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It's time for some IN-YOUR-FACEEDGY origins for everyone's favorite team of gooballs!
Polar Boy Night Girl Fire Lad Chlorophyll Kid Stone Boy Color Kid Infectious Lass Porcupine Pete
(Comet Queen, Karate Kid 2, Visi-Lad, Duo Damsel, Bouncing Boy, Star Boy and Dream Girl were Subs briefly too if you wanna go there!)
Here's my origin for ULTIMATE NIGHT GIRL...
Eccentric Professor Jath became the talk of Kathoon (known galaxy-wide as 'The Dark Planet') when his daughter Lydda was brutally murdered by a gang of brutal murderers.
He discovered a way to re-animate his daughter, but many of her body parts had been crushed by the gang.
So he "borrowed" parts as needed from other recently-deceased young ladies, sewing them onto Lydda.
When his daughter was once again whole, he placed her lifeless form beneath his wacky-looking machine and turned it on.
Lydda lived again!!!! And even better, had gained super-zombie strength for her trouble!!!
Lydda, being a fun-loving zombie sort, decided to help protect others from brutal murderers by applying for LEGION membership!
She arrived at LEGION WORLD, eager and excited, yet tragedy quickly struck!
Since all on Kathoon see well in pitch darkness, there was never a need for light of any type.
Once she disembarked at Legion World, Lydda quickly discovered that bright lights or sunlight neutralize the force that reanimates her body, making her collapse into a lifeless corpse until she is covered in darkness again!
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This sounds like fun! I love the new Lydda! Poor Cosmic Boy, though. I can just imagine their honeymoon! Here's mine for Ultimate Porcupine Pete.
Peter Dursin was just a lowly assistant for the knie-thrower in the Space Circus. He used to be animal handler, until he was bitten by a radioactive porcupine from planet Porcupenis. One day, the insane ringmaster whose name I can't remember decided to make more money by letting the audience try their hand at knife-throwing. Unfortunately, most of them were (naturally) pretty bad at it, and poor Pete got himself stuck with a lot of knives. Luckily for him, the radioactive porcupine had given him the ability to stick stuff in him without injuring him, and to not only repel but attract them at will, as long as they were sharp and pointy. Using his newfound powers, he stuck himself with an assortment of objects including a pitchfork, a long sword, an axhead and a whole buncha knives and toothpicks, just in case something got stuck in his teeth. Unfortunately, when he tried out for the Legion he nearly decapitated everyone and almost permanently deflated Bouncing Boy, so he joined the Subs instead. Taking his codename from the animal that gave him his powers, he now fights crime as Porcupine Pete!
The Planet Zwen is known as the Stoners Planet. Any and all drugs are legal there. Dag Wentim had found the right combination of drugs that would allow him to harden his body into a stone-like substance. Unfortunately, he is unable to move in this form and remains that way until the drugs work their way through his system. Also this combination of drugs only work for Dag. Seven of his friends died from taking this combo of drugs.
He was rejected by the Legion because some of the drugs he takes to activate his super power are illegal on most of the UP Planets. It is unclear if his code name is Stone Boy or Stoner Boy.
-------------------- Five billion years from now the Sun will go nova and obliterate the Earth. Don't sweat the small stuff!
From: Boston | Registered: Aug 2003
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On a world completely inhabitated by plants, a group of space adventurers crash land, and try to investigate where they are. What follows is the subsequent brutal murder of each humaniod individual as grotesque plant-like creatures destroy any living organism that is not part of the green. Unfortunately, one human woman survives the experience, only after she is assaulted by a plant being who leaves his 'seed' in her. Nine months later she gives birth to a baby boy, who is part-boy, part-plant.
The boy loves his mother, and when he is 17, she tells him of what happened. Lying to her that he is alright, he escapes in the night and ventures back to the plant world. Learning how to manipulate his powers, he destroys all the plant organisms on the world and decimates it completely!
Now consumed by grief over the murders he committed and the horror of what he is, Chlorophyll Kid realizes that he needs a new path in life, something noble and good, and decides to help people with the Substitute heroes! But part of him hates all humaniod creatures, and part of him hates all plant life. He is torn between the two sides, and this torment will one day bring forth his destruction...
From: If you don't want my peaches, honey... | Registered: Sep 2003
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Ulu Vakk was taken as a child into the slave trade following a Khundish invasion of his home planet, Lupra. Sold to a cosmetics company, he was used to test for harmful effects of the various products produced each year.
The company's line intended for 2990, "All-Season All-Colours" produced a devestating effect; unknown to the chemists, the test batch had been contaminated by a militant purist group who objected to the use of makeup. Young Ulu's skin absorbed the unknown contaminants, which, in addition to the militants' intended effect of turning his face into a multitude of colours, also gave him the ability to change the colour of anything - inanimate objects, living beings, even the atmosphere.
Of no further use to the cosmetics lab, he was sold to Prince Evillo as a curiosity. Ulu quickly became a favourite of Evillo and his many wives, who enjoyed both his colour-changing powers and his young body.
Sick and tired of a life of abuse, he stunned the guards with a dazzling display of bright neon, stole a short-range space cruiser and escaped Evillo's court. Just outside of Tartarus' legal limits, Ulu encountered a Sklarian Raider ship. He appealed to them for help and was brought aboard.
