#(also superboy would need to have actually been biologically 15 when he was created to be frozen at 16 post meltdown)

[magenta-somethings]

the whiplash of yj98 referring to tim drake as being nearly fifteen years old. like. huh?

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Joseph was the youngest son of Slade Wilson (Deathstroke the Terminator) and Adeline Kane Wilson, and had a happy early childhood. Joseph was a musical prodigy as well being a talented artist. When he was a child, he was held hostage by the terrorist called the Jackal, sent by the Qurac president in retaliation for Deathstroke killing an important colonel. Jackal attempted to obtain information from Slade Wilson, who was secretly leading a double life as a mercenary. After Deathstroke refused to cooperate with Jackal, citing a violation of his professional code of ethics, Wilson managed to rescue his son, but not before one of Jackal's men cut Joseph's throat. As a result, Joseph was rendered mute.

Following the incident, Joseph's mother Adeline divorced Slade (she had previously tried to kill him, but only succeeded in blinding him in one eye) and took Joseph and his older brother Grant with her. At some point, Joseph learned to communicate through sign language (identified in Action Comics #584 as American Sign Language). While still a child, Joseph discovered that he possessed the mutant metahuman power to take possession of any humanoid being by making eye contact with them, a result of biological experimentation done on his father years before. He first manifested his powers when he was saving a friend in danger, but Joseph was left traumatized by the event and his powers would lie dormant until his late teens. By then, Joseph worked with his mother in her espionage organization, Searchers Inc., and received training in combat and stealth. During a mission, Joseph's powers fully awakened again to save his mother from an assassin, and he embraced his abilities to further aid his mother in her work.

TitansEdit

Sometime later (in a storyline called "The Judas Contract"), Adeline and Joseph discovered that Deathstroke had accepted a contract on the Teen Titans. Adeline and Joseph approached Dick Grayson to help him rescue the Titans, with Joseph adopting the identity of Jericho. The rescue mission was a success, and Jericho subsequently joined the team, but the Titans were initially wary of him because of his relationship to Deathstroke and the betrayal of Terra.



The New Titans #83 (1992), the final appearance of Jericho with his original appearance. The character returned eleven years later with a new look.

Jericho proved to be a sensitive and pure-hearted individual and was a loyal Titan for many years. Shortly after he joined the Titans, another new member, Kole, joined and Jericho immediately developed a bond with her. Jericho also developed a close and affectionate relationship with Raven, having possessed her once and learned about her demonic heritage. Jericho was the first Titan to understand Raven, bonding over their pasts with their fathers and finding comfort with one another.[4]

CorruptionEdit

Unbeknownest to anyone, Jericho was possessed by the souls of Azarath, tainted by the essence of the demon Trigon, Raven's father. Unable to possess Raven herself, the souls entered Jericho, as his powers made it easier for the souls to enter him. They were weak at first, but gained strength over time and eventually merged with him after some time following Trigon's defeat.

Jericho laid dormant within his own mind while the souls of Azarath began searching for new bodies. The souls needed individual vessels to survive and sought to acquire superhuman ones. Slowly but surely, the souls began corrupting Jericho and seized control of his body after the villain known as Wildebeest waged a campaign of terror against the Titans, framing Starfire for murder and nearly killing Cyborg after brainwashing him into serving as a proxy for him in a series of robberies. The possessed Jericho discovered that the Wildebeest was actually multiple people; members of the former Titans villain group The H.I.V.E., rebranded following the organization's defeat at the hands of the Titans years earlier. Imprisoning the lead Wildebeest, Jericho became the group's new leader and used them to abduct current and former Titans to act as vessels. Jericho gained new powers: a powerful lion soul-self and a healing ability that repaired his throat and allowed him to speak again.

In the "Titans Hunt" storyline, Nightwing and Troia, accompanied by some new allies, found and confronted him. During the battle, the real Jericho resurfaced and begged his father to kill him. There was no help for him and, to spare his son any more suffering, Deathstroke killed him. A statue of Jericho was later erected in the Titans Tower memorial in San Francisco.

ReturnEdit

Several years later, it was revealed that Jericho's spirit had survived by jumping inside his father right before he was killed. He had lain dormant until hearing that his friend Donna Troy had been killed in battle. Taking control of his father's body, he sought out the latest group of Titans, hoping to convince them that children shouldn't be superheroes and wanting to spare them his fate. He also killed his father's closest friend, Wintergreen, and mounted the man's head on a wall.[5]

Further demonstrating his mental instability while in Deathstroke's body, he viciously attacked his former friends, and even shot Impulse in the knee.[6]

During the combat, he jumped from body to body until Raven absorbed him. During a battle with Brother Blood, she repelled him when she unintentionally absorbed her teammates Deathstroke and Rose Wilson into her soul-self. Jericho managed to use the bodies of Wonder Girl and Superboy against the team, but when he tried to enter Cyborg, Cyborg used his cybernetic eye to transfer Jericho's spirit to a computer file, now stored in Titans Tower. Beast Boy says that they check on Jericho every day.[7]

After the "One Year Later" jump following the events of Infinite Crisis, Raven took the disk with Jericho's essence and, using the same ritual the Church of Brother Blood previously employed to raise her from the dead, resurrected Jericho in a new body, missing the throat injuries from his childhood that left him mute. Jericho joined the latest incarnation of the team, taking the opportunity to bond with his half-sister Rose, who was the new Ravager.[8] After possessing the body of Superboy's dangerous clone Match, Jericho moved to S.T.A.R. Labs until a way was found to control Match.[9]

