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I always imagined the team as college-aged young adults and therefore had no problem with their names. It's just another aspect of what made them unique.
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or you can do the confusion 'til your head falls off
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Believe it or not, I'm pretty indifferent on this front. I'm okay with the suffixes or without them.
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I used to agree, BB. But for now, I'm content to let it be.
In the 31st, human lifespans could be around 200 years, for all we know. They might have a different cultural use of words like Boy and Girl, etc. mid- or late-20-somethings (or even older) could be in that grey area that equates to late tens in our era.
I'd favor a slow transition. Starman and Superman are first, fine. Maybe one now and then, starting a couple years from now -when/if there's reason to switch. Definitely not a whole big bunch at once.
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It could be that "boy", "girl", etc. actually just translate Interlac words that are much broader in scope than what we use to render them in English...
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I wouldn't want Boy George to start calling himself "Man George". And he's like, 80 or some junk!!
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Hmm... this could easily inspire a "Ways the Legion is like the Culture Club" thread...
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It wouldn't be the Legion without some boys, girls, lads and lasses. I look on it as a comfort thing for the members of the team. They've used those code names for years and probably don't see any reason yet to change them. The code names are as much their names as their given names.
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There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.
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I could care less what codenames they use. I'm more interested in their characterization and presentation being similar to what they have been in the past.
I like names like Apparition and Triad and Umbra better than Phantom Girl, Triplicate Girl and Shadow Lass anyway...
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It really doesn't matter if they change them or not. When they were Apparition, Triad, and Umbra, I always read them as Phantom Girl, Duo Damsel, and Shadow Lass anyway. Changing the names just confuses things and the Legion has had enough confusion with all the reboots, alternate timelines, multiple Legions, new costumes every 3 issues, etc. etc. Back to basics I say.
I think it's a bad idea to assign specific ages to comic characters. And I think it's a terrible idea for them to have children. It's one thing to ignore the fact that adults don't seem to age across decades, but it's another matter entirely for toddlers to stay toddlers for decades. In Fantastic Four, Franklin seems to be a toddler again, yet Luna who is what? 20 years younger than he in real time? now (after 30 yrs as a toddler) appears to be a young adolescent. WTF?
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From: Champaign, IL | Registered: Jul 2003
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probably new members will be w/out the boy/girl/lad/lass/etc. just as Tyroc/Wildfire/Dawnstar/Blok/White Witch were in the past. we already have Gates and Xs. but changing the boy to man and the girl to woman for existing characters sounds awkward. it doesn't fit. marketing is everything. that's why we don't have a "Bat Boy". it sounds lame. logic is not sales figures.
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I don't think that the Legion is the only example of young adults in fiction or history using boy, kid, lad or lass as a moniker. Billy the Kid, Pretty Boy Floyd and the Cisco Kid for example.
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