Tom Welling Superman

Tom Welling portrayed Clark Kent for ten seasons of the American television show Smallville – but it wasn’t until the final season that the character finally made the transition to actually becoming Superman.

He had performed countless heroic deeds in the previous seasons, but he didn’t don the famous suit and learn to fly until the threat of Darkseid and his planet Apokolips came to Earth in season ten.

Welling’s performance as the young Kent was fantastic – he wouldn’t have lasted for ten seasons as the show’s star if it wasn’t – and he was even tipped to reprise the role in a movie at one stage. That never happened and he has been fairly inactive since the show came to an end in 2011.