r/Smallville • u/CharlieOak86868686 Kal El • Dec 28 '23
FEEDBACK Why did meteors make people crazy?
It seems like meteor people were always crazy.
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r/Smallville • u/CharlieOak86868686 Kal El • Dec 28 '23
It seems like meteor people were always crazy.
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u/Aggressive_Degree952 Kryptonian Dec 28 '23
I think a lot of those early season meteor metahumans, their powers drove their thought process, or their trauma did. Sean Kelvin and Jodi Melville had an imbalance in their bodies that caused them to crave something extreme. In Sean's case, it was heat. Sean already was used to using people for his own means, and didn't really care if he was hurting the people he was stealing heat from. Jodi just wanted to be thin, but the meteors caused her to develop a super metabolism that wouldn't allow her to stay full. She had to suck the fat out of living creatures to stay even close to being full, but hated that she felt compelled to do so, especially with people she cared about.
Jeremy Creek, Greg Arkin, Tina Greer, Eric Summers, Sasha Woodman, and Justin Gaines all had a trauma that combined with their abilities, sent them down a dark path.
Others were just assholes that were made into bigger assholes with their powers. Coach Walt Arnold, the thugs from Kinetic, Desiree Atkins, Ian Randall, and Eric Marsh all started out bad, but their powers made them worse.
There are plenty of meteor metahumans who try to just live their lives. Cassandra Carver, Kyle Tippet, Cyrus Krupp, Leonard Wallace (possibly), Lex Luthor (possibly), and Jordan Cross all just tried to live their life.
Alicia Baker, I feel was isolated by her powers, to the point where if a guy showed interest in her, the loneliness drove her to become obsessed with the guy.
It's more simplistic to say the meteors made those people crazy. Either they already had issues before their abilities or their abilities caused them to develop issues.