Superman Prime
Superman Prime is a comic book character that first appeared in DC Comics Presents #87
With a twisted sense of justice and morals, the Superman Prime blames the corrupted and ineffective heroes of post-Crisis Earth for his lost destiny as the "Universe's Greatest Protector": Superman.
Origin of Superman Prime
The Superboy of Earth-Prime left his reality to join other heroes to protect reality itself from the Anti-Monitor during the Crisis on Infinite Earths. His reward, along with Alexander Luthor, Jr. of Earth-Three, Golden Age Superman, and Lois Lane of Earth-Two, was a chance to escape to an apparently heavenly pocket dimension before reality fixed itself after the Crisis.
Never aging in the Paradise dimension, with a view of the world he can never be a part of (post-Crisis Earth), Superboy-Prime came to despise his situation. He lost his childhood, and he can never grow up to be Superman, his idol of Earth-Two. His envy and anger boiled as he watched the world he had saved become darker.
- He destroyed the Watchtower on the moon and left the Martian Manhunter for dead.
- He moved the planet Rann into Thanagar's orbit, causing the two planets and their allies to go to war.
- He almost beat Connor Kent to death in an attempt to regain his name, and killed a few Titans before being trapped inside The Speed Force by the Flash family who then placed him under a Red Sun.
- Upon his return four years later, he killed Conner Kent, as well as numerous Green Lanterns before being stopped by the Supermen of New Earth and Earth-Two. The Superman of Earth-Two was beaten to a pulp by Prime during the fight, however, and ended up dying in Power Girl's arms following Prime's defeat.
The Sinestro Corps
Superboy-Prime is released from his imprisonment by Sinestro and joins The Sinestro Corps. He is a Herald of the Anti-Monitor, along with Cyborg Superman, Sinestro himself, and Parallax (with Kyle Rayner as its host). He sports the uniform of the Sinestro Corps and a variant of the power suit he wore during Infinite Crisis and begins calling himself Superman-Prime.
As the war against the Green Lantern Corps raged, Prime kept a post on the moon until The Sinestro Corps brought the fight to Earth. After defiling the Memorial of Bart Allen, Prime re-waged his war against a number of spare heroes. This time around, Prime tore off the other of Risk's arm's and may have killed Wildebeest before a faction of Team Superman joined the fight. But even with their joined efforts, Prime managed to last until the sun rose and he was able to recharge. It was then that he ended up being challenged by the new Ion: Sodam Yat.
Prime ferociously battled Ion across the city. They originally seemed to be evenly matched until the fight brought them to a nuclear powerplant. The powerplant, made of lead, weakened Ion and Prime was able to impale him with a lead rod. Ion managed to escape from the plant but Prime pursued mercilessly. The fight continued into a cemetery. Prime and Ion fought hard and long but Prime was too much for the young and inexperienced Green Lantern Corpsmen. Prime was able to beat Ion into submission. However, John Stewart and Guy Gardner arrived to save their comrade.
The Guardians of the Universe attacked and began blasting Prime with energy. The Kryptonian managed to grab on to one of the Guardians but was shocked to see the Guardian self-destruct in his face, apparently killing Superman-Prime. It was later revealed that Prime was trapped in the Multiverse looking much older and more powerful.
Countdown
In his search he finds Earth-15. He attacks the world's Lex Luthor while under the impression that he was actually Alexander Luthor Jr. Prime later kills the world's Superman ( General Zod) and then his pregnant wife. He then killed Luthor and the Justice League. He was then attacked by Wonder Woman and Batman, but killed them just as quickly as he had the others and eventually destroyed the whole planet in a fit of rage.
Superman-Prime then flies to his home base in the Source Wall. There, it is revealed that he kidnapped and tortured Mister Mxyzptlk into helping him recreate Earth-Prime. It is revealed that Prime is still 19, but absorbed a great deal of power from the death of Guardian 7 during the Sinestro Corps War and that he was not older but rather that his muscles were simply swollen with power thus making it only look like he was older. He also has Annataz Arataz of Earth-3, an evil version of Zatanna Zatara as his captive.
He wants them to give him their magical powers so he can retain his adulthood. However, he verbally abuses Annataz and she has a change of heart. Annataz tricks Superman-Prime into a diversion, leaving enough time for Mxyzptlk to escape. Prime destroys him however and apparently most of The Source Wall, leaving Annataz to burn to death in the destruction. Mxyzptlk, who returns home in tears as well as a state of fear and panic, has his girlfriend Gsptlsnz seal up the 5th Dimension forever.
As Monarch and the Monitors' war begins, Prime finds the Monitor traitor, Solomon. Prime says that he will do terrible things to him unless he helps him with something.
