One of the things that’s fascinating about Superboy to me as a shameless powerscaler is that he’s like. Right on the edge of being too powerful. There’s a line between characters that can be active heroes and beings that are so powerful as to basically be gods, who have to be shuffled off to their own corners of canon and only show up for really big cosmic threats so as to not break the plausibility of the setting. Superman stays out of Gotham, Silver Surfer stays out in space, Jean Gray dies if she goes full Phoenix. Kon should be in that category, but no one at DC pays enough attention to him to realize it.
Can you imagine? A character who is basically Jean Gray and Superman combined, but no one ever thinks about it because he wears silly shades and a leather jacket and his telekinesis has a minor range limitation that he’s outgrowing. If you seriously introduced a character like that, the idea of them being an oft-ignored minor character would be laughable.
And yet, somehow Kon sneaks in under the radar! At least part of it is the Kryptonian powerset, obviously. Between the various members of the Superfam and the many copies and parodies across different settings, we get used to treating all those very powerful abilities as one thing, so it doesn’t feel like as big a deal to add all of them onto one other power, especially when Tactile Telekinesis is often forgotten or underused by writers who can’t manage inventive power use.
But what it all adds up to is one of the most powerful characters in DC canon, with a huge amount of room to grow, being consistently treated as a minor sidekick. It’s truly wild.
Parents showing PDA it’s so traumatizing for their children, they should stop that immediately, think of the kids 😔 anyway Talia and Janet know exactly what they’re doing, Damian and Tim won’t fight each other if they’re too busy being grossed out.
zack addy might be absent from the later seasons but his impact is so huge like…
his impact on hodgins’ perception of friendships. hodgins became more closed off for a while after zack left, but later remembered the value of finding joy in your work and establishing trusting connections with other people - and zack was the person who introduced him to that
honestly zack brought hodgins out of his angry, distrusting shell so much, he’s probably part of the reason that hodgins became open and happy enough to get into a relationship with angela <3
the way booth went from deeply disliking zack to being very understanding of the "squints" in later seasons. he didn’t do good by zack, but he massively changed after.
the lab never having a single, consistent intern again… constant references to zack as the best intern that no one can live up to
brennan learning that logic isn’t the be all & end all, and that emotion can have its place, due to zack’s "logical" justifications for his actions (she talks about this in the season 4 opening)
cam seriously changed a lot after zack had to leave… it really hit her hard for a long time. she clearly was beating herself up about not seeing the signs.
at the same time, it oddly helped cam bond more with the rest of the team. they all grew a lot closer, her included.
zack was only consistently in the show for 3 seasons, just 1/4 of the show’s run, but he’s so central to the show even years after he left :(
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I have a disorder that makes me want to headcanon every nonhuman character with the ability to purr regardless if it makes sense for their kind or not. It's called being right. With enough research i could justify a tree purring if i wanted to