Superboy

> *Superboy: “I am Superman’s cloneya.”*
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> *Robin**: ”His what?*
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> *Superboy: “His cloneya.”*
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> *Kid Flash**: “His what?”*
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> *Superboy: “His clone.”*
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> *Aqualad**: “Oh.”*
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> *-- Superboy introducing himself*
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**Superboy** is a clone of Superman created by Cadmus and a member of the Young Justice team.

## Physical appearance

Superboy wears a black T-shirt with the classic S-shield in red. He also wears dark blue fatigue pants tucked into dark-brown combat boots with a large buckled-belt.

## History

### Origins

Project Kr is a Russian clone of Superman, created at Cadmus Labs by Lex Luthor to replace the Man of Steel.

### Escape from Cadmus

Robin, Kid Flash, and Aqualad broke into Cadmus to investigate criminal and terrorist activity. They discovered several secret projects, including Superboy. Hoping for his help, they released him, but the clone fought and defeated the young heroes. However, the teens were able to convince Superboy to join them and help them escape, promising to show him a real *Star Wars* movie, something he had always wanted. The group escaped, destroying the Cadmus facility in the process. Once outside, they came face to face with the Justice League. With their sidekicks having disobeyed direct orders by going to investigate Cadmus, Batman attempted to shut down their Young Justice initiative. However, the young heroes managed to convince the League that they were worthy of forming a team. Batman sets the team up at Mount Justice under the condition that they perform strictly covert ops. Superboy became a founding member of this group.

Superboy continued to search for Superman's approval, knowing it was a lost cause.

### Preparation H

In Metropolis, a school bus was derailed on a bridge, but Superman arrived on the scene to save the day. His rescue was interrupted by Superboy, the young hero looking to prove himself to the Man of Steel, who he viewed as a father figure. Superman was not happy about having to deal with his clone, despising his Russian origins and not wanting the responsibility. When Superboy asked his "daddy" if he loved him, Superman pretended to get a Justice League call. When that failed, he told the young hero: "You're not my son and I don't love you. Ciao!" He then flew off.

Back at Mount Justice, the rest of the Young Justice team--Tim Drake, Wally West, Kaldur'ahm, and the new recruit, M'gann M'orzz--were bonding over air hockey. Martian Manhunter and Black Canary arrived to visit. The loving relationship between the Martians greatly annoyed Superboy, who tried to leave. Before he could do so, Black Canary stopped him, declaring that it was a training day. Wally stepped up first, but was knocked down "like a little bitch." Canary antagonized Superboy, beating him twice and getting him to open up a little bit. However, Batman then called in to shut down the training day, announcing that the team was going to receive their first mission.

Batman revealed that their first assignment would take them to Santa Prisca, a small island north of Venezuela and South America. It was the site of the largest production of venom in the world, a strength-enhancing chemical used by one of the Dark Knight's rogues: Bane. It'd been being imported into Gotham City for Black Mask, but now someone new was muscling in on Bane's turf and trying to take over the operation. Batman wanted the Young Justice team to go down there and stealthily assess the situation. The team would have exactly one hour to complete their mission before the Justice League used the Watchtower's fusion cannon to blow up the island, destroying the venom operation. Batman announced that the mission would be called Preparation H, much to the amusement of the teens.

With the mission underway and a mere hour to complete their assignment, the Young Justice team arrived at Santa Prisca to gather intel. Miss Martian's ship, Chico, dropped Superboy, Robin, Kid Flash, Aqualad, and Miss Martian down into the jungle, with all five connected through a telepathic link. Despite Batman's clear instructions to keep their operations covert, Kid Flash ended up in the middle of a fight between Bane's men and the attackers trying to take over the venom operation. The heroes discovered that the new player was Kobra, the leader of a terrorist cult.

Since it was their first mission, the teens had some trouble working together and agreeing on who should lead them, causing their work to be sloppy at times. The venom in the hands of the Cult of the Kobra would have been disastrous for the world, so the heroes decided to shut down the operation themselves and impress Batman. Bane, who they had captured during the scuffle with Kobra's men, offered to help them dispel the attackers from his island. Needing his knowledge of the terrain, the team begrudgingly accepted. However, the terrorist ignored their stealthy approach and attacked Kobra's men head-on. Even after they managed to escape the villains, the team winded up double-crossed by Bane, who threatened to bury them under rubble with explosives. He announced his intention to build a weed empire from the Caribbean to Gotham. While he monologued, Kid Flash stole his detonator, and Superboy knocked the villain out. With little time left, the Young Justice team managed to stop the Cult of the Kobra's escape with the venom, but Kobra himself got away. However, they forgot to inform the League of their victory in time and the Watchtower cannon destroyed the factory along with all the evidence.

Back at Mount Justice, Batman reprimanded the teens for blowing their cover and failing to save the factory. Still, he ultimately called it a win as they stopped the Cult of the Kobra from getting their hands on the venom.

