The following article contains spoilers from Batman/Superman: World's Finest #11, on sale now from DC Comics.

Boy Thunder's introduction to the DCU brought with it a number of questions, but foremost among them was this what became of him. In the present-day universe, no one ever brings him up, and he doesn't seem to be operating anywhere else. Batman/Superman: World's Finest #11 (by Mark Waid, Dan Mora, Tamra Bonvillain, and Steve Wands) gave fans their answer when it was revealed that Boy Thunder was accidentally sent to a random universe after the Key tampered with his ship.

Unfortunately for Boy Thunder, he wound up in the hands of the villain, Gog, seemingly connecting him to his dark future. What's odd about this is that it mirrors what became of Superman's son, Jon Kent. Like Boy Thunder, Jon was trapped in another universe under the control of a villain, he then came back significantly older. Considering that Boy Thunder probably won't return to the DC Universe until he becomes Magog, these scenarios are almost identical.

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Boy Thunder's Fate

The Key had discovered that Boy Thunder was from another universe and breached his mind to learn the location of the ship he arrived in. Unfortunately, in the battle to stop him from accessing the multiverse, the Key accidentally started the ship's jump protocols. Since Boy Thunder was still tied to it by their shared vibration rate, he was also transported away. He ended up in a desolate world with the villain Gog waiting for him.

Gog is an obscure villain of the Justice Society of America. Debuting in Action Comics #815 (by Chuck Austin and Ivan Reis), Gog was born William Matthews, a missionary who discovered the actual Gog, one of the old gods in the DC Universe. He was then empowered by Gog and received visions of what happened to Kansas in the Kingdom Come universe. Believing this to be the future of his Earth, and that Superman was responsible, the new Gog tried to kill him. Now, it seems as though his ultimate fate is to force Boy Thunder to become Magog.

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Boy Thunder Meets Gog

Boy Thunder was stranded in another universe, trapped by a villain who is significantly more powerful than him, and will likely only return after growing up. If this sounds familiar, it is because that's exactly what happened to Jon Kent. During a trip through space with his grandfather, Jor-El, Jon was lost on Earth-3 and imprisoned by Ultraman, who treated him like a punching bag. Jon eventually escaped, but because time on Earth-3 didn't move at the same rate as it did on his Earth, he returned five years older.

The one major difference is that when Jon returned, he was still the same caring, and heroic young man he had always been. Ultraman may have tormented Jon, but he was never trying to mold Jon into some kind of twisted legacy, just use him as an outlet for his own misery. Gog's plans for Boy Thunder seem more deliberate. He has been waiting for the young hero, and will likely force Boy Thunder to become Magog. It is tragic that two children under Superman's care both ended up scarred for life.