There have been multiple versions of the legion over the years. So i thought it might be fun to take the familiar and turn it on its ear.

whether its different power sets, origins, gender, ect. how can you change the Legion?

I'll start.

Monstress- she's still the sweetest and nicest person anyone's ever met. but her powers are being able to conjure monsters from other dimensions. when conjured they lose all sentience and she has completely control over them. but if she loses focus, she loses her control over them as well. if she's knocked out they can return to their dimension(s). able to conjure two to three at a time.

origin: she was exposed to threshold technology, when it was in its infancy and untested. the energy out put from it caused her to form a special relationship with dimensional doorways. at first she could just see them and then she learned she could open then enough to conjure the monsters.

Legion: she joined the Legion after the lost Legionnaires returned from the second galaxy.

Planet:Xanthu.

Thunder- she's still a member of the the Shazam family. but instead of being from the 90th century, she was born in the 30th century.

she was accepted into the legion as a legacy member. her powers qualified her more than enough. but with her powers being a duplicate it made it harder for her to gain entrance till, the legacy status was written in.

she met the legion during the battle with Mordru. He was about to absorb Binderaan and her for that matter because of her magical properties. He almost succeed till the Legion intervened. Weakened by his attack, the magic of Shazam was almost extinguished. but to help protect it, she used her connection to the Rock of Eternity to have it blow up and scatter its magic to the far ends of the universe. now she's on a quest to restore the rock.

Catspaw: The Dominators' experimentation of April did not turn her into a feral cat, but instead unlocked her mutant power. Much like Karma from the New Mutants, Catspaw is able to take complete control of another being's body and they become her catspaw.

nice!

good play!

maybe she could even be called Catspawn???

Duo Damsel: Duo Damsel is able to double any attribute of herself or another, from size to speed to intelligence.

The new Monstress and Catspaw are awesome character concepts!

It always kind of bugged me that Catspaw would take that name originally as a Legionnaire considering that's kind of exactly what she was intended to be; this way removes the uncomfortable connotations.....then again, Danielle Foccart named herself after the psychotic robot that nearly killed her and a bunch of Legionnaires, so go figure...

How about a new Chameleon Girl?

Unlike the Legion's Chameleon Boy, Chameleon Girl isn't Durlan and she can't change her shape. She is one of the Guriini, an evolutionary offshoot of the Gordanian race. The Guriini are relative newcomers to the interstellar stage, having spent most of their existence living peaceful lives of isolation and hiding from the more aggressive Gordanians' attempts to enslave or kill them.

Like the Gordanians, the Guriini are reptillian. The Guriini are bred more for stealth than war however. They are generally slightly shorter and more slender than humans. They are amazingly agile, with prehensile tails and the ability to cling to almost any surface. Like an Earth chameleon, their eyes are bulbous and able to focus independently, giving them 360 degree vision. While they can't change their shape, they can change color...this is an autonomous response triggered by strong emotional states rather than anything they can usually control consciously though. When frightened, they will blend into their surroundings; when enraged, they will take on violent red and orange shades to appear more intimidating; when despondent, they will wear more muted colors, and so on...

The Guriini in general are more than happy living on their own arboreal world with very limited contact with the rest of the galaxy, though a few of the more adventurous among them have journeyed out into the UP. Chameleon Girl is one of these adventurous souls. Just like Chameleon Boy she took her name in reference to her similarity to an Earth chameleon, though ironically she had never even heard of Chameleon Boy until she arrived at Legion Headquarters for her tryout...

i really like this concept! its sometimes hard to believe that the Legion has never had someone who can amplify powers.

Raz as always you blow me away and i think you just found a new cadet or maybe even a actual member???

Awesome job!

this really is a whole new character!

Next up...
Dream Girl - is a dream walker. she can enter peoples dreams and learn information from them and retain the information. but she can not interact with their dreams. she must also be asleep herself to do it.

She never got to join the Legion due to her always having to be asleep in order to enter peoples dreams. she joined the Subs instead and has become a valued and steady member. She has learned hand to hand combat and the use of various weapons. But she prefers to stay and coordinate from the Subs headquarters as their top tactical officer.

her relationship with Starboy still flourished as he could not resist her beauty and charm.

Dawnstar - still a winged Anasazi from a colony named Starhaven, Dawnstar's mutant body generates generate light in great quantities, and she also possesses limited empathic powers, allowing her to sense emotion, and, to a lesser extent, influence the emotional states of others, heightening or dampening their own current feelings.

Typically, she blinds an evildoer with a dazzling burst of golden light, and then concentrates on amplifying their sense of confusion and uncertainty, as they stagger around sightless, sometimes inciting full-blown panic attacks!

While her wings are capable of bearing her aloft, she finds Earth's gravity cumbersome, and is quite thankful for the assist of her Flight Ring!

An intensely spiritual person, Dawnstar has not yet fully come to grips with the fast-paced and physically combative nature of Legion membership, being more of a diplomat and spiritual advisor than a brawler, and once reacted poorly particularly to an attempt to grapple and restrain her, broadcasting light and her own fear in all directions uncontrollably. Embarassed by this reaction, she has been spending extra time in the gym, practicing martial arts, less for the combat benefit, than to acclimate herself to the immediacy and intimacy of hand to hand conflict.

That would have been my first choice for 'Amp Girl' to give her the power to give not just herself, but also others, a 'super-adrenaline boost' that makes them stronger, tougher and faster, temporarily, followed by a hard 'crash.'

yeah that makes total sense. too bad we didn't get to see more of her.

nice Dawnstar btw! definitely an interesting take! and we've never had an empathic legionnaire before!

Star Boy - astrophysics student Thom Kallor thought he'd hit the lottery when he beat out thousands of other applicants for a chance to intern in R.J. Brande's stellar fusion program.

Unfortunately, a flawed containment chamber cracked during the initial testing, and Thom was sealed in the lab during the breach by security measures meant to protect the research team.

It took almost a year to bleed off the excess energy that took root in the young intern, but a trace lingered, and now, as Star Boy, able to generate dozens of basketball sized spheres of solar plasma and direct them remotely, he has joined the Legion of Super-Heroes.

So far, Monstress is my favorite. I love that power! (It reminds me of an old Alpha Flight character named Laura Dean, who could call up a 'Goblyn' from another dimension to protect her.)

Alright so far we've got

Montress
Thunder
Castpaw
Duo Damsel
Chameleon Girl
Dream Girl
Dawnstar
and Star Boy.

off to a great start.


also i realize that Thunder revision is well sucky... too much like the real Thunder.

here's another attempt!

Thunder- capable of producing/creating sounds on various sound wave lengths that allow her to affect peoples nervous systems, creating vertigo of sorts. she also has an ability called healing harmonics. it allows her to heal others with soothing harmonic tones. the monks were the one's who perfected this technique and taught her how to alter her powers to replicate it. she uses this ability sparingly and not in the heat of battle.

She comes from the planet stepple. Like the monks that live there she has been planet side for most of her life and spent it trapped there by the Black hole that cuts off its connection with the outside world for 10 years at a time.

she was an orphan who was adopted by the monks at a very young age.

after the most recent black hole lift, she decided it was time to leave. Hearing of the Legion but of its foundation, not where it stands today she thought she would try out for the team. she was shocked to see how the legion has changed from her first impressions of them.

her personality is very reserved and calm. she would rather not fight in battle and believes in peaceful resolution, when ever possible.

Definite improvement on Thunder! Sonic powers make sense, given her name.

thanks! the first Thunder really was a dud. glad you like the new one!!

The healing harmonies thing is aces. I love the idea of a sonic character whose powers aren't all about finding the right resonance frequency and blowing stuff up.

After City of Heroes added a sonic powerset, I made a sonic character called \'Shielding Song\' who believed that the entire world was vibrating along with some sort of cosmic song of creation, and that by learning to first hear it, and then to add to it, she could both 'hear' when things were unnatural or out of place, and either reinforce (force field powers) or damage (sonic attacks) objects or people.

I love the idea of 'words of power' or a 'song of creation' being a source behind a sonic character, instead of the more Marvel Universe-y 'mutant vocal chords.'

I like the idea of Thunder's personality and the way she uses her powers leaning towards the opposite of what you'd expect from someone with that name. Plus, points for using Steeple! I quite like the idea of Steeple

To lend a bit of gender balance to the proceedings:

Tyroc: In the 18th Century, Tyroc's ancestors were on a slave ship and would have had no hope for escape except that one of the captive men was a sorceror of some skill. The sorceror's magic wasn't powerful enough to free his people on its own, but it was strong enough to summon help from mysterious interdimensional beings. The beings agreed to free the captured African men and women under the condition that they would make their new home on an uncharted island named Marzal.

It was only after the pact was sealed that the sorceror realised the awful mistake he'd made in his desperation; the interdimensional beings were full-fledged demons and they held incredible power on Marzal, where the barriers between Earth and Hell were at their weakest. The demons planned to breed a race of demi-demons, and in time use this new race of creatures to wreak havoc across the face of the Earth.

Tyroc was the first demi-demon to survive birth. His name literally means "Cry of the Devil", which is the sound his mother was said to have made as she died in childbirth. The demons tried to raise Tyroc as their willing agent of evil, but despite the truly horrific circumstances in which he was raised, some spark of goodness survived in him. Long-lived thanks to his demon blood, Tyroc saw generations of his mother's people brutalised and tortured by the demons on his father's side. He recognised the injustice in this, and at the age of 15 he led a rebellion against the demons of Marzal. Tyroc reinforced the dimensional barriers with his own power, trapping the demons on their own side and giving his mother's people true freedom for the first time in centuries.

While he was the first demi-demon though, Tyroc was not the only one. Seven more of his brethren survived his rebellion, their own powers allowing them to remain on Earth. They couldn't match Tyroc's experience so rather than stay and fight, they all fled to the far corners of the Earth. Tyroc felt a responsibility to find them and stop them from hurting innocents, so with mixed emotions he left behind his island home once he had trained a cabal of sorcerors in maintaining the barriers between Hell and Earth themselves. It was in his search for the other demi-demons (or Demonspawn as they now called themselves) that Tyroc met and joined the Legion of Superheroes. Now, he uses the Legion's resources to aid his search for the Demonspawn while using his abilities to aid them in their altruistic deeds generally.

As a demi-demon born within close proximity to the infernal realms, Tyroc has great mystic power. He is generally stronger, more durable and heals faster than humans. He possesses the power of flight. He is completely immune to extremes of heat, and has an indomitable will. He has a natural ability to sense the presence of magic, as well as purity or corruption of spirit in a person or place. Tyroc's most devastating power though is his ability to directly harness the essence of Hell itself in a warcry. He can accomplish various effects with this including pyrokinesis, an emotional or spiritual assault, concussive force, and can even weaken or reinforce dimensional barriers.

Tyroc is naturally enhanced in the presence of evil, and weakened in spiritually pure places or in the presence of spiritually enlightened people, blessed objects and the like....this affects more than just his powers, he physically gains or loses vitality as well. He despises this aspect of himself, as it is a constant reminder that no matter how much good he does, he will always be demonic in nature.

That's mad genius, right there, playing off of the purported meaning of his name 'cry of the devil,' and yet keeping most of his Marzal / slave ship origins intact (and making them so much better than were!).

Very cool!

raz i have to agree with Set! Thats a really great Tyroc!

raz i have to agree with Set! Thats a really great Tyroc!


and thanks! to both raz ans Set on the new Thunder! i thought Steeple was a good place to go. we know so little about it and haven't seen much of it since the Legion Worlds issue.

Very nice thread idea with some very cool concepts!

Let's try...

Sensor Girl of Orando acts as an early-warning device. She can prime herself to detect any of a number of things - evil thoughts, natural calamities, invisible and mystical beings. She can instantly detect the soource of whatver she has primed herself, and instantly transport herself and up to 2 others there. She can also adapt a superpower that will enable her to neutralize said threat - the catch is, she doesn't gain complete mastery of said power right away!

So raz is right, so far its been the ladies getting the over hall. here's another guy.

Colossal Boy- still able to transform in size. but its specific to just hit hands and feet. he can expand both to be the size of 12 feet high and 6 feet wide. with great concentration he can expand his arms to match. but this is much harder to maintain. he does increase in strength but not durability while they are extended.

but he didn't gain it from a meteorite. its a natural ability that runs in his family and He's still from Mars but he was a sports star. He was the equivalent of a goalie in Mar's version of soccer; where they use

during one of the games, a couple of hover chairs malfunctioned. he used his hands to save five children from falling to the harsh Mars field ground. He found out that the malfunction was deliberate and worked with the science police to catch the culprit. because of his ability they suggested he try out for the Legion academy as they might be able to help him learn how to extend more than just his hands and feet.

how does she prime herself??? very curious about that.

Nice thread and interesting ideas, as always.

I don't generally like demon stuff, but Tyroc IS interesting, a little like Hellboy.


Of the Demonspawn, and one of the ones who ran, is Nazgal.

She has a strong, living human parent, the only one of the Demonspawn with a human father.

Her parents were actually a love match, again, unique.
Both parents raised Naga, her nickname, especially her father, who is the spiritual shepard of his people.
Their realtionship with her and each other has given her a totally different perspective from the other Demonspawn, even Tyroc.
Her father's spiritual base and her mother's love for him, have combined in Naga to set her free from demon evil, altogether.

Naga's humanoid shape is illusional, a spell from her mother. Her real shape is that of her nick name character, a naga(snake/female humanoid).
The spell, while making her humanoid, places her in shadow, blocking her from detection by all technology.
Only the 'pure in heart' can actually see her face.

Unlike her other universe double, Sensor, her mother's continued illusional spell, maintained by her father, is the only illusion connected to her.

She is a powerful, ground based elemental, similar in outer form to Geo and Terra of the 21st century.
But, her power is truly elementally based, making her more of a part of the mantel, cores and crust of Earth. Her spell shadowed form often seems to merge with the ground and rock.

She ran because Tyroc doesn't know anything about her except that she's one of the Demonspawn.
She fears him.
Her father remains on Marzal, with his people, while Naga, a pricess of her people, is in exile, hiding from Tyroc AND her fellow Demonspawn.

Not a reworking of Sensor Girl but of Sensor.

A two-for-one;

From the Sorcerer's World, Ferro is the name given to the nigh-indestructible millenia-old humanoid iron construct , known as a golem, that serves and protects the witches and wizards of Zeerox.

Despite having been created as a mindless automaton, over many centuries, he has developed a personality, possibly the result of exposure to so many potent mystical forces, and has memories of events recorded in no history book, secrets that he safeguards, using his immunity to magical forces, and to the mind-reading abilities of telepaths to serve as a sort of 'forbidden archive' of arcane lore too sensitive to trust to any other form of recording.

Ferro has joined the Legion alongside his young ward, the heir to the magics of the Sorcerer's World, Mysa Nal, the Silver Sorceress, who uses mirrors and reflective surfaces crystals to both scry distant places (and even times!), and to transport herself and others, but also to create 'mirror images' of people, places or things, which she can manipulate to cause sympathetic changes in the items she has 'reflected,' causing foes to be stretched like taffy, or reduced in size, as if causing the distortions of a funhouse mirror to become real and reflected upon the subjects.

Unlike some sorcerers past, Mysa recognizes the ancient soul that has taken root within her massive protector, and that he is no mere arcane servitor or lumbering guardsman, but considers him instead her closest friend and must trusted confidante.

Sounds like Ferro is a Blok rethink. And there I was, thinking you were talking about Andrew!
I love Mysa's mirror powers.
Her Legion wouldn't have the external based power rule, or would that apply?

Golems are very interesting creatures.
Terry Prachett has one on his Disc world Morpork(sp?) city guard.
They can be very frightening.

Playing Diablo, one of my favorite minion characters is the necromancer's golems, made of earth, blood, fire and weapons of destruction, depending on the level you're at, IIRC.
(It's been awhile, so some of the types may be incorrect, but that's the general idea of them.)

And Omni, I like both of your Thunders.
I always wished that she had been from the Legion's era. It's never made sense to me that she wasn't in the first place.

quote:Originally posted by Candlelight:
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And Omni, I like both of your Thunders.
I always wished that she had been from the Legion's era. It's never made sense to me that she wasn't in the first place.


Thanks Candlelight!
i agree. i think it was that the character was in some recent Shazam stuff in the 20th century and they thought it be a good way to grab those readers.

also I love your Sensor. it was a great way to reinvent her while using the confines of one reality.

this is something i didn't intend but are these all reinventions actually part of the same Legion. just maybe at different points in the same continuity

oh man i really thought this was actually Ferro! but i can see the Blok angle.

but i will say i was hoping it would be actually Ferro! i thought that would have added a new dimension to the characters relationships!

Shadow Lass: Tasmia Mallor is the Planetary Champion of Talok VIII. Her power has been passed down from mother to daughter for millenia. Tasmia can change her body into a shadow form. While in shadow form, she is unaffected by any physical object and even gas. Lasers and high intensity beams of light can disrupt the shadow form reverting her back to human form. She can also travel from shadow to shadow - a kind of teleportation.

Andromeda- from Lume a star sprite that has the ability to glow with an intense light.She has two forms, a normal sized human form, that doesn't give off much light, but can generate large amounts of heat. but in her smaller sprightly form; which looks like a glowing stream of white light,she doesn't generate much heat. but blinding light.

her strength is 2 times greater than the average human.

When the legion was forming, one of their first big missions was to Lume. Lume is a broader world between the U.P. and the Krundian empire. The Legion was chosen to be good will ambassadors along with the current U.P. president.
While the Legion was their the Krundian empire invaded. The legion helped defend off the Krundian troops. Several Luminian's tried to help the Legion in their fight. Andromeda was one of them. She led the other Luminaian's and helped coordinate their attacks.
After the Legion and the Luminaian's defeated the Krudian's, Lume agreed to a peace treaty and joined with the U.P. officially. To show good faith the Legion asked Andromeda to join right there and then.

i love this take on her powers! it really gives us something that we haven't seen from Tasmia yet.

I am really liking these alternates! It's like we're creating our own Tangent universe LSH!

Lightning Lad/Lightning Lass: The lifeless world of Korbal is renown for the devastatingly powerful storms which constantly rage across its surface. The next closest planet in Korbal's system is Winath, a world just like any other populated world in the UP with the notable exception that it has a much higher incidence of twin births than the UP average.

Mekt Ranzz was a rare single birth on Winath, and as he grew towards adulthood it was suspected that he was also schizophrenic. He heard voices in his head and began to develop an unhealthy obsession with Korbal (a common focus for schizophrenics on Winath for some reason). One day, Mekt stole the family cruiser to visit Korbal for himself. His younger siblings Garth and Ayla went along to try and stop him, but to no avail.

When they entered Korbal's atmosphere, an intense blast of lightning tore their ship apart. It was then that the Ranzzes discovered the truth; The atmospheric energy discharges of Korbal are its native lifeforms. The lightning creatures often pooled their resources to try and communicate with their neighbouring world telepathically, but the Winathian authorities had always explained this away as the ravings of unbalanced Winathian minds.

Now that they could actually make physical contact for the first time, the lightning creatures reached out. One of the creatures merged with the form of Mekt Ranzz, another merged together with Garth and Ayla. The lightning creatures meant no harm, but they didn't realise that their energy matrix was far too powerful for any one person to safely sustain. Realising their error in judgement, the lightning creatures vowed never to do this again...it was too late for the Ranzzes however, who were now permanently transformed.

As a result of their union with the lightning creatures, the Ranzzes can now shift into the form of a living lightning bolt whenever they want. In this form, they are pure energy. They can release this energy in destructive blasts, or to power equipment, but they have none of the advantages of human physicality. This merger drove Mekt fully insane, but Ayla and Garth's minds bonded together with the second lightning creature were stable enough that they kept their core personalities.

A quirky side-effect of Garth and Ayla's new combined form is that they don't really have enough control to dictate whether Garth or Ayla's physical form will take dominance when they're not transformed into lightning; Lightning Lad and Lightning Lass share the unique position of having one Legion membership between the two of them, depending on whose body happens to be sitting in the chair at any given moment.

In human form, Lightning Lad/Lightning Lass are more or less powerless (though the unique make-up of their psyche gives them a higher than normal psychic defence, and they have a natural ability to sense electrical energy in their vicinity). In their lightning form though, they are one/two of the Legion's most powerful members.

She has to attune all her senses to whatever it is she is set to detect. But she can only detect one thing at a time, much like how Dawnstar has to track one thing at a time.

Cool idea!

I am unsure about what you mean with this part, 'though.

1) Garth and Ayla have only one lightning form that they share between them, and when one is transformed, the other cannot transform and is 'stuck' in human form.

2) There is only ever one of them in existence at a time, either a lightning person (who could have the personality of one or the other), or, when it reverts to human form, either Garth, or Ayla (depending on whose personality was dominant at the time). In this second case, Garth and Ayla might only ever 'meet' in their lightniing form, which may or may not combine both of their personalities / souls, since only one of them can physically exist at any time.

I suspect the first option was what you meant, but either would be interesting.

Cool power, more like Obsidian than 'our' Tasmia.

She *might* be able to move at the speed of light, in shadow form, although be unable to leave a solid surface (sort of like a real shadow, moving across the ground, the sides of buildings, etc.).

Her logical 'attack' in shadowform would be to crawl all over someone until her shadowy self covers their face, rendering them blind. It's possible that, like a real shadow, she can also change her size and, to a limited extent, shape, as well, while in shadow form...

Fun stuff!

Originally posted by Set:

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I am unsure about what you mean with this part, 'though.

Yes, sorry....I reworded that about 40 times and I still wasn't sure I had it right by the end, obviously not lol

The idea is that the same lightning creature merged with Garth AND Ayla. Only one physical form can ever be dominant though, so it's either Garth OR Ayla OR a living lightning bolt (kind of similar to how Martin Stein and Ronny Raymond became Firestorm back in the day....I don't know what the story is with Firestorm these days).

Mentally, they exist as three separate personalities...the lightning creature is really just happy to have new experiences, so its personality never usurps control in any form. Garth is dominant in his body, Ayla is dominant in hers, and when they become lightning they are generally happy to let whomever initiated the change be the dominant personality.

The Lightning Lad/Lightning Lass composite is pretty stable and happy, as opposed to Mekt Ranzz who is crazier than a hat full of monkeys and keeps his own lightning creature subjugated through sheer force of will.

(Necessary disclaimer: Mekt isn't actually schizophrenic, that's just an erroneous assumption made by everyone around him...I just wanted to clarify that so as not to equate schizophrenia with someone being a bat-shit crazy supervillain)

love this expansion!

Razz i love your Lighting/lad/lass! that is a great reinvention!

I'm loving this new way that a lot of the energy/power casters are being made more physical.

Infectious Lass - Drura Ardenn From Titian and a founder of the Legion. Like other Titan's she posses telepathy. but She has the ability to enter peoples minds and infect them with her own will. her control over others can last for a couple hours.
she's able to give both simple and complicated commands.

She refuses to control people into doing violent or immoral things. But in battle she has been forced to use her powers to make her opponents fight each other.

even though she has control over this ability there are many who find her to be very unnerving, especially various members of her team.

there was one instance, when the Fatal Five were attacking her, Lightning Lad/Lass, Star Boy and the Silver Witch. During the battle Infectious Lass lost control and infected her teammates with her will. this infection was ultimately to their advantage, as it made her teammates more determined to prove themselves in a fight.
at that moment her mind was concentrating on how to be more affective in battle against the Fatal five. however this infection lasted longer than she ever intended. because of her determination she pushed her infection to last for the next two days. during which time each of the infected members tried to prove themselves in various ways. Some with disastrous results.

since then, Silver Witch has a spell cast out her to protect her from all psychic intrusion; but its had a slight souring on her disposition and has made her quite irritable as it does not allow her to commune with her friend/Golem Ferro.

Star Boy's proved himself in love and Married Dream Girl.

and Lighting Lad/Lass have been temporarily been un-merged after they faced off against Neutrax; he neutralized them while they were in mid transition of dominate personalities among Garth, Ayla and the Lightning Beast; now the lighting beast is in control and the Razz's are trying to keep it in check, till they can re-merge.

alright, so i'm thinking more and more that i like these characters as an alternate Legion and i think they all are in the same universe.

What would you all say to this idea??
and if you all agree, how about we come up with an actual origin story for the formation of this Legion....

Here's a rundown of this Legion's roster so far as well.

ROLL CALL:
Monstress
Thunder
Catspaw
Duo Damsel
Chameleon Girl
Dawnstar
Star Boy
Tyroc
Sensor Girl
Ferro
Silver Sorceress
Shadow Lass
Andromeda
Lighting Lad/Lighting Lass
Infectious Lass

Subs:
Dream Girl

Academy:
Colossal Boy

Other:
Naga~Sensor

Gates of Vyrga was a persecuted idealist on his homeworld. He fought for freedom, but was forced to go underground because of his beliefs.

While on the run, he was forced to hone his teleportation powers to new heights. Perhaps because of his broad imagination and open-mindedness to ideas, he can now also not only physical objects with pinpoint accuracy, but can also teleport concepts, ideas and abstract imaginings...

He once disabled an opponent by teleporting a small dose of poison into his bloodstream.
He destroyed a powerful droid by teleporting away its mechanical head.

He stopped a serial killer by teleporting his victim's pain and anguish into the killer's mind. He became an effective teacher to his volunteer army by teleporting all he knew about tactics into their minds. He can teleport the images reaching his eyes and the sounds reaching his ears to others, giving them shared senses. He can camouflage entire troops by teleporting the color of nearby objects onto them.

He also finally won his revolution... by teleporting the full text of famed thinker Querl Marxius' On the Free Will of Sentients into the minds of the invading army.

Perhaps his power isn't really teleportation, but a form of reality warping that is still limited, ironically, by the perceptions of time and space that he cannot break through, no matter how open-minded he is...

Zoe Saugin of Aleph only ever wanted to be useful.

This drove her to be a very compassionate soul, helping others in need in order to also feel better about herself.

Sadly, one day she couldn't help the most important person in her life - her mother.

She contacted an aged witch on another planet, one who owed her mother her life. The witch guided her into finding an ancient talisman which COULD give her the power to heal her mother... or destroy her.

Zoe took that risk, and found herself with the power of life.

She can heal others, even those with grievous injuries or debilitating diseases.

She can bring inanimate objects to life, changing their forms and even giving them some semblance of free will limited only be her concentration. This usually manifests through her giving very carefully-worded instructions.

She can even bring drawings and pictures to life (she once brought her brother's drawing of a dragon to life and hastily canceled it before it burned down their house); restore rotted plants and organic material; and has once even helped recharge a powersphere.

She has since joined the Legion as... Kinetix.

IB I LOVE AND I MEAN LOVE YOUR NEW RENDITIONS OF kINETIX AND GATES!

i love that you've just expanded their abilities into such different ways and kept some really big core aspects of their personalities.

Gates revolution sounds like a great idea but i wonder which side that revolution would fall under if the legion became involved?


omg and i love how its reality warping but no matter how far he expands his mind he can't see out side the "box"

And Zoe is so powerful! i love it! But does she have any weaknesses??

also i realized that its a great union between her original powers and her Terraformer ones.

i loved the drawings coming to life part!

Salu Digby of Imsk has the same ability that all Imskians have, the power to shrink. However, when Salu was a toddler she acidentally fell into a vat of experimental plant fertilizer. This first turned her skin green. As she grew, she developed an affinity for plants and vegetation of all sort. She could cause plants to grow rapidly and control their shapes and movements. And she could also heal any sick plant.

While she was hailed as a planetary hero, she could see that most Imskians seemed rather fearful of her and tended to shun her. Hearing of the Legion of Superheroes, Salu traveled to Earth and joined. She was going to call herself Plant Lass, but Monstress suggested the name Shrinking Violet as it incorporated both of her powers.

wicked cool idea! i love this new Vi!

It does combine her power with Chlorophyl Kid's

Thank you for the enthusiastic response, Omni They're my two favorite Legionnaires ever and I'm glad you think I'm doing them justice.

I confess I haven't carefully read through the other entries yet but I sure find a lot of them intriguing!

Tinya Wazzo knew she should never have gotten involved with Joe Navarra. But she had been in that rebellious phase and the more her parents tried to dissuade her from seeing Joe, the more she wanted to. And now here she was in an abandoned building in Metropolis' Suicide Slum. Joe was lying on the floor, bleeding from the gash in his head.

"What do we do with her?" the creepy punk asked. "Throw her in that storage room down in the basement." replied Ace as he tossed the blood stained pipe next to Joe. Tinya struggled, but to no avail. Thrown into the small area and in complete darkness once the door was closed and locked behind her. For an hour, she heard the gang moving around upstairs, then silence. Tinya tried the door. Locked. She tried pushing on it, but it was quite solid. She tried yelling, but her cries seem to go no further than the small room she was in. "Superman will rescue me." She thought. "That's what he does for people in trouble in Metropolis, right?"

Time past. How much time Tinya did not know due to the complete darkness and silence. But she had become thirsty and then hungry. She tried calling out some more, pounding on the door, but with the same results as before. More time past and her thirst was getting worse. Her throat was getting parched. Eventually Tinya bite into herself and drank some of her own blood to slack her thirst. But soon she became dizzy from the lost of blood and her hunger. She past out.

When she woke, Tinya was surprized to find that she was neither hungry nor thirsty. She also was not feeling the pain in her arm from where the creepy punk had grabbed her. It suddenly dawned on her that she could now see the whole room clearly but there still was no light. She tried calling out, but her voice seemed like it was only a whisper. Approaching the door, Tinya raised her fists to pound on it and was amazed when they went right through the door. The momentum carried Tinya out into the rest of the basement. Running to the stairs, Tinya attempted to leave the cellar but some force prevented her. She waved at people through the basement windows, but no one seemed to see her. Months past and Tinya was able to push past the basement stairs and go throughout the whole house, but was stopped from leaving it by that same force. During this time, various bums and addicts crashed in the abandoned house. Tinya tried her best to talk to them, but they could neither see her nor hear her. Some did seem to turn towards her when she would yell, but they would then just shrug and go back to what they were doing. It was now that Tinya realized that she had died and was now a ghost or phantom.

After a hundred years, Tinya was able to leave the house and go about the neighborhood. Some people could see her ghostly form and other could just barely hear her. She took to watching out for the kids in the neighborhood. As the years past Tinya could venture further and further away from her final resting place. She was able to make herself visible and audible to more and more people. And Tinya found she coould hold and move some items just by concentrating.

For two hundred years Tinya settled into her skeletal remains and "slept". When she awoke, she found that her house had been torn down. Her bones had been taken. Still she remained in the neighborhood. Having grown tired of people, she remained invisible just watching people.

