User:Powergirl/Powerboy

List of important character facts about the teen New God version of Power Boy created by Geoff Johns and Tony Daniel.

Powerboy survived a childhood of abuse, neglect, and torture on the hellish Apokolips. Powerboy used his Father Box to escape with Little Barda from Apokolips to New Earth in 2006.

Powerboy has a high tech Apokoliptian device called Father Box, which is similar to a Mother Box in function and use. He and Klarion the Witch Boy are the only two teen heroes to possess a Father Box. It has the vast power to manipulate matter, energy, and time. It can teleport him anywhere in the universe or open Boom Tubes for travel to other universes. It can also heal any injury, and restore him to life if killed.

Powerboy has a pug dog named Kirby, who's name was an homage to creator of the New Gods, Jack Kirby.

Powerboy and Little Barda was the first male & female teen New Gods to be Superheroes on New Earth aka Earth-0 (52 Week 21); Powerboy and Little Barda was the first and only New Gods to be members of the Teen Titans, Teen Titans East, and Tiny Titans (52 Week 21, Titans East Special #1, & Tiny Titans #6).

After quiting a Teen Titans team made up of Beast Boy, Hotspot, Raven, Little Barda, Powerboy, and Zachary Zatara (52 Week 21). In the middle of the Atlantic ocean, Powerboy saved the life of Supergirl Kara Zor-El of Earth-0. He saved Kara's life two times on panel in Supergirl vol 5 #11. Saved her from being killed by a meta-human Shark lady, and then by getting her to STAR Labs in New York to recover using sun therapy treatment. Stated he rescued her three more times in three weeks, as mentioned in Supergirl vol 5 #14; Saved the life of Grace Choi of Earth-0 (Supergirl vol 5 #11); Saved the lives of hundreds of men, women, and kids during a Hurricane in Mexico (Supergirl vol 5 #13).

While trying to protect Kara, the fifteen year old orphan boy was killed by Gakidou at the Hollywood Sign. Restored to life moments later by his Father Box as seen in Supergirl vol 5 #13.

He gave a stray cat later named Streaky to Supergirl (Supergirl vol 5 #13). Note before then the cat was a nameless stray, too wild to be tamed. Powerboy's empathy calmed the fear of humans in Streaky helping domesticate it.

He saved the world from a meteor, as seen in Supergirl vol 5 #13.

Displaying his ability to fly, levitate, and fly at superspeed, he defeated Supergirl in a race from space to the Hollywood Sign in Supergirl vol 5 #13.

He became the first teenage boyfriend of Supergirl Kara Zor-El of Earth-0 (Supergirl vol 5 #14).

He saved the life of Owen Mercer aka Captain Boomerang II by getting him to the hospital before he bleed to death (off panel between Supergirl vol 5 #14 & #15).

He spent months successfully protecting Supergirl from all the murder attempts by Cassandra Cain, the League of Assassins, & Dark Angel (Supergirl vol 5 #11, #13, & #14). Yet in Supergirl vol 5 #15, his relationship with Kara ended badly. Due to a violent breakup caused by Kryptonite poisoning combined with Dark Angel using Father Box to manipulate Powerboy and Supergirl's emotions.

Months later he became part of a young superhero group lead by Cyborg. The squad included Anima, Hawk and Dove, Lagoon Boy, Little Barda, Powerboy, and Son of Vulcan. At the age of fifteen, on his first day as part of the Teen Titans East. The child abuse victim was attacked by an unknown enemy. He was left impaled through the chest by a long tree branch and badly burned over half his body. He was brutally killed by either the Sons of Trigon or the New God Killer - Infinity-Man on Titans Liberty Island, New Jersey as seen in Teen Titans East Special #1/Titans #1 (June 2008). Like all New Gods that died during the Death of the New Gods event. He is assumed to have been reborn along with all other New Gods in the Earth-51 Universe, as revealed in Final Crisis #7.

REFERENCES: Art Baltazar, and Franco. Tiny Titans: Vol 1 Welcome to the Treehouse (Paperback) Feb. 2009 - DC Comics.

Ian Churchill and Joe Kelly. Supergirl: Identity. (Paperback) Nov. 2007 - DC Comics.

Ian Churchill and Judd Winick. Titans: Old Friends. (Paperback) Jan. 2010 - DC Comics.

Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka, Mark Waid et al. 52 Week 21. (Comic Book) Sept. 27, 2006 - DC Comics.

Grant Morrison and Doug Mahnke. Final Crisis #7. (Comic Book) March 2009 - DC Comics.