Later Jericho, still trapped in Match's body, seemingly escaped from S.T.A.R. Labs in visible distress and asking for his friends' help.[10] The Titans managed to help him escape Match's body, but it soon became apparent how much the experience had twisted Jericho's mind, leaving him bent on the Titans' destruction.[11]

Jericho briefly escaped the Titans to plague the presidential election of 2008 of the main DC Universe, even going so far as to use Green Lantern's body to fight the Justice League upon being discovered.[12] The will-based powers of Hal proved to be his undoing, as Hal was able to push Jericho out of his body. Jericho was brought to the JLA satellite for safe-keeping. Mento mind probed Jericho, discovering that he was suffering from a particular and severe form of dissociative identity disorder, caused by years of reckless body-hopping. Unable to purge his mind of the lingering echoes of the personality he had to submerge when taking possession of an individual, he had his mind overruled by the evilest and most strong-willed patterns, causing him to take on a criminal, ruthless personality opposed to his former gentle self. The JLA decided to send him back to S.T.A.R. Labs, hoping for a cure.[13]

Jericho managed to escape the JLA and returned to the Titans, now inhabiting Nightwing's body. The JLA arrived to reclaim him, and he started jumping into the bodies of whoever tried to capture him. This backfired when Jericho jumped into Superman's body. Although stronger than he once was, Jericho found himself unable to control Superman's alien body. Jericho briefly managed to gain control of himself over the evil impulses and seemingly vanished into nothingness.[14]

DeathtrapEdit

Jericho later returned, having entered Cyborg's body through his mechanical eye, using an "imprint" left over from the last time. He used Titans Tower's defenses to try to kill the Teen Titans, but their new member Static used his electrical powers to short out the Tower's systems, creating feedback that knocked Jericho out of Cyborg.[15] Jericho escaped once more and, spurred on by the multiple personalities inside him (particularly that of his father), sets into motion a "Deathtrap" scenario.[16] Jericho unsuccessfully attempted to murder both the Teen Titans and the Titans (his former teammates), who eventually apprehended him. While in police custody, he was confronted by the new Vigilante. Determined to end the villain's rampage permanently (but having promised Rose Wilson that he would not kill him), Vigilante gouged out both of his eyes, rendering him unable to use his possession abilities. The trauma of the incident caused Jericho to revert to his true personality, but he was left haunted by the various personalities in his mind.[17]

Blackest NightEdit

In a Teen Titans tie-in to the Blackest Night crossover, Jericho is seen in possession of Grant's body, now a member of the undead Black Lantern Corps, saving Rose from the attack of Adeline, Wintergreen, and Wade Defarge.[18] Jericho revealed to Rose that his eyes grew back after Vigilante's attack, and that he used his power to enter Grant's body when Grant attempted to kill him. Jericho then entered his mother's body, tricking the Black Lanterns into destroying each other. In the aftermath, Jericho reconciled with his father, reasoning that Deathstroke would be the only one who could kill him if he were ever to succumb to the murderous personalities inside his mind.[19]

Brightest DayEdit

Deathstroke hired Doctor Sivana and Doctor Impossible to create a diabolical invention with a healing factor called the "Methuselah Device" to save Jericho, who was dying from leprosy.[20] Once Jericho was placed in the machine, they restored Jericho's body. Deathstroke offers its abilities to all of the Titans, promising to restore their deceased loved ones as payment for their services. Some Titans accept, but other Titans refuse and the team fights. Deathstroke walks away with his son, but Jericho possesses him, disgusted at what his father did to achieve his restoration. He intends to destroy first the Methuselah Device, then himself and Deathstroke.[21] While the Titans fight over the machine, its power source, a metahuman named DJ Molecule, is released. DJ Molecule blasts Deathstroke, knocking Jericho out of his body and is then slashed by Cheshire. When Cinder sacrifices herself to destroy the machine, Jericho is carried out by Arsenal. Arsenal and Jericho then decide to form a new team of Titans to restore the legacy that Deathstroke damaged.[22]

The New 52Edit

In The New 52 (a 2011 reboot of the DC Comics universe), two versions of Jericho were presented. Unlike previous comics, Jericho is not mute and is fully capable of talking by using his voice.

The first version appeared as an antagonist in Rob Liefeld's Deathstroke vol. 2. He and his mother were believed to have died when North Koreans attacked their home. Slade Wilson (now calling himself Deathstroke) had made many enemies worldwide and had repeatedly placed his family in the crosshairs. Jericho at some point exposed himself to the Gen-factor, which gave him his powers. Now a man in his early 20s, Jericho has plans to destroy his father's life that he had built for himself with the help of his mother and brother. However, it was eventually revealed that Jericho had taken control of his own mother and brother and forced them to hate Deathstroke. Joseph was apparently killed along with his brother until a later scene of a worker with glowing green eyes hinted at Joseph possessing a man to save himself and escape.