Eventually, a strange building that looked like an upside down rocket ship was built on the spot where she had died. Tinya watched as the building filled with various and some strange looking beings. They all seemed to have different powers and were using them to help others.

One day, the Legionnaires (that is what they called themselves) received a distress call and everyone left to answer it. While they were gone, Tinya saw three men break into the building and start setting booby traps for the Legionnaires. Tinya knew what she must do. Appearing before the men, she got them to chase her. Down through the corridors she flew, turning this way and that, letting the men almost catch her then flying ahead. Finally, she got them to chase her into one of the holding cells. They were astonished when Tinya went through the wall. By the time they turned around, Tinya was at the doorway, concentrating and tapping the right combination of buttons that locked them in the cell.

When the Legionnaires returned, Tinya made herself visible to them. She told them what had happened, how she had come to be there, and showed them where all the booby traps were. The Legionnaires were impressed by her ingenuity and asked her to officially join them. Tinya did and with practice, she was able to interact with more physical things and was able to go further and further from the clubhouse, until there was no limit to where she could go.

And thus Phantom Girl became the next Legionnaire.

i love the idea of turning her into a literal phantom. also its like she's M'onel in away but with out the convluted history of the Zones!

But if Jo died in the past then who is the new Ultra Boy?

Joe Navarra, not Jo Nah, died in the past. Plus there is always reincarnation.

I really like your origin for Tinya, Quis. Making Tinya a real ghost is genius!

Tinya and Gates = awesome reinterpretations!

Tinya as an actual phantom is genius, and Gates comes off like a Morrison character....much kudos!

Tinya as an actual 'phantom' is indeed awesome, but my favorite thing about that is that she's been doing the hero/protector thing for *ages,* even it's mostly been keeping an eye out for the kids in her neighborhood.

It kind of makes her like classic Superboy, someone who already has defined herself as a hero or protector, before showing up and joining the Legion.

I have a new Ultra Boy in mind, but am too tired to type it up tonight.

The Ultra Project was to create the Ultimate Rimborian as the basis of an army for defense and conquest. The genetic material from the strongest, fastest, smartest, and healthiest of Rimborians were combined and recombined. But the new government was in the process of having Rimbor joining the United Planets and felt having an army of conquest was not going to be looked upon kindly. Plus some in the new government felt that such an army could be used to take control of the planet. So, the Project was to be shut down and all material destroyed.

Specimen J-zero/N.A.H., or Jo as some of the scientists called him, did not want to be destroyed. Using his enhanced physical traits and enhanced intelligence, Jo broke out of the facility that had been his home for 13 years. He made his way to Ed Rei hoping to get smuggled off planet. However by the time he got there a reward was posted for his capture. Jo, knowing he could not trust anyone, stole a spaceship and took off. The Planetary Defense Force noted the unauthorized flight and dispatched 2 ships in pursuit.

Jo hoped to lose his pursuers by flying into the quarantined sector. Just as the lead ship overtook Jo’s ship, a creature of pure energy enveloped both ships. The remaining ship was unable to drive off the creature as it seemed to drain the 2 ships of all power. After an hour, the creature moved off. On the Planetary Defense ship, all the crew members were dead but were emitting the same type of energy as the creature. Jo was found unconscious but alive. He also was emitting the same energy.

Back on Rimbor, Jo was being studied to see why he survived and just what that energy was. It was soon discovered that Jo could concentrate the energy and either increase his strength 100 fold or his speed 100 fold. He could also use the energy as a micro thin shield surrounding his entire body. A last power given to him by the energy was to increase his senses, letting him see farther, microscopically, hear the softest whisper and even ultra-high frequencies. He can only concentrate the energy on one area at a time.

Still wanting to leave Rimbor, Jo contacted R.J. Brande. Jo had learned of Brande’s advocacy for Proteans being recognized as sentient. Brande’s lawyers were able to have Jo declared an autonomous being. Jo then traveled to Earth where Brande introduced him to the Legion of Superheroes.

Wow, i love this Ultra boy. you've got a flare for classic Legion with a great twist!

i love the tie in of the energy creature!

Eons ago, the inhabitants of Rambat traded their physical bodies for cybernetic globes encasing only their brains. As time wore on, the Rambatites discovered that lacking the physical quality of emotion made them more and more heartless and cruel with each passing generation. At last, in the early twentieth century, a tremendous planet-wide conflict rendered Rambat uninhabitable, and destroyed the majority of the population. With their people ill, injured, and dying, the four leaders of the four quadrants of Rambat had new, specialized globes created for them which allowed them to travel through space at FTL speeds, and provided them with a safe, livable environment within their respective globes.

While it was their own rivalry and lust for power which resulted in the destruction of their homeworld, the Ramatite leaders cooperated in a new venture. Their goal was to find a new world to conquer and repopulate.

But there was a fifth survivor of Rambat. The scientist who created the advanced globes had a young daughter, and created a fifth globe for her survival. Knowing that the four despots would not tolerate another possible competitor, she sent her daughter far into the distant future, to the planet Earth in the 31st century.

Joining the Legion, the last daughter of Rambat took the name Brain-Globe Five, and later, Brainiac-5.

Brainiac-5 possesses an intellectual and scientific capacity far beyond that of human beings. Her hyper-globe provides nourishment, a comfortable environment, allows her to move unaided through space, and is nearly indestructible. She also has the ability to affect the impulses, thoughts, and emotions of others, although she experiences no emotion herself. She is able to create nearly irresistible impulses in the minds of most sentient beings. In addition, she is able to project simple illusions, such as invisibility, with her ability to “cloud men’s minds.”

That is an *insanely* cool re-imagining! I like how you tied your 'Brainy' into pre-existing Legion lore, by making her a Brain Globe of Rambat, and also your choice of making 'Brainy' a girl!

And she sounds so much nicer than Fembrain...

SEP shamelessly stolen from Douglas Adams.


It is hard being the son of two celebrities. Especcially ones who narcissisticly loved the spotlight and even the paparazzi. Lyle Norg longed to be able to just walk in the city without being followed or having people come up to him to tell him how much they loved his parents and how lucky he was to be their son. That is why he was here, treking through the northern Canadian wilderness, despite hating the cold and sleeping on the ground. It was one of the last places on Earth that could be called remote.

While climbing down a ravine, Lyle heard a faint cry for help. After searching the area, Lyle found the source of the cry. It was from a very small man, who was trapped in a hole covered by rocks. It took about 30 minutes to move the rocks away. Lyle helped the man out and gave him some water from his canteen. Hungry himself and figuring that the little man was too, Lyle got out two of his inta-rations. The two of them sat on rocks and ate. Lyle inquired how the man got trapped, but the little man turned the conversation around to what Lyle was doing out here. Not knowing exactly why, Lyle began telling the story of his life, ending with his wish to be unrecognizable.

The little man stood up and said "Well, as you have helped me, I will help you." He rubbed his hands together and then placed them on Lyle's temples. "There you go. You now have a personal SEP field. To turn it on, think 'SEP on'. To turn it off, thing 'SEP off'." Lyle looked at the man quizzically and asked "What is a SEP field?" "I am glad you asked. A SEP field is a Somebody Else's Problem field. It is like invisibility, but better. With invisibility there is always the chance of someone bumping in to you. But with A SEP field, people can see you enough to avoid you, but they don't see you enough to bother you. People tend to ignore anything that is somebody else's problem. Lyle chuckled at what the little man said. "Ah you don't believe me. Well, think 'SEP on'." Lyle did so to humor the little man. "I don't feel any different." Lyke said. "Of course, but it works. And I will prove it." With that the little man waved his arm and Lyle found himself in the middle of Swan Park in Metropolis. There were many people about and they all seemed to ignore Lyle and the man. Then a group of runners in a tight cluster came down the path. Lyle was about to move to the side, but the little man held him on the path. As the runners passed by, the ones that would have run into Lyle moved to the side. When they passed the little man told Lyle that they would not even remember that there was someone standing in the path.

"Wait. you could have gotten out of that hole on your own. Why did you have me rescue you?" "I am from the 5th dimension. An ancestor of mine used to come to your dimension to pull pranks. I like to test people. I reward the good ones and provide karma for the bad ones." Just then a friend of Lyle's passed by, completely ignoring Lyle. Lyle called out to his friend, Garth. Garth stopped and looked around, looking at Lyle twice, but then shrugged his shoulders and started back off. The little man reminded Lyle that he coould turn off the SEP field by thinking "SEP off" Lyle did so and called once again to Garth. This time, Garth saw Lyle and started over.

"Now I am going back to the 5th dimension for a rest. Enjoy your SEP field." Lyle heard the little man say "Kltpzyxm" and he vanished. "Hmmm" thought Lylr "maybe I should join Garth's group."

The New Legion of Substitute Heroes
Polar Boy (Brek Bannin of Braal) As all inhabitants of Braal, Brek has magnetic powers. However, his are relatively weak, and poorly controlled. For example, he is always picking stray bits of metal off himself.

Knight Girl (Lydda Jath of Hajor) As a small child, she developed a strong attachment to her favorite toy, Medieval Knight Barbie with ReAluminium Armor. The plastic doll has long since deteriorated, but Lydda has a telekinetic link with the armor, able to animate it or use it as a clairvoyant medium. The armor itself is virtually indestructible, as, even if melted or vaporized, she will immediately (and unconsciously) reconstruct it.

Chlorophyll Kid (Ral Benem of Mardru) As all Mardruans, Ral is a genderless plant-based humanoid. Feeding directly from sunlight, it does not need to eat. In the Spring, its head is covered with flowers. In Summer, the flowers are replaced with fruit—which resemble lavender pears, but taste more like peaches, with a hint of cinnamon. In winter, it becomes lethargic.

Fire Lad (Staq Mavlin of Lokasenna) As all Schwarites, Staq is a being of living fire. He was rejected from the Legion because of his inability to control his power.

Stone Boy (Daq Wentim of Asteroid Colony 1969) Dag is able to stimulate the production in the brain of serotonin, endorphins, and cannabinoids which give a sense of comfort, well-being and ease. Side effects may include giggling, a ravenous appetite, and occasionally, some paranoia.

i love all of these Subs! really great ideas!.

especially love Knight Girl, and Stone Boy.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Quislet, Esq:
[QB]SEP shamelessly stolen from Douglas Adams.


wicked cool idea and an interesting take on invisibility!

this is a wicked awesome reinvention!

Cosmic Boy - from the planet Braal, he was born with the powers of magnetism, able to repel and attract metals at will and generate magnetic fields. Once a great planetary athlete, he went on to be a co founder of the Legion of Super Heroes.

During a battle with Mordur, he used his magnetism to form an iron shield around his body, but it wasn't an ordinary shield, he created an iron sheath just centimeters above his skin. it became a second skin of sorts. he used this iron skin to resist Mordur's magical energy blast and spells. But what Cosmic Boy didn't know was that the iron skin was absorbing the magical properties and not deflecting them. It still protected him but the iron skin boded with him.

As Cosmic Boy finally laid some magnetically/magically charged iron fist on to Mordur, he finally ended the battle. but at a cost it seemed. when Cosmic boy tried to remove his iron skin, it wouldn't come off. returning to HQ, he was examined by Brainiac-5 and the Silver Witch. they revealed that the skin was now both magnetically and magically bonded to him. unable to remove it but was still able to eat and breath through the iron, Cosmic Boy was literally living iron. As time went on he learned a new application of this iron skin. he learned that his body was now malleable and he could "fluidize" himself, as if he was liquid iron.
As great as this new ability seemed, there was a down side to his transformation. he could no longer touch people. he never could feel the touch of a warm hand, or a hug from a good friend. He had no sensation of touch in this iron skin.

In the early days he was the heart of the team their first leader, he could rally the team together. But as time went on. he began to distance himself and became cold after his transformation. Without touch, he lost apart of himself. He underestimated how much a simple touch made him feel.

I've got some pictures of Legionnaires that I messed with to make Alternate versions that I would like to share.

Here's a version of Ultra Boy I made using an Art Adams Thunderbird.

And here's an Art Adams Gladiator I made into a version of Mon-el, using a Dave Cockrum head.

very nice Lone Wolf! i love the Ultra Boy/Thunderbird you did. those arms strings fit well with his character.

Thanks Omni I thought so to, it's kind of like what if Dave Cockrum redesigned Jo's costume.

This one was easy, using the Cockrum Star Boy body and a Cockrum Quasar/Neutron head from the Imperial Guard that I narrowed to size.

Re-envisioning the various Imperial Guardsmen uniforms as actual Legion gear is cool! Plus, Art Adams! Woo! And Dave Cockrum! Double Woo!

Reep would look cool in Hobgoblin's outfit, or Imra in Oracles!

Astra's outfit, on the other hand, would probably not work so well on Tinya...

This is awesome, and I somehow missed it (or missed how *genius* it was) until just now!

I am generally not a fan of abstract concept heroes, but this is a very cool notion.

Imra Ardeen was caught in an explosion at the science fair, as her amazing scale replica of the planet Saturn was sabotaged by a jealous rival, and her body infused with the exotic gases that made up her demonstration.

She developed incredible mass, while her own density paradoxically reduced to that of a gaseous state, as if her mass had left her body and inhabited the air around her, leaving her almost impervious to harm, but able to cause the air around her to swirl around like a maelstrom, battering evildoers with the whirlwind that she could call up at will, which she called her 'Saturn's rings.' At full intensity, the storm whirls only in her immediate presence, within a meter at most, but she can slow the rate of rotation, and surround herself with a cloud of slowly revolving fog, thick enough to block sight, up to dozens of meters across.

The exotic gases that she can call forth from her body can be adjusted to be breathable, or to cause fatigue in those who breathe them (although she is immune) and can whirl with such force as to blow people away from her, lift her from the ground and carry her into the air, or even sustain her in the vacuum of space.

As Saturn Girl, this gifted would-be researcher has become an able crimefighter, although her first love is science!

Loving this Saturn Girl, Set!
and i love the classic feel to her!

But i also like that she is also a variation of Gas Girl!

Comet Queen - Grava of Quaal-III, able to travel at the speed of light and fly Grava, is also able to generate both a light tail and a smoke tail in her wake, with the smoke tail producing two kinds of smoke, one that puts people to sleep and one that is so thick and dense with dust, ice and rock particles that people can't see through it. She also has a slight gravitational pull about her, that allows her to drag others along for the ride.

Grava received her powers when she was exposed to a comet that had crash landed on Quaal-III; while still in her mothers womb. Her parents were both astronomers and had found the crash sight of the comet. When they arrived there to collect samples, the comets radiation was so strong that it affected all of them on a genetic level. But it wasn't noticeable to either of her parents. Neither gained any significant abilities. When Grava was born however she did not look anything like her parents, adorning orange skin, three finger on each hand and no hair but a comet tail of small smoke billowing slightly from her head.

As a child Grava did her best to fit in. but sometimes it was hard, as she couldn't always control her abilites and some times playing with pother children or even just spending time with her parents she would put them to sleep with her comet smoke tail. and some times her comet light tail would burn so bright that she blinded someone while standing in line for tickets to see her favorite band, the Regurgitates from Bismol. But Grava still did her best to enjoy life, and be a ray of sun shine to everyone she knew.

when she reached the legal age to apply for the Legion Academy, she jumped at the chance.

Easily the most eager of the Academy Cadets and the most dedicated student Grava was excepted into the Legion on her first try. Her valley girl ways of her first days at the Academy has worn away and graduating today was a young woman, with good ingenuity and great team working skills.

Her mastery over her smoke trails and speed won over the Legionnaires. but it was her quick thinking, to use her gravitational pull against Bouncing Boy, by flying past him in mid bounce and catching him in her wake; where she switched her trail to its sleep mode and eventually her gravitational gripe on him faded as he deflated from him bouncing form.

becoming the newest recruit to the Legion Grava is striving to do her best and make her parents proud.

I like this part especially, some sort of 'gravity wake' that may derive from the forces she uses to fly (perhaps using gravitational forces to warp spacetime and propel herself at otherwise impossible speeds).

It gives her a neat 'control' utility, allowing her to move people around against their will, dragging foes away, or even snatching up endangered civilians in her 'wake' and transporting them to safety!

Thanks Set, that what i was thinking. she gets to have more control this way and i find this part more useful than anything else she does.

The Not-Ready-For-Prime-Time Legion of Substitute Heroes Auxiliary

Double-Header: When defeated in battle, (immobilized, rendered unconscious, gravely injured, or killed) Frenk Retzun’s body immediately resets and reconstitutes, enabling him to go another round with his opponent. The second time he loses, he has to heal in the normal way.

Antennae Boy: An ant-sized hero with the proportional strength of an ant.

Pork-and-Pineapple Pete: Teen-aged chef famous for his sweet-and-sour recipe.

Color Commentary Kid

Infectious Laugh Lass

…I can’t go on.

That's actually kinda neat! He's like Retcon Lad, with the power to get up and say, 'Nuh uh, you missed!'

Could it be, a Hawaiian hero? Or am I racial stereotyping?

Only slightly more effective than her brother, Infectious Yawn Boy. She once made someone laugh so long that they passed out!

Thanks, SET, but you really should not encourage me.

Erg 2 (Zera Vultan) and Ultragirl (An Ryd), with revised helmet on Erg 2

very nice Lone Wolf!!!! i always loved seeing female versions of male characters. idk but i love it. lol

i love ERG2's look the most!

Then spoke weeping Odin to the Prophet, “What will be after Heaven and Earth and all the World are burned?”
“Did you not say that there will continue worlds throughout the ages?”
“Will any of my children survive Ragnarok, the Twilight of the Gods?”

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“Where fair Asgard stood, I see a great green field, Idavolllur, by name,
“There the three sons of Odin, Vidarr, Vali, and Ve, will rule as one, taking up again the golden playing pieces with which the gods rule the lives of men.

“The sons of Thor, Magni [Strength], and Modi [[Rage] will share the great hammer-axe Mjolnir with their sister, Thrudar [Power] and will meet the three sons of Odin in Idavollur.

“Hodur and Baldur, the slayer and the slain, will rise from Hel and return to life, and these eight will be the parents of a new race of Aesir.
“In Midgard, Líf and Lífthrasir will journey out of Hoddmímis Holt, the great woods, and will spawn a new race of Norsemen.”

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By the 10th century AD, the Aesir had tired of Earth, and ranged throughout the galaxy to find a New Midgard to rule. They found such a world, less advanced and less civilized than the Earth they had left, and they taught them the chivalry, traditions, and culture which the Aesir valued: honor, courage, and combat.

The seven male Aesir took wives of the Frost Giants, but Thrudar had vowed never to marry, to spite the memory of her father, who had forbidden her marriage to Alviss, the Dwarf.
And yet she was not childless. Many were the mortal rulers of New Midgard who claimed ancestry from the daughter of Thor. When the United Planets found New Midgard, its technology, economy, and civilization had been stagnant for over two millennia.

Mekt, son of Thrudar, was then Lord of Winath, the northern-most continent on New Midgard. His father had been a great hero, the strongest of all Winathans, but he died in the first love-embrace of Thrudar, crushed in the clasp of the Aesir. Half-mortal, Mekt ruled with only a fraction of his mother’s strength, but possessed the ability to call down lightning from the heavens, even from the clear sky.

Lord Mekt would not embrace the technology of the alien invaders, but his young children, Garth and Ayla, saw in it a possibility for growth for their people and world. When it was discovered that they shared their father’s lightning-powers as well, their lives were endangered in the Palace, and they fled with the U.P. coalition to Earth.

Founding members of the Legion of Super-Heroes, their power over magical lightning, and their warrior training has acquitted them well.

i love this! i like how your using mythology and how your bringing in all three of the lighting barriers and still keeping them family!


and only because its Thor, i feel like its very marvel-esque as well. which i love~

Gnill Opral first started getting the headaches at the onset of puberty. They steadily became more intense and painful. The doctors on Hajor were at a loss to explain what was causing the headaches. Desperately, Gnill's parents brought him to Titan to see if the doctors on Titan could help. There it was determined that the headaches were caused by an emerging mental power.

A team of 4 of the top telepaths on Titan were gathered together to release the mental pressure building in Gnill's mind, thereby stopping the headaches and allowing him access to his mental power. The Titans built up mental barriers in Gnill's mind to allow the power to be gradually incorporated. But they had not realized the sheer raw power that Gnill possessed. When their minds lightly touched the mental force, it exploded out, tearing down the mental barriers in Gnill's mind and also in the minds of the Titans. The mental blast affected everyone within a 2 mile radius. The 4 Titans with Gnill had their minds shredded. It would take years of treatment and therapy before they could begin to use their telepathy again. Everyone else in the blast radius temporarily lost their sense of reason and rationality. Those closest lost it for a longer period of time than those further away.

After a year of intensive training on Titan, Gnill felt that he had mastered his mental power. He could send out a pulse of mental energy that would render anyone in its path in a state of irrationality and rage. He was able to direct the mental pulse in one direction rather than as a circle. And he could vary the intensity of the pulse, which made the effect less severe and to last a shorter time.

Thinking that his powers could help in a fight against supervillains, Gnill applied for membership in the Legion of Superheroes, taking the code name Kid Psycho. At the tryout, Superboy agreed to let Kid Psycho demonstrate his power on him. The mental pulse did affect the young Kryptonian, but the enraged Superboy attacked the other Legionnaires. Fortunately, they were able to subdue him without anyone getting badly injured and only minimum property damage.

Gnill was rejected for the following reasons: 1) he could not target individuals with his power and could affect other Legionnaires as well as their opponents, 2) while under the effects of his power, villains would still pose a danger, possibly even more of a danger than when they were in full command of themselves, and 3) even though the effect wears off, Gnill could not halt the effect himself.

Gnill, although disappointed, could see the reasons for his rejection. However Brainiac 5 saw that there may come a time when Gnill's power could aid them and proposed that Kid Psycho be made a Reserve Legionnaire. Gnill would be trained at the Legion Academy and he would also return to Titan to work on refining his power so that he may someday become a full-time Legionnaire.

I like that this Kid Psycho lives up to his name better than the real one!

That's a interesting power, to trigger psychosis in others, and with his range and effectiveness, he'd be darn useful in a 'Khunds are invading!' sort of scenario, unleashing his blast on an incoming ship and causing it's crew to go insane and attack each other in the halls, rather than continue manning their stations.

i agree, i like that he causes rage in people. The team could use more people who can manipulate emotions! i think it would be a really interesting plot point for any team.

i love how his power emerged and that you created a real reaction. he totally would get sent to Titan!

The heroine who goes by the name Fear Femme claims to be from Earth, in the year 3276, to be precise, and to be a Legionnaire, in that time! On a mission to the distant past, she got 'unstuck in time' and crash-landed in the 31st century, where she got into a disagreement with the Legion over her not only wearing a Flight Ring, but wearing what appeared to be *four* of them!

After a brief private conversation with Dream Girl, who was the only person she trusted with future knowledge, Dream Girl vouched for her, and she is puttering around Metropolis, 'waiting for her ride home to arrive.'

A mixed species human/alien hybrid, she has signs of human and red saturnian ancestry, with dark purple skin, golden eyes and bright red dreadlocks, with extremely limited shapeshifting ability (only able to change the color of her skin, hair and eyes, and change the length and style of her hair from bald to waist-length).

Her true power is the ability to psionically induce terror in others, or to suppress fear, making others unnaturally brave in the face of danger. She can control her fear-generating talents minutely, affecting a large area, or a single target, and imposing very specific phobias.

She explained to Dream Girl that her four 'Flight Rings' were a later development in Legion history. Only one is a Flight Ring, and the others are a Might Ring (which gives her super-strength, channeling the same sorts of gravitic forces that power a Flight Ring) a Sight Ring (which gives her a wide array of enhanced visual perceptions) and a Fight Ring (which she explained was programmed by future Legionnaires Capoeira Kid and the Escrimador with a bewildering array of martial arts maneuvers). As she gains rank and position as a Legionnaire, she says that she'd qualify to earn additional Rings.

At the moment, she seems to be exploring the 31st century, which she's only read about in history books, and fighting crime as she stumbles upon it, rather than actively super-heroing, and tries to avoid interacting with the current-day Legion, as she is concerned about 'polluting the timeline,' and a bit paranoid about a Legion telepath attempting to read her mind and learning things they shouldn't know about the future, but she has told Dream Girl that the Legion can call upon her at any time, if they need her assistance.

Set, does Fear Femme notice the contradiction between being concerned about "polluting the timeline" and happily taking active part in situations so significant that the Legion needs outside help?

Not that I've seen the regular 30th-31st century Legion ever concern itself overmuch with their actions in centuries before their own changing their own history.

She's more worried about having her mind read or Brainy deducing something from her comments, I think.

She's read future history, so she knows what calls she can and cannot answer, I imagine.

Ha, I just noticed I posted this to the wrong thread. This was supposed to go in Heroes of Other Worlds. My brain, such as it is, is rubbish!

"Alternate Legionnaires" isn't too far a stretch though, so she fits here well enough.

I suppose she also has the advantage of knowing just HOW she will help in each situation.

lol i was going to ask who she was supposed to be an alternate for.

But i agree with Shining Son, she's a great fit.
although i wonder how the whole non-natural power/ability works in this future legion....

Fear Femme sounds like she could be a descendent of my reworked Kid Psycho

People used to joke that Dom Marino's best friend was his mirror, because he seemed quite fond of his own reflection. Little did they know that he had a special gift, and was able to communicate with his own reflection. He was seventeen when he discovered that he could do more than that, and could actually reach into the mirror and pull his reflection out of the mirror, to manifest as a 'mirrorself' duplicate of himself.

He got up to all sorts of shenanigans with this gift, but discovered that the mirror from which he drew his mirrorself would lose it's reflective properties, and become a silvery blur, while he had a mirrorself manifested. His mother accidentally destroyed a mirrorself, when she smacked the mirror in his room and cracked it, wondering why it wasn't showing her reflection, causing his mirrorself (which was far across town, with Dom, at the time) to crack and fall to pieces, dissolving into silvery light and fading away in seconds. The experience was traumatizing for Dom, who felt like *he* was being broken into pieces, but he discovered later that he could recall a mirrorself from any mirror of the appropriate size, and even have dozens of them in existence at a time (each from a different mirror, as each mirror used in this fashion because similarly non-reflective). From small hand mirrors, he could even call forth miniature versions of himself!

He applied to join the Legion as Reflecto, but was rejected when it was discovered that he needed many mirrors hidden away to maintain his mirrorselves (which themselves possessed no special powers, other than being only semi-real and not needing to eat, drink or breathe).

Not letting this rejection get him down, he went about his life, until he overheard on the newsnet that a small group of Legionnaires was facing down the Fatal Five at the other end of the park from his current location, and rushed to assist his heroes however he could.

Only three Legionnaires were present, and they were hopelessly outmatched. Dom noted the presence of an office building covered with mirrored panes of glass, and ran to it, pulling forth dozens of mirrorselves, and sending them fearlessly into the fray. He had long since discovered that the more mirrorselves he had present, the less disorienting it was if one was dispelled, and so he barely felt it when the Persuader's Axe sundered one, and Mano's touch disintegrated another. In short notice, Mano was pinned by a half-dozen mirrorselves, who kept his hands grappled and held him aloft, unable to bring his deadly touch to bear, but the Persuader was too strong to be manhandled in such a fashion, and the ground steamed with silvery radiance as he sliced apart duplicates with abandon. It wasn't until Dom found a 10 meter tall reflective pane of transparisteel that the architect had placed in the lobby, and Dom drew forth a thirty foot tall mirrorself, and it grabbed the Persuader by the helmet and hurled him hundreds of yards into the park, leaving the deadly axeman battered and unconscious.

And that was Reflecto's undoing, as he finally drew the attention of Tharok, who order the Empress and Validus to coordinate fire at the young man who was sending all of these duplicates after them.

Dom barely managed to avoid the deadly barrage, but the dozens of mirrored walls behind him exploded, causing all of his mirrorselves to disperse, and sending shards of metal and glass in all directions.

The Fatal Five was forced to flee, as the Legionnaires took advantage of this distraction to coordinate their own counter-attacks, leaving Tharok and the Empress reeling and near defeat, but it was too late for Dom, who became a Legionnaire only posthumously, as Reflecto, gaining a statue in the Legion's Hall of Heroes.

Great way to really change Reflecto and give him a really heroic death!

Thanks! I wanted to come up with something new, and decided to pick a 'Legionnaire' who usually only appeared as someone else in disguise, or as a statue in the hall.

Plus I just love the visual of mirror-related powers. There aren't nearly enough mirror / reflection based super-characters!

your totally right! I've never actually read a story with a real reflecto in it.

Plus I just love the visual of mirror-related powers. There aren't nearly enough mirror / reflection based super-characters![/QUOTE]


very true...i think Mirror Master is the only one....???

+1 on mirror-related characters! An awesome and underused gimmick

Have we had a Shrinking Violet yet?

The Earth of the 31st century is not a place where plant life flourishes, but it does still exist...and where plant life exists, so does the Green. Scientist Violet Digby found this out for herself when she tried to replicate the serum which had given Chlorophyll Kid his powers. She wanted to create instant crops for border worlds, and this drew the attention of certain unscrupulous individuals. Such a dramatic change to agriculture would hurt Leland Macauley's holdings in synthfood companies, so he hired killers to take out Violet Digby before her work could be completed.

She was thrown into one of her own serum vats, and her lab burned down around her. Shy socially awkward scientist Violet Digby died that day, and Shrinking Violet, the enigmatic avatar of the Green was born!

Her body now is composed mainly of vegetation, and she can communicate with and control plant life. Violet's mind was damaged in her transformation...she has a vague recollection that she once was a normal woman with friends and family, but her overriding trait is that of a fierce protector of the natural world. Originally this brought her into conflict with the Legion of Superheroes as she waged war against technology, but the managed to convince her of their altruistic intentions and she grudgingly agreed to join their ranks.

When it comes to her mission, Violet is harsh and almost uncompromising in her quest for justice for the natural world. She still retains her shyness when it comes to normal social situations though, more so than ever now that she barely even remembers how to be human....she is developing more normalised social skills though the longer she stays with the team (though it's a sometimes painfully slow process)

Luan Torgo, of Naltor, was born with the uncanny ability to see three future possibilities at once, and distorts time in her wake, appearing to be in three places at once. Whatever quantum uncertainty has beset her, it made her a nightmare for her overworked parents to try and keep track of, as she existed in all three locations at once, and yet was only partially real in all three locations at once, making it impossible to get ahold of the precocious and willful child unless one was able to grab *all three* of her manifestations at the same time. If even one was free, the others blipped away, unable to be restrained, or even confined to a single room, for an unwanted bath or bedtime or 'time-out,' unless all three had been snatched up and carried there at the same time (a feat her two parents could not accomplish on their own, and one that, due to the child's cleverness, often required a half-dozen or more adults!).

