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Superboy-Prime, also known as Superman-Prime or simply Prime, is a DC Comics superhero turned supervillain and an alternate version of Superman. The character first appeared in DC Comics Presents #87 and was created by Elliot S! Maggin and Curt Swan.
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[@kingdomcomesuperman3669]

Go to Earth-Prime and ask the writers to kill him off, otherwise he's gonna kill you to death. Jokes aside I love this character, him along with Hal Parallax are my favourite Crisis level villians in DC

[@cheeseburgerfreddy6350]

Yeah they are some of the best crisis level character's in DC

[@kingdomcomesuperman3669]

@@cheeseburgerfreddy6350 Agreed I feel Infinite Crisis and Zero Hour are underappreciated

[@alexpayne5914]

The writers lived on Earth Prime. Entire Universe Prime erased by Antimonitor's antimatter wave in 1985. So...who's been writing these stories for the past 35 years?

[@kingdomcomesuperman3669]

@@alexpayne5914 I guess you missed the memo but Earth-Prime came back awhile ago after the LoSH Final Crisis tie-in

[@210SAi]

@@kingdomcomesuperman3669 Zero Hour???? Are you serious that’s possibly one of the worst DC crossovers ever

[@Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache]

I love Superboy-Prime. He stands as an example of how rebooting doesn't work. EVERY TIME DC tries to reboot and say "forget all those things from previous continuity", Superboy-Prime and his fans come in like "It's Prime Time!" It's almost like having something with a lot of continuity isn't a bad thing as long as you do something cool and interesting with it.

[@Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache]

@BatCatDickBabsJayRedTimSteph CassDukeDamiKate Didn't you ask me that, already?

[@d4rksh4dow4]

Once very wise guy said :"one does not simply kill superboy prime"

[@Zarreth]

Not even Ninja Wizards could do it.

[@TheChadBatman]

How to kill Superboy Prime: You can't...

[@thepopemichael]

1. We all agree to never talk about him ever again and he will cease to exist.

[@Qardo]

Who?

[@jonassiendervils2102]

Wouldn't work, Prime is immune to fake artificial red sunlight that was in his first appearance. And make sure that prime doesn't punch you out of existence, he is multiversal now. Since death metal prime punched a fully powered Anti-Monitor and Darkseid, out of existence with just one punch, Death metal #4. And he cannot be erased from existence too, prime has survived worst things, like a guardian exploding in his face which should have killed him but didn't it only made him stronger. Next in a story called legion Of Three Worlds, Superboy-Prime was getting erased from existence by his older counterpart Time-Trapper-Superman-prime through time. And prime came back to his world Earth prime, unaffected. If anyone would erase Prime from existence, he would just go back to his Earth and go to the headquarters of the character that erased him and prevents the writers from creating him or her. He did it before when the black lanterns attacked he went to the DC headquarter fighting. And Prime has a new Power where he can Punch magic out of magical being that was Shazam #14 he took out the Shazam family by speed blitzing and punching he removed the Marvel family out of their Superhero bodies and he was weakened in that book really bad. Here are all the pictures. qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-267302b46c8ec72dc800f5d411c62d47 Prime Punching A-M and DS qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-fc3009b8bde41346d60bdf7831912b0a next legion of 3 World Prime was getting erased 2.bp.blogspot.com/13KrN8Os4q45bN48-eVwmAEp8A67OP6kOec5LWX4HZrZ0cYnQqLC-kIxbcT0iLWdiX-SDjBPXni-=s0 next 2.bp.blogspot.com/AQEch2WpJkr6b7gD3M-AiXajdgh7omhQBEQoq4pZ4wcCAxiy7WpECbzjV5Lav7Lq5YJ7JVcBw4mt=s0 Next Prime went to DC headquarters lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/2TPa8G8jCheA7DC0QvbOVPZACqCCp7zVqKoWzb_uT1JX0eodLS02Wn5-3FFirTeWt1-mfXFso9rs4cU5jR3O3WH7MIjCqMwAT6KN_LluweU47dzN67IjOY0xq3kj6Ea9hlwTeAHgJJwP Next and Prime has the ability to turn a black lantern into a red lantern with his sheer power, you see when Prime turned the BL to an RL, a red lantern replace anyone heart if you put it on and if you remove it you lose your heart and die. Well, Prime didn't when he removed it, it looks like he doesn't need a heart to live. Here thebrotherhoodofevilgeeks.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/2732791-black_lantern_superboy_prime.jpg?w=584 i.pinimg.com/originals/37/db/27/37db2705d2434e699239c9ca9943632c.jpg Prime would pretty much beat anyone. And oh yeah Prime is immune to reality Warping too, you know when he kidnapped Mxy, when Mxy was free Mxy was like Nah I ain't messing with this dude.

