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CHARACTER INFORMATION
Name: Superboy (Alias: Conner Kent). Also called Supey or Project Kr.
Canon: Young Justice (DC Animated).
Original or Alternate Universe: Original.
Canon Point: Episode 22, Agendas.
Number: 045
Setting: Here!
History:
Ever heard of Superman? Who hasn’t heard of Superman, right? Eternal Boy Scout trying to protect everybody, infuriatingly sweet alien that happens to have superpowers. Now imagine living in a world where Superman is a real person, somebody you see on the news almost every day. Saving the world from a catastrophe, leading the justice league, the golden bachelor.
Then there’s the other side, there’s Lex Luthor. Famous for his crimes against humanity while trying to get Superman around his thumb, for his extremely brilliant mind with almost no rivals on Earth and for being the single most rich man on DC’s world. A man you never know if you should hate or love, because he’s giving money to hospitals and orphanages one day and you hear of his secret laboratories in which humans are put through experiments you can’t even imagine for the greater good.
Talk about having famous parents, uh?
Clone of those two powerful men, Supey had lived inside of a pod since before he could even remember. He was created by ‘Cadmus’ labs using Superman’s genetic material, a self-called ‘living weapon’ made to occupy Superman’s place was he ever to die, or to stop him if he ever ‘turns from the light’. Seeing as the big bad boys in the show are part of an organization called ‘the light’, that wording is really meaningful.
He spent his first 16 weeks of his life inside of a pod, being educated telepathically by the ‘G-Gnomes’, created by Cadmus as some kind of living source of energy and weapon . Superboy’s mind was filled with images and thoughts, meant to get him ready for his fate- and eventually creating a personality. The most prominent images were of him flying, defending the world… and some of Superman going berserk, going evil and him stopping him. Killing him.
(To this day he still wonders if that’s his purpose, the reason Cadmus had to create him. He keeps his feelings about it shut down, and only talked about him with his friends once he really trusted them, in a campfire. Even if that is his purpose, he still adores Superman so and wants to be just like him.)
On the 16th week, Robin, Kid Flash and Aqualad barged into the lab and freed him. He fought them, to defend himself at first but he was quickly mind-controlled to be against them when he showed some reluctance. It seemed like Cadmus was going to clone the three boys and Supey wasn’t going to do anything to stop it… but all it took to convince Superboy to save them was Aqualad asking him: What Would Superman Do? Like I said, he loves Superman like a kid would love his adored father.
After he helped the boys get out and they were assisted by the league, Superboy finally got to meet his worshiped Superman. The man is less than thrilled to see he has been cloned, which visibly hurts Superboy. Still, he and the three other boys face their mentors and tell them to let them help, to let them do what they were trained to do.
While Batman decided what to do with them, he spent some days with Kid Flash in his house. After some shenanigans involving a pair of villains called the Terror Twins and shopping clothes, the first really official time Supey really battles evil... Batman allows them to form a team and Superboy gets to live in the old house for the Justice League, Mount Justice.
That’s when the team meets the first girl to join the team, too. Miss Martian, M’gann M’orzz. While she’s nice and they try to get along, Superboy is still new at this ‘social interaction’ thing, so he tends to snap at her. Especially when she uses her telepathy to communicate with him (which reminds him of the G-Gnomes). With Aqualad’s help, though, Superboy slowly learns to say ‘sorry’ at the same time as the whole team accepts M’gann as one of them when she proves worthy in the battle against Mr Twister. He eventually apologizes to her like Aqualad had told him, first sign of a real understanding of a social situation.
One day, after Red Tornado explained to him how a crisis brought the Justice League together and how it was formed, Superboy falls asleep. When he wakes up he finds the exact same situation Tornado had explained to him happening, and while he tries to fight at first he eventually realizes it’s just an illusion, as he was being mind-controlled by a G-Gnome that had sneaked into the Mount Justice because he missed him.
On the next mission they have to choose the leader, which ends being Aqualad. Supey is pretty ok with that, he didn’t really want to be the leader. In this mission on Santa Prisca, they manage to fight and win Sportsmaster and Kobra, an organization working with huge muscle-enchanting drugs called ‘venom’… and we see Supey using his superhearing and language understanding to get an idea of their plans. They destroy their fabric on the process.
Superboy still tries to get Superman’s attention in any way, as he proves later when he jumps to try to help him save a bus full of kids. All he gets from that, though, is Superman scolding him because his landing could use a lot more work, then flying off as soon as he’s called… practically ignoring Supey. That understandably angers him, and he even tries to take it out on Black Canary as she tries to teach the team how to handle a fight. Obviously, Superboy is no rival for a black belt in most if not all of the martial arts and Black Canary wins him easily.
…That only serves to anger him more.
He even puts the team’s mission in danger by jumping into it too soon, even if he does manage to save the day by using his wits against Amazo (a robot with all of the Justice League’s abilities). He comes to Black Canary after that to ask her to teach him how to fight, and she obviously makes him improve as seen on the next ep when he manages to win Aqualad as they spar. He also seems to be learning Robin’s weird slang, as shown when he says he’s feeling the ‘aster’ as he looks at him, smiling.
In this ep we also learn he hates monkeys. This is valuable information.
In the next episodes or issues we don’t see much of Supey apart from his help during missions, like him having to face his biggest fears because of Psycho-pirate using Medusa masks on the team to induce anxiety into the team. Supey’s biggest fears were all about not living up to Superman’s standards and going back to Cadmus. Kid Flash helps him snap out of it, such a bro.
We also get to know Artemis, the new archer on the team. She seems to really appreciate Supey’s ‘assets’ even if he’s a little wtf about it. On their first mission with her they have to prevent a nano-robotic virus from getting into every computer. Supey is teamed up with Robin, which usually works well since the younger boy is the brain and Superboy, the muscles. He engages the operator of the Fog into a fight and wins.
One day, Captain Atom notices how bored the team is at his lecture and decides to give them a little mission, a cold case from Vietnam. They had to clean the name of the framed Nathaniel Adams… which we learn later is Capitan Atom himself.
This mission isn’t important for Supey per se, but we get to see how much he’s come to rely on his invulnerability. He freaks out (inwardly, of course, and denies it to his friends) when a X-Ionized sword makes him bleed, until he’s told could hurt Superman himself and that he’s as invulnerable as he’s always been. Then some more punching happens.
The next mission involves trying to find Kent Nelson, former Doctor fate. This is kind of a ‘Wally’ ep so everything Supey does is look cool and get his favorite boots destroyed by magma. It’s still a cool ep.
Their next mission was… kind of a disaster. They have to deal with Clayface, and Supey isn’t really happy with that since he’s in Gotham City and that’s Batman’s territory. He doesn’t want to clean up his mess. Clayface wipes the floor with them, and Batman blames Aqualad because he was the one that allowed them to split, since he was distracted.
Aaaand cute a little moment of his life in Mount Justice along with M’gann. It’s kind of an important thing though, since we see Superboy willing to help her bake a cake even when he doesn’t really want to, and letting her close. Even when M’gann throws all the food over him, he just lets her clean him up. ~Sexual tension ensues~ except not sexual since they are babies.
