Young Justice: Phantoms could have simply ended the lifetime of one other younger hero from the unique Workforce fashioned by the Justice League’s teenage proteges.
Warning: SPOILERS for Young Justice season 4, episode 4, “Involuntary.”
Dying could have come to a different member of the six younger superheroes who fashioned the unique core forged of Young Justice, with Superboy seemingly sacrificing himself to avoid wasting the Martian folks. This tragic occasion got here on the eve of his marriage to fellow founder Miss Martian. Nonetheless, there’s some trigger to hope that Conner Kent might need one way or the other survived his obvious demise.
The storyline of the primary 4 episodes of Young Justice season 4 centered across the upcoming marriage of Superboy and Miss Martian and their journey to Mars to endure a conventional Martian spiritual marriage ceremony ceremony with Miss Martian’s household. The journey proved removed from restful, nonetheless, as strife between the 4 Martian races had grown stronger over the previous yr, as had anti-Earthling sentiment among the many extra conservative parts of Martian society. The 2 younger heroes have been additionally drawn into the investigation of the violent loss of life of the Martian King.
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Superboy appeared to make the final word sacrifice whereas attending a ceremony honoring the birthday of the Martian prince J’emm. The half-Kryptonian hero overheard somebody within the tunnels beneath the royal field of the Martian area and found a viral bomb designed by the New Gods scientist and Justice League villain Desaad, which had been planted by the White Martian terrorist Ma’alefa’ak. Pondering rapidly, the younger hero started punching by way of the ground, beating his fists bloody, hoping to achieve a lava circulate beneath the sector that might be scorching sufficient to kill the virus. Superboy’s gamble labored, however in his haste, he failed to note one other gadget, which had been hooked up to the bomb by a mysterious determine, which launched a poisonous amount of Kryptonite into the realm across the lava.
The Kryptonite was not detected till the arrival of Superman, who started feeling weak as quickly as he entered the realm the place Conner Kent had dived into the lava. Whereas he is ready to make out Conner’s physique together with his x-ray imaginative and prescient, he couldn’t retrieve the clone he referred to as brother from the molten rock and no member of the 4 Martian races might method it because of their genetic sensitivity to excessive warmth. That, coupled with Miss Martian’s lack of ability to sense her fiancée’s thoughts telepathically, appeared to recommend that Superboy had made the final word sacrifice to avoid wasting the Martian folks from a plague that might have decimated their inhabitants.
It’s potential that Superboy entered a comatose state so deep that even Miss Martian’s telepathy couldn’t contact him. It is also potential that the Kryptonite may not have fully affected Conner, given that he’s half-Kryptonian and his physique nonetheless appeared to be intact throughout the lava. Even so, Young Justice has not hesitated to kill its protagonists previously, having beforehand organized the loss of life of Wally West, so there isn’t any cause to imagine the collection would not additionally kill Superboy.