Heather Fox was a meteor infected activist with the ability to transform into animals.
She is the main antagonist in the Smallville Young Adult novel Animal Rage.
Biography
Early life
Heather Fox's father was a cruel man who treated her terribly because he wanted a son instead of her. He took her on hunting trips to "toughen her up" but Heather hated it because she loved animals and didn't want to harm them.
Her father kept a room full of animal carcasses as trophies and Heather avoided that room because it caused her pain. When she dreamed, she swore she could hear and feel the screams of the deceased animals.
Heather later moved to Smallville to live with her grandmother to escape from her father's cruelty. Sadly her grandmother had dementia and always stayed in her room, and rarely came out.
She became a vegetarian and animal rights activist though her views were seen as extremely single-minded. Others said she couldn't the necessities of occasionally killing animals.
As part of her diet, Heather was inspired to make her own nutrient drinks. She gathered vegetables from the greenhouse owned by Jodi Melville's family. Unknown to her as well, the vegetables were grown in the same soil with meteor rocks.
As a result Heather was able to build up from her initial exposure to the meteorite shower, which had initially cured her of her allergies.
Animal Rage
Heather had a rep in school for her strident attitudes about the "criminal" mistreatment of animals by everyone on the planet. Her book bag bore the sticker "Fur is Murder".
One morning, Heather went to the Kent Farm with Lana Lang, Chloe Sullivan and Pete Ross to meet with Clark Kent to discuss their written assignments for The Torch. Heather wanted to do an article on the county fair. But she was thinking of doing an expose about what modern factory farming does to animals.
When Aunt Nell forces Lana to enter an oration contest sponsored by Lionel Luthor, Clark found himself caught up in the preparations.
This quickly brought him into conflict with Heather Fox.
She gained control of her long-developing shape-shifting abilities, which allowed her to shape-shift into any animal live or dead she touched. However, while dealing with Heather's harassment in school is one thing, it was quite another when she discovers an ability to become any animal she touches.
Abusing her new powers, Heather staged a one-woman terror spree against any she feels have wronged animals. But her attacks were becoming more violent, and she's losing more of herself to the beasts each time. Clark was presented with a genuine challenge for once.
Heather's attacks could injure him because of the meteor rocks in her system, and in nature, she had an almost limitless array of beasts to choose from. His method of dealing with her is clever, and at the same time, gives Lionel a much needed comeuppance.
Heather came across as both obnoxious and absurdly naive. She should have been aware of the necessities of farm life. As it was, her struggles against her rising animal natures were tearing her apart.
Becoming what she hated, a killer of animals, was palpable. Her lack of integrity, when it surfaces involving a whippet, was a telling sign that she's not as holier than thou as she likes to believe.
