He escaped when Clark Kent opened a portal to Earth so he could escape from the Zone using the House of El gateway. Bizarro followed him and spent the next several weeks seeking a host that could sustain him, though humans could only serve as a host for up to 24 hours before he would need a new vessel. Bizarro eventually confronted Clark and absorbed his DNA, allowing him to create an imperfect clone of the Kryptonian which would act as a permanent host body for Bizarro to inhabit, which also gave him Clark's powers.
Publication Information
- Smallville : Bizarro Clark
- Version : Smallville
- Known as : Bizarro
- Type :
- Relative : Clark Kent : Genetic Template
- Affiliation : Phantom Zone
- Gender : Male
- Origin : Phantom Zone
- Appeareance : Smallville Season 6 Episod 1 : Zod
- Potrayer : Tom Welling
- Main View : Full Episod
It is unclear what Bizarro originally looked like before being stripped of his corporeal form and banished to the Phantom Zone. Upon his banishment there, he became a phantom wraith. As a wraith, he appeared as a skeletal, decayed being, grey in color, shrouded in tattered robes. After escaping the zone, Bizarro took a piece of Clark Kent's DNA which gave him a permanent form that was identical to Clark's.
In that form, his clothing choices were an inverse of Clark's. When he first appeared, he wore a navy blue jacket over a maroon shirt. He also wore the dark blue jacket and bright red shirt combination that Clark was seen wearing in the show's early seasons. His voice was also noticeably deeper than Clark's, though he appears to be able to modulate the pitch of his voice to more easily mimic Clark. When exposed to strong levels of sunlight, Bizarro's skin became a gray stone-like substance and broke away when exposed to more direct levels of sunlight, revealing chunks of what appeared to be bright green flesh.
The creature that would become the Last Phantom - and subsequently, Bizarro - began life as a lab experiment on the planet Krypton. In an attempt to create sentient life from original genetic material, several scientists in the field of cloning were able to create a living being. The exact sequence of DNA used to create the creature was never revealed, but - regardless of its origin - the creature emerged badly deformed and was discarded by the Ruling Council as a poor imitation of life. Driven mad by this rejection, this powerful beast went on a rampage.
Driven by survival, the beast slaughtered many Kryptonian citizens. Finally, the Ruling Council commissioned Jor-El to quarantine the monster. To this effect, he called upon the Martian Manhunter to aid in the effort. With the Martian's superpowers, the beast was finally stopped. As punishment for its heinous crimes, and being considered too powerful and too dangerous to be kept in its living state, the Ruling Council decreed that the creature be stripped of its super-strong physical anatomy and its essence condemned to spend eternity in the Phantom Zone.
Bizarro
As Kryptonian Clone:
- Upon replicating Clark, Bizarro inherited his powers - retaining his flying ability while his strength and speed were effectively doubled. However, due to his faulty cloning powers, he inherited the reverse of his vulnerabilities - weakened by a yellow sun and powered by Green K.
- Kryptonite Absorption : Due to his imperfect Kryptonian biology, Bizarro's cells could only metabolize the radiation of green Kryptonite. This process was momentarily overwhelming for Bizarro upon physical exposure, resulting in visible pain coupled with an increase in strength, healing, and durability.
- Heat Vision : Bizarro's heat vision was noticeably more erratic than Clark's; super-heating the air to the point of ionization, resulting in lighting-like bolts erupting from his eyes. Despite this, he was just as effective with his heat vision as Clark was and could control it just as easily.
- Healing Factor : Like Clark, Bizarro's cells possessed exceptional regenerative capabilities. However, his reversed biology meant that he could only regenerate through exposure to green Kryptonite, which also increased his strength. Exposure to yellow sunlight seemed to cease the healing process.
- Invulnerability : Bizarro's empowered cells endowed his body with significant resistance to physical injuries. Even after just emerging as a Kryptonian clone, Bizarro possessed enough raw durability to withstand Clark's blows and being sent through a concrete wall; emerging with only a bloody lip.
- Super-Hearing : The only other enhanced sensory ability which Bizarro used was his super-hearing. His hearing sensitivity was just as precise as Clark's, to the point where he was able to perceive a bomb ticking in an elevator of the Daily Planet and later when he heard Lana texting in a closet.
- As a Wraith:
- Flight : Like all wraiths, the Last Phantom had no weight to its ghost-like constitution. As such, the phantom existed outside of any gravitational forces and could seamlessly fly through the air at high velocities sufficient to traverse across the entire planet in a matter of a few days.
- Possession : As an incorporeal creature, the Last Phantom was dependent upon living human vessels to survive. Due to its unstable nature, the phantom's presence had a degrading affect on those whom it possessed - causing their anatomies to break down and eventually expire within a day's time.
- Super-Strength : The Last Phantom dramatically increased the strength levels of its host. Regardless of the health or size of the body - from an old man to a child - the phantom could punch a hole through the Martian Manhunter's gut and send him through a roof as well as slaughter men seamlessly.
- Super-Speed : Like their strength, the phantom's presence accelerated the vessel's movements to speeds fast enough to seemingly appear and disappear in the blink of an eye. The uppermost limits of its speed as a wraith was never fully determined as it was never seen to dodge or catch a bullet.
- Crystal of El Immunity : Due to its unique origins as a powerful Kryptonian mutant, the Last Phantom was unaffected by the Crystal of El as the other wraiths were. Upon emerging from its last host, the phantom's sheer momentum - even without any physical mass - was powerful enough to destroy the crystal.
- DNA Mimicry : Also due to its unique background and nature, the Last Phantom possessed the ability to mimic the genetic makeup of another Kryptonian through touch - creating an entire new body for itself in the likeness of the Kryptonian source, possessing both their powers and their memories.
Vulnerabilities
Being a failed lab-experiment, Bizarro could only survive and restore a stable and natural structure with Kryptonian DNA. His vessels were unable to retain him and constantly needed feeding on human organs to survive. While Bizarro was designed to have no weaknesses of a Kryptonian when he was made whole from the DNA sample he siphoned from Clark, he found out that the sunlight that strengthened Clark would weaken him.
- Yellow Sunlight : For example, exposure to the rays of the yellow sun stripped him of much of his invulnerability, decreased his strength, as well as transform his skin into jagged stone. Although sunlight does not appear to have the same instant fatal effects on Bizarro as Kryptonite on Clark, large quantities of sunlight cause him pain and break away chunks of his skin, as was shown when Clark punched him into the sky.
- Blue Kryptonite : Furthermore, he was highly vulnerable to blue kryptonite as direct contact with it imbued him with so much strength that his body - unable to cope with the stress of such sudden power - would self-destruct within a few seconds of making contact with it. Technically, this can be interpreted as an extreme example of his ability to absorb kryptonite radiation that simultaneously weakens Clark.
- Main Article : Clark Kent (Disambiguation)
