>>113973009Toni WAS good though, to the best of his abilities. The story only kicked off when he made a mistake and felt overwhelming guilt about it. He's the embodiment of that feeling you get when you fuck something up that can never be fixed again, and you just say "FUCK IT" and keep breaking it more because you can't go back anyway .That's why at the end
he's tricked by Qubit into saving the planet, under the assumption that if he does then Qubit can turn back time and allow him to become a hero again>>113972984The story is less about "what-if evil Superman" than it is about the world itself. Everything in Toni's life was a twisted parody of Superman's.
He was "conceived" from the mind of a suicidal/homicidal woman who killed her child and constantly tried to kill him, and later raised by a mentally abusive father. His Lois Lane rejected him after he reveal his identity to punctuate just how different the world is in contrast to its golden-age comics tone. Against the backdrop of that kind of setting, Toni was trying to fit into the world, a la Superman, but from the angle of his mental state.
tl;dr the story is less about evil superman than it is about mentally ill superman in a shitty world.