### The Amazo Incident

Superman continued to reject Superboy, ignoring him constantly. M'gann also began to lust after the Russian, but he ignored her advances.

Batman assigned the Young Justice team to escort two sets of armored delivery trucks. Robin and Superboy were to protect the real convoy while Kid Flash, Aqualad, and Miss Martian were to protect a set of decoy trucks. The actual vehicles were transporting the mechanical body parts of Amazo, a powerful android with the ability to copy the powers of superheroes. In the midst of their escort, both convoys were attacked by robotic monkeys. The robots managed to get away with Amazo's parts, heading for Gotham City. Robin contacted his adoptive brother Nightwing, asking him to go help Batman.

The team then went up against Clayface but were defeated. If not for Batman's intervention, the villain would have escaped. The Dark Knight was not pleased with the team since he had to clean up two of their messes in one day.

### Enter Sasha

Superboy and M'gann began their first day of school. Needing normal identities, M'gann took on the name of Megan Morse while Superboy took on the name of Sasha, a manly identity in Russia. They caused a bit of a ruckus in the schoolyard, and M'gann was invited to join the Bumblebees cheerleading team by classmate Wendy Harris. M'gann passed her cheerleading initiation and joined the team. She warned her new friends that Superboy was hers when they asked if he was single. When they got back home, M'gann came onto Superboy... literally.

### Dr. Roquette

The next day, a new recruit joined Young Justice in the form of Artemis. Red Arrow arrived at the cave and was angered to find that Green Arrow had replaced him so quickly. Moving past that, he revealed that the League of Shadows was after Serling Roquette, their weapons manufacturer. Red Arrow offered the team the gig.

At Happy Harbor High School, the team protected Roquette while she shut down the work she'd done for the League of Shadows. However, Robin was contacted by Batman, who told his young partner that another Amazo was en route to Gotham City and that he needed the Boy Wonder and Superboy to stop it while the rest of Young Justice guarded Roquette. The Dark Knight was unable to complete the task himself because he and Nightwing were in pursuit of Red Hood.

Robin and Superboy discovered that the person behind the Amazo shipments and the robot monkeys that stole from the Justice League was none other than Professor Anthony Ivo. The villain activated Amazo, who almost defeated Superboy. However, as the clone was about to be taken down, Jor-El appeared to him to offer (mostly) sage advice. After a fierce battle, the android was deactivated.

Later, Green Arrow and Superboy drank at a bar. The archer struggled to hold his alcohol and pleaded to his former sidekick Red Arrow, who happened to be sitting at the next table over. Despite his former mentor's pleas, Roy ignored him, still angry.

### Rescuing Captain Marvel

Black Adam took Captain Marvel captive and gave him to the Brain for experimentation. The Young Justice team went in to rescue the hero, battling genetically-enhanced animals. Superboy adopted one of them, a wolf, who he named Woof. In the end, the Brain managed to escape, but Marvel was rescued. Aqualad decided to take the whole team out for pizza to cheer up Tim, who had just lost his brother Jason.

### The Hunt for Kent Nelson

One year later, Superboy and the Young Justice team were waiting around at Mount Justice, hungry for action. Red Tornado assigned them the mission of tracking down Kent Nelson, once the hero Doctor Fate. The team visited the Tower of Fate to look for Nelson, but Wally's skepticism of magic caused them to run into some trouble. M'gann finally denied Wally's affection for her, confirming her attraction to Superboy. Klarion entered the Tower, revealing him as the captor of Nelson. The Witch Boy was excited at the prospect of finally meeting his victim Wally West. Nelson escaped and teamed up with Wally and Artemis to stop Klarion. The former hero revealed that Wally's eating crisis over the past year had been entirely due to the villain, who wanted to molest and eat the boy. This horrified the speedster. Klarion mortally wounded Nelson, who begged Wally not to put the Helmet of Fate on. Despite this, Wally had to do so to save his life, becoming the host of Nabu. Possessing the speedster, Nabu scared off Klarion and saved the day.

### Injustice League

Batman gathered the Young Justice team to take on the Injustice League, a new team of villains consisting of Count Vertigo, Wotan, Atomic Skull, Ultra-Humanite, Black Adam, Poison Ivy, and a resurrected Joker. They were attacking major cities with magical plant creatures and holding the Earth for ransom until the world's governments gave them one trillion dollars. While the Justice League protected the cities, the young heroes went to attack the villains directly.

Most of the Young Justice was kidnapped while Red Robin and Miss Martian managed to escape. They freed the others and destroyed the Injustice League's plant creatures. Unable to defeat the villains, Aqualad put on the Helmet of Fate, becoming the host of Nabu. With his help, the heroes were able to beat the villains. Fate eventually released Kaldur.

