Legion of Super Heoes

[jbuck_919]

Great Adventure Comics series spanning many years. Of course they had something like 30 members at peak and actually listed a dramatis personnae at the beginning of each edition to state which kids were actually being featured.

I'm going to give you Superboy, Supergirl, and their like-powered colleague Mon-El. There's no point in debating heros who are nearly gods.

Let's assume that they made a tv series (this was actually contemplated more than once), and can't very well cast 30 characters not all of whom can appear in any one episode. Which half dozen or so besides those named above (you don't need to be very exact; I'm going to come in under the quota) would you include and why? You can cast it too if you want, but actors grow up so fast these days that I can't keep up. Just please try to avoid thirty-year-olds trying to play 16-year-olds.

I'd include Brainiac 5. Pure brainpower making a superhero. Also, green skin and blond hair, what a combo!
Besides, he was Supergirl's boyfriend.

Either Timber Wolf or Karate Kid. Martial Arts dexterity on speed.

LIght Lass when she was still Lightning Lass (Lad's sister). Girlfriend for Timber Wolf and there is precedent in nature for biological beings able to generate electric charges. I' like to see her souped up like Starfinger in a famous episode where each of Lightning Lads, fingers was transformed into a different power.

The last choice is cheating. Send Kid Flash forward in time. There was an episode where a brother and sister "guest heros/villains" had that power, though I don't remember the details.

Favorite Legionnaires?

[Jerk Shapiro]

Lightning Lad, I guess my "VOLTAGE" really was a rip-off. Man, what a pisser.

Anyway. Kid Flash, Brainiac 5, it's all great. Never heard of the comic though.

[RobertAndres]

Which era are we talking about. I'm not too fond of the current Legion, with that blue thing, the snake with mechanical arms, and that large ugly green woman.

I'd say you could get a good eight or nine years out of a cast made up of twenty-somethings, and still have the audience believe the characters are teenagers. It worked [kind of ] with Beverly Hills 90210. Most regular series don't last that long anyway.

I'd like to see Triad, just to see triplets, Beautiful Dreamer, and Apparition.

[jbuck_919]

I guess I'm talking about the classic Legion, from the days of my youth. It was a very naive group, but they did have their moments. If you wanted to see triplets, there was a character called Triplicate Girl. Once one of her selves was killed and she became Duo Damsel. Why being able to divide into two non-super-powered persons at the same time is considered Legion material is beyond me. There were a number of episodes where they rejected applicants because they did not have a sufficient power, and there was also a Legion of Substitute Heroes to which some of them were relegated.

[RobertAndres]

Isn't that kind of...morbid, is that the word, to have the group change your codename after one of your copies dies. I wonder how she felt about that. Was it an awkward moment, did she feel less adequate, or was she perfectly fine with it?

[jbuck_919]

I realize that JoBlo has a young clientele, but I figured if I let my hair down and relived a happy if somewhat silly memory from my youth I'd find a couple of kindred souls.

Anyway, I don't think there was any problem with Duo Damsel's self esteem (all the legionnaires had real names, by the way, though I can't remember many of them). Most of them were paired up romantically, and she got Superboy, so I guess that answers that question.