Then comes Bialya. The team is told to go assess the situation in that foreign land, but they didn’t count with the fact that Psimon would be there. He’s a villain with psychic powers, and uses M’gann and her psiquic powers to make them forget the last months.
Since Supey didn’t exist yet, he becomes feral. He scares and almost hurts all the team and gets kidnapped in the end, being tortured along with some kind of mechanical (somehow sentient) ball that seems to want to help him until M’gann flies to save him and returns his memories by linking their minds together. There’s a neat flashback to moments of Superboy’s life, and we see a lot of them are linked to M’gann. A lot of people said M’gann twisted his memories to make him like her more, but Word of God himself says those really were his memories so that’s what I’m going with.
Together, they defeat Psimon. We didn’t know this yet when the ep came out, but apparently Supey knew from this moment on that M’gann was a white martian, and didn’t force her to tell him.
Anyway. They are about to kiss until said ball interrupts them… and Supey decides to keep it as a mascot. The ball seems to really like Supey, and gets jealous if he doesn’t pay attention it it.
Kaldur invites M’gann and Superboy under the sea, and they get to know there’s a lot of racism undersea towards those who show some fishy appendages… like Kaldur and his gills. They engage in a battle with Ocean Master because of it, but manage to win thanks to Gath, Kaldur’s friend.
So, next ep. Supey and M’gann begin attending high school, yay. They decide to give Supey the name ‘Conner Kent’, since M’gann likes the name Conner and Superman’s real name is Clark Kent. Supey doesn’t raelly know Clark is Superman’s secret identity though, and he’s told it’s because of Doctor Fate’s real name, ‘Kent Nelson’. He doesn’t know M’gann bases his name on ‘Conner’, the love interest of ‘Megan’, the main star of her favorite show either.
Yes, kinda weird, but moving on. The school day goes fine even if Supey manages to embarrass himself at every chance he’s got. Falling down stairs, getting into fights with kids because they wear Superhero related shirts… oh well. We also get to see he will not have any problems with his classes since he has knowledge drilled into his head thaks to the G-Gnomorphs. Lucky guy.
On their next mission, Superboy and M’gann have to infiltrate Belle Reve Penitentiary as the Terror Twins (remember them? Yeah!!!). Batman suspects there’s a mutiny going to happen because of intel they got thanks to Artemis, and they find out he’s right. A lot of ice-powered people got together to ice the walls and punch their way out, but Superboy manages to trick Icicle Junior into stopping it without him knowing. It was kinda surprising to see how he managed to manipulate people so easily when he didn’t get social interaction just a few months ago, he’s changed a lot in the months he’s been with the teams.
In the process of stopping the escape, though, M’gann gets turned into a popsicle. Not literally of course but, you know, a lot of ice.
Supey is worried sick and yells for her not to leave him, but Mars is a very cold place and M’gann has no problem breaking the ice at all. Relieved, Superboy kisses her silly. This is the start of their relationship. Cute babies.
Next time Supey gets involved in Superhero shenanigans happens because Red Tornado’s family, Red Volcano and Red Inferno, break into Mount Justice and trap him along with Wally in solid rock not even he can break, and M’gann and Aqualad in a fire jail because they are susceptible to it.
Artemis and Robin manage to save them all with a little help from Wally, but Red Tornado suffers some weird reprograming as he touches his ‘brothers’ and flies away. The team is pretty freaked out. Aqualad had intel that there was a mole in the team, but he didn’t tell them because he didn’t want to alert the mole. Superboy overhears him talking about the possibility of Red Tornado being the mole…
And lashes out, almost punching him. He’s really pissed out because he put M’gann in danger, and the rest of the team is also really, really miffed at Aqualad because he didn’t tell them, didn’t trust him enough. Batman tells them to shut up and go deal with a mission , investigating some attacks in India.
They go, but everybody (including Supey) refuses to listen to Aqualad as their leader. They go in separate ways, and when Superboy tries to get M’gann to go with him so he can protect her she tells him that she can handle it, she’s a big girl, no need to go Neanderthal on her kthxb. It’s a very important step in their relationship because Supey has to learn that while they are indeed dating now, she is still her own person and doesn’t need him to smother her.
So yeah, apparently the attacks were caused because of some drugs put into the animals that made them extra big and extra angry, kinda similar to the venom drugs they had seen earlier. In the process of fighting said mutated animals Superboy gains a pet, a wolf.
Called Wolf. Supey is great with naming pets.
They fight the mastermind of the plan (which is hilariously a literal brain, heh) and his sidekick Monsieur Mallah, a gorilla. Supey’s hatred for monkeys extends to a lot of other primates, apparently. Anyway, they win because that’s what the good guys do. Aqualad tells them to suck it up and deal with him being the leader for now, then can talk about him stepping down once the mission is over.
They all agree to keep him because nobody’s as awesome as Aqualad let’s be honest here.
Batman suddenly contacts them because they need to battle the Injustice league, a couple of supervillains from different cities that gathered together and are attacking the cities with Poision Ivy’s plants. They engage in battle and while Supey wasn’t really important to the main plan (that basically involved Aqualad turning into Doctor Fate for a moment to beat them up and Wally breaking his arm) he is still pretty badass as he fights Ultra-Humanite.
Which, yes, kinda looks like a gorilla too. Supey’s life.
Oh so remember Red Tornado? The one who ran away? The team gets the feeling the Justice League has some Intel on him that hasn’t told them yet, and decide to go find him themselves. Zatanna, who was visiting, included.
After interrogating Professor Ivo, Red Tornado’s creator, they find out he’s in Teton Country. They get there, fight Red Volcano… and win ( thanks to Zatanna because Volcano knew all of the other’s powers by getting the information out of Tornado). Red Volcano is, by the way, really rude. They even calls them all ‘humans’ even if there are obviously two aliens on the team.
Rude.
He takes it back though, and decides to just call them all ‘meatbags’. Moving on… Superboy saves Red Tornado from the lava. Red Tornado apologizes, and they all decide that he’s practically human. Tearjerker ensues when Superboy calls him meatbag, it’s seriously a cute moment.
And then… oh boy, Failsafe happens. The team gets put into a mental training session together, where they must learn how to learn with failing a mission. So, basically, no matter how much they manage in the virtual mission things will get worse. Which seems bad, but they all know what’s going on so they won’t get traumatized.
Or that was the plan. Everything seems to go well at first, even when Superman first, then later Wolf get killed Supey manages to keep his cool. But while they were trying to deal with the aliens in the virtual world, Artemis gets hit with one of their rays, and dies. The shock is so big to M’gann something goes wrong, and she forgets it was all fake. And since she’s terribly powerful, and they were all mind-linked… they all do.
They try to move on, but specially Kid Flash has an extreme reaction to Artemis’ dead. Superboy gets called Superman a couple of times, which at first pisses him of like no tomorrow but then he learns to accept as a compliment.
Supey dies at the hands of the aliens in this vision, and until M’gann herself gets killed he lies into a comatose state because he truly thinks he’s died, like the rest of the team. When the truth is out, he’s the first to defend his girlfriend.
