...vv......Kon-El, Conner Kent
SEE SO864 VFEL
- ohhhhhhhhhh man. i love him
- clone. half of his dna is clark kent, the superhero, and the other half is lex luthor, the supervillain
- has many designs, but the Real Canon one is curly hair combed forward, ear piercings, round sunglasses, fingerless gloves, leather jacket with spikes and patches of the superman S
- was cloned when superman was temporarily dead to fill his shoes
he was created by project cadmus using clark's kryptonian dna, intended as a replacement for superman who died fighting doomsday. artificially aged to his mid-teens and implanted with the equivalent of a high school education, superboy was set free by the a group of juveniles that stayed at project cadmus before he could be implanted with safeguards to control him. one of the boys gave him a leather jacket before he set out into the city, which he later customised
to keep as his own. when he first emerged, he got mad at anyone that called him superboy, asking them to call him superman instead, since the old superman was dead and he was his clone. eventually, when superman came back to life, superboy gave him back the name and decided that he had earned the name "superboy" for now. he decided to go on a world tour in order to establish himself as an individual, returning first to cadmus where he learned he was not in fact a direct clone of superman, but partly a human clone genetically engineered to look like superman and mimic his major powers by way of tactile telekinesis. superman gave him his kryptonian name, kon-el, as a way of accepting him as family and giving an identity that wasn't just being superboy. "conner" was chosen to be his legal name due to its similarity to kon, and he took clark's last name again.