Monarch lifts off his helmet and causes a nuclear explosion that blows up a city. Prime survives the blast and continues to attack Monarch. Monarch explains that the power Prime's received from the Guardian is wearing off and that he will revert back to what he used to be before fighting the Guardian. Prime grows angry at the thought of being a boy again and rips open Monarch's armor releasing enough energy that results in the total annihilation of Earth-51.
Legion of 3 Worlds
Prime finds an idollic statue of him placed in storage. He takes the uniform, destroys the building and kills several police officers that had been sent to investigate his presence at the museum. The hologram informs Prime about the Legion of Super Villains and he goes after them with the hope of becoming Superman's greatest enemy. He frees Saturn Queen, Cosmic King, and Lightning Lord. They are happy to see him. He frees more inmates and uses his powers to mark a large S upon the planet they had been imprisoned. The Legion contacts Superman who is not aware of Prime's actions in the battle during Countdown. Soon, he and Brainiac 5 intend to use two different groups of Legions to help them fight off Prime, but Superman seems to think the only real way to beat him his to make him good.
During their attempt to save The White Witch from the deranged sorcerer Mordru, Legionnaires Rond Vidar, Blok, Wildfire and Dawnstar cross paths with Prime and the new Legion of Super-Villains who have also added The Justice League of Earth and The Fatal Five to their ranks. After The White Witch opens a stargate that leads back to Earth, Rond forces his allies into it and stays behind on Wizard World to combat Prime and The L.O.S.V. Needless to say, Rond fails and is eventually murdered by Prime.
When Rond's father, Universo, fails to obtain his son's Green Lantern Ring, he flips out and causes Mordru, who is furious about losing The White Witch, to attack Prime. However, since Prime cannot be affected by magic, he merely shrugs it off and laughs. Saturn Queen eventually convinces Mordru to calm down and tells him if he joins with The L.O.S.V. he can get The White Witch back. Mordru agrees and joins forces with Prime's Legion. Later on, Prime and The L.O.S.V. descend upon Metropolis where they are confronted by Superman and what little remains of The Legion of Super-Heroes.
Superman attempts to put some sense into Prime but fails and is injured badly. Prime then orders a couple of the fire-wielding members of The L.O.S.V. to begin burning down all the statues of The L.O.S.H., Superman returns shortly after and directs Prime's attention to the arrival of Braniac Five, a couple other Legion Members - and two other alternate versions of The L.O.S.H. During the fight, Prime murders one version of Sun Boy. Meanwhile, Braniac 5 gathers up every version of Lightning Lad and Lightning Lass as well as XS and takes them back to Legion Headquarters where they use the Cosmic Treadmill to bring Bart Allen a.k.a. Kid Flash back from the dead.
Bart, XS, The Lightning Lads and Lasses as well as Sodam Yat attack Prime without mercy. However, Kinetix enters the fray firing wave after wave of kryptonite at Prime, not knowing that it won't work. However, when Prime obliterates Kinetix, the explosion is so great that all of Prime's cells become poisoned by kryptonite radiation. As he is burned alive from the inside out, Cosmic King comes to his aid and transforms the kryptonite radiation into yellow solar radiation. Mordru then tells Prime that in order to actually win this fight, he will have to travel to Superman's Fortress of Solitude or else all will be lost. Prime does so and, after beating up several Legionnaires, faces off against Polar Boy whom he nearly kills until the "mainstream" Sun Boy saves him from Prime's rampage.
When Superman rips off The Time Trapper's hood, he and the others are shocked to learn that The Time Trapper is actually a future incarnation of Prime. A ragged 40-something year old man who has the same glowing red eyes, the same self-inflicted S-Shield Scar and the same hatred for Superman and The Legion as his younger counterpart. He also claims that Conner's return will be short lived and that he, along with Kid Flash, Sodam Yat and what is left of The Legion of Three Worlds, will die. He knows this simply because of the fact that he was there. However, the Braniacs deduced that this was a lie since a wound inflicted on the younger Superboy-prime appeared on the body of Time Trapper-Prime. They came up with a new plan: send Time Trapper to their world, hoping that the younger version would engage himself in combat. To do this, they used the Time Trapper's access to all worlds to bring in every incarnation of the Legion of Superheros throughout the Multiverse. They were able to knock Time Trapper Prime unconcious while they brought him to Superboy-Prime's location. Once there, as predicted, Superboy-Prime became enraged and attacked his older self, causing a reaction that erased Time Trapper from that timeline.
After he was "erased", Superboy-Prime was sent back to Earth-Prime, where his parents and girlfriend were horrified at his actions. (They had read about him in comics, after all.) Powerless, he could do nothing but sit in his basement and write emails to DC, while telling the reader that he "always gets out."
Superman Prime's Powers
Superboy-Prime possessed just about the same powers as his counterpart Superman although they appear to be more powerful due to his insanity. Superboy-Prime's power levels are reminiscent of the powerful Silver Age Superman, accomplishing such feats as overpowering two Supermen and defeating or killing many other DC heroes. Superboy-Prime also wears a yellow sun powered suit of armor to further enhance his power. His body is currently not energized with energy from a Guardian of The Universe, as he had used up his energy during his fight with Monarch.