Everything that happened on the vision still hits him hard, as shown in the next ep when they are all forced to go to Black Canary for psychological evaluation and Superboy just walks out. He wants to go out, and to his surprise the Sphere decides she wants to go to… and just transforms into a supercycle out of the blue. Superboy is thrilled and rides it out.
On the way they meet the ‘Forever people’, guys from a planet called New Genesis. They accuse him of stealing the Sphere, but Superboy tells them he saved it from Byalia. Superboy decides to help them track the technology they got stolen. In the end they follow the Mother Box (some kind of machine, it’s complicated!) to Metropolis and they find the Intergang there, dealing with their weapons.
Once the battle is over the Forever people want to take away the Sphere from Supey because it belongs to their planet, but he convinces them that THEY BONDED, OKAY?... and gets to keep it. Wolf is a little jealous but they are all bff, so it works out.
The next eps are kind of filler for Supey. In one it’s Halloween, and M’gann helps him dress as a mummy as she dresses up like a corpse bride. One of their classmates tries to trick the whole class into thinking there’s a Martian invasion, so with M’ganns shape-shifting powers they make him believe Martians are actually invading. Silly guys.
In the next one Klarion the witch kid and some other magic guys split the world into adults and kids. Supey, most of the team and some other older teenagers spend the day trying to find lost kids that could be in danger and bring them to a shelter where they take care of them. With Captain Marvel help (since he’s a kid that turns into an adult superhero when he pronounces the words ‘Shazam’) they manage to revert the world back to normal… but they lose Zatanna’s father in the process. He becomes Dr Fate, and she has to live with Supey and M’gann at Mount Justice from then on.
And then in the next one, Wally’s birthday, all the team gets sent into a mission to destroy Ice Fortresses around the world… except for Wally, who has to deliver a heart to a little girl that needs it. But that’s his story.
The team has to move to Qurac to deal with strange alliances between the president and Queen Bee, a known villain. There they get to know Garfield, the future Beast Boy, and his mother. Apparently his mother was the actress from the show M’gann loves so much. The team finds out thanks to Gar, and they all get a little freaked out at how much she looks like the actress… and how Conner is named after her love interest in the show.
The team later notices the president is actually being mind-controlled by Psimon, and they fight him and his henchmen, who are all using Apokolpis weapons (New Genesis’ rival planet). They all get knocked out except for M’gann, who wins on the battle with Psimon.
The team confronts her about the show thing, and ask her to show her real appearance. Instead of showing them her white Martian form, she makes herself similar to her Uncle, Martian Manhunter. Supey accepts her anyway.
And we’re almost done! Just an ep more to go.
This ep is really important though. Superboy gets an ultrasonic message telling him to meet somebody on a Park in Washington DC. He goes… saying he’s going to take Wolf out for a walk, which, wtf. Anyway.
The mysterious person turns out to be Lex Luthor (the plot thickens!) who tells him there’s a new clone in Cadmus he should probably deal with. He goes there only to be told there isn’t such a thing as another clone, but he doesn’t believe them and eventually finds the other clone, Match. Unlike Supey, though, Match has full Kryptonian powers so he kind of whips the floor with Supey.
He freaks out when he wakes up in a pod, but he’s told it was the fastest way to heal him. He confronts the doctor about Match but he doesn’t get an answer. Lex Luthor contacts him again and explains him about his half-human heritage, and how Match was a full Kryptonian but also unstable. This is where he gives him the damn shields that will repress his human genes and make him able to fight with Match equally.
So he does, once Dubillex (the boss G-Gnome or something like that) brings him to Gnomorph city, and explains that Match was actually an earlier project, Superboy was the second time they tried to clone Superman. Superbo wins, and even if he’s reluctant to do so he allows Match to be kept into a pod because even if he doesn’t want him to suffer what he did, he understands Match can’t be left to his own devices, he’s too dangerous.
Superboy goes meet with Lex again to tell him he isn’t his go to guy when he has to clean a mess, and Lex tells him how the human part of his DNA is his own. Superboy freaks out as Lex tells him that he’ll be a better father than Superman because unlike him he understands the world isn’t black or white, and so does Supey.
Why would he have allowed Match to be kept prisoner, otherwise? As Lex sees it, Superboy understands the world as it is, unlike Superman. Lex is pretty proud. Superboy is really, really angry and tries to hit Lex… but he simply says the words ‘Red Sun’ and gets him to black out God knows how many hours.
This is the point I’m taking him from. Because I’m evil.
Personality:
Superboy is Superman clone. That’s a fact, and he’s always let it define him. Especially on his early days ‘what would Superman do?’ was practically his motto. He practically lived to make the older man proud, and he grew frustrated every time he was ignored by the closest thing he would have to a parent.
On top of that frustration, add a whole lot of confusion. He’d never been free, he had never had such strong feelings, he had never been told what he was allowed or not allowed to do… he wasn’t quite sure what to do with a normal life now that he had been freed. He saw the others act friendly around each other. They knew what was ok to say and what wasn’t. They knew where the limits were set.
He didn’t. He was just a pod kid that didn’t know it was rude to walk away from a conversation or that he was overreacting if he yelled at the girl he lived with for poking around his brain like the G-gnomes had done. He didn’t know how to say ‘sorry’ or that calling somebody son didn’t mean they were literally that. Luckily, he got better.
Living surrounded by his teammates and friends helped, going to a regular school helped even more. He isn’t exactly good at socializing, and a lot of things people do still confuse him (He still doesn’t get wars, shouldn’t humans protect each other?) but he’s becoming more and more like a normal kid as time goes.
Kind of. The rage he was born with never really went away, and that he’s getting better at controlling doesn’t mean it isn’t there. He’s like a ticking bomb, and when something sets him off he punches the nearest wall, yells, and stomps away. Not necessarily in that order. He also feels lonely, different. The team has done wonders to make him feel included, but it’s kind of hard to feel like part of a group when you aren’t even a real kid. M’gann points out that the reason he keeps adopting stray animals like Bally and Wolf (-I admit I’m using the term ‘animal’ lightly here) is because he feels like a stray, himself.
M’gann, by the way, is probably one of the few reasons Supey doesn’t just go Berserk sometimes. Even when they weren’t dating she was the one that kept smiling at him, helping him, being there for him 24/7 (…literally, since they live together). They are both aliens on Earth that know next to nothing of their social interactions and habits and things like that. So yes, M’gann is a really important part of Supey’s development as a human.
Even if Superboy is a fast learner and gets better at this whole social interaction thing, he still has a thing against orders. When the team unanimously (kind of) chooses Aqualad to be their leader after a mission, Supey understands he must take his orders if he wants their missions to succeed. That doesn’t mean he will not snap if he disagrees with an order, though.
While he tries to be nice, it’s obvious he still has a long way to go when it comes to social interaction, as seen as how he snaps at a kid just because he’s wearing a superhero shirt. He’s also about to jump and attack the cheerleaders when they pull a little prank on M’gann. It’s not that he doesn’t like people; he just doesn’t understand they might be joking sometimes, or how social cues work.
The rage is strong with this one.
