The Infinite Crisis Thread (SPOILERS)

[Darthphere]

Jezz, somebody needs some Prozac.

For some reason people with Doom related names end up being headcases.

 

[jaydawg]

And maybe some better insults.

 

[GoldenAgeHero]

Some people "might" get hurt??? Gullibleboy-Prime destroyed Thanagar and sparked an interstellar war that has claimed countless lives, including heroines Jade and Hawkwoman; not to mention bringing fellow Whinyboy (see below) Jason Todd back from the dead with his reality-warping tantrums.

Whinyboy-Prime assaulted Superboy, kicked a dog (Krypto, but still) and murdered or maimed five (C-list, but still) Titans.

F'ingpissedoffboy-Prime had better do a lot more than maybe hurt some people. I want him to break off Dove's arm and beat Hawk to death with it, then eat the pieces. I want him to incinerate a town with his heat-Prime vision and then piss on the ashes. Some **** had better go down.

do you wanna see SBP kill cooner too, casue i do.

 

[Anubis]

And GAH's just......GAH.

 

[GoldenAgeHero]

And GAH's just......GAH.

gahhhhhhh!!!!

 

[Anubis]

He's a *****e bag but he's our *****e bag. New Car smell I believe.

 

[Vic Von Doom]

Aw, c'mon. Make ONE call for a fictional character to brutally murder other fictional characters (and also possibly your mother) and he's designated a headcase? Jeez, if being bloodthirsty is wrong, I don't wanna be right.

And no, I don't want Primeboy to kill Conner. I like him. Even if I am confused about how he came into existence if when he was being born and grown the Lex running around was the red-maned Lex Jr. even though it was the real Lex's brain in a new body that banged Supergirl but then deteriorated but then became OK enough to run for President and win.

On a side tangent, anyone wanna explain that timeline to me? I missed that bit.

 

[Anubis]

Well, from the Teen Titans annual, they said that the Red head lion main Luthor replaced the doctors DNA with his own at the last minute or something.

 

[fifthfiend]

Whinyboy-Prime assaulted Superboy, kicked a dog (Krypto, but still) and murdered or maimed five (C-list, but still) Titans.

You know if nothing else, this is why SBPussy has to die.

I mean come on. Kicked a goddamn dog.

That just ain't right.

 

[Hellstormer]

Let's play a game called "How many negative words can "P" stand for?" we already have Superboy ***** and Superboy Poser any others?

 

[Anubis]

Superboy Pedophile?

 

[Vic Von Doom]

Let's play a game called "How many negative words can "P" stand for?" we already have Superboy ***** and Superboy Poser any others?

Superboy-Pretender

Superboy-Prat

Superboy-Pissant

Superboy-Prick

Superboy-Pinhead

Superboy-Poopface Just to get you started.

 

[GoldenAgeHero]

SBP is the real superboy, conner is just a some test tube peace of junk.

 

[Trigger]

SBP is the real superboy, conner is just a some test tube peace of junk.

Crazy fangirls attack!!

 

[Vic Von Doom]

SBP is the real superboy, conner is just a some test tube peace of junk.

Gerard Christopher is the real Superboy.

Superboy-Prime has appeared in like, 15 comics total? Didn't he only appear twice before COIE? Meanwhile, Superboy-TestTube (or, I suppose, the Superboy of Earth-8) has been running around for a good 13 years, in his own book or someone else's. Plus he nailed Wonder Girl. That's good enough for me.

 

[GoldenAgeHero]

Crazy fangirls attack!!

*hugs trigger.......cops a feel*

 

[Trigger]

Hey soldier! .............Save that for a McDonald's bathroom.

 

[BrianWilly]

And Superboy-Prime isn't actually the real Superboy, either, even in pre-Crisis. That role was filled out by Superman of Earth-1, aka our Superman before he became an adult.

 

[GoldenAgeHero]

Hey soldier! .............Save that for a McDonald's bathroom.

score one for the GAH-miester

 

[Vic Von Doom]

And Superboy-Prime isn't actually the real Superboy, either, even in pre-Crisis. That role was filled out by Superman of Earth-1, aka our Superman before he became an adult.

What? But I thought that Post-Crisis Superman of Earth-1 didn't become Superman until he was an adult, and he was never Superboy. The only Superboy like that I'm aware of is Earth-2 Superman as a boy.

And I gotta say, I'm having an epiphany typing this. Right as I typed "Post-Crisis Superman of Earth-1" , my mind went, "Why the hell do I need to type all that bull****? Shouldn't 'Superman' be enough?" I kind of blame Infinite Crisis for making me do that. Or DC in general for creating all kinds of stupid Counter-Earths to begin with.

 

[BrianWilly]

Nope. Superman of Earth-2 is the Golden Age Superman and Superboy was never around back then. Superboy premiered in the Silver Age, which means that it was Superman of Earth-1 who was Superboy and had those adventures with Pete Ross and Lana Lang.

The thing is that the Crisis rearranged history so that Superman-1 was never Superboy in his youth, instead becoming Superman in his twenties...which is our current DCU continuity. So, even though our Superman is technically Earth-1 Superman, his history is different. Same as how our Wonder Woman is the Wonder Woman from Earth-1, but they have different histories. Simply put, the histories go like this:

Earth-2: Golden Age. No Superboy here.

Earth-1: Silver Age. Clark Kent was Superboy.

Earth-Prime: Superboy is the only superhero in an otherwise "real" world. Not the same Superboy as the one who we read about having adventures with Lana Lang or the Legion of Superheroes.

Post-Crisis Earth: No Superboy at all until Kon-El/Conner Kent.

 

[Green Lantern]

Post-Crisis Earth: No Superboy at all until Kon-El/Conner Kent.

Not technically true... there was the pocket universe Superboy from the LOSH (because the Crisis so royally f**ked them up the ass by taking their two biggest hitters away, Superboy and Supergirl...)

 

[BrianWilly]

Didn't that end up being Conner? I mean, I really don't know -- that particular portion of DC history is, ah, complicated at best -- but since that Teen Titans/Legion crossover put Conner into Legion continuity I thought it was said that it's always been that way. In fact, I thought that the Superboy in Legion was revealed to be Kon-El a long time ago and that they were looking for an excuse to somehow explain that long before the TT arc.

Yup, complicated

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[Green Lantern]

Nope, that was the Superboy that sacrificed his life to defeat the Time Trapper (who had technically created him) and was before the Zero Hour reboot of the Legion

 

[drastic_quench]

Superboy Prime is an extremely well-written character. I don't understand all these complaints about his "whining". His confrontation with Conner and the resulting battle was a well-executed piece of horror writing.

He didn't intend to punch anyone's head clean off. He went to Smallville full of what he thought were good intentions. He needed to confront the "bad" Superboy, the imposter. Prime isn't just a superboy, he's Clark Kent - he's supposed to grow up to be Superman. Go back and look at the panels where he's staring at his blood splattered hands in disbelief. It's a look of sheer HORROR in reaction to what his kind of raw power is capable of. His "Stop it, you're making be BAD" lines aren't whiny they're chilling. The freak-out that comes after that is wonderfully tragic and surreal.

He's his earth's Superman. Imagine the flood of emotions our E-1 Clark Kent would've gone through if he'd not known to hold back and killed someone when he was a boy.