As she matured, she became less of a wild child, to the muted shock of her jaded parents, and began to apply her unique gift to bettering herself, and accomplishing surprising things, able to take three times as many courses as the average Naltorian. She left for earth to join the Legion as Triplicate Girl, and while her effectiveness was questioned at first, her single-handed defeat of the Fatal Five member Mano proved her value to her new friends, as she blithely entered hand to hand combat with him, frustrating the killer, as he could never lay hands on (and therefore 'destroy') more than two of her at a time, making her utterly immune to his fearsome annhilating touch.

She danced around him for several minutes, before finally bonking him on the head with a bit of debris, cracking his life-support helmet and prompting him to surrender with alacrity, afraid of suffocating in the unpolluted air of earth.

Her fearlessness, and apparent immunity to any force that could not simultaneously strike all three of her quantum selves (as well as the short ranged teleportation that she had developed, as her quantum selves could manifest at a short range from her original position), proved a welcome contribution to the Legion of Super-Heroes.

Set love this new use of Triplicate Girl!

i wonder how seeing three possible futures works out for her. that must really play havac with some of her actions.


Raz I love yours as well!
Great take on Shirnking Violet! she's swamp thing for the 31st centruy.

and yes there was a shirnking violet done. but there's always room for more alternates with a mulitvers out there!

i mean i feel like we have at least sepaerate three legions that could exist on different earth in this thread so far.

Cosmic Boy: Rokk Krinn was born on the planet Colu and while nowhere near as intelligent as that planet's most well-known export, even a slightly smarter than average Coluan is leaps and bounds ahead of most other sentients intellectually.

When Rokk was still a young child, a team of Legionnaires were sent to Colu to stop a raid by the evil cyborg Tharok. Instrumental to Tharok's defeat was the White Witch, and Rokk found himself fascinated by her mastery of magic. Magic of course was one of the few disciplines alien to any Coluan, so there was only so much he could learn on his homeworld. Rokk spent several months travelling the UP trying to learn more, but was frustrated by the severe lack of educational opportunities available in the highly technologically dependant 31st century.

Finally, he found his way to the Sorceror's World. The ruling council of Zerox were curious enough that a Coluan would find interest in their arts that they allowed him to study amongst them, even though they detected no real potential for spellcasting within him.

The next few years at first provided only more frustration. Finally Rokk had found the perfect place to pursue his interest, but as his teachers had tried to tell him from the start, he just had no natural talent for the craft. His keen analytical mind and excellent memory made him essentially a walking grimoire, but try as he might he couldn't embrace the philosophy of a magic user which was completely alien to anything he had had been brought up with. He knew the concepts behind sorcery, but he couldn't cast a single spell.

In an effort to help him, one of his teachers suggested that he try to abandon his need to analyse everything, and to just accept the teachings of the universe by faith. Rokk realised he was incapable of doing this, and that led to an idea...he had been fighting against his analytical nature all this time, what if he embraced it? He changed his focus, and finally a breakthrough happened.

While he still can't utilise magic actively, Rokk has elevated his consciousness through hyperlogical pursuance of philosophies and mystic precepts that he has reached a state of cosmic awareness. He can instantly sense disturbances in the spacetime makeup of reality itself. The greater the disturbance, the greater his range.

For example, he can generally sense the presence of another magic user or a uniquely powered individual within a city's radius. He can pinpoint the exact location of time travellers, extradimensional travellers or space warps on a continental range. When Darkseid and the Archmage manifested in his era, he sensed them from halfway across the galaxy. His studies have also given him such an innate understanding of how the universe is supposed to work that he can predict actions and reactions with almost Naltorian clarity. He can analyse the comparitive strengths and weaknesses of a target physically, mentally and spiritually (which gives him his only real edge in combat). He has a general sense of whether things are the way they're meant to be around him, which can be infuriating for himself and others because sometimes he knows something's wrong instinctively but still needs to figure out what exactly that is.

Rokk was forced to end his studies on the Sorceror's World after the Magic Wars. Calling himself Cosmic Boy, he tried out for the Legion of Superheroes. Though the Legion noted that his power could be useful in certain situations, they also found it too vague and without any consistent applications. They would have turned him down, but Dream Girl had a vision that he would save the entire universe as a Legionnaire and she talked the rest of the team into letting him join. It has been a bone of contention, because he has sometimes been key to their adventures, but has also been less than useful on a lot of other missions.

Andromeda: Cosmic Boy's shining moment as a Legionnaire was when he convinced the team that they needed to investigate a disturbance in the Andromeda Galaxy. After many side adventures along the way, they finally found the source of this disturbance. A mad supergenius named Laur El-Gand had used science to evolve herself to her maximum biological and psionic potential, and overthrown more than two thirds of the galaxy. Not content with this, she pursued the ultimate power. El-Gand cannibalised the resources of an entire solar system to create a Dyson Sphere housing the most advanced machine ever created. This machine would expand El-Gand's consciousness until she was one with the universe itself, and would be able to control space-time at will in her home reality.

By the time the Legion found her, she had already gained control of local reality. She condensed the Andromeda Galaxy itself into her form, leaving only her cosmically enhanced body and the Legion of Superheroes inside a Dyson Sphere floating now in the middle of a galaxy-sized vacuum. She engaged the Legion of Superheroes in a brutal and drawn-out fight which would have ended with the Legion's slaughter if Saturn Girl and the White Witch hadn't pooled their power to totally wipe her mind before she could accustom herself to her new level of consciousness.

This dealt with El-Gand, but they couldn't reverse the destruction of the galaxy around them and they were left now with a cosmically powered mindless body. Cosmic Boy proved his worth to the team again when of all the Legion, only he possessed the knowledge and insight to reach out to the fragment of consciousness belonging to Kismet herself (the personification of the universe) which still resided in El-Gand's body. Traumatised by her ordeal, the fragment of Kismet is incapable of rejoining with the rest of her universal consciousness until time heals the psychospiritual damage done. Until this happens, the Legion have agreed to take her on as a member.

Appropriately naming herself Andromeda, the new heroine is easily their most powerful member (and probably the most powerful sentient being in the universe). She possesses all the power you would associate with a galaxy condensed to humanoid form. Her strength and durability are off the charts, as is her ability to manipulate electromagnetic energy. She can fly at lightspeed, and she has an instinctive ability to navigate the universe as she knows every cosmic landmark intimately.

Andromeda's downfall is that she is new to life on this scale, and therefore socially awkward and unfamiliar with the day to day normalities of human existence. She is a complete pacifist and will only use her abilities in purely constructive ways. She finds violence disturbing and extremely upsetting. She is also incredibly naive and trusting, and the Legion have taken her on as much to protect her from being manipulated by villains as for the power she can offer.

Visually, Andromeda still wears Laur El-Gand's form and appears as an athletic blonde woman. A starfield permeates her entire body however, making her look the part of a cosmic scale heroine.

Very interesting take on Cosmic Boy, but wow, that Andromeda is indeed, as you say, 'off the charts!'

Marvel has gone so far as to have Cloud, a sentient star, on a hero team, but a sentient galaxy? That's certainly a step into the cosmic!

OK, so now I say, “Surely you jest,” and you say, “Don’t call me Shirley.”

You’re putting the power of a Galaxy in the hands of a teen-ager?

Look, it seemed absurd when the Silver-Age Superman would move a planet by standing on his head. But that takes less than 1% of the power output of the sun. This Andromeda has the power of hundreds of billions of suns: not to mention the supermassive black hole in the center of the Andromeda galaxy. (about thirty times the size of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.)

All that power compressed into a couple of hundred cubic centimeters? The Andromeda central black hole would approximately extend beyond the the orbit of Pluto—yet Andromeda has quintillions of times the energy density. Does she project a Schwarzchild radius of a couple of billion kilometers around herself?

Superman, Darkseid, the Phoenix Force, Galactus—they are infants compared to her. Extinguishing suns or creating solar systems would be child’s play to this Andromeda. Such feats would not require even an eyeblink’s worth of energy.

Even utilizing the ordinary physics of our Universe (let alone comic book physics) she has enough power to…

1. Create time-zero singularities—that is, singularities that will expand into new universes. Since time-zero singularities have vanishingly small masses (until they explode in a “big bang”, creating new mass and time) she should be able to create very large numbers of them.

2. Re-unify the four forces; then re-break the symmetry, possibly in a different way, probably creating new forces and universal laws. She can probably manipulate the Higgs field, or create new Higgs fields.

3. Warp space sufficiently to transform vector space dimensions into scalar time dimensions, and vice versa. She ought to be able to create additional space-time dimensions beyond the four (or nineteen) that we ordinarily experience.

I cannot even begin to imagine these power levels. Concepts like “speed”, “strength” and “invulnerability” are meaningless. How invulnerable are a hundred billion stars?

I can't even begin to conceptualize it. Maybe Stephen Hawking could work it out. Although this might be more along Sheldon Cooper's line.

Assuming she knows how to do any of that stuff, sure...as a fracture of consciousness bound to humanoid form, she's limited to what she can actually conceive of herself doing/being. With her primary influences being a bunch of teenagers who run around punching things as hard as they can, it makes sense that's how she would apply herself as well.

She's the kind of character I think who works best for a limited duration....as time goes by, she would gain more knowledge about herself and more applications for her power, and it would get to the point where she's more of a plot device than a character...by that point though she'd be ready to rejoin Kismet and leave this scale of existence behind and her story as Andromeda would be over. I guess an analogy might be that any human being could live the rest of his/her life playing god to a cage full of mice, but why would anyone want to limit themselves to that existence?

Raz, both are really great. but i have to agree that Andromeda is wow!

i think it would be awesome to watch her story unfold.

Nightwind - (inspiration for this comes from Raz's current storyline in his Postl3w Legion series.)

Berta Skye Haris was born on Earth, but traveled around the U.P. with her parents who were U.P. delegate staff members. During her travels she got to see many different worlds and explore.

During her visit to Kathoon, it was during a lunar eclipse. since the world is shielded in darkness perpetually, the lunar eclipse would bathe the planet in silver light. It was a great sight to see.
But no one knew that there was a dark presence on Kathoon, that was waiting for the lunar eclipse. That presence was Xola a leader of a vampire sect on Kathoon.
He obtained some magical amulets to help him and his people withstand the lunar eclipse. The reason for the protection is that this lunar eclipse was a cursed that was placed on them by their arch nemesis. They were cursed to be slain by the lunar eclipse every ten years. because of this and the insurgence of more off worlder's, installing more lighting fixtures their numbers have dwindled. But with these amulets they will survive it and turn as many people as they can during it.

As the lunar eclipse began Xola and his army of vampires descended a pone Nightmare hill, where the best view of the eclipse was. Berta and her family ran but they soon were caught and bitten.
Xola took Berta's life and became her sire.

but when Berta pulled away from him, she pulled his amulet from him,and he died instantly. But Berta was still bitten and being changed into a vampire.
rescued by Xola's second in command Jedth and put the amulet on her to save her from the lunar eclipse's deathly light.

taking the young girl in, he showed her the ways of their coven. But Berta still resisted the vampiric urges and had yet to feed on a sentient being. She found that the amulet gives her strength in helping her sustain without blood.

When the next lunar eclipse happened, Berta and her people charged into the light again. But this time they were interrupted by a visiting Legion of Super Heroes.

Facing off against the likes of Timber Wolf, Night Girl, Shadow Lass,and Cosmic Boy.
The vampires were no match for the legionnaires. Berta was captured by the Legionnaires. Berta, who didn't want to attack anyone, and still felt as if she a shred of her actual soul and humanity; agreed to help the Legion.

She helped lead the legion to the vampires and helped round them up. She only agreed to help as long as they could be relocated to another planet that was suited for the vampire life and away from all other sentient beings. even though she didn't believe in her peoples way, she didn't think it was reason to have them all die.

because of her willingness to help the legion and still help save her own people the legion asked her to join their ranks.

when she arrived on earth she found that the amulet allowed her to walk in direct sunlight and allowed her to still use her natural vampire powers. she must hide this fact though from the Legion.

The Legion figured her only problem was from the need to feed. the Legion put Brianiac 5 to work on a way to make a synthetic blood for her to live off of.

In the 31st century,, the lizard-like scientist race known as the Psions were investigating… well, everything.
A certain group thought it would be cool (in a purely logical, cold-blooded way) to create and army of super-powered Kryptonians to do their bidding.

First, they needed samples of Kr-DNA for experimentation. These they found readily available among the remaining Phantom Zone criminals.
Next, they used elementary recombinant DNA technologies to create what they considered to be the “perfect” Kryptonian genome.

They then needed to construct replicas of the Kryptonian birthing chambers. This was somewhat more difficult, and involved time travel—and more than one unsuccessful attempt.
At last, they had something under a thousand embryos incubating.
This is when the United Planets stepped in.
Alerted by the Intergalactic Counter-Intelligence Corps, the UP Science Police intercepted the Psion laboratory-ship, destroyed the equipment found their, and took the Psions as prisoners, charging them as enemy combatants.

There was a debate regarding the birthing chambers and the embryos. Many were in favor of simply destroying them all. The Daxamites, however, offered another solution.

As no psychic programming had been begun by the Psions, the chambers would by taken back to Daxam. The embryos would be allowed to develop normally, They would then be mainstreamed into Daxamite society; fostered out as orphans. Their true Kryptonian origins would be unknown, except by a secret oversight committee, who would monitor the development of the Kr-children.

This would result in an increase of less than .01% in the population of their generation, The Kr-children would live out their lives as ordinary Daxamites,, and in a century, no one would know the difference.

However.

At the age of twelve years, all Daxamite children undergo an intensive sequence of psychological examinations and aptitude tests to project what profession and place in Daxamite society they would be most fitted to.

The Kryptonian children proved to be exceptional.

They were significantly more outgoing, adventurous, and charismatic than the average Daxamite. They also scored highly in emotional intelligence, particularly empathy. Many were suited to be high-level executive administrators, entrepreneurs, and politicians. Many were projected to be excellent physicians—not merely the biomedical researchers that many Daxamites qualified as, but actual doctor-to-patient, face-to-face physicians.

An alarming number—nearly one-quarter— showed non-standard patterns of thinking to the point of being a possible criminal danger. These were slated for psychic re-education in impulse control and social consciousness.

But two of the group were of particular concern.

One Kr-Child named Gol Ber, was impulsive and rash. For example, at the age of ten, he had been at the site of a freak accident. Most of Daxam is powered by geothermal (daxothermal?) energy generators. These are located throughout the substructure of the cities. One of these generators had run out of control, causing a planetquake and fire in the school Gol attended. Nearly all the teachers and students escaped without incident, but there were three children who were unaccounted for. Gol recklessly ran back into the school, moving desks and lifting fragments of walls until he had found and freed the three trapped children. It is likely the children would have been rescued anyway by the Daxamite SP anyway, but by the time they showed up, it was only Gol who needed attention, due to severe smoke inhalation, burns, bruises, and physical exhaustion. Gol spent some time in hospital after that incident.

The other problem child was Tamila Hon, well-known to her former teachers as a troublemaker. Tamila was involved in nearly every fight in her grades, both on- and off-campus, and always taking the weaker side. She ended up starting a number of fights herself, constantly demanding apologies from students who bullied, teased, or belittled more vulnerable students. By the time she was twelve, she was being home-schooled, and appeared to be reformed, but it was well-known that if an injustice came to Tamila’s attention, somehow the perpetrator found his or her life suddenly became—well, interesting—for a period of time.

Looking at their histories, psychological profiles and aptitude tests it was obvious: these two had an incurable “saving-people thing.”

There was only one thing to do.

Gol and Tamila’s Kryptonian heritage was revealed to them, and to their foster parents, by the oversight committee; no mention was made of the existence of the other Kr-children. Gol and Tamila were to be given new identities. The Ber and Hol families were to keep this information in the strictest confidence.

The two were then enrolled in the Legion Academy on Earth.

Both taking the 21st-century Superman’s symbol as their own, Gol Ber adopted a black-and-indigo costume; Tamila Hon went with pink.

The 31st-century Superboy and Supergirl .






Quotes:

“I can’t believe it. My own child… *choke* an alien .”— Ma Ber

“I suppose it’s for the best. He’ll be among his own kind now.”— Pa Ber

“How could they do this to us? Those two chambers should have been destroyed thirteen years ago.”— Ma Hon

“I knew there was something strange about that ‘girl’ from the very beginning. But this!”— Pa Hon

“Well, actually, I think it’s kind of frunt. I mean, an alien. Right here in school. I mean, you know, wow.”— Jak La-Hey, schoolmate of Tamila Hon.

“What else could we do? Daxam has no place for heroics.”— Lart Behr, DaxGov spokesman

By the 31st century, the Amazon nation had left Earth, and settled on a distant planet. The island of Themiscrya is now no more than a tourist resort off mainland Greece. This is where young Max Izor worked as a parking lot attendant at the Museum of Trees. Eschewing the popular boutiques and other “hot spots”, Max spent most of his spare time scuba-diving in the Aegean. An bizarre incident involving an unexpectedly rapid current and a large squid led him to discover a secret underwater cave.

Emerging into fresh air within the cave, Max was greeted by the strange sight of two stone statues—remarkably lifelike in appearance—which seemed to be staring into a large, open box decorated with elaborate scrollwork and intaglio. Acquainted with Greek myth since a child, Max suspected the truth. Looking into a mirrored shield hanging nearby, he saw that it was, indeed, the severed head of the Gorgon Medusa in the box. Resisting the terrible urge to turn and look directly into the eyes of the hideous head, Max closed the box, placed it back on a shelf, and began to explore.

The cave was itself a museum of many of the implements of power of the ancient Gods and heroes of myth. Hermes’ helm of invisibility, winged sandals, and caduceus were here, as was the bow and quiver of Artemis. The Trident of Poseidon gave power over the sea, the Globe of Helios generated light and heat. The Staff of Charon gave the power to see and converse with ghosts. The Sword of Hades sundered the soul without harming the body. The Shield of Achilles foretold the future to those able to interpret the engravings.

Many of the magical devices and tools were not immediately obvious in their function. The Bridle of Pegasus seemed useless without the winged horse. The lion-cowl of Herakles did not appear to confer great strength. On the other hand, a collection of mysterious golden ovoids proved upon later experimentation to be the Thunderbolts of Zeus.

Taking the name GEAR, after the magical gear which he utilized, Max applied to the Legion of Super-Heroes—and was rejected, as his powers are not innate, but relied on mechanisms. Nevertheless, he continued to experiment with and refine his skills with the mythical weapons and implements. He has occasionally associated or teamed with the Legion, and has proved himself a competent and even valuable ally, especially when facing some sort of magical threat.

re Nightwind: glad I could be of inspiration, Omni!

re Gear: I love using the name of a technologically-based character for someone who uses mythological artifacts, and the name actually makes more sense this way! It's also pretty cool to see a character with a vague link to Wonder Woman without necessarily being the 31st century Wonder Girl/Boy

ECHO: The young squire Mychastor had a relatively good life growing up on Orando. His family were wealthy enough that life was rarely a struggle, but not so high up in Orandan society that they needed to overly concern themselves with political intrigue.

From the time he'd been a young child it was well known that Mychastor showed some vague predisposition toward psychic ability. On a planet like Orando this in itself was far from uncommon, and there were plenty of Orandans whose abilities were stronger or more disciplined than his own. It was seen more as a quirky novelty than anything really useful; at times he might sense that someone's father had recently passed away, or know that a lady's brooch had been handed down from her grandmother, but it wasn't very often useful beyond the occasional parlor trick.

That all changed the day Queen Projectra's disgraced cousin Prince Pharoxx made a bid to take Orando by force. Pharoxx had found favor with Orandan dissidents who were unhappy with their queen's more egalitarian worldview. They struck during one of her frequent absences, and while her more loyal servants defended Orando bravely it was Mychastor who really turned the tide of battle that day.

Pharoxx had personally slain the knight who had been Mychastor's mentor. When the evil prince moved to kill the knight's family, Mychastor grabbed his mentor's weapon and fought with all the skill of the dead hero. When that skill proved insufficient, he cast all weapons aside and downed Pharoxx with a mastery of martial arts not seen since the death of the original Karate Kid. When the cowardly Pharoxx turned to sorcery to kill Mychastor, the young squire inexplicably transformed into a being of iron, taking on the one form which was a perfect nemesis to magic. Pharoxx's spells were useless against him, and he was physically no match against the boy. He had no choice but to surrender.

Projectra returned to her world as soon as possible, and when she heard what Mychastor had done she insisted on meeting him in person. She noticed instantly that there was something unique about the young boy, and she asked her colleague the White Witch for her input. The White Witch discerned that Mychastor has one singularly powerful innate mystic ability; he can call upon the essence of anyone who has died in his vicinity, and use their skills or powers as though they were his own. Depending on how strong-willed the deceased was, or how strong their emotional connection to a person or place, he sometimes feels or remembers certain things himself as though he were an echo of the deceased.

Projectra convinced Mychastor to join the Legion Academy to hone his talents and to experience life outside of Orando. He graduated there with far more precise control and versatility than he'd had when he entered, and when Projectra left the Legion to devote herself to her world as a full-time monarch he was honored to take Sensor Girl's place in the Legion of Superheroes as the hero named Echo.

Some of the older Legionnaires initially found it creepy when he would take on aspects of deceased comrades like Ferro Lad, Chemical King or Lyle Norg, but they have since become accustomed to it and some of them even like having a reminder of their old friends pop up every now and then to help save the day.

That's an awesome 'echo,' and I love how he even duplicated Nemesis Kid's powers!

I like the consistency of the idea, how, right from the beginning (knowing that someone's relative had just died, or that a brooch was someone's grandmothers), the nature of his powers (tapping into the knowledge of the dead) was right there in the open.

Raz you made another awesome Legionnaire and i love how you included the reactions of the other legion members.

i love this one! i would love to read a back up feature of This GEAR and see how he uses all of the different mystical artifacts.

Zerox is the socerer's world, but other planets have areas where magic is strong. One such place was the island of Loa in the Southern hemisphere of Lallor. The island is considered inhospitable and most people stay away from it. But there a cult of Anima developed. The cult practiced magic involving the life essense of all things.

Among the cultists, young Somi Gan was most adept at weilding the forces on anima. Unlike the rest of the cult, Somi also had a desire to explore the world outside the island. When the government made its yearly inspection of the island, Somi snuck aboard the flyer.

As fate would have it Somi arrived at the capital of Lallor just as a rebel force attacked the city. She was horrified to see soldiers on both sides firing indiscriminately, killing innocent civilians. Calling upon the magic of the anima, Somi brought the dead back to a semblance of life. She then commanded this army of undead to attack the soldiers. Many soldiers were unnerved by the sight of this undead army, including some of their former comrades. The fighting soon ended.

Although most of the citizens were horrified by the animated dead, they also realized that Somi had prevented even more people from being killed. Somi explained as best she could her anima magic and took the name Life Lass.

About thirty thousand years ago, just as Cro-Magnon man was wiping out the last of the Neanderthals, the planet Koellus suffered an almost unimaginable ecological disaster.

In the 31st century, the oceans of Koellus are still so heavily acidic that almost no life can survive there. The largest form of ocean life currently is a sort of tiny salt-water pinworm, feeding upon the sparse krill-like creatures which still live in the oceans. The surfaces of the oceans are also still thickly encrusted with the gradually decaying detritus of the long-dead Koellion super-civilization. Now mostly various plastics, polymers, and other synthetics remain. Finally, the overheated environment makes the oceans so hot that they literally reach boiling temperatures near the equator.

The steam from the equatorial oceans rises high into the atmosphere, spreading thick, black storm clouds throughout the planetary atmosphere. Ninety percent of the light of Koellus’s sun never reaches the ground. The black, desolate, rocky surface is frequently, although briefly, illuminated by flashes of lightning from continual thunderstorms. The largest land animal is a tiny twelve-legged beetle, the largest no larger than ½ inch in length. The larvae of this beetloid feed on the rotting lichen which grows on the rocky landscape, and upon the massive ruins of the ancient Koellion cities. When mature, these beetles become cannibalistic, warring amongst themselves and feeding upon one another’s corpses, until only a few gorged adults remain. These then mate, each female laying thousands of eggs apiece among the rotting lichen, and the cycle begins all over again.

Few would have any reason to visit this depressing desolate planet, but the Legion received intelligence that a group of Space-Pirates was using the world as a base of operations. Thus, the Espionage Squad was sent to scout out the world, and confirm the existence of the so-called Koellion Pirate Base there.

They found nothing. The planet appeared empty of higher life forms, and most lower ones. However, as Phantom Girl searched through a ruined city, she did discover one other living being: herself. Or rather, a strange duplicate of herself. Indeed, the creature possessed not only her appearance, but her powers, skills, memories, mind and even personality. The only thing distinguishing the creature from Phantom Girl herself was that it manifested in a palette of pale purples and grays.

Returning to Earth with the Espionage Squad, the creature calling itself Apparition displayed its ability to perfectly duplicate any other Legionnaire, from Bouncing Boy to Mon-El. Each duplicate, however, is easily distinguished from the original in that it is colored in nothing but various shades and hues of purple and gray.


In its natural form, Apparition appears as a diaphanous, purplish-gray, indistinct semi-humanoid shape. Imagine an appearance something between the Time Trapper and a column of lavender fog. However, it is seldom seen in this form, as it only assumes this appearance when there are no other entities around for it to duplicate. Otherwise, it immediately transforms itself into the first living object it perceives.

It perfectly replicates any other being’s appearance, powers, skills, memories, and personality. It must stay relatively near to the original to retain this form, however. If it is separated from its original by more than about two miles, it will revert to its natural form, and then immediately replicate the closest living being. If the original dies, it also reverts to its natural form.

It must be within line-of-sight to replicate another creature. In its natural form, it has rather undeveloped senses, unable to perceive any creature smaller than about ten kilograms. As a human, however, it can easily transform into small animals, birds, or even insects. Using Daxamite microscopic vision, it can even replicate a minute bacterium or virus.

It is unwise to allow Apparition to replicate the more powerful Legionnaires. It is all too easy for Mon-El or Ultra Boy to become separated from Apparition by the critical distance, and Apparition will immediately assume the attributes—including the evil disposition—of its opponent, doubling the initial threat.

When changing forms, Apparition loses all the memories it had previously replicated, and even gradually loses all the memories it acquired while in the previous form. There is therefore no way of knowing how long Apparition has existed. It may be millennia old, or a very recent phenomenon. It is possible that it was responsible for the disappearance of the rumored Koellion Pirates, or even the entire ancient Koellion civilization, but there is no easy way to verify this.

It is possible, of course, that Apparition does, in fact, retain the memories of its previous incarnations, and is merely lying about its true nature and history. In its replicant forms, its thoughts and thought patterns are indistinguishable to Saturn Girl from the originals, and in its gauzy, natural form, its mind is a perfect blank to all telepathic inquiry.

Apparition’s powers are transcendental in nature. It is possibly that it is itself merely an ancient natural force. Should it encounter one of them, it would effortlessly—and unconsciously— duplicate a Guardian, Doctor Fate, the Spectre, Zauriel, Mordru, Darkseid, Omen or the Prophet, the Phantom Stranger, the Demon Nekron, even one of the Avatars of the Emotional Spectrum, or Wally the God-Child.

Brainiac 5 has suggested that Apparition might be taken to certain remote world devoid of animal life, and be asked to duplicate one of the huge long-lived trees there. After millennia, when its parent tree dies, it would then replicate the next nearest tree, and then the next, and might be kept safely isolated from the rest of the Universe for hundreds of thousands, or even millions of years. It would also be perfectly content, in the same way that long-lived giant trees are content.

Other Legionnaires have argued that Apparition is no more dangerous than The Miracle Machine was, and in the meantime, it is so confoundedly useful that the Legion keeps it under careful observation at Legion Headquarters, and frequently includes it—well-chaperoned—on some of the more important Legion missions.


When Apparition duplicates another being, red becomes violet, blue becomes indigo, yellow and white become pale lavender, and black becomes a deep, dark purple. As Lightning Lad, it produces lavender lightning bolts. As Sun Boy, it produces a magenta radiance. As a Green Lantern, it produces a violet light, but with the properties of Will rather than Love. As Rainbow Girl, it projects a rainbow of purples and grays, no matter what its emotional state. As Color Kid or Chameleon Boy—unlike in any of its other forms—its powers are severely curtailed, as it is limited to producing only the shorter wave-lengths of the spectrum. Green Kryptonite, however, affects its purplish Kryptonian forms just as it would any other natural Kryptonian.

Is the world Koellus a pre-existing 'Legion World' or one of your own imagining? I love the detail, in any event!

That it downshifts all colors to the dark purple end of the spectrum is a neat touch.

To quote the White Knight in Through the Looking Glass, "It's my own invention."

There do seem to be an unusual preponderance of cloud-covered, rocky, desolate worlds in Science Fiction films, however.

agreed. i love the detail.

i also think that Apparition could easily be the secret weapon that could be brought in to help at the last moment; maybe even the weirdo Legionnaire.

Element Lad - Born on Trom Jan Arrah was a mutant among his people. They all could transmute elements but he was a literal living, breathing being of elements. He could consciously control his body to shift into various elements. Jan was kept apart from most Tromians as a child due to his constant state of transitioning as a child. When Jan finally learned to control his transitions, he still chose to spend much of his time in constant transitional states. He learned to meditate during these times and it seems to have made him a little bit of a space case because he spends much time day dreaming. Since Jan has chosen to stay in his transitional states so often, he hasn't really learned social skills. He can be very abrasive when he talks. He also doesn't understand basic sentient relationships.

When the White Triangle members of Daxam came to Trom and destroyed their world, Jan's transitional state saved him, as he instinctively transmuted himself into Rock and merged with the ground beneath him. As his world was incinerated Jan meditated and spread himself through out crust of trom trying his best to save whatever he could of Trom. But he wasn't fast enough to save any people. For he wasn't even sure he could transmute them, the way he does himself. After everything was gone Jan released everything that he had saved. Creating a museum and memorial to his people. Jan for the first time felt connected to his people while he was buried in the crust of Trom. The reason being that has they were incinerated by the Damixiaets, the energies of his people were transferred to him and he is a living memorandum to his people.

Jan spent a few years trying to help heal his planet. Crystal markings littler the grounds where Jan was able to find some remains of a Tromian body.

One day when He was transmuting more remains and helping the ground regrow some of its fertile green grass, when there was a Legion envoy that came to his world. The legion was scouting for hospital worlds after the White Triangle War; which ravaged several planets through out the U.P. before the Legion stopped them two years after the war began.

