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I would question Sensor Girl's effectiveness as leader. Dispite all her diplomatic, bureaucratic, and political experience, during her term the Legion was undermined but diplomatic, bureaucratic and political forces from Earthgov. This lead to the disbanding of the Legion. She of all people should have seen this coming. Her powers revealed a talking bird coming to warn the Legion about the Magic Wars, but not the vast Dominator/Earthgov conspiracy all around her?
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Well the bird was a creature of magic. I don't think he would've gotten involved in politics.
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She didn't detect the bird anyway. She didn't notice it until the Computer alerted her to it.
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Well, seeing as how the only leaders I have actually read stuff about would be Cos, Saturn Girl, Lightning Lad (I have his breakdown issues), Dream Girl and Element Lad I don't have much to choose from.
I'm going with Dream Girl. Even though most of the team thought she her term would be a joke she lead decisively and did not let their back biting get to her. She was confident even when she wasn't sure what was going on (of course part of that was her powers) but still, I think a large part of being leader is being able to make everyone else believe you have a plan.
Jan was a good leader also (most of what I own deals with his term) and originally I was leaning towards him, but he seemed to lose his composure more than Dream Girl, and although he faced bad times as well, Dream Girl performing so well under pressure in GDS gives her my vote.
also, I'm somewhat against Jan since he tried to undercut Nura's leadership and a real leader should put the good of the organization over petty wants, lead by example and all that, even if you aren't president. If I recall correctly, Nura did not do anything to undermine Jan's term and behaved more like a leader in that respect.
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quote:Originally posted by MLLASH: She wasn't the first Legionnaire to do tricks with a flght ring. Another strong-willed Legionnaire named Cosmic Boy did it years earlier.
So even that has roots in the past.
What did Cosmic Boy do with the flight ring? I don't remember him doing any kind of special tricks with it but there's a gap in my Legion knowledge that begins with the Grell era.
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Blue, I believe its a back-up story in Grell era. Its the one where Cos can't use his powers b/c of the Braalian holiday (the infamous issue where he slaps Ayla).
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quote:Originally posted by Kid Quislet: My vote is for Invisible Kid during his run in Adventure.
I always thought it was cool he socked Ultra Boy to prevent UB from seeing who Sir Prize really was, because of a promise he made as leader. Not terribly powerful in abilities, he still commanded respect as a leader and had some other neat leadership moments (the Dark Circle invasion of earth, Otto Orion's hunt). .
Invisible Kid didn't appear in the Dark Circle story except in a small one panel cameo where he's spraying up the walls of the new HQ. Seems like a menial chore for the leader imho.
Also, I don't know why everyone always insists that Ultra Boy had a 2nd term in the early Superboy backups but not Brainiac 5. UB was stated to be leader in Sup. 184, but Brainiac 5 was stated to be leader in the Blood Crystals story (can't remember the issue #). Brainy says he's the leader this month. I think Ultra Boy was also intended to be a "leader of the month" and that the writers were experimenting with a new Legion leader each month in order to give each member a chance to lead. In Sup. 190, this was apparently jettisoned, because Mon-El is shown as still being leader. He says he might crack under the pressure or another term. This implies to me that he's just coming off of his first term as leader and not that others were leader in between.
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