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Power Boy (03)
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Powers:
Despite being called a New God, Darkseid genetically enhanced Powerboy with the DNA of a superhero with powers on par with Power Girl. Having similar Earth-Two Kryptonian levels of super-strength, super-speed, super-breath, and flight. And most likely other similar powers to his female analogue Power Girl they never had time to reveal in his few appearances. But was implied, such as in Supergirl #13, being able to out fly Supergirl from outer space without knowing where on Earth she was going and beating her to the Hollywood Sign in Hollywood, CA would have required super-vision. Likewise, finding Supergirl in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean to save her and Outsider Grace's lives would have required super-vision and possibly super-hearing in Supergirl #11.

In Supergirl #15, he was also revealed to be an Empath, with the ability to "feel everyone's love, pain, hate..." and explained his energy manipulation powers. Such as his ability to create red energy constructs, force fields, and a giant energy hand.

He possesses an Apokoliptian device called the Father Box, which grants him numerous other powers, such as energy manipulation, matter manipulation, sustaining his life after fatal wounds and healing him from all injuries. And giving him the ability to teleport anywhere he wanted, including to other universes, and possibly the ability to time travel as well.

Weaknesses:
Due to his empathic energy manipulation powers, prolonged exposure of being around someone with too much hate or rage, can unintentionally cause him to channel too much of their rage or hate into himself; causing his eyes to turn red; and resulting in him losing control of his emotions; becoming violent and psychotic until he is able to calm his emotions back down to normal levels.

Like all New God's he can also be killed by Radion. Its source is unknown and its effects are toxic only in sustained amounts or after explosive exposure. The average New God can be slain by an application of Radion from a Radion blaster or gun.

Bio:
This is the third version of a superhero named Power Boy to appear in the DC Comics Universe.

However unlike the previous two Power Boy's, the third Powerboy is based on Power Girl. He was created as a teenage male version of her. Also having anger management issues like Power Girl; only his being fueled by his empathic powers to channel rage and hate; while her violent outbursts was caused by drinking too much diet cola. And where Power Girl has a cat, he has a pug dog named Kirby.

Powerboy (now only one word like Superboy) is first mentioned in Teen Titans vol. 3 #34, and makes his first appearance in 52: Week 21, and the same month his picture and name appears on a list of new Teen Titans, in Teen Titans vol. 3 #38, in September 2006. Power Boy III or Powerboy, was created by Geoff Johns (writer), Tony Daniel (artist), and Ian Churchill (penciller). It was Ian Churchill that designed the character, including the classic Powergirl chest window on his costume.

Powerboy's Homeworld is Apokolips. He is believed to be a New God, who has affiliations with Teen Titans III, Little Barda, and Supergirl. It was on Apokolips that he first saw the captured Supergirl being held by Darkseid. He instantly feel in love with Supergirl, and has wanted to be with her ever since.

In terms of super powers, the full extent of his powers were never revealed, but at the minimum he displayed Supergirl levels of Superhuman strength, super-speed, super-breath, invulnerability, flight, energy manipulation, and the ability to breath in space. All of which were demonstrated in his appearances. Not to mention what other powers or abilities his Father Box could provide, such as teleportation and opening a hush-tube to travel between New Earth and his homeworld Apokolips. Or to travel to other universes, or other time periods if so desired.

Powerboy was shown to be a teenage Earth based superhero. His true name, or age is never revealed. It wasn't revealed if Darkseid only manipulated his DNA to give him powers, and not whether he also accelerated his growth; he appeared to be around the age of 15 or 16, when he first came to Earth in 2006.

For a short time he was a member of the Teen Titans during the one year gap after the Infinite Crisis. He also assisted Supergirl of New Earth on several occasions.

This Powerboy made his first full appearance in 52: Week 21. Powerboy refers to Darkseid ("By Darkseid's testicles!") and uses a Father Box, both of which references to Jack Kirby's "Fourth World" characters.

In December of 2006, Powerboy comes to the rescue of Supergirl Kara Zor-El of New Earth at the end of Supergirl #11. He saves Supergirl and Outsider Grace's lives and takes them to S.T.A.R. Labs in New York, to recover from their injuries. Had he not showed up when he did, Supergirl and Grace would have died. Kara is given extensive yellow sun treatment to save her life and help her recover at an accelerated rate.

In Supergirl #13 he again appears outside the treatment room where Supergirl had been recovering from her near-fatal wounds at S.T.A.R. Labs. He introduces himself as the guy that saved her life, and invites Supergirl to go on a routine patrol. When asked what his name is by Supergirl, he replied "Call me Powerboy. No relation." Implying that he isn't related to Power Girl, despite his codename, similar physical powers, the blonde streak in his hair, and wearing a male version of her costume.

