The Justice League is a fictional group of superheroes on the television series Smallville. Developed for television by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, the Justice League consists of members Oliver Queen, Bart Allen, Victor Stone, Dinah Lance, Arthur Curry, Chloe Sullivan as the team's "Watchtower", and occasionally Clark Kent; the characters are portrayed by Justin Hartley, Kyle Gallner, Lee Thompson Young, Alaina Huffman, Alan Ritchson, Allison Mack, and Tom Welling, respectively. The original Justice League first appeared in the DC comic book The Brave and the Bold #28 (1960), and consisted of members Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, Aquaman and the Martian Manhunter.

In Smallville, the team did not make their first official appearance until the season six episode "Justice", although each member of the team had been previously introduced on the show in their own individual episodes since season four. In addition to the live-action television series, the Justice League have also been featured in a promotional tie-in with Toyota, which saw the team appear in an interactive, online comic book. On an individual level, Oliver Queen received his own tie-in that provided Sprint users with animated episodes depicting Oliver's backstory on their mobile phones.

Before and after the first appearance of the League on Smallville, there were talks among studio heads about spinning off individual characters, or the entire team, into their own television shows, but nothing came to fruition. Smallville is the first series—television or film—to feature live-action portrayals of Aquaman, Green Arrow, and Cyborg. Although the Justice League itself first appears in season six’s "Justice", each of the members had their own individual introductions and recurring storylines on the series prior to the formation of the team.

The first member to appear on the Smallville was Bart Allen, who was introduced in the season four episode "Run". In the episode, Bart is the first person Clark Kent (Tom Welling) discovers to have a superhuman ability—being able to run at supersonic speeds—not created from exposure to kryptonite. When Clark and Bart first meet, Bart is a pickpocket who saves Jonathan Kent (John Schneider) from being hit by a truck in Metropolis.

Eventually, Clark convinces Bart to give up his life of crime before Bart leaves Smallville. Arthur Curry appears next in the season five episode "Aqua". In his first appearance, Arthur, who has the ability to swim at super-human speeds and create energy blasts through the water, arrives in Smallville to stop an underwater weapon that Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum) has developed that is consequently killing the surrounding ocean life when it is fired.

Arthur and Clark initially butt heads on Arthur’s tactics for stopping Lex, where Arthur initially tries to blow up Lex’s lab, while Clark insists that they should simple talk to Lex face-to-face and ask him to stop. Eventually, Arthur and Clark locate and destroy the weapon outright. Season five also saw the introduction of Victor Stone in the episode "Cyborg".

In the episode, it is revealed that Victor was mortally wounded in a car accident that also took the lives of his family, but Lex’s company, LuthorCorp, took Victor’s body to one of his research labs where they experimented on Victor—they ultimately replaced his bone skeleton with a metal one. Clark attempts to provide Victor with a safe haven after Victor escapes from Lex’s facility. Ultimately, Clark manages to convince Lex to stop hunting Victor, while the latter leaves Smallville with his girlfriend.

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