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| Aliases = The [[Red Queen]], Senator Kent |
| Aliases = The [[Red Queen]], Senator Kent |
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| Identity = Public |
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| Alignment = Good |
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| − | | Affiliation = [[LuthorCorp]] |
+ | | Affiliation = United States Senate; formerly [[LuthorCorp]], [[Kent Farm]], [[Talon (Smallville)|The Talon]] |
| − | | Relatives = [[Jonathan Kent (Smallville)|Jonathan Kent]] (husband, deceased)<br> [[Kal-El (Smallville)|Clark Kent]] ( |
+ | | Relatives = [[Jonathan Kent (Smallville)|Jonathan Kent]] (husband, deceased)<br> [[Kal-El (Smallville)|Clark Kent]] (adoptive son)<br> [[William Clark (Smallville)|William Clark]] (father)<br> [[Hiram Kent (Smallville)|Hiram Kent]] (father-in-law, deceased)<br> [[Jessica Kent (Smallville)|Jessica Kent]] (mother-in-law, deceased)<br>[[LX-15 (Smallville)|Conner Kent]] (adoptive nephew) |
| − | | Universe = Smallville |
+ | | Universe = Smallville (TV Series) |
| − | | BaseOfOperations = [[Washington, D.C.]]; formerly [[Smallville |
+ | | BaseOfOperations = [[Washington, D.C.]]; formerly [[Smallville, Kansas]] |
| Gender = Female |
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| MaritalStatus = Widowed |
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| − | | Occupation = United States senator; former state senator; former |
+ | | Occupation = United States senator; former state senator; former farmer; former barrista; former administrative assistant |
| − | | Education = Attended night classes at an unidentified college |
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| − | | PlaceOfBirth = [[Metropolis]], [[Kansas]] |
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| First = Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Pilot |
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+ | | Last = Smallville Season 11: Continuity Vol 1 4 |
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| − | | HistoryText = Martha Kent is predominantly known as the wife of farmer Jonathan Kent and the foster mother of Clark Kent. Born Martha Clark, she grew up in the city of Metropolis, Kansas. Her father William Clark, was a successful lawyer and always dreamed of Martha living a life better than what nearby Smallville had to offer. As it turned out however, Martha met and fell in love with a Smallville farmer named Jonathan Kent. The two were married much to the chagrin of William Clark. William’s disapproval of the marriage created an enmity between Jonathan and he that lasted for many years. Martha moved in with Jonathan and lived with him on the Kent family farm. The two were very much in love and tried to start a family of their own, but their dreams were shattered when they discovered that they could not conceive children together. |
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| + | Born into Metropolis high society.<ref name="Hostage">[[Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Hostage]]</ref> Martha's father had hoped that she would become a lawyer, like him, and one day take over his firm.<ref>[[Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Redux]]</ref> However, Martha's life would forever change in college. Attending [[Metropolis University]], she met and fell in love with smallville farmer and fellow Met U student [[Jonathan Kent (Smallville)|Jonathan Kent]], whom she later married.<ref name="Nicodemus">[[Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Nicodemus]]</ref> |
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| + | Martha earned a college degree and had a job in business, prior to adopting her son.<ref name="nocturne">[[Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Nocturne]]</ref> |
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| − | In October of 1989, Martha and Jonathan had driven into town on the day of Smallville High School's Homecoming football game. They were present when the first meteor shower struck the town causing massive upheaval. While trying to drive back home, their truck was overturned and they discovered a young child wandering in a scorched field nearby. Martha immediately bonded with the toddler and wanted to adopt him. Jonathan was reluctant, citing that she cannot simply take in any child that she happens to find in a field. Martha retorted with, "We didn't find him. He found us". That day they also discovered the alien space craft that brought the child to Earth and knew that he was not of this world. The Kents did indeed adopt the child and they named him Clark after Martha's family name. They kept the nature of his alien heritage a secret from everybody including Clark. It wasn’t until 2001 that Clark learned the truth about his origins. |
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| + | Suffering from a fertility problem, Martha was unable to have children.<ref name="Fever">[[Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Fever]]</ref> She desperately wished for one. Her wish would unexpectedly come true, in October 1989, when the town of Smallville was hit by the largest meteor shower in history. After the meteor shower, Martha and her husband came across a young [[Kal-El (Smallville)|boy]], who had arrived in the meteor shower.<ref>[[Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Pilot]]</ref> They took the boy home with them, with Martha giving the boy her family name "Clark", as a first name. Deciding to keep him, they needed documents that showed him having been adopted, so they called in a favor from [[Lionel Luthor (Smallville)|Lionel Luthor]].<ref>[[Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Lineage]]</ref> |