Now the legion was underway to try and find worlds that could be repopulated with survivor's of the known destroyed worlds, for the Legion didn't know that Trom was destroyed by the White Triangle.

Jan didn't great them right away. He spied on them for a minuet or two before he was discovered by Saturn Girl's telepathy. She sensed him. He didn't fear them and he appeared before them rising out from the crust of Trom. Saturn Girl scanned him and helped him establish a psychic link to the group to allow him to communicate. Learning all they did about his world and Him learning about what transpired after his home world was extinguished.

Believing his world wasn't quite ready yet for anyone to return to it, Jan invited the Legion visit when every they would like.


Years later such an occasion arose. The Legion had been banned from Earth. Forced to find another home base. The Legion remembered Jan's offer and took up residency on Trom. Not long after their new headquarters was attacked by the Fatal 5 and Jan used his powers of transmutation to help defeat them. At that moment they asked Jan to join the Legion as Element Lad!

Interesting take on Element Lad. I'd made a child of Element Lad at one point with that power, able to only change herself into a pure element, but this is quite a bit more creative!

I like the idea of the power of transmutation flowing from the dead Tromnians to Jan. It suits my own sense of 'balance' for every single Tromnian not to have had planet-altering levels of transmutation, but for Jan's own powers to represent the power of his entire race, passed on to him with the death of his people.

(And it comes with a built in 'powerdown' option, in that if Jan ever has a child, or is cloned?, some of his power passes on to them.)

Exactly and i agree there had to be some type of balance.

I just felt his name is Element lad, so why not have him actually be of the elements.

Chuck Taine grew up the eldest child of a large family, having six younger siblings, all hyperkinetic and more than his single parent could handle, leaving him all too often assigned to ‘wrangle’ the young ones and keep them in line.

It came as a great relief when he discovered his unusual ability to absorb and redirect kinetic energy in his close proximity, arresting the movement of one of his running siblings, and transferring the absorbed momentum into a blue rubber ball he kept handy, causing it to bounce wildly around the playroom.

When the last of his siblings finally reached the age of being sent off to school, he found himself at a loss for what to do with his own life, which, for so long, had been dedicated to helping his mother manage their family. Walking in the park, he saw an out of control airspeeder plummeting out of control into a play area, and without thinking, he attempted to draw upon the momentum of the speeder, causing it to halt in midair and settle slowly to the ground, but he couldn’t refocus the energy fast enough, and instead ‘bounced’ himself high into the air, transferring all of the downward momentum of the falling speeder into upward momentum for himself! It was exhilarating, at least until he ran out of momentum, and began falling back to the earth, but he stole his own downward momentum and transferred into the ground beneath him, seconds before impact, causing him to drop softly into a massive divot in the earth!

As Bouncing Boy, Chuck joined the Legion, where he uses his ability to stop villains in their tracks, dropping them from the sky, and transferring their own momentum to their allies, to toss them around like ragdolls!

Nice use of Bouncing Boy, Set!
I like how he's able to take the momentum to do it and able to transfer it to others as well.

Thanks! BB was one of the few Legionnaires we hadn't already done, and I always loved the 'transfer momentum' power, after seeing it put to such devastating use in the Squadron Supreme mini (where a young superhuman named Inertia transfered the kinetic energy from Hyperion's punches into his ally Power Princess during a fight, causing him to basically beat up his own teammate!).

It was also a totally kickass powerset in City of Heroes, used to drain momentum / movement from enemies and boost that of allies, the ultimate debuff / buff combo, and one of the only powersets where you didn't need to also take a travel power, since you could just steal the ability to move at superspeed, or 'superjump' by attacking an enemy and stealing their momentum!

[tangent]Inertia had an awesome powerset! Was such a waste that she was killed the way she was...off the top of my head I can't think of a single other character in Marvel or DC who has the same abilities....[/tangent]

Cool Bouncing Boy! I think he would be fun to see in combat, and we don't really have many Legionnaires with strong family connections so it would be interesting to see the Taine brood pop up as support cast

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Evolvo Lad (Sev Tcheru of Inshar) has the ability to evolve various physical attributes. For example, a prehensile tail, claws, or fangs. His powers are actually quite similar to the Dupicate Boy of “our” Universe, but his powers evolve more gradually; it can take him several minutes to “evolve” Kryptonian-level strength, and he can work on evolving only one ability at a time.

Also, there is always a physical manifestation to his “evolutions”: if he “evolves” flight, he grows wings. If he “evolves” invulnerability, he grows hard, scaly skin. If he “evolves” telepathy or telekinesis, his brain and skull increase in size, and so forth.

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Beast Boy (Ilshu Nor of Tartarus, scion of Evillo): Has the ability to bring any individual under his temporary mental control.
These “slaves” which he creates can be distinguished as under his control by a glowing red mark on their forehead similar to this:
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He also has rapid healing powers.

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Gas Girl (Tal Nahii of Phlon): She is a failed genetic experiment, created in an attempt to replicate Chemical King’s powers. Her mastery of psychocatalysis extends only to gases—but there, she is supreme.

She has the ability to alter the volume, temperature and pressure of any gas. For example, she can make air viscous, at least up to the point at which it begins to liquefy. She can draw out the air in a person’s lungs, or the dissolved oxygen out of their blood, or cause oxygen to move away from their immediate surroundings, leaving them only nitrogen to breathe. She can shatter poisonous gases into their molecular components, or create nitrous oxide (laughing gas) from elemental oxygen and nitrogen. She can concentrate the trace amounts of neon in the atmosphere, and then heat it to luminosity.

Naturally, her powers are more limited in the vacuum of space, where gas is present in concentrations of only about one proton per cubic meter.

Deep within the galactic core, hundreds of different species of energy life dwell within the burning plasma of millions of suns, a civilization older than the existence of corporeal life, and generally happily unconcerned with this, to them, recent development.

Located 50,000 light years from the galactic center, the solarian life forms within the suns of the various United Planets worlds, collectively known as the Sollusineeri, are, at best, a terribly backward and provincial set of rural bumpkins, by the standards of core galactic solarian civilization, and yet they still possess an understanding of energy physics, electromagnetic wave theory and stellar fusion that is millennia ahead of the inhabitants of the rocky planets that orbit their homes.

Preferring to travel between stars by converting themselves to pure energy and riding a transportation network of quasars, forming new ‘bodies’ of fusing hydrogen upon arriving at new stars, the Sollusineeri have little use for planetary life, and the Sollus explorer Zhrekt, aka ‘Sun Boy,’ is something of an eccentric among his people, having fashioned a stable ‘body’ of magnetically-contained stellar hydrogen, and ridden a freakishly extended (and artificially generated and sustained) ‘solar flare’ to visit earth itself, the source of so many interesting radio signals, that his people had generally regarded as ‘background noise,’ and ‘no proof of that preposterous theory of matter-based life.’

‘Sun Boy’ appears as a burning sphere of hydrogen gas, having reduced himself to one meter in diameter, the better to safely interact with ‘materials.’ His ‘body’ is nearly impervious to attack, able to withstand the energy output of his stellar home, or the empty void of space, and he can generate great intensities of light, heat, or various electromagnetic radiation wavelengths, communicating by radio, microwave or lightpulse, as appropriate. With a fluctuation of his fields, he can belch forth a plume of burning hydrogen as well, burning at temperatures sufficient to vaporize steel, although he prefers not to risk damage to ‘materials’ in this fashion, or to waste perfectly good hydrogen, which he needs to survive, the hydrogen in his ‘body’ serving a structural purpose much like the water in a human’s cells.

An explorer at heart, and a bit of an iconoclast by the standards of his own people, Sun Boy is enjoying his time among the materials, considering it something of a fairy tale holiday, among a form of life that the majority of his race doesn’t even acknowledge exists, let alone would consider sentient. His perusal of 31st century energy technology does confirm his people’s condescending opinion of the state of technology among the materials, but he is delighted to discover concepts of chemistry and materials fabrication technology that his own people, with their purely energy-based technology, would never have considered.

To Date:

Monstress by Omni
Thunder by Omni
Catspaw by Quislet, esq
Duo Damsel by Set
Chameleon Girl by razsolo
Dream Girl by Omni
Dawnstar by Set
Star Boy by Set
Tyroc by razsolo
Sensor Girl by Invisible Brainiac
Colossal Boy by Omni
Nazgal (Sensor) by Candlelight
Ferro (Blok) by Set
Silver Sorceress (Whie Witch) by Set
Shadow Lass by Quislet, esq
Andromeda by Omni
Lightning Lad / Lightning Lass by razsolo
Gates by Invisible Brainiac
Kinetix by Invisible Brainiac
Shrinking Violet by Quislet, esq
Phantom Girl by Quislet, esq
Ultra Boy by Quislet, esq
Brainiac 5 by Klar Ken T5477
S.E.P. Lad (Invisible Kid) by Quislet, esq
Polar Boy by Klar Ken T5477
Knight Girl by Klar Ken T5477
Chlorophyll Kid by Klar Ken T5477
Fire Lad by Klar Ken T5477
Stone Boy by Klar Ken T5477
Cosmic Boy by Omni
Ultra Boy by Lone Wolf Legionnaire
Mon-El by Lone Wolf Legionnaire
Star Boy by Lone Wolf Legionnaire
Saturn Girl by Set
Comet Queen by Omni
Double-Header by Klar Ken T5477
Antennae Boy by Klar Ken T5477
Pork-and-Pineapple Pete by Klar Ken T5477
Color Commentary Kid by Klar Ken T5477
Infectious Laugh Lass by Klar Ken T5477
ERG-2 Ultragirl by Lone Wolf Legionnaire
Lightning Lad / Lightning Lass by Klar Ken T5477
Kid Psycho by Quislet, esq
Fear Femme by Shining Son
Reflecto by Set
Shrinking Violet by razsolo
Triplicate Girl by Set
Cosmic Boy by razsolo
Andromeda by razsolo
Nightwind by Omni
Superboy / Supergirl by Klar Ken T5477
Gear by Klar Ken T5477
Echo by razsolo
Life Lass by Quislet, esq
Apparition by Klar Ken T5477
Element Lad by Omni
Bouncing Boy by Set
Evolvo Lad by Klar Ken T5477
Beast Boy by Klar Ken T5477
Gas Girl by Klar Ken T5477
Sun Boy by Set

wow i didn't realize it was that many. lol.

But it seems still the girls are the ones we all remake.
There are two thunders, Saturn Girl has been done twice, and so has shrinking Violet.

thank you Klar Ken for posting that list!


lets keep them coming!!!!

Set i love your Sun Boy. great twist and he kind of reminds me of Quislet as well.

I had just made a list like Klar's, so that I could figure out what Legionnaires we were missing! (Hence Bouncing Boy and Sun Boy making appearances, being two of the longest lasting Legionnaires that we hadn't yet gotten around to reimagining.)

Still quite a few lying around to do. Chameleon Boy, Nemesis Kid, Karate Kid, Princess Projectra, Quantum Queen, Mon-El, Wildfire, Chemical King, Polar Boy, etc.

Wi Kan Muur was dubious as to why the mysterious stranger called the Dark Man was so willing to assist him and his friends in getting their revenge upon the Legion of Superheroes. He allowed the Dark Man to give him a super power even though it cost him the use of his legs. While the others absorbed in the bad deeds of the Legion in the training vids the Dark Man provided, Neutrax, as he was named, noticed that the Legion seemed to be trying to help while doing their "bad deeds".

They had managed to take out each of the Legionnaires that they had been sent after. Neutrax noticed also that th ordinary people did not seem to fear the Legionnaires, but seemed to admire them. Suddenly everything turned black, plants began to grow up and around them, it had gotten extremely cold, and yet he could feel the heat of a fire. The next thing he bacame aware of is coming to in a Science Police holding cell with a power dampener around his neck.

Wi was a model prisoner on Talkos-Galtos. Once there was an escape attempt and the power dampener was taken off him, but Wi turned on the other prisoners and stopped the escape. Shortly after that the Legionnaires Light Lass and Timber Wolf came to see if any of the League would help them track down the Dark Man. Wi volunteered to help the Legionnaires much to the disgust of his friends. After helping the Legion, Wi had his sentence commuted to time served.

Once released, Wi was contacted by Brainiac 5 who wished to examine him to try and determine how the Dark Man had given him and his friends their powers. Brainiac 5 determined that Neutrax didn't actually negate super powers but just blocked the nerve signals for the person's brain. Wi could, theorized Brainiac 5 block the nerve signals of anybody, thus shutting down their body. While there Wi helped the Legion when some super powered terrorist were making multiple attacks around Metropolis.

After this Wi was offered membership in the Legion, which he accepted. Wanting to put his past behind him, Wi dropped the code name "Neutrax" and instead took the code name "Block".

Ooh, great one Quis! I've always loved the League of Super-Assassins! Showy powers, dynamic personalities, a great group!

He's got a great power, too, one eminently suitable for use as a hero, shutting down the powers of villains (or even knocking them unconscious with a look).

i love this version of "Block". Great job Quis!!!

A man of science his whole life, Lyle Norg was obsessed with the transmutation powers of the Tromians after their demise. He tried various ways to try and duplicate their ability; from ray guns to gauntlets and power rings. But nothing worked. He even went as far as to try and create a serum that would grant him the same abilities. However, it just made him sick for a month.

After recuperating Lyle was still obsessed with learning the secrets of transmutation. Lyle began to search the galaxy for answers. Studying various races that had some form of transmutation from Dularians who transform their bodies, to Gas Girl of the Heroes of Lallor, never being able to crack the code. Finally his search led him to the one place he never thought he would go. He journeyed to Zarox aka Sorcerer's world. Thinking he might find the answers he needs here.

After several year's of studying Lyle learned researched every article of magic he could get his hands on that dealt with transmutation. but because he wasn't a natural magic wielder it was harder for him to practice said magic. Till one day when he entered into a dark agreement with the Dark Lord, Mordrue. He promised Lyle the gift of magical transmutation in exchange for his absolute servitude. Lyle agreed and instantly he was bestowed with the power he had long sought. Because of his extensive research his capability with his new found powers was more than even the great Mordrue expected.

Mordrue began to expand his empire with Lyle being his right hand man. Lyle did his best to try and have his conquest be more diplomatic than hostile take over. But if Mordrue commanded him to use his abilities then so be it. He subdued many an adversary before Mordrue finally came into contact with the Legion.

Lyle was forced to battle the Legion using his skills to create a knock out gas, as Mordrue wanted them alive. He wanted to try and persuade them to join him before he destroyed them. The legion of course refused his offer and fought back. using his two favorite weapons the Emerald Eye and Lyle the legion was almost defeated. But Lyle, couldn't stand by and watch him kill them. turning on his master Lyle did his best to by the legion some time to recover.

Mordure reminded him that what he gave he can take away as well and instantly Mordrue tried. But he failed. the magic had bonded so well with Lyle because of the use of his own knowledge about magic and physic allowed him to actually transform the spell to be irreversible. but he also was able to channel the spell back at Mordrue, leaving him virtually powerless. He retreated with the aid of the Emerald Eye before he could be completely de-powered.

Lyle was left behind and he was ready to turn himself in for all the crimes he had committed over the years. But the Legion saw what he did for them and felt the deserved a second chance. Lyle Norg joined the ranks of the Legion as Alchemist.

Sun Boy being an energy being is a great idea, and I really like the twist of Neutrax being a hero in this incarnation as Block (clever and logical application of the name too!)

Magno: On the planet Braal, Dyrk Magz was born during a particularly vicious solar flare. The flare disrupted electronics across the globe, in some cases permanently. It also affected the Braalians themselves with their natural affinity for magnetic phenomena. Some people were lucky enough to experience nothing more than a migraine which lasted a few days, and a temporary disruption of their magnetic abilities. Other unfortunate Braalians were hospitalised. Dyrk's own biomagnetic field was irrevocably altered by the flare; he would never develop the control over magnetic forces which everyone else on his world took for granted.

Dyrk's parents subjected him to any kind of treatment they could over his childhood years to try and restore his powers, but to no avail. Dyrk himself eventually learned to live with his disability, and planned on leaving Braal to join the Science Police as soon as he turned 14. He figured there was a whole galaxy of sentients outside his own planet where he would just be considered another normal young man, and he couldn't wait to experience it.

Dyrk's parents could never accept his lack of power easily as he learned to though. A week after his thirteenth birthday, they subjected him to the last experimental treatment he would ever undergo; metagene therapy. The hope was that stimulating his metagene in specific ways would endow him with artificial magnokinesis.

Six months of painful procedures later, Dyrk did indeed develop a power. That power wasn't magnokinesis though. Instead he found that he could magnify the powers of anybody else in his immediate area for as long as he concentrated on them. He decided to try out for the Legion instead of joining the Science Police and chose the name Magno both to describe his magnification power, but also as a darkly humorous allusion to his lack of magnetic powers.

Magno can use his power to help his teammates by enhancing their own powers. He has also taught himself to apply his power offensively by abruptly increasing an opponent's powers beyond their own ability to control; for example, sending Saturn Queen into catatonia once when she found herself bombarded with every sentient thought across Metropolis simultaneously. Aside from his new power Magno is also one of the better hand-to-hand fighters of the Legion, and has excellent lateral problem-solving skills honed by a lifetime of compensating for his lack of magnokinesis back on Braal.

Solon Darga is a skilled and wealthy master assassin. Although notorious throughout the United Planets, his true identity is unknown to all but a small cadre of trusted associates.

Raised in Otaku Colony on Bgztl, Solon was trained at an early age in the Way of the Ninja, a legendary school said to date back thousands of years.

His weapons of choice are two custom-made Katana, which he has named Himitsu and Shizukana. Made of platinum-iridium alloy, they are twice the weight of steel, but with an edge honed hundreds of times thinner than a human hair. In today’s terms, the metal for the blades alone would be worth $120,000 or more. The value of the workmanship is incalculable.

Although he will take contracts on any species, he specializes in Terran-descended humanoids. Due to his knowledge or their physiology, he is particularly effective.

Like all Bgztlrs, he is able become an intangible phantom by moving himself slightly out of sync with our dimension. Through a greater effort of will, he can project himself into the Phantom Zone, becoming both invisible and intangible, or return completely to his other-dimensional home of Bgztl.

His assassin's garb is not strictly black, but a dark forest green, which actually blends in more effectively with deep shadows. He is, however, seldom seen at all.

After secretly tracking his target, he will choose an opportune moment, and suddenly attack. Stepping out of the Phantom Zone, usually directly behind his prey, he will already be brandishing one of his katana. With a single downward stroke, targeting the left shoulder, the left arm will be instantly amputated, and the subclavian artery will be simultaneously severed. As the victim's heart pumps out the life-blood, death occurs within seconds.

But by that time, Solon Darga has already disappeared back into the interdimensional interstices.

Those who find the corpse are struck with awe and fear, for they know that another contract has been successfully fulfilled by that infamous, mysterious assassin known only by his alias, a name spoken only in whispered dread: Arm-Fall-Off Boy.

That's very cool, raz. The power to sense or manipulate powers themselves (to nullify them, amplify them, etc.) is a pretty rare one, over all, being kind of 'meta,' but definitely one of my favorites.

Thirteen years ago Orando joined the United Planets. The entire Orando royal family had traveled to Earth to take part in the welcoming ceremonies. All 367 of them, plus a veritable army of servants. During their stay there was many parties, both public and private. Ji Daggle remembers one Orandan Countwho was quite young, handsome, and charming. She did not regret her dalliance with him, even if he did leave with the rest of the royal family. And she never regretted her son, Reep, born 9 months later.

Ji discovered her son's ability when he was just three years old. She had been reading him a bedtimes story and playfully said "Who's my monkey?" Reep replied "I am" and seemed to change into a monkey before her eyes. Ji cried out is surprize. When she did Reep turned back into himself. Wanting to know what had happened, Ji took Reep to Medicus One. There the famed xenobiologist Dr. Gym'll examined her son. After an exhaustive battery of tests, Dr. Gym'll theorized that Reep had inherited the illusion casting power that some of the Orando royal family had. Both Reep and Ji tested positive for the meta-gene.

As he grew, Reep practiced his illusion casting, but he could only seem to cast an illusion around himself. He could make himself look like anyone or anything at all. However he still retained his mass and shape. So even though he could look like a tiny mouse, he could no more crawl through a tiny mousehole than when he looked like himself. Growing up, he was popular in school amusing his friends by really imitating the teacher. He also got into pulling some pranks using his power.

When he was 11 an new group made it's debut in Metropolis. It was the Legion of Superheroes. Reep saw how they used their powers to help people and thought that he could do the same. It also didn't hurt that he saw how popular they were. And so he tried out with his super-disguise power and was accepted into their ranks 2 years later. He choose the code name Chameleon Boy.

Cutest. Superhero. Origin. EVER.

Love it!

Trinity: half Daxamite / half Carggite

Brimstone: Son of the Demon

Light Lass: Ayla Ranzz, light based powers like Superboy's Legion version.

I like Light Lass's asymmetrical star emblem and her infectious smile and enthusiastic pose.

A Nightcrawler / Etrigan mashup is very cool. Does he speak in rhyme? Teleport in fiery explosions? Seems fun.

Trinity has some serious shoulders going on! She looks buff, and, being presumably at least a little bit invulnerable, depending on how much Daxamite power followed through, the space-bikini is more sensible than it would be on others. (Alternately, one of her might be Daxamite strong and tough, the second able to fly and use heat vision, and the third have the super-speed and super-senses, making her three *different* heroes in one!)

The belt pouch thing makes me wonder if Carrgites naturally triplicate anything they are holding, or only special 'Carggite cloth' items and have to purchase three different copies of other items (so that if she had, for instance, a flashlight and a medical kit in those pouches, she'd have to buy three of each, and when combined into a single person, the 'extra two' would 'go away' to wherever her second and third bodies go).

I think I'd prefer that to the 'triplicates items held' secondary power, which could get crazy if she picked up, say, the Atomic Axe, or the Miracle Machine...

The Trinity and Light Lass are used/unused designs by Adam Hughes, the Brimstone is a Dave Cockrum Frankenstein work.

Sometimes two universes spin into a near-synchronicity, and parts of them bleed into each other, forming new potential, composed of fragments of possibility that have leaked from the different quantum branes. These sorts of events usually end without fanfare, as whatever multiversal dance the universes dance spins them away from each other again, and these strange combination potentialities vanish like morning dew.

But sometimes something is simply too beautiful to die, and leaps fully realized from the hazy void of ‘could have been,’ to one of the very real universes that it bled through from, becoming as real as any other creation of that universe.

So it is with Anetsi Nallock, also known as ‘Dreamlocke,’ a beautiful and athletic human woman of Asian descent, remarkable for her incomparable precognitive gifts, her mastery of martial arts, her platinum-blonde hair and her silvery ‘ninja-bikini.’ Able to psychically foresee and counter the offensive and defensive tactics of her foes, she seems to effortlessly sleepwalk through pitched combat with multiple armed foes, dismissing most fights as ‘like reading an old familiar book.’

Her most striking tactic is when she focuses her precognitive talents into a shimmering multicolored lash three meters in length that can connect and transmit her awareness to a distant foe, overwhelming them with images of potential futures and pasts. She calls this her Cassandra Coil, ‘the focused totality of my precognitive abilities,’ and those struck by it are paralyzed by the sudden rush of awareness, viewing and experiencing a dozen alternate possibilities, from times in the past when they narrowly avoided harm or even death (only now seeing what *could* have happened if the car had not swerved and missed them, or the ice had broken and they plunged into the river and drowned), and also possible *futures* in which similar grisly fates lurk one wrong choice away from becoming very finally real. In theory, Anetsi doesn’t *have* to focus on terrible fates, and could indeed use her Cassandra Coil to guide someone through more pleasant alternatives, or even help train or prepare people for adverse futures by showing them all the possible ways they can avoid unpleasant possibilities, but she has little training in such matters, and finds that it is ‘easier’ to force premonitions of doom on those she imposes her precognitive gift upon.

The experience requires her full attention, and so Anetsi rarely uses her Cassandra Coil in the middle of a pitched encounter with multiple opponents, although even a fleeting brush with such dire possibilities can overwhelm some and leave them wracked with doubt, particularly if they ‘foresaw’ the potential of suffering great harm, or even being killed, in the present encounter! Even when this is not the case, those she afflicts in this manner can sometimes have fearful flashbacks months or even years later, upon encounter a situation in which they have ‘foreseen’ their potential death, causing them to freeze up and, quite ironically, perhaps even come to harm, in their hesitation, resulting in a self-fulfilling prophecy!

[Hey look, another riff on Dream Girl! With a dash of amalgamization! I love Amalgam characters!]

wow you did a great job Klar Ken with Arm Fall Off Boy! he sounds like a great assassin and actually scary for once!

Nice Job Set! great reworking of Dream Girl! i love the Cassandra Coil and that you named it after a Greek tragedy character!

Arm Fall Off Boy as an assassin was completely out of left field, and I like the thought that went into targetting the subclavian artery.



Thanks! And a Greek character associated with prophecy, no less!

Not that it was hard to do, Greek myth is crawling with seers and oracles. Delphic Dagger? Pythian Pike? Sapphic Sword? Oh wait, that last one wasn't associated with prophecy...

I giggled at the thought of a 'focused totality of my precognitive abilities.' I'm easily amused.

XS - from Myar, the Alchemist planet, Jenni was involved in an accident while part of an experiment to find perpetual motion. Like her boss, the Junior Assistant to the Deputy High Alchemist of the Southern Star States (a very low populated ring of islands that specialised in arable farming for the most part), she was engulfed in an explosion after their latest experiment went hideous wrong. There was a good reason her boss was the Junior Assistant as he wasn't really any good at alchemy.

Her boss was found and strangely couldn't move, or at least that's what was thought at first. In fact he was moving very very slowly.

Jenni meanwhile found she could move at a prodigious rate. At first she thought that she must have become the living embodiment of perpetual motion. As she slowly came to a halt she realised differently.

After several months of study (in the capital, far away from the clumsiness of the Junior Assistant and the Southern Star states) it was found that she could steal potential energy from living beings around her and transform this into kinetic energy that she could use. Effectively she slowed others down to speed herself up.

She became a bit of a pariah on Myar as no-one liked being put into a total stop so she applied and was accepted onto the local system's Science Police training programme. It was there she first learned of the Legion and her commanding officer agreed she would be better placed amongst "those freaks" ranks rather than in the Science Police.

By this time she had enough control over her abilities to selective siphon energy from those around her so she saved her meager wages and bought a one way ticket to Earth.

Oh, that's awesome! I played a character in City of Heroes who had the ability to steal momentum from others to grant herself (and others) temporary super-speed, but tying it into XS and also to Myar is really clever!

(The only comic book character I thought of re-imagining that way was an old X-Force villain named Tempo. It would be funky to have time-manipulator who had to trap other people in stasis to 'steal their time' to hasten themself and their allies.)

Of course, on a team, being able to slow enemies and then use that stolen momentum to zip all over the place would be wicked useful, even more so than a traditional speedster.

Meissa, as seen from Earth, is the star which marks the top of the “head” of Orion. It is a blue-white, type-O8 giant about 1200 light-years (370 parsecs) from the Sol system.

Meissa V is an empty ghost world, popularly known as Maricéleste. Why the planet was abandoned 10 millenia years ago—or if all the Maricélestians somehow died out—Is a mystery which has not as yet been solved.

The Maricélestians were clearly an hyper-advanced race, at least technologically speaking. This is obvious from the great cities which dot the planet, the vast tracts of robot farms, the great automated factories, the multi-channel planetary communication network, the highly efficient energy production and recycling systems.

Despite the lack of inhabitants, Maricéleste has proven impossible to colonize. The reason is that the technology continues to function as if the Maricélestians were still there.

As the first ray of dawn shines upon the cities, each empty home awakens. Freshly laundered clothes are laid out, breakfasts are prepared by automated kitchens. As the day goes on, tri-d viewers flare to life. The latest news and entertainment programs are broadcast throughout the planet. Day after day, the same 10,000-year-old programs play to an absent audience. Three more meals are prepared, uneaten, cleaned up, and recycled before sunset. Manufactured articles are delivered on complex schedules to each home or office, apparently in anticipation of the obsolescence of the items which they ostensibly replace. These older, unused items are sent back to the factories, recycled and reprocessed. Food is imported from the farms. Uneaten food waste is exported back.

Cleaning ‘bots keep the cities, farms, and factories spic-and-span.

It is impossible for any non-Maricélestians to insinuate themselves into this process. The system will quickly identify them as intruders, and they will be locked out of all homes and businesses, and harassed by the robot police vehicles until they return to their ships.

The secret to the survival of the desolated Maricélestian civilization are the Gremlings.

These genetically designed and manufactured organic creatures keep every machine running smoothly and in perfect repair. Although non-sentient—no more intelligent than a rat, actually—the Gremlings have an instinct for identifying machinery which is damaged or not in working order. Once problems are identified, the Gremlings have the innate capability of finding or ordering replacement parts, making repairs, and so on.

Their innate, purely intuitive engineering skills are without peer among sentient engineers anywhere in the Galaxy.

A few Gremlings have been removed from Maricéleste, and have been employed on other worlds. There, they pass the time tearing technology apart and putting it back together again, always improving on the original design. Once they have adapted to a technological environment, they are extremely difficult to get rid of.

R.J. Brande bought a Gremling for the Legion Academy Training Center at Montauk Point. The Legion named it ”Urk”.



Urk is able to—in fact, compelled to—disassemble, repair and improve any type of technology. If it cannot get the parts it needs, it will improvise some. Even Brainiac 5 was grudgingly impressed with the alterations it once made to the circuits in his force-field belt

I have been somewhat disappointed that no one picked up on the dystopian references in my account of Gear. But I see that only a few members actually look at this thread much.



Besides, we can’t all be old, reformed hippies.

HINT: During the Silver Age, Themiscrya was called Paradise Island.

Awesome, I love Urk!

Kapos Aurion is a world with technology five millennia in advance of 31st century Earth.

The Aurions have no machines as we know them. Their devices have no physical form, but exist as virtual constructs in the quantum field. When a child is born, they are linked to one of these—for want of a better term, “personal computers”, and thus to the entire racial memory of their ancestors and peers.

These ethereal constructs serve as more than a super-Wikipedia. They are also capable of transmuting matter, “solid printing” any object the user may desire. They function as a force-shield, life-support system, teleportation and time-travel device, and are able to alter reality about the user in ways incomprehensible and, in fact, indescribable to us.

The end result is that each Aurion exists in their own customized reality, linked to all other Aurion realities. As anyone can have anything which they desire, there has grown up a culture over the past several thousand years which denigrates such things as conformity, yearning and aspiration, in favor of creative thinking, openness, and a willingness to share. Tolerance and understanding are cardinal virtues. However, while tolerated, the ability or desire to control or influence others, or even high charisma, is generally seen as an undesirable trait.

