Jeff Palmer, also known as The Invisible Man, is the protective brother of Amy Palmer and the main antagonist of the Smallville episode "Shimmer".
He was portrayed by Kett Turton, who also portrayed the Sand Demon in The Flash.
Biography[]
Jeff's parents worked on the staff at the Luthor Mansion. One day, he found some strange green (meteor rock-mutated) roses on the grounds of the mansion. He studied them, discovering their properties could turn invisible, extracted the oils, and created a cream that rendered him invisible when applied. Jeff's sister Amy was obsessed with Lex Luthor, and jealous of his current house guest, Victoria Hardwick.
During gym class, Troy Turner snatched Amy's notebook from her to see if she was writing about him, but it was all about Lex Luthor. Amy's brother Jeff arrives just then to rescue her. In the locker room, Clark Kent felt a bit ill as an invisible assailant walked by and clobbers Troy with some small free weights. Clark and Pete arrive to help. The invisible assailant could be seen as he walked through the steam, but no one notice it.
After an encounter with Victoria left Amy in tears, her mother counsels her that even though they live on the Luthor Estate, they are not a part of his world. Jeff assures their mother that they know their place. Jeff used his invisibility to vandalize Victoria's room. The bedding had been torn up, the pictures were all askew and the walls were covered in graffiti and paint, making Lex think there was a "ghost" haunting his mansion.
When she still didn't leave, he became invisible again and tried to drown her in her bathtub. Clark used his X-ray vision to see a skeleton leaving the room and the assailant stepped on a piece of broken mirror and left behind some blood and some green goo. Clark took a sample of the bloodied green goo and gave it to Chloe Sullivan at school. While testing it, Chloe rubs some goo on her fingers, and they disappear. When she wipes it off, her fingers reappear. They decide to check Amy Palmer's blood type against the sample.
After Amy had another jealous attack, Lex discovered his stolen watch while finding her shrine of him and asked the Palmers to leave the mansion the following night. When the Palmers left, Jeff went after Lex, attacking him and shouting at him to choose Amy over Victoria. Jeff knocked Lex's head against the wall, rendering him unconscious. Chloe later told Clark that the sample blood drop didn't match Amy Palmer's blood donation, but it matched her brother Jeff's. Clark rushed off to the mansion.
Clark came to Lex's side and Jeff had some knowledge of his Kryptonian abilities. He smacked Clark in the face with a mace, which shattered upon impact. Jeff explained to Clark that he found a strange green rose on grounds. He studied it and used its oils to create the invisibility cream. When he grabs Clark around the neck, Clark elbows him and he flew across the room and into a scaffold. Opened cans of paint fell on him, revealing where he is. After his battle with Clark Kent, he was taken away in an ambulance to Belle Reve in need of some "serious therapy".
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