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| Trent MacGowen | |
| Continuity: | Smallville |
| Notability: | Antagonist |
| Type: | Mental patient |
| Gender: | Male |
| Race: | Metahuman |
| Location: | Smallville, Kansas |
| Status: | Status unknown |
| Died: | 2004 [1] |
| First: | "Gone" |
| Actor: | James Bell |
Trent MacGowen is a fictional super-villain and a one-time antagonist featured in the WB Network/CW Network television series Smallville. Played by actor James Bell, he appeared in episode 4x01, "Gone"
Biography[]
Targeting Chloe[]
Trent MacGowen was a young metahuman gifted with the ability to transform his body into molten metal. As pliable, yet super-condensed metal, this power also granted Trent some measure of superhuman strength. Trent's powers had an adverse effect on his psychological state and he spent time as a mental patient at Belle Reve. While Lionel Luthor was doing a stretch at Kansas State Penitentiary on a murder charge, he arranged for Trent to be released from Belle Reve and hired him to assassinate Chloe Sullivan.
Assault at the foundry[]
"Kinda tickles a little!"
Trent attacked Chloe at the Smallville foundry and began strangling her with a metallic vice-hand. Fortunately, Kryptonian power-house Clark Kent arrived and tossed Trent across the foundry through several wooden beams. Trent fought back by turning his right arm into a sword blade, but Clark's superhuman durability allowed him to easily deflect the blows. Clark charged him, but Trent's pliable body enabled him to morph over his opponent, sending Clark plowing right through his body. During the fight, Lois Lane arrived and fired an electromagnetic weapon at Trent, which distracted him long enough for Clark to secretly counter-attack from behind with a dose of heat vision. The conjoined effect caused Trent's body to harden and explode. Although he appeared to have died at that time, it is unclear due to the nature of his abilities whether Trent MacGowen is truly dead. [2]
Notes & Trivia[]
- The character of Trent MacGowen was created by director James Marshall and writers Kelly Souders and Brian Peterson based on concepts developed by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar.
- Trent MacGowen is a character who is unique to the continuity of the Smallville television series and does not have a DC Comics counterpart.
- Trent MacGowen's power set is similar to that of the T-1000 Terminator model (liquid metal Terminator) as first seen in the 1991 film Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
- Actor Jamie Bell is also known for playing the role of X6/Zero in the "Bag 'Em" episode of Dark Angel.
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- ↑ For all intents and purposes, Trent MacGowen likely died as he was never seen again. However, an argument could be made that he may have also survived given the nature of his powers.
- ↑ Smallville: Gone