The Smiths

 

"So, there is a scene in Pinocchio where 

Gepetto Wishes On a Star -

And what that means is, that 

He lifts up his eyes beyond The Horizon 

to see something Transcendent -

Something Ultimate, because that's What a Star is, 

it's part of The Eternity of The Night Sky.

And so he lifts his eyes up 

above his daily concerns, and he says :

"What I Want More Than Anything Else is that 
My Creation Will Become a Genuine Individual."

Right, it's a Heroic Gesture, 

because it's so unlikely.

And that catalyses The Puppet's 

transformation  into 

A Real Being.

And we start as puppets.

And so, The Trick is, to 

get rid of your 

goddamn strings.

Earth-Prime's history significantly deviated from Our Earth's History with the advent of two native superheroes. The first, Ultraa, was the sole survivor of a destroyed alien world, rocketed to Earth-Prime as a baby. After his first encounter with the Justice League, Ultraa decided Earth-Prime was not ready for superheroes and relocated to Earth-One.

The second superhero became known as Superboy-Prime. This Superboy's powers first manifested around the time of the passage of Halley's Comet on Earth-Prime, in 1986. 

Just after manifesting his powers, Superboy-Prime met Earth-One's Superman.

Very soon thereafter, Earth-Prime was destroyed in the Crisis on Infinite Earths. 

Superboy-Prime escaped his universe's destruction and later joined Earth-Two's Superman and Lois Lane Kent and Earth-Three's Alexander Luthor in a "paradise dimension". 

Superboy survived and reappeared at the dawn of a new crisis.