You’d think after about 25 times y’all would have caught on by now…. or perhaps you did, and clicked the link to find out if you’re right. But guess what: Yeah, you’re right. As far as we know, there is no call sheet revealing Tom Welling and Michael Rosenbaum are in James Gunn’s Superman, though it would be a nice gesture considering they’re forced to sit on this animated thing. So, you all can groan, tell us we suck, we’re used to it. We promise – fake stories only appear on this site once per year. Oh, and something that is not an April Fool, though it happens at this time every year too: HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANNETTE O’TOOLE!
Sometimes the things we write about do come true, though. Here are some of our KryptonSite April Fool’s from the past…
2002 – Lana’s Parents Return (happened in the Smallville episode “Void”); Chloe Sullivan Is Lois Lane (sort of happened, in “Delete” and “Hex”)
2004 – Who’s Going article with a picture of Pete; Mr. Mxyzptlk Coming To Smallville (happened in “Jinx”); Lexana: It’s Real (see Season 6)
2005 – Gough & Millar Prepare Young Aquaman Pilot (seriously, I didn’t know!); Dean Cain on Smallville (happened in “Cure”)
2006 – Christopher Eccleston To Appear As Zod (so it wasn’t Eccleston, but Zod did show in Season 9); “Bizarro” Is Coming (it happened!); Justin Hartley To Guest In Season 6 As Aquaman (so he showed up as Green Arrow instead)
2007 – Smallville Returns To The WB (TheWB.com now exists – and this article also mentions a Green Arrow TV show… that’ll never happen!) Tom Welling Signs Through Season 9 (if only we knew…); Clark’s Kryptonian Mother Lara To Appear (she did, but with a different actress than we suggested) Season 7 accurate predicted titles included “Bizarro” and “Kara.”
2008 – Rosenbaum Out For Season 8 (why did that one have to be true?); “Legion” listed as a predicted Season 8 episode title
2009 – Annette O’Toole Returning (it happened!); The BBC Plans Their Own Version Of Smallville (have you SEEN Merlin?)
2010 – Brian Peterson & Kelly Souders listed as writers for Episode #200. We predicted Wonder Woman would be coming to TV, but were wrong in suggesting it was going to happen on Smallville with Bridget Regan, who did ultimately end up playing a DC character as Poison Ivy on Batwoman. Our only correct episode title was “Booster.”
2011 – We posted a rumor of a live-action Young Justice series, and sure enough, Titans eventually landed on DC Universe. Oliver Queen and Dinah [Laurel] Lance had found some on-and-off love over on Arrow though in the end Green Arrow ended up married to a blonde hacker girl. Tell me if you’ve heard that story before….
2013 – Even though the KryptonSite April Fool went viral, Smallville didn’t return in 2014, though David S. Goyer was executive producer of a Krypton prequel series.
2014 – Smallville now really is on Blu-ray! We didn’t get Lois & Clark ’93, but we did have a Wonder Woman ’77, Batman ’89 and Superman ’78 from DC Comics.
2015 – What, Tom Welling didn’t appear on the Supergirl pilot? Oops. But he did eventually appear in the Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover.
2016 – Supergirl hasn’t gone to Earth-Smallville yet (though Crisis on Infinite Earths did), and Zack Snyder didn’t make a Supergirl film, but we should have Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow within a few years!
2017 – Chloe Sullivan didn’t go to Legends of Tomorrow, instead choosing to get arrested, but we did sort of get development on a Lois Lane TV series with Metropolis.
2018 – No, there isn’t a Smallville reboot on DC Universe, and there never will be since they closed up shop. But hey, we did get Superman & Lois on The CW for four seasons.
2019 – Our list of guest stars for Crisis on Infinite Earths turned out to be pretty darned accurate…. we even called the Ezra Miller thing!
2020 – The 2020 crossover was to be “Challenge of the Superfriends.” That didn’t happen, nor was our story about a “Tom Welling Costume Cut” of Crisis on Infinite Earths.
2021 – Nope, no Superman & Lois/Batwoman crossover, and there wasn’t a Luthor team-up on Superman & Lois…. in the end, Wolé Parks wasn’t even playing a Luthor! Oops.
2022 – The Smallville animated project still hasn’t happened, and who knows if it even will with Warner Bros. Discovery ruining everything.
2023 – Michael Rosenbaum was not cast as Lex Luthor in James Gunn’s Superman movie, but he is Gunn’s favorite Lex Luthor, so that’s still a win, right?
2024 – No one from Smallville has made a Spider-Man TV show… yet.
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