Superman & Lois included a Smallville Easter egg that surreptitiously brings back a dead family. The new Arrowverse series saw the return of Clark Kent to his hometown of Smallville. However, it’s definitely not the one fans remember from the Smallville TV show. This version of the town is far more rundown, people are struggling financially, their homes and farms are being lost, and shady businessman Morgan Edge is swooping in to help in ways Lois Lane finds incredibly suspicious. However, it seems one villainous family has survived the reboot of the multiverse: the Teagues.
In the third episode of Superman & Lois season 1, called “The Perks of Not Being a Wallflower,” Clark goes into town to submit the mortgage paperwork for the Kent farm to Lana Lang, now a bank manager. As he walks up to her, the Teague hardware store comes into focus for a brief moment, window advertising revealing that it sells lumber, fencing, and paint. It’s a nice nod to the Teagues, who were characters created for Smallville and appeared in a couple of seasons of the Tom Welling-starring series, typically wreaking havoc along the way while becoming the enemies of both Lana and Clark. The fact that the Teague store appears in a scene between the two former lovebirds is indicative of the relationship they had with Jason in Smallville.
For some background, Jason Teague (Supernatural’s Jensen Ackles) and his mother Genevieve (Jane Seymour) were introduced in season 4 of Smallville. Jason was Lana’s college student boyfriend, someone she’d met while in Paris over summer break, and the assistant football coach at Clark’s high school. Jason and Clark were romantic rivals, both vying for Lana’s affections at the time. However, it was revealed that Jason was working with Genevieve to retrieve the three Stones of Power, Kryptonian crystals that would bestow them with the knowledge of various galaxies.
The third member of the family, Edward Teague, Jason’s estranged father and Genevieve’s husband, wasn’t introduced until Smallville’s seventh season. Suffice it to say that Edward was also not long for this world and died at the hands of Brainiac. It’s unclear if the Teague’s hardware store is still open or not — the store next door is having a “closing down sale,” indicating it’s going out of business — but the fact the Teagues exist at all in Superman & Lois suggests the family is still alive after being killed off in Smallville.
The Easter egg is likely just that, however, and will probably have no bearing on the remaining plot of Superman & Lois. However, considering that the multiverse collapsed and several worlds merged to form Earth-Prime after the “Crisis on Infinite Earths” crossover means the Teagues from Earth-38 (Supergirl and Superman’s original home world) possibly survived and were brought over. It’s either that or the rebooted universe managed to alter what happened on Smallville and brought Jason and his family back from the dead right before the worlds merged. Either way, it’s a fun, if inconsequential, Easter egg that fans will recognize if they’ve seen the former WB show.
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