Corben picked up the removed control chip so know one could control him again and waved off Clark's suspicion of him by saying Clark could thank him another time. Waking up the next morning not remembering how she got home, Lois later found him in the Talon basement. The only one was John Corben.
Realizing that Corben is the man who ran wild at the hospital earlier in the day before fleeing, Lois goes to a phone booth and speaks to the Blur. When she was discovered, the scuffle set of an explosion from the red kryptonite, throwing her through the base and down an elevator shaft, only to be caught by the reactivated Corben. Coming back to his senses Corben, went straight for Clark again only to be frozen solid by a combination of his and Zod's super breath. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. He was later given a kryptonite heart to keep him alive since it was the only energy compatible with his cybernetics.Corben was eventually seen again incarcerated in John Henry's isolated super-prison, eventually drafted by the U.S. government again shortly afterwards, but is only brought back into their service by compunction from Lois once more (who was secretly under Brainiac's influence).In the wake of Superman's identity being outed to the world as the hero began losing his powers, many an investigation was undertaken into his identity, contacts and motives by collective interests. He is always seen unshaven.
Later, when Tess visited Winslow Schott, a mad criminal genius who used to work for Lex, she gave him John's kryptonite heart for him to tinker with in an attempt to see if he could help reboot John's systems.
While he had the advantage due to the Kryptonite Matrix, his lack of free will made it difficult for him to effectively battle the two when they split up. Clark appears at that time and tells John that he regretted what had happened to his sister. While understandably skeptical after their last encounter, Corben assured her he was now sane and he had saved her the previous night. Note: All content belongs to Warner Bros. Turning his attention back to Clark, he pulled out a krytonite shard he had been given by Chloe, saying he didn't blame Clark for attacking him in the past but someone who cared about Clark sent him to help.
He was formerly a human criminal named John Corben but is now merely a brain within a robotic body. He explained to her about Tess' experiments and the control chip but also that his artificial heart was nearly out of energy and unless he replenished it soon with more meteor rock, it would deactivate and effectively kill him. Realizing the weakness of the Blur, Corben tried to expose his kryptonite heart by ripping the lead plate from his chest, but in the attempt, the meteorite rock stuck to the plate, leaving Corben without power and shutting him down. Wiki Points. However, the operations have left him more machine than man, also leaving no vital signs. His adrenaline level started to rise clouding his mind making it think that what happened was a gift to kill the Blur for what he had done to his sister. He was sent to cover a mission in Afghanistan and from there he kept in touch with his sister through video messages and reminded her to be careful because she was alone in the city. Later, when it was revealed that Kandorians were experimenting on humans, Clark asked a doctor if there was any of the humans that were experimented on and never found. Arriving at the Fortress, he was confronted by Zod and Clark. Corben later went to his desk opposite Lois' and began squeaking his chair and Lois thought it was Clark but saw Corben and still thought he was a detective but Corben revealed himself as a field reporter to replace Clark. Superman & Batman vs. Metallo!-1. He has enhanced abilities and no longer needs to eat, sleep, or breathe. Now back in the right state of mind, Clark lept backwards carefully, observing the cyborg. In a fit of psychosis, John gets up scared, and discovered that he now had super strength, and escapes leaving an orderly in a coma. Seeing him as a potential weapon if the Kryptonians ever turned hostile, they implanted a control chip into the back of his neck that would turn him in to a mindless drone.