Dog of Smallville (TV Series)

Dog of Smallville is an American Television series, based off of DC Comic's Krypto/Superdog, the 2001 TV Series, Smallville, and Boomerang's Krypto the Superdog. The series debuted October 2013, on the CW Television Network. The series is composed by Mark Snow and the theme song, "Save Me" is performed by Remy Zero.

The show is one of the supernatural-themed shows on the network, such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Charmed, Supernatural and Roswell, and has been noted many times for its mixing of multiple genres (from horror and fantasy to comedy and even soap).

Overview
The series follows the life of Krypto, an alien dog that crash landed near Smallville, Kansas, and was found and adopted by Kevin Whitney and is about his adventures before becoming Superdog. The series sees the two of them coping with adolescents, as Krypto develops super powers and explores his extraterrestrial origin.

Like Smallville, the series can be depicted as a three chapter series: Chapter 1 (Season 1-4), Kevin's teenage years in high school, in which Krypto battles meteor freaks. Chapter 2 (Season 5-7) is their beginning of adulthood, which begins Krypto's early training. The final chapter (Season 8-10) is Krypto's final trials and his rise to Superdog.

The series also focuses on the friendship between Kevin and Krypto, and the people in thier lives, such as thier family, whome they have to keep thier secret from. Kevin's friends, Emily and Drew. Drew is Kevin's best friend, until he moves away in season 3. Drew also knew Krypto's secret. Emily is his other best friend. They grow closer throughout the series, as she leaves her crush on him behind and discovers Krypto's secret. His on again, off again love interest Maddie West. His neighbor, Andrea Suseman, who goes from his frenemy to friend to love interest. Thier friendship/partnership with Clark Kent, Krypto's kryptonian owner. And finally, thier friendship to rivalry with Lex Luthor, and his highly intelligent iguana, ignatious.

The mineral kryptonite is used as a recurring plot device throughout the series. Kryptonite is shown to have bizarre and lingering effects on human physiology and the young canine often encounters mutated and psychotic villains who have developed bizarre powers, such as psychic abilities, shape shifting, and other paranormal abilities. On a Kryptonian like Krypto, though, kryptonite has very different effects; the general idea is that Krypto is virtually invincible except when around the kryptonite rocks. There are multiple colors of kryptonite that affect kryptonians in different ways. Green kryptonite physically weakens Krypto and could possibly kill him if he is exposed to it for too long. Red kryptonite causes him to set aside moral standings and act out on his impulses and dark desires. Black kryptonite splits Krypto into (and merges him back together from) two separate beings that exhibit his two personalities (Krypto and the darker Kol-El). Silver kryptonite (which is solely the creation of Milton Fine in the show) causes him extreme paranoia. Blue kryptonite takes away his abilities, but doesn't cause him pain like green kryptonite is often seen to. Lastly, Gold Kryptonite can permanently damage or scar a Kryptonian and take away their powers permanently.

Many allusions to Superman or Superdog are seen in the series, such as the color of Krypto's collars being the same color as the uniforms of Superman and his his own comic book counterpart or red blankets or sheets that represent the Superman cape.

Cast
• Ryan Kelly as the voice of Krypto/Kol-El/The Blur, a young canine with superhuman abilities. Krypto's inability to share his secret worsens upon discovering his origin, as the former pet to Kryptonian baby Kal-El, and being chosen to test a rocket created by Jor-El, to save Kal-El from Krypton's destruction. Though it is unknown if there are multiple species of dogs on Krypton, he appears to be a white labrador retriever.

• Dylan Sprayberry as Kevin Whitney, the young boy that found Krypto in a spaceship. He adopted Krypto and helped him control his powers. Not only is he Krypto's owner, he is also his best friend. Krypto will do anything to protect Kevin and Kevin will do the same for Krypto. Like Krypto, Kevin grows and matures throughout the series, aging from 14 to 24 years old.

• Ignatious, Lex Luthor's highly intelligent iguana. He became close friends with Krypto, but started down a dark path, as his past curiosities got the better of him.

• Michael Rosenbaum as Lex Luthor, a young billionaire, who was sent by his father to manage the LuthorCorp fertilizer Plant in Smallville. He was furious at first, but that changed when he was saved by Krypto, starting an instant friendship between him and Kevin, and also becoming friends with Maddie West. He even refused to return to his father in Metropolis, when offered a chance, wanting to leave behind dark deeds from his past, and start fresh with new friends. He becomes obsessive with the accident in which Krypto saved him, even having the Whitney's researched. With his mother and baby brother dead when he was nine and being fathered harshly by his father, Lex is very envious of Kevin's perfect family.

• Jadin Gould as Maddie West,Jadin Gould as Lana Lang - Kevin's life long crush, who growing up, lived only a mile away from the Whitney's and is admired from afar by Kevin. The two quickly became friends and wanted to become closer, which is hard when Krypto's secret got in the way.

• Macy is Maddie's dog and Krypto's first love-interest. The couldn't have a relationship, because of Krypto's secret, but she eventually found out.

• Peyton List as Emily White, Kevin's intelligent and inquisitive best friend. She is very skilled with computers and in journalism. Her curiosity often gets the better of him and creates tension between her and her friends, as she crosses personal boundaries. She harbored secret feelings for Kevin, but was hurt, as he only had eyes for Maddie. Thier friendship became stronger as she discovered Krypto's secret. Her character is based off of Chloe Sullivan.

• Jonny Gray as Drew Farrus, Kevin and Emily's best friend. He and Kevin have been like brothers since nursery school. Drew discovered Krypto's secret after finding the ship. When the secret became too much, as of getting beat, to get the truth out of him, he moved away to his fathers.

• Mia Talerico as Melanie Whitney, Kevin's baby sister, who knows Krypto's secret throughout the series, starting from 3 years old to 13.

• Ryan Newman as Andrea Suseman, arriving in Smallville to find her cousin Maddie, Andrea met Kevin and Krypto. She and Kevin often sarcastically insulted eachother, but grew closer until it came to a romantic relationship. Andrea is very skilled in combat and is tough. She was partnered with Kevin, when he began work at the Daily Planet.

• Kevin Costner and Nicole Oliver as Jack and Amy Whitney, Kevin's parents, whome they must keep Krypto's secret from.