User blog comment:Cerowe1992/PG Proposal: Clark Kent (Smallville)/@comment-39032584-20200107140140

Haviing seen all of Smallville, I find Clark to be an interesting case; he's undoubtedly noble enough for the category seeing as how he's saved far too many people to count, remains extremely humble about it all, and is strongly averse to killing at any cost among other things. That said, he did start the series with some small corrupting qualities; red kryptonite would always bring out his more selfish and aggressive tendencies, and he had a hypocritical streak where he'd get very offended and/or critical to the point of chewing them out if his friends weren't completely honest with him despite his own need to keep his superhuman abilities secret even from them. There were also a small handful of occasions where he was very tempted to kill in the heat of the moment, even though he never went through with it, and to a lesser extent, he was very reluctant to accept his destiny at first due to his understandable desire to be normal. That all said/stated though, I still give Clark a yes, because at the end of the day, or should I say, by the end of the series, I feel like he pretty much sheds all of his potential corrupting factors to become the hero he was always meant to be. He accepted his destiny wholeheartedly, he dropped his hypocritical tendencies, and even on the rare occasion he was affected by red kryptonite, it was no longer affecting him the way is used to since he presumably didn't have those bottled up desires that he once did anymore. So he certainly may not have always been perfect, but I feel like the flaws he had were the kind that could reasonable be expected as he was growing up and learning from his mistakes along the way to become what everyone knows he will become.