While Superboy's betrothed, Miss Martian, briefly detected a psychic presence following the pair and Beast Boy around, at one point suspecting the presence of involvement in an attack against them in the Martians, the trio had no way to know it was actually the Legion of Super-Heroes shadowing them at a distance. That's why he never could have seen it coming when his attempt to stop Ma'alefa'ak's gene bomb released kryptonite that seemingly killed him.īut yet another overarching plot thread loomed in the background that may explain how Superboy's fate won't be so final. With interweaving plots involving a race war between the Martian castes, an assassinated king, the Team's Bio-Ship giving birth, Beast Boy's own festering trauma and the intervention of Darkseid's underling Desaad, there was much for Superboy to watch out for as his strength steadily faded in the subterranean world.

Venturing to Miss Martian's home planet for a wedding ceremony amidst the alien civilization's fraught generational problems, Superboy quickly found his trip into outer space far more complicated than it was initially planned to be.

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