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| − | Like Jonathan, Martha raised Clark with strong moral values. Her optimism helped Clark through many difficult periods, particularly when he began developing superhuman abilities unlike anyone on the planet Earth. Life in Smallville cultivated many strange events, and even stranger people who began to develop powers, many of whom used these abilities for selfish purposes. Martha and Jonathan always warned Clark about mis-using his gifts. One such super-powered individual was murderer Harry Volk. Exposure to green meteor rock regressed him in age from that of an elderly man to that of a healthy teenager. He still harbored his old grudges however and attempted to seek revenge against those who imprisoned him, namely the Kent family. Though Jonathan Kent was his true target, Martha became a potential victim and the two fought with one another in the grain silo on the Kent farm. Martha survived the attack and Volk was buried alive beneath a ton of grain. |
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| − | Martha and Jonathan knew that should Clark's powers ever become public knowledge, there would be those would seek to take advantage of him. One of these individuals was billionaire tycoon Lionel Luthor. Though Jonathan harbored a strong bias against the Luthor family, Martha was more willing to tolerate their presence in Smallville. For a time, she even began working for Lionel Luthor as an administrative assistant. Lionel hired Martha not because of her clerical expertise, but because he had recently been blinded in an accident and required assistance. He also secretly longed for Martha, but knew that she would never betray her loyalty to Jonathan. While working for Lionel in Metropolis, Martha discovered that Lionel was coming closer and closer to learning Clark's secret. She learned that Lionel had been stockpiling green meteor rock, but was completely unaware of Lionel's association with the Veritas group and their goal to seek out and protect an alien "traveler". |
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| + | ===Season Two=== |
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| − | Shortly after a tornado struck the town of Smallville in 2002, Martha discovered that she was pregnant with child. This was the miracle baby that Jonathan and she longed for, for so many years. Tragically however, Martha suffered a miscarriage when the Kents vehicle overturned following an explosion caused by the alien vessel that brought Clark to Earth. Blaming himself for his mother’s miscarriage, Clark left town. |
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| + | As Clark had grown older, Martha had begun thinking about going back to work. An opportinuity presented itself, when Lionel offered her a job as his administrative assistant, much to Jonathan's disapproval, but she ended up taking the job.<ref name="nocturne"/> However, she later resigned from this position.<ref>[[Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Suspect]]</ref> |
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| + | Getting a job wasn't the only change in Martha's life. Having been exposed to energy from [[Kryptonian Rocket|Clark's spaceship]], her fertility problem had been corrected and she became pregnant.<ref name="Fever"/> However, tragedy struck, when Clark blew up the ship and Martha was caught in the shockwave. As a result, Martha miscarried, while Clark ran off to Metropolis for most of the summer.<ref>[[Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Exodus]]</ref><ref>[[Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Exile]]</ref> |
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| − | In 2005, an artificial intelligence from Krypton known as the BrainInteractive Construct took the human form of Milton Fine and attempted to recreate Krypton on Earth. He infected Martha with a disease that was slowly killing her. By this time, Clark had since returned to Smallville and discovered that truth about Fine's Kryptonian origins. The two fought with one another at Clark’s Fortress of Solitude in the Arctic and Clark defeated the Construct. With the seeming destruction of this "Brainiac", Martha recovered from the disease. |
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| − | That same year, Jonathan Kent was chosen to run for the Kansas State Senate. His opponent in the race was Lex Luthor. Kent won the votes, but on the night of the election suffered a fatal heart attack following an argument with Lionel Luthor. Lionel kept his involvement with Jonathan's death a secret from Martha, but encouraged her to follow in her late husband's footsteps. Kansas law allowed for the spouse to assume the responsibilities of the elected official should he or she pass away. After significant prodding by Lionel Luthor, Martha accepted the responsibility and became a state senator. She hired Lois Lane as a her campaign manager. As time passed, Lionel Luthor became more and more involved in Martha's life. His devotion to her became apparent to everyone around him, but he was still a long way from earning the trust of not only Martha's family, but his own. With Lionel's help. Martha later ran for and won an election for the U.S. Senate. She relocated from Smallville and took up permanent residence in Washington, D.C. |
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| + | Thanks to Jonathan making a deal with [[Jor-El (Smallville)|Jor-El]], they got Clark back.<ref>[[Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Phoenix]]</ref> However, Martha didn't learn the details of said deal, until months later: that Jonathan had promised to return Clark to Jor-El. This enraged Martha. In the end, Martha was unable to do anything, while Clark was sucked into a wall in the [[Kawatche Caves]] and Jonathan was placed in a coma.<ref>[[Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Covenant]]</ref> |
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| + | Martha spent all her time by Jonathan's bedside, until she was unexpectedly reunited with Clark, who had been taken to the [[Smallville Medical Center]] by [[Lois Lane (Smallville)|Lois Lane]]. Clark turned out to have been programmed by Jor-El, but Martha was able to undo the programming thanks to black Kryptonite.<ref>[[Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Crusade]]</ref> |
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| + | The Kent family returned to normal life, but Martha felt a desire to have her own job once more and managed to convince [[Alexander Luthor (Smallville)|Lex Luthor]] to let her manage the [[Talon (Smallville)|Talon]].<ref>[[Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Façade]]</ref> |
