Smallville

…in the live-action television drama Smallville (2001) and as the featured character in the made-for-TV movie Aquaman (2006). Jason Momoa portrayed Aquaman in Justice League (2017), the character’s feature film debut. Momoa reprised the role for Aquaman (2018), a film that met generally positive reviews and, with more than $1.1…

…on the superhero genre, while Smallville (2001–11) returned the last son of Krypton to his small-town roots. Producer Greg Berlanti focused on one of DC’s lesser-known heroes in his gritty street-level series Arrow (2012–20). The success of that show would spark the creation of an interconnected television universe (dubbed the…

…in the live-action television series Smallville (2001–11); Kevin Spacey in Superman Returns (2006); Jesse Eisenberg in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) and Justice League (2017); and Nicholas Hoult in Superman (2025).

…Adventures of Superman (1993–97) and Smallville (2001–11), about Superman’s early years. Smallville’s ten-year run constitutes the longest-running science-fiction series on television to date and the longest-running superhero series on American TV. When Warner Bros. then restructured DC in 2009, DC Comics became a subsidiary of the company DC Entertainment, which…