quote:Originally posted by Set: I'd like to see the Legion split into a few different sub-teams (like the old days when there was an Avengers West Coast, or an X-Men 'Gold Team' and 'Blue Team').
Instead of trying to maintain a bunch of ongoing series, a group of six to twelve Legionnaires could be assigned to a particular section of the UP, and go on adventures there for a six issue or twelve issue story arc.
The UP, in theory, is a *big* place, so it would make sense for them not to be all bunched up on Earth, possibly *months* away from some of the outer rim territories.
Splitting the Legion up into, say, three teams, and focusing on one team at a time, only gathering *all* of the Legion together for epic events every couple of years, could allow for more in-depth characterization of individual members (as every couple of issues doesn't have to feature cameos by Legionnaires who aren't involved with this particular sub-team).
One of the sub-teams could even be the Espionage Squad! Not only would they have a more local region (being most active in the political heart of the UP, perhaps), but they'd also have a different style and different sorts of plots than the more 'deep space action' teams.
Yes, I've always liked the idea of Legion sub-teams. They would be a wonderful way to establish new books at some time, too, like the Academy in Adventure.
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quote:Originally posted by Set: I'd like to see the Legion split into a few different sub-teams (like the old days when there was an Avengers West Coast, or an X-Men 'Gold Team' and 'Blue Team').
Instead of trying to maintain a bunch of ongoing series, a group of six to twelve Legionnaires could be assigned to a particular section of the UP, and go on adventures there for a six issue or twelve issue story arc.
The UP, in theory, is a *big* place, so it would make sense for them not to be all bunched up on Earth, possibly *months* away from some of the outer rim territories.
Splitting the Legion up into, say, three teams, and focusing on one team at a time, only gathering *all* of the Legion together for epic events every couple of years, could allow for more in-depth characterization of individual members (as every couple of issues doesn't have to feature cameos by Legionnaires who aren't involved with this particular sub-team).
i beleive they tried this in post zero hour days, with Legion of super heroes concentrating on the space station legionaires and then in the Legionaires title was those based on Earth. they were supposed to roate in and out but it never quite worked out that way....
but i do agree that for this legion and having more members that would work great!!!
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Candlelight: [QB]I'd love to have the White Witch back and a new Amethyst and the return of Zoe. I'd love it too, if when everyone got pulled out, the Mysa and Dragonmage from Zoe's universe emerged from her, as well.
i also love this idea! i feel like we've all had it! if only Paul would listen!!!!
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i believe they tried this in post zero hour days, with Legion of super heroes concentrating on the space station legionnaires and then in the Legionnaires title was those based on Earth. they were supposed to rotate in and out but it never quite worked out that way....
but i do agree that for this legion and having more members that would work great!!!
this part was not supposed to be in the quote part! sorry!
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Be careful what you ask for. The first time the idea was tried we got Dr. Mayavale and the Space Circus!
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I'd love a gorilla from Gorilla City to join the Academy. Maybe an albino one building on Timber Wolf's time in the 21st century Gorilla City during the JLA/JSA/LSH teamup?
It'd be funny if the young primate was constantly looking for Brin and didn't really believe it when the Legionnaires told him or her about Brin's status. T-Wolf could be a figure of myth or legend for Gorilla City!
I'd prefer Kent Shakespeare show up as age-equivalent to the senior Legionnaires. Maybe as a medic for the ICC on a mission with Dev-em? I really would like to see Dev, at any rate.
Of course, new students to the Academy wouldn't have to be young, would they? Harmonia Li has blown the age restrictions right out of the constitution, if they were still in place at all.
More than anything, I'd want to see a Lallorian student. One with friendly ties to the Heroes of Lallor, which necessitates their frequent guest-starring turns.
I'd like the Gorilla City and Lallor students to be new characters, not readaptations of preexisting ones.
Sizzle, Dragonmage, Jazmin Cullen (it'd be funny if Cosmic Boy stalked her in a creepier variant of how Night Girl landed him!), Devlin Orion (make him related to The Hunter), a young Andromeda, Sensor (*not* Jeka but still from Orando, where we discover the snakes have always lived in the tropical part of the planet in peaceful coexistance with the humans- well, peaceful since JecKie's ancestor stopped the sending of knights out on quests to slay them...)
Monstress- personality intact, though with more savage moments- but vastly reinterpreted in look. No more feminized Hulk.
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For Dragonmage (or any mage, really, even Glorith), I'd rather see someone more like Mysa, originally, able to cast spells, but *not* able to just fling magical bolts around and create magical force fields. 'Magic-user' should not be 'Green Lantern.' I wanna see spells, rites, charms, glyphs, conjurings, glamers, enchantments, potions and hexes, not 'I shoot magic lazors! Pew pew!'
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I always wished they had used Dragonmage's dragon-spell casting as a real limitation...making it so that any spell he cast had to be something you could justifiably attribute to a dragon.
It still leaves the door open for a lot of versatility, but would have also made him something other than a generic sorcerer...
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Infectious Lass II (or maybe even the original), Molecular Lad (same look, but not an android), Devilfish. Kinetix would be fun as well.
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quote:Originally posted by razsolo: I always wished they had used Dragonmage's dragon-spell casting as a real limitation...making it so that any spell he cast had to be something you could justifiably attribute to a dragon.
Even if it just played up the dragon-manifestations, and had them be some sort of energy-constructs he created, through which stuff like fire-breath and feats of strength would be manifested, that could have been cool and distinctive.
We haven't had much in the way of Legionnaires who summon minions or companion creatures, so that would be a new area to explore.
Smaller dragonforms could be used as spies or scouts, while larger ones as mounts or combat-assistance (not that the Legion needs mounts, with their Flight Rings, but they may encounter a situation where other people need to be carried to safety...).
By having Dragonmage generally just throw powerful energy blasts, I felt the writers missed an opportunity. Between Lightning Lad, Lightning Lass and Sun Boy (and Mon-El and Ultra Boy, with their heat/flash vision), the Legion isn't hurting for peeps who can throw powerful energy blasts...
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quote:Originally posted by Set: We haven't had much in the way of Legionnaires who summon minions or companion creatures, so that would be a new area to explore. [/QB]
Jungle King, where art thou? Extend the power to insects, if he didn't have that already. This could also fulfill my long-standing interest to see Legionnaires with pets, if the character had a permanent companion creature.
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Someone using a similar mechanic to Raven and her 'soul-self' and having a summoner-type character could be neat. The red-skinned 'Tiger Girl' from the Legion tryouts where Tellus, Quislet, etc. joined the team could have a tiger-shaped 'soul-self' that jumps out of her and functions sort of like a light-construct from one of the Lanterns.
An Insect Queen character who can generate swarms of space-insect creatures our of herself could be cool as well (or a Durlan who can generate small creatures from their own biomass and control them remotely through a chemical or mental link).
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Life Lass's animations would kind of work like pets/summoned animals. It's not clear how long her powers last, but I always imagined visitors to Lallor suddenly running across a chair walking along the sidewalk that LL brought to life years before.
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Yes, I always felt that Life Lass had a lot of potential. I really liked Gas Girl, too. They'd be great additions to the Academy or the Legion.
I've read soul-self stories, besides Raven. In some they become just extensions but the more interesting ones have forms that become separate at some point. Diane Duane wrote one of a girl who contained a dragon. There was another story where the royal family that could become mythical creatures at about puberty. That was one of the best short stories that I've ever read, actually.
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