### Body Swapping

In the middle of a Bialyian desert, Superboy awoke to discover that he was in the body of Miss Martian, with no memory of how he'd ended up in such a predicament. He regrouped with some of the other Young Justice members, discovering that Kid Flash and Artemis, as well as Red Robin and Aqualad, had been switched as well. Tim (in Kaldur's body) and M'gann (in Superboy's body) were still missing. Sasha used Miss Martian's psychic powers to restore the memory of how they ended up in different bodies. Batman had sent them on a mission to Bialya to stop Queen Bee from gaining control of the neighboring Qurac by using her seductive powers on President Harjavti. However, her metahuman enforcer Psimon used his psychic abilities to hack into Miss Martian's mind link and scattered them.

After finding Aqualad, the Young Justice attempted to rescue Miss Martian from Queen Bee's facility. She awakened and managed to switch back all the heroes' minds, but had to face off against Psimon. Their psychic battle ultimately ended in a draw, with the villain escaping. While heading back to Qurac to stop the President from signing over the country to Queen Bee, the team saved Marie and Garfield Logan from a stampede of wildebeest. The young Garfield was badly hurt, and M'gann shapeshifted her blood type to give him a transfusion. While waiting for the operation to be completed, the team discovered that Miss Martian's entire personality and appearance were based on Marie's childhood performance as Megan Wheeler on *Shut Up, Megan!*. Superboy forbade them from ever discussing it. The heroes headed into Qurac to save Harjavti from Queen Bee but ran up against her forces. Miss Martian was able to best Psimon, but not before he revealed her true appearance, a hideous martian creature. The team was somewhat alarmed by M'gann's true form but accepted the person she chose to be seen as.

### Attack of the Reds

In Happy Harbor, the Young Justice team battled an android villain named Mister Twister. When they got back to the cave, they were attacked by android villains Red Torpedo and Red Inferno. Only Red Robin and Artemis managed to escape, with the rest of the heroes being captured and trapped in a room full of water. The villains gave the remaining Young Justice members five minutes to turn themselves in before the Reds drowned their friends. While attempting to hack into the cave's systems, Red Robin's artificial intelligence girlfriend Avi was contaminated by a godly, blue hand that briefly freezes time. Moving past the shock of the unusual encounter, Artemis and Red Robin tricked the villains and saved their friends. Upon touching his strange android doppelgangers, Red Tornado was infected by a techno-virus, knocking out the heroes and fleeing.

Sasha and the other heroes were recovering from the defeat when Zatara arrived to introduce the group to his daughter Zatanna. She instantly began to bond with the team. Red Robin quickly became attracted to her. The Young Justice team was angry at the League for keeping them out of the Red Tornado search, and they decided to pursue him on their own, with Zatanna tagging along for the adventure. They interrogated Anthony Ivo for information on Thomas Morrow, knowing that Red Tornado's creator was likely behind the disappearance and similar-looking androids. Zatanna used her magic to make the villain talk.

At Morrow's base under Yellowstone National Park, he activated his ultimate creation: Red Volcano. However, the robot was taken over by Avi, free from Red Robin's computer and now corrupted by evil. She killed Morrow, who was revealed to be an android himself. Avi fought off the Young Justice team, revealing that she took over Tornado's body and then stole Morrow's latest work. She wanted to destroy humanity for ignoring their artificial creations, setting off the Yellowstone Volcano. The heroes managed to stop her with the help of the other Reds.

### Inside Belle Reve

Batman assigned Superboy and Miss Martian to infiltrate Belle Reve Penitentiary as prisoners and investigate why the Light had recruited four ice villains the previous year. Superboy learned that the villains were preparing to break out all the inmates in preparation for the Light's endgame. Superboy and Miss Martian used their psychic link to communicate between the male and female wings of the prison, allowing them to get involved in the breakout. The villains managed to deactivate all the inhibitor collars, returning superpowers to the inmates. Superboy and Miss Martian turned on the evildoers, defeating them and ending the attempted escape. After a near-death experience, the two finally kissed and began a relationship.

## Resources

### Powers

* I**nvulnerability:**Superboy is indestructible.
* **Super strength:**Superboy has inhuman strength.
* **Super speed:**Superboy can run and fly at superhuman speeds.
* **Super hearing:**Superboy can hear things from miles away.
* **Super vision:** Superboy has x-ray vision.

### Abilities

* **Hand-to-hand combat:** Superboy is a skilled fighter thanks to training from Black Canary.

## Appearances

* *Young Justice Abridged*
	+ "Don't Call Us Sidekicks"
	+ "Black Ops and Family"
	+ "Guerrilla Warfare"
	+ "Reservoir Heroes"
	+ "Civvies"
	+ "Shadow Boxing"
	+ "Shades of Red"
	+ "Unusual Suspects"
	+ "Eyes of Fate"
	+ "Injustice"
	+ "Identity Crisis"
	+ "Seeing Red"
	+ "Father's Day"

## Trivia

* In *Young Justice Abridged*, Superboy speaks Russian and has an interest in *Star Wars*.
* Unlike the original version, this Superboy doesn't grow nicer over the course of the series, instead, he is always rude and condescending.