The second version appears in Deathstroke vol. 3, which erases the previous volume from continuity, with Jericho once again being his heroic and peace-loving self. Due to his enormous powers, Jericho was captured by his own grandfather, Charles Wilson. Under the alias of Odysseus, he wanted to siphon Joe's metahuman power to become practically invincible and experimented on Jericho, awakening new psychic powers within him. Jericho was eventually saved by his father and sister Rose, but the ordeal left Jericho with problems controlling his new powers, and sought solitude while trying to run from Odysseus. Sometime later in Gotham, Jericho met with Rose, who tried to find someone to help Jericho learn to control his new powers, but the meeting went astray and Odysseus shows up to reclaim Jericho. Due to the arrival of Deathstroke, Jericho was able to escape his grandfather's clutches and once again seclude himself. Sometime later, it was revealed that Jericho went to Ra's al Ghul to seeks sanctuary, and had gained better control of his psychic powers. He and Ra's al Ghul reappeared before his father and sister again to save them from his father's enemies, who are also part of the Nova Council, an anti-metahuman organization that targets criminals and those who uses their powers for money. Weeks later, Jericho and his family made a preemptive strike against his father's enemies in which Rose fell under the mental control of Lawman and Jericho had to unleash a strong mental blast to sever the link, but injured Rose's mind in the process. When Ra's al Ghul offered to heal Rose with a special "elixir" in return for Deathstroke's fealty to the League of Assassins, Deathstroke accepted and Ra's al Ghul instructed Jericho to dive into his sister's subconsciousness to bring out of her comatose state. After they retreated, Jericho and Rose also revealed, much to their father's dislike, that they joined the League out of debt for Ra's al Ghul's assistance and to make sure Rose would have access to the "elixir", which Ra's al Ghul stated she would need to take daily if she wanted to live. In their next attack on Danger Island, Jericho used his powers to fight (non-violently) with his family, protecting with his family an energy shield and using his telepathy to halt the enemies' movements. When Deathstroke disobeyed Ra's al Ghul, who was attempting to get the Nova Council into the League by sparing their lives, al Ghul killed Deathstroke's ex-ally Victor Ruiz, causing the two men to begin fighting one another. Jericho intervenes and threatens Ra's al Ghul to stop or he'll kill everyone with a psychic blast. Having read Ra's al Ghul's mind, Jericho also reveals the "elixir" Rose took was just a stimulant, therefore Ra's al Ghul never saved Rose's life. They rescind their oath to the League of Assassins. Once Ra's al Ghul releases them and left, Jericho and Rose tenderly said goodbye to their father, who decided they should distance themselves from him for their safety, and departed from the island.[23]

DC RebirthEdit

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Jericho later reappears after the DC Rebirth relaunch, once again mute and with his origin restored, though slightly modernized. This version of Jericho is also bisexual.[24]

Unlike his blissful childhood in the original comics, Jericho's family life was strained by the time he was a young teenager, as his father and mother were constantly fighting over his father's long absences due to his supposed government missions. After Jericho was kidnapped by Jackal and his throat was slit, an outraged Adeline shot Deathstroke (blinding him in one eye) for his lies, his infidelity that resulted in his illegitimate daughter, Rose, and for Jericho's fate.[25]

As a young adult, Jericho is working as an executive vice-president for a tech firm that his mother owns in Los Angeles, and is engaged to his interpreter, Etienne. Although mute and still using ASL, Jericho uses a special technology called a "subvocal mic", which lets a person's phone Bluetooth sync with the mic so he can vocalize his thoughts through the phone in a computerized voice. After Rose came to visit him, Jericho secretly met up with Dr. David Isherwood, his father's ex-tech, a superhero, and Jericho's former lover. Jericho tells Isherwood of his marriage, and he disapproves of Jericho's choice because of his sexuality. He does not believe his love for Etienne is genuine, and tells Jericho that he will prevent the marriage. Angered by Isherwood's interference, Jericho uses his powers to possess his body, turning off his super "Ikon suit" that allows him to fly, making them fall off a building.[26] Following Dr. Isherwood's seeming demise, Jericho takes over his duties as a superhero and uses the Ikon suit to aid him in his deeds.[27] While out on a mission to help Superman apprehend his father during a government mission, Rose finds out that Etienne is secretly a member of H.I.V.E., though it is unknown if she plans to inform Jericho of Etienne's deception.[28]

While continuing his new superhero duties (which Etienne knows about), Jericho starts taking pills due to experiencing migraines because of his guilt over Isherwood's fall. Later, Jericho meets his father's personal physician, Arthur Villain, who is looking for him, but Jericho explains that his father is "tied up" right now.[29][30] Wanting to know why he's having migraines, Jericho has Dr. Villain examine him, who also explains the finer details of how his powers work and those of his family members. Dr. Villain states Jericho is perfectly healthy and his problem is an emotional issue, but Jericho denies that something traumatic happened and leaves.[31] That morning, Jericho hallucinates about Isherwood, showing that his migraines have become worse over time, causing him to crash through the shower's glass door. While he hides the reason for his migraines from Etienne, he hastily sets an early wedding date, which she agrees to.[32]

