The following article contains spoilers from Dark Crisis: Young Justice #3, on sale now.

Though trapped on a world that seems to want to give them their deepest desires, Young Justice's time there has only exposed the cracks in their own friendships. Dark Crisis: Young Justice #3 (by Meghan Fitzmartin, Laura Braga, Luis Guerrero, Pat Brosseau) saw Superboy, Robin, and Impulse get into a fight over their new reality. But while they could not agree on whether the source of their woes was next to them this whole time, they certainly brought up old resentments against one another.

Impulse felt that the others only ever see him as a fool who screws things up, prompting him to run away. Sueprboy was even worse off, clearly still feeling the sting of being forgotten about for years. Ironically, while this world seems to be doing everything it can to make them happy, all it is really doing is bringing old wounds to the surface and showing just how much Young Justice needs to repair their relationships.

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Superboy Insults Impulse

Right from the start, it has been clear that this new reality is trying to lull Young Justice into a place of complacency. Be it by distracting them with old super villains from their past, or trying to offer them what they once wanted most, everything has been to get them to go along with the world as if everything were okay.

The boys were not quite ready to buy into this illusion, however. While Superboy may have been ready to accept this as his new home, both Tim and Bart were rightfully suspicious of this new reality. This fundamental disagreement about how to handle their predicament has caused fractures in their bonds. Or more accurate, it put pressure on fractures that were already there.

Many underlying issues from the past have boiled to the surface in the face of so many reminders of their less than great early lives. Bart's hidden worries about always being seen as a screwup, even by his closest friends, has once again become a problem. Tim as always is only keeping his own counsel. Superboy might be the worst of them all, however, willing to seemingly turn on his friends to continue buying the illusion.

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Superboy Resents His Teammates

From his perspective, this was better. Here, he never died, no one forgot he even existed. He could have everything he ever wanted. This reveals that, no matter what he may say, Superboy is deeply troubled by the past. His death still impacts him to his day, constantly making him question how differently his life could have turned out had he not died at all.

Whatever he may have imagined seems close to what is being presented to him now, but deep down he knows it is wrong. They all do, but their underlying personal issues are blocking any productive attempts to solve the problem. Ultimately, the world isn't just revealing how they ignored the bad parts of the past, but also how they have ignored the problems forming in their friendships. If they're to have any hope of saving themselves, first they need to address how they have failed each other.