He obviously has a bigger bond with M’gann since they live together (and have feelings for each ohter), but he also appreciates the rest of the team. In missions, he always seems to be paired with Robin... probably because he’s the muscle to the little guy’s brains. He seems to like the little guy, and even uses the words he makes up- like aster, or whelmed.
Aqualad is like his big brother, always cheering him up or giving him advice when he might need it. And... well, let’s just say Supey needs it often. Kid Flash was there for him when he needed a place to stay, and he shows him the ways to being social and being around women. Probably the reason he hasn’t told him about his feelings for M’gann yet.
And as for Artemis... Supey was one of the few who didn’t mind then she joined the team. Probably because he didn’t share the bond with Roy (their former arrow-shooting friend) most of the other members of the team had, so she didn’t feel like a replacement to him. She still confuses him, though- what does ‘hmmm, that boy’ mean, even?
About the mentors, Supey obviously holds a great respect for Batman and Black Canary. He seems to accept Red Tornado as his caretaker, and he listens to Martian Manhunter’s advices despite being obviously jealous of M’gann’s relationship with her uncle.
There’s not a mentor he appreciates more than he appreciates Superman though, and he... he just really wishes he’d accept him. Now that he knows he’s also Lex’s son he feels a little awkward because he does have a father that loves him and appreciates him and even calls him son and tells him how proud he is of him.
But it’s Lex I’m-a-bad-guy Luthor. How is he supposed to deal with that?
Supey just wants to do the right thing, but he’ll do it his way. He wants to help, he wants to protect people. And deep down he just wants to be accepted, to be looked at as more than ‘Superman’s clone’. He wants people to look at him. But at the same time he has spent so much time hiding behind being the ‘Superboy’, trying to be just like Superman... that he doesn’t really know who he is. He’s trying hard to find out, though, and his friends are being a great help. When he’s nervous or he feels like he’s being attacked he turns his defenses up and goes back to being just the Superboy, just a weapon. So it’s really, really difficult to get him to open up to you and trust you, but once he does... he’ll trust you forever, and will believe everything you tell him.
That’s another thing with him: he’s really gullible when it comes to his close social circle. Being raised mentally means he had to learn social behavior as it came, so he doesn’t have reasons to distrust what they tell him.
Abilities, Weaknesses and Power Limitations:
Just want to point out that we’ve been told Supey’s abilities will slowly grow as time goes in the show. He’s a clone of Superman, so all of his abilities are (in more or less degree) related to the powers the Kryptonian has.
- Super strength, not as strong as Superman but waaay stronger than a usual human
- Super senses. For example his hearing: he can hear things from miles around.
- Eidetic memory (Also known as ‘wiki brain’). He can easily remember everything he’s been told. He was educated telepathically using this ability, so he knows a lot about… uh, a lot of not-really-useful things to be honest. He’s also been shown to know some languages, like Spanish.
- He can leap tall buildings in a single bound, and while that’s not flying it’s still really cool ok? Ok. This could be flying to a lesser degree or just Supey using the strength of his legs to jump, it hasn’t been addressed.
- Telescopic/Microscopic vision.
- Near invulnerability.
Lex gave him some shields that keep his human genes from tampering his Kryptonian powers. It will be explained on the history section how dependent Superboy has become towards them.
So with the shields he’s supposed to have all of Superman’s powers. So far in the show we have seen him use:
- Flight.
- Laser vision.
- X-ray vision.
- Even more superstrenght.
The most obvious weaknesses with Superboy are Kryptonite (the famous mineral that affects every Kryptonian and weakens them to the point of death with prolonged exposure) and magic, which affects him the same way it would affect a normal human being.
The code words ‘Red Sun’ get him to black out for several hours.
With a more personal approach, his weaknesses when it comes to his personality are obviously his uncontained rage and how he never listens or thinks things through. His invulnerability makes him jump into dangers at any given chance, and he never stops to think that the bad guys might have some kind of advantage on him. Black Canary managed to make him realize super strength doesn’t mean he can always pull a Leeroy Jenkins in the middle of the battle and leave unharmed, but he still relies on brute strength a tad too much and that’s put the team in trouble more than once.
About his power tampering, I think a 40% of his strength and super-senses would be enough to go with. That also goes with all the abilities he gets with the shields. Maybe being able to lift a car, but not being strong enough to throw it for example.
I’d like for him to keep his heath vision, his eidetic memory and being able to use his muscles/not-quite-flying to leap, since I don’t think it’d give him too much of an advantage on other characters and it’d make him more easily playable. Maybe making it way more difficult for him to use them, for example. He’d require a lot more concentration and it’d tire him easily.
Inventory: 5 of the S-shields Lex gave him (since those are the ones we see him use in canon in the next eps), a couple of S-shield shirts and his pet Wolf. Wolf is a normal… wolf that’s been domesticated by Supey, so he’s kind of an overgrown dog. It’d help Supey deal with everything going on in the ship if he had it with him, and it’s lived its fair share of fighting so it could hold its own in the game.
Appearance:
Short black hair, tall, muscular… Conner looks like an average attractive 16 years old kid with a uncanny resemblance to Superman. The only distinctive traits are his eyes- bright blue, Kryptonian blue. That’s the reason Clark Kent hides his eyes behind his glasses, not that Supey would know that. He rarely smiles, so his face is wearing and almost permanent frown.
He usually wears jeans and boots, and on the first day he bought an enormous assortment of shirts with the S-shield. Sometimes he wears a brown jacket over it.
Age: Physically and mentally 16, but technically he was born around a year ago.
AU Clarification: N/A
SAMPLES
Log Sample:
(Taken from Canon, from his fight with Black Canary)
He wasn’t really angry with Dinah. Even he knew that, when he stopped being mad enough to let a little logic sink in. He wasn’t mad at M’gann either, or at her uncle, or… at any of them, really. He wasn’t even angry with Superman in the end. He was angry at himself. For hoping, maybe. Or for not being good enough to be accepted… he wasn’t really sure.
He just knew he had to lash out, and Dinah was making far too easy to blame it all on her.
He was a living weapon, he hadn’t lied about that. He still had to lose a battle in his short life, and he had no reasons to believe Dinah would be the first one to break that record. She was a good martial artist, sure… but she didn’t have his strength. Or was as fast as he was. Or any of his powers, really
…so when he found himself lying on the floor, staring at the ceiling he was understandably surprised. He could hear the machine yelling ‘fail’, he could hear Robin’s little laugh on the back ground, he could hear Aqualad scolding him.
But instead of paying attention to that, he just jumped to his feet again and lashed out at Dinah.
Only to end on the floor again. This time, Robin couldn’t even muffle his laughter, and Supey decided that either he stoppet at that very moment, or he would be the next one lying on the floor.
Comms Sample:
[Video]
WHERE. AM. I?
[That’s everything Supey says before he lets out a growl.]
This is your doing, Lex. I know it is, I don’t care how many explanations people will give to me. What did you do?! What does ‘Red Sun’ mean?!
[And another growl. He’s visibly trying not to destroy anything in sight, in case what they said about being in space was really true. Superpowers and all, he doesn’t really want to create a vacuum.]