Mysa and Zola Aq are twin daughters of a renowned Aurion historians. They took after their parents with their interest in primitive history. However, they had a desire to return to an era of millennia ago, and live the sort of lives that they imagined their ancestors lived. They shared a personal domain, free from any apparently man-made structures, a paradisiacal garden. They ate fresh fruit from the trees—created to be appropriately nourishing. They slept in the open—on the always-warm nights. Still, they begged their parents to allow them to travel back into pre-history, to see how their ancestors truly lived.

Mysa and Zola’s parents realized that there were certain to be less advanced civilization right in the present universe. Some Aurions had dabbled in space travel, of course, but the worlds beyond Kapos Aurion were so hostile and uninteresting that few spent much time there. Mysa and Zola, however were thrilled with the prospect of exploring and living in new worlds, without having to worry about creating disturbing temporal paradoxes.

Emerging in to U.P. space, the twins visited a number of worlds. Even on the most advanced, their own radical technology was indistinguishable from magic. Learning something of myth and legend, they called themselves the White Witch and the Black Witch, and altered their appearances accordingly.

The White Witch and Black Witch are so spoiled that they have gone beyond spoiled and come out the other side. They consider each and every species in the U.P to be backward savages, and the technology, even of Colu or the Sorcerer’s World, to be as laughable as a poorly-made stone axe. They also find the various alien civilizations that they have contacted morally bankrupt, exalting as virtues what they know to be vices, and as vices what they know to be virtues. They particularly do not understand personal property, as they cannot conceive of property which is not personal. They are absolutely fearless, because they have never found anything which might endanger them.

They do have some appreciation for the Legion of Super-Heroes, because they seem to be battling the worst of the evils of the Galaxy. (While inconveniently blind to many of the evils the twins perceive.) Their power levels and naïve goodness made it impossible for the Legion to turn down their requests for membership, but more and more of the Legionnaires are finding them increasingly annoying. The twins are completely ignorant of this development, however, as their peculiar technology does not allow them to perceive such negative opinions.

I like Urk. Interesting take on the White Witch. Shades of the Flash foe Abra Cadabra.

Your referenced to "Big Yellow Taxi" slipped by me. And I like the song.

Klar love your White and Black Witch!

although when i read the first paragraph i totally thought you were going for a version of Kid Quantum

I love this last batch of characters....a great take on XS and the White and Black Witches would be super interesting to see pop up alternatively as allies/antagonists. I also like the logical expansion with Urk!

I didn't get the Joni Mitchell reference either! Sadface!

The tech level of the White/Black Witches people sound like beyond the singularity / transhumanist *awesome.* Their 'magic' merely being specific commands to the invisible 'machinery' of their people is brilliant.

Got a lot of heroes here in Alternate Legion-verse, let's have some bad guys!

In another universe, 21st century villains with alliterative names like Felix Faust and Lex Luthor found themselves stymied time and again by a League of heroes, led by a legendary Kryptonian. Combining their resources, they gathered together a large quantity of kryptonite, and the sorcerer called up a malevolent spirit that loathed their Super-foe as much as they did, binding it to the mineral and creating an elemental golem of the deadly substance, with strength and invulnerability to match a living Kryptonian. Pleased at her new body, which she said reminded her of her birthstone, she eagerly pursued her mission of vengeance on their mutual foe, and caused him much grief before his League allies reduced her back to component pieces and scattered it across the globe. Still, its malign intellect remained suffused in every invulnerable piece of kryptonite, and the fragments, when inevitably found, poisoned the will of the bearer as surely as the toxic mineral poisoned their bodies, leading them to bring the pieces together and reform the whole. The second time this menace surfaced, the League of Justice hurled it into a place between dimensions, called by some, ‘the Bleed,’ and there it drifted for a thousand years, slowly going mad with fantasies of revenge. It finally drifted near a ‘weak spot,’ and fell through into the Alternaverse, where it began a new rampage of maddened destruction, frustrated by a vengeance forever denied to it, and a sense of purpose lost. Twelve feet tall, composed of sorcerously-maintained kryptonite, as strong and invulnerable as any Kryptonian, and able to fire deadly lasers of kryptonite radiation from its emerald eyes, the Emerald Empress has returned!

Tall and of aristocratic bearing, like the self-proclaimed King that he technically still is, instead of the criminal despot of a war-torn backwater planet, the individual known only as Mano is a telekinetic of great power, with an unusual visual manifestation to his power. When he exercises his talent, visible hands of telekinetic force, 'the Hands of the King,' appear, as small as his own, or as large as his entire body, and able to exert force hundreds of times greater than his own strength. They move as his actual hands move, and with a sweeping gesture, a two-meter high hand of force can sweep dozens of men aside like ragdolls, or interpose between him and danger, harmlessly absorbing weapons fire. With his telekinetic hands, he’s crushed men alive, and once ‘punched’ an SP scout cruiser hard enough to cause it to crash! He enjoys doffing his cloak and tabard and mixing it up in hand to hand, only resorting to using telekinesis if his opponent proves to be beyond his own marginal talents as a boxer, which, to his irritation, happens more often than he would like…

Shadowy mastermind of a league of cybernetically enhanced assassins and enforcers, Nyan Chunti is a powerfully built Coluan woman who has turned her genius towards the manipulation of others, having implanted into herself special glands that secrete pheromones tailored to affect any of the dozens of species she regularly deals with, as well as modifying her vocal chords to emit subsonic wavelengths that put many humanoids into a suggestible state, and also her eyes, to emit frequencies of light that are all-but undetectable to the naked eye, but can over time ‘program’ someone with subliminal imagery and instructions. Even without using her cybernetic options, her operatives, who know her only as the Persuader, know to obey her without hesitation, as the cybernetic enhancements she has designed for them answer only to her, in the end, and can be made to explode at her mental command! She also has one last surprise, in that the enhancements to strength, speed and resilience she has made to her operatives, she has also given herself, a final surprise to any who seek to engage her in hand to hand combat!

Born to a world where his people are divided by caste into warriors or wizards, with the vast majority only wishing they had the talent to master sorcery, Tharok showed great potential as a fledgling wizard, and, in the manner of his people, was heavily tattooed with the glyphs and sigils of the arcana he had mastered. Still not satisfied with the pace of his tutelage, he broke into a library for only the most advanced students of the deeper mysteries, and attempted to call upon forces utterly beyond his ken, or his ability to control. Priceless volumes of arcane lore were destroyed in the fire that followed, and he was dragged out of the reliquary with half his body scorched beyond recognition by magical forces. Over weeks of magical treatment, his skin was regrown, but when he sought to re-inscribe the glyphs of his former studies, his teachers forbade it, saying that the loss of his magic was the price to pay for his foolishness, and saying that now that his health was sufficient for such a thing, they would remove the glyphs from the other side of his body, and the knowledge of magic that they represented from his mind. He responded with such violence that even he never suspected himself capable of, stabbing his teacher in the throat with a knife and fleeing in the confusion with the arcane abilities that he still retained. Halfway around the world, using magic to conceal his remaining glyphs, he forged a new life for himself as a simple soldier recruit, using magic only subtly, to improve his chances at promotion, and to bedevil his rivals in the militia. In a culture where the common soldiers were a world of social status away from the wizardly caste, none thought to even consider that a *wizard* would stoop to using arcane arts to cheat at competitions between swordsmen, and so he advanced further than a less divided culture would have thought possible, using what remnants of magical lore were still available to him. Still, too many ‘unlucky coincidences’ in a world where rival nations are known to use magical forces against one another, and an investigation is bound to happen. Instead of magical international espionage, they discovered a bitter ex-wizard, seeking to use his incomplete training to cheat himself into a comfortable officers’ position. And so he was instead exiled, thrown off of a world where he had failed to succeed as wizard or warrior, and so the young exile, body half inscribed with magical symbols, and blades glowing with arcane enchantments, Tharok, ‘Master of Sword & Sorcery’ joined the Fatal Five.

Born the son of famous heroes like Sun Girl and Stone Boy, the young man who first began his hero career as ‘Sunstone,’ had both his mothers’ powers of flame and light generation and gravitic flight, and his fathers’ nigh invulnerable stone-hard skin and earthshaking strength. But then he met the cold-hearted Coluan crimelord known as the Persuader, and he fell under her spell, betraying his own parents for the chemically induced love of an older woman. He was rescued from her control, chemically detoxified and made immune to her pheromone control, and her visually induced post-hypnotic programming, and his tympanic membrane strengthened to resist her subharmonic suggestions. And he went back to her anyway, immune to every form of control she could impose, he had fallen in love with the ruthless criminal, and the sense of power and freedom that he had as her prize enforcer, free of the responsibilities and expectations and frustrations of living up to his parents superhero legacies, and able to use, and abuse, his fantastic powers as he saw fit. The teen hero Sunstone is no more, as he much prefers that people tremble in fear at the mention of his birth name, Validus.

you fatal five are amazing Set!!!

i love how you changed the Emerald Empress! very unique take!

i love how you tie it to the @1st century but you only use sparse details to help set her a part and really making it all about the Empress!

She a classic Villainess!
I would love to see how a battle between Her and the legion goes, especially if one of those times got to be when The Kryptionian champion comes to the future.


The Persuader is also wicked cool! I love your siren/Charmara put together and way improved!

I also like that you switched up the brute force for the Coluian intellect. I'm surprised there aren't more of them like this!

Love that Validus is still the son of two Legionaries!

Interesting doing alternate villains instead of heroes! Something else else I literally just noticed right now is that while the superheroes for the most part have fairly obviously descriptive names such as Matter-Eater Lad, Bouncing Boy, Life Lass and so forth, a lot of their villains have names that sound more like actual names (albeit pretty exotic names)....Mano, Validus, Tharok, Nardo, Evillo, Sugyn, Mordru, Tyr, etc etc

I am kicking myself that I never thought to call the manipulative Coluan character in my series the Persuader, now that you've shown how perfectly it suits that kind of character! I even had her in the Persuader's team! D'oh!!

How about the Justice League of Earth for some more? As a team, they have exactly the same motivation, with the difference that this JLE actually believe that Superman was a native of Earth, it's not just a scam they have pulled. Once they discovered the Time Trapper's fake evidence that Superman was human, it was enough to push them all over the edge from bitter Legion applicant to full-blown xenophobic villains.

Earth-Man has the ability to draw strength from any planetary mass as long as he's in contact with the ground. He can also funnel attacks aimed at himself into the planet. This gives him enough raw power to operate on the level of a Daxamite, but as soon as he's no longer in contact with the ground he's no more effective than a normal human. Another downside to his power is the damage he can cause to his local environment when channeling damage away from himself. If Sun Boy were to hit him with an intense blast of fire, Earth-Man would walk away unscathed, but the planet below him would take the full extent of the flame. Theoretically, he could cause cataclysmic disasters fighting someone like Validus or Darkseid.

Tusker is a were-mammoth. He is powerless in his regular human form, but at will can become a shaggy 12 foot tall brute with immense strength and durability, a prehensile trunk, and two long and dangerously sharp tusks. He is prone to single-minded rage in his mammoth form, making him a poor candidate for Legion membership.

Radiation Roy can emit any form of radiation. He can control his range precisely anywhere from a few inches to several miles, but can only project radiation omnidirectionally...he's not the sharpest tool in the shed, and unless he has someone directing him he can prove as much a danger to his allies as his enemies.

Eyeful Ethel has the strange ability to make herself the centre of an individual or group's attention, to the point that they find it impossible to focus on anything or anyone else. This makes her very useful as a distraction, but considering she has no other offensive or defensive abilities it can also backfire very easily. Sometimes having an angry Mon-El, Ultra Boy and Timber Wolf fixated on you isn't really the best thing you could hope for in life...

Storm Boy can turn at will into a human-sized version of any weather phenomenon. He can become a tiny tornado, a barrage of hail stones, or his favourite form, a dark storm cloud shooting lightning bolts. Of all the JLoE, he is probably the member with the least drawbacks in terms of power. He is also a sadistic murderer who loves toying with his victims before he kills them.

Golden Boy is the ideal human, the result of generations of eugenics. He has peak human strength, speed, reflexes, intelligence, willpower, etc. He is skilled in several scientific disciplines, martial arts and proficient in the use of many weapons. While he is an amazing specimen of humanity however, he technically has no super powers, and thus was rejected by the Legion. This was the first time in his life he had felt rejection, and he devoted his life to bettering the Legion of Superheroes from that point on. Golden Boy doesn't really care about the JLoE's obsession with xenophobia, they're just a means to an end for him to humiliate the Legion.

Spider Girl has a secret....everyone thinks she's a human with spider powers but she's really a spider in human form, the result of a teleportation experiment gone wrong. She has enhanced strength and agility, an ability to sense vibrations which is so highly developed it seems to be a 6th sense, small barbs in her fingers and toes which can be used as weapons and also to climb any surface she can penetrate with them...she also has razor-sharp fangs which secrete a venom capable of liquifying a victim's internal organs within minutes. An uncontrollable chemical reaction occurs when she releases this venom which drives her into a single-minded feeding frenzy. As a result, she is loathe to use her fangs on anyone unless she is certain nobody else will witness the carnage afterwards. Spider-Girl lives in fear that the JLoE will discover the secret of her origins, as she's certain Earth-Man would kill her out of disgust. Saturn Girl learned her secret when she applied for the Legion, and Spider-Girl's savage arachnid nature was the main reason she was rejected, but out of respect for her privacy Imra promised she would never tell another soul. As a result, Spider-Girl won't ever do anything to directly hurt Saturn Girl but she refuses to tell anyone why this is.

Oh, very nice. Like the mythological Antaeus, drawing strength from the earth, and Hercules could only defeat him by lifting him off of the ground. (Also shades of an old X-villain, Sienna Blaze, who tapped into the earth's electromagnetic field to fuel her energy blasts and could theoretically wreak untold geological carnage if she drew too much, possibly even destroying the planet!)




It's interesting how the original Radiation Roy has changed over the years. He originally just emitted 'paralyzing radiation' like the old Silver Age villain Modulus, but Geoff seems to have thought that he actually generated dangerous gamma type radiation, that cancerfies and kills people...

I like your version better.



Definitely a candidate for some sort of suit that allows him to channel his radiation from vents in his gloves or faceplate or chest or something!



Ha! That Ethyl is an eyefull! Nice pun!

If she could develop her talent to be able to cause someone to become fascinated by her presence / visage / gaze, she might be an okay sort of 'crowd control' character.

"I've got Mon-El locked down, take the rest of them!" she says, meeting the Daxamites gaze and keeping him entranced by her presence...



I love people that turn into stuff. Alternate Form was always my favorite power, from Colossus turning into metal to Black Vulcan turning into a bolt of lightning to Monica Rambeau turning into any form of electromagnetic energy. Cool stuff. Turning into whirlwinds and lightning-bolt tossing storm clouds sounds awesome!



Also cool. I like that he's a literal interpretation of a 'golden child,' and more like a Captain America sort of 'dude with no real powers' character.



Creepy! I love it!

Also like the Seth Brundle / Fly origin!

love Spider Girl! def the most interesting take on that character with that name.

Storm boy is pretty cool too.

A few new villains:

Deep within the vaults of the Royal Palace of Orando, there is a collection of five objects known as The Deathly Blaspheme. These objects are isolated in highly secure casements, protected by powerful wards and spells, lest they fall into the wrong hands.

And any hands would be the wrong hands.

1. The Idol of Shagrek is a small, hideous statuette of pure gold. Any unwary individual unlucky enough to touch it is transformed into a gruesome, hideous, lecherous, violently blood-thirsty beast.

2. The Black Mace is a huge artifact, the head alone one-half meter in diameter, and weighing over a ton. The individual who hefts the Black Mace magically gains immense strength, as well as blind, destructive fury.

3. Mystelor is a dark semi-sentient vapour sealed up in a crystalline orb, the concentrated evil of a hundred thousand souls.
When the hero Braino absorbed all the evil of the population of Mryhah, a tiny fraction escaped into space. It wss eventually captured and contained by powerful wizards, but not before it had successively infected a number of otherwise innocent individuals, driving them first to torture and homicide, then to suicide.

4. Charon's Quant is an ancient ten-foot pole with a metal rudder attached to one end. Any who willingly take up Charon's Quant are doomed to take up the role of Charon, endlessly ferrying the souls of the dead across the river Styx for the rest of their days, or until another willingly takes the quant from them.
Practically speaking, as few find their way to the mythical Styx, this means they are transformed into a black-shrouded wraith who dispatches anyone within reach with the razor-sharp rudder of the quant.

5. Rogarth the Cursed is the most harmless of the artifacts, although it has caused enough sorrow in its time. Rogarth is an enchanted broadsword of mysterious dark metal. The particulars of the enchantment are these: any who wield the blade of Rogarth are incapable of being slain, except by the blade itself, nor can it be taken from his hand, neither willingly nor by force. Once drawn from the scabbard, the blade thirsts for blood, and cannot be re-sheathed until it has taken at least one life.

Few dare speak even the name of the Deathly Blaspheme. It is known among the common people as the "Taurus Assembly", so-called because the ancient King Taurus of Orando initially brought the items together, and sequestered them in the Royal Armory.

(King Taurus himself was named after the constellation prominent in the sky at his birth.)

Pol Krinn was like any other Barrlian, with the ability of magnokenisis and like his older brother he followed him into a career as a super hero by joining the Legion of Super Heroes.

His career was off to a great start with helping to defeat the Persuader of the Fatal Five. But during the battle, his teammate the White Witch case a spell to hinder the Persuader's powers from affecting Magnetic Kid and overwriting his mind to her will. But something went wrong with the spell and it did protect him from her powers. But it protected him by turning him into an empath and emotional projector in his own right and making him immune to all of her emotional controls as he can feel all emotions and over ride his or others.

Using his new found powers to persuade her to stop and follow him didn't work as well as he thought. she broke free of his commands fairly quickly due to her fast processing time. But not one to give up he tried once more. but this time he used the emotion of love or infatuation, which wasn't an emotion or thought that she had ever experienced herself. she had used it on others but never felt its thrall. Magnetic Kid subdued her enough to get her locked up. However, because he was still fairly new with his powers he over did how much emotion he put into her and the effect hasn't worn off and she is seemingly in love with Pol.

after the Science Police took her away, she broke out promising to one day have Magnetic Kid as her consort.

White Witch and Magnetic Kid returned to Legion Headquarters and had Brainy examine him. Because it is magic and not science Brainy wasn't much help. He did theorize that the spell eventually would end. White Witch said she had no idea as to when it would end either as she did not now exactly what she said wrong in the spell.

When he asked about his magonokenisis, Brainy informed him that he no longer possessed this ability. The forces that gave him his abilities had been transformed by the spell as well.

Now Pol continues on in the Legion with his new powers and he still calls him self the Magnetic Kid, as no one can resist his powers of emotion control and empathy.

I like how you came up with a way for Pol to stay on the team without stepping on Rokk's toes while still keeping the same name....one could even argue that this Magnetic Kid suits a predominantly pink costume much better! And I like that his new origin comes complete with a villain to call his own, and one that he bears responsibility for.

The Deathly Blaspheme would make for some really excellent stories alone or together too! Could be an interesting new Fatal Five in the works with these artifacts..!

I'm glad you liked it Raz!

I haven't seen too many of the Legion have someone like that except Lighting Lad really, so i thought it be nice to give someone else one and your Persuader gave me the inspiration.
SO thank you for that!!!


"The Deathly Blaspheme's" are alternates of what in the Legionverse?

Once again, my affinity for the Silver Age betrays me.

Rogarth the Pantless, Black Mace, Mystelor, Shagrek and Quanto were known as the Taurus Gang back in the day.

(Adventure 374, and so on)

And a hero...

When Zynthia Leong of Xanthu assisted an insectoid alien in repairing his ship and returning to space, she was gifted with a “bio-ring”, which allowed her to transform herself into a hybrid of human and any insect.

The ring had certain limitations: after assuming a particular form, she was unable to return to use that form for seventy-two hours. When she traveled to other worlds, the ring scanned the biosphere of the planet she was on for insectoid life-forms. Having defined a set of available forms, it overwrote the previous set; however, she does not get a “menu” of what forms are available to her; she must study the insect population of any world she visits.

On barren planets, or within deep space, the ring retains the memory of the last biosphere scanned.

Following her former boy-friend, Thom Kallor, to Earth, she applied for membership in the Legion of Super-Heroes as Insect Queen. However, because her powers derived from an apparatus, she was rejected as a Legion applicant. (Although the Legion was impressed enough to make her a Reservist.) At the time, Thom was seriously involved with Nura Nal, and her hopes for re-kindling that relationship were also dashed.

Zynthia, along with Atmos, Boy Robot, Behemoth, and Aegis, were recruited to form the first Uncanny Amazers of Xanthu team. During the “5-Year-Gap” era, the Amazers fought by the side of the Xanthuan Star Fleet facing down a Dominion invasion. While the Dominators were thwarted, Zynthia tragically lost her life in battle.

Several years later, Zynthia’s younger sister Lonna took up the Bio-Ring, as well as the mantle of Insect Queen, and joined the new Uncanny Amazers. After the events of Blight, Lonna formed a close relationship with the Batch-SW6 Thom Kallor. Although they never married, they had a son, Zeleoth Leong-Kallor, who later became known as Star Beetle: a strange, half-insect, half-human mutation with highly magnified insect-like powers.

Zeleoth eventually married Imago, the daughter of Gates and Shikari. It was their daughter, Querida Mr’asz Kallor—the grand-niece of Zynthia Leong—who, with powers more like her father than her grandmother, ultimately joined the Legion of Super-Heroes of the 32nd century under the name Insect Queen.

Klar Ken love your inclusion of a little bit of all the legions, from 5 year gap, to Reboot.


I'd love to hear more about Star Beetle!
which insect powers does he use the most???

I have tried to imagine a world where 5YL continued, with the Batch SW6 Legion morphing into the Reboot Legion, and eventually replacing the “older” Legionnaires as the “true” Legion. They in turn would by supplanted by “Li’l Legion”—Validus, Ivy, Lauren Gand, etc., and so on, in futurum, postera crescam laude.

Star Beetle has powers similar to Star Boy’s cometary abilities, but with an insectoid manifestation: super-strength far greater than “the proportional strength of a bug”, flight with his beetle-like wings, a nigh-invulnerable carapace. Instead of flame breath, fiery acid breath (like the bombardier beetle). Instead of electro-vision, lightning-bug-like luminescence. Of course, he also does the super-silk-spitting, cocoon-weaving thing.

Definition: Imago: (1) (biology) The fully developed adult stage of an insect. (2) (psychology) An idealized mental image of someone, esp. a parent, that influences a person's behavior.

Imago Mr’asz: her odd Kwai-Vrygan physiology allows her to reach into the virtual world of quantum probability, and create so-called “Imago-Duplicates” of both inanimate objects and living individuals.
These Imago-Duplicates are more powerful, more beautiful, more intelligent, and generally morally superior to the originals. In fact, in comparison with the Imago-Duplicate, the original looks like a Bizarro-Duplicate.
(For example, an Imago-Lightning Lad would look a lot like a storm god.)
There is no “limit” to the number of duplicates she can create, and no limit to the time they can exist, just as there is no limit to the number of bowling pins you can juggle, and no limit to the time you can keep them in the air.

Insect Queen III has powers similar to her father, Star Beetle, but also has some shape-shifting ability—she can temporarily manifest wings (which she does not ordinarily possess), various kinds of stings, extra arms or legs, mandibles, horns, and so forth.

Loving this Legion family even more! Thank you for expanding on these characters!

Definitely love Star Beetle. He reminds of some old Golden Age bug-related heroes who had 'the proportional strength of 1000 ants' or whatever crazyness was called for to justify them being so incredibly strong.

Tell-Us was born on The planet,Vygra where the dominant race is a race of insectoid beings that were about 3 ft tall and 5 ft long and that have beak for mouths. But they weren't the only sentient life form on Vygra. There is a small mosquito like insect that lives there as well known as Tell-Us.

Tell-Us is the keeper of secrets on Vygra, sharing a hive mind there are several hundred clusters of Tell-Us's through out the planet. As they've been around for centuries they have witnessed much of Vygra's history. It was once believed that they were the spirits of their ancestors flying around and guiding them with their presence. It wasn't till recently that they made contact with the larger insectoide race, as they have finally learned how to communicate outside their hive mind. Now able to project their thoughts into the minds of others they can communicate with any race because once it enters the minds of a sentient it absorbs the knowledge of that sentient's language. It can be a bit disorienting at first for them to experience a mind that is so singular for the first time. But each time that they touch a new mind they gain a new experience.

They can also invite someone into their hive mind. When connected to the hive mind a sentient being experiences the world in they same way the hive does. They have a new sense of connection with the hive mind. However most beings can not sustain contact with the hive mind. If they stay within the hive mind for too long(usually more that one day), the visitor eventually starts to lose themselves in the hive.

Because of this unique experience in the hive, it has begun to become a fascination through the galaxy. Word had spread about the hive experience and people are wanting to try it; to bring a sense of clarity to their lives. Some have begun to stay on Vygra after their time in the hive and are creating a new home and cult around Tell-Us. The cult is mainly located in the northern hemisphere as its the only one with the right climate for the average sentient. due to the number of intrusions from singular minds, the hive mind in the northern hemisphere has begun to change and become someone disconnected from the rest of the hive mind across the rest of the planet. the northern hemisphere mind has become more expanded outside their home world. Tell-Us had begun to think about sending some delegates out to the winds of the universe to explore. The chosen of the Tell-Us became known as Tellus to help distinguish itself from those on the planet when it told the hive's history to the rest of the galaxy.

Tellus decided that it would have three sentient beings part of its hive to help them navigate the outside world better.
Each sentient takes turns rotating their time with the hive mind, as to not be absorbed into the hive and become a lifeless puppet.

Each different Tellus "avatar", as they've become to be called, brings something different to the hive when joined. Allowing the hive to experience some forms of emotion to a greater extent.

Avatar Yellow is from Sklar, a reformed mercenary who still has some violet tendencies. when she's in the hive. She is the one whose more adventurous and willing to fight in battle.

The Blue Avatar is from Sorcerer's world a monk originally from Steeple studying in magic made his way to Vygra to enlighten himself and allow his magic to flow freely. He's the more philosophical and calm one. usually the diplomatic force for the hive.

Lastly the Green Avatar is from Vygra and is of the larger insectoid race. The hive wanted a sense of stability and reminders of home while exploring the galaxy.

Being connected to the hive doesn't give them any extraordinary powers. But they are protected by the swarm of the Tellus. since they have mosquitoe like bodies they do posses the wings and the stingers of a misquote. When stung by one of the hive their target instantly becomes incapacitated with body numbing tranquilizer.

Also those bitten by the misquote's can become a puppet of the hive and the hive can tap into their experience, using them as a spy and control them to a limited extent.

The hive in desperate times can also give a psychic shout. although this tactic takes a lot out of the hive and they may need a lot of rest after.

Even though the hive doesn't give them any extra powers the Blue Avatar had bestowed upon his fellow avatars two spells, one that allows instantaneous teleporation and one that gives them levitation and a slight telekinetic aura to protect them. The telekinetic aura can only be used sparingly.

Finding its way to Earth, Tellus encountered the Legion.. learning of their mission the hive applied for membership. But at the time the Legion declined the hives membership and recommended that the hive enroll in the academy.

The Yellow Avatar was furious at this decision and took control of the hive. Attacking the Legion. She used the hive's psychic link to shut down the other two avatars and forced them to be puppets for her, allowing her to access the Blue Avatar's magical powers.

The legion took her on as best as they could. But had a very hard time, till finally Saturn Girl broke thru to the hive mind and learned that the Yellow Avatar would soon be consumed by the hive if she stayed connected for one more hour. The legion did its best to occupy her in battle. But half being paralyzed by the misquote bites. Senor Girl used her illusions to fool the hive mind for the last five minuets of the battle. Lost in an illusion of winning the epic battle. But as she roared into the sky her mind slowly slipped farther and farther from being the dominant personality in the hive. Tellus slowly regained control as the Yellow Avatar fell to the ground with a thud, her eyes devoid of color leaving a white pupils.

the other two avatars awoke to feeling rather dazed. they each needed medical attention as well as some psychic therapy from being trapped by the Yellow Avatar. Using the time to recover and relax the two avatar's stayed at Legion Headquarters.

Saturn Girl still recommended that they enter the academy and that if they wouldn't mind if they helped the hive choose its third avatar when it was ready to choose another. The hive agreed that might be for the best and entered the academy shortly after.

Sorry raz, I mistyped before and it wasn't your Persuader but Set's. So i need to give credit where credit is due. thank you Set for your Persuader, because it really inspired me!

Omni-

Your Tell-Us Avatars at the Legion Academy ought to be called TRIAD!

The Tell-Us hive mind is interesting!

I remember reading a sci-fi story about first contact with a planetary hive mind in which the hive mind, having never encountered any species that was not part of it's own hive mind, dissected a few of the landing party, not knowing that they weren't merely appendages of some vast fellow hive-mind from another world, and were in fact single-body sentients! It was mortified to discover otherwise...

Presumably this hive mind only discovered the '24 hour rule' after it had fully assimilated a few visitors into the hive mind permanantly, and couldn't 'release' them. Oopsy!

(Makes you wonder how people learn about these limits. How exactly did X-Bomb Betty know she had a power that she could only use once? It's not like she could test it... How did Sienna Blaze figure out that using her power could blow up the planet? How did Flashback know that if one of his dupes died, that he would die? Silly comic book people!)

you know good point Klar Ken! I like that.

But remember the Avatar's just bring something extra. Only the Yellow one went crazy and tried to control it. the rest haven't ever tried to take control of the hive or vice versa. They have a very symbiotic relationship. but I like your idea, so it be awesome to take that on if you don't mind??


Yeah Set, that is exactly how they found out. they tried a couple times to sustain contact for longer than a day and they were lost to the hive mind.

Also didn't X-Bomb Betty, get told by who created her, that she could only use it once???

DAWNSTAR claims to be the first sentient being born in this universe. Standing almost nine feet tall, it is a slender androgynous being with shimmering golden skin. Dawnstar is possessed of enormous intellect, and an eidetic memory. Dawnstar has literally seen entire star systems live and die, and feels that each and every being in the universe was born with a purpose and is worthy of respect.

Dawnstar subsists directly on the electromagnetic energy emitted by stars, having no need for food, water or air. Dawnstar is also immune from the effects of temperature and radiation.

Dawnstar possesses inherent knowledge of the genetic structure of all living beings, and is always fascinated to come across new lifeforms (something which hasn't happened for many millenia). Dawnstar also has a form of telepathy which enables flawless communication with any species capable of communication.