[@alexisislas-gonzalez5991]

@@jonassiendervils2102 what about Archie Sonic and ben 10?

[@jonassiendervils2102]

@@alexisislas-gonzalez5991 What do you want me to talk about them?

[@johnlawful2272]

@@alexisislas-gonzalez5991 he would kill Ben but I don't know about archie because he has fate protecting him but would lose against someone that beats fate

[@nikraa77]

i just realized that super-powered beings from a universe that doesn't normally have any seem to be super OP. I don't know how many there are, but both superboy prime and the marquis of death fall under that category

[@Thuazabi]

Dr Manhattan as well.

[@trx_12]

@noponwisdom t adam warlocl is the new living tribunal without weakness of the older one and no restrictions.

[@saviomulapi7499]

This is also technically true in any universe where one super-powered being kills all the others

[@edwright6994]

It's crazy how much a character that said "I'll kill you to death" is widely loved

[@MasterCalibrimore]

@Cpt Dinosaur he’s a Lil boy still...

[@ultrainferno.]

Imagine an infinite crisis animated movie. Oh my gawd it would be insane.

[@MaverickX578]

I know right, why haven’t they made that yet

[@gabrielhughes8221]

That would be amazing

[@Zarreth]

@Infamous Power CW did Crisis on Infinite Earths. As much as I love Infinite Crisis, that was the culmination of years of different stories that threw back to 20 years of continuity so it would be hard to cram it into a single movie. It would have to be a multi part epic. They could do it in the new animated universe but it would take so long to set up and they'd have to introduce Prime somehow as soon as possible.

[@collectedcompositions83]

I wish they did this instead of the last superman and batman movies.... totally waste!

[@knowing1399]

I imagine it's because Crisis events are friendly to people who dont know anything about the DC universe. A first time watcher would be super confused about who everyone was, and character motivations. That's why they normally just do stand alone stories, and if they do have multiple characters they are the more famous ones. TL;DR they make more money by reaching a bigger audience, and Crisis isnt wide audience friendly.

[@210SAi]

How to kill Superboy Prime: Have him kill the resurrection Man!

[@jab-io2po]

What if mongul ruled sacar instead of red king when hulk landed

[@USMCasper]

That would be awesome.

[@jab-io2po]

@@USMCasper RIGHT!

[@xtremegamer4856]

This would be epic

[@legionmeta]

I support this message

[@xtremegamer4856]

@Andersom Loyola I think hulk could take down mongul

[@VicGeorge2K6]

Looks like the only way to defeat Superboy Prime is to force him into a Pyrrhic Victory of sorts, where accomplishing his goal of destroying every superhero that exists makes him realize that nobody will end up liking him in any universe. And who will he end up fighting at that point -- normal beings that don't have superpowers? He will end up being the Hero of Nobody and Nothing.

[@SuperShanko]

How to kill The Goon. Granted he’s just a human, you’d be shocked to see his resilience and the crapped he’s brushed off and lived.

[@anubis7king284]

How to kill Superboy Prime... put him in the universe with The Marquis of Death. Put them against each other... Game Over. Or Put him against The most powerful form of The Batman who Laughs..... Or Put him up against Dr. MANHATTAN

[@chiaza7735]

Lol, 'the batman who laughs' my ass. Didn't he beat darkest knight?

