Warning: This article contains spoilers from the season 1 finale of DC's Titans.
If you've managed to catch the last episode of DC's Titans season one, you'll know that Conner Kent made a surprise appearance during the end-credits.
Escaping from a Cadmus Laboratory in Metropolis, Conner's emergence signals an even more exciting path for the second season of Titans. Here, he saves a dog with glowing deep red-eyes – and so, Superboy and his canine pal Krypto were introduced.
Entertainment Weekly recently spoke to the show's executive producer Greg Walker, and asked if it was always the plan to include Superboy and Krypto at the end.
"It wasn't totally planned from day one – or maybe it was in [Geoff Johns and Akiva Goldsman's] heads, but they didn't tell me. It definitely wasn't something that we thought of until the very end.
"I think we knew that would be a direction that would be exciting for the fans and a tease that would be interesting for us as well, and that was the best spot to put it in."
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He also went into detail on how the show interprets the character in season two, adding: "It's still brewing.
"What I can say is that we still want to take the same dimensionalised and psychologically grounded approach that we do with the other characters and apply that same pressure to Conner Kent and see what shakes out when you put a character like that through that test.
"You know, questions of identity, questions of powers, questions of your place in the universe. These are all questions that are interesting for any kind of Superman character, and are really interesting for Conner."
Titans airs on the DC Universe streaming service in the US, and comes to Netflix in the UK on Friday, January 11.
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