#speaking largely from my knowledge of Kon from YJ but I think it also applies to other versions of him?

[teratocore]

I think it’s a common misconception when people call Homelander an evil Superman. He’s not. He’s an evil Superboy. (Or by my estimation, a far closer analog to Conner than Clark.) He was made in a lab by a corporation with the genes of an iconic more powerful hero in their world in order to take up that hero’s role when that hero is neutralized by that corporation or it’s CEO, is often insecure about that fact, and had no real childhood as a result of outside forces seeking to control him. He’s like a seriously fucked up Kon-El.