Superboy-Prime

Superboy-Prime (Clark Kent; colloquial: "Prime"; later CK Prime) is a supervillain-turned-superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. A boy from the real world transported to the DC Universe, as an alternate version of Superboy, the character first appeared in DC Comics Presents #87 (November 1985) as part of the multiversal crossover event Crisis on Infinite Earths, and was created by Elliot S. Maggin and Curt Swan. Superboy-Prime originates from the parallel Earth called Earth-Prime (representing the real world) in which superhumans like Superman and other comic superheroes only existed as fictional characters. Shortly before Earth Prime was drawn into Crisis on Infinite Earths (April 1985–March 1986), 15-year-old DC fanboy Clark Kent developed real Kryptonian powers and assumed the identity of Superboy. After the Crisis destroyed his world, he was one of the few characters to survive without being folded into the new Post-Crisis timeline, and withdrew with other survivors into a "paradise dimension" from which he was able to observe the new timeline and the new living versions of fictional characters he had read about as a child. Superboy-Prime was brought back in Geoff Johns' Infinite Crisis (December 2005–June 2006) as an allegory of toxic fandom. Here Superboy-Prime was shown to have gradually become angry at the failure of the new versions of his heroes to live up to his idealized memories of them. He escaped his paradise dimension intending to fix reality but soon turned violent, murdering Conner Kent and several other heroes. In Countdown to Final Crisis (May 2007–April 2008) he entirely destroyed multiple worlds across the multiverse for failing to meet his expectations of them. He Joined the Sinestro Corps in Sinestro Corps War (June – December 2007) and was for a time afterwards imprisoned by the Guardians of Oa. After escaping, he forced...