Wade Mahaney is the main antagonist of the Smallville season 1 episode "Kinetic." He and his friends Derek Fox and Scott Bowman used Kryptonite enhanced tattoos to gain intangibility and commit crimes undetected.
History[]
Wade was a former Smallville Crows football player who had a dozen scholarships lined up until he blew out his knee. He and his friends, Scott Bowman and Derek Fox, used Kryptonite-enhanced tattoo ink to grant themselves intangibility (speeding up their molecular structure to let them pass through walls). They robbed Smallville Savings and Loan's vault. When Wade and his two friends raided Luther Mansion, they encountered Lex's friends, Chloe Sullivan and Clark Kent, and gravely injured Chloe, incurring best friend's wrath.
He recruited Whitney Fordman into their group and gave him the same tattoo while blackmailing Lex Luthor. Whitney betrayed them by going to Lana and Clark for help. As the two boys planned to infiltrate the thugs ' headquarters, Wade tried to have Whitney killed and crushed by a car, thinking his tattoo would save him. However, Wade's tattoo lost its potency, and as the cars landed on top of them, Clark managed to pull Whitney to safety as the cars crushed weed, killing him. Lex was told by Lana what Clark and Whitney were doing by playing hero, so he called the police. Both Derek and Scott were arrested for breaking and entering, robbery, assault and attempted murder. The two boys were saved, and Scott and Derek were sent to jail.
Trivia[]
- Wade was the only jock to die.