Superboy/Roads Not Taken (2)

Roads Not Taken (2)
Season 3, Episode 6
Airdate	November 10, 1990
Teleplay by	Stan Berkowitz
Story by	John Francis Moore & Stan Berkowitz
Directed by	Richard J. Lewis
← 3x05 Roads Not Taken (1)	3x07 → The Sons of Icarus
Superboy — Season Three

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Roads Not Taken (2) is the sixth episode of the third season of The Adventures of Superboy, and the fifty-eighth episode overall.

Gerard Christopher (Clark Kent / Superboy), Stacy Haiduk (Lana Lang)

Also Starring: Peter Jay Fernandez (Matt Ritter) (credit only), Robert Levine (C. Dennis Jackson) (credit only)

Guest Stars: Kenneth Robert Shippy (Dr. Winger), Tracy Roberts (Darla)

and Sherman Howard (Lex Luthor)

Featuring: Roger Floyd (Messenger), Jacob Witkin (Adviser I), Jack Swanson (Adviser II), Steve DuMouchel (Driver), Jason Padgett (Kid), Tim Powell (Man), Paul Mathew (Superboy Double)

Plot Overview

Superboy is forced into another dark world in which he rules as a tyrant, desperate to find a way out to take his Lex back before Lana's time runs out.

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• Superboy evades Lex by entering the portal again. In this one, he was raised by a man who groomed him to rule the world, becoming the Sovereign. By contrast, Lex is working with a resistance group to defeat the Sovereign.

• Lex learns Winger has also created a remote device to control the interdimensional travel, but that world's Superboy prevents him from destroying it and uses it to retrieve the other Superboy. After returning with Lex, he destroys the portal.

Trivia

The Show

• While suggested in the previous episode, it's confirmed in this episode that Lex looks the same across the multiverse, effectively retconning the character's appearance in the first season and subsequent physical alteration at the beginning of Season 2.

• The Sovereign predates the Elseworlds story Red Sun, which also sees Superman rising into a dictator.