Sometime later, Jericho gets a call from Deathstroke, who is in the middle of a fight with Raptor and Red Lion, to get in contact with Isherwood (who invented the Ikon suits) for his help in deactivating Raptor's Ikon suit. However, Jericho lies about knowing Isherwood's whereabouts, but Deathstroke orders his son to find Isherwood and to call Adeline, which he does. Still wrestling with his guilt, Jericho goes to a hospital to visit Isherwood, revealed to be alive after Jericho made them fall off the building; he is greatly injured and seems to be in a comatose state. Jericho apologizes to Isherwood for his current condition and tells him that he still cares about him. In a flashback to six years ago, it is shown that Isherwood was the one who designed Jericho's bulletproof costume when he was starting out as a young hero and the one who gave him the code name "Jericho".[33] While Jericho's guilt starts causing him to self-harm, he remains oblivious that Etienne is sleeping with his father, who figures out that her mission is to spy on him through his son. He tells Etienne to break up with Jericho. Despite her proclamation of love for his son and their clandestine affair, Deathstroke warns Etienne that he will kill her if she betrays Jericho.[34] After Rose has a bloody vision of Jericho, Rose calls her brother to check on him and learns of his early wedding date with Etienne, much to her disapproval. Rose shares her theory about Etienne working for Adeline to get to Slade, but Jericho states that whatever his parents are up to is between them. While visiting Isherwood, Jericho sees Isherwood's life monitor acting up and orders the nurse to get ready to transport Isherwood to New Jersey. Jericho takes Isherwood to Dr. Villain, who states that Isherwood is dead, but assures a devastated Jericho that are other "possibilities" to help him.[35] While Dr. Villain tries to bring Isherwood back to life, Jericho sits in the waiting room and is told by Dr. Villain that he should see a therapist or someone he trusts to talk to. Meanwhile, Etienne get a lecture from her employer about how she compromised her mission by getting so close to Jericho and then gets a call from Rose, who is traveling to see her brother to prevent the vision she saw.[36] While Jericho returns home, Isherwood comes back to life (using a synthesized virus made from Jericho and Deathstroke's DNA) and calls Jericho on his phone. However, Jericho left his phone in his office and Etienne picks it up, where she finds out about Jericho's past relationship with Isherwood. After Jericho sees his apartment in shambles and Etienne crying, Jericho tries to explain that he was with Isherwood for a few months. Etienne cuts him off and spitefully tells him that she has been seeing Deathstroke behind his back.[37]

It is shown that Etienne works for Amanda Waller and the national government, though she refuses to leave Jericho as she still plans to marry him. During another phone call, Deathstroke confronts Amanda and threatens to kill Etienne if Amanda doesn't stop using his son. She retaliates by threatening to send in her Suicide Squad. On the morning of the wedding, Jericho finds Etienne dead in their apartment and believes his father killed her. Enraged, Jericho goes to the church in his Ikon suit and tries to kill Deathstroke, shocking his family. Despite his father defending his innocence and explaining that Etienne was a spy, Jericho figures out that all of Etienne's activities were because the government wanted to keep an eye on Deathstroke. Although getting brutally beaten, Deathstroke refuses to fight back against his son, who only stops once he hurts Rose in the midst of his rage.[38] Following these events, Jericho is undergoing rehabilitation to deal with his trauma.[39][40] Later, Jericho is released from rehab and is visited by Wally West, who just had some of his stored super-speed stolen by Deathstroke (wanting to turn back time to revive his son Grant) and Wally asks Jericho to tell him about his father in order to stop him. Jericho agrees, telling him about his difficult childhood, and dons his Ikon suit to help stop Deathstroke. They plan to meet both the Teen Titans and Titans teams at Hatton Corners, the place where Grant died. Before setting out, Jericho takes the time to tell Wally that he doesn't blame the Titans for Grant's death, knowing it's not their fault, and how he struggles every day not to become like his father.[41] After Jericho introduces himself to the Titans, letting them know Deathstroke is his father, he and the two teams work together to open a time vortex to chase his father. Once they stop Deathstroke's super-speed temporarily, Jericho pleads with his father to stop disrupting the time continuum. This was ignored as Deathstroke enters the Speed Force again. Using Omen's and Raven's powers in conjunction with his own, they let most of the team enter Wally's mind so that they can bring him out of the Speed Force once he stops Deathstroke. Wally brought Deathstroke out, Jericho then listens to his father proclaim that he's done being an assassin after his experience in the Speed Force.[42]

Afterward, Jericho returns home and goes to a support group to deal with his pill addiction and the mistakes he made. After the meeting, Deathstroke comes to pick up Jericho and hop on a plane, telling him he has changed after failing to change the past. When Isherwood calls Deathstroke he speaks to Jericho, he tells Jericho he isn't mad at him, hearing his words during his coma, and gives his condolences over Etienne's death. Later, Jericho is taken to a base alongside Rose, his mother, Wintergreen, and Tanya Spears.[43] As the person in charge of the government "Project Defiance", Adeline initially wanted Jericho to lead her new task force, but Deathstroke talks his way into leading the team and handling the recruitment, including getting Kid Flash to join. Meanwhile, Jericho investigates who killed Etienne and confides in Rose that the only reason he agreed to join the team is to learn the truth of Etienne's death and to keep an eye on his father. Later, Jericho and the Defiance team go on their first mission.[44] During another mission to rescue hostages from a dictator in Chetland, Jericho and the team are forced to fight Doctor Light's Radiant Men drones without aid from Deathstroke, who is separated from them to have a private talk with Doctor Light. Despite having a hard time, Jericho takes charge of the team and directs them to successfully fight off the drones, but Deathstroke remotely turns off Jericho's subvocal transmitter and the team's comm channel to make their "training" harder. The Defiance team almost got overwhelmed, but a resurrected Terra arrives to help and save the hostages as Deathstroke regroups with them and orders everyone to head home.[45] Later, Jericho speaks to his mother about his frustrations towards her—how bitter she is because of her grudge against Deathstroke and her unjust hatred towards Rose—and questions her about Etienne's death. Although Adeline states she had no hand in Etienne's death, she brushes off Jericho's other statements, causing Jericho to plead with her to not let Deathstroke corrupt her anymore and become the mother he used to know.[46] During a group session with the team, Kid Flash's recorder reveals that Jericho is beginning to move on from Etienne and met a deaf man named Terrence.[47]