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CHARACTER INFORMATION
Name: Superboy (Alias: Conner Kent). Also called Supey or Project Kr.
Canon: Young Justice (DC Animated).
Original or Alternate Universe: Original.
Canon Point: Episode 22, Agendas.
Number: 045
Setting: Here!
History:
Ever heard of Superman? Who hasn’t heard of Superman, right? Eternal Boy Scout trying to protect everybody, infuriatingly sweet alien that happens to have superpowers. Now imagine living in a world where Superman is a real person, somebody you see on the news almost every day. Saving the world from a catastrophe, leading the justice league, the golden bachelor.
Then there’s the other side, there’s Lex Luthor. Famous for his crimes against humanity while trying to get Superman around his thumb, for his extremely brilliant mind with almost no rivals on Earth and for being the single most rich man on DC’s world. A man you never know if you should hate or love, because he’s giving money to hospitals and orphanages one day and you hear of his secret laboratories in which humans are put through experiments you can’t even imagine for the greater good.
Talk about having famous parents, uh?
Clone of those two powerful men, Supey had lived inside of a pod since before he could even remember. He was created by ‘Cadmus’ labs using Superman’s genetic material, a self-called ‘living weapon’ made to occupy Superman’s place was he ever to die, or to stop him if he ever ‘turns from the light’. Seeing as the big bad boys in the show are part of an organization called ‘the light’, that wording is really meaningful.
He spent his first 16 weeks of his life inside of a pod, being educated telepathically by the ‘G-Gnomes’, created by Cadmus as some kind of living source of energy and weapon . Superboy’s mind was filled with images and thoughts, meant to get him ready for his fate- and eventually creating a personality. The most prominent images were of him flying, defending the world… and some of Superman going berserk, going evil and him stopping him. Killing him.
(To this day he still wonders if that’s his purpose, the reason Cadmus had to create him. He keeps his feelings about it shut down, and only talked about him with his friends once he really trusted them, in a campfire. Even if that is his purpose, he still adores Superman so and wants to be just like him.)
On the 16th week, Robin, Kid Flash and Aqualad barged into the lab and freed him. He fought them, to defend himself at first but he was quickly mind-controlled to be against them when he showed some reluctance. It seemed like Cadmus was going to clone the three boys and Supey wasn’t going to do anything to stop it… but all it took to convince Superboy to save them was Aqualad asking him: What Would Superman Do? Like I said, he loves Superman like a kid would love his adored father.
After he helped the boys get out and they were assisted by the league, Superboy finally got to meet his worshiped Superman. The man is less than thrilled to see he has been cloned, which visibly hurts Superboy. Still, he and the three other boys face their mentors and tell them to let them help, to let them do what they were trained to do.
While Batman decided what to do with them, he spent some days with Kid Flash in his house. After some shenanigans involving a pair of villains called the Terror Twins and shopping clothes, the first really official time Supey really battles evil... Batman allows them to form a team and Superboy gets to live in the old house for the Justice League, Mount Justice.
That’s when the team meets the first girl to join the team, too. Miss Martian, M’gann M’orzz. While she’s nice and they try to get along, Superboy is still new at this ‘social interaction’ thing, so he tends to snap at her. Especially when she uses her telepathy to communicate with him (which reminds him of the G-Gnomes). With Aqualad’s help, though, Superboy slowly learns to say ‘sorry’ at the same time as the whole team accepts M’gann as one of them when she proves worthy in the battle against Mr Twister. He eventually apologizes to her like Aqualad had told him, first sign of a real understanding of a social situation.
One day, after Red Tornado explained to him how a crisis brought the Justice League together and how it was formed, Superboy falls asleep. When he wakes up he finds the exact same situation Tornado had explained to him happening, and while he tries to fight at first he eventually realizes it’s just an illusion, as he was being mind-controlled by a G-Gnome that had sneaked into the Mount Justice because he missed him.
On the next mission they have to choose the leader, which ends being Aqualad. Supey is pretty ok with that, he didn’t really want to be the leader. In this mission on Santa Prisca, they manage to fight and win Sportsmaster and Kobra, an organization working with huge muscle-enchanting drugs called ‘venom’… and we see Supey using his superhearing and language understanding to get an idea of their plans. They destroy their fabric on the process.
Superboy still tries to get Superman’s attention in any way, as he proves later when he jumps to try to help him save a bus full of kids. All he gets from that, though, is Superman scolding him because his landing could use a lot more work, then flying off as soon as he’s called… practically ignoring Supey. That understandably angers him, and he even tries to take it out on Black Canary as she tries to teach the team how to handle a fight. Obviously, Superboy is no rival for a black belt in most if not all of the martial arts and Black Canary wins him easily.
…That only serves to anger him more.
He even puts the team’s mission in danger by jumping into it too soon, even if he does manage to save the day by using his wits against Amazo (a robot with all of the Justice League’s abilities). He comes to Black Canary after that to ask her to teach him how to fight, and she obviously makes him improve as seen on the next ep when he manages to win Aqualad as they spar. He also seems to be learning Robin’s weird slang, as shown when he says he’s feeling the ‘aster’ as he looks at him, smiling.
In this ep we also learn he hates monkeys. This is valuable information.
In the next episodes or issues we don’t see much of Supey apart from his help during missions, like him having to face his biggest fears because of Psycho-pirate using Medusa masks on the team to induce anxiety into the team. Supey’s biggest fears were all about not living up to Superman’s standards and going back to Cadmus. Kid Flash helps him snap out of it, such a bro.
We also get to know Artemis, the new archer on the team. She seems to really appreciate Supey’s ‘assets’ even if he’s a little wtf about it. On their first mission with her they have to prevent a nano-robotic virus from getting into every computer. Supey is teamed up with Robin, which usually works well since the younger boy is the brain and Superboy, the muscles. He engages the operator of the Fog into a fight and wins.
One day, Captain Atom notices how bored the team is at his lecture and decides to give them a little mission, a cold case from Vietnam. They had to clean the name of the framed Nathaniel Adams… which we learn later is Capitan Atom himself.
This mission isn’t important for Supey per se, but we get to see how much he’s come to rely on his invulnerability. He freaks out (inwardly, of course, and denies it to his friends) when a X-Ionized sword makes him bleed, until he’s told could hurt Superman himself and that he’s as invulnerable as he’s always been. Then some more punching happens.
The next mission involves trying to find Kent Nelson, former Doctor fate. This is kind of a ‘Wally’ ep so everything Supey does is look cool and get his favorite boots destroyed by magma. It’s still a cool ep.
Their next mission was… kind of a disaster. They have to deal with Clayface, and Supey isn’t really happy with that since he’s in Gotham City and that’s Batman’s territory. He doesn’t want to clean up his mess. Clayface wipes the floor with them, and Batman blames Aqualad because he was the one that allowed them to split, since he was distracted.
Aaaand cute a little moment of his life in Mount Justice along with M’gann. It’s kind of an important thing though, since we see Superboy willing to help her bake a cake even when he doesn’t really want to, and letting her close. Even when M’gann throws all the food over him, he just lets her clean him up. ~Sexual tension ensues~ except not sexual since they are babies.
