Kent Connor (Earth 1)

## Kent Alexander Connor

**Kent Alexander Conner**, also known as **Ken-El** or **Match** or **Project Match**, is an Kryptonian-Human hybrid made form the DNA Superman.

**Kent** was artificially made into a Kryptonian-Human hybrid through a mixture of Nighthawk power of DNA Absorption and Conner Kent's hybrid DNA and Clark Kent's DNA.

## Biography

Kent Connor is the clone of Clark Kent/Superman, he was made by the organization known as The Light. The Light had

## History

### Early life

Match was created as part of Project Match by Cadmus, as a first attempt to clone a Kryptonian. Lex Luthor wished for Superman to "meet his match", but the project was a failure. Kryptonian DNA proved too difficult to replicate, and the imperfect sequence made Match uncontrollable. He was stored deep inside Cadmus, and his presence was kept a secret. Cloning a Kryptonian would eventually be tried again, this time more successful because the gaps were filled with human DNA.

### 2010

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Luthor told Superboy about his "brother", though he claimed Match was a later project than Project Kr. Superboy eventually found the chamber where Match was held, locked away and put on ice with countless other experiments. Just as he promised, Superboy freed Match. However, Match was not capable of thanking his liberator. Instead, he attacked the boy with a red S-shield on his chest.

The fight destroyed a lot of containment pods, and though Match beat Superboy because he had access to full Kryptonian powers, he was telepathically put to sleep by Dubbilex, who had Match transported to Genomorph City.

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In Dubbilex's secret hideout, Match was kept sedated by G-Gnomes. However, he managed to break their thrall when he noticed Superboy. This time, Superboy had enhanced powers thanks to Shields Luthor gave him, and he beat Match. Guardian and Mercy arrived to put Match back on ice.

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Match's pod was carted out of Cadmus by Monsieur Mallah. The Light thought they could use him for future plans.

## Personality

Match's behavior is feral; he seems unable to form words and is aggressive even without provocation. He reacts violently to the Superman-shield, though he has attached to it himself. After his clothing was damaged, he branded himself with a new logo with his heat vision.

## Physical appearance

In 2017, Match appeared exactly like Superboy, with one notable difference: his eyes have black sclera, light blue irises, and black pupils.

He has a self-inflicted brand on his chest: an approximation of Superman's S-shield, though in mirrored form.

## Powers and abilities

### Powers

**Kryptonian-Human physiology:** As a genetic clone of Superman, he has the normal abilities of a Kryptonian who has absorbed the solar energy of a yellow sun at the proportionate level to his physical age. As of now, his powers include:

* **Enhanced mental capacity:**
* **Extended longevity:**
* **Solar Energy Absorption:**
	+ **Flight:**
	+ **Invulnerability:**
		- **Self-sustenance:**
		- **Atmospheric adaption:**
		- **Contaminant immunity:**
	+ **Accelerated healing factor:**
	+ **Heat vision:**
	+ **X-ray vision:**
	+ **Super breath:**
	+ **Super hearing:**
	+ **Super strength:**
		- **Super jumping/leaping:**
	+ **Super speed:**
	+ **Super stamina:**
* **Tactile Telekinesis:**
	+ **Telekinetic Superhuman Strength:**
	+ **Telekinetic Flight:**
	+ **Telekinetic Force-Field:**
	+ **Telekinetic Force Blasts:**
	+ **Telekinetic Super Hearing:**

## Weaknesses

* **Kryptonian Physiology:** Under the effects of a "yellow" sun, Superboy possesses the same potential weaknesses as an average Kryptonian. These include:
	+ **Vulnerability to Kryptonite:** Kryptonite can weaken a Kryptonian's physical or mental attributes.
		- **Green Kryptonite:** Green Kryptonite can weaken a Kryptonian's physical attributes.
		- **Red Kryptonite:** Continuous contact with red kryptonite compromised a Kryptonian's inhibitions and morality; often causing them to break the law and act selfish and rebellious.
		- **Silver Kryptonite:** Silver Kryptonite can causes Kryptonians to suffer from altered perceptions, loss of inhibition and extreme hunger cravings.
		- **Gold Kryptonite:** While heated up, can be used to permanently scar Kryptonians. Prolonged contact could permanently remove all Kryptonian superhuman abilities. Contact with a large amount of gold kryptonite could kill a Kryptonian.
		- **Black Kryptonite:** Could separate aspects of the psyche of Kryptonians or humans and manifest them in a duplicate body, typically as "good" and "bad" versions of someone. Black kryptonite was created by superheating green kryptonite to extremely high temperatures.
		- **Blue Kryptonite:** Suppressed superhuman abilities in Kryptonians with continuous contact, specifically resistance to illness and injury. Aging in Kryptonians was also increased to the speed of humans by prolonged contact. Kryptonians were resistant to effects of green kryptonite when in contact with blue K. In humans, blue K dramatically improved health. With Bizarro, blue K exponentially increased the clone's powers to the point the body became unstable and exploded, killing the Phantom Zone wraith. It also removes a Kryptonian's powers, but only as long as the Kryptonian remains in contact with it.
		- **Red-Gold Kryptonite:** Red-Gold Kryptonite temporarily deprives Kryptonians of their memories.
		- **Red-Green-Gold Kryptonite:** Red-Green-Gold Kryptonite can permanently remove the individual's powers and memories of ever having them.
	+ **Vulnerability to Magic:**
	+ **Vulnerability to Red Sun Radiation:** The damage from the Red Sun seems to be less effective on him than the full Kryptonians.
	+ **Yellow Sun Processing:** Because Kent couldn't absorb solar energy than Superman was able to do as teen, Superboy was unable to process as much yellow sun energy as Superman could; as a result, overexerting his powers could spell his death, as his body would literally begin to feed on itself, unable to absorb solar energy fast enough to restore itself.
* **Arrogance:**

## Equipment

* **Solar suit:** Match dons a white solar suit with a red Superman S-symbol on the chest. Five years later, he has a red version of the suit with a white S-symbol. The suit allowed him to absorb yellow sun radiation to fuel his powers even underground.

### Former Equipment

* **Visor:** Superboy briefly had a visor, given to him by Emil Hamilton, that allowed him to simulate Superman's vision powers. He lost the visor, and it was recovered by the Technician. When he got it back, Superboy destroyed it, rationalizing that he would probably lose it again somehow and then it would put others at risk.

## Trivia

* Originally, Conner had no name besides "Superboy". Later, Superman gave him the Kryptonian name "Kon-El", to show that he considered him family. He adopted the secret identity of "Conner Kent".
* Originally considered by Clark to be his little brother, now Clark considers him to be his son.
* Superboy was also known as Experiment 13 and Project: Superman.
* Conner was in love and in a relationship with Wonder Girl. He previously dated Tana Moon.
* Conner is best friends with Red Robin and Impulse I.
* Conner and Supergirl had a close friendship. Kara even considered Conner her "cousin" just as much as Kal-El.
* Superboy's favorite TV show is *Wendy the Werewolf Stalker*.
* Conner had a mutual crush on Cassandra Cain and even ended up being her first kiss, but the two quickly decided to just remain friends.