Luke Smith
An artificial Human, the Archetype was the creation of the Bane. On the day of his "birth" he met Maria Jackson, helped to defeat the invasion plan of his creators and received a name, "Luke Smith", and an adopted mother, Sarah Jane Smith. Though he was created rather than born, he had the physical form of a teenager despite his literal age being much younger.
Tommy Knight was the best to play Luke in Sarah Jane Advenutres.
Personality
Even in his first hours of life, Luke knew how to speak, but he knew nothing of the world. He tended to respond to anything happening around him with a naïve response, such as "Is that good or bad?". Kelsey Harper had a crush on him but he seemed entirely oblivious to this development.
He quickly built a strong friendship with Clyde, who, being far more socially adept than Luke, taught him the 'proper' way to be a teenager. However, his logical, analytical personality means he is too literal; he cannot tell good jokes because he is lousy at using metaphors, and he has a terrible sense of balance meaning he is not good at skateboarding. As he spent more time with his new family, he gradually becomes accustomed to morals and gains a strong sense of right and wrong.
Powers and abilities
As the composite of thousands of Humans, Luke had genius-level intelligence, eidetic memory and enhanced learning ability (SJA: Invasion of the Bane). Though he could not utilize telekinesis normally, he had, in theory, the latent telekinetic powers of thousands (SJA: The Lost Boy). Anticipating her re-emergence, Luke began to experience precognitive dreams about Mrs Wormwood. (SJA: Enemy of the Bane), even though it was previously stated that Luke doesn't have dreams.
There were also physical aspects to Luke's genetic perfection; Sarah Jane commented that his immune system was so powerful he had never gotten sick, prior to his attack from Rakweed spores (SJA: The Gift). The extent of Luke's physical prowess and potential has been largely unexplored in the series. However, Luke demonstrated excellent combat skill and reflexes in the game Combat 3000 and was as such selected to be a warrior for the Uvodni in the Ghost Wars (SJA: Warriors of Kudlak).
Key Life Events
- Born from the Bane and meets Sarah Jane and Maria Jackson. (SJA: Invasion of the Bane)
- Meets Clyde Langer at school as well as the Slitheen. (SJA: Revenge of the Slitheen)
- Leaves Earth for the first time (strongly implied). (SJA: Warriors of Kudlak)
- Meets the Slitheen again who pretend to be his real parents (which turns out to be untrue) as well as using a telekinesis device to bring down the moon. (SJA: The Lost Boy)
- He was involved in the Medusa Cascade incident and meets The Doctor, Jack Harkness, Martha, Rose, Donna, Gwen Cooper, Ianto Jones and Harriet Jones by subwave network. (DW: The Stolen Earth / Journey's End)
- Meets a Sontaran named Kaagh. (SJA: The Last Sontaran)
- Says goodbye to Maria Jackson when she moves to America. (SJA: The Last Sontaran)
- Meets Rani Chandra . (SJA: The Day of the Clown)
- His not having a birthday and thus not having a star sign meant he could save the world. (SJA: Secrets of the Stars)
- Travels back to 1951 and meets Sarah Jane's parents. (SJA: The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith)
- Meets the Brigadier and UNIT. (SJA: Enemy of the Bane)
- He was involved when Kaagh and Mrs Wormwood came back and they forced him to put the scroll in the stone circle. (SJA: Enemy of the Bane)
- Gave Sarah Jane away at her wedding and helps the Doctor defeat the Trickster. (SJA: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith)
- Opted to stay at home and played Haresh Chandra at chess while Sarah Jane, Rani and Clyde went with Professor Rivers, Luke drove Haresh around in circles due to beating Haresh at chess. (SJA: The Eternity Trap )
- Enters Clyde Langer in a competition to see the unveiling of the Mona Lisa at the International Gallery (SJA: Mona Lisa's Revenge)
- Defeats the Mona Lisa and the Abomination (SJA: Mona Lisa's Revenge)
- Falls seriously ill for the very first time (SJA: The Gift)
- Is saved from being run over by the Doctor, who doesn't stop to talk.(DW: The End of Time)
- Graduates university (SJA: The Mad Woman in the Attic)
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