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Chuck made sure Tenzil and Cos promised to never speak about that trip!
From: If you don't want my peaches, honey... | Registered: Sep 2003
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If memory serves, Burrane found a star ring during an escape from prison on Mars. With the ring worn on his finger, the name "Starfinger" was an obvious choice. Now, your average citizen might say "Shucks, too bad the Starfinger name is already taken. I'll have to go with Ring Guy..." but Char was a nasty SOB and choose to kill the original owner, lay claim to all the rights to the Starfinger name, steal his internet address, etc. Was it right to do? No, but there's bad guys for you. It makes perfect sense to me.
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From: Frederick, MD | Registered: Aug 2003
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I don't know. He could just have easily named himself "Starro the Conqueror!" I mean... that guy's probably already dead, and was really a much bigger villain in his day.
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Well, here's the thing. It's like the old west, when some young whippersnapper would come along and try to take down the fastest draw, the best shot...etc...
Taking down a known name gave them a certain amount of respect. So, if you are the new starfinger, and people know you got rid of the old one, you are automatically tougher. True or not, that is how a lot of people see things.
This would give you a base you might not have had to begin to grow your own rep, even using the old name.
Or, they could just be nuts.
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Yeah, but then my point is that Starfinger wasn't exactly a big time villain... I mean, his most successful scheme required hypnotising Lightning Lad to do his bidding...
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Maybe we're overlooking something. Maybe the total lameness of the name Starfinger is sort of a stab at reverse psychology. Anyone who is crazy enough to try to be a big time crime lord with the dopey name Starfinger must really have something up his sleeve.
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So, after thinking about this subject more, what would've made the whole fight over the Starfinger name story worthwhile would have been if Lars Hanscom came back from the dead and eliminated the pretender. After all, the guy *was* obsessed with achieving immortality. If any Legion villain could've come back, it would've been him.
Maybe Garth could've had some sort of post-hypnotic suggestion to revive him if anything ever happened to him?
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Well, I think Starfinger (both versions) was a cool character. As ruthless gang leaders, they were both able to give the Legion a handful of trouble in each of their original appearances.
I discount the S&LOSH #200 story because Starfinger really didn't have his gang with him, under the minimalist writing style of Cary Bates. A more appropriate villian in that story would have been Nemesis Kid - an alchemist looking for a way to overcome his weakness of defeat by numerous opponents by creating multiple versions of himself would have made more sense!
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From: Frederick, MD | Registered: Aug 2003
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Actually--Levitz had Burrane starting his criminal career when Gim first joined the Legion--that's at least a few years before Hanscomb kidnapped Garth. Perhaps Burrane had the name first and merely was punishing a pretender...
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quote:Waid commented his first time writing Legion did not go so well because they were too beholden to the old stories. One post-reboot thing he particularly disliked was that they used a silly villain with a retarded name (Starfinger) just because they felt like they had to because the old Legion fought him around then.
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For the record, Starfinger II was totally redeemed by his animated appearance!
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