Then comes Bialya. The team is told to go assess the situation in that foreign land, but they didn’t count with the fact that Psimon would be there. He’s a villain with psychic powers, and uses M’gann and her psiquic powers to make them forget the last months.
Since Supey didn’t exist yet, he becomes feral. He scares and almost hurts all the team and gets kidnapped in the end, being tortured along with some kind of mechanical (somehow sentient) ball that seems to want to help him until M’gann flies to save him and returns his memories by linking their minds together. There’s a neat flashback to moments of Superboy’s life, and we see a lot of them are linked to M’gann. A lot of people said M’gann twisted his memories to make him like her more, but Word of God himself says those really were his memories so that’s what I’m going with.
Together, they defeat Psimon. We didn’t know this yet when the ep came out, but apparently Supey knew from this moment on that M’gann was a white martian, and didn’t force her to tell him.
Anyway. They are about to kiss until said ball interrupts them… and Supey decides to keep it as a mascot. The ball seems to really like Supey, and gets jealous if he doesn’t pay attention it it.
Kaldur invites M’gann and Superboy under the sea, and they get to know there’s a lot of racism undersea towards those who show some fishy appendages… like Kaldur and his gills. They engage in a battle with Ocean Master because of it, but manage to win thanks to Gath, Kaldur’s friend.
So, next ep. Supey and M’gann begin attending high school, yay. They decide to give Supey the name ‘Conner Kent’, since M’gann likes the name Conner and Superman’s real name is Clark Kent. Supey doesn’t raelly know Clark is Superman’s secret identity though, and he’s told it’s because of Doctor Fate’s real name, ‘Kent Nelson’. He doesn’t know M’gann bases his name on ‘Conner’, the love interest of ‘Megan’, the main star of her favorite show either.
Yes, kinda weird, but moving on. The school day goes fine even if Supey manages to embarrass himself at every chance he’s got. Falling down stairs, getting into fights with kids because they wear Superhero related shirts… oh well. We also get to see he will not have any problems with his classes since he has knowledge drilled into his head thaks to the G-Gnomorphs. Lucky guy.
On their next mission, Superboy and M’gann have to infiltrate Belle Reve Penitentiary as the Terror Twins (remember them? Yeah!!!). Batman suspects there’s a mutiny going to happen because of intel they got thanks to Artemis, and they find out he’s right. A lot of ice-powered people got together to ice the walls and punch their way out, but Superboy manages to trick Icicle Junior into stopping it without him knowing. It was kinda surprising to see how he managed to manipulate people so easily when he didn’t get social interaction just a few months ago, he’s changed a lot in the months he’s been with the teams.
In the process of stopping the escape, though, M’gann gets turned into a popsicle. Not literally of course but, you know, a lot of ice.
Supey is worried sick and yells for her not to leave him, but Mars is a very cold place and M’gann has no problem breaking the ice at all. Relieved, Superboy kisses her silly. This is the start of their relationship. Cute babies.
Next time Supey gets involved in Superhero shenanigans happens because Red Tornado’s family, Red Volcano and Red Inferno, break into Mount Justice and trap him along with Wally in solid rock not even he can break, and M’gann and Aqualad in a fire jail because they are susceptible to it.
Artemis and Robin manage to save them all with a little help from Wally, but Red Tornado suffers some weird reprograming as he touches his ‘brothers’ and flies away. The team is pretty freaked out. Aqualad had intel that there was a mole in the team, but he didn’t tell them because he didn’t want to alert the mole. Superboy overhears him talking about the possibility of Red Tornado being the mole…
And lashes out, almost punching him. He’s really pissed out because he put M’gann in danger, and the rest of the team is also really, really miffed at Aqualad because he didn’t tell them, didn’t trust him enough. Batman tells them to shut up and go deal with a mission , investigating some attacks in India.
They go, but everybody (including Supey) refuses to listen to Aqualad as their leader. They go in separate ways, and when Superboy tries to get M’gann to go with him so he can protect her she tells him that she can handle it, she’s a big girl, no need to go Neanderthal on her kthxb. It’s a very important step in their relationship because Supey has to learn that while they are indeed dating now, she is still her own person and doesn’t need him to smother her.
So yeah, apparently the attacks were caused because of some drugs put into the animals that made them extra big and extra angry, kinda similar to the venom drugs they had seen earlier. In the process of fighting said mutated animals Superboy gains a pet, a wolf.
Called Wolf. Supey is great with naming pets.
They fight the mastermind of the plan (which is hilariously a literal brain, heh) and his sidekick Monsieur Mallah, a gorilla. Supey’s hatred for monkeys extends to a lot of other primates, apparently. Anyway, they win because that’s what the good guys do. Aqualad tells them to suck it up and deal with him being the leader for now, then can talk about him stepping down once the mission is over.
They all agree to keep him because nobody’s as awesome as Aqualad let’s be honest here.
Batman suddenly contacts them because they need to battle the Injustice league, a couple of supervillains from different cities that gathered together and are attacking the cities with Poision Ivy’s plants. They engage in battle and while Supey wasn’t really important to the main plan (that basically involved Aqualad turning into Doctor Fate for a moment to beat them up and Wally breaking his arm) he is still pretty badass as he fights Ultra-Humanite.
Which, yes, kinda looks like a gorilla too. Supey’s life.
Oh so remember Red Tornado? The one who ran away? The team gets the feeling the Justice League has some Intel on him that hasn’t told them yet, and decide to go find him themselves. Zatanna, who was visiting, included.
After interrogating Professor Ivo, Red Tornado’s creator, they find out he’s in Teton Country. They get there, fight Red Volcano… and win ( thanks to Zatanna because Volcano knew all of the other’s powers by getting the information out of Tornado). Red Volcano is, by the way, really rude. They even calls them all ‘humans’ even if there are obviously two aliens on the team.
Rude.
He takes it back though, and decides to just call them all ‘meatbags’. Moving on… Superboy saves Red Tornado from the lava. Red Tornado apologizes, and they all decide that he’s practically human. Tearjerker ensues when Superboy calls him meatbag, it’s seriously a cute moment.
And then… oh boy, Failsafe happens. The team gets put into a mental training session together, where they must learn how to learn with failing a mission. So, basically, no matter how much they manage in the virtual mission things will get worse. Which seems bad, but they all know what’s going on so they won’t get traumatized.
Or that was the plan. Everything seems to go well at first, even when Superman first, then later Wolf get killed Supey manages to keep his cool. But while they were trying to deal with the aliens in the virtual world, Artemis gets hit with one of their rays, and dies. The shock is so big to M’gann something goes wrong, and she forgets it was all fake. And since she’s terribly powerful, and they were all mind-linked… they all do.
They try to move on, but specially Kid Flash has an extreme reaction to Artemis’ dead. Superboy gets called Superman a couple of times, which at first pisses him of like no tomorrow but then he learns to accept as a compliment.
Supey dies at the hands of the aliens in this vision, and until M’gann herself gets killed he lies into a comatose state because he truly thinks he’s died, like the rest of the team. When the truth is out, he’s the first to defend his girlfriend.
