Smallville's Tom Welling returns as Clark Kent in The CW's crossover event

Tom Welling returned as a wood-chopping Clark Kent in the second part of The CW’s crossover event, Crisis on Infinite Earths, which aired on Batwoman on Monday.

The New York-born 42-year-old – who starred as Superman in The CW’s Smallville from 2001-2011 – gave up his powers to raise a family with Lois Lane on his family farm on Earth-167. 

‘[Tom] was like, “I love this!”‘ crossover executive producer Marc Guggenheim said of Welling at a recent screening – according to EW. 

Powerless: Tom Welling returned as a wood-chopping Clark Kent in the second part of The CW’s crossover event, Crisis on Infinite Earths, which aired on Batwoman on Monday

18 years ago! The New York-born 42-year-old – who starred as Superman in The CW’s Smallville from 2001-2011 – gave up his powers to raise a family with Lois Lane on Earth-167

‘He said to me, “You guys have basically written the one scene that I can’t say no to,” which was really, really nice. When you talk about the interactions, that’s my favorite scene.  I feel like every note – even Tom’s little facial expressions when he says, “Oh, still stronger” [after he punches Jon Cryer’s Lex Luthor] is great.’ 

The 54-year-old Emmy winner told EW it was ‘unbelievably cool to work with Tom Welling’ because ‘Smallville was an absolutely amazing piece of work in terms of reimagining a character.’

Part two of Crisis on Infinite Earths also included two other dueling Supermen – Brandon Routh and Tyler Hoechlin.

The five-night crossover event uniting the superhero casts of Supergirl, Batwoman, The Flash, Arrow, and Legends of Tomorrow resumes Tuesday on The CW.

Crossover executive producer Marc Guggenheim said: ‘[Tom] was like, “I love this!” He said to me, “You guys have basically written the one scene that I can’t say no to”

POTUS: Jon Cryer – who returned as President Lex Luthor – told EW it was ‘unbelievably cool to work with Tom Welling’ because ‘Smallville was an absolutely amazing piece of work in terms of reimagining a character’

Multi-dimensional: Part two of Crisis on Infinite Earths also included two other dueling Supermen – Brandon Routh (L) and Tyler Hoechlin (R)

Supergroup: The five-night crossover event uniting the casts of Supergirl, Batwoman, The Flash, Arrow, and Legends of Tomorrow resumes Tuesday on The CW