After Deathstroke is abducted by the Secret Society of Super Villains, Jericho finds a note left by The Riddler and shows it to the team.[48] After four days, Jericho and Rose try to rally the team to find him, but Adeline tells them that they have a new mission leading them to the place the Society took their father. After finding the damaged warehouse and hearing some of Terra's investigation, Jericho figures out that a now monstrous-looking Isherwood kidnapped Deathstroke and heads off to find them, against his mother's orders.[49] Upon arriving at the church in Canada, Jericho finds his father alone. Deathstroke lets Jericho know that he knows about his former relationship with Isherwood. While discussing whether Jericho believes Deathstroke is capable of changing, Jericho helps deactivate the neural transmitter in his father's spine, but the transmitter device was a dud and destroys Jericho's Ikon suit instead.[50] Having broken his ribs after falling down on the church's wooden benches, Jericho and Deathstroke return to the Defiance base to recuperate. However, the group begins to fall apart due to the other members learning more of Deathstroke's lies. After getting into a fight with Tanya, Jericho wants to leave the team as he wasn't making any progress with Etienne's death. Later, Jericho comes to back up Deathstroke and Terra on a mission, but the team fractures even more when Kid Flash blames Deathstroke for causing Tanya to seemingly commit suicide. Unknown to the grieving team, Tanya's incorporeal state is actually traveling through inter-dimensions to save Power Girl.[51] Jericho then returns to his normal life and continues his relationship with Terrence as he reflects over his recent tragedies.[52]

One night, Rose visits Jericho and confesses that she killed Etienne while being possessed by an entity called "Willow", much to his confusion. Their conversation is interrupted when they hear an explosion near Chinatown and find Deathstroke battling Isherwood, Kong Kenan, and a furious Terra. When Jericho tries to intervene in the fight, Isherwood takes the opportunity to knock out Deathstroke and send him to Arkham Asylum.[53] Later, Jericho gets wind of Deathstroke's breakout and his mother's machinations to pit Batman against him, and he scolds Adeline for her actions before she shuts him out.[54] Later, he goes to Wayne Mansion to fix Deathstroke's attempt to sabotage Batman's "benefactor" and free Wintergreen from FBI custody.[55] While running tests on his new upgrade on his Ikon suit with Hosun, Jericho and Hosun tries to figure how to deal with Rose's "Willow" problem,[56] which includes Jericho pretending to be Deathstroke in front of Rose (though she does know her brother is in the suit).[57] However, Jericho is ambushed by Two-Face when he and Rose visit Arkham Asylum and he is in a cell after Two-Face takes his suit.[58] However, Jericho manages to escape the asylum and free his father so they can go save Rose,[59] but his father is too focus on going after Hugo Strange and zaps Jericho unconscious, but later learns Rose is fine.[60] One day, Jericho gets a call from Damian Wayne, who is going after his father, and tries to dissuade him to avail.[61] After speaking to Terrence, Jericho decides to check on his father, who is escaping from his jail cell in Robin's secret prison, to make sure he doesn't hurt the young Titans.[62] After Emiko Queen apparently killed Deathstroke, an angry, grieving Jericho attempts to round up all the villains that attended his father's funeral. In his grief, Jericho confronts the Teen Titans over what they done and uses Kid Flash's body to go the funeral. Due to his strong emotions, Sinestro's ring reacts to Jericho and unleashes a strong energy that knocks out most of the attendees, except for the Legion of Doom members. Intrigued by Jericho's potential, the Legion of Doom offers Jericho a place with them before teleporting away.[63] One night, Jericho prepares for a date with Terrence, but Wintergreen contacts him to help Rose, who is trying to complete assassination contract Deathstroke left unattended due to his "death". Jericho gets into an argument with Terrence, who chastises him for always getting involved with his family members' drama and shows Jericho that he was planning to propose to him. Stunned, Jericho is reluctant to get engaged again and rushes off after Terrence made it clear he won't keep compromising for Jericho's fixation on his family. Jericho saves his sister, but the two soon got into a fight about the contract and Jericho reveals that Emiko is the one that "killed" their father. While trying to keep Rose from taking revenge on Emiko, Jericho becomes gravely injured and calls his mother for help, a hologram Lex Luthor appears to him and offer to help Jericho if he joins the Legion of Doom.[64]