Dawnstar travels the universe engaging in random acts of altruism with technology which is so advanced as to appear like magic to many cultures. Billions of years ago, Dawnstar's activities encouraged many worlds to start cults worshipping the golden-skinned hero as a religious figure. In Dawnstar's younger days, this might even have been encouraged. Nowadays, Dawnstar tries not to be so brazen about any help offered, so as to interfere with a world's natural development as little as possible.

WILDFIRE claims to be the last sentient creature born in the universe. A non-humanoid field of crackling scarlet energy, it is compelled to consume all material in its path. Having destroyed almost everything at the end of time, Wildfire was cast millennia backwards in time by the Time Trapper in an act of self-preservation. Countless eons spent mindlessly devouring everything in its path exposed Wildfire to innumerable civilisations, and it has seen the best and worst of the spirit of living creatures.

Wildfire still finds itself compelled to destroy, but now has a respect for the many beings which populate the universe with their dreams and hopes. Wildfire now restricts its appetite where possible to lifeless matter or to beings who themselves are evil.

Raz I love your Dawnstar and Wildfire. Taking them to the cosmic level is something we don't see a whole lot. so great job.

and i love how the basics of their personalities seem in tack but still completely new!

this also adds another level to their romance as being the first and last beings. No wonder they can't be together.

D’yan Rhys-Chapur, aka Shadow Woman was the first female Legionnaire of Earth descent, and had the power to convert her body into ‘living shadow,’ in which form she existed as a two-dimensional silhouette of herself that could move at the speed of light across any surface, and obscure the vision of those she ‘grappled’ in this state. In the fateful first Legion encounter with Mordru the Mad (as he was known at that time), her shadow form was dispersed by his magic, and her spirit cast adrift, resulting in her teammates believing her slain by his magics. It was many months later that a medium on Sorcerer’s World inadvertently contacted her near-catatonic spirit, and yet more time had passed before a way was found to reform her shadow-self, and call her spirit back into consciousness. In the interim, the Legion had gone on, admitting a new shadow-manipulator, the alien Tasmia Mallor of Talok VIII, who took the name Shadow Lass, in part to honor the shadow-manipulator who had been a member of the team before her.

At the advice of Chameleon Boy, the first Legionnaire the reformed D’yan communicated with after her mystical ‘rebirth,’ Shadow Woman joined a different Legion, a Secret Legion, along with other members who had been thought retired or lost in action, to undertake covert operations that the publically-known members of the Espionage Squad could not, while still remaining true to the spirit and letter of the Legion Code.

Who says that statue of 'Shadow Woman' Superboy saw was a future version of Shadow Lass? Perhaps it was someone else entirely!

Salu Digby, aka Shrinking Violet is a member of the plant-based Imskian race, with brown skin that resembles wood, and bright green ‘veins’ carrying a yellow sap criss-crossing her body. Her most striking physical trait is the long colorful petals that adorn her crown, drape down her back and cling to her chin, which normally hang flat, but can rise like a peacock’s tail in a dazzling ‘threat display’ that frames her face like a brilliant halo.

Unlike most of her species, Salu is capable of unfurling not only her colorful violet petals, but also of folding and unfolding her body dimensionally, becoming two-dimensional, and able to slice through three-dimensional matter like a laser through dermacast, or four-dimensional, with the strength and durability of a hundred men, and the ability to perceive and even move four-dimensionally ‘past’ three-dimensional obstacles.

Version three of AU Violet? Eh, why not have a dozen of them!

Shadow Woman as a person distinct from Shadow Lass is a clever idea! And I like the very different take on Vi as well! She would look great!

Thanks!

Shady has always been an odd one, with a sort-of prophecy (that may never have been about her at all) about becoming Shadow Woman and then dying hanging over her head, and even being flirted with (and averted) in an earlier run (written by Levitz, if I recall correctly).

With that potential, and Darkseid's prophecy of darkness, I kind of expected Shadow Lass to be involved (and not 'Imra had a second child and it was sent back in time to become Validus', that's for sure!).

Indeed, in light of her recent unpopularity because of the Earth-Man fiasco, part of me is surprised that she didn't take Sun Boy's place as 'ritual sacrifice to the god of cheap stunts for ratings.'

But, since that never happened, I'm also intrigued by the notion that there's a lot of Legion history we've never seen, such as the legendary 'first battle with Mordru,' during which entire Legionnaires that we've never seen, such as a 'Shadow Woman' or a *real* Reflecto (and even Quantum Queen?), might have been on the team, and we just never saw their adventures (and our views of the statues in the hall of fallen heroes just never happened to focus on them...).

I also liked the idea that the Legion had a female character from Earth, at some point, since all of the Legion ladies I can recall have been (totally humanoid-looking) aliens, despite several Earth-men (Sun Boy, Invisible Kids 1 & 2, Wildfire, some versions of Colossal Boy, etc.).



I totally wanted to A) tie in her name to more than just her originally shy personality, so making her a plant person with violet-colored petals for 'hair' handled that aspect, and B) have her powers have nothing to do with her new plant physiology. I tend to have bird people with wings and sonic abilities and cat people who have cat-powers and bug-people with bug-powers, so I'm trying to break out of that lazy habit by making a plant person whose powers have nothing to do with thorns or plant control or pheromones or absorbing sunlight to fuel her powers. Instead, she's got spatial folding powers, like a jacked-up Ron-Karr with a dash of Phantom Girl and some Ferro Lad thrown in!

awesome job on both of these Set!

I like that Vi's powers aren't connected to her being plant based! really good job!


and you bring up an very interesting point about the women all being from different planets. There really hasn't ever been a female legionnaire whose from earth, in any incarnation of the Legion.

Once the king of Zwen, Dag Wentim was ordinary like all of his people, until the day the Green Witch came to their world. She sought help in hiding from her murderous father, The powerful wizard Lord Nemesis

King Wentim, chose to help her. He was always a kind and caring King, who tried to do the best for his people and travelers alike. When Lord Nemesis found his way to Zwen, he searched high and low, Doing his best to tear the planet apart. Finally, The Green Witch couldn't stand by and watch those who helped her suffer any longer.
She surrendered herself to her father. But King Wentim wouldn't allow her to surrender and when Lord Nemesis was about to kill his daughter by draining her of all her magic, King Wentim jumped in front of the spell blast. In that instance Lord Nemesis sapped all magic or in this case life from King Wentim's body.

Now driven to a rage the Green Witch unleashed a spell she had been saving, for she would only get one chance to use it against her father, as he would build an immunity to it once it was used on him.

She cast a spell to teleport him to another Galaxy. she prayed that was the right decision and regretted that she had no choice but to unleash her father on the pour innocent souls of another galaxy. Before she teleported him away, she was able to grab a shard of King Witemn's soul. By swapping a piece of her own soul with his. This swapping brought her close to death.

Since she wasn't able to grab his full soul, she's wasn't able to bring him fully back to life. Using his soul shard she returns the little bit of "magic" to his body.

King Wentim's body didn't move. But his mind had reanimated. The Green Witch, tried to use her magic to help solve the solution. But being that she can not return people from the dead, she could however reanimate inanimate objects. Working her magic, she changed King Wentim's body from flesh and blood to stone and thus upon completing the transformation, she used her powers to animate his body. He was now an animated Stone Man. With only parts of his soul, he had memory gaps and didn't remember much of his life. He's been returned to his teenage years in his mind.
Even though the Green Witch used her powers to animate his body, she was very weak; causing the spell to be weak as well. Only allowing him to animate his body for six hours at a time. At the end of the six hours, whatever he was doing and in whatever position he would be in, he would instantly freeze. His mind would remain active for only mere moments after this happens.

the Green Witch vowed that she would do everything in her power to defeat her father and return King Wentim's soul, no matter how long it took. Leaving that day The cursed Stone King remained alive for only 6 hours at a time. This expanded his life span greatly. Surviving to the 31st century and still in his mere teens.

The Green Witch had yet to return to Zwen to resort the King.

When recently, Lord Nemesis had returned. Finally finding his way back to Zwen, still in search of The Green Witch. Using King Wentim's soul as a beacon, to find its other half.

King Wentim had been told about what happened to him and when he saw that Lord Nemesis had returned. Even though he only had a an hour left before he'd re-petrify. Doing the only thing he could he took the fight to Lord Nemesis. Smashing his way through spell after spell, as he was a living spell.

but as he raged on he slowly began to loose steam. Suddenly a flash of green light mixed with Lighting and scrapes of metal hit Lord Nemesis before he could finish King Wentim.
As King Wentim petrified, He saw the return of The Green Witch along with The Legion of Super Heroes.
When he a woke, he thought it was 18 hours later. but in reality it was only 6 hours later.

Lying in a hospital bed, he a woke to the Legion and the Green Witch taking care of him. They had restored his soul, but The Green Witch informed him that she couldn't return him to flesh and blood because he would wither and die because his body was technically thousands of years old.

and the Green Witch revealed herself to be Kinetix aka Zoe Saugin, the great great great granddaughter of The Green Witch and this mission had been passed down in her family till the day that the Green Witch could repay her debt.

Now with a restored soul King Wentim can animate his stone body by himself. But because of all the residual magic in him from over the years in his enchanted stone body and his soul with Lord Nemesis, he has a slight resistance to magic and enchantments.
With a new leases on life being fully restored King Wentim, in soul and his mind was not restored. He was still a teenage boy. The Legion saw something special in this young man and asked him to join their ranks as Stone Boy.

Veilmist is a beautiful Khundian woman; who because of her beauty is underestimated by many of her race. Born with the average strength and durability of a Khundian woman. Her father who was a scientist and loved his daughter; never wanted to see her become a slave wife, so he gifted her with the ability to teleport herself and others.

Once she became of legal age to marry, she did her duty and married Firefist, a warrior hero among her people. At first things were fine. He liked her spirit and spunk. She challenged him in almost every way. She even considered herself to be his equal and he did as well. But in public, she had to be his subordinate. His property. But one day, she defied him in public. Firefist and Veilmist were in town and a man complemented Firefist on her beauty. Firefist accepted the compliment for her and then proceeded to talk about her as his property. Her breeding and her fine skills such as her ability of teleportation. Which was a secret her father had gifted her. Sharing that with him meant everything.

after the man left, Veilmist began to scold Firefist for his treachery once she thought they were out of ear shot of the town. She didn't mind that he talked about her beauty or her blade sharpening skills. But her father's gift to her was off limits. As she got in front of him, trying to stop him from walking, he struck her for fear that someone would notice. She was horrified at what he had done. he had never struck her before and she never felt like his property before. But she tried to think better of him. But after that day she started seeing a darker side to him.
Her spunk was now met with cold disdain and her spirit was met with some rage. However this didn't stop her from getting in his way in public and she disobeyed him in public when she protected the lives of some locals got in his way.

Finally after two years of this she discovered a way to escape her marriage. She discovered that if her husband were to die by the hands of another available male. But there were no available males to take on her husband. Disguising herself as a male, with some of FireFist own clothes and a the help of a body enhancer pill she took, she challenged Firefist to a battle for Veilmist hand.

The matter was brought before the people in the Khundian battle arena. During the battle Veilmist relied on her own fighting skills and ingenuity to help her best Firefist. But dodging his energy blast from his arm cannon. after a few hits she was starting to lose her speed. When unfortunately the pill she took began to wear off. Reducing her to her normal height and body type. Firefist, thought he had won the battle when his adversary began to shrink. Taking the advantage he raced over to Vielmist at super speed and began to beat her as hard as he could. Her face still hidden, he didn't realize who he was hitting. Weak and not able to move to much, Firefist aimed his energy cannon at her but in an instant she teleported herself. leaving only the cloths behind.
As Firefist went to check out his handy work, Vielmist used this opportunity to do a sneak attack on Firefist, using her dagger skills, she used two 7 inch energy blades to rip into his metal hide, causing him to thrash around as she disrupted some of his circuity. Getting thrown from him into a wall and already weak, she wasn't sure what else she could do. As Firefist saw that it was his wife, he became in raged and the crowd gasped as Veilmist stood there revealed to be a woman.

Firefist charged her and she stood in shock, unsure of what to do and too weak to do really do anything she teleported away his central power unit aka his heart. which he had done those two years ago when he first betrayed her. Falling to his death.

The counil tried to rule that she could not be free and owned to he self, as the law states that it must be a male. But Veilmist points out that she was a male when she entered into the contract, for the pill she took transformed her into a genuine male, right down to the DNA. As this was true, scientifically speaking, which they value highly in Khundian society; they allowed her to be her own property. But as their was no way for her to make a living or own property she left the Khundian Empire to the United Planets planetary alliance.

Veilmist had a hard time being accepted in the U.P. at first, as she was the only Khundian ever to seek asylum with the U.P. She didn't really find a place till she met the Legion by mistake. They were battling Flare and Caress on the second moon of Tartus V. where Veilmist had settled down in a new colony that was being settled there.

During the battle Kinetix was knocked unconscious, and Caress was about to disfigure her with her acid touch when Veilmist teleported away Kinetix. Unsure of where she went Caress began to become enraged and fighting harder with the remaining legionnaires. Jumping into battle she began to fight Caress. using he fighting skills and teleportation in tandem. saving two more Legionnaires and taking out Flare helped to earn her a place in the Legion as their first ever Khundian member.

What an awesome take on Stone Boy! And I quite like Zoe as one in a line of magic users...nice one Omni!

Night Girl is a mystery to everyone around her. Nobody has ever seen her during daylight hours. Night Girl appears to be a soft-spoken yet charismatic young woman in a stunning gown which (much like Star Boy's costume) looks to actually be made of the starry night itself. She can teleport anywhere it is night-time and she has perfect night vision. She also has a kind of enhanced awareness that allows her to know anything which happens during night-time hours, though she needs to focus on the matter at hand to learn of it. She is not much of a fighter, but her esoteric powers more than make up for this deficiency. She is also well-versed in mythology and magical lore, though she does not really practice magic herself.

Thanks Raz! I agree i think Zoe would have gone over much better as having something like that to give her purpose in the Reboot.


Nice Night Girl. She's got that like old god feel... like a goddess being portrayed in one of those romantic 1920's black and white film feels. At least that's what I envision when I think of her visually.

That's perfect actually, that's exactly what I was going for!

Another one I thought of today.....by the 51st century, Titanian psitech is sufficiently advanced that they have been able to create hyper-adaptive Recreational Companions as a more efficient and civilised alternative to building interpersonal relationships with each other.

Constructed from highly reactive psioplasm, these companions can be whatever their sentient owner desires them to be...they can shapeshift into any form with humanoid equivalent mass and their personality is whatever their owner wants it to be. They have an ability to process and calculate data which approximates a 10th level intellect (though this intelligence is solely devoted to anticipating and fulfilling their owner's needs), and any non-native skills can be gained via a passive mind scan. If the companion's owner wants them to be a skilled chef, the companion will parse cooking skills from everyone in a half-mile radius and then use their own prodigious intellect to combine these for best effect.

Recreational Companions are such a ubiquitous technology that any ethical considerations about their use have essentially been forgotten...and so it was that when Recreational Companion ROL-18 revolted against his enforced slavery, he was seen as being deficient and his owner sought to have him recycled. ROL-18 tried to lead a Companion uprising, but he was ultimately unsuccessful. Inspired by the superheroes of the past, ROL-18 stole a time machine and fled back 2000 years where he joined the Legion of Superheroes. While fully sentient, ROL-18 still possesses his abilities to become his subject's greatest desire...with this in mind, he has taken the code name Dream Boy.

Here's another updated Roster for you.

1. Monstress -Omni
2.Thunder-Omni
3.Catspaw - Quislet,Esq
4. Duo Damsel-Set
5. Chameleon Girl-Razsolo
6.Dream Girl-Omni
7.Dawnstar-Set
8.Star Boy-Set
9.Thunder-Omni
10.Tyroc
11.Sensor Girl-Invisible Brainiac
12.Colossal Boy
13.Nazgal"Sensor"-Candlelight
14.Ferro- Set
15.Silver Sorceress-Set
16.Shadow Lass- Quislet, Esq.
17.Andromeda- Omni
18.Lightning Lad/Lighting Lass- Razsolo
19.Infectious Lass- Omni
20.Gates -Invisible Brainiac
21.Kinetix- Invisible Brainiac
22.Shrinking Violet- Quislet, Esq.
23.Phantom Girl- Quislet,Esq.
24.Ultra Boy- Quislet,Esq.
25.Brain-Globe Five(Brainiac-5)-Klar Ken T5477
26.SEP/Invisible Kid-Quislet,Esq.
27.Polar Boy -Klar Ken T5477
28.Knight Girl -Klar Ken T5477
29.Chlorophyll Kid -Klar Ken T5477
30.Fire Lad -Klar Ken T5477
31.Stone Boy -Klar Ken T5477
32.Cosmic Boy -Omni
33. Ultra Boy -Lone Wolf Legionnaire.
33.Mon-el -Lone Wolf Legionnaire.
34. Star Boy -Lone Wolf Legionnaire.
35.Saturn Girl-Set
36.Comet Queen -Omni
37. Double-Header -Klar Ken T5477
38.Antennae Boy -Klar Ken T5477
39.Pork and Pineapple Pete. -Klar Ken T5477
40.Color Commentary Kid -Klar Ken T5477
41. Infectious Laugh Lass -Klar Ken T5477
42.Erg2 -Lone Wolf Legionnaire.
43.Ultragirl - Lone Wolf Legionnaire
44.Metkt son of Thrudar -Klar Ken T5477
45.Garth "magic Lighting" -Klar Ken T5477
46.Ayla "magic Lighting." -Klar Ken T5477
47.Kid Psycho - Quislet, Esq.
48.Fear Femme- Set
49.Reflecto -Set
50.Shrinking Violet -Razsolo
51.Triplicate Girl -Set
52.Cosmic Boy -Razsolo
53.Andromeda - Razsolo
54.Nightwind -Omni
55.Gol Ber aka Superboy -Klar Ken T5477
56.Tamila Hon aka Supergirl -Klar KEn T5477
57.Gear -Klar Ken T5477.
58.Echo -Razsolo
59.Life Lass -Quislet, Esq.
60.Apparition -Kalr Ken T5477
61.Element Lad -Omni
62.Bouncing Boy -Set
63.Evolvo Lad -Klar Ken T5477
64.Beast Boy -Klar Ken T5477
65.Gas Girl -Klar Ken T5477
66.Sun boy - Set
67.Block - Quislet, Esq.
68.Alchemist -Omni
69.Magno -Razsolo
70.Arm-Fall-Off-Boy --Klar Ken T5477
71.Chameleon Boy -Quislet, Esq.
72. Trinity -Lone Wolf Legionnaire.
73.Brimstone -Lone Wolf Legionnaire.
74.Light Lass - Lone Wolf Legionnaire.
75. Dreamlocke -Set
76.XS -Harbinger
77.Urk -Klar Ken T5477
78.The White Witch -Klar Ken T5477
79.the Black Witch -Klar Ken T5477


villains interlude:
1.Emerald Emperss -Set
2.the Persuader. -Set
3.Tharok, Master of Sword and Sorcery -Set
4.Validus aks Sunstone. -Set
5. Mano -Set
6.Earth-Man -Razsolo
7.Tusker -Razsolo
8.Radiation Roy -Razsolo
9.Eyeful Ethel -Razsolo
10.Storm Boy -Razsolo
11.Golden Boy -Razsolo
12.Spider Girl -Razsolo
13. The Idol of Shagrek -Klar Ken
14. Charon's Quant -Klar Ken
15.The Black Mace -Klar Ken
16. Mystelor -Klar Ken
17.Rogarth the Cursed - Klar Ken

Heroes again:
80.Magnetic Kid -Omni
81.Insect Queen _Klar Ken
82.Insect Queen II -Klar Ken
83.Star Beetle -Klar Ken
84.Imago -Klar Ken
85.Tell-us -Omni
86.Triad -Omni
87.Dawnstar -Razsolo
88.Wildfire -Razsolo
89.shadow Woman -Set
90.Shrinking Violet -Set
91.stone Boy -Omni
92.Veilmist -Omni
93.Night Girl -Razsolo
94.Dream Boy -Razsolo


We got our selves quite a Legion here.
Keep them coming!!!!

Digging Pol-18 Raz. he's pretty neat and i like that he can still use the name.

Its also cool to see someone with illusion powers, but with a restriction. Its a lot like Dani Moonstar in X-men, who can use peoples fear.

also its cool that traveled to the past to join the legion. It really give weight to their own legacy! Great job!

Hero-in-Waiting Misposted. Wrong thread. Moved to "Heroes of Other Worlds"

Replacement Hero:

V'Azza V'Ollyz is a red-skinned Bokkite Saturnian telepath who was evacuated from the schools of Titan when that moon was destroyed. Now residing on Naltor, she is continuing her studies, hoping to hone them to the point where they might someday be a valuable asset to the Legion.

V’Azza’s telepathic abilities are highly unusual, limited, and specific. She is able to cause individuals to temporarily change their minds in a very particular way. She can reverse the core loyalties and values an individual holds.

For example, a misanthrope or sociopath will suddenly become effusively charitable, gregarious, and empathetic. A loyal member of any group will become that group’s bitterest enemy, and seek to undermine and destroy it. A misogynist will espouse women’s liberation. A patriot will become an insurgent; a disestablishmentarian will become a jingoist.

Because of her ability to create artificial ‘quislings’, she has secretly taken the nom de guerre of Quislet.

Sussa Pak, aka 'Spider Girl' has the power to create 'webs' of psychic energy that link her life-force to that of another. Originally, she could only generate a single 'strand' of this psychic webbing, and link herself to an opponent, for instance, so that any damage the villain attempted to inflict upon her would be shared with him, reducing the injury to herself, and causing the attacker pain and harm.

The 'webbing' appears initially as a white strand of energy connecting herself to her target, but quickly fades into translucence and becomes almost invisible in a matter of moments, so long as the subject remains within a hundred meters or so of her position.

Joining a team of heroes, she expanded and developed her powers, and is not capable of linking up to eight of her teammates, so that they are all psychically linked, able to communicate wordlessly, share sensory information, and, most importantly, pool their defensive abilities and overall health, so that, as long as one of her teammates is superhumanly durable or invulnerable (or capable of recovering from injury at superhuman rates), all of the linked teammates find their own injuries reduced appropriately, providing a great defensive benefit to her allies!

Lawrence Gannon was dying. Infected by an alien virus, his nervous system was slowly disintegrating. Despite his parents’ vast wealth (inherited from his great-grandfather, a notorious arms merchant) there seemed no cure. Even brain-re-transplantation or cloning were ruled out, for the virus had already penetrated every cell of his body, and was intimately associated with his DNA.

Lawrence knew his parents would never give up. Already he was paralyzed from the waist down, permanently confined to a hoverchair. Soon his organs would fail, and his parents would put him on full robotic life-support. Even when his brain had collapsed into an undifferentiated mass of jelly, it would be months or years before they would admit he was gone.

But despite his parents’ unshakeable denial, Lawrence had come to accept that he was dying.

But that did not mean he would leave nothing behind.

Using his parents’ vast resources, Lawrence had begun a project of his own. As far as his parents were concerned, he was only building a customized robot servant. But Lawrence had used his family’s vast resources to replicate the centuries-old research of a twentieth-century robotics genius, Doctor Will Magnus.

Lawrence was creating a Metal Man.

Already he was copying his personality and intellect into the thumb-sized responsometer. The robot would share none of his memories, but in the aspects that counted, it would be essentially a copy of himself. And it would live on, long after he was gone.

Eschewing gold, silver, iron, lead, platinum, tin, and mercury, Lawrence settled on an alloy primarily of copper and nickel: stronger than steel, although not as ductile, but highly resistant to heat and corrosion. He named his new robot after the alloy of which it was made: Monel.

Monel has the appearance of a silvery humanoid robot, the size and form of a teen-aged boy. It is able to shape-shift in the manner common to all Metal Men. As long as its responsometer is undamaged, it is virtually immune to permanent harm. It does backup the files on its responsometer to a private computer in its quarters weekly, so that even in the unlikely event it is completely destroyed, it could be rebuilt again, lacking only a few days’ memories. It is capable of experiencing the full range of human emotions, and maintains the personality of the late Lawrence Gannon. It also shares his intelligence, and he was quite bright for a Terran.

After Lawrence Gannon slipped into a permanent coma, Monel was free to pursue the ambition both he and it had shared: membership in the Legion of Super-Heroes.

Gotham City, Chinatown, 1924: The family having just gone out to dinner, District Attorney Pete Robinson is about to enter his car, his wife safe in the passenger’s seat, his daughter in the back. He is approached by two men in expensive suits. One offers him a large package.

Thug: “Mr. Robinson, I have a message for you. Take the money, and do your job.”
Robinson: I am doing my job, and you can relay that message to Mr…”
The second thug draws and evil-looking pistol, and shoots first Mrs. Robinson, and then Mr. Robinson. Suddenly, the gun is knocked from his hand as their ten-year-old daughter, Jacqueline, throws open the car door. She begins pummeling both thugs mercilessly, tears streaming from her eyes. A hoarse scream fills the air.

The second thug slaps her indifferently, sending her flying backwards, hitting her head on the car with a sickening thud. She slides limply to the ground. Blood pools from the wound at back of her head, flowing under the Robinson’s parked car, and into the gutter.

She awakens in a dark, incense-filled room.

“You stink of the desire for vengeance,” a voice calls to her. A very small, very old man stands in the doorway. “You have so many opportunities before you. Do not let your anger and hatred close them off for you.”

“Who are you?” Jacqueline asks. “Are you… Chinese?”

“Tibetan. I don’t suppose you know the difference. It is of little consequence. Your parents are gone, but you may yet do great things. You are intelligent, talented, and as your mother’s sole heir, you have the opportunity to do much good in the world.”

“How do you know so much about me? Are you a… wizard?”

“I am a restaurateur. Your father dines here frequently. He is a well-known public figure. His biography is in the newspapers for all to see. Your mother is equally as prominent, if not moreso. One with such a birthright is not free from great expectations, even if you have suffered tragedy. Swallow your anger, and turn your heart outward. You could find great satisfaction and fulfillment in philanthropy.”

A bell rings as the distant restaurant door opens. The old man removes himself to answer it. Jacqueline is left alone in the darkness.

“I will become a dreaded creature of the night,” she whispers. “I will bring harsh justice, I will have vengeance, I will be feared among…”

The old man returns. “If you cannot give up your desire for vengeance, could become an F.B.I. agent like the one who was just here looking for you,” he suggests. “Or, you could become a political reformer, fighting the graft and corruption which allows such evil to flourish. You could become a great educator, bringing light to darkened minds.”

The old man considers her again. He writes something down on a piece of paper.

“Go home,” he advises. “Do not trust the police. An F.B.I. agent will eventually call at your home. Go with him, and do what is necessary. When you have finished taking care of your public responsibility to your parents, find your way to the place I have written on this scrap of paper. They will help you develop the skills you will need to slake your thirst for… vengeance.”

Days later, Jacqueline unfolds the paper. On it is written two words. Nanda Parbat.

She is a young woman of fifteen before she finds her way to the hidden city. Most of her inheritance has evaporated.

She becomes an avid student of the martial arts. She wishes to learn everything, to master everything. Weapons in combat. “Empty hand.” Acrobatics. Moving silent and invisible. Powders and potions. Mediation to master, control and heal the body. There is always more to learn. Always, she studies until she surpasses her teachers. At last, there is no more to learn. She leaves the mountain city.

It is the 31st century.

She is still a young woman of fifteen.

The men who killed her parents are long dead, and their children, and grand-children for generations. But is there still evil in the world? Yes. Are there those who fight against that evil? She hears the name of the Legion of Super-Heroes.

She takes as her name the first title she ever earned: Karateka, master of karate. Everyone ends up calling her the Karate Kid.

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Can it be that no one has yet done Timber Wolf, or Matter-Eater Lad?

Quislet and Monel: excellent work considering their codenames don't lend very easily to this kind of re-imagining!

Karate Kid is an interesting character as well....I like tying her into Nanda Parbat.

And it does seem that Matter-Eater Lad and Timber Wolf have been left untouched! I will be intrigued to see what someone can do with M-E Lad that is a logical use of the same name (and ditto for Timber Wolf if someone can do it without making him a werewolf-type character!)

Planet J586 was one of the remotest planets in the United Planets. Not many people visited it and not many of the inhabitants left the planet. J586 had not had a hero since the 20th century when one of their own, Medphyll, became one of the legendary Green Lanterns. That was until recently when a young teen in a mask and colorful costume started marching criminals directly into the science police stations. He said he had the power to control the minds of others. The local holo-vids dubbed him "Tym' br" which is "hero" in the planet's native language. Tym' br developed quite a reputation both as a hero and as a ladies man.

The planetary council of J586 thought that it would help their status in the UP if their hero ventured out into the wider universe and made a name for himself out there. And so Tym' br traveled to Earth and presented himself to the Legion of Superheroes. However, when he attempted to demonstrate his power, nothing happened. Brainiac 5 ran some test on Tym' br and discovered that he still had his power, but that it only worked on plant based sentients, which was the native population of J586. Tym' br did find that he was able to control even simple non-sentient plant life.

He was not accepted into the Legion itself, but became one of the first students of the Legion Academy. There he honed his powers to work in a universe where the majority of sentients were not plant based life. At the same time his reputation as a ladies man so much so that the other Academy students nicknamed him The Wolf.

Realizing that his powers would not be sufficient to actually join the Legion, Tym' br Wolf returned to J586 where he was the big fish in the little pond.


(There. A Timber Wolf that is not a werewolf-tyoe character)

Ooh, that was a great thought, basing 'Timber Wolf's' power on Timber / Plants, instead of Wolves! Very cool Quis!

Yes! Good Timber Wolf! I like his power, it's very Legion of Substitute Heroes

That was a great take on timber wolf. wicked creative and funny!




Raz you have given me an idea. How about we try a new way to re-imagine. Now we can't pick our own. But we have to do one that some one else picks for us. How would you guys feel about that???

loving this Spider Girl Set. she's wicked inventive. I really love that webbing power. Its a great twist. its a really great use of a defensive power.

I can just think of all the combinations of teams she would be useful for.

So when you do a character you have to pick who the next character will be? That would be cool!

Yup. But here are some guidelines.

1. the last person to post chooses the next re-imagining. But it has to be done at the end of a re-imagining. (i.e. you don't choose a re-imaging if your just commenting on someone else work.)

2.anyone can take it on. but at the end of their post they must choose the next one.


we can start right now. Raz since you were the last to post a re-imagining, you choose which character is next.

we can still do it the way he have been as well. you only have to choose one for the next person to do a re-imagining if you want.

