SKILLS
Superboy is in excellent physical shape, even without consideration of his super powers.
Superboy has only limited knowledge of complex fighting styles, though he has had a smattering of training from various sources. Most of the time, he tends to fight more like a brawler, relying heavily on wild swings and his titanic strength to carry the day. However, even his most raw approach to combat includes a great deal of self-control. For Clark, combat training has meant as much the ability not to cause excess injury to others as it has to actually defeat opponents.
Superboy is very experienced with his suite of powers and as such can execute one after another knowing how to combine strength, speed, heat vision, chilling breath, and his environment to combat even the most powerful foes and mitigate the possibility of injury to others.
Superboy's experiences have set him on the path to becoming a talented diplomat. For now, he mainly relies on quick wits and natural charisma, but he tends to be quite good at getting through to people.
Journalism - Novice Level
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As a member of the staff of his school paper, Clark Kent has begun to develop the keen senses of a reporter. While he is not yet the hard-hitting journalist of that his Earth 1 counterpart is, young Clark shows promising talent in this area.
Knowledge - Competent Level
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Clark is an excellent student in school, and he has a strong pool of general knowledge to draw upon. That has also been augmented by the teachings left to him by his biological father, Jor-El. As such, he is well-versed in Kryptonian history, culture, and sociopolitics. Clark of course speaks the language of his home, including a fair approximation of the Daxamite dialect and certain other alien tongues. He has also made an extensive study of the languages of his adoptive home planet, Earth.
Leadership - Competent Level
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Thanks largely to his upbringing by Jonathan and Martha Kent, to say nothing of his various adventures, Clark is becoming an excellent leader. Clark's leadership technique is a bit different than one might expect given his power set. Instead of being a commanding presence, Superboy is more a uniter and tends to lead through collaboration.
Observation - Expert Level
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Superboy is exceptionally observant, allowing him to take full advantage of his enhanced senses when it comes to perceiving the world around him.
Even a basic Kryptonian education granted Clark a knowledge of science to rival that of an experienced professional in any conventional scientific field. With his command of Kryptonian science and technology, he is easily one of the most capable beings on Earth. This knowledge also includes extensive experience with Kryptonian physiology and medicine, as well as expertise in other xenosciences.
ABILITIES
Power: Breath - Enhanced Level
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Clark can create a number of effects by expelling air through his lips. He can cause heat dissipation, super-cooling the air like an arctic wind, able to rapidly freeze objects up to the size of a large armored vehicle. The air can be released at normal temperature or in rapid gusts or blasts, akin to gale force winds. Clark's tremendous breath control also allows him to pull in oxygen through his nose while cycling it back out through his mouth, thus keeping up a sustained breath effect, or to hold his breath for nearly an entire day before needing to take in additional oxygen. This allows him to travel through space or underwater for extended periods.
Power: Flight - Supreme Level
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Clark is able to fly by manipulating kinetic force around his body, allowing him to attain hypersonic speeds within an atmosphere. Outside of an atmosphere, he can attain much greater speeds.
Power: Heat Vision - Enhanced Level
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Clark can utilize stored solar energy to affect heat diffusion. While his breath can dissipate heat, his eyes can focus it, allowing him to expel beams of heat at any target in his line of sight.
Power: Invulnerability - Supreme Level
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Clark's molecular density is greater than that of a normal human, but even more key to his invulnerability is a micro-thin force field that encloses his body. The field does not prohibit Clark from touching, tasting, or otherwise interacting with the world, but it does filter out harmful effects, antigens, and nearly anything that might damage him physically. With access to solar radiation from a star of yellow or greater intensity, Clark also heals very rapidly and completely, allowing him to regenerate from nearly any harm, even many "fatal" injuries. The force field can also be projected a short distance outside his body, protecting anything held very close to him, such as his clothing or a person or object held close against his body.
Superboy's unique Kryptonian physiology empowers him in many ways. Most of these abilities are granted by the presence of solar energy from what he often refers to casually as a "yellow sun." Technically, stars of the ideal class are G-type in the blue-white through yellow spectrum. This is bolstered by his increased molecular density, making him mildly more durable than a human being even when de-powered. Clark's Kryptonian brain also makes him vastly more intelligent than most humans, and most of his powers are psychokinetically focused by that specialized Kryptonian brain. When empowered by solar radiation, Clark is also immune to all known forms of illness or disease, and only requires an average of two hours of sleep per night to function at peak efficiency.
Power: Senses - Supreme Level
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Clark's senses are psychokinetically augmented by the solar energies within him. This allows him to see as far as the curvature of the Earth allows, to pick out sounds miles away and both hear and see in wavelengths far beyond the human perceptible range. This includes the ability to hear the entire range of audible sound and to see along the entire infrared spectrum. The clarity of his vision is also microscopic as well as telescopic, allowing him to see the structure of matter down to the atomic level.
As a Kryptonian, Clark absorbs solar energy from stars of yellow intensity or greater, such as Earth's sun. This energy is stored within his body, serving as a power source for his race's latent psychokinetic abilities. Unlike a true psychic, Kryptonian powers operate by instinct and physical focus, taking the form if such abilities as are described throughout these traits. If Clark's solar energies are depleted, he can be rendered nearly as powerless as an ordinary human, though his molecular density still grants him modestly enhanced strength and toughness.
