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Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
 
1. Gear actually suffers from horrible techno-organic space acne, which, if not treated by 31st century medicine, will become a computer virus that will convert entire universes into worlds modelled after Tron!
 
Posted by Tamper Lad on :
 
2. Apparition is revealed to have been dumped by Jo because her love of french fries has caused her to contract a intractable (even by 31st century medecine) case of cellulite.

When confronted by her younger self she goes nutty and forces her to swear to only eat phytoplankton shakes for life.
 
Posted by Tamper Lad on :
 
3. Monstress is alive again, no explanation.

4. Sneckie was human all along, all that snake stuff was just an illusion.
 
Posted by Cobalt Kid on :
 
5. Fire Lad and Stone Boy are actually descendents of Gunner & Sarge, of DC's war hero fame. Odd sequences are there to make fans think its the two of them reincarnated and matters are only worsened when they gain cyborg telepathic dog, Pooch.
 
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
 
6. Chameleon suddenly has no gender - much to Ayla's surprise.
 
Posted by Tamper Lad on :
 
7. Brainy actually died in the anomaly. The Brainy 5.1 upgrade was actually a Brainiac robot built by Andromeda for when she gets lonely in the convent. It somehow gained self awareness.
 
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
 
8. Cosmic Boy casually mentions that the team exists not only to promote co-operation among various worlds, but also to provide an impetus for change in a stagnant society, despite the fact that this motivation was never shown to be a part of the postboot Legion before.
 
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
 
9. All Legionnaires visiting the commissary turn and shout to the chef, "Eat it, Tenzil!"
 
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
 
10. Wildfire reveals that he is the 31st century version of the Firestorm matrix.
 
Posted by Cobalt Kid on :
 
11. Sensor revealed to actually be the reboot match for Whizzy the Super Cat
 
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
 
12. Kinetix is revealed to have eight spleens.
 
Posted by Tamper Lad on :
 
13. Lori Morning is aged into an attractive blonde that all the male legionnaires go ga-ga over.

By the end of the series she is pregnant with one of the Legionnaire's child. Before we find out who's child it is she is wiped from existence.
 
Posted by kidflash2fan on :
 
14. timber wolf finally come to terms with his animal side, only to bee killed by the now robot version of the penguin
 
Posted by Tamper Lad on :
 
15. Dreamer is shown to have a severe peanut allergy.
 
Posted by Cobalt Kid on :
 
16) Brainiac 5's various ancestors in various 'boots shown being cursed by Anthro, the first boy to fall in love with his [blond] descendents.
 
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
 
17) Live Wire and Lightning Lad are revealed to have "switched Earths" during the first Legion of Three Worlds crossover. Which means that Proty-Garth later became Jarth, and reboot Garth was only pretending to be Proty disguised as Garth!
 
Posted by Cobalt Kid on :
 
[LOL] best one yet!

18) RJ Brande is in fact Chameleon Boy's father...not to mention the Martian Manhunter, the Durlan from L.E.G.I.O.N. and the Phantom Stranger, all existing simultaineously on all Earths at the same time! And Yera is his daughter! And even cornier...because the universe is so old and he's immortal, he's technically "young" in comparison, so he's in a way a teen, and therefore formally inducted into the Legion.
 
Posted by Jerry on :
 
Sister Andromeda is kicked out of the order for trading her habit in for thong and and a jacket with an 'L" on sleeve.
 
Posted by Fat Cramer on :
 
20. Koko says something besides "Koko".
 
Posted by Set on :
 
21. Star Boy meets Star Boy and Starman, and they are sucked into each other to become a living black hole, the 'elemental' of spacetime. Superboy punches him and the next reboot begins.

22. The Persuader notes that being 'kinda tough' isn't an adequate defense against his Atomic Axe and cuts Kent Shakespeare in half, despite Kent being previously immune to the Axe.

23. Ayla is verified to be a virgin. She just likes snuggling.
 
Posted by Language Arts Lad on :
 
24) Tellus turns out to be left-handed... left -flippered... err, lactose intolerant.
 
Posted by Tamper Lad on :
 
25) Triad's third body is evil and has been taking a lot of meds. She stopped and went AWOL.

26) Cham is not male or genderless, he's just the third gender. Spark is confused.
 
Posted by insanelad on :
 
27) Batch SW6 return and claim to be the 'real' Legion.
SW6 Imra, Reboot Imra, and 3Boot Imra have to mud wrestle to establish who is *actually* the real Legion, while 5YG Imra has to sit down as her ankles are swollen.

28) None of the Imras win as they're clearly way too into the whole thing and 5YG Imra calls a tie.
ALL the Dirks have to go and have a very long, cold shower.
 