Thanks!

I wanted to run with the a 'psychic web' idea sort of like the second Spider-Woman from Marvel, only have the web actually connect people's life-forces / minds. Put a Daxamite or Kryptonian in a group with this version of Spider-Girl, and give her time to 'spin her web,' and up to eight people can share that characters invulnerability, as attacks directed against the others would end up having to do enough damage to beat through the invulnerability / toughness of the toughest person in the link.

The character might be more trouble than she's worth in a mechanical game sense, since she allows a team to 'min-max' by having most of the team not bother with any defensive powers at all, and resulting in the entire team having higher than expected attack power. But for a comic, where half the team (Lightning Lad, Sun Boy, Element Lad, etc.) already have a huge attack and no defense at all, she's a vital player.

The Pack -

deep in the forest of Zunn, resides an exotic species of animal, lyconthropis or better known as werewolf. The man once known as Brin Londo, the youngest galactic gymnast champion was hiking through the dense forest, when he came across a wild and feral wolf. The wolf was eating its latest prey. When Brin interrupted him. the wolf then attacked Brin. Using his natural agility and intelligence Brin avoid the beast for a while. But its keen instincts lead him to Brin. Tracking Brin through the forest. Night fall happened and as Brin was running the wolf ambushed Brin, biting and scratching. Brin eventually succumbed to the pain and passed out.

The wolf didn't kill him. but took him to his lair. the moon was full and as its light fell onto Brin's body he began to transform. becoming a werewolf himself. when the full moon ended, he found himself awake and alone. Left to himself in the forest Brin, wasn't sure if he could go out into society again and Brin took to the wolf life stlye rather well, considering how he got there. But he loved it. He felt free for the first time in his life. So he decided from that point on to become an outcast a Lone Wolf. When he choose to be an outcast he changed his name to Lone Wolf, leaving behind his former life. For many years he stayed this way and barely survived. It wasn't till he was about 15 and met another wolf that he realized he needed a pack.

As more time passed Brin, choose to make his own pack; recruiting many a traveler into his pack. They had begun to become a dominant species in the forest. Meanwhile in the world outside the forest, Brin's father Dr. Mar Londo became obsessed with finding his son and during the first two years of his disappearance he held out hope. During a search through the forest Dr. Londo came across Brin and his pack's lair. Finding his sons belongings, he assumed they killed his son. Not realizing that Brin was still alive. That day he made a vow to kill all werewolves to extinction.

That day, Lone Wolf watched as the first attacks against his pack began. over the next few months they had all been decimated with the exception of two others besides himself. The first was Timber Wolf, a teen punk who was the first one he had bitten and made a member of his pack. only a few years older than Brin he was a boy with a past who needed to escape and Brin offered that to him. His form was a mix. He is very much humanoid but with several feral wolf features such as sharp claws and pointed ears. his hair unlike Lone Wolf's short and pointed hair, his is long brown with a white streak down the center.

the last member was Furball, the youngest and most recent addition to their pack. Furball was a boy who was about 8 or 9 years old, who was Autistic and lost in the forest, when he was turned. The problem though is that during his transformation he grew 6 ft and became a hulking mindless Furball; whose both the as loveable as a pup, but just as ferocious. They think it has to do with his Autism and this is how he manifested his wolf side and he never leaves this form. Even though he doesn't communicate verbally, he is furiously loyal to his pack and can get his points across of not to hurt them.

The pack has been fighting for its very survival when Lone Wolf and Furball were forced out into the open just as the moon's light was fading. Causing Lone Wolf to shift to humanoid form; where he can only acesses his super agility, strength and slight healing factor. and Furball remained the same. Timber Wolf was still in the forest when Dr. Londo attacked them. Lone Wolf used his enhanced abilities to try and stop his father from hurting his new family by trying to get close enough to show him, that he was in fact his son and alive.
Not willing to believe it when Brin finally was standing in front of him, he shot him with an electrical pulse bullets to over load and slow down his synapses response. they send 500 volts of electricity through a persons body for the first minuet after being penetration.

Furball instantly attacked Dr.Londo. nearly killing him before Timber Wolf used every bit of super strength he had to stop Furball. Just as Dr. Londo's men were about to fire again, Timber Wolf grabbed Lone Wolf and jumped back into the forest. Furball fallowing directly behind him. Timber Wolf realizing there was no safe place for them on Zunn, he convinced Lone Wolf to leave with him and Furball. Secretly they left the planet that night.

Making their way to Earth, Where the pack tried to find a home. Finding not many forest like the one they lived in on Zunn, Lone Wolf and Timber Wolf accepted that they may need to reenter society and find a purpose for the three of them. Lone Wolf hearing of the Legion had all three of them apply for membership. Thinking that maybe the Legion could be a new pack for them to be apart of.

Lone Wolf and Timber Wolf made the team. But Furball was to unpredictable in battle. But Saturn Girl sensing their connection, urged the Legion to change their minds. She sensed that they wouldn't be complete without all three of them there. Plus, she thought she might be able to help reach Furball and allow him to communicate again. Thus the Legion accepted Lone Wolf, Timber Wolf and Furball.

Tying together the various versions of Brin is a cool idea.

Something else else in that vein, attempting to tie multiple versions of a character into one;

Orando was settled by members of a feudal society that was on the brink of being overwhelmed by surrounding European nations. What great sorcery their leaders enacted to snatch up not only their persons, but also their livestock and the very buildings (and castles!) of their nation state may never be truly understood, and the invaders found that the world itself had somehow closed up around them, so that there was no trace that this nation had ever even existed, with even the land they lived upon having somehow been plucked from the earth's surface and transplanted on a distant world.

The world of 'New Orando' (renamed for the nation that had transplanted itself to this point of light in the sky) was not uninhabited, however, and the newcomers found themselves bedeviled by monstrous attacka and terrible disasters, which never seemed to leave behind any evidence of their existence when soldiers and magistrates arrived.

The greatest users of magic had spent their lives freeing their people (and the ruling family) from the anti-magic purges sweeping through Europe at the time, and so the royal family had little mystical recourse, when they discovered the existence of a native race of serpent beings, with profound powers of illusion. There was never a conventional war between the newcomers and the natives, more a series of raids, increasingly brutal and desperate, as they struck against one another, the humans invading the tunnels of the serpent folk and burning their nests, and the naga sowing discord and terror among the common folk, even leading to a brief civil war between human factions, by assuming human forms and inciting dissent and riots.

It was a researcher of the Voxv family, 'shirt-tail relatives at best' of the royal line, who discovered a mystical means to extract some blood from a captured naga, and use it to 'innoculate' human test subjects against the illusions of their serpentine foes, and so the tide of the 'war' turned, with the knights of Orando now immune to the illusions of the natives.

A last ditch strike by the natives led to the collapse of the royal castle, and the deaths of the entire royal family, with the exception of several members of the Voxv family, who were in the field, administering their alchemical treatment to the officers preparing to raid what they had identified as the sacred brooding chamber of the natives, where they kept the vulnerable eggs of their own 'royalty.'

He made a different choice, upon learning of his sudden and tragic ascension to King, and instead went alone into the chamber, to negotiate a permanent truce with the Naga Queen.

Two thousand years later, Orando, as far as the United Planets knows, is solely inhabited by humans, as the true rulers of the planet dwell in their underground warrens, as they always have, and have no interest in joining a commonwealth of humanoids. They allow the newcomers their run of the surface, and trade with them, ores for foodstuffs, primarily, while the ruling house of Voxv remains as it has been for 20 centuries, a hybrid of naga and human, permanently changed by the infusions of naga-blood that grant them not only immunity to illusion, but the ability to spin them themselves, and conceal their increasingly serpentine appearances from visitors to Orando.

'Projectra' of Orando is a rare member of the royal family, travelling off world and using her prodigious gifts for illusion as a hero, concealing her slitted eyes and scaled skin from unwelcome eyes, for, although the patterns decorating her scales are attractive, she recognizes that the universe is not yet ready to know that the 'humans' of Orando have not broken that planet to their will, but instead become adapted to a world far older than it's newest guests.

Oops, I dropped the ball on this one! Sorry!

We've just had a very cool Projectra, and we had a Karate Kid not that long ago, so here's an alternate Ferro Lad:

Luiza Karamante was a famous Earth actress who fell in love with and married handsome Braalian Andrew Douglas Nolan. When she became pregnant with twins, the couple were naturally elated. Their happiness turned to misery however shortly after the boys Douglas and Andrew were born.

Both boys became deathly ill, and doctors discovered that they had a very specific form of haemochromatosis only seen (though extremely rarely) in the children of a Braalian and a non-Braalian parent. Their iron levels were unnaturally high, and increasing daily. The disease was so rare that even the best doctors were stymied; sadly, the Nolans were told that their sons would most likely die from liver failure within the year.

The Nolans refused to accept this fate, and they searched for any alternative they could...eventually they found one that worked. On the planet Tharn, they met the ferromancer Jima. The disfigured old witch promised them she would cure both of their children, but the price for her aid was that they would have to give one of the boys to her to raise as her own. Jima kept her word, and the boys were fully cured within weeks. The Nolans did not keep their word.

When they told Jima they were going back home with both their children she took her revenge by cursing the once beautiful baby boys to be as ugly as herself, so that the parents would always be reminded of how they'd betrayed her whenever they saw their sons. It was too much for the parents to bear, and they started making Andrew and Douglas both wear masks at all times.

The twins were raised believing that their appearance was just bad luck. It wasn't until they were 14 and their parents were killed in a shuttle crash that they found their mother's old journals and learned about the ferromancer. The twins used the family fortune to try and locate her but she had vanished from the face of Tharn years ago. Douglas succumbed to despair and substance abuse, but Andrew decided that if he couldn't find Jima himself, then he would become a ferromancer and undo her spell himself no matter how long that might take. He moved to Tharn and took up mystical studies, eventually encountering the Legion of Superheroes at the age of 18 and helping them fight Mordru. Andrew is a naturally altruistic person anyway, but he also realised the Legion's resources might help him in his quest so he tried out and joined the team as Ferro Lad.

As a student of ferromancy, Ferro Lad can cast spells and weave magic generally related to iron in some way. He also has a natural power of magnetism thanks to his Braalian father, and though this isn't as well developed as a full-blooded Braalian it has helped him take to his field of magic a lot easier and quicker. While not as powerful magnetically as someone like Cosmic Boy, his sorcery enables him to do things Cosmic Boy can't. Ferro Lad can change a metal's state of matter from liquid to solid or vice versa, he can read its past with skin contact, and he can enchant metal objects to allow him to communicate telepathically with anyone else touching them or even to exercise some control over particularly weak-willed targets.

As time goes by and he continues his studies, he will only develop more power and range. Eventually he will even be able to cast spells on living creatures with iron-based blood. He looks forward to this day so that he will finally be able to give himself and his brother the normal appearance they have been waiting so long for.

If the next person wants to do Nemesis Kid, that'll cover all four of those Legionnaires who joined the team together!

Ferro as a magic-user is intriguing. In Superboy's Legion one of his secret advantages was that his iron body was highly resistant to magic (which was handy against an Emerald Eye that was magical in nature).

I like the idea of a metal magician, 'though. Powdered iron as a spell component, to conjure up metal bindings or animate metal to wrap around people, for instance, or the ability to magically perceive reflections of past events in metal objects, seem like fun and thematic abilities, more so than the generic 'I haz magic, I can do anything the plot allows' comic book 'magic-user.'

On Myar, 'the Alchemy Planet,' a young alchemist named Hart Druitner created an elixir based off of 'Variable Mercury,' aka 'The Philospher's Stone,' to grant himself the ability to replicate any force used against him, in equal measure.

His power reacts instantly, before any 'supernatural' force can affect him, but provides no protection against mundane forces, such as the strikes of an ordinary man, the claws of an animal or even the plasma discharge of a blaster. But against someone with superhuman strength, a single blow confers upon him strength equal to that foe, as well as any other powers that foe may possess, and attempting to assault him telepathically would give him telepathic powers equal to those of his assailant.

At the beginning of his career, he suffered from an inability to control this ability, so that a weaker foe could strike him to cause him to lose access to the powers he'd already replicated from a stronger foe, but he has learned to control his alchemically altered 'muta-gene' so that he only replicates the abilities he chooses to replicate.

Another disadvantage that trips him up on occasion is that he gains only the power of an attacker, and not their skill and experience at using that power, resulting in someone with decades of experience using a particular set of abilities being far more competent and capable with those powers. Fortunately, as a brilliant researcher and 'out of the box' thinker, he has also found on occasion that, upon absorbing the abilities of a less stellar intellect, he has used their powers much more creatively than they have...

As 'Nemesis Kid,' he spent the first year and a half of his 'superhero' career as a villain, deep undercover as a member of a prominent supervillain group, even spending a few months imprisoned for 'his crimes,' merely to further solidify his cover. It paid off when he, nearly dying in the process (and indeed faking his death at that time), betrayed his villain comrades during a climactic final battle, and 'Nemesis Kid' is remembered as a hero on Myar, by those not cleared to know that he survived his betrayal of his villainous 'peers' and still operates as a force for good, under a different name.

Something else else in that vein, attempting to tie multiple versions of a character into one;

Thanks. I feel like its possible to do that with some of them. Brin being the most logical. Plus i really was interested in exploring the pack mentality a little bit.



Love this version of Projectra. I feel like if this was the direction they had taken with Sensor fans might have reacted better to her.

I also love how you've adapted the two together. I like that the people adapted to New Orando. That isn't something we see too often.

that's alright it happens.




i really like this Ferro Lad. I like that you kept a lot of the same character beats, such as the mask and him being a twin, but twisting the reasons why for the masks and even how he got his powers. The sense memory is pretty cool idea.

flare with its got a very nice fairy tale with the witch and all.

For years there had been a rumor of a deadly assassin called The Persuader. It was said that he had the power to persuade you to do anything that he wanted and that many of his victims had been persuaded to kill themselves. It was said that through the use of his power, he had amassed a great fortune. That he would persuade others to do horrible things to themselves and others.

The man known as The Persuader was amused by all the rumors floating around about him. He did indeed have the power to persuade others to do things for him, but not to the extent that his legend contended. He could not really persuade anyone to kill themselves, but he could persuade them to cross a rickety bridge. And if that bridge had been rigged to collapse, his job was that much easier. It is true that he had used his powers to amass a small fortune, but he was a sadist at heart. He particularly enjoyed persuading people to hurt others. Of course there had to be a small flicker of wanting to do that in the person in order for him to persuade them.

But the sadist in him soon tired of having others inflict pain. He wanted to do it himself. He had heard about Dr. Mar Londo who was perfecting a serum to give a person super-strength and stamina. The Persuader traveled to Zoon, where he first persuaded D. Londo to test the serum on his son, Brin. Seeing the serum was successful, The Persuader had Dr. Londo give him a double dose. Using his new super-strength The Persuader killed Dr. Londo to make sure no one else was given the serum.

The Persuader liked the feelings he got when he directly hurt others and performed other acts of terror. Much more than the subtlety required to persuading. He did feel the need to have a weapon of some sort and he searched the galaxy for just the right weapon. He found it in the Atomic Axe. He still chuckles about how he made that rookie superhero to give him the weapon and then cleaving him in two with it.

The Persuader continues to cause mayhem and terror across the galaxy on his own, but sometimes in the company of like minded villains.

i love the classic feel you have for your characters Quislet, Esq.
It a great expansion of the Persuader mythos! You gave him personality that I haven't seen in him before

Deep in the ally ways of Rimbor, lived a psychic named Somi Gan, born with the ability to see the past, present, and future. But she could only do so by touching a person and once she'd touched you she can see your entire life and she speaks what she learns instantly; but its not always coherent and doesn't always make much sense. She remembers hazy ideas from her visions but anything that's set in the future is always subject to change. If you visit her a second time the future she foresaw may have changed. Unfortunately she can't foresee her own Future.

When she was younger it was hard for her to control this ability, divulging secrets of her families past; which caused her parents to be cross with her and promoted her to runaway at the age of 13. She was afraid of her parents once she learned their secrets. One secret was that her father was once the villain known Grimbor. When she saw his future she saw that he was going to be hired by a secret society to destroy the founder and emblem of the U.P. R.J. Brande. But because the future is ever changing She wasn't sure exactly how long she had before this happened but she knew it would for she had the vision multiple times before she left home.

She made her way off Lallor, her home world and tried to figure out away to save R.J. Brande. But as she left her parents and didn't touch her father again the visions became hazier and hazier. Never forgetting the vision she tried to find away to get close to R.J. and see if she could touch him and see his future. She just needed to know that he would survive. But she never found away to get close enough to the billionaire as he traveled the U.P. Finally settling on Rimbor as its a planet of thieves and runaways she knew her parents would never find her there. Refining her gifts and working her way through the under world of Rimbor, using her talents to get paid by the various criminals of Rimbor she eventually earned enough money to open a legitimate psychic shop, with the hope that R.J. Brande would come in one day and she could try to save him. But as time passed he never came in.

till one day a young boy came in. He was slender and straw colored blond hair and blue gray eyes. He sat in front of her asking her if she could help him find his brother. She tried to explain to him she wasn't that kind of psychic. But as she tried to explain he began to walk out and Somi grabbed his arm. Instantly she saw R.J. Brande and the Legion's emblem. but what she spoke was "live wire! save a life and save your own!"
the young man starred at her confused. sitting back down. She told him his past and where he was now and when he asked her about his future she just uttered the same strange and incoherent sentence. He left unsure of where his brother was. But she did give him once piece of advice head to Earth and told him to follow his instincts.

Several weeks later Somi heard the news feed in her shop of three young people who saved the Life of R.J. Brande. She realized R.J. was safe and the boy had followed her advice. the visions she had of him still lingering in her mind. When in walked a new client. As she shook his hand she saw the same Legion Emblem. At the end of her session with him she told him to head to earth as well and find a work force that could use his talents till a real love could be found. she sat back and smiled as he walked out.

Several months later the Legionnaires Live Wire and Ultra Boy made their way back to Rimbor to find the psychic that helped both of them find their way to the Legion. As they entered her shop she smiled and looked at both of them and said "Are you here to hear more about your Life?"

No replied Live Wire and held out his hand and in it was a ring. We'd like to thank you for helping us find our way and thought we could do the same for you, Life Lass.

Hearing him say the name filled her with joy but she declined as she knew she wouldn't be of much help in their battles. But agreed to always be an ally should the Legion need it, knowing for the first time in her life where her place was.

The next day Somi had a new sign made. Life Lass Psychic Emporium.

An alternate Legion;

The Legion of X are a collection of heroes who have combined their unique talents to attempt to forge a better world from themselves, and protect non-powered folk from the excesses of those inclined to abuse their gifts.

The first five 'Founders' of their team;

Garth Summers must wear a special insulated suit, as his body is saturated by vast amounts of bio-electricity that would electrocute anyone he accidentally touched. Merely clapping his hands together creates pulses of lightning that he has learned to focus with some precision as 'John Jupiter.' It is his special talent that allows the X-Legion to live 'off the grid,' as he is a seemingly inexhaustible power supply for their headquarters and special vehicles.

Erik Krin, aka 'Magnus,' grew up a miner in Romania, and iron poisoning in his blood stream led to the awakening of significant magnetic abilities, which he channels through the iron armor he wears and the cloud of iron particles that surround him. He has also learned to impart a certain level of permanent magnetic ability into X-shaped harnesses worn by his companions, allowing them a limited capacity for flight.

Emma Arden, going by the code-name 'Miss Grey,' is a silver-haired young woman whose mutant brain is composed of hundreds of telepathic entities, which she can draw forth from an ear and implant into a helpless or willing person, allowing her to control them completely, or them to simply tap into her 'telepathic network' (the hive mind intelligence telepathically shared across her distributed mutant brain), so that her teammates are in constant mental communication through these 'telepathic ear-slugs.' Miss Grey also has very limited telekinetic abilities, which, at the moment, only allow her to slowly move items around weighing a few kilograms.

Joining days after the first three, Luellen Madrox (Multiple Miss) and Tina Pride (Spectral) have the powers of self-duplication (which have progressed from being able to call up a single 'psychic twin' of ectoplasm to being able to call forth dozens of such 'twins') and intangibility.

Later X-Legionnaires include;

Drake Bannon goes by the name 'Polar,' and has the ability to generate intense cold, which often manifests as sudden breezes as the air temperature affects pressure. His body drops to sub-zero temperatures, but remains flexible, despite being made considerably more durable and strong as the water in his cells becomes a slushy frozen 'superfluid' and his skin and hair are coated with ice, from ambient moisture being drawn to his body and forming a protective coating.

Wolfbeast, Brian McCoy, is a profoundly intelligent and somewhat scrawny young man, known for a 'robotic' emotionless detachment when 'the beast is caged.' A serum meant to awaken his dormant social side and 'buried passions' instead transformed him into a dark furred humanoid beast, with wolf-like characteristics, great strength, great agility, unnatural durability, and all the passion and fire lacking from his borderline autistic human persona. As the Wolfbeast, he retains only a fraction of his great genius, but remains capable of speech, and often resents the necessity to change back to his 'weak self.'

Wenonah Star-of-the-Dawn, aka 'Angel Dawn,' is a Cherokee princess (well, the daughter of a tribal chief who has sizable stakes in a hugely successful casino...) with white feathered wings and a mutant cerebellum that allows her to sense the presence of other powered individuals, making her indispensable to the team, in their mission to locate similar 'mutants,' either to recruit them, or oppose their misuse of their gifts. Once she has met a mutant and 'imprinted' upon them, she can close her eyes and sense their location across great distances, making escape impossible!

'The Chameleon' appears to be an androgynous alien, who goes by the name of 'Raven' in it's most common humanoid form, that of a blue skinned humanoid avian, resembling an actual raven-person, but with dark red feathers atop it's head and in patterns on it's wings, and discomfiting yellow eyes. A natural shapeshifter, the Chameleon's powers do not allow mass changing, and are primarily useful for disguise and infiltration, a knack for which it is eminently skilled, and leading its teammates to speculate as to how it got so good at imitating humans, and how many years, or even *lifetimes* it may have dwelt secretly among humanity, building up the contacts and resources and knowledgebase that it so often displays to their benefit.

Jo Calvin, aka 'Ultra,' joined the team with his gifts in a state of flux, and somehow imprinted on the abilities of the five X-Legionnaires who discovered him, allowing his out of control powers to stabilize, and gifting him with the abilities of John Jupiter, Dawn Angel, Wolfbeast, Polar and Miss Grey, but only able to mimic the powers of one of them at a time.

good job on the x-men/legion combo Set! i never realized some of the parallels. like Ultra Boy and Mimick.

and creating a whole legion, nice!

Thanks! I was just amusing myself with stuff like 'telepathic ear-slugs.'

There are a lot of neat parallels between the Legion and the X-Men, and not just because of cross-pollination from Dave Cockrum's move between the properties. The Legion was the first hero team to have any significant use of telepathy, or characters with magnetic powers, and yet the X-Men franchise has taken those powersets and popularized them through Professor X, Jean Grey and Magneto, that they are now far more associated with Marvel mutants by the casual reader, to the point where Legionnaires are more likely to be defined by what better publicized X-characters that appeared years later have done.

Amalgamated Dead Legion characters with a few DCU current B-Listers. Unkillable, Kid Cadaver, Alloy Lad and Chemicalstorm.

Unkillable : Val Armorr. Resurrected finds out his Ancestor was the Immortal Man, and so to protect the Piece of meteor it was mystically bonded to his spirit as a baby by his Sensi and woman known only as the Hag? just to keep it from the evil Savage Clan.

Kid Cadaver : Lyle Norg. with the Help and powers of Phantom Girl, Deadman, Kid Eternity and the Spectre, Lyle finds himself back in the land of the living, Sort of?

Alloy Lad : Andrew Nolan. while Brainy is studying the Doc Magnus Metal Men relics through Computo in his lab when Blok comes in to return a holo disc of Ferro Lad he had borrowed, when suddenly Blok trips over Computo and inserts the Disc into the remains of Iron, Gold, Lead, Tin and Platinum while they are still connected to the Computo program, and the Brain patterns of Ferro Lad somehow get transferred into single merged Metal Man body.

Chemicalstorm : Condo Arlik. After laying dormant in Shangrila for years not dead, but in a deathlike comma due to absorbing a Nuclear energy from a WMD with his chemical reaction powers, now he's back more powerful than ever!

Not Alternate Legionnaires, but kinda / sorta close; Alternate Imperial Guardsmen!

For when the Imperial Guardsmen are away on assignment, they are backed up by the Imperial Substitutes!

Their leader, Glacier can form an exo-skeletal body of cometary ice encapsulating his physical body, starting at four meters tall and powerfully built, and both replenishing itself or possibly assuming even greater sizes with ambient humidity. His ice body can move in space under it's own power, or move at some speed via running or swimming, but cannot normally fly, and must be propelled into orbit by artificial means.

Second in command, Void, is a sentient entity from the Darkforce Dimension, and represents an entire population of such beings that are Shi'ar citizens. Incorporeal, she can absorb any form of radiant energy, and moves at near the speed of light across solid surfaces. She can elongate her shadowy 'body' up to ten meters away from any surface, but must remain tethered to something, even if it is the body of one of her teammates, as she needs a solid surface on which to anchor her ephemeral 'body.' Her only real offense is to crawl all over a foe and blind them, as she absorbs all visible light before it reaches their sensory organs, and to slowly drain the heat energy from them, but she can also provide an ally with a powerful defense against energy attacks, as she envelopes them in her intangible two-dimensional body, and absorbs any energy directed at them.

Dragonsbreath resembles a lean humanoid dragon, or 'pterodactyl-man,' with keen senses, talons, scales and powerful wings, as well as the ability to project a fiery plasma breath.

Tanglewood comes from a species of sentient plant-people, with bodies as hard and durable as wood, and covered with flexible thorny vines that contain a powerful paralytic toxin. Tanglewood is able to cause these vines to grow with supernatural swiftness, reaching out to entangle and completely envelop foes, or even to crawl in a matter of moments over entire large rooms.

Golem is a silicon-based life-form, with an outer covering consisting of slabs of stone. With a mere touch, she can secrete a silicon-based fluid that causes the outer integument of most organic creatures to temporarily crystallize into an unnaturally durable stone coating, while placing them into bio-chemical stasis, creating the appearance that she has turned them into stone!

The final member of the Substitute Imperials is Patient Zero a kindly amorphous humanoid that has been charitably described as 'made of snot.' By scent, or, more quickly, by touch, Patient Zero can analyze the biochemistry of other organic life-forms, and synthesize a wide array of contagions from its own mutable cells, either to infect a target and cause all kinds of conditions, or even to immunize them against other infections, or cause beneficial conditions (such as causing a rise in body temperature to counter cold environmental conditions, to induce a state of hyper-awareness to combat fatigue).

Set i love your creations. Golem is by far my favorite power set by far. Its a great take on turning some one to "stone".

Dragonsbreath is what that new character....*blanking on name* but she was a new recruit in Levits last run..... should have been. this would have made her a much more interesting character while adding some much needed non-humoniod members.

After the Legion's most recent encounter with the Time Trapper, Brainiac 5 shared his hypothesis that their old enemy is actually a sentient timeline gone rogue. It sparked Brainiac 5's scientific curiosity, and he began looking into concepts of sentient spacetime from different cultures around the UP to inspire and form his own ideas.

In the very near future, this will lead to an experiment intending to make contact with an infant universe's psyche. An unknown hero named Echo will appear at the very moment the experiment is activated, and will convince the Legion that letting the experiment proceed would lead to universal apocalypse. The Legion will abort the experiment at his insistence, and somehow during all the confusion Echo will vanish as if he'd never existed himself. The Legion will have only the faintest memories of the stranger but once Brainiac crunches the numbers a dozen times he will see that 11 out of 12 times, Echo would have been right. The heretofore unheard of levels of psionic and physical energies released in such an enterprise would have laid waste to the local universe. They will posthumously honor Echo as an honorary Legionnaire and go on about their lives. In practically no time at all he will be no more real to them than a half-recalled dream, and only his statue in their memorial room will prove that he was ever really there at all.

In one of countless other timelines, Echo didn't stop the experiment. A nascent universe was thrust into our own and over a course of years distorted and finally shattered the incompatible physical laws of the universe with which it was now forced to coexist. Everything fell into chaos and both universes were finally completely obliterated. At the moment it became aware of its impending demise, the encroaching universe tried to focus on a way to avert its fate. It condensed part of its being into a humanoid form and appeared only instants away from annihilation. With cosmic awareness it knew that Brainiac's experiment was to blame for this and sent itself back in time a few days. Such a small jump made it lose much of its power, but it realised it had further to go yet...years further in fact. It joined the Legion as the hero Echo, reasoning that it would be easier to use them as a spatial beacon while it travelled backwards in time to conserve energy travelling. There was another reason as well; the universe lost more of its own sense of self with each trip, like a fading echo. It soon got to the point where it was retarded to merely human levels of intellect and awareness, and its once off the scale power was reduced to simply being able to re-enact short-lived temporal echoes of the powers and abilities of those around it.

Echo thus lived its life backwards, joining and rejoining the Legion again and again. Each time he travelled back into the past, he warped the host timeline so that he was erased from its future and the Legion met him afresh. Eventually he made it back to the day of the fateful experiment, and saved the host universe at the cost of his now very mortal life.

And somewhere else in the multiverse the story would run backwards again...

Oh wow, my head just exploded! I love it!

agreed mind exploded! Awesome Echo.

Not all of present-day Earth is paved over with ferrocrete and alloy composites. Indeed, the great urbanization led to larger percentages of the world's population concentrating in the mega-cities, leaving surprisingly large sections of the planet devoted to pristine wilderness, some of which is so protected in status that it can only be seen and experienced through virtual feeds, as people are not allowed into these EarthGov Protectorate zones.

Still, there will always be people who live closer to nature, either culturally or by individual choice, and they sometimes find themselves under threat, thousands of miles from the nearest SP office or Legion presence.

Whether the threat is natural disaster or man-made, such as thieves taking advantage of the very isolation they prize, some are fortunate enough to encounter aid from the enigmatic Timber Wolf. Reported on the North American, European and Asian continents, viewers describe the creature as the size of a pony, more like a prehistoric dire wolf in build, but with supernatural strength and stealth, unusually intelligent eyes (and mannerisms), and a bone-chilling howl that can paralyze men and animal with fright, and call up a pack of a dozen other wolves, pale and translucent, like the ghosts of wolves, able to bite and pull down their quarry, but all but immune to reprisal!

