6, although he was only an occasional character until last season, when he was made a regular.

Green Arrow seemingly killed #Smallville villain Lex Luthor last season. He has been feeling very guilty about that this season.

I have a feeling that the guilt Green Arrow feels will be a factor heavily in tonight's #Smallville episode.

Green Arrow's secret identity is Oliver Queen, whose billionaire parents died when he was a child, as seen in the #Smallville pilot episode

Green Arrow doesn't have any superpowers, but he dresses in green and uses many different specialty arrows on #Smallville.

I've been watching #Smallville since the pilot episode, and I own the first seven seasons on DVD

There have been several actors on #Smallville with previous connections to Superman

Former #Smallville regular Annette O'Toole played Clark's high school crush Lana Lang in the movie Superman III.

Christopher Reeve, who was Superman in four movies, was on #Smallville for 2 episodes in seasons 2 and 3 before his death.

Margot Kidder, who was Lois Lane in four movies, was in two #Smallville season 4 epsiodes. Her character was killed off.

Dean Cain, who was Clark in the Lois & Clark TV series in the 1990s, was on an episode of #Smallville in season 7. Maybe he'll return

Terrance Stamp, who played Gen. Zod in the first two movies, has a recurring role as the voice of Clark's biological father in #Smallville

Marc McClure, who played Jimmy Olsen in the four Superman films and the Supergirl film, also was on #Smallville in season 7.

Helen Slater, who was Supergirl in the movie of the same name, played Lara, Clarks biological mother, on #Smallville in season 7

Michael Ironside, who voiced Superman villain Darkseid in the 1990s animated series, played Lois Lane's father in #Smallville.

Another superhero connection, Lynda Carter, who was Wonder Woman from the TV series, played Chloe's mom on #Smallville in season 6.

Some big things are planned for the remainder of the #Smallville season, although none bigger than next week's 2-hour movie.

Michael McKean is scheduled to return to #Smallville as Perry White. White is known in the comics as the editor of the Daily Planet.

Perry White was last seen on #Smallville back in season 3, although his byline has been shown a few times since then.

The DC hero Zantanna is scheduled to return to #Smallville in a couple of weeks. Her first appearance was last season.

Pam Grier will be on several upcoming #Smallville episodes as DC character Amanda Waller.

Brian Austin Green, who played DC villain Metallo in 2 episodes earlier this season, will be returning later in the season.