James Whitlark's article, "Superheroes as Dream Doubles" states "that contemporary superheroes are psychologically more complex" (108). As a result of this complexity, superheroes display a double identity: the person “....is divided into two selves: one ineffective, the other heroic” (107). This idea of ​​superheroes with dual identities is prevalent in “Heat,” an episode of the television series Smallville. Throughout the episode viewers see the main character, Clark Kent struggle with controlling his unconscious thoughts brought on by Desirée Atkins, who also has a doubled side. Even if his is predominantly evil. Throughout the episode viewers get to see Desirée try to spread her evil ways on Clark and it is up to him to be able to control his unconscious thoughts and reveal Desirée's secret. At the beginning of the episode Smallville is in the middle of a heat wave. All the students and teachers are covered in sweat. While the students were waiting for biology class to start, a young teacher, Mrs. Adkins, comes out wearing a very revealing dress. As the movie about animal reproduction plays, Clark can't stop staring at her. Demonstrating Whitlark's idea that "...Golden Age superheroes sublimate everyday desires for sexual reproduction...(108)." When Clark makes a valiant attempt to ignore his unconscious thoughts about Mrs. Adkins, he accidentally sets the classroom on fire with his newly discovered heat ray. While everyone is evacuating, he saves Mrs. Adkins' life and puts out the fire. This allows the audience to see the responsible and troubling sides of Clark Kent. The responsible side of Clark has tried to ignore his repressed thoughts about Mrs. Adkins, however his worrying side b... middle of paper... chokes his father by telling him to tell where the records are. His father tells Clark he can kill him if he wants, but he will never tell him. Normal Clark would never be overly aggressive with someone for a million dollar reward. However this new Clark has made it obvious that all he cares about is money. At the end of the episode Pete shows Clark some green rocks that make him weak and Mr.Kent breaks the ring containing the red rock into thousands of pieces and Clark becomes altered. the ego disappears and things return to normal. He apologized to his parents for everything and the last thing he said was "it's like I have two identities, the real one and me". This episode was a great example of James Whitlarks' suggestions that some superhero doubles could be portrayed as "ids". ” or alter ego when there are psychologically complex superheroes.