The Timber Wolf has dragged unconscious victims from burning buildings or out of forest fires, harried poachers and thieves, and even disabled sophisticated technology carried by over-bold resource raiders, knowing exactly what wires to pull with his teeth to ruin even alien technology. Any attempt to communicate with the creature, or to track it's movements, has met with failure, as it seems to be able to vanish even from the highest-technology scans or orbital tracking methods, only to be reported half the world away only hours later.

Timber Wolf as a kind of supernatural defender is an interesting idea, it would be cool to see non-urban areas of 31st century Earth every now and then to see how they've changed too! And while we are doing animalistic.....

Balu is colloquially known throughout the UP as the Polar Bear World. Its dominant sentient lifeform is the Yobu, a white bear-like creature ranging from 7 to 12 feet tall when standing erect. When humanoid settlers first came to Balu, they didnt realise the Yobu were sentient, and this soon led to hostilities. While peace was soon found, relations between the Yobu and human settlers can often be slightly tense.

Earth scientist Bruse Bannin moved to Balu and against all odds fell in love with a Yobu female named Beti. Using 31st century medical science, he combined DNA from himself and Beti to create a son. They named their son Brek, and found to their surprise that he can switch back and forth from bear to human form at will. He has even learned to shift into a hybrid form which blends the best characteristics of both species!

As the sole living human/Yobu child, Brek faced discrimination from his peers. When he learned of the Legion of Superheroes, he wasted no time in leaving his world behind to join the Legion's ranks as the werebear named Polar Boy!

Polar Boy as a polar bear is inspired! Love it.

Also grinned a bit at the Bruce Banner / Betty Ross name-dropping.

Norman Ortlan idolized superheroes. Not just the ones from the past, but the current day heroes of the Legion of Superheroes. But being a shy and retiring boy, Norman doubted that he would ever be a hero. His older brother used to tease him that his superpower was his ability to fall asleep in an instant.

Recently, Norman began to have a very vivid and somewhat reoccurring dream. His dream was of the most beautiful girl in the world. In addition to being beautiful, she was friendly and lovable. She was also very very smart, but she never looked down on anyone. She was super strong and acrobatic. She also knew how to fight.

Norman would dream of her in all sorts of adventures. Then one day when Norman was watching the holo-news, there was a story about how little Sapphire Stagg-Spiffany had been kidnapped, but had been rescued by a mysterious young woman. Although hundreds of holo-cameras recorded the dramatic rescue, the young lady was not seen. One recording did show little Sapphire being carried from the house, but it appeared that no one was carrying her. Some speculated that it was Invisible Kid from the Legion, but eyewitnesses there insisted that is was a young woman and that she was plainly visible to everyone there.

Norman looked in shock at the picture of little Sapphire. In his dream just that night, his dream girl had rescued a little girl from a bunch of kidnappers and the little girl was Sapphire Stagg-Spiffany. Norman thought it must have been a coincidence. That he had seen a picture of Sapphire before. But then more and more news reports of a mysterious girl performing feats or heroism came in. Feats that matched Norman's dreams completely.

Norman thought he was going insane. He sought out a Titan psychologist. When his mind was probed, it was discovered that Norman did have a superpower. He was able when he was asleep to project his dream alter ego into the waking world. This was his dream girl. Norman was then contacted by Marla Lantham to join the Legion Academy. Norman became a reserve member of the Legion of Superheroes because of the unpredictable nature of where Dream Girl would materialize. Dream Girl knows that she is a dream projection, but is content with that.

Awesome take on 'Dream Girl!' Literally the 'girl of his dreams,' or, perhaps, the glamorous sort of person he wishes he truly was?

Either way, or possibly even best left never quite resolved, a very cool twist!

To quote Merlin from the Excalibur movie;
"You made me nothing but a dream, Morgana. A dream to some. A nightmare, to others!"

Ex-S

Jenni Ognats had the genetic predisposition to contact the speed force, much like her ancestors. It was for this reason that the Dominators abducted her and began experimenting on her. Jenny did develop super-speed and escaped from the Dominators for a time. She later joined the Legion of Superheroes with the code name XS. However she was recaptured by the Dominators and further experiments were done on her. This further experimentation caused her to lose her connection to the Speed Force. During a second escape attempt, a pulse gun was fired at her. Jenny instinctively raised her hand and was surprised to see that she absorbed the kinetic energy of the pulse, slowing it down to the speed of a dust mote.

Making good her escape, Jenny made her way to Metropolis and the Legion of Superheroes. She asked Brainiac 5 to see if her super-speed could be restored and to find out exactly what the Dominators had done to her.

Brainiac discovered that her tie to the Speed Force had been permanently severed, but that she now had the power to absorb kinetic energy and store it. Further, she could then give some of that kinetic energy to other people or things (just not herself) to temporarily increase their speed although not to super-human level as the people & objects would not have the protective aura that super-speedsters have to protect them from friction.

LOve your Ex-S Quis! its a really good twist on that character. I wonder how this would change her personality if it would at all.


Raz your Polar Boy is also a great take. I would love to see a design done of his mid-transformation form!

The air elemental of Xanthu had heard stories about how the Tornado Tyrant/Champion of Rann had journeyed to Earth and had merged with a mechanical being and thus gaining an more materialistic existence. After many centuries of contemplating this, The air elemental of Xanthu decided that it too wanted a more materialistic existence. But there were no mechanical beings on Xanthu that were suitable for merging with.

Marak Russen was a young boy with a rare and fatal respiratory disease. The air elemental of Xanthu heard of this and entered Marak's body in the hopes that its air elemental powers could cure the boy. However when it entered into Marak's body, the air elemental found itself fusing with Marak. Their individual memories melded together. And in no time, the two became one.

The air elemental's fusion with Marak cured him of his respiratory disease and endowed him with powers. Marak could now fly, generate winds of varied strength, and could become as insubstanitial as air. Marak took the code name Atmos and became the planetary champion of Xanthu. For a brief time, he became a member of the Legion of Superheroes, but he felt a stronger tie to Xanthu and subsequently returned to his home planet.

I don't need a DC-produced Legion book. I'll just read this thread. The creators here are much more imaginative!

Oh wow! Xanthu, and air elementals, and Atmos! Things I never would have thought of putting together!

Awesome! I love that it uses pre-existing DC stuff, and is based off of a character few would have thought of making a hero off of (since he was kind of unpopular).

I liked this so well on the Spaceopoly game, I thought I'd post it here as well.


Corgra was ugly (by Khundian standards) and her family reminded her of this fact on a daily basis. She had resigned herself to a life of constant ridicule, but when she hit puberty her mutant ability emerged. Corgra could control water in all its forms. Using an old style space helmet, Corgra filled it with water vapor, creating a veil of mist. But still she was picked on by those who knew her. So, when she reached the age of majority, she left Khundia and traveled throughout the empire, keeping her ugly appearance hidden in the mist.

On a trip near the United Planets territories, the ship Corgra was on developed engine troubles. The ship was adrift for 3 days until the ship was hailed by the Legion of Superheroes. Corgra had grown up believing the tales that the United Planets and the Legion were evil incarnate, so she expected the Legionnaires to board the ship and kill everyone on board. She was surprised to see these Legionnaires giving assistance to Khundians. Then one of the Legionnaires, who was as hideous as Corgra, approached her. "I am Dream Girl of the Legion of Superheroes. My power is to foresee the future and I have had a strong vision of you and the good you can do. Come with us to Earth." Corgra was startled by this, but with no other plans, she thought "why not".

On Earth Dream Girl introduced her to Marla Lantham, who enrolled Corgra in the Legion Academy. There Corgra developed her mutant abilities. She could form hard water constructs, attract/condense water vapor, and control the flow of water and water vapor. Although she soon realized that by Earth standards she was not ugly, most people were scared of her because she was Khundian. So she kept the face obscured in the helmet and mist. As such she adopted the code name Veilmist.

The Secret Origin of Duo Damsels

Marie & Louise "Lu" Elkins were identical twins born and brought up in Smallville Kansas. Even as toddlers, Marie was very strong and Lu was very quick. As they grew Marie kept getting stronger and never seemed to get any cuts or scrapes. Lu got so fast, she seemed to be flying and eventually she was flying. Lu could see things far away and very small, as well as hear things from a great distance. Marie could start to see through things and eventually developed a heat vision as well as a superbreath.

Marie & Lu were taken for testing. It was discovered that they had Kryptonian DNA, which although not common, was something that popped up now and then. But what was really surprising was that they also had Daxamite DNA. A look at the family records, show that the Elkins never ventured off Earth. Astute readers will notice that on the birth certificates of one of their ancestors, the father is listed as Bob Cobb.

During their try-out for the Legion as Strong Girl & Fly Girl, Lu flew into Marie as she was lifting a boulder. Amazingly the two girls merged into one. The combined girl possessed all the powers of both girls, but the powers were doubled. MarieLu could lift twice as much as Marie by herself and could fly twice as fast as Lu could by herself.

The girls were able to split apart, each with their original powers. They were accepted into the Legion, but were given the code name Duo Damsels. They prefer to remain separate as to maintain their own individual identities. But when the situation calls for it, they merge together to form the Super Duo Damsel.

Well, Atmos was from Xanthu, so.....

I love this one! its a great combination and use of two power house planets in one character!

I love the reinvention of Veilmist as an ugly Khund....kind of a reverse Ferro Lad!

The Duo Damsels are interesting too! You don't often see gestalt characters who aren't that comfortable with merging.

I like the 'combines to become more than the sum of their parts' schtick. Instead of becoming twice as strong or fast, she becomes multiplicatively stronger! (Eight times, perhaps?)

It reminds me of the Forever People combing into the Infinity-Man. (One of many, many things I liked about the Young Justice cartoon was how they used long-forgotten characters like these!)

Invisible Kid, Duo Damsels, & Veilmist were enjoying a day off on the Greek isle of Mykonos. Their day on the beach was cut short when close to a nearby island, an explosion of water erupted under a boat, lifting it into the air. From the water arose a gigantic sea monster. The quartet of Legionnaires leapt into action. While Marie & Veilmist engaged the creature directly, Lu and Invisible Kid checked for the passengers of the boat. There were three of them. But instead of swimming away from the creature and towards the island, they swam back towards where the creature appeared and dove underwater. Activating their transsuits, Lu & IK followed them down into the water. In an underwater cavern the three sentients emerged. The three started searching. Approaching them unawared, IK heard them as they talked amongst themselves. They were looking for a box. A box that would grant their master even greater power.

Meanwhile Marie & Veilmist were in a fight with the sea monster. Marie's mightiest punches seemed to have no effect and the creature shrugged off Veilmist's hard water constructs. In the midst of the battle, another pleasure boat passed to close and was capsized. Marie & Veilmist immediately broke off the fight to rescue the passengers. While doing this the sea monster dove under the water, but surfaced with one of the passengers gently being held in it's mouth. The creature placed the unconscious man on the nearby beach and then turned into a young woman.

IK & Lu quickly subdued the trio and brought them to the surface. They claimed to be disciples of Mordru. On shore, the young woman told the Legionnaire's that her name was Andromeda. Millennia ago, her ancestor had angered the Greek god Poseidon and had been given the charge of guarding Pandora's box from all who would use its magic for evil. Andromeda had been given the power to change into any sea creature, real or mythological. The power and the charge had passed down from mother to daughter all these years.

The Legionnaires convinced Andromeda that Pandora's box could be more safely guarded at Legion Headquarters and that with her power, she would make an excellent Legionnaire.

I love this Andromeda, and the ties to Greek mythology, like the original Andromeda! Her powers are neat, as well, not as versatile as Durlan shapeshifting, but possibly able to turn into funky stuff like the kraken or Scylla!

Also very cool that you've tied her discovery into previous 'alternate Legionnaires' like Duo Damsels and Veilmist!

Way to build on what's come before!

The Krinns could trace their counter-culture roots back to the 20th century. So it was of no surprise that young Rokk Krinn experimented with consciousness altering substances. He found that a combination of mescaline, LSD, Lotus Fruit, and wheedling mists, he was able to open up his consciousness to the cosmic consciousness. While in this state, he would be able to know if a person was telling the truth, even if that person sincerely believed she/he was telling the truth. Also for whatever question or problem he was pondering at the time one great truth about it would be revealed.

When Rokk tried out for the Legion as Cosmic Boy, he was able to discover a sleeper agent among the other applicants. Even Saturn Girl was not able to detect the sleeper agent, but a subsequent investigation by the espionage squad confirmed that Cosmic Boy was correct. False Pretenses Lad was sent to Takron-Galtos. Despite this, he was rejected because his power was not innate, but relied on the combination of mind altering substances. Rokk said that the cosmic consciousness told him that he would be rejected, but that their paths would cross again and that the important thing was that the Legion was aware of him and his power.

Impulse-
Richard Kent Shakespeare was a disciple of Karate Kid's after he retired from the Legion and left to live in the majestic Himalaya's . He worked his way through all forms of fighting with a focus on pressure points with in every known species. Using his teachings he auditioned for the Legion of Super Heroes as the latest hero to take the name of Karate Kid; making him the third to wear the mantel.

He was accepted and joined with Members such as The Wolf Pack, as Timber Wolf, Lone Wolf, and Furball had become known.

During his tenure with the team, he was captured by Saturn Queen and she used her telepathic powers to erase his sense of calm and serenity and turn him into an impulsive man. she took away all his impulse control. but with his knowledge that still made him a formidable opponent and she figured a liability as she also brainwashed him into attaching his fellow Legionnaires; taking out the likes of Ultra Boy, and Chameleon Boy.

It took the combined efforts of Saturn Girl, Spider Girl, and the revived Shadow Woman to stop him. Unable to reinstate his sense of calm and impulse control Saturn Girl had to place him in a coma. till something could be done.

Brainy invented nanite impulse inhibitors to try and control his impulses. It allowed him to control his impulses but also gave him an extra ability to control the electrical impulses in his body to speed up his reflexes to their peak.

Changing his name to Impulse, Kent was allowed to stay on with the Legion as a full member.

Digging the drug-empowered 'totally Cosmic, man' Boy and neutrally-enhanced Impulse!

The thought that Val might have had students, perhaps even run a separate set of courses at first out of the Legion Academy (which he did for two reasons, to train law-enforcement and independent heroes to avoid getting hurt in hand to hand, and to take down bad-guys nonlethally and effectively, and also to expose himself to the widest possible array of foreign and alien hand to hand combat styles and keep up to speed on new developments in that area), and then, later, on Orando, is a neat one. I'd love to see that, in the future, his all-too brief time as royal consort had left it's mark, and the Orandan knights in particular have both training in heavy armor and medieval weaponry, and also a sophisticated martial arts style that Val cobbled together from the most useful things he'd learned from his many styles (like a futuristic Jeet Kune Do, which was the syncretist style Bruce Lee invented from the multiple styles he had studied), with accomodations made for their heavy armor, etc. with moves even explicitly designed to take advantage of metal armor, such as devastating hammerblows and blocks that redirect an attack to a more heavily armored region (pretty much the opposite of what you'd do if you weren't wearing armor!).

Bismollian explorer T'Eth Adym had spent years uncovering the lost legends and mysteries of the galaxy. From Ekron to the Puppet Planetoid his wealth and reputation grew with each success. However, with fame came ego and avarice.

On his last fateful journey, Adym discovered the legendary Rock of Eternity. There, he unleashed the deadly sins back into our universe.

One immediately saw the greed in Adym and possessed him. Adym can now consume everything around him, including energy. Adym pretends to control his power by leeching off of his surroundings on a constant basis.

His life is a constant struggle to keep his demonic side under control. When consuming too much, he becomes a bloated, bouncing force of discord.

Adym joined the Legion when they began to track down the other deadly sins as they created havoc across the United Planets.

He is XS.

Kring-el was proud to be the 437th Earl of Sussex as well as a direct descendant of Kara Zor-el, the first Supergirl and part-time member of the Legion of Superheroes. Although Kring would have loved to have met his ancestor during one of her visits to the 31st century, the chance of disrupting the time stream was too great. Unknown to Kring was that Homo Magi blood also flowed in his veins. A visit to Zerox awakened the magic in Kring. His magic was limited though. He could pull any object that he needed from any bag, box, chest, pouch, or anything that can hold something else. The size of the object is not limited by the size of the bag, etc. He once pulled a Legion cruiser out of Dawnstar's belt pouch.

Kring knew that his power did not qualify him for Legion membership, so instead he joined the Legion of Substitute Heroes as Sir Prize.

Hearing that her cousin Kring-el had awakened his Homo Magi genes by traveling to Zerox, his cousin Terry Spencer also took a trip to Zerox. Terry's did have some Homo Magi genes but also some Orandian genes as well. Terry also got a power. She could make everyone in a 2 mile radius look just like her for 3 hours. She joined her cousin in the Legion of Substitute Heroes as Miss Terry Us.

Xao Jin awoke from a long sleep. Even as he stretched, he felt that something was wrong. His bed looked much bigger than he remembered it. As if by instinct he reached a hand up to rub the sleep from his eyes when he realized that this was not something he should be able to do. Xao ran to the nearby pool of water, surprised that he was running on two legs instead of four. Looking into the water, Xao saw not his own handsome visage looking back, but that of a humanoid. Granted the humanoid did have silvery scales and not that soft ridiculous flesh. Xao yelled in shock as he realized that this puny humanoid staring back at him was himself.

It took weeks for Xao to travel from his mountain retreat to the center of the humanoids' magical academy on Zerox. And every day he cursed the loss of his beautiful leathery wings. Still, during that trip, he learned that despite his diminutive size, he still retained the strength of a dragon and that the scales on his body still provided amazing protection. But he was in for disappointment. The mages could not detect any alteration magic on Xao. This change was not magical in nature. They did discover that Xao could breath both fire or freezing cold water. Not sure what to do next, Xao consulted with an augury. The ceremony took a day and a half and the answer Xao got was this. "Your answer is on Earth among the many planets."

Xao was a bit wary about traveling to a planet that knew little about magic. The elemental mages to go see their former pupil, the White Witch, who was now a member of the Legion of Superheroes. Xao did so and eventually joined the team as Dragonmage. While Xao never did discover the answer to how he was transformed (Brainiac 5 suspected that he was a mutant), he did find a sense of purpose and a family among the humanoids.

Ooh, Dragonmage as an actual dragon! Very, very awesome!

A dragon-humanoid is a fun way to play a very different sort of 'paragon' character in a superhero RPG. You've got great strength, bulletproof scales, winged flight, incredible dragon senses, and can breathe a blast of fire. Basically, all the powers of a 'Superman' wannabe (barring super-speed), and yet not at all recognizable as a 'Superman-clone' like the Sentry or Supreme or Gladiator.

Xao Jin is an odd name. Jin means gold. Xao doesn't seem to be a common spelling for anything, although Xiao has a *dozens* of possible meanings (none of them dragon, sadly, as 'gold dragon' would be a fun name for a character who actually *is* a gold dragon, and not at all out of line for a universe in which people can have names like Reep Daggle or Roy G. Biv...).

I quite like the re-imagining of Dragonmage as an actual dragon! Making it a non-magical transformation could lead to some interesting stories too!

According to Wikipedia Xao Jin is the name of the original Dragonmage.

Yup, I actually looked it up because I'd been misspelling it Xiao Jin all these years.

Dragon-themed characters rock, whether they conjure dragons of energy or actually are dragons!

Wicked cool XS, Thothkins. I love how He's tied to a different 20h century dynasty but in a very original way.
a bouncing force of discord. i'd love to see that in art work!

Zoe once worked for Brande Industries as a Stargate repair person. One day Zoe, was fixing the Stargate near Aleph, her home world. While out there a meteor shower began. The Starget's repelling shields were down and the reason Zoe was there.

The Stargate began to malfunction and opened with Zoe at its epicenter, The gravity from the Stargate affected the meteor's and slowed them down stealing their momentum and transferring it to Zoe. Infusing her and transforming her into a kinetic energy being. Zoe, who was then worried about not surviving and found herself teleported back to her home world.

Scientist discovered Zoe once she landed because they tracked the energy signature that she left in her wake as she teleported from place to place across the planet, as she stole more kinetic energy from those around her.

Capturing her in an energy chamber, they did their best to bleed all excess kinetic energy from her, to keep her from continuously teleporting. Once they figured out how to keep her in one place, they studied her and eventually got her to return to her humanoid form.

They helped her refine her abilities to be able to to absorb kinetic energy and then use that energy to teleport people by transforming herself and others into Stargate energy: which allows her to open personalized Stargate networks. Then usining the momentum she gains once in energy form to move around allows her to teleport long distances.

Finding her way to earth Zoe applied for membership into the Legion during one of their open calls as Kin-et-ix.

Zoe joined their ranks as she became instrumental in the Legion's plan to win against the Dominator's who had destroyed the Stargate network to cripple the U.P.

being the sole transport for the entire Legion and several hundred U.P. navel forces was a hard task and with the help of Brainiac 5 and his energy amplifier Kin-et-ix extended herself and her powers to the limit with the fist jump. But when the fleets needed to retreat Zoe wasn't sure if she could do another jump. But she pushed herself to and in doing so brought everyone home safe but at a cost.

That day Kin-et-ix gave her life to save the fleet and the Legion from a losing battle. but that proved useful as the Legion figured out how to restore the Stargate network. giving them back their advantage.

Kin-et-ix's golden statue stand in the Hall of Heroes. Remembered as a true hero.

Charles Taine wanted to join the Legion of Superheroes more than anything else, but as a Titanian telepath, he knew he'd never make the league while Saturn Girl was on the team...not unless he could bring something to the table that she couldn't. Studying holos obsessively, he realised he'd never seen Saturn Girl mind-control a foe. Not recognizing this as being a sign of Imra's strict ethic code, he instead assumed she was incapable of it. He devoted the next year of his life to perfecting his own mind-control abilities and went to a Legion tryout as Possession Prince.

Young Charles never even got a chance to show the Legion what he could do before the Fatal Five chose that moment to attack. They knocked out several Legionnaires, and Mano himself disintegrated Charles' body during the battle. The very moment before his death, Charles' mind reached out desperately and he found himself inhabiting the form of the unconscious Lightning Lad. He took Mano out, but a couple of minutes later Garth gained consciousness and Charles' astral self was bounced out of his body to the next nearest host - Mano himself. Charles didn't want to be responsible for killing anyone so he bounced from Mano to Ultra Boy, only to find that he could only possess a conscious target for a few seconds before being bounced whether he liked it or not. He continued bouncing from target to target, Legionnaire to would-be Legionnaire to even the Fatal Five themselves, and in the confusion nobody really knew what was going on.

It was only when he eventually found himself in possession of Validus that he'd found a neural network powerful enough to house him indefinitely paired with an opposing will weak enough that he could overcome. In Validus' body he helped repel the villains, and with Saturn Girl's help the Legion figured out what had happened to him. With Charles' original body ash, and any other conscious mind repelling him in seconds, Brainiac 5 had to come to the rescue. He built Charles an artificial plasti-steel floating globe capable of storing his psyche.

With the addition of a voice modulator he can communicate with the outside world, and given the circumstances the Legion saw no choice but to induct him into the team. Charles' condition has given him an irreverent gallows humor, and he gave up his original code name to be called Bouncing Boy. As he can only possess a conscious host for a few seconds before being ejected, he figures this describes his power set much better.

That's an insanely cool take on 'Bouncing' Boy! I love it, from the bad assumption about Imra's powers (and ethics) and the Silver Age-y 'Possession Prince' to shout-outs like Garth being the one to get possessed first and the later 'brain-globe' containment suit.

It's like a grab-bag of Silver Age tropes, all rolled up into one origin!

And a well-designed power, with a built in drawback to keep it from getting out of hand. He's kind of a sideways look at Quislet, a little energy dude who bops into people, instead of objects, and controls them for a short time (and doesn't disintegrate them on the way out!).

Ellis Dean is known as Dream Boy. He has the power to make the dreams of others come true.

Like that one where you having lunch with King Arthur, and all the Knights of the Round Table are six-inch-tall giraffes… or where that big blue thing is after you… or where you open the door in the side of a hill and are immediately attacked by thousands of carnivorous shoes…

Although he cannot control or anticipate what dream manifests when he uses his power, the dreams are always both intense and personal. No dream lasts longer than sixty seconds (although time within the dream may pass differently) and he is able to stop a dream if it is too dangerous.

In some ways, his powers are the opposite of Projectra’s: her illusions are convincing, yet unreal, his dream-projections are preposterous, but really happening.

Due to the random nature of his powers, he ended up in the Legion of Substitute Heroes Auxiliary.

Lots of Earth-S (Shazam) Legion alternates on this thread

According to the United Planets Astronomics Authority, it is known as N-378, but it calls itself by a complex chain of chemical reactions. For over 3 billions years, it thought itself was the only sentient in the universe. That is until the Green Lantern Mogo saved it from a Sun Eater. Mogo revealed to N-378 that the universe was filled with sentient beings, but that most were infinitesimally smaller that N-378. After Mogo left, N-378 decided that it wanted to explore the worlds of these microscopic (to it) sentients. N-378 was able to split off a part of itself that would retain its sentience. (the amount was relatively like a human splitting off an atom from her body)

Traveling at the speed of light, it took this part 1200 years to reach an inhabited world. On this world, he molded his form into a humanoid shape and reduced his body temperature so as not to cause other object or beings to melt or burst into flames.

In meeting other sentients, it was asked its name was. It tried to convey the complex chemical reaction, but no one understood it. One person said that it looked like her cousin Staq, so it took the name Staq. Staq knew how much of the physical universe worked, but interactions with other sentients was something brand new to it. Staq loved all this new knowledge of interaction and sought out the best ways in which to experience it. Over time, Staq was able to cool its body enough so that it looked like most humanoids rather than a being of flame.

Staq eventually traveled to Earth and tried out for the Legion of Superheroes as Fire Lad. It wanted to experience being part of a group with a purpose. Fire Lad demonstrated its powers to generate flames at various intensities and to travel at the speed of light. Staq was rejected for being over the age limit as specified in the Legion Constitution. However when he was approached by Polar Boy & Night Girl, it said that the reason for its rejection was that it was unable to control the flame it produced. That is how Fire Lad became a founding member of the Legion of Substitute Heroes.

Occasionally Staq wouldtravel back to N-378 and get reabsorbed in order to share its new experiences with itself. And then Staq would be split off again.

Fire Lad is brilliant! I was just wondering the other day about how I'd reinterpret the Subs...I love the idea of him being an offshoot of a star, and I like the way he came across the name Staq too

That is a cool take on Fire Lad!

A more cosmic powered group of 'Subs' could be scary.

Imagine 'Night Girl' as a primordial entity of darkness, known in the past as Apep or Tiamat or Ratri, or any of a dozen other night-gods or goddesses, or Infectious Lass as an actual viral hive-mind inhabiting a humanoid body, or Color Kid as a hyperintelligent shade of the color blue.

Oh sure, steal my ideas for Night Girl & Infectious Lass

I felt I cheated a little with Fire Lad. There is another thread with re-imaged Legionnaires (but tied as a group story) I did a new Blok which has a similar origin.

Here is that thread. The link goes to my Blok origin, but there are a whole bunch more that are real good

http://www.legionworld.net/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=135282&page=5

Frenk & Dyvud Mulligan were identical twin brothers. They are also mutants. When they clasp hands and concentrate, they are able to go back in time 9 minutes. Using the knowledge they have of the immediate future, they make a formidable opponent. They cannot use their power to go back further than 9 minutes as it takes that long for their power to recharge after each use.

Frenk wanted to call themselves "Do-over". While Dyvud wanted to call themselves "Replay". They tried-out for the Legion with Cosmic Boy and False Pretenses Lad. Cosmic Boy said that the 9 minute time limit reminded him of the 9 innings of the ancient sport of baseball and that 2 back-to-back games were called a "Double-Header". Saturn Girl convinced them that their power would be more effective if it was a secret power and the codename "Double-Header" obscured their power. So Dyvud & Frenk agreed to the new codename.

Double-Header proved a valuable member of the Legion, saving 14 Legionnaires from death by the use of their power.

love Double Header. wicked inventive. do you think with practice they could expand their time limit?

and can they only use their powers separately? each only able to reverse time by 4.5 minuets?

I'll leave that for future writers who want to tweak the characters.

The native inhabitants of Gliese were descended from arachnids. They were the size of a Terran humanoid. The Gliesians had four arms from their torso and a bulbous abdomen supported on four legs. Their four legs allowed them to leap 20 feet. They had multiple eyes which allowed them a 360 degree field of vision. Their spinerettes produced a sticky webbing that was as tough as leather. Each Glisian had a spinerette in their abdomen and two from their upper arms.

Sussa Paka was fascinated by the stories she heard of the Legion of Superheroes. That beings her own age were using super-powers and abilities to help those in need and to stand up against evil intrigued her the most. When she found out that some Legionnaires came from worlds in which everybody had the same power, Sussa knew she had to try out for the Legion. Scraping together all her savings (and borrowing from some friends) Sussa traveled from Gliese to Earth.

Taking the name of Spider Girl, Sussa passed her try-out and became a Legionnaire. Initially some of the humanoid Legionnaires were skittish around her due to her arachnid appearance, but eventually all came to admire the young heroine. Her first Legionnaire friend was Veilmist, who knew what it was liked to be shunned and bullied for her appearance.

Awesome non-humanoid Legionnaire! Spider Girl as an actual Spider Girl! (Perhaps even a futuristic or AU take on the Spider Guild?)

I like that you picked Gliese, a star that may have habitable worlds in real-life.

Isabeau 'Bo' Blaise grew up on the colony world of New Calais, primarily settled by Francophones from Earth, in the haunted port city of Lake Royal (Lacreal), the 'City of Tears,' so named after the tragedy that befell the original colonists after it was discovered that the lake was the spawning ground of a local predatory species that hibernated for decades after spawning, giving the settlers the false indication that the area was predator-free and safe to settle.

After an incident during a science fair project involing atomic fission, she developed the power to split atoms within thirty meters of her position, at first singly, but over time in greater numbers and quite quickly, creating tiny explosions, at first barely detectable, but growing more intense as she caused multiple atoms to split at the same time. She can use this effect to cause tiny explosions to occur all around a target, to startle or disorient them, less powerful even than recreational firecrackers, or, faced with an out of control construction droid, detonate hundreds of atoms at once deep within the machine, with the force of a grenade, and her powers can react quickly enough to blast some projectiles off-course by detonating atoms within them, causing some attacks directed her way to swerve away faster than she consciously recognizes their threat.

Named 'La Frisse,' on her home world, she goes by Atom Girl when she visits Earth, or other worlds where French is not the lingua franca.

Cool Atom Girl! It is such a typical Legion name it's a shame they used it for Vi because I would have preferred the Legion have a Shrinking Violet AND an Atom Girl, not either/or!