The Sklarians, being limited in their imagination, saw no use for Ulu's powers, and put him to work in the galley, with occasional employment as a dancing boy for their debauched and drunken evening entertainments.
One day, the Sklarians were themselves raided - by the Legion Espionage Squad. Ulu found himself strangely attracted to both Invisible Kid and Shrinking Violet, and begged to be taken away with them as their personal slave.
Horrified by the prospect of "owning" a sentient being, and unsure how they would share his services if they did, Lyle and Salu suggested that Ulu join the Legion Academy as a free man. He was cleared of all wrong-doing from his association with the Sklarians, joined the Academy as "Colour Kid" but never did make the cut for Legion membership. We leave him an embittered young man.
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Staq Mavlen got a rough deal in life. He was born a pale, sickly child, 8th among 12 children in the poorest part of Rimbor. His father was a gang member, and got killed when Staq was five. His mother lasted two more years, but died of tuberculosis. None of the remaining Mavlens was much inclined in taking care of each other, so Staq ended up working day and night in a spice factory in Rimbor City (spices there are produced chemically), being paid a pittance, constantly harassed by his peers and occasionally stealing food to survive.
He had had enough. One night, in a fit of depression, he poured petrol on himself, and lit a match. He became a fire ball, but did not die. In fact, he was not even hurt, apparently his sickly body was somehow in tune with the flames. Whether this had something to do with the chemicals in the spices he could not tell. The exhilaration of being able to control the flames combined with his resentment against Rimbor and everything Rimborian, and he thus proceeded to set every building in sight ablaze. He was stopped, eventually, by a large contingent of Science Police, and sent in chains to Takron Galtos. His psychiatris there, a Dr. Hanscomb, decided it would be best for Staq if he was put in an environment with people more or less like him, and so he became a reluctant member of the Legion of Substitute Heroes. Whether this was a good idea remains to be seen.
From: Vancouver, BC, Canada | Registered: Jul 2003
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Brekk Bannin came from the wrong side of the grav-tube tracks. He never knew his father; his mother was a street prostitute who was known as The Ice Queen, for the cold and indifferent treatment she showed her customers.
Young Brekk was left to grow up on his own, mercilessly taunted by other children (who called him Polar Boy after his mother's street name). He yearned to live a better life.
One afternoon, he returned home from his job at the seedy holo-vid rental to find his mother lying in a pool of blook and ice cubes, spilled from her drink. A one-armed man stood above her, clutching a strange-looking ray gun. He levelled the gun at Brek and began to back out of the room but slipped on some ice cubes. The gun went off and hit the refrigeration unit, which exploded in a burst of gases as the one-armed man ran from the room. Brek passed out from the fumes, not realizing that they would alter him forever.
He came to at the local Science Police detachment to find himself accused of matricide. In vain did he try to explain about the one-armed man.
Sitting in his holding cell, he became aware of a strange, cold feeling. As he concentrated, he realized he could now manipulate cold temperatures, from a mild chill to absolute zero. Using his newly acquired powers, he broke out of his cell and became fugitive, determined to clear his name and avenge his mother's death.
Using his once-detested nickname, Polar Boy, he vowed to use his powers for good. However, he was still on the SP's Most Wanted list and it was only a matter of time before he would be tracked down by the Legion.
From: Café Cramer | Registered: Jul 2003
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What comes out when alien weirdos from another planet catch a common flu virus while visiting earth and sneeze through the nose-like thingie located near where their butt should be?
The scientists of earth didn't quite know what to make of the mucousy blob that seemed to contain a humanoid embryo.
The alien denied it was pregnant, and a thorough (and humiliating) probe of the alien indeed prooved it to be asexual.
Yet the embryo spawned from the alien's nose-thingie continued to grow inside the mucousy mass.
It sprouted humanoid fingers and toes and eventually antennae on its forehead.
Several months later, a healthy baby female humanoid was all that was left. The mucous had disolved, having apparently fulfilled its mission.
The child was named DRURA after Dr. U. Ra, the scientist who had spent months studying the embryo's growth.
She was raised in the lab, studied every single day.
Dr. Ra was the first of the scientists to contract an alien disease and die. A few more followed before it was learned that Drura's body was capable of producing and emitting nearly any known disease in the universe.
She wasn't malevolent, it was just something she did, just like breathing.
Drura could not be euthanized, as her existence was known to the public (the first METROPOLIS STAR headline featuring her had read "ALIEN FREAK GIVES BIRTH OUT OF BUTT!" and there had been many more, none much better).
SO she was turned over to the LEGION and became a project for Brainiac 5, Mon-El and Invisible Kid.
They were eventually able to teach her to control her powers and when she was old enough, she tried out for the Legion.
She elected to join the Subs instead when at her tryout she accidentally hit Star Boy with too strong a dose of her abilities, giving him the green-apple splatters for a solid week.
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Thanks, Miss T! "Ultimate" Lydda would have every reason to become a bitter menace... I kinda like the notion that she's a fun-loving good girl instead! She's the life of the party... as long as the lights are out!
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Here's mine for Ultimate Porcupine Pete.
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I LOVE your sexy zombie spin on Night Girl, Lashkins!!! All of these SUB ideas rock! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