Everything that happened on the vision still hits him hard, as shown in the next ep when they are all forced to go to Black Canary for psychological evaluation and Superboy just walks out. He wants to go out, and to his surprise the Sphere decides she wants to go to… and just transforms into a supercycle out of the blue. Superboy is thrilled and rides it out.
On the way they meet the ‘Forever people’, guys from a planet called New Genesis. They accuse him of stealing the Sphere, but Superboy tells them he saved it from Byalia. Superboy decides to help them track the technology they got stolen. In the end they follow the Mother Box (some kind of machine, it’s complicated!) to Metropolis and they find the Intergang there, dealing with their weapons.
Once the battle is over the Forever people want to take away the Sphere from Supey because it belongs to their planet, but he convinces them that THEY BONDED, OKAY?... and gets to keep it. Wolf is a little jealous but they are all bff, so it works out.
The next eps are kind of filler for Supey. In one it’s Halloween, and M’gann helps him dress as a mummy as she dresses up like a corpse bride. One of their classmates tries to trick the whole class into thinking there’s a Martian invasion, so with M’ganns shape-shifting powers they make him believe Martians are actually invading. Silly guys.
In the next one Klarion the witch kid and some other magic guys split the world into adults and kids. Supey, most of the team and some other older teenagers spend the day trying to find lost kids that could be in danger and bring them to a shelter where they take care of them. With Captain Marvel help (since he’s a kid that turns into an adult superhero when he pronounces the words ‘Shazam’) they manage to revert the world back to normal… but they lose Zatanna’s father in the process. He becomes Dr Fate, and she has to live with Supey and M’gann at Mount Justice from then on.
And then in the next one, Wally’s birthday, all the team gets sent into a mission to destroy Ice Fortresses around the world… except for Wally, who has to deliver a heart to a little girl that needs it. But that’s his story.
The team has to move to Qurac to deal with strange alliances between the president and Queen Bee, a known villain. There they get to know Garfield, the future Beast Boy, and his mother. Apparently his mother was the actress from the show M’gann loves so much. The team finds out thanks to Gar, and they all get a little freaked out at how much she looks like the actress… and how Conner is named after her love interest in the show.
The team later notices the president is actually being mind-controlled by Psimon, and they fight him and his henchmen, who are all using Apokolpis weapons (New Genesis’ rival planet). They all get knocked out except for M’gann, who wins on the battle with Psimon.
The team confronts her about the show thing, and ask her to show her real appearance. Instead of showing them her white Martian form, she makes herself similar to her Uncle, Martian Manhunter. Supey accepts her anyway.
And we’re almost done! Just an ep more to go.
This ep is really important though. Superboy gets an ultrasonic message telling him to meet somebody on a Park in Washington DC. He goes… saying he’s going to take Wolf out for a walk, which, wtf. Anyway.
The mysterious person turns out to be Lex Luthor (the plot thickens!) who tells him there’s a new clone in Cadmus he should probably deal with. He goes there only to be told there isn’t such a thing as another clone, but he doesn’t believe them and eventually finds the other clone, Match. Unlike Supey, though, Match has full Kryptonian powers so he kind of whips the floor with Supey.
He freaks out when he wakes up in a pod, but he’s told it was the fastest way to heal him. He confronts the doctor about Match but he doesn’t get an answer. Lex Luthor contacts him again and explains him about his half-human heritage, and how Match was a full Kryptonian but also unstable. This is where he gives him the damn shields that will repress his human genes and make him able to fight with Match equally.
So he does, once Dubillex (the boss G-Gnome or something like that) brings him to Gnomorph city, and explains that Match was actually an earlier project, Superboy was the second time they tried to clone Superman. Superbo wins, and even if he’s reluctant to do so he allows Match to be kept into a pod because even if he doesn’t want him to suffer what he did, he understands Match can’t be left to his own devices, he’s too dangerous.
Superboy goes meet with Lex again to tell him he isn’t his go to guy when he has to clean a mess, and Lex tells him how the human part of his DNA is his own. Superboy freaks out as Lex tells him that he’ll be a better father than Superman because unlike him he understands the world isn’t black or white, and so does Supey.
Why would he have allowed Match to be kept prisoner, otherwise? As Lex sees it, Superboy understands the world as it is, unlike Superman. Lex is pretty proud. Superboy is really, really angry and tries to hit Lex… but he simply says the words ‘Red Sun’ and gets him to black out God knows how many hours.
This is the point I’m taking him from. Because I’m evil.
Personality:
Superboy is Superman clone. That’s a fact, and he’s always let it define him. Especially on his early days ‘what would Superman do?’ was practically his motto. He practically lived to make the older man proud, and he grew frustrated every time he was ignored by the closest thing he would have to a parent.
On top of that frustration, add a whole lot of confusion. He’d never been free, he had never had such strong feelings, he had never been told what he was allowed or not allowed to do… he wasn’t quite sure what to do with a normal life now that he had been freed. He saw the others act friendly around each other. They knew what was ok to say and what wasn’t. They knew where the limits were set.
He didn’t. He was just a pod kid that didn’t know it was rude to walk away from a conversation or that he was overreacting if he yelled at the girl he lived with for poking around his brain like the G-gnomes had done. He didn’t know how to say ‘sorry’ or that calling somebody son didn’t mean they were literally that. Luckily, he got better.
Living surrounded by his teammates and friends helped, going to a regular school helped even more. He isn’t exactly good at socializing, and a lot of things people do still confuse him (He still doesn’t get wars, shouldn’t humans protect each other?) but he’s becoming more and more like a normal kid as time goes.
Kind of. The rage he was born with never really went away, and that he’s getting better at controlling doesn’t mean it isn’t there. He’s like a ticking bomb, and when something sets him off he punches the nearest wall, yells, and stomps away. Not necessarily in that order. He also feels lonely, different. The team has done wonders to make him feel included, but it’s kind of hard to feel like part of a group when you aren’t even a real kid. M’gann points out that the reason he keeps adopting stray animals like Bally and Wolf (-I admit I’m using the term ‘animal’ lightly here) is because he feels like a stray, himself.
M’gann, by the way, is probably one of the few reasons Supey doesn’t just go Berserk sometimes. Even when they weren’t dating she was the one that kept smiling at him, helping him, being there for him 24/7 (…literally, since they live together). They are both aliens on Earth that know next to nothing of their social interactions and habits and things like that. So yes, M’gann is a really important part of Supey’s development as a human.
Even if Superboy is a fast learner and gets better at this whole social interaction thing, he still has a thing against orders. When the team unanimously (kind of) chooses Aqualad to be their leader after a mission, Supey understands he must take his orders if he wants their missions to succeed. That doesn’t mean he will not snap if he disagrees with an order, though.
While he tries to be nice, it’s obvious he still has a long way to go when it comes to social interaction, as seen as how he snaps at a kid just because he’s wearing a superhero shirt. He’s also about to jump and attack the cheerleaders when they pull a little prank on M’gann. It’s not that he doesn’t like people; he just doesn’t understand they might be joking sometimes, or how social cues work.
The rage is strong with this one.
