| Chloe Sullivan | |
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| Smallville character | |
 Allison Mack as Chloe Sullivan | |
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| Created by | Alfred Gough & Miles Millar |
| Portrayed by | Allison Mack |
| First comic appearance (Tie-in comic) | Smallville: The Comic (November 2002) |
| First comic appearance (DC Universe) | Action Comics #893 (November 2010) |
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| Alias | "Watchtower" |
| Relatives | Lois Lane |
| Affiliations | Smallville Torch Daily Planet Justice League Isis Foundation |
Chloe Sullivan is a fictional character in the television series Smallville, based on the Superman and Superboy comics published by DC Comics. Portrayed by series regular Allison Mack, Chloe was an original character created exclusively for Smallville by series developers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar. Other than main protagonist Clark Kent, Chloe is the only main character to last the whole duration of the show, though Mack signed on for only five episodes in the tenth and final season.[1] The character has also appeared in various literature based on Smallville, a web series, and was later adapted back into the original Superman comics that inspired Smallville.
In Smallville, Chloe is Clark Kent's best friend, Lois Lane's cousin, and the editor of the high school newspaper the Torch; she notices that the meteor rocks (kryptonite) are mutating the citizens of Smallville which she tracks on her "Wall of Weird". She generally teams up with friends Clark and Pete Ross to research and stop meteor-infected people from harming other citizens. In the first five seasons, Chloe harbors an unrequited love for Clark, but eventually accepts her place as his platonic friend and nothing more. In later seasons, Chloe discovers she herself has the metahuman power of empathic healing, though she apparently loses it after an encounter with the alien supervillain Brainiac. In terms of romantic storylines, after Jimmy Olsen (the same-named older brother of Superman supporting character James Bartholomew Olsen) is introduced to the show, he becomes Chloe's boyfriend and later husband, but the pair later divorces after a monster disrupts their wedding. In the show's final two seasons, Chloe finds love with Oliver Queen, otherwise known as the costumed vigilante-archer Green Arrow, whom she eventually marries and has a son with.
Chloe Sullivan has been characterized as independent, intelligent, curious and somewhat impulsive by both the writers and the actress that portrays her. The latter two characteristics often cause Chloe to get into trouble with both her friends and with billionaire industrialists Lionel Luthor and his son Lex, two of the show's primary antagonists. Mack has been recognized with multiple award nominations and wins for her breakout portrayal of Chloe.