[@adrienation]

he beated doctor manhattan one shotted himand he is stronger tha, the marquis of death

[@officerspider7996]

Wow I realized this Question hasn’t been answered yet because the only time I’ve seen him die is in Tales of the Dark Multiverse: Infinte Crisis

[@EtotheFnD]

Beyond Omega Level: Resurrection Man for Aaron Wilder....we do this for Aaron Wilder

[@R1ckr011]

It is fullfilled

[@Steppin2theAM]

Captain Atom theoretically can mimic the radiation of any radioactive substance regardless of which universe right? He may also be able to siphon radiation...perhaps a good bet.

[@twistednwarped314]

Even without powers he beat down two grown and experienced supermen. They were also powerless but this just shows how strong he is. I wouldn't wanna face him powers or not.

[@beng557]

I’ve never been this early! Awesome!! 😃

[@brandoncoburn4293]

Rob you really missed a opportunity to label this “how to kill super-boy prime time”

[@thelonious7162]

I think Grant Morrison kind of answers this question in All-Star Superman. Perhaps by exposing Superboy-Prime to an excessive amount of Yellow Solar radiation could, in theory, begin to kill his cells and his body will eventually break down?

[@SPL0869]

Can you imagine what would happen if he faced Doomsday and killed him? Doomsday would come back unable to be stopped by probably no one

[@melvingenao550]

I would have agreed but its been proven that doomsday can completely die. Two prime examples fans always fail to add in context. 1.when doomsday was sent to the end of time he completely died. Every other doomsday afterwards was a different doomsday. 2. When He faced off against imperiex. Imperiex killed Doomsday in one Blast. Doomsday never returned from that blast as well Therefor superboy prime would stomp the holy hell out of him. 3.canon superman and superman from earth 2 have tag teamed and easily destroyed doomsday as well. They had to depower prime just to beat him before.

[@SPL0869]

@@melvingenao550 I’ll have to check those stories out. Thanks.

[@melvingenao550]

@@SPL0869 our worlds at war has Doomsday vs imperiex. The other fight is in Doomsday hunter Prey I believe. Thats where boomtubing him to the end of time kills him.

[@SPL0869]

@@melvingenao550 thanks for the clarification. I did read both of those(looking back), but I didn’t realize that those were supposed to be things that he did not come back from.

[@ericgaines5470]

The problem is it makes him weaker but it doesn't really stop him. As he's shown it's only weak enough to barely contain him.

[@ericgaines5470]

Now a god might kill him in his weaken State

[@Aragorn7884]

Can't defeat him. His 'plot armor' is too much.

[@agrey832]

Superman 1million: "......Meh"

[@raidenkeify]

Superman prime one million has no real feats it's a nice little story especially when they hint that it's all star superman in the future but we don't know if he's actually stronger than Superboy

[@LuckyVarma11]

Superboy prime can take him out with mid difficulty Edit: imagine a Superboy prime 1 million

[@RaffiMiah]

But then there's cosmic armour superman.

[@dudleygt3327]

Huge fan love your playlist I’m watching it right now

[@ShadowXardas]

The guy who beat up the entire green lantern core at once. The guy who beat up a kryptonian empowered by the source of all the green lantern's power itself without much difficulty. The dude punches realities and escaped the Source Wall. What a legend

[@SuperShanko]

I’d tell Lucifer Morningstar that SBP said he’d totally leave him as a one night stand and not call back the following day.

[@spikeguy55]

I fricken love Superboy Prime, he’s such a great character

[@the5thmemelord256]

Heck Yeah He is.

[@xtremegamer4856]

@superboy prime lol

[@faithinthestrat8784]

Me too

[@NP-zv4bf]

Facts

[@petergriffinbutmexican4916]

Ikr

[@thegreatestchigone5813]

2 uploads in a day God I love this channel

[@jab-io2po]

Omega/Beyond omega level: Brainiac (DC) Beyond omega level: The empty hand (DC) Beyond omega level: Superman Prime One million Beyond omega level: Barbatos (DC) Beyond omega level: Imperiax (DC) Beyond omega level: Superman prime (Amped version)

[@the5thmemelord256]

*How To Kill Superheroes To Death: Superboy-Prime | ComicsExplained*

[@Wyndamn]

😅😅😅 I see what you did there.

