Ben Meyers was a delusional production assistant for the Warrior Angel movie in the CW TV series Smallville.
He served as the main antagonist in the Season 7 episode "Action".
He was portrayed by Christopher Jacot, who also voiced Maurice Vega in Watch Dogs and Dušan Nemec in Watch Dogs 2.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Ben Meyers was a fanboy of comics specifically the Warrior Angel series. He had a job on the movie set of "Warrior Angel" as a production assistant and wanted it to stay true to the source material. Ben and other fans were displeased because in the movie, Warrior Angel's girlfriend Penelope lives, but in the comics, she was supposed to die. Determined to change it, Ben became obsessed with killing off the Penelope actress; Rachel Davenport.
Season Seven[]
At the Kent Farm, the movie crew prepared to do a driving scene with lead actress Rachel Davenport behind the wheel. Secretly, Ben sabotaged the car by cutting the brake lines. After filming the scene, Rachel couldn't stop the car and was almost killed but Clark Kent super-speeds to the rescue and caught her when her car crashed, impressing her.
Ben arrived to tell Clark that Rachel wanted to meet him at the Talon. On the movie set, Rachel was about to do a gun scene, but Ben puts a real bullet in the prop gun so that Rachel would be killed when the prop was used in the movie. Clark, watching the scene, X-rays the gun and saw a real bullet in it. He super-speeds and caught it with his hand, but Ben saw him display his abilities. After Ben realized that Clark had superpowers, he transferred his obsession with Warrior Angel onto Clark.
Rather than try to kill Rachel Davenport, he now focused on killing Clark's love interest, Lana Lang. By killing Lana, Ben believed that Clark would be free to embrace his destiny and become a hero to save the world. Ben sent an envelope to Clark that contained an issue of "Warrior Angel" and a message telling him that the writer knows about his powers and asked him why hasn't he saved the world yet. Clark and Chloe tried to find out who the stalker was and she manages to trace the comic book purchase to Ben.
Clark then went to Ben's apartment but found instead a computer attached to a camera. It has a recorded message to Clark from Ben, telling him that he should be the hero he is destined to be and to start saving the world. Lana later took Rachel to Queen Tower for safety. Ben tracked them down and tasers Rachel unconscious. Lana tries to escape, but he tasers her as well.
Ben then carried Lana over to the balcony of the building and tells her she needs to die in order for Clark to save the world. He tosses her over the edge but Clark arrived just in time to jump after her and catches Lana. Ben was subsequently caught and taken to Belle Reve.
He was later visited by Lex Luthor, who tries to bribe him by offering dozens of the rarest "Warrior Angel" comics so that Ben might tell him who caught the bullet meant for Rachel Davenport. Ben realized that Lex was the villain in the story and told Lex nothing, keeping Clark's secret safe.