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Oh. Thanks. I was wondering. If they do indeed start a Legion comic after Lo3W, I wish we'd see more insight on BB and Echo. It's funny though. With Echo's mask looking like Ferro Lad's somewhat, you'd have thought the reboot writers were making a reference to him and BB with Ferro and Inferno's "relationship". But that's just me.
And I have another question. I've heard that FYL, the Dominators got hold of Wildfire's brother, Squire. It looked like they made him into their Wildfire, yet a Legion FAQ I read said his powers were "object animation". What's up with that?
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Object Animation was Quislet's power. For a while, Quislet was tutoring Wildfire on the advantages of being an energy-being, so maybe for that time, Wildfire was able to do that as well, but certainly he didn't maintain that ability long-term.
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Squire Burroughs was never adequately explained. Maybe it was one of those things the Bierbaums planned to but couldn't.
We can only presume the Dominators played some role. At that time, DC was big on making anyone who had meta-powers to have a gene that facilitates accessing powers; if you and I were both bitten by a radioactive Hyena, and you had the gene but I didn't, you might get powers but I'd get to die. That gene was the reason for the Dominators' attempted 20th C Invasion (see the big x-over of the same name circa 1990), and we saw in TMK Annual 2 the Dominators continuing to try to exploit that.
So if we assume that Drake had the gene, which is why he was transformed into Erg-1 rather than just being incinerated, then his bro could have ehad the gene too - and it would just be a matter of duplicating the experiment.
The whole premise relies on very cartoony ideas about genettics in the first place.. but it was an attempt to offer *some* explanation where there had been none (regarding why things that would kill you or I gave other people powers).
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I believe in one of the isses for the Great Darkness Saga he used it to trap one of the Servants of Darkness, which caused the energy blast it fired to bounce back in at it.
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Back to Squire...uh...how could he have been Wildfire's brother? I know I'll accept it as fact but there's just that line in one of the Secrets of the Legion (3?) that Wildfire says he's an orphan, and he doesn't know who his real parents are.
I guess the simpliest way to say the dominators found his real parents. Or that his adoptive brother (never did say either way if he was an only child) since he had the name burroughs also had the meta gene.
As for Grimbor I believe his chains and traps were made specific to counter against the powers of the legionnaires.
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