1. Despite ragging on Tim for liking Enya, Superboy secretly likes the Zesty Girls, DC's version of the Spice Girls. He justifies this with the fact that they're hot babes. He also has been known to listen to gangsta rap. You haven't really seen hilarity until you see a three year old cloned alien white boy grown rapping about bitches and ho's.
2. Superboy is picked on at school, because of his nerd persona. It doesn't cut into his self esteem at all, but he really, really wants to pull a "I'M A SUPERHERO AND THEREFORE I'M AWESOME! AND MY GIRLFRIEND'S WONDER GIRL! SUUUUCK IT!" kinda thing. He hates having to keep a low profile because being a superhero is more natural to him than faking he's a normal person. Superboy is who Kon really is, Conner Kent is the mask. He also doesn't grok most average teenagers, mainly because they know all the social stuff he doesn't, but also tend to worry about sort of petty things he doesn't.
3. After a particularly busy week, when he was really hungry, he once made the owner of an struggling All-You-Can-Eat place burst into tears. He felt REALLY bad, when he realized just how much he'd eaten for nothing, and paid for three more people that weren't there to compensate.
4. He's lived in six different places in the last five years, and been to just as many (if not more) funerals. Superheroing's a rough life.
5. Back home, he ordered the T-shirts he did his superheroing in off the internet, and just wore Levis. Cheap costume replacement, FTW. It definitely beat the days of going through leather jacket after leather jacket. He is more comfortable in spandex than normal clothes though--for years, that was practically all he wore.
6. Kon is sort of fascinated by children, because he's in a weird place where he's an adult, comparatively, and still something of a child (it's been a busy five years, but he still is just five). In some ways, this means he's just as immature--or even more immature--than some kids, but he also has been through a lot in a very short amount of time, so he tends to settle on an "I'm a kid like you, but I'm an older kid and I know stuff" kinda role. Even if he doesn't really know how to deal with them, and he doesn't get along with all kids, they tend to gravitate to him though and eventually warm up to him like the kids on the ship did.
He really wants to know what childhood is like, because he didn't get 16 years to dick around and play and be taken care of--he had to grow up from infancy to near-adulthood in five years.
Aside from just liking kids in general, he has a mega softspot for disabled kids, and has done a lot of charity work doing a "Make a Wish" foundation kinda stuff with them. Back in the beginning of his heroing career, he did a lot of stuff just to look good, but that was one of the things his agent Rex set up that he just...really enjoyed and felt good doing. Also, to someone who was born with the ability to fly and smash through walls, that these kids wouldn't be able to walk and still have the outlooks some of them had was incredible to him, and this is part of why he doesn't make a big fuss during the times he's powerless.
7. There were 12 "failures" before his cloning attempt took. Kon saw them all in tubes at Cadmus, and they weren't pretty. One of them died with him by his side. Despite being a clone, and pro clone rights, Kon is vehemently anti-cloning, and part of why he worked at Cadmus was to keep an eye on them for Superman to make sure they'd stopped cloning people.
8. Kon was technically U.S. government property and not recognized as a human being back home, but they knew that if they ever laid a finger on him, they'd have one pissed off Kryptonian staring them down with heatvision with the Titans, former members of Young Justice, the JLA, the JSA, and allll their friends at his back. In fact, when Superboy-Prime showed up and beat him half to death during the Crisis, that's close to who showed up just to save him. The titans, the JSA, and the Doom Patrol. And the Flashes...
Aside from the fact that DC heroes just tend to DO that for each other, Kon's kinda a popular guy.
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2. Superboy is picked on at school, because of his nerd persona. It doesn't cut into his self esteem at all, but he really, really wants to pull a "I'M A SUPERHERO AND THEREFORE I'M AWESOME! AND MY GIRLFRIEND'S WONDER GIRL! SUUUUCK IT!" kinda thing. He hates having to keep a low profile because being a superhero is more natural to him than faking he's a normal person. Superboy is who Kon really is, Conner Kent is the mask. He also doesn't grok most average teenagers, mainly because they know all the social stuff he doesn't, but also tend to worry about sort of petty things he doesn't.
3. After a particularly busy week, when he was really hungry, he once made the owner of an struggling All-You-Can-Eat place burst into tears. He felt REALLY bad, when he realized just how much he'd eaten for nothing, and paid for three more people that weren't there to compensate.
4. He's lived in six different places in the last five years, and been to just as many (if not more) funerals. Superheroing's a rough life.
5. Back home, he ordered the T-shirts he did his superheroing in off the internet, and just wore Levis. Cheap costume replacement, FTW. It definitely beat the days of going through leather jacket after leather jacket. He is more comfortable in spandex than normal clothes though--for years, that was practically all he wore.
6. Kon is sort of fascinated by children, because he's in a weird place where he's an adult, comparatively, and still something of a child (it's been a busy five years, but he still is just five). In some ways, this means he's just as immature--or even more immature--than some kids, but he also has been through a lot in a very short amount of time, so he tends to settle on an "I'm a kid like you, but I'm an older kid and I know stuff" kinda role. Even if he doesn't really know how to deal with them, and he doesn't get along with all kids, they tend to gravitate to him though and eventually warm up to him like the kids on the ship did.
He really wants to know what childhood is like, because he didn't get 16 years to dick around and play and be taken care of--he had to grow up from infancy to near-adulthood in five years.
Aside from just liking kids in general, he has a mega softspot for disabled kids, and has done a lot of charity work doing a "Make a Wish" foundation kinda stuff with them. Back in the beginning of his heroing career, he did a lot of stuff just to look good, but that was one of the things his agent Rex set up that he just...really enjoyed and felt good doing. Also, to someone who was born with the ability to fly and smash through walls, that these kids wouldn't be able to walk and still have the outlooks some of them had was incredible to him, and this is part of why he doesn't make a big fuss during the times he's powerless.
7. There were 12 "failures" before his cloning attempt took. Kon saw them all in tubes at Cadmus, and they weren't pretty. One of them died with him by his side. Despite being a clone, and pro clone rights, Kon is vehemently anti-cloning, and part of why he worked at Cadmus was to keep an eye on them for Superman to make sure they'd stopped cloning people.
8. Kon was technically U.S. government property and not recognized as a human being back home, but they knew that if they ever laid a finger on him, they'd have one pissed off Kryptonian staring them down with heatvision with the Titans, former members of Young Justice, the JLA, the JSA, and allll their friends at his back. In fact, when Superboy-Prime showed up and beat him half to death during the Crisis, that's close to who showed up just to save him. The titans, the JSA, and the Doom Patrol. And the Flashes...
Aside from the fact that DC heroes just tend to DO that for each other, Kon's kinda a popular guy.