[@knowing1399]

This will be an underrated comment, but I want you to know that I respect it

[@the5thmemelord256]

@@knowing1399 Your Acknowledgement & Respect are noted and appreciated.

[@the5thmemelord256]

@@Wyndamn 😉😁👍

[@LukeCage82]

How to kill Superboy Prime? 1. Find a way to remove his power suit 2. Find a way to remove his connection to a yellow sun and bombard him red sun radiation. 3. Pray to God you live long enough to do 1&2

[@Qardo]

Uh...Superboy Prime escape the Speed Force while being bombarded with Red Sun Radiation. Yeah... Also, took and absorbed the energy of an exploding Guardian of the Universe. Shirtless.

[@azerdraco3146]

Rob Corp: How would you beat him? Me: With a stick. As he slept.

[@alexisislas-gonzalez5991]

He is a fucking kryptonian not Alan Scott

[@Qardo]

Uh...he doesn't sleep. What now?

[@ryanphoenix2460]

I am so surprised this hasn't been covered before.

[@mandolorian162]

It has, this must be a reupload

[@lordschnitzel7961]

Beyond Omega Level: Empty Hand (DC)

[@faithinthestrat8784]

He did them before

[@lordschnitzel7961]

@@faithinthestrat8784 no he didn’t

[@faithinthestrat8784]

@@lordschnitzel7961 Yea he did I watched it before

[@lordschnitzel7961]

@@faithinthestrat8784 no . He had done Great evil beast but not Empty Hand

[@faithinthestrat8784]

@@lordschnitzel7961 hmm maybe I saw it on anothwr channel then

[@UnexpectedWonder]

"Magic doesn't exist in our world." Oh, Rob...Many would beg to differ about Magik.

[@Moiraiway]

Speedsters don't exist in our world either...powers period, I don't understand that part

[@UnexpectedWonder]

@@Moiraiway Exactly!!! 😁😁😂😂🤣🤣 Rob sometimes kills me with what he's willing to accept. "Well, it's more Science based..." Andy from Comicstorian would cue in, "Speed force bullshit."

[@craigray7519]

I'm hearing the "Mission Impossible" theme...Prime is just too OP💪

[@lmaj002]

Thanks for this!

[@ejx.33]

Go crazy, fire video

[@timbread6279]

Easy, you become a writer for dc and forget him for 10 years

[@Qardo]

Well, no, Superboy Prime just simply breaks through the Fourth Wall. Threaten you to write about him or he crushes your tiny head. That is how OP the character is. He is not one "Simply Forgotten". That is like forgetting about Superman. It is impossible.

[@Zaacdrums]

Beyond omega lvl impossible man and ressurection man

[@Immortal_Mentor]

Love you bud, bloody legend

[@barryfraser831]

Personally I think depriving him of solar energy makes the most sense. Fight him under a red sun, in a place where the stars don't shine through and then break the power suit. After that send someone who can't die such as Mr. Immortal or similar figures and fight Prime till his power runs out. Make sure Superboy can't just fly away so keep him mad and give him reason to stay. Or you could just reality warp him out of existence but that's cheating.

[@primehunter844]

When was the last time Superman got erased from existence? Y'know The "Kal El" characters are practically immune to reality & molecular warping huh?

[@Sumblueguy41]

3:58 - like how when Rob was making his point that any Kryptonite outside of Prime’s universe wouldn’t work on him, the slideshow cuts to Jon Kent, not Prime

[@zenseptic6156]

Could another speedster make a conduit like super boy prime did except it being for red suns isnstead of yellow, maybe in the form of like handcuffs so there kind of easy to get onto superbor prime

[@Logan7281X]

Okay, it took me a minute but here goes.... Introduce nanites into Superboy Prime's body that emit red sun radiation. Weaken him from the inside, while others work on his body. As a backup, shrink nukes and get them into Superboy Prime's body as well. The red sun emitters should weaken him enough to blow him up from the inside.

