- Only his close friends and Command know (and Command only knows for the possible mind control), but Superboy is a clone hybrid of Superman and his world's Lex Luthor.
- Also, not generally known: He was brainwashed by Lex to be a mind controlled slave and nearly killed his team-mates. He's still highly susceptible to mind control.
- He has made a LOT of mistakes that have hurt people and even gotten a few killed. One of the big ones was holding Robin back so Lil' Lobo could fly the ship to Apokolips to try to save Steel, because Steel was his friend and the Black Racer flew by with him. The end result was that they got stranded, horribly tortured, and one of Impulse's Speed Force clones got killed, rendering Bart catatonic.
- He once almost sold his soul to Satanus to bring his dead girlfriend Tana Moon back to life, but Supergirl (not Kara, the other Supergirl) talked him out of it.
- He once kissed what had to be the ugliest woman in existence (http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Gorgeous_Gilly_%28New_Earth%29"). They put the French on it and everything. He was mind-controlled, dammit! It was one of the most embarrassing moments of his superhero career, and he's had a lot of embarrassing moments to choose from.
- Speaking of embarrassing, as much as he talks himself up as absolutely awesome, he actually was something of a joke of a hero in his world for a while. With the other heroes, at least, they thought he was a little foolhardy, but recognized he had a good heart and a genuine desire to do good, so he had a rep as a media hound with the public, but a better one with the heroes than someone like Booster did. Still, if you asked the average citizen what they thought of Superboy from the point he was taken from, they'd tell you they thought he was a joke. A little girl once told him a Hoppy the Marvel Bunny was cooler than him.
- If their worlds are restored, he is supposed to die and come back to life, something he hasn't exactly blabbed to everyone. He's terrified of going back to die. Dying is no less scary when someone tells you you're coming back, and it might be moot anyways if they can't restore their worlds.
- This was a played out thing rather than canon, buuuut he nearly knocked up his girlfriend Cassie Sandsmark the first time they had sex. He thought she was on something, they didn't really talk about it...so they had to find a clinic right after for the morning-after stuff, one that was still open in the face of the crisis, panicking the whole way. In Kansas. They lucked out and found one, but it was a doctor that knew the Kent family, so one of the most mortally embarrassing moments of his life was them commenting that Clark didn't used to get in so much trouble, yada yada. Really does not want Clark or the Kents to know he was so irresponsible.
- Despite frequently acting like he's super experienced with women...he's so not. At least not sexually. While has had little relationships and flirtations and attracted a lot of women, despite acting like OH YEAH, HE HAS JUST HAD TONS OF SEX TOTALLY, he is no Casanova and never has been. Everything he has gotten was with Cassie, right before the ship, and on the ship.
- He's never killed anyone, but when he was fighting Amanda Spence, the woman who killed Tana Moon (and created a new clone partially from Tana's DNA just to kill her in front of him), he was losing. He found out she didn't need anything to survive anymore, like air, and they were fighting in a spaceship, so... he launched her into space with his TTK. At about mach eleventy billion. He left her to float forever in a fate worse than death in the cold void of space.
He has told no one this. Not his friends, not Superman, nobody. Only the DN.Angels know, and they approved because of what happened to the Tana clone, Cherub, who was practically their sister.
Kon knows it was wrong. And while he could argue that he was losing and running out of options, he knows he might have done it anyway even if he wasn't. He also doesn't justify it as 'it wasn't as bad as killing her.' He did it because it was probably worse.
Kon-El / Conner Kent / Superboy
- Also, not generally known: He was brainwashed by Lex to be a mind controlled slave and nearly killed his team-mates. He's still highly susceptible to mind control.
- He has made a LOT of mistakes that have hurt people and even gotten a few killed. One of the big ones was holding Robin back so Lil' Lobo could fly the ship to Apokolips to try to save Steel, because Steel was his friend and the Black Racer flew by with him. The end result was that they got stranded, horribly tortured, and one of Impulse's Speed Force clones got killed, rendering Bart catatonic.
- He once almost sold his soul to Satanus to bring his dead girlfriend Tana Moon back to life, but Supergirl (not Kara, the other Supergirl) talked him out of it.
- He once kissed what had to be the ugliest woman in existence (http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Gorgeous_Gilly_%28New_Earth%29"). They put the French on it and everything. He was mind-controlled, dammit! It was one of the most embarrassing moments of his superhero career, and he's had a lot of embarrassing moments to choose from.
- Speaking of embarrassing, as much as he talks himself up as absolutely awesome, he actually was something of a joke of a hero in his world for a while. With the other heroes, at least, they thought he was a little foolhardy, but recognized he had a good heart and a genuine desire to do good, so he had a rep as a media hound with the public, but a better one with the heroes than someone like Booster did. Still, if you asked the average citizen what they thought of Superboy from the point he was taken from, they'd tell you they thought he was a joke. A little girl once told him a Hoppy the Marvel Bunny was cooler than him.
- If their worlds are restored, he is supposed to die and come back to life, something he hasn't exactly blabbed to everyone. He's terrified of going back to die. Dying is no less scary when someone tells you you're coming back, and it might be moot anyways if they can't restore their worlds.
- This was a played out thing rather than canon, buuuut he nearly knocked up his girlfriend Cassie Sandsmark the first time they had sex. He thought she was on something, they didn't really talk about it...so they had to find a clinic right after for the morning-after stuff, one that was still open in the face of the crisis, panicking the whole way. In Kansas. They lucked out and found one, but it was a doctor that knew the Kent family, so one of the most mortally embarrassing moments of his life was them commenting that Clark didn't used to get in so much trouble, yada yada. Really does not want Clark or the Kents to know he was so irresponsible.
- Despite frequently acting like he's super experienced with women...he's so not. At least not sexually. While has had little relationships and flirtations and attracted a lot of women, despite acting like OH YEAH, HE HAS JUST HAD TONS OF SEX TOTALLY, he is no Casanova and never has been. Everything he has gotten was with Cassie, right before the ship, and on the ship.
- He's never killed anyone, but when he was fighting Amanda Spence, the woman who killed Tana Moon (and created a new clone partially from Tana's DNA just to kill her in front of him), he was losing. He found out she didn't need anything to survive anymore, like air, and they were fighting in a spaceship, so... he launched her into space with his TTK. At about mach eleventy billion. He left her to float forever in a fate worse than death in the cold void of space.
He has told no one this. Not his friends, not Superman, nobody. Only the DN.Angels know, and they approved because of what happened to the Tana clone, Cherub, who was practically their sister.
Kon knows it was wrong. And while he could argue that he was losing and running out of options, he knows he might have done it anyway even if he wasn't. He also doesn't justify it as 'it wasn't as bad as killing her.' He did it because it was probably worse.