#my fave thing about 2000s superboy is probably the desperate desire to be real and have control over ur own life

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u are soooo right about t shirt kon and 90s kon like. everytime i see someone viewing them as separate characters/hating on one something in me dies. as someone who's read all his comics and loves him immensely...they are the same person! all his comics are bad unfortunately and he has good character arcs in both eras thats just the way it is. the true enemy imo is yj cartoon conner..

😭 i mean definitely they can be very different at times but like…not different enough to be unrecognizable(?). altho the retcons and stuff do a Lot to change things (esp the importance of ttk which undoubtedly changes a part of his character ) and to be fair my brain does do a lot with supplying my own hcs/reasons whenever i dont like a creative choice. and yeah, theres like a lot of bad and good in both eras 😔😔😔 i have sooooooo many problems w his 90s solo, but his overall character growth is so interesting, and while my problems with tt03 mostly lie w the writing i enjoy how he’s a tad bit more grounded. and like i said before i enjoy the 2009-2011 era a lot cuz i feel like the spirit of his early humor returned while still following that emotional arc that started in 2003.

a lot of the themes from 90s superboy maybe didnt reach the conclusion i wanted, but im at least glad that the struggle with identity and agency to become your own person outside of anyone’s control or regardless of what is dictated to you remained. it’s like The Main Theme for him or at least one of the major themes, i think. well its just one of the many things i like

honestly i think my favorite characterizations of him though would be the original young justice 1998 comics and the reign of the supermen comics (ROTS is just such a fun and wacky read like i love it sm), and then the boy of steel mini comic. maybe one day ill write a long ass fic about what i’d do with superboy and all the potential arcs his character offers🤷🏻‍♀️

but yj tv show conner? that’s a Completely different guy. i don’t remember much but i thought he was fine as his own character i guess. definitely Not the same character as comics!conner. but his s2 outfit w the gloves, the long sleeves, the cargo pants? mmmmm i love that shit