[@philandeswilliams1975]

Oh yeah, take away his access to a yellow sun; check! Love ya Rob!

[@lordhawkeye]

Find some way, such as magic/energy/reality warp, to convert the yellow sun energy stored within the power armor into red sun energy. Cut off from yellow sun and directly fed red sun it'll slow and weaken him enough to be dealt with.

[@aaronwilder2775]

Character Explained/Beyond Omega Level: Resurrection Man

[@nathaniel4455]

Would you mind telling me your history with the character I see you on here a lot asking for him

[@aaronwilder2775]

@@nathaniel4455 I forget exactly how I came to learn about him but I just really enjoyed his powerset, the way his story felt ground level

[@chrislatam5423]

He is real a Omega Level?

[@aaronwilder2775]

@@chrislatam5423 absolutely, he just has to die in the right way haha

[@savant1592]

He's just Doomsday but a human. 👍

[@michaelproulx4811]

fun idea since the suit stores and in turn gives Prime access to this energy could you not reverse the suits effects and have the suite start to drain him of the energy? at the vary least it would force him to ditch the suit.

[@jeremysherrod4239]

THE ROB CORE!! Always uploading interesting/great vids!! You get a THUMBS UP from me buddy!!

[@teamrockets4544]

The Rob core rings is superboy primes weakness

[@JKLauderdale]

Once again, a portal to a dark dimension - Could that portal be closed around his neck and decapitate him? IDK but the darkness itself should have deleterious effects on SBP and eventually weaken him enough so that when God-King Doom crosses over to battle Perpetua, SBP is lost in the shuffle and becomes the combined DC+Marvel Galactus

[@SilverSSJyt]

superboy prime is the whole reason i was able to find your channel

[@reidon3749]

Using comic logic since Hailey's comet activated his powers he should have some weakness dealing with it. Maybe destruction of it would rob him of his powers or a piece of it might be as effective as kryptonite.

[@larrywolf2509]

I forget which book I read, but someone had the ability to create kryptonite from SPrime's universe and used it against him. It was effective.

[@anarchond]

So all you need is some high level telekinetic to burst those tubes on his suit. Or any reality warper who can just turn the stored yellow sun energy into red sun energy lol. Or even better, get someone with covid to cough on him.

[@jamaaldagreatest2748]

Reality warpers don’t work and the telekinetic would have to do it faster than superboy prime could move which is prettyyyyyyyyyyyy fast

[@atomikdoggie8403]

@@jamaaldagreatest2748 all i heard was doggy pile

[@thedevourer.]

Hire the amalgam brothers to take him out 🤣

[@vonmadison1953]

I love all the different supermen ! Please do a video when Future State House of El comes out

[@thepriorstone4064]

I think the best way to beat him is to exploit his very fragile ego. If you can get him distracted enough, you can get him to damage himself in the right position, such as when he punched his future self and was erased

[@Havok1718]

I would say a beat down by dooms day would probably get the suit off because as sbp can keep fighting dooms day keeps adapting.

[@LAOCHPadre]

I got it: cover him in an adhesive gel made of Vantablack. It's too sticky for him to easily remove and Vantablack is so dark that it absorbs almost all solar radiation. He would rapidly burn through his power reserves and you can shoot him at his weakest.

[@TheRealDreyne]

SBP so powerful Rob didn’t did his usual how to kill Superhero video and lost a whole bunch of plans and details

[@davetoms1]

If we remove his suit and block all yellow Suns, couldn't he just punch his way into a reality that still has yellow Suns and then punch his way back? (I haven't read any of these stories so I don't know if that's off the table, for example if he'd immediately weaken without his suit.)

[@Metalframey]

Use psychological attacks until he simply cannot comprehend basic motor functions he may be physically tough but psychologically hes vulnerable as anything

[@alexpayne5914]

How to kill Prime: you don't.

