Trivia / Superboy (New 52)

• What Could Have Been:
  • This version of Superboy, as a stoic agent of N.O.W.H.E.R.E. tasked with hunting down the Teen Titans, was conceived as a possible status quo shake-up for the pre-New-52 Superboy vol. 5. The original idea was that the pre-New-52 Kon would be brainwashed and reprogrammed. When the New 52 continuity reboot was settled upon, the concept was instead worked into his new origin story.
  • During Marv Wolfman's tenure as writer, there were plans to feature an evil version of the Legion of Super-Heroes. Artist Joe Prado even finished an evil Lightning Lad design, but for whatever reason the plan was altered and Superboy teamed up with characters called Schiz, Volt, and Lodestone. The three were clearly meant to invoke the Legion founders (Volt especially was blatantly Lightning Lad) and even referred to them as "Imra, Garth, and Rokk." Later on, an evil Legion did appear in the completely unrelated series Justice League 3001, with an evil Lightning Lad completely different from Joe's design.

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