He obviously has a bigger bond with M’gann since they live together (and have feelings for each ohter), but he also appreciates the rest of the team. In missions, he always seems to be paired with Robin... probably because he’s the muscle to the little guy’s brains. He seems to like the little guy, and even uses the words he makes up- like aster, or whelmed.
Aqualad is like his big brother, always cheering him up or giving him advice when he might need it. And... well, let’s just say Supey needs it often. Kid Flash was there for him when he needed a place to stay, and he shows him the ways to being social and being around women. Probably the reason he hasn’t told him about his feelings for M’gann yet.
And as for Artemis... Supey was one of the few who didn’t mind then she joined the team. Probably because he didn’t share the bond with Roy (their former arrow-shooting friend) most of the other members of the team had, so she didn’t feel like a replacement to him. She still confuses him, though- what does ‘hmmm, that boy’ mean, even?
About the mentors, Supey obviously holds a great respect for Batman and Black Canary. He seems to accept Red Tornado as his caretaker, and he listens to Martian Manhunter’s advices despite being obviously jealous of M’gann’s relationship with her uncle.
There’s not a mentor he appreciates more than he appreciates Superman though, and he... he just really wishes he’d accept him. Now that he knows he’s also Lex’s son he feels a little awkward because he does have a father that loves him and appreciates him and even calls him son and tells him how proud he is of him.
But it’s Lex I’m-a-bad-guy Luthor. How is he supposed to deal with that?
Supey just wants to do the right thing, but he’ll do it his way. He wants to help, he wants to protect people. And deep down he just wants to be accepted, to be looked at as more than ‘Superman’s clone’. He wants people to look at him. But at the same time he has spent so much time hiding behind being the ‘Superboy’, trying to be just like Superman... that he doesn’t really know who he is. He’s trying hard to find out, though, and his friends are being a great help. When he’s nervous or he feels like he’s being attacked he turns his defenses up and goes back to being just the Superboy, just a weapon. So it’s really, really difficult to get him to open up to you and trust you, but once he does... he’ll trust you forever, and will believe everything you tell him.
That’s another thing with him: he’s really gullible when it comes to his close social circle. Being raised mentally means he had to learn social behavior as it came, so he doesn’t have reasons to distrust what they tell him.
Abilities, Weaknesses and Power Limitations:
Just want to point out that we’ve been told Supey’s abilities will slowly grow as time goes in the show. He’s a clone of Superman, so all of his abilities are (in more or less degree) related to the powers the Kryptonian has.
- Super strength, not as strong as Superman but waaay stronger than a usual human
- Super senses. For example his hearing: he can hear things from miles around.
- Eidetic memory (Also known as ‘wiki brain’). He can easily remember everything he’s been told. He was educated telepathically using this ability, so he knows a lot about… uh, a lot of not-really-useful things to be honest. He’s also been shown to know some languages, like Spanish.
- He can leap tall buildings in a single bound, and while that’s not flying it’s still really cool ok? Ok. This could be flying to a lesser degree or just Supey using the strength of his legs to jump, it hasn’t been addressed.
- Telescopic/Microscopic vision.
- Near invulnerability.
Lex gave him some shields that keep his human genes from tampering his Kryptonian powers. It will be explained on the history section how dependent Superboy has become towards them.
So with the shields he’s supposed to have all of Superman’s powers. So far in the show we have seen him use:
- Flight.
- Laser vision.
- X-ray vision.
- Even more superstrenght.
The most obvious weaknesses with Superboy are Kryptonite (the famous mineral that affects every Kryptonian and weakens them to the point of death with prolonged exposure) and magic, which affects him the same way it would affect a normal human being.
The code words ‘Red Sun’ get him to black out for several hours.
With a more personal approach, his weaknesses when it comes to his personality are obviously his uncontained rage and how he never listens or thinks things through. His invulnerability makes him jump into dangers at any given chance, and he never stops to think that the bad guys might have some kind of advantage on him. Black Canary managed to make him realize super strength doesn’t mean he can always pull a Leeroy Jenkins in the middle of the battle and leave unharmed, but he still relies on brute strength a tad too much and that’s put the team in trouble more than once.
About his power tampering, I think a 40% of his strength and super-senses would be enough to go with. That also goes with all the abilities he gets with the shields. Maybe being able to lift a car, but not being strong enough to throw it for example.
I’d like for him to keep his heath vision, his eidetic memory and being able to use his muscles/not-quite-flying to leap, since I don’t think it’d give him too much of an advantage on other characters and it’d make him more easily playable. Maybe making it way more difficult for him to use them, for example. He’d require a lot more concentration and it’d tire him easily.
Inventory: 5 of the S-shields Lex gave him (since those are the ones we see him use in canon in the next eps), a couple of S-shield shirts and his pet Wolf. Wolf is a normal… wolf that’s been domesticated by Supey, so he’s kind of an overgrown dog. It’d help Supey deal with everything going on in the ship if he had it with him, and it’s lived its fair share of fighting so it could hold its own in the game.
Appearance:
Short black hair, tall, muscular… Conner looks like an average attractive 16 years old kid with a uncanny resemblance to Superman. The only distinctive traits are his eyes- bright blue, Kryptonian blue. That’s the reason Clark Kent hides his eyes behind his glasses, not that Supey would know that. He rarely smiles, so his face is wearing and almost permanent frown.
He usually wears jeans and boots, and on the first day he bought an enormous assortment of shirts with the S-shield. Sometimes he wears a brown jacket over it.
Age: Physically and mentally 16, but technically he was born around a year ago.
AU Clarification: N/A
SAMPLES
Log Sample:
(Taken from Canon, from his fight with Black Canary)
He wasn’t really angry with Dinah. Even he knew that, when he stopped being mad enough to let a little logic sink in. He wasn’t mad at M’gann either, or at her uncle, or… at any of them, really. He wasn’t even angry with Superman in the end. He was angry at himself. For hoping, maybe. Or for not being good enough to be accepted… he wasn’t really sure.
He just knew he had to lash out, and Dinah was making far too easy to blame it all on her.
He was a living weapon, he hadn’t lied about that. He still had to lose a battle in his short life, and he had no reasons to believe Dinah would be the first one to break that record. She was a good martial artist, sure… but she didn’t have his strength. Or was as fast as he was. Or any of his powers, really
…so when he found himself lying on the floor, staring at the ceiling he was understandably surprised. He could hear the machine yelling ‘fail’, he could hear Robin’s little laugh on the back ground, he could hear Aqualad scolding him.
But instead of paying attention to that, he just jumped to his feet again and lashed out at Dinah.
Only to end on the floor again. This time, Robin couldn’t even muffle his laughter, and Supey decided that either he stoppet at that very moment, or he would be the next one lying on the floor.
Comms Sample:
[Video]
WHERE. AM. I?
[That’s everything Supey says before he lets out a growl.]
This is your doing, Lex. I know it is, I don’t care how many explanations people will give to me. What did you do?! What does ‘Red Sun’ mean?!
[And another growl. He’s visibly trying not to destroy anything in sight, in case what they said about being in space was really true. Superpowers and all, he doesn’t really want to create a vacuum.]