[@dvontechappel1579]

In theory if you can get in close you should be able to change the yellow solar energy generator in his armor into a red solar energy generator. So all you have to do is get other guys like Superman One Million and a few other Supes to hang with him and try to hold him down for somebody like Firestorm to Transmutate the generator

[@jarvisaustin6955]

Batman with the mobius chair and prep time. Maybe.

[@Alex_Mac_]

Do you have an explained video about Mystique? Would love to see one.

[@SalazarII]

Why does that song in the background sound so familiar

[@OCBFowner]

The Element Lad from the Prime Universe did create Kryptonite that can hurt him

[@The_Drunken_Raptor]

Just cutting off the sunlight would still be too drawn out because doesn’t Superman’s very cells store yellow sun energy so he would still be O.P until he got physically drained of his energy.

[@gethinthomas4355]

One of those pic look like sentry vs void or in this case superbly prime vs the void lol

[@EzraColdsGarage]

You forgot his biggest weakness. Easily manipulated. Fear toxin, psychological warefare. He'd willingly take off the suit and walk into a black hole.

[@tbaerg]

Lobo may be of use in this particular battle

[@HilariouslyV]

🗣LETS BEGIN

[@Macewinrude]

Beyond omega level: Dan Didio Ha.

[@andrewjohnson8919]

Beyond Omega Level: Robert Jefferson

[@Skat3rkidLavon]

Extras strength sunblock should do the trick

[@serafinserei6652]

What about the weapons from the Justice league gods and monsters? The ones that shoot red sun radiation.

[@tron1007r]

He gains power from any solar energy above red. Green Lantern energy makes him more powerful too remember

[@Nonlifting_breezy]

If green kryptonite don’t effect him then how come red does?

[@SW-zb6bf]

The idea is solid, but I can't help but to wonder HOW would it be pulled off?

[@chrishall5570]

Do you think that since Halley's comet activated his powers that it could act as Superboy Prime's kryptonite?

[@cryingdutchman]

Kyptonians don't have powers on their home planet not because of the absence of a yellow sun, but because of the existence of a red one. That's what Superman and Superman from Earth 2 used to defeat prime in Infinite Crisis as well.

[@tvman250]

Superboy Prime!! Finally!!

[@sumrandomguy6199]

Rob would you ever cover the amazing Spiderman run thats going on rn

[@alonassoolin2968]

I already knew before watching this video that golden Kryptonite would have turned him into a not super powered person

[@ronniehesson5074]

I guess the Legion of super heroes would have the best chance. Shadow Lass keep him engulfed in darkness ,Mon-el and Ultra Boy keep him busy until his power diminished enough to take him out. Almost forgot Star Boy can increase Prime's personal gravity until it reaches Krypton's level

[@TheTriangle444]

Didnt he just get imprisoned with a red sun by lanterns and escaped like nothing happened

[@TheGreatBlueBlob]

And I am instantly here again.

[@stevesawyer6163]

Rob please finish covering mastero’s new origin

[@LuckyVarma11]

The real question what will Superboy prime will do in next death metal 5 comic? I'm so hyped up for that comic

[@Mogget01]

Hey Rob, I was wondering, do you know if Harley has become a member of the Bat Family yet?

[@delonteadams7326]

When are you going to do more Star Wars comics?

[@rohadinho1886]

Beyond omega level: Mandrakk

[@LD_Paradox]

Mix-yes-spit-lick Rob don't

[@HaunchoJackHD]

I know, just redcon his weaknesses😂

[@mongooseunleashed]

So we just got to find someone that can absorb Red Sun energy and send it to Super Boy Prime.

[@showkingsent]

So send Obsidian, Shadow Storm and Shade after him and it's a wrap.

[@JayTeeGR]

Someone that can control matter could kill him, i dunno if it's already done though! Like the Molecule man for example. Also a telepathy expert like Professor X or the Martian Manhunter could invade his mind and kill him. A four dimensional being could probably kill him easily because he wouldn't even be able to perceive it. Without the plot armor it's possible to kill him, it's just very hard!