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| + | On the day of Clark's high school graduation, Martha and the other people in town learned that another meteor shower was going to hit Smallville. But, when Martha and Jonathan were going to leave town, they were confronted and taken hostage by [[Jason Teague (Smallville)|Jason Teague]], who demanded answers about Clark. Teague was killed during the meteor shower, while Martha was injured and had to be taken to the Medical Center but made a full recovery.<ref>[[Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Commencement]]</ref><ref>[[Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Arrival]]</ref> |
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| + | Martha's life would once more take an unexpected turn, after Jonathan ran for state senate. However, mere hours after being elected, Jonathan suffered a fatal heart attack.<ref>[[Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Reckoning]]</ref> Martha was left a widow and with a difficult choice to make: whether she would accept Jonathan's seat in his place. In the end, she decided to accept the seat.<ref>[[Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Cyborg]]</ref> She also hired Lois Lane as her chief of staff.<ref>[[Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Fragile]]</ref> |
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| + | Martha made the leap from state senator to United States senator, after her predecessor [[Edward Burke (Smallville)|Edward Burke]] was murdered and Martha was recommended as his replacement.<ref>[[Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Prototype]]</ref> Due to her new position, she departed Smallville and moved to [[Washington, D.C.]].<ref>[[Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Phantom]]</ref> |
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| + | When Lionel died, he left Martha his entire Kryptonian library. Her move to Washington had continued to change her life. Discovering a secret government organization called "[[Checkmate (Smallville)|Checkmate]]", which could pose a danger to her son, she set herself up as the "Red Queen", to protect Clark.<ref name="Hostage"/> |
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| + | Martha had also begun to move on from the death of Jonathan and began to date [[Perry White (Smallville)|Perry White]]. Together, they visited the Kent Farm. However, Martha found the return difficult emotionally and admitting that she didn't like being there, as it reminded her of her late husband.<ref name="Hostage"/> |
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| + | However, her visit hadn't entirely been to see Clark. As the Red Queen, Martha acquired the Book of Rao, a device able to send Kryptonians to another planet. Revealing herself as the Red Queen, she gave the Book of Rao to Clark, to handle an upcoming invasion by Kryptonian clones.<ref name="Hostage"/> Afterwards, she and Perry departed the farm, but she left him with one more gift: a red and blue suit.<ref>[[Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Salvation]]</ref> |
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| + | As costumed vigilantes were growing in numbers, there were also growing anti-vigilante views among the American people. This lead to the passing of the Vigilante Registration Act (VRA).<ref>[[Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Ambush]]</ref> However, Martha was able to rally support for the act to be overturned.<ref>[[Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Beacon]]</ref> |
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| + | Martha also decided to give Clark and Lois the deed to the Kent Farm,<ref>[[Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Kent]]</ref> and later attended their wedding.<ref>[[Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Finale, Part I]]</ref> |
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| − | * The role of Martha Kent was portrayed by [[Actors:Annette O'Toole|Annette O'Toole]]. ''Smallville'' executive producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar cast Annette O'Toole in contrast to the traditional vision of the character. Historically, "Ma Kent" is usually portrayed as an elderly woman with a white beehive hairdo wearing an apron. Gough and Millar wanted the Kents to be younger so that they could more readily relate to the perils of raising a teenage boy. |
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| + | * The role of Martha Kent was portrayed by [[Annette O'Toole|Annette O'Toole]] who replaced [[Cynthia Ettinger|Cynthia Ettinger]], who had been cast in the role for the original unaired pilot episode. |
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Revision as of 13:59, 5 July 2020
History
Early Life
Born into Metropolis high society.[1] Martha's father had hoped that she would become a lawyer, like him, and one day take over his firm.[2] However, Martha's life would forever change in college. Attending Metropolis University, she met and fell in love with smallville farmer and fellow Met U student Jonathan Kent, whom she later married.[3]
Martha earned a college degree and had a job in business, prior to adopting her son.[4]
Suffering from a fertility problem, Martha was unable to have children.[5] She desperately wished for one. Her wish would unexpectedly come true, in October 1989, when the town of Smallville was hit by the largest meteor shower in history. After the meteor shower, Martha and her husband came across a young boy, who had arrived in the meteor shower.[6] They took the boy home with them, with Martha giving the boy her family name "Clark", as a first name. Deciding to keep him, they needed documents that showed him having been adopted, so they called in a favor from Lionel Luthor.[7]
Season One
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Season Two
As Clark had grown older, Martha had begun thinking about going back to work. An opportinuity presented itself, when Lionel offered her a job as his administrative assistant, much to Jonathan's disapproval, but she ended up taking the job.[4] However, she later resigned from this position.[8]
