Superboy finally meets his heroic father, Superman, in the series finale of Titans. With the episode "Titans Forever," the HBO Max series joins DC projects like Shazam! (2019) and Peacemaker on the list of faceless Superman cameos.
Thankfully, Conner had a change of heart in the penultimate episode of TItans season 4 and rejoined his friends for the fight against Brother Blood. The closing moments of Titans' series finale reveal that Conner finally got his long-awaited chance to meet Superman and spend some time with him in private.
They access a unique bomb Lex Luthor made, but after Conner tricks Sebastian into killing Mother Mayhem for good, the plan backfires. Conner chucks the bomb at Sebastian, but Brother Blood survives. He uses his magic to then murder Superboy, leaving Conner's pale, lifeless corpse in the temple.
After the Titans destroy Brother Blood, there's no true resolution or cathartic closure with the Conner Kent. All that Titans does is have Superman teach Superboy to fly, yet, fans only see the iconic red boots.
Subject 13 ("born" 2019), better known as Conner Kent and nicknamed Superboy by Dawn Granger, is the hybrid clone of Superman and Lex Luthor, his genetic "fathers", that was created in Cadmus Laboratories. He was created by Eve Watson, who eventually became his handler and mother figure.
Half Kryptonian and half-human, Jon is the biological son of post-Crisis Superman/Clark Kent and Lois Lane and the couple's child in DC Comics canon. His parents named him in honor of his grandfathers, Jonathan Kent and Samuel Lane.
Rather than be a father-figure, Superman and Superboy have formed a brotherly relationship. In the most recent episode of “Young Justice: Outsiders”, titled “Quiet Conversations”, Superboy and Superman have a conversation in which Clark acknowledges Conner as his little brother.
Yet, he quickly overcame that phase and mastered his abilities. But then he was brainwashed and turned against the Titans. He went through very little character progression until Titans Season 4, which has turned him into Lex Luthor, Jr.
So far, the son of Superman has done a spectacular job stepping up for his father as DC Comics' flagship hero. But before Jonathan Kent was even born, there was Conner Kent. And although the DC Universe may have forgotten him, the hero known as Superboy has long since earned the title of Man of Steel.
Superboy's experience in Titans season 4, episode 4 means that he is now a part of Mother Mayhem's plan. Seeing Conner yak up a blood snake at the end is eerily reminiscent of Lex Luthor's death in Titans season 4, episode 1 "Lex Luthor".
The two returning episodes end with Conner Kent aka Superboy with a shaved head approaching Sebastian. They seal a partnership with a toast "to the future." Conner has officially left the Titans after getting a message from a dead Lex, opting to work with Mercy Graves and assume the Luthor empire.
That book ended in 2003 and made way for a new era of Teen Titans which featured many of the same characters and also showed Superboy developing actual Kryptonian powers like Superman's in addition to his tactile telekinesis.
This small detail in Titans season 4, episode 11 tacitly confirms Bruce Wayne is back in action as Batman - albeit perhaps a little more gingerly than before. Batman's return to Gotham provides a logical resolution to Bruce Wayne's Titans story.
In the New Teen Titans comics by Marv Wolfman and George Perez, Beast Boy had the limit of only being able to transform into non-sentient animals he was aware of existing. This limit was established, so Beast Boy couldn't use his powers to replicate sentient species from other worlds, like Kryptonians or Martians.
Unlike their mentors, the pairing of Conner Kent and Cassie Sandsmark, also known as Superboy and Wonder Girl, made a bit more sense. Serving as members of Young Justice and Teen Titans, their love developed throughout their time on both teams.
Kal-El and Kal-L defeat Superboy-Prime by flying him directly through Krypton's red sun Rao, destroying his armor and diminishing their powers in the process. Afterward, the Green Lantern Corps imprison him inside a "junior" Red Sun-Eater, which similarly depowers him.
In season four, Young Justice: Phantoms, Conner and Miss Martian travel to Mars to undergo a Martian wedding ceremony with her family until he is seemingly killed after sacrificing himself to stop a gene-bomb.
History. Superboy (also known as: Kon-El, Connor Kent) was not born anywhere. He was grown. Project Cadmus grew him out of two very different genetic donors, mixing the two until they were genetically inseparable: Superman and Lex Luthor.
Superboy's human DNA means that he can't match Supergirl's power level and beyond that, she's just a better fighter than him. Her superior skills and abilities would drive Superboy crazy.
Superboy pulls Miss Martian into their first kiss. They were sent on a mission in Belle Reve together, disguised as the Terror Twins. During an attempted breakout, Miss Martian was put on ice by Killer Frost.
While multiple iterations of Superman Junior exist, his most notable iteration would probably be from “World's Finest Comics” #215 (1973). In here, Superman Junior is revealed to be the son of Superman with an unnamed human wife. Being a half-human, he possesses half of all the abilities of his father.
The brother in question is Kon-El, aka Conner Kent, a clone created from the DNA of Superman and Lex Luthor. Created by writer Karl Kesel and artist Tom Grummett in 1993's The Adventures of Superman #500, Superboy was raised by Superman's parents, the only people with experience raising a Kryptonian on Earth.