While Jericho is bewildered by Luthor's presence and initially rejects his offer, Jericho ends up accepting a special piece of nanotech as a "gift", which not only healed his wounds, but amplify his abilities and granting him a new suit. However, Jericho's skin becomes blue due to the effect of the technology being embed into his body, though he is in awe of his new powers. Using his enhanced psionic ability, Jericho uses mind-control placing Emiko in hiding at some unknown location to keep her safe from Rose and then goes after his sister, breaking up her chase with Shado. When Rose refuses to listen to him, Jericho tries to hop into her body, but receives mental feedback that disorienting him, causing him to lose his mental control over Emiko and allowing Rose to evade him. Later, Jericho tries to stops Terrence from leaving him and ends using his telepathic power on him get him to stay.[65] Over the course of the next few days, Jericho begins to stop crime more activity using his new powers, but starts developing a Messiah Complex as a result. While Terrence warns Jericho is getting addicted to the nanotech, Jericho claims he will give it back once he helps Rose.[66] Sometime later, Jericho meets up with Luthor and tries to return the nanotech, but takes it back once he learns a Deathstroke doppelganger is hunting for the nanotech.[67]

While looking for Jericho, the doppelganger attacks Terrence, though Rose manages to save him, but Hosun is killed. When the Deathstroke doppelganger targets Adeline, Jericho saves his mother and tricks the doppelganger into shutting down his armor suit, leaving his father to deal with the counterpart.[68] While flying around, Jericho is confronted by Isherwood, who sacrifices his life to forcefully remove the nanotech out of Jericho. Afterwards, a normal Jericho goes to Rose and comfort each other over their recent tragedies. Later during Christmas Eve, Jericho spends the holiday with his family, though his father ends up sneaking out.

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Superboy // Kon-El // Conner Kent

Age: Verse-Dependent, but generally 5 years (was artificially-aged to a biological 15 over the course of a year, and ages normally after that) Aliases: Conner Kent, Superboy, Carl Grummet Date of Birth: March 21 Place of Birth: Cadmus Labs, Washington DC Branch (53rd sub-level) Species: Artificially-Grown Human “Clone” with Kryptonian DNA (Krypto-Human “hybrid”)

Universe-Inspiration: Composite Superboy

Appearance Being a clone whose DNA was rewritten to perform mitosis in a manner that largely matches the kryptonian DNA of Kal-El, Superboy appears to be the spitting image of his biological progenitor. However, due to the difference in his basic anatomical composition of his body, as a production of two human DNA donors, Kon-El’s body develops naturally differently. This coupled with the fact that he has a far more active lifestyle that involved heroic activities from a younger age than his mentor, Kon-El is naturally more bulky than Superman, with muscles designed and worked more for power than for tone.

Generally speaking, Conner wears comfortable clothes, shirts and jeans, often with some kind of jacket, particularly leather jackets or flannels. As well, he often wears a pair of thick glasses which strongly resemble those worn by Clark Kent.

As a superhero, Superboy wears a variety of costumes, although he generally defaults to one of three versions. One being a simple black T-Shirt with the House of El insignia on the chest, and jeans with boots. Another is the jumpsuit in which he was primarily clothed during his time under Cadmus Lab’s control that is almost solely black, with glowing red patterns, and a house of El symbol on the chest, which all light up when Kon uses his telekinesis. This suit’s function was to help contain his telekinesis, and protect him from molecular backlash due to the volatile nature OF his telekinesis. The third variant appears to be much like that of Superman’s costume, although it lacks a cape, or a yellow field behind the S, instead favoring a primarily blue color, with black wrists, boots, and shoulders with chest, featuring the same iconic symbol on the chest. The gloves, and segments of his arms and legs that change color on the costume are separated from the rest of the design by large yellow cuffs.

Personality Conner Kent was conditioned to have a particular sort of personality, as he was placed in a number of simulations that would help foster and mold him into someone who would want to be the new Superman, but still have the programming necessary to kill Superman in cold blood, or otherwise act as the pawn of Lex Luthor through subliminal programming.

However, these simulations had mixed results, as due to kryptonian brain physiology, and his constant awareness of his actual surroundings due to his telekinetic field, the clone would be painfully aware of the direction in which he was being lead. This would cause the clone to become jaded naturally, believing that his entire existence was inauthentic, due to being a construct of someone else’s design.

Due to the circumstances of his release this would change, and Conner does indeed understand things like emphathy and right as opposed to wrong. While much of the programming failed, though, Conner still felt a deep-seated desire to fulfill his informed purpose of existing, to be Superman.

Despite this lofty purpose that he’s resigned himself to, Conner has a very generally laid-back, and somewhat ignorant, demeanor. Due to his lack of sincere attention during the simulations that he had been put through, Kon-El is very generally ignorant of many social norms and behaviors, as well as how to handle and interact with certain things.

In order to make his Superboy persona distinct from his Conner Kent persona, Kon intentionally flanderizes himself in both. Conner the brooding, bright, unmotivated teen cousin of Clark Kent who has little interest in most types of activities which don’t directly relate to his schooling, until college. Superboy, on the other hand, is a jockish idiot who plays the fool and enjoys being a goblin towards his friends and foes. The true Kon lies somewhere between these two.

Ultimately, despite his complexes and facades, Conner is a caring person who will not hesitate to help someone in need, even if he knows it will come out badly for him in the end.

Biography The Superman provided a conundrum for certain people. Do they accept this new creator without question, and simply hope that he remains a benevolent angel? Or do they rebel against this outsider, this godlike man from the stars?

For those such as Lex Luthor, and many of those in his employ at Cadmus Labs, it was an obvious answer. And so the undertaking known as Project Kr would be born. A scientific endeavor meant to create a terrestrial being who could match Superman, and be an ultimate weapon to use against the alien should he heel turn. However, this was not Luthor’s sole intent for the project, he had much bigger plans in mind.