Power: Strength - Supreme Level
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Clark's strength is enhanced via a tactile telekinetic field that extends to any object he touches. This field grants the vast majority of his invulnerability to damage, and it also allows him to exert much greater physical force than most other beings. In addition, this field grants stability to whatever he touches, allowing him to perform such feats as picking up an airplane by an otherwise fragile wing or to use a lamp pole as a viable weapon, where it would otherwise shatter in his hands if he forcefully swung it at anything. Clark's solar reserves also grant him effectively limitless stamina and sustenance, allowing him to subsist with minimal rest or nutrition for weeks at a time.
Power: Super Speed - Enhanced Level
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Though his speed is modest by the standards of a Speed Force user, Clark is still capable of moving at supersonic land speeds within the Earth's atmosphere. He is able to perform various physical tasks at roughly one hundred times the speed of a human in optimal physical condition.
ADVANTAGES
A Superman For All Seasons
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Clark Kent, AKA Superman, AKA Kal-El of Krypton, is a native of Earth 1, also known as Superia. However, in his various adventures he has come to know a number of other versions of Kal-El from other Earths via Hypertime. These individuals are in some cases long-term residents of Superia, while in other cases they may travel back and forth from their native reality. This could be a veritable "Legion of Supermen," but in reality they are not at Clark's beck and call. Each tends to be off doing his own thing. They may appear in scenes, but only one version of Kal-El will appear in any given scene without a specific, staff-approved plot reason.
Superboy's classic blue and red costume comes complete with cape and eye-catching, red brief-cut trunks. The uniform is made of super-durable material, woven on a super-loom of Clark's own design, and can stand up to nearly as much punishment as he can. He can also store the uniforms in small nano-pods, which can be worn easily on his person, allowing him to hide his costume or switch out clothes on the fly, as needed. He can also compress down his street clothes into such a pod, storing them for later use while he wears his Superboy uniform. Changing only takes a few seconds, so all he needs to do is duck out of sight and move quickly to avoid being seen. Yes, even a phone booth will do!
As a quasi-adopted member of Earth 1's Super-family, young Clark of Earth 49 has a support system, even on this Earth that is not his own. This allows him access to all the advantages that come with being part of the Super-family.
WEAKNESSES
Though beloved by the large majority of the public, Superman (and, by extension, Superboy) is hated by villains everywhere, especially by those who he comes into contact most with. There are a handful of evildoers who will stop at nothing to try and kill the Man of Steel or those close to him.
When Krypton was destroyed, some of the planet's matter was charged with radioactive energy from its star, Rao, interacting with the crystalline material of Krypton's planetary body. The end result was the gemlike green substance known as "Kryptonite." The molecular and radioactive properties of Kryptonite make it harmful to Kryptonian cells, thus making it harmful and toxic to them. If Clark is struck by a Kryptonite weapon, he will be harmed as a normal mortal would. Even being near Kryptonite causes him to feel physically ill.
However, the rate of recovery once removed from the emissions is as rapid as the rate of damage, and Clark will be back to normal in under an hour after exposure if he can directly absorb enough solar energy. Kryptonite radiation can be blocked by lead or super-dense materials. Clark routinely undergoes Kryptonite serum treatments of his own design. As a result, the toxic effects of Kryptonite are much reduced for him. It can still harm him when used as a weapon, but it takes much longer for the toxic effects to weaken him, and even if they do, he is much more likely to be incapacitated than killed.
There are other, rarer forms of Kryptonite as well, such as red Kryptonite, which induces bizarre effects for a period of about twenty-four hours, or gold Kryptonite, which temporarily suppresses most Kryptonian powers in a manner similar to red solar radiation.
Against the powers of magic or various mental psychic powers, Kryptonians have no special defenses. They are not explicitly "weak" against these forces so much as they cannot especially resist them. Many psychic powers and magical effects can ignore Clark's various defenses and resistances, harming him or affecting him much as they would an ordinary Earthling. Notably, however, Clark has an exceptionally strong will, and after several bad experiences with being mentally influenced, he has undergone extensive training with various allies. As a result, it is now virtually impossible to affect him with mind-control or other mental compulsion. This gives him no protection from direct mental attacks, which he weathers about as well as a strong-willed human being.
Superboy bases his interactions with the public and criminals on a strict moral code that forces him to uphold truth, justice, and due process. He has vowed to never kill and will often attempt to find the diplomatic solution until it is clear that will not work, or if someone is in imminent harm.
Clark requires solar energy to function at peak capacity, or his powers fade to greatly reduced levels or disappear entirely if his solar reserves are empty. Clark cannot absorb energy from the lower frequency of orange K-type stars, and the radiation from red M-type stars actually disrupts his absorption process. Under the light of such a star, he will begin to lose his power at a slow but steady rate. Within a few hours of such conditions, he will be effectively drained of his powers.
Superboy has kept his identity a secret to protect those he cares about. If his identity were to become public, he would put his parents and those he loves at risk. The very thought of it terrifies him, and he must take great precautions to maintain his secret.
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