2006-11-03 02:10:51 · 10 answers · asked by Michael S 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Comics & Animation
That is only PART of it... check this out:
"When asked how Superboy-Prime's battle with the Teen Titans got out of control so quickly, editor Dan Didio said, "Superboy is a teenager raised in isolation, with raging hormones, a huge chip on his shoulder and the powers of a god. He never learned how to keep his powers or emotions in check, so when confronted, the situation escalated and he had no idea on how to defuse it. Think of a situation where you, as a teenager, lost your temper. Now imagine you have the power to crush a planet. Do you think that situation would have ended differently? This is the moment where Superboy-Prime crosses the point of no return and becomes the greatest threat the universe will ever know."
For a more complete telling go to Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superboy-Prime
It's actually a good telling of this Hero's history!
2006-11-03 04:34:03 · answer #1 · answered by NE1sGame 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
like it was mentioned above, the simple answer is "yes". here are some of the probable reasons.
1) superboy prime was only superboy for a short while before "Crisis on Infinite Earths" destroyed his world. since he was "super" for so short a time, he never understood what it meant to be a hero and he never really matured.
2) since the original crisis, he had no one to be his friend, team mate, or mentor (like some of the other teen heroes) because Superman was too busy tending to Lois and Alexander Luthor was trying to figure a way out of their dimention of exile. this lonelyness made him releave it by reliving the happiest day he could remember... his birthday.... over and over and over again... (to say this was not healthy was an understatement)
3) Luthor tormented superboy prime by showing the deaths of his parents and girlfriend in the post crisis world (and how if he was there, he could have prevented it)... and he made sure to also show him the worse parts of the DC universe.
4) while superboy prime was highly intelligent... he was also naive. this allowed Luthor to play on his fears and made him believe that he was a better superboy than Kon-El. and that superboy needed to get out and "correct" things... show the world what a "real superman... a real hero" should be like.
5) after his initial fight with Kon, superboy (not knowing how strong he truly was and not being inexperience in his ability to control his kryptonian powers mixed with the fact that he was immature and ill informed by Luthor) quickly took out his anger on Kon and the teen titans. after he had killed some of them, he was a bit unbalanced and shocked from the trauma of having taken another life. instead of being able to talk to someone and try to figure out how things had escalated so quickly, he continued to fight (while the other heroes continued to try to subdue this "menace"). he never really got a chance to face the consequences of his actions.
6) after having been imprisoned in another dimention for so long, his forced imprisonment by the various speedsters drove him further over the edge.
7) he overheard Superman say that superboy will "... I wish this world would let him grow up. He'll never be Superman here". after everything superboy had done, the one person he looked up to had in a sense dismissed his existance (in superboys mind)
8) with all these events happening, he began to believe that he could destroy all the other worlds... and the other hero's. if he could just get his world back, "no one would know what I went through to get it".
9) his rage and insanity increased when the fight between Connor Kent and Superboy Prime destroys Alexander Luthor's apparatus thus making him unable to bring back/create superboys "purfect world". this caused him to want to destroy anything and everyone who had opposed him.
now, take a teen kid that is immature and super strong... and have all these things happen to him in a very compressed amount of time... you can kinda see how me might have snapped. at this point, superboy prime is the worst kind of supervillian... the kind that doesn't believe/know he's a supervillian.
2006-11-03 07:20:07 · answer #2 · answered by kiss my wookie! 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
From what i was understanding ... he was not happy w/ his life and didnt like the superboy of current time because he was kinda of living a happier life and origins were different and the whole 9. So he did go crazy wanting to ruin everyone else life w/ it .
2006-11-03 04:34:12 · answer #3 · answered by x_angel_0f_darkness_x 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All superboy wanted to do was create a dialogue, but instead the typical ameriKKKans of the DC universe just wanted to fight. Superboy Prime is the tragic hero of Infinite Crisis and exposes everything that is wrong in the minds of stupid ameriKKKans who just want to "shoot first, ask questions later".
2006-11-04 09:30:29 · answer #4 · answered by rajjfahneen 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes he went insane once he knew his earth was gone and he could see it all from the outside of earth 1 realm.
As we know he killed Conner Kent aka Superboy and the Flashes had to push him into the speed force to keep him from destroying earth 1
Or so the Editors of DC the famous Soap Opera of comics will have you believe
2006-11-03 05:06:36 · answer #5 · answered by mick987g 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He probibly didn't go crazy from not being superman, but from having the name Superboy-Prime, his parents must have been high to have come up with a name like that.
2006-11-06 08:58:59 · answer #6 · answered by iamknives64 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Superboys Girlfriend
2016-11-07 09:14:00 · answer #7 · answered by hoggan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no he wanted the world that was destroyed in crisis back he hated they way the heros acted he wanted them to be like his world but he went insane and became like the ones he wanted to destroy
2006-11-03 05:43:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Get a life
2006-11-03 04:08:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
the simple answer is yes,
2006-11-03 05:27:20 · answer #10 · answered by giant_68102 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