- - Flight - can fly at light-speed
- - Hearing – Prime can hear anything, anywhere like the Silver Age Superman.
- - Healing Factor
- - Heat Vision-can generate an intense beam of heat to melt things and it was powerful enough to shoot through and penetrate the chest of superman
- - Invulnerability – He can fly into a sun unharmed like the Silver Age Superman.Able to survive a guardian of the universe exploding.When he was charged by oan energy, he was able to withstand monarch's attacks.He can eat uranium without any discomfort and withstood Krypto's heat vision, Powergirl and Supergirl's attack.
- - Mental Powers-Prime has Silver Age Superman's powers to learn. He learned every Earth languages and 28 alien ones.
- - Super Breath – He can create hurricane, freeze foes or blow out stars.
- - Super Hypnotism - He has Silver Age Superman's hypnotic skills
- - Super Strength – He can move planets and take on two supermans at one time.He was able to hurt sodam yat who had ion attached to him and tear off aquaman's arm.
- - Super Speed – He can travel faster than the speed of light or fly faster to cross the timebarrier to travel back in time.
- - X-ray vision-can see through things except for lead
- - Super Ventriloquism - Prime has Silver Age Superman's ventriloquism powers strong enough to speak to other contents.
- - Vision powers – Prime has x-ray, microscope vision and telescope vision that was strong enough to see across universes.
- Energy Absorbing- Prime like any Superman absorbs different forms of radiation and draws power from yellow sunlight however he loses yellow sunlight faster than Superman, but can absorb it back faster and reach full power sooner. He has also been able to absorb the energy from a Guardian of The Universe and used it to increase his age, but only temporally.
Prime's Armor
But that first armor however was destroyed when the Supermen of New Earth and Earth-2 sent Prime flying into the Rao of New-Earth. The Sinestro Corps variant of the armor was designed by Prime, who was inspired to model it after The Anti-Monitor's Armor once he got a hold of the information that allowed him to see how his armor functioned. This version of the Armor was also destroyed during a battle with Earth's Heroes.
All of the armor save for the part covering his hips and the spandex uniform underneath were destroyed. Contrary to common belief, no version of this armor is capable of protecting Prime from the effects of Red Sunlight or powers that can reproduce the effects of Red Sunlight.
Time Trapper Powers
The immortal Time Trapper incarnation of Prime, who is much older than his modern day counterpart, has several abilities that his younger self does not. "Prime Trapper" has shown that he is not only capable of traveling through time without being seen but also manipulating it subtly as well. Prime also has displayed the ability to fire huge energy blasts and is somewhat well-versed in using psychic and psionic abilities. He can also cast an Astral Projection of himself into the minds of Future Seers such as The White Witch, is capable of manipulating his height at will and has the ability to control The Cockroaches that live with and on him at The End of Time.
Weakness
Recently however while in the "Threeboot" L.O.S.H.'s version of The 31st Century, he was actually poisoned with a large abundance of Kryptonite Radiation, the reason for this is unknown but it has been hinted that the "Threeboot" version of The 31st Century may actually be a reconstituted version of Earth-Prime.
Prior to this his only weakness was Red Sunlight like the other Supermen. Unlike the other Supermen however Prime is completely resistant to magic as shown when he said that it only tickled when Black Adam punched him multiple times with magic-enhanced strikes and also when the 31st Century version of Mordu the Mystical blasted him with a mystical attack.
Aside from those weaknesses Prime has many psychological phobias such as a fear of the dark due to the fact that it saps his cells of sunlight and an irrational fear of speedsters that has been deemed "Flash-Phobia", primarily because it was The Flash Family who imprisoned him in The Speed Force and then left him to rot under a Red Sun for approximately four years (Time in The Speed Force runs faster than on Earth.)
Prime is also afraid of being forgotten now that he has learned that in The 31st Century, everything he did during both Infinite Crisis and The Sinestro Corps War was incorrectly documented (i.e., Prime was supposedly defeated single-handedly by Kid Flash, Conner Kent and Sodam Yat during his fights with them) and that he has been considered only as having been minor annoyance to Superman whose place in History matters so little that his statue in the Hall of Villains at the Superman Museum was put in a closet and was about to be thrown into a real storage locker once the statue of the villain called Neutron had finished getting it's new paint job.
| Super Name: | Superman Prime |
| Real Name: | Clark Kent |
| Aliases: |
Kal-El Superboy-Prime Superboy of Earth-Prime Time Trapper Time Trapper Prime |
| Publisher: | DC Comics |
| Gender: | Male |
| Character Type: | Alien |
| 1st Appearance: | DC Comics Presents #87 |
| Appears in: | 47 issues |
| Birthday: | |
| Died: |
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