Thanks to his many battles across Metropolis, nay the world, Superman’s DNA samples were in no short supply. It was a simple mater of collecting lost skin cells during a confrontation between The Man of Steel and Lex for the project to have the samples necessary to begin research.

Now with the fundamentals, it was a matter of researching the kryptonian’s DNA and duplicating it into a clone, a process which Cadmus had already perfected with humans. This would not be feasible for a kryptonian clone, however, as the genome was far too complex to recreate and develop an otherwise perfect duplicate. Instead, it was determined that a human clone would need to be created first, and be artificially made into a replication of the DNA, rather than a true kryptonian clone.

Lex Luthor naturally volunteered his own DNA to be cloned, feeling there would be some type of poetic justice to a clone of himself being a part of the weapon that could ultimately kill Superman. But he was not satisfied with just this, insisting the clone be made into a combined construct of his and Lois Lane’s DNA, fulfilling a fantasy of having children with the woman, while also compounding the irony in this clone being a weapon to fight against the god-like alien.

As the project moved along it proved to be a steady success, with a number of subjects proving stable enough to survive gestation and growth. However, none of these had the ability to manifest kryptonian abilities in their physiology, due to a fault in the DNA, or a lack of exposure to the proper environmental factors, it was unclear. This was frustrating, as even overloading the cells with solar energy only served to kill the clones.

It was deemed necessary to create an alternative to the true kryptonian powers, and hope that exposure to solar radiation over time, and growth, would result in Superman’s powers manifesting in a successful subject. And thus, a string of clones were created that had psychic powers artificially implanted into their brains. However, artificial meta-enhancement is more of a gamble than a true science, and it took many repeated attempts to see if the clone’s artificial mutations were psionic in nature, and from there to determine if the baseline of what the project desired wold even occur.

The process to create a clone of Superman that met the criteria as-set by Lex Luthor took over seven years. But eventually the project was successful in creating a child that was not only stable, despite the overwriting of his DNA, and the artificial mutation of his human DNA to simulate a meta-genetic occurrence of telekinetic powers.

Following this the clone would be artificially aged, experiencing a simulation of life at a rate that was 15 times faster than what others normally do, as the project’s intention WAS to have an adolescent subject at least. With this, the intent was to socialize and teach the clone how to utilize the information that he was programmed to know. However, due to his unique telekinetic powers, the clone would experience not only what the Cadmus staff believed to be his sole intended simulation, but also many things within the most diminished range of his telekinesis, which at the time encompassed a radius of roughly the entire DC facility of Cadmus Labs.

Once the year of speed-aging was complete, Luthor would have the Cadmus crew send Project Kr (Codenamed at this point as Superboy) on periodic “exercises”, which were truly missions disguised as training for the clone. From doing away with failed experiments at other facilities of Luthor’s, to kidnapping other teenaged meta-humans and vigilantes, the clone served for a time as the billionaire’s personal enforcer for when things went awry, or Lex wanted to research other subjects, or do away with annoyances.

This would continue for some months, until a rescue operation was sprung by the Teen Titans to recover the meta-humans and heroes that Luthor and Cadmus had Superboy kidnap. After a drawn-out series of struggles, which was destructive, and included the revelation to Superboy that Cadmus never had any intentions of releasing the clone from their custody once he completed their missions, but were intent on continuing to control him following his future installation as the new Superman, to become an authoritarian enforcer for them.

Determined to take his freedom for himself, Superboy helped the Teen Titans escape Cadmus through the use of his telekinesis, and intimate familiarity with the facility. As when he stretched his telekinetic range to its limits while incubating, he’d been able to experience the entire building and its basements through this sort of sixth sensation, he understood the best way to escape.

Once he was free, The Superboy immediately chose to make his way to Metropolis, in part to fulfill his purpose his own way, and also to measure up Superman. It was during this time, to no knowledge of the clone, that Superman was in a sort of hyper-sleep, after having “perished” during a brawl with Doomsday. So, along with Steel, Last Son of Krypton (Eradicator), and Cyborg-Superman (Hank Henshaw), Superboy scrambled to become no only Metropolis’s sole hero, but also to make sure the city didn’t suffer any fallout from this power struggle of sorts. Ultimately, though, with the return of the real Superman, Superboy would go on a world tour of his own, ultimately stopping on Hawaii to become the state’s super hero for roughly a year.

While a hero off-shore, Superboy would team up with the Teen Titans several more times, specifically Robin, Impulse, and Wonder Girl, before eventually forming the superhero team Young Justice (as they stylized more as a Young Justice League than a part of a club of teenage superheroes like The Titans were often handled). As time would go on, and Superboy worked more with other heroes, the teenager would eventually develop something of a relationship with Superman, being adopted by the hero in a sense, being given an Earthling and a Kryptonian name. In addition to this, Kon-El would be invited to live on the Kent Farm, which a short time later he would accept.

While a hero with Young Justice, Conner would learn of Cadmus’s continued attempts to create a clone of Superman, this time by cloning Kon-El directly. Through the use of the copy, Superboy’s reputation was so thoroughly tarnished, even having appeared to have betrayed his own allies, that a tribunal was assembled within The Justice League to determine what would be done about the young hero. However, a public struggle between the clone of Superboy, at which point he was referred to as Match, and the original cleared up what was going on. But due to the fallout OF that struggle, Superboy’s girlfriend at the time was killed, leaving the clone heartbroken.

