Titans 'officially' bit it

The people he killed didn't have the impact they should've had considering the whole big plan of the series is that SB and Alex want to destroy the current version of everybody on Earth. I realize it's much easier to kill everybody with a magic machine than to put a fist through somebody's skull, but still it's a little ridiculous to get upset over some bloodshed. It also kinda sucked considering I'm more familiar with the characters he took down through the TT cartoon than from any comic.

Superboy Prime is clearly deluded, but he didn't want to kill anyone - at least not on purpose. When he takes Pantha out, it was more of a blind lashing out, as she attacks him from behind, and I truly don't believe he meant to behead her. That's why he get's so upset. Then everybody goes nuts on him, and he just loses it, defending himself in any way possible. He blames the things he does next on on the fact that by having contact with the people of this Earth in such a manner, what they do to him is now tainting him - and making him become more like what he believes is wrong with this version of Earth. Of course, his logic is completely flawed. As in Conner's (our Superboy) case, he truly believes he can use might to prove he's right.

As for he and Alex wanting to "destroy the current version of everybody on Earth" - that's not really the case, either. Alex is more concerned with making what he called "A perfect version of Earth" - but to do that, he needs to essentially bring back the multiverse, and recreating Earth 2 is just the first stepping stone to doing so. Anyone else who's been killed so far during this Crisis, has pretty much just been cannon fodder in an ends to achive what he needed to do. If people die because of events he's set into motion (i.e. - everthing that's happend so far in the mini's leading up to Infinite Crisis) - that's not his fault, so much as the natural order of the way things work on what he considers a flawed world. As long as he can eventually get what he wants - a perfect world with perfect versions of everyone on it - it doesn't matter what else happens to anyone on this one along the way.

As for the second paragraph, I think to make a perfect world, he does want to destroy the current versions of everybody. For instance there's the line about how Dick Grayson is a good man, but he'll eventually be corrupted. Maybe I'm reading Luthor's plan wrong. Is he planning on bringing back the entire multiverse and he'll let all the other Earths just do whatever they want and he'll just reside on the Earth that he feels is perfect? He seems to hate the current Earth so much that I figured he'd eventually only have 1 Earth, taking the best parts from all the ones he's bringing back.

Alexander Luthor - "...from which my own hands will redivde this universe. All in our crusade for finding a new Earth. A perfect earth.

Kara/Power Girl - " Earth two."

Luthor - "Earth Two? Of course not. Earth Two is only a stop along the way."

Kara - "All of this manipulation...The Pyscho Pirate...That's why Wonder Woman killed Maxwell Lord. Why Batman got so damn Paranoid. Why Superman--"

Luthor - "--failed to keep them all together? They did that themselves, Kara. That was the real tradgedy of it all. And it proved to me without a doubt that we were doing the right thing. These heroes aren't capable of protecting thier Earth. It's destruction was inevitable."


...now to me, that reads that Alexander Luthor believes the current version of Earth (and everyone on it) to be flawed, and that sooner or later it/they would destroy themsleves anyway. It's not so much that he's seeking thier destruction, but just that since he thinks it's going to happen anyway, if he does something, wether directly or indirectly, to cause events to speed up
that process- in the long run it doesn't matter to him. The end result will be the same. He doesn't care what happens to the people of this Earth along the way to acheiveing his ultimate goals, because they don't/won't really factor into his finished goal.