quote:Originally posted by Shadowplay in Candlelight: 'Prowl' is nice, but I don't know why 'Catspaw' isn't useable. That way, we might get a reappearance/rebooted version of her later.
Shady
Catspaw has appeared post-boot in LEGIONNAIRES #69 (Mar 99). She's on page 2 as one of the potential applicants for McCauley's Workforce. As well as "her counterpart" Lupine and Piston, a Tyrazzian whose power is in his armor. Obviously, they didn't make the cut, but she's out there somewhere.
I'm starting to like Tiger Girl a lot.
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quote:Originally posted by Nightcrawler: Catspaw has appeared post-boot in LEGIONNAIRES #69 (Mar 99). She's on page 2 as one of the potential applicants for McCauley's Workforce.
So she is! Thanks so much! I had completely missed that.
And McCauley didn't 'adopt' Lori, Amilia became her 'foster parent'. Maybe, she's not his rich inheritor.
As for red faced Tiger Girl ~ how about Kitara? That's similar to a 'ThunderCats' name but I don't know if the spelling is the same.
Did somebody already mention Tigress?
Cat Lass is good, too, in a LLASHy kind of way. Whiskaz! Shady
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I'm with MLLASH on this one. One thing that's missing from the current Legion....the "Lass" monikers. Cat Lass or Tiger Lass would be so much more "Legion Silver Age" than Cat Girl or Tiger Girl
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I like the occasional use of the antiquated "Lass" ... but you have to be careful about the sound of it. Shadow Lass worked ... Lightning Lass worked ...
On the other hand, Tigress isn't bad ... but hasn't it been used a few times before? It's pretty hard to come up with a superhero code name that hasn't been used before ... nearly impossible, I've tried.
quote:Originally posted by Steve Lightle: Catless? Cutless?
I like the occasional use of the antiquated "Lass" ... but you have to be careful about the sound of it. Shadow Lass worked ... Lightning Lass worked ...
On the other hand, Tigress isn't bad ... but hasn't it been used a few times before? It's pretty hard to come up with a superhero code name that hasn't been used before ... nearly impossible, I've tried.
Steve
Well Quislet and Tellus seem pretty unique. Not sure if Steve came up with them or Paul Levitz did.
I still like "Tellus" as the code name for a telepath.
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Nightcrawler is partly correct. Except, I never claimed that my involvement in the creation of those two characters was limited to their designs.
Paul and I worked very closely to develop the details of our Legion creations. Although the characters of Tellus and Quislet were both initially proposed by me, the final names we settled on came from Paul. I can't remember all the different possibilities we went through. I do seem to remember Paul referring to, the character that came to be known by the name Quislet, as Starworm. Now, you tell me, just how do you tell someone as talented as Mr. Levitz, that the name he came up with sucks? I really worried over this one ...'cuz my new Legionnaire just couldn't be stuck with the name Starworm ... oh, no! I had suggested the name Dybbuk, which to the best of my understanding, means "mischievous spirit" in Hebrew. Well, I guess the name I proposed carried too much religious baggage with it. Apparently, Dubbuk has some negative aspects to it that are not easily summed up by the word mischievous. Well, Karen and Paul vetoed my suggestion, and I vetoed Starworm ... When Paul countered with Quislet, I had my doubts. I didn't want him cursed with the fate of a "Quisling." But, frankly, after Starworm, I think I was relieved to hear the name Quislet.
As for Tellus ... I remember someone suggested the name Mind-Monster ... which I was dead set against. If we were showing the Legion's acceptance of non-humanoid team members, the last thing we needed was to refer to them as monsters or worms. I wanted something that sounded more alien. I wanted it to seem that their code names might have originated from their individual cultures.
Since I already determined, to a great extent, the reasoning behind their abilities and their cultures, I was happy to defer to Paul on their names ... just so we didn't end up calling them Starworm and Mind-Monster.
I think that Tellus and Quislet have held up pretty well through the years.
Steve Lightle
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