Posted by Cobalt Kid on :
 
29) Ferro Lad, brought forward in time before his death, teams up with Ferro. During course of the story, Ferro Lad pulls off his mask to reveal he's...Pete Ross!!!
 
Posted by kidflash2fan on :
 
30)cosmic boy is found out to have a strange yet, not uncommon in 31st century reaction to any clothing die that is not a shade of pink
 
Posted by Set on :
 
31) Brainiac 5 is revealed to be a Skrull! Oh, wrong company, I mean a Manhunter robot! Wait, that's last week. A Sinestro Corps infiltrator, whose been using his ring all this time to make yellow force fields (and the occasional yellow robot named Computo or yellow monster named Omega), and pretending to be a Coluan!
 
Posted by icefire on :
 
32)Night Girl is revealed to actually be Donna Troy.
 
Posted by Tamper Lad on :
 
33) Gates quit the Communist Party and is now a Republican. He supports the war on Khundia because the President of the UP told everyone that the Khunds were developing Giant Cans of Raid.
 
Posted by Future on :
 
34. Because dead doesn't mean dead, the deceased, orange Monstress is revealed to have been a Durlan imposter. Green Monstress got lost in the clothing store we last saw her at nine years ago and has just now found her way out.

35. Fearing Garth was devalued not by the 'Jarth' incident but by restoring his arm, DC editorial mandate mechanical right arms for everyone. Gates receives a clamp.
 
Posted by Fat Cramer on :
 
36. Andromeda turns out all along to have been a robot invented by Brainy.
 
Posted by DrakeB3004 on :
 
37. Turns out WILDFIRE is inhabiting Red Tornado's body or some such dumb bulldookie (oh wait, that's been done...)
 
Posted by Tamper Lad on :
 
38. Kinetix is no longer flaky.
 
Posted by icefire on :
 
39.) Laurel Kent is revealed to be an Amazon....or Donna Troy.
 
Posted by Set on :
 
40) Cosmic Boy goes back to wearing a bubble over his head.

41) Element Lad turns out to have always been a quasi-amaebic non-humanoid with tentacles, someone able to 'transmute' himself into a humanoid form.
 
Posted by insanelad on :
 
42) Phantom Girl's third body turns out to be Donna Troy
 
Posted by Kid Quislet on :
 
43) Sun-Eater is down sized into a Nebulae Nibbler. Ferro Lad bravely destroys the monster with a grenade and receives a minor tarnish mark.

44) Colossal Boy is finally tired of getting beat up in "fight simulations" with Ultra Boy and Karate Kid and crushes both of them under his heel

45) R.J. Brande is revealed to be Donna Troy
 
Posted by DrakeB3004 on :
 
46) Dawnstar never had wings, but flew by means of an organic propeller that grew from the top of her head.

47) Blok is really made of cheese.
 
Posted by Mystery Lad on :
 
48) Donna Troy/Kent/Brande is revealed to be Donnie Troy, Infectious Lass's first experimental 'subject' as she learned how to infect with the dear old Gender Reversal disease.

49) The Element Lad from 41) is revealed to be the cherished pet of the real Jan Arrah. 41) took Jan's place right before the battle with Mordru and was transformed into glass/crystal by causing Jan to lapse into suspended animation. All the abstracted comments after that were the semi-sentient pet trying to act human. Poor 41) couldn't remember where it'd left Jan's living-but-suspended-in-time body.

50) The 'real' Jan awoke from 41)'s coma during LEGION LOST on Trom. It took him years to make his way back to the LSH in time for the THREE WORLDS crossover.
 
Posted by insanelad on :
 
50) Dawnstar was never in the 5YG story lines - Bounty was really Donna Troy
 
Posted by Set on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Mystery Lad:
49) The Element Lad from 41) is revealed to be the cherished pet of the real Jan Arrah. 41) took Jan's place right before the battle with Mordru and was transformed into glass/crystal by causing Jan to lapse into suspended animation. All the abstracted comments after that were the semi-sentient pet trying to act human. Poor 41) couldn't remember where it'd left Jan's living-but-suspended-in-time body.

Awesome! I've already been retconned! It's so avant-garde!

I feel that I've finally arrived as a writer.
 
Posted by Tamper Lad on :
 
52) Triad and Apparition have the same father.
 
Posted by Silver Age Lad on :
 
53. To celebrate Night Girl's membership, Superman and Ultra Boy change their names to Yellow-Sun Man and One-at-a-time Boy
 
Posted by Silver Age Lad on :
 
54. Douglas Nolan wakes up and we find that EVERYTHING since LSH #300 was all his dream
 
Posted by Acid Digestion Lad on :
 
55) just as superboy prim epunches himself back into continuity, 5YG Mon-el punches him out as SW6 Mon is onto becoming 5yg Mon. Suddenly something happens and Mon is now andy, brainy is on space crack and tenzil is the first ever bismollian to have an eating disorder.

