Superboy

## Relationships

### Relatives

Lex Luthor (Partial Genetic Template/"Father")Kal-El (Partial Genetic Template/"Brother")

### Affiliation

Young JusticeThe Team

Team Superboy

### Occupation

SuperheroMentor

Mentee

## Essentials

### Abilities

Super StrengthSuper Leap

Infrared Vision

Invulnerability

Super Hearing

### Equipment

Combat Gloves

**Superboy** (also known as **Conner Kent** and **Kon-El**, "born" March 21, 2010) is a genomorph, a binary clone of Superman and Lex Luthor, and a founding member of the Team. As of February 25, 2019, Superboy has left the team in order to become a member of the Outsiders after revealing himself to the world.

## Personality

Although he desires to be a good hero, Superboy has anger issues. Having spent his first 16 weeks of existence as a science project and mind-controlled puppet, Superboy is defiant and does not like being told what to do or being dismissed. He often behaves with an air of extreme confidence, due in large part to the fact that he is Superman's genetic clone, and was created in order to replace him. This makes him exceedingly overconfident in his abilities to the point that he ignores the help of others and impulsively throws himself into situations that he cannot handle on his own. Despite this confidence, he worries about living up to his namesake, Superman. Due to the fact he never really had the opportunity to interact with anyone until recently, Superboy is somewhat anti-social and has a hard time getting along with others or showing his emotions. As such he constantly behaves in a confrontational manner to all people, even those who are attempting to be kind towards him. Even simple things like making amends with people who he has wronged is a tough concept for him to understand. However, he has learned quickly and has become not quite so silent, to the point of even carrying on a conversation without getting angry.

By 2016, Superboy seems to have become more mellow and in touch with his emotions, but he is still angered whenever Miss Martian uses her powers invasively. He has also become more experienced and uses his intelligence more, planning attacks instead of going in with physical strength.

By 2018, he is still in control of his emotions even advising Brion Markov on controlling his rage. With encouragement from Dubbilex, Superboy revealed his status as a clone of Lex Luthor and Superman before announcing his intentions to join the Outsiders.

## Physical Appearance

Superboy is a partial genetic clone of Superman, and as such shares many of Superman's physical traits. At the time of his liberation, Superboy was physiologically 16 years old; however, chronologically he was only 16 weeks old. As a side effect of the cloning process, Superboy will never visibly age, thus looks identical in the eight years since his awakening. Superboy is a Caucasian male with short black hair and blue eyes. He is noticeably taller than most people of his physiological age and is quite muscular, likely due to his partial Kryptonian genes. He is considered very handsome by most girls in his physiological age group and is typically seen with a frown on his face, rarely with a smile.

Superboy used to wear a black T-shirt (though he has worn a long sleeved shirt on occasion) with the classic S-shield in red and at times wore a brown leather jacket. He also donned dark blue fatigue pants tucked into dark-brown combat boots with a large buckled-belt. In 2016, he wears a long sleeved variation on his traditional black with red S-shield shirt and fingerless gloves.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

**Kryptonian Physiology:** As a partial genetic clone of Superman, he has most of the physical abilities of a Kryptonian who has absorbed the solar energy of a yellow sun. However, due to the human DNA supplied by Lex Luthor, he lacks the more advanced powers of flight and heat vision and presumably is incapable of ever acquiring them naturally. In addition, his existing powers are considerably inferior to Superman's though whether this is due entirely to him being only a partial kryptonian clone or if his physiological age also exacerbates this (Conner is biologically only around 16-18 years old and not a fully developed adult) is unclear. Since the Light created Conner to replace or destroy Superman and the fact that they created special equipment to temporarily grant Conner full Kryptonian power, it's possible a method could be found to artificially and permanently grant Conner his full powers.

* **Super Strength:** This is one of Superboy's main abilities, allowing him to easily pick up or carry heavy objects.
	+ **Super Leap:** To compensate for his inability to fly like Superman, Superboy uses the super-strong muscles in his legs to jump incredible distances and heights.

* **Super Speed:** Although not as fast as Kid Flash, Superboy can move at meta-human speeds especially when charging at enemies.

* **Invulnerability:** Like Superman, Superboy is nearly indestructible. This invulnerability allows him to rush into dangerous scenes with little care for what might actually happen. Out of all his teammates, Superboy has taken the most punishment from their missions but has displayed no lasting injuries. He has been tackled through walls, shot with guns and explosives, had his feet dipped in lava, and has come out with no obvious physical damage. He has yet to be permanently injured, but he does experience pain.
* **Super Hearing:** Superboy can pick up the faintest of sounds over long distances, as well as high frequencies not audible to regular humans.
* **Infrared Vision:** This ability allows Superboy to visually detect heat signatures, allowing him to easily see in the dark.
* **Microscopic Vision**
* **Telescopic Vision**

**When using Shield patches**

* **Flight**
* **Heat Vision**
* **X-ray Vision**
* **Super Speed**

### Abilities

* **Hand-to-Hand Combatant:** While normally relying on his sheer strength, Superboy has developed highly proficient combat skills from his training under Black Canary. He is especially good at grappling and takedowns. *By 2016, he had taken an active role in training newer members of the Team.*
* **Genomorph Programming:** While Superboy was being force grown, G-Gnomes telepathically fed him information in lieu of a traditional education:
	+ **Multilingualism:** Superboy can understand and speak many languages outside of English. He is at least fluent in Spanish, Atlantean, *French, Korean, Arabic and Russian, among other languages.*
	+ **Encyclopedic Knowledge:** Likely due to the G-Gnomes, Superboy has an encyclopedic knowledge of World History.
* **Mechanical Aptitude:** By 2018, Conner learn how to repair motorcycles. He was so good at it that it became his profession in Happy Harbor.

## Equipment

### Vehicles

* **Motorcycle:** Superboy has his own personal mode of transportation: a customized motorcycle. He used this on his mission to guard the Amazo parts. He left it behind to go after the MONQIs. He liked working on it in his spare time.
* **Sphere** (**Super-Cycle**): This piece of New Genesis technology is actually a "she" that bonded with Superboy. Some months later, Sphere's abilities were brought to light.

### Former Equipment

* **Shields:** The shields given to him by Lex Luthor allow Superboy to suppress his human DNA, permitting his full Kryptonian abilities to surface for an hour though as a side effect Conner becomes more aggressive and angry during that time similarly to the other clone of Superman, Match.

* **Solar Suit:** Upon being released from his cryogenic suspension in Cadmus Labs, Superboy wore a white solar suit with a red Superman S-symbol on the chest. The suit allowed him to absorb Yellow Sun radiation to fuel his powers even underground. The suit was damaged during the fight with Blockbuster. While staying with Wally West, he continued to wear the tattered solar suit until he bought new clothes from Forever Sixteen in the Central City Mall three days later.

## Weaknesses

* **Kryptonite:** Due to his Kryptonian DNA, Superboy is vulnerable to the unique radioactive properties of this green mineral. However, this vulnerability is not to the degree of full Kryptonians such as Superman, due to him being only half Kryptonian.