Compounding this with the discovery that the human donor for his original body was primarily Lex Luthor a significant emotional strain was put upon Superboy, prompting Conner to finally accept the offer to live in Smallville with Clark’s parents, taking a hiatus from being a superhero, or even using his powers. During this time he would be deeply troubled by nightmares.

It wasn’t until the appearance of Superboy-Prime, a mentally unbalanced version of Kal-El from another reality, whoso happened to be the most powerful individual Kal-El in the multiverse, appeared with the intent of killing Kon-El on his way to creating a perfect version of Earth. Forced to adopt the Superboy mantle once more, the two did battle that raged across several states. Unable to put down Superboy-Prime on his own, Kon required the assistance of his allies to ultimately defeat the other kryptonian, with Bart Allen and Wally West ultimately having to imprison Kal-El-Prime in the multiverse.

Within weeks of this, though, Kal-El-Prime returned once again wearing a suit of power armor that only made him more deadly, with a machine that converted Luthor Tower into the focal point for his new multiverse. During another battle, even more hopeless than the one before, Kon-El was forced to plow the both of them into the tower in order to halt Superboy-Prime’s plot, perishing as he did so, while failing to kill the other Superboy in the process.

Ultimately Superboy-Prime would be defeated, but at the cost of Conner’s life, and several others. He was buried and memorialized beneath a statue of himself in Metropolis.

In the year 31st century Brainiac 5 would use technology found in The Fortress of Solitude, and collections of Lex Luthor’s and Lois Lane’s DNA, to repair Kon-El’s body to working order. In the process of this resurrection the kryptonian cells of Superboy’s body would become able to process solar radiation in the same fashion as Kal-El.

Working with three versions of the Legion of Superheroes from different timelines, several versions of Superman, and his time-displaced friend Bart Allen, Kon-El and the united group of heroes were able to defeat Superboy-Prime and his version of The Legion of Super-Villains through the abuse of the laws of space and time, by causing a paradox between Kal-El-Prime, and a further future version of himself.

Returning to the present with Bart, Conner resumed his superheroic adventures as Superboy once more. Rejoining teams he was once part of, serving as Smallville’s personal protector, and even being invited to The Supermen of America, Kon-El’s next adventure could be his most difficult.

College.

Abilities and Skills -Enhanced Intellect: Conner is able to learn and process information far faster and more efficiently than a human, even without the use of kryptonian powers. Due to his uniquely kryptonian physiology this is possible, much like with Kal-El, and it is implied that he may have inherited vestiges of Luthor’s own natural intellect. However, beyond what he was programmed to learn, and what information was provided to him in his simulations, Kon-El is generally considered very ignorant and of below-average knowledge. Generally this is Conner’s acting on his own part, although his personality DOES cause him to naturally be short-sighted and brash. --Polyglot: Through his naturally superior intellect, Kon-El is able to learn languages very quickly through study. However, due to some of his latent psychic abilities, he seems able to absorb the information through touch. Currently he can speak English and Kryptonian flawlessly. He has also expressed a cursory knowledge of Spanish, Italian, French, Russian, and Hawaiian. -Hand-To-Hand Combat (Intermediate): Through a combination of experience and tutoring from other heroes, Superboy is a fairly capable hand-to-hand fighter. His powers do generally rely on his naturally superior physiology and powers more than technical skill, however, and much of Kon-El’s skill in combat is expressed through holding back just enough to not injure his opponent’s permanently. -Artistic Ability: Kon enjoys art and music, and pursues the former in some of his college studies.

Superhuman Powers and Abilities Psionic Enhancements: Artificially mutated by Cadmus Labs, Conner has manifested both Telekinesis and Telepathy. While the particulars of these powers are vastly different in terms of scope, they were once sufficient for Superboy to keep on-par with opponents of Superman-like stature: -Telepathy: A rudimentary form of communication, Conner can interact with the minds of those he touches, although he can only read and erase their memories. If anything, his telepathy does little more for the clone than provide him protection against other telepaths. -Telekinesis: Initially manifesting as “Tactile” Telekinesis, Conner could only influence objects and people that he could touch either directly or indirectly. This power manifests as a field that allows him to simulate Superman-like Strength and Durability, as well as flight. The closer to his body the field is manifested the stronger the result of the fields become. As he practices and develops this ability further, Conner eventually can become able to separate this field from his body, and not have to indirectly touch a target to utilize it. This would only be the case in Superman verses. This telekinesis is able to be used in tandem with Conner’s actual physical strength. Through using the field creatively, he was able to recreate certain powers of Superman’s without having irradiated sufficiently to have them naturally.

Kryptonian-Clone Physiology: Due to his DNA being rewritten to replicate Kal-El’s, Superboy specifically develops powers in the same fashion that Superman does. Although, components of them are affected by both his physical differences with Clark (as a non-fully-grown teenager he isn’t as inherently physically strong) and his lack of complete irradiation (in most cases he hasn’t naturally developed heat vision). He has displayed the following in all verses: -Superhuman Strength -Self-Sustenance -Superhuman Speed -Superhuman Durability -Superhuman Stamina -Superhuman Agility -Accelerated Healing -Invulnerability -Enhanced Hearing -Enhanced Vision Based on the specific universe, and thus the age and development of Conner’s powers, he may express a more complete list, with college age Conner almost always having the full array of Superman’s powers.