We don’t get much of Aldar’s backstory during his “Smallville” appearance, which is decidedly on the brief side. In fact, the storyline that leads Clark Kent into his near-fatal showdown with Aldar is pretty much the secondary plot in the episode. But it remains a vital one in the season’s overarching narrative as it eventually leads to Clark’s first real encounter with J’onn J’onzz, aka Martian Manhunter.
For the record, it’s that character who saves Clark from what was shaping up to be a grisly death at the hands of Aldar, who has a tendency to rip his foes apart with his bare hands and feast on their bone marrow. Unfortunately, Aldar is neither seen nor heard from again after J’onn takes him down, so we never get concrete details regarding how he’s able to throw Clark around like a rag doll, which would seem pretty important given Clark’s status as the series’ Superman-in-the-making.
That said, we do know that Aldar somehow found his way to Earth after Clark opened the Phantom Zone gateway to make his own harrowing escape, and it’s a safe bet that the brutal ways in which Aldar feeds his ghastly culinary craving played a significant role in his cosmic incarceration. Whatever the case, given that Aldar could more than hold his own against the super-powered Clark, it seems an egregious oversight to have dispatched him so abruptly and with such finality. That’s even more true when you account for where Bautista’s career was headed.
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