Topic: How Many Would Want Laurel Kent and Laurel Gand as Members of the Legion?
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quote:Originally posted by razsolo: I wouldn't mind seeing Laurel Kent; I did think she had potential, and her power is of the Bouncing Boy/Matter-Eater Lad variety where she would be forced to use her wits to be effective. I like seeing that in my Legionnaires.
Total agreement there. I love it when the powerset comes with some built-in limitations and the superhero has to get clever to be competitive (Laurel, for instance, would be best suited towards learning martial arts, and then using her Flight Ring to turn herself into a living missile, as she'll never have a ranged attack like heat vision or being able to chuck mountains at people).
Granted, I'm not the biggest BB/ME-Lad fan, but I've never been a fan of the Supercousins or other in-your-face powerhouses, who could, in theory, handle most missions without even having to have to wait for the rest of the Legion to haul their slow-starship-needing-arses to the site of the fray.
Mon-El, paradoxically, has always gotten away with this, because, regardless of his powers, he's always been so low-key and in-the-background compared to the more dynamic personalities of Superboy, Supergirl and, from what I've seen, Andromeda. Even if he could shove everyone aside and get the job done single-handedly, he never seems like the sort of gloryhound who *would* do such a thing. He always felt like he was holding himself back that way.
I never really saw Thunder in the few books I have that era, so I have no idea if she was all in your face better-than-thou, or more down-low.
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I have always wanted a Superman descendant to be in the Legion. I would like the Legion to use Laurel Kent but she should have all of Superman's powers. Another possible Kryptonian member is a reformed Dev-Em from the phantom zone.
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