Rudy Jones is a young looking man of medium height, with dark blond hair, light blue eyes and an angry demeanor. When he was in Belle Reve, he wore the usual patient garb. As a member of Tess' team, he wore black pants, a black shirt with a black, thin, hooded sweatshirt over that and the team's signature black, leather jacket with the Orb's silver insignia stitched into the front. When Rudy used his ability on Clark, the appearance of a purple, transparent figure would leave his body, enter his victim's body, and then return to his. Rudy was recruited from Belle Reve to be a member of Tess Mercer's metahuman team to track down Doomsday.
Publication Information
- Smallville : Rudy Jones
- Version : Smallville
- Alter Ego : Parasite
- Type :
- Relative :
- Affiliation : Tess Mercer's team
- Gender : Male
- Origin : Metropolis, Kansas (Formerly Smallville, Kansas - Smallville : Apocalypse)
- Appeareance : Smallville Season 7 Episod 18 : Apocalypse
- Potrayer : Brendan Fletcher
- Main View : Full Episod
He was with Plastique when they came to help Livewire and Neutron, but Doomsday was already gone, having killed Neutron. On Tess Mercer's orders, he steals Livewire's powers and leaves along with Plastique for Tess to deal with Livewire. They meet with Eva Greer in the form of Chloe Sullivan and she questions Tess' loyalty to them, though they both stick by the Tess and the mission.
Later, when Clark Kent met with Plastique and tried to convince her not to take her revenge on Tess, Rudy suck up behind Clark and stole his powers. Rudy was about to attack Clark before Plastique told him to let him be. The two then blasted their way in to the Luthor mansion and captured and tortured Tess. Clark then showed up and tried to fight Rudy, but to no avail. Oliver Queen as The Green Arrow then appeared and weakened him with a kryptonite ring. Rudy returned Clark's powers to stop the pain and then was taken away along with Plastique.
Abilities
Parasite has the ability to steal the powers of other people through physical contact.
- Ability Absorption : When Livewire failed Tess Mercer when she and Neutron failed to stop Doomsday, Tess had Parasite steal her powers. When he drained the powers of Clark Kent, his Kryptonian powers were a little too much for Parasite and once he had successfully got them, he was thrown backwards because of the power he had absorbed. He remarked that he thought Clark's power was only superhuman speed. He also absorbs their weaknesses as shown when he is weakened by the kryptonite ring that Oliver was wearing. He also has the ability to return the powers he stole to the owner as he did with Clark when he was getting killed by the kryptonite. It appears that firm and prolonged physical contact is necessary for this ability to function.
- Electrical generation : Stolen from Livewire with his absorption abilities on the instructions of Tess Mercer and used to incinerate the microchips in his and Plastique's brains.
- Solar energy absorption : Stolen from Clark Kent, he displayed Super speed and strength but was ultimately forced to return this power.