56) Triad, Duo Damsel and Triplicate girl all merge into Lu Lu. Who then somehow marries Kal -El there by retcon punching Supes marriage to Lois. Oh and some how trapper is involved. because Geoff Johns said so.
 
Posted by insanelad on :
 
57) Everything turns out to be fine as Una hasn't been eaten by rabid rat-men - it was just Donna Troy
 
Posted by Kid Quislet on :
 
58) Brainy has a brain fart, but since the Science Police has been cracking down on teen profane language, words such as "dirj", "florg", "nass" and "fart" are no longer legal. The United Planets decide to call the brain fart "Computo".

59) Acting rather insane after his "Computo", Brainy adopts a wand into his personal arsenal and changes his code name to "Fairy Princess".

60) Princess Projectra, upset over infringement on her trademark Legion "princess" name, sues the formerly named Brainiac-5 for damages. Somehow, Tenzil Kem serves as counsel for both plaintiff and defendant, and Policy Pam becomes a Legion member to offset legal costs.
 
Posted by Cobalt Kid on :
 
61) Marla Latham revealed to be the Phantom Stranger
 
Posted by Set on :
 
62) Prime punches Mon-El, Valor and Andromeda so hard that when the smoke clears, there's only one of them left. Mon-El, with a sassy new attitude and Andromeda's costume. And a feather boa. No one is sure where that came from.
 
Posted by Cobalt Kid on :
 
63) Mon-El's feathered boa is actually Chameleon Boy, in disguise!
 
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
 
64) Brainiac Five caused the Great Disaster when his lab blew up.
 
Posted by Tamper Lad on :
 
64) The real reason Andromeda became a nun is because she saw Brainy in the buff, leading to her irrational fear of pickles, of which there are none at the convent.
 
Posted by icefire on :
 
65) Donna Troy revealed to be well Donna Troy the whole Legion is then rebooted with the 3 original members being. Donna Troy, Barry Allen and The Martian Manhunter.
 
Posted by Eryk Dumaka Ester on :
 
66) Flyntt Brojj revealed to like the X-Men more than the Legion.
 
Posted by Eryk Dumaka Ester on :
 
67) Beppo the Supermonkey is now Beppo the Superbonobo!
 
Posted by Cobalt Kid on :
 
68) Flyntt Brojj, Beppo, Marla Latham/Phantom Stranger and Brainy revealed to be secretly behind a long lasting conspiracy responsible for original Crisis on Infinite Earths.
 
Posted by Eryk Dumaka Ester on :
 
69) Myron Marks, Koko, Ambassador Relnic (who turns out to really be Van-Zee of Kandor), and Evolvo Lad revealed to be secretly behind a rival long lasting conspiracy responsible for Zero Hour.

70) Pocket Universe Superboy is revealed to have been Superboy-Prime all along!
 
Posted by Cobalt Kid on :
 
I wouldn't be shocked if that was revealed in Lo3W, Eryk [LOL]

71) Long lost Legionnaires Anti-Lad, Dynamo Boy (matured & now good) and Cobalt Kid revealed to be prisoners of the Time Trapper who have secretly aided DCU heroes throughout its 70+ years of publishing!
 
Posted by Acid Digestion Lad on :
 
72) Emo boy prime punches reality so hard it bounces back to ero hour. However 5YG Mon punches it at the same time erasing everything we know leaving only the Trapper and the Infinate Man to hang out and drink tea.

73) Dev-Em appears in the 3boot only to realize that he'd been gone far too long for anyone to care, hops in a time buble gets sucked into the zone and beomes that freaky dev-em in geoff's superman run. ...BUT Then he wakes up to find out he's had waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much silverale.
 
Posted by Set on :
 
74) Jed Rikane reveals that he dyed his hair red and his skin lavender/gray because he didn't want anyone to recognize that he was *that* Power Boy, aka 'Obsessive Stalker Lad.'

Also, he's the great-great-great-great grandkid of Kara Zor-El and Pete Olsen. Which makes his stalking incestuous as well as creepy and wrong.

75) Monstress is revealed to have been the love-child of Brainy and the monkey. She died her skin orange to try and hide this fact.

[ April 09, 2008, 10:14 AM: Message edited by: Set ]
 
Posted by Cobalt Kid on :
 
76) Power Boy and Montress revealed to have had a love-child of another Earth--Kamandi.
 
Posted by Eryk Dumaka Ester on :
 
77) Celeste McCauley-- Now a Red Lantern!
 