Getting a job wasn't the only change in Martha's life. Having been exposed to energy from Clark's spaceship, her fertility problem had been corrected and she became pregnant.[5] However, tragedy struck, when Clark blew up the ship and Martha was caught in the shockwave. As a result, Martha miscarried, while Clark ran off to Metropolis for most of the summer.[9][10]
Season Three
Thanks to Jonathan making a deal with Jor-El, they got Clark back.[11] However, Martha didn't learn the details of said deal, until months later: that Jonathan had promised to return Clark to Jor-El. This enraged Martha. In the end, Martha was unable to do anything, while Clark was sucked into a wall in the Kawatche Caves and Jonathan was placed in a coma.[12]
Season Four
Martha spent all her time by Jonathan's bedside, until she was unexpectedly reunited with Clark, who had been taken to the Smallville Medical Center by Lois Lane. Clark turned out to have been programmed by Jor-El, but Martha was able to undo the programming thanks to black Kryptonite.[13]
The Kent family returned to normal life, but Martha felt a desire to have her own job once more and managed to convince Lex Luthor to let her manage the Talon.[14]
On the day of Clark's high school graduation, Martha and the other people in town learned that another meteor shower was going to hit Smallville. But, when Martha and Jonathan were going to leave town, they were confronted and taken hostage by Jason Teague, who demanded answers about Clark. Teague was killed during the meteor shower, while Martha was injured and had to be taken to the Medical Center but made a full recovery.[15][16]
Season Five
Martha's life would once more take an unexpected turn, after Jonathan ran for state senate. However, mere hours after being elected, Jonathan suffered a fatal heart attack.[17] Martha was left a widow and with a difficult choice to make: whether she would accept Jonathan's seat in his place. In the end, she decided to accept the seat.[18] She also hired Lois Lane as her chief of staff.[19]
Season Six
Martha made the leap from state senator to United States senator, after her predecessor Edward Burke was murdered and Martha was recommended as his replacement.[20] Due to her new position, she departed Smallville and moved to Washington, D.C..[21]
Season Nine
When Lionel died, he left Martha his entire Kryptonian library. Her move to Washington had continued to change her life. Discovering a secret government organization called "Checkmate", which could pose a danger to her son, she set herself up as the "Red Queen", to protect Clark.[1]
Martha had also begun to move on from the death of Jonathan and began to date Perry White. Together, they visited the Kent Farm. However, Martha found the return difficult emotionally and admitting that she didn't like being there, as it reminded her of her late husband.[1]
However, her visit hadn't entirely been to see Clark. As the Red Queen, Martha acquired the Book of Rao, a device able to send Kryptonians to another planet. Revealing herself as the Red Queen, she gave the Book of Rao to Clark, to handle an upcoming invasion by Kryptonian clones.[1] Afterwards, she and Perry departed the farm, but she left him with one more gift: a red and blue suit.[22]
Season Ten
As costumed vigilantes were growing in numbers, there were also growing anti-vigilante views among the American people. This lead to the passing of the Vigilante Registration Act (VRA).[23] However, Martha was able to rally support for the act to be overturned.[24]
Martha also decided to give Clark and Lois the deed to the Kent Farm,[25] and later attended their wedding.[26]
Season Eleven
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Powers and Abilities
Abilities
Notes
- This version of the character is exclusive to the continuity of the television series Smallville and its tie-in and comic book series, Smallville and Smallville Season 11. It is an adaptation of Mary Kent. The original character was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster and first appeared in Action Comics #1.
- The role of Martha Kent was portrayed by Annette O'Toole who replaced Cynthia Ettinger, who had been cast in the role for the original unaired pilot episode.
Trivia
Related
- 160 Appearances of Martha Clark (Smallville)
- 7 Images featuring Martha Clark (Smallville)
- 5 Quotations by or about Martha Clark (Smallville)
- Character Gallery: Martha Clark (Smallville)
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Hostage
- ↑ Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Redux
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Nicodemus
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Nocturne
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Fever
- ↑ Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Pilot
- ↑ Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Lineage
- ↑ Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Suspect
- ↑ Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Exodus
- ↑ Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Exile
- ↑ Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Phoenix
- ↑ Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Covenant
- ↑ Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Crusade
- ↑ Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Façade
- ↑ Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Commencement
- ↑ Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Arrival
- ↑ Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Reckoning
- ↑ Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Cyborg
- ↑ Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Fragile
- ↑ Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Prototype
- ↑ Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Phantom
- ↑ Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Salvation
- ↑ Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Ambush
- ↑ Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Beacon
- ↑ Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Kent
- ↑ Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Finale, Part I
- ↑ Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Relic
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