While on patrol, he takes Supergirl to Mexico, where they save hundreds of men, women, and children's lives during a Hurricane. Despite doing such a good deed, they are criticized and threated by government soldiers who say Meta-humans have no right to interfere in the internal affairs of Mexico. Powerboy joking asks if he needed a note from the Justice League or God. And when told to leave Mexico airspace in three seconds or be considered terrorists, he apologizes for saving hundreds of lives, and offers to put the Hurricane back, sucking a great deal of air into his mouth, and causing the General to change his mind. Supergirl is just watching and finding the whole situation quite entertaining.

Later in Supergirl #13, they have a first date in the outer orbit of Earth watching a meteor shower, and Powerboy offers to share his origin story, but Supergirl wants to talk about other things instead. Then she mentions beating Superman in a race to see who's faster. She decides to have a friendly race with him, and calls him a Newbie, but then realizes that he beat her to the Hollywood Sign in Hollywood, California. He teases her that Superman must have let her win. She says he can call her Kara. As they sit on top of the Hollywood Sign, their romantic date was cut short, when both Powerboy and Supergirl are attacked from behind by Japanese super-villains Gakidou and Sakki the Hate Furnace; whom had been hired by the League of Assassians to kill Supergirl for Dark Angel; Dark Angel is an agent of a Monitor that wanted to eliminate all anomalies from the new DC Universe.

Gakidou offers Powerboy the opportunity to walk away unharmed, but loving Kara he choose to stay and help Supergirl fight for her life. While Supergirl was off fighting Sakki, Gakidou got the upper hand on Powerboy, and using her ghosting powers, ghosted her staff through the back of Powerboy's head and out the front of his mouth. Apparently killing him, and leaving his lifeless body hanging on the bottom section of the H of the Hollywood Sign.

However moments later, after Supergirl had defeated both her attempted murderers. She returns to the Hollywood Sign to find Powerboy in the shadows apparently hurt, with his eyes red and looking all dark, but when coming from the shadows appears to be completely unharmed, and says other than needing to calm his emotions down, he was okay.

Despite the bad first date, they have more dates, and Powerboy becomes Supergirl's boyfriend. They become closer and closer. He spends more and more time with her. Usually fighting off attacks from the League of Assassins, such as the DNAgels, or spending time at her Apartment with Kara's female cat Streaky, which uncharacteristically likes Powerboy and lets him hug her.

In Supergirl #14, he is shown being extremely worried about Kara's well being after all the recent attempts on her life. And so being over-protective of the first girl he's ever loved, asks her not to seek out her killer. Or to let him go with Kara to help protect her. For a brief moment he loses control of his emotional powers and grabs Kara by the wrist. She asks him if they're having a problem. But he quickly regains his emotional composure, kisses her hand, gives her a hug, and says he just doesn't want to see anything happen to her. She replies that she's invulnerable, so he shouldn't worry. And that he should hang out with her cat Streaky for a few hours while she goes off to find the one behind trying to kill her. While he's cleaning up Streaky's mess, Supergirl is almost killed by the evil Batgirl Cassandra Cain. At the end of Supergirl #14, Kara calls Powerboy via his Father Box, and asks him to help take her other love interest Boomer to the hospital in New York. He does so, saving Boomer's life, and stands vigil along with her, waiting for her friend to awake.

At the start of Supergirl #15, we see Powerboy and Supergirl flying outside the window of Bellevue Hospital, New York, where Boomer is recovering from almost being tortured to death by Batgirl.

Despite months of being nothing but wonderful to Kara, saving her life, fighting side by side with her on numerous occasions, and trying to protect her from everyone out to kill her. After being around Supergirl for several months, and after a heavy make out session where he absorbed allot of Kara's negative emotions (and unknown to the both of them Father Box being hijacked by Dark Angel to manipulate their emotions), when she tells him to go back to her place and wait with Streaky yet again, and ignores how he's feeling. Powerboy has a psychotic episode when Kara goes off to be with her other love interest Captain Boomerang. He attacked Kara with his emotional powers, knocked her unconscious, Father Box creates a Strength Blocker device to hold Kara, and took her back to his place at an abandoned airbase.

She wakes up in a beautiful pink heart shaped bed, and sees flowers, boxes of chocolates, champagne on ice, strawberries, all of which had been created by Father Box, and is unclear if she also saw Powerboy's dog Kirby looking at her.

Powerboy shows Kara how much he loved her, with an entire wall of his home being covered in Supergirl pictures. The pictures had been created by an Apokoliptian device. He then explains his origin, about Darkseid taking him from the slums of Armegetto to become one of his agents. How Darkseid had genetically experimented on him, turning him into a power enhanced boy with various superpowers, including Empath powers that caused him to feel everyones love, hate, rage, and is those emotions that fuels his powers. How Darkseid taught him in the ways of Earth wanting him to pretend to be a Earth hero, but really be a spy. How all that changed the first moment he felt Supergirl on Apokolips, due to his empathic powers causing him to fall deeply in love with her, and so turned his back on evil to go to Earth to be with her. The flashback shows him leaving with Father Box and Little Barda, and later him walking with the Teen Titans.