Posted by Cobalt Kid on :
 
78) Devlin O'Ryan mistakenly beileved to be descendent of Jimmy Olsen--revealed to be descendent of Lex Luthor, with Luthor's brain replacing his a la the Ultra-Humanite. Retains powers and battles the Legion.
 
Posted by Tamper Lad on :
 
79) Because there was only one Mon-El and M'onel-Valor cannot exist in current continuity it is decided that the Lar that the Reboot Legion knows was in fact "Pocket Universe Valor". When this manipulation is discovered and undone threatening to destroy continuity. Laurel volunteers to go back in time and take Monel's place in the time stream.

When Laurel goes back in time she takes Lar's place in L.E.G.I.O.N. continuity but she falls in love with Vril Dox and it is revealed that Reboot Brainy is a result in the coupling of Laurel and Vril.

Later Laurel goes back to the future she gives Brainy the cold-shoulder knowing that sh is secretly his great-great grandmother.
 
Posted by Kid Quislet on :
 
77) Darkseid and Starro revealed to have had a love child - Donna Troy. This affects the Legion because: this event convinces Darkseid to switch from having love children to creating cloned servants of darkness instead.
 
Posted by Kid Quislet on :
 
78) New 31st century cuss word "Morgna" introduced.
Sun Boy's name changed to "Dirk Avocado"
 
Posted by Invisible Brainiac on :
 
79) Any change to Kinetix that doesn't involve restoring her to how she was before she was terrorformed!
 
Posted by Invisible Brainiac on :
 
80) Gates goes into pupa stage and emerges as a beautiful butterfly.
 
Posted by Set on :
 
81) Gates goes into a coccoon and emerges as Shikari!

82) Dream Girl revealed to have been taking pro-fem the whole time, when she transitions back to her birth gender and name, as Rol Purtha!

83) The Titania of the League of Super-Assassins turns out to also be the Titania of the Masters of Evil.
 
Posted by Invisible Brainiac on :
 
84) Ultra Boy revealed to have been taking steroids the whole time. Is in reality a 90-pound skinny dude.

85) Dream Girl was adopted. Her mom couldn't handle having a non-precog daughter.

86) Shikari is really Gates' mom!
 
Posted by Set on :
 
87) Blok is still working for the League of Super-Assassins, he's been a mole the whole time! He's also a chain-smoker, wears too much makeup and is sleeping with Deathstroke.
 
Posted by Invisible Brainiac on :
 
[LOL]

88) RJ Brande has been in love with Saturn Girl the whole time. He paid off Zaryan to kill Lightning Lad .
 
Posted by KryptonKid on :
 
89)Night Girl is revealed to actually be Dark Angel.
 
Posted by Invisible Brainiac on :
 
90) Lightning Lass/Spark isn't Lightning Lad/Live Wire's turn. She's his and Saturn Girl's daughter.
 
Posted by Set on :
 
91) Validus is just one of a race of similar beings, with names like Tribulus, Ridonkulus and the ever-so-fashionable Fabulus.
 
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
 
92) as late 80s trends come back into style, Garth and Ayla are suddenly Lightning Elementals, Quislet is revealed to be a Lord of Chaos, and Brin keeps repeating the word 'Advantageous' for no apparent reason.
 
Posted by Set on :
 
93) The Brainiac source code still exists within the minds of all Coluans (and is the source of their advanced intellects, which they will never admit), with those 'freaks' who jump up to 12th level intelligence having the most 'source code' within them. Brainiac 5 isn't just 'occasionally erratic,' he's a bomb waiting to go off...
 
Posted by Invisible Brainiac on :
 
94) Rj Brande formed a prior version of the Legion of Superheroes before he was saved by Cosmic Boy, Live Wire and Saturn Girl. His team was composed of Hate-Face, Leeta 87, G'dath of the Silvans, the Unknown Explorer, Koko's 30th century descendant, his Bismollian lover, Apparition's third body and a G'ildan named Bob.

The team was tragically killed destroying a sun-eater. RJ was so distraught he used his telepathic abilities to erase their existence from everyone's minds, including his own.
 
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
 
95) Pocket Universe Superboy-- now gay.
 
Posted by Invisible Brainiac on :
 
96) Dream Girl and Projectra are now sisters. Hey, white hair IS kind of rare...
 
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
 
96a) Though, oddly enough, they now both have yellow hair.
 
Posted by Invisible Brainiac on :
 
96b) And matching birthmarks that we've never seen before.
 
Posted by Set on :
 
97) The Time Trapper has actually had 18 different identities, and they all post here!
 
Posted by Invisible Brainiac on :
 
98) The Time Trapper's robes weren't purple. They were lavender, silly.
 


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