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Super Powers

The title or other information in this article is taken from the Super Powers franchise that spun off from the Super Friends franchise, beginning with the Super Powers Collection, and continuing in a variety of books, comics, toys and games, particularly the DC Heroes RPG.

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Superboy
Information
Real name: Kon-El
Alias(es): Conner Kent
Boy of Steel
Species: Kryptonian/Human-hybrid
Homeworld: Earth
Universe: Earth-1A
Hair: black
Eyes: blue
Relatives: Lex Luthor (genetic template)
Superman (genetic template)
Base: Metropolis
Voiced/Played: ???[1]

Kon-El was a superhero that was a genetic duplicate of Superman and Lex Luthor that was created by Project Cadmus.

History[]

Earth 1956[]

On a toy commercial for Superman action figures, children were playing with their action figures. Superboy was one of the figures they were playing with, and there were also figures of Superman, Steel, Doomsday, Conduit and a Superman figure wearing a Recovery Suit. Doomsday knocks over both Superboy and Steel. When the narrator of the advertisement says: "Conduit'll learn..." at that point, a cartoon of Superboy appears on the screen and says "Don't mess with the S!"[2]

Real World[]

Superboy Young Justice

Superboy as he appeared in the cartoon.[3]

On this Earth, or at least a very similar one, there was a cartoon on television that featured clips from a variety of Cartoon Network TV shows, which were being shown in celebration of that network's thirtieth anniversary.

Like the Super Friends, another superhero team made up of six superheroes called Young Justice was shown in this video.

Kon-El could be seen among these six superheroes as Superboy wearing a black T-shirt with the Superman symbol on it.

Other superheroes that were shown along with him were Artemis, Robin, Kid-Flash, Miss Martian and Aqualad.[4]

Powers and Abilities[]

Super Powers[]

Abilities[]

Unknown.

Weaknesses[]

  • Kryptonite
  • Magic
  • Red Solar Energy
  • Yellow Sun Processing: Because Superboy absorbed less solar energy than Superman as an adult, Superboy was unable to process as much yellow sun energy as Superman could; as a result, overtaxing 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.

Notes[]

  • Kon-El was created by Karl Kesel and Tom Grummett and first appeared in Adventures of Superman # 500 (June 1993).[5]

Appearances[]

Super Friends toys

References[]

  1. He has dialogue in a Superman: Man of Steel commercial but it is not clear who the voice actor is by this editor.
  2. As seen in the short film: 1995 Kenner Superman Action Figure Commercial (1995).
  3. As seen in the Cartoon Network short: Cartoon Network - For Thirty Years, the Best Place for Cartoons (2022).
  4. As seen in the Cartoon Network short: Cartoon Network - For Thirty Years, the Best Place for Cartoons (2022).
  5. For more information about that DC comic book, click here.

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