He tries to explain that it was his rage channeling powers that caused him to temporarily lose control and hurt her. But being in a really bad mood; having anger management issues; not being able to see things from his point of view; such as that he'd never been in a relationship before; that he'd never loved anyone before; that growing up on a hellish world like Apokolips, he didn't know what was and wasn't acceptable behaviors in a loving relationship. And no doubt also being manipulated by Dark Angel, who was responsible for all the fake visions of her Father, and recent out of character behavior.

He wants to talk things out, and not fight, yet due to all her unresolved hate and rage issues, she was unwilling to listen to anything he said, and instead ended their relationship in a very violent manner; He just let her do whatever she wanted to him without fighting back, such as her, setting his hand on fire with heat vision (despite being in great pain from the burning of his hand, he made no attempt to put it out, again showing that he was being mind controlled by someone that didn't care if his hand burned off); knocking him hundreds of feet outside his home; dropping his house on him with his dog Kirby still in it; chasing him to deep space after Father Box had teleported him to safety; kneeing him in the groin; threatening to kill him; threatening to break every bone in his body if he ever calls, or tries to see her again; and then was tricked by Dark Angel into damaging his Father Box, which resulted in a Spatial Temporal explosion that both Powerboy and Supergirl are caught in the wake of. It isn't revealed exactly what effect this time/space explosion had on Powerboy. Dark Angel used Father Box to send Kara to an alternate reality with a Red Sun, and a world of people possessed by Phantom Zone Phantoms.

How Powerboy survived was never revealed. But it was shown that he never tried to talk or see the love of his life Supergirl again. Only leaving her flowers and a note saying that he forgave her, and hoped they'd be able to work things out sometime in the future. Supergirl did eventually find out in Supergirl #18 that Dark Angel was responsible for the League of Assassin and Cassandra Cain murder attempts. And was told that Dark Angel used Father Box to send her to the other reality to test her. But was never explained in detail that Dark Angel had been controlling Father Box all along to destroy Supergirl and Powerboy's relationship.

Powerboy was never given the chance to explain what happened, since he respected Kara's wishes not to see her anymore. So he gone off to prove himself as a hero again. To that end, many months later in January 2008, Power Boy appeared in the Titans East Special #1. Despite Cyborg knowing about his drama filled history with Supergirl. Whether he believed Powerboy about his Father Box being hijacked and causing his powers to go out of control. Due to Powerboy's vast superpowers; his willingness to change and learn from his past mistakes; and his potential to be a great superhero, if taught and guided in the right direction; he was selected by Cyborg to be a new member of the Superhero team Teen Titans East.

The night before his first meeting with the new team, he is shown to have had a consensual one night stand with Holly Granger (The 3rd version of Hawk). His only canonical sexual relationship. He still shows his love with Supergirl, by having Hawk wear a Supergirl costume while they have sex. And has a few pictures of Supergirl on his wall.

However, whatever relationship might have developed with Hawk, or the chance to make amends to Supergirl; and whatever future Powerboy might have had as a teen superhero was unexpectedly ended. For during their first training session, all the new Teen Titans East members (Anima, Hawk & Dove, Lagoon Boy, Little Barda, Power Boy, and Son of Vulcan) are badly wounded or killed, including Powerboy, whom is found badly burned, and impaled through the chest by a large tree branch at the hands of an as yet unknown assailant. In Titans #2, Cyborg questions if the same villain after all the other Titans was the one responsible for Powerboy's death. So it unclear if he was killed by Infinity Man, who was the New God Killer. Or if he was killed by the villain - Trigon, that wants to eliminate all Teen Titans, past and present.

Powerboy's true name, along with whatever connection he had to Power Girl, or whether he'll ever be seen again in the DC Universe is left unanswered for now.

Notes:
In terms of his portrayal in Teen Titans East Special #1, as revealed in Titans #3 (2008), Trigon used sin demons such as Pride and Lust to manipulate the heroes into acting out of character. The possession of Powerboy and Hawk by sin demons would explain why they hooked up despite being total strangers, and why all the teen characters acting more mature and totally different from their past appearances. So anyone that reads the Titans East Special #1 due to them being possessed, should not view the un-hero like behavior and the ease at which they was taken down by the unseen villain as an accurate representation of how this short lived group of Titans was intended to be written by their original creators.

First Appearance: 52 (2006) #21

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Issue Appearances:

52 (2006)

Supergirl (2005)

Teen Titans (2003)

Tiny Titans (2008)

Titans (2008)

Titans East Special (2008)

Group Affiliation(s):
Apokolips
New Gods (Post-Crisis)
Teen Titans (03)
Titans East (02)

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