45 Facts About Chloe Sullivan

Chloe Sullivan is a fictional character in the television series Smallville, which is based on the Superman and Superboy comics published by DC Comics.

In Smallville, Chloe Sullivan is Clark Kent's best friend, Lois Lane's cousin, and the editor of the high school newspaper the Torch; she notices that the meteor rocks are mutating the citizens of Smallville which she tracks on her "Wall of Weird".

In later seasons, Chloe Sullivan discovers she herself has the metahuman power of empathic healing, though she apparently loses it after an encounter with the alien supervillain Brainiac.

Chloe Sullivan has been characterized as independent, intelligent, curious and somewhat impulsive by both the writers and the actress that portrays her.

The latter two characteristics often cause Chloe Sullivan to get into trouble with both her friends and with billionaire industrialists Lionel Luthor and his son Lex, two of the show's primary antagonists.

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When Chloe Sullivan stops her investigation, Lionel not only has her blacklisted from the Daily Planet, but fires her father from LuthorCorp.

In season three's "Forsaken", Chloe Sullivan decides to assist Lex Luthor, Lionel's estranged son, with getting Lionel arrested for the past murder of Lex's grandparents; Chloe Sullivan's hope is to get out from under Lionel's control.

Alicia expects Chloe Sullivan to write an expose about Clark, but Chloe Sullivan decides that Clark kept his secret for a reason and decides not to write the story instead.

Chloe Sullivan finally reveals to Clark in the season five premiere that she has known his secret, but that she wanted him to be comfortable enough to tell her on his own.

In season five's "Thirst", Chloe Sullivan earns her dream job at the Daily Planet, starting in the basement.

Chloe Sullivan later discovers in "Progeny" that her institutionalized mother, Moira Sullivan, is meteor-infected as well.

When in "Sleeper", Lana falls into a catatonic state having been attacked by the Kryptonian artificial intelligence known as Brainiac, Chloe Sullivan takes over Lana's Isis Foundation, a free clinic for individuals who have been infected by the meteor rocks.

At the start of season eight, it is revealed that Chloe Sullivan was not arrested by DDS, but Lex's security personnel impersonating DDS agents.

In "Hex", Chloe Sullivan assumes the codename Watchtower full time because she feels her life needs more meaning.

However, when Davis discovers that Chloe Sullivan is still in love with Jimmy, he stabs Jimmy and attempts to kill Chloe Sullivan; Jimmy impales him on a metal rod, and they both die.

Chloe Sullivan was introduced by the show's creators to be a "Lois Lane archetype", as well as be Smallville's "outsider", which series developers Gough and Millar felt the show needed in order to have a character that notices the strange happenings in Smallville.

Chloe Sullivan is the original creation of Al Gough and Miles Miller, having not been produced first in the DC Comics Universe, unlike the other main characters Clark Kent, Lana Lang, Lex Luthor and Pete Ross.

Allison Mack believes that Chloe Sullivan is in her own comfort zone while she is working at the Torch, as she is in complete control, but likens Chloe Sullivan being under Lionel's control to that of a "caged animal".

Actress, having Chloe Sullivan become part of the meteor infected community in season six allowed Mack's character to continue to evolve.

Allison Mack characterizes Chloe Sullivan as being a "misfit" during the first season; more of "a really smart girl with attitude".

Chloe Sullivan goes on to describe Chloe as intelligent and independent.

The creative team removed the notion that Chloe Sullivan was going to turn into Clark's future wife when they introduced Lois Lane in season four.

Chloe Sullivan looks to the future, whereas Lois is more shortsighted.

In season eight, Chloe Sullivan discovers that she has super-intelligence – being able to solve complex algorithms faster than LuthorCorp's most powerful supercomputer.

Regardless of Clark's feelings, Mack recognizes that Chloe Sullivan is blinded by her love for Clark, which ultimately affects her judgment in not only seeing Clark's faults, but making choices that place her character in danger.

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The relationship is strained when Chloe Sullivan has to lie to cover up Clark's secret, as well as keeping the fact that she is meteor-infected hidden.

Mack feels that Chloe Sullivan has real abandonment issues, which play on the fact that she never feels like she is good enough for anyone.

Chloe Sullivan was nominated for a Saturn Award as best supporting actress in a television program in 2006 and 2007.

Apart from her appearances on television, Chloe Sullivan has appeared in her own online spin-off, a series of young adult novels, a bi-monthly Smallville comic book, and been given a 2010 introduction into the official DC comics universe.

Apart from the television series Smallville, the character of Chloe Sullivan appeared in her own web-based spin-off series, titled Smallville: Chloe Chronicles.

Smallville: Chloe Sullivan Chronicles was created by Mark Warshaw, with the scripts written by Brice Tidwell; Allison Mack was given final script approval.

The Chronicles are like a detective story, with Chloe Sullivan following clues and interviewing people, going from spot to spot, figuring things out.

In volume two, Chloe Sullivan is contacted by an ex-Navy SEAL, Bix, and former member of LuthorCorp's "Deletion Group" who has information regarding Dr Walsh's disappearance.

Third volume of the Chloe Sullivan Chronicles, titled Vengeance Chronicles, features Chloe Sullivan teaming up with the "Angel of Vengeance" Andrea Rojas, from season five's "Vengeance", to stop Lex Luthor.

Rojas, working with meteor infected individuals Yang and Molly Griggs, wants Chloe Sullivan's help to expose LuthorCorp's experimentation on the meteor infected.

Chloe Sullivan quickly realizes, after attending one of Jacobi's shows, that he is nothing more than a con artist, which causes her to devote her time to proving that so no one will fall victim to his schemes.

Chloe Sullivan is working for the Star City Gazette, but remains a friend and ally to the heroes.

Chloe Sullivan was sent by her cousin, Lois Queen, to warn Clark of the coming "Crisis", which destroyed her world.

Chloe Sullivan dies after Oliver and Chloe take her to a hospital.

Inside what is left of her counterpart's mind, Chloe Sullivan finds a universe coming to an end, caused by an attack led by a powerful gargantuan being; she witnesses Lois Queen's death.

Chloe Sullivan finds she now has some of the memories of her counterpart, and discovers her killer is one of the Multiverse's guardians, the Monitors.

Chloe Sullivan later gives birth to a baby boy, whom she and Oliver named "Jonathan, " after Clark's late-adoptive father Jonathan Kent.

Busiek hoped to make Chloe Sullivan the younger sister of someone Clark had gone to school with, who was a now interning at the Daily Planet.

Spencer stated that introducing Chloe Sullivan has been his first "positive contribution" to the DC Universe.

Chloe Sullivan is mentioned during a flashback in a season three episode of Supergirl, titled "Midvale", where she helps a teenage Alex and Kara Danvers in solving a murder mystery of a classmate through email correspondence.

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