Who were the next Legion leaders? Brainy, who went crazy and then Superboy, who always had parts of his memory erased anyway! Jo might have been in on it...
Although I'm betting that Cos, Lyle and Imra may have tried *not* to let these secrets be known. What could they have been?!
Or maybe Lyle and Cos actually knew that Garth was Proty, and didn't want Imra to find out, 'cuz they knew she had the potential to go all crazy on the Legion, like the crazy post-boot Imra did (or even a Dark Phoenix type thing)! Thus, it was when Lyle, the master of espionage, found out that it was Proty, he went to Cos (the cornerstone of the Legion), and they decided to keep this a mega-secret!
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Something told him that this Garth/Proty amalgamation could threaten the entire universe. So they tried several avenues to prevent it. Imra married him to keep watch over him, but the strain of living the lie was too much for her, and she slipped into denial. Lyle, out of desperation, allowed himself to be killed in order to try to locate Garth's soul in the afterworld. But what's-her-name kept him, uh, "occupied". Can't blame him, myself.
That left it up to Rokk to, over the decades, manuever himself into a position where he could become the Time Trapper and reverse Garth's death. But the universe itself ended before he could accomplish this.
So it might have been Proty all along that was the master manipulator the Legion should have been worried about (and who the early leaders pitted themselves against).
Thus, by the time Lightning Lad had become leader, Imra had already married him and Lyle was dead--there was no way they could stop him from being elected (and their club would have surely not been admitting new members by then). The 'closeness' of the founders from then on, which we saw quite a bit of from Great Darkness to end of TMK, can be viewed in a whole new light!
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I hereby declare that the Secret Society of Super Legion Leaders theory be further reviewed and fine-toned.
I cannot help but feel that Proty I caused the post-boot and three-boot, and only the former leaders could do anything about it--and still fail.
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you're forgetting Lester Spiffany - or should I say - Leland McCauley IV? While posing as a wanton capitalist, he was actually manuevering the dominoes that would lead to public service - the ULTIMATE Nielsons for the youth market!
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If there was a secret Legion leaders salute, Brainy would have been in on it. He was leader just before Invisible Kid.
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Hmm... I never noticed until reviewing the last page that Ferro Lad had the hots for the White Witch!
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Jeepers! Methinks Geoff Johns must not be a fan of this story, having offed Evillo off-panel and apparently having Click Here For A Spoilerretconned Star Boy's rejoining to the first meeting of the three Legions!
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A little trivia about this story: Every single member of the extensive cast, including Subs, Pets, WW, etc. has a speaking role and is shown using his/her powers at least once, EXCEPT 2 who don't speak and 2 who don't use their powers. Can you name them?
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I could be wrong, but I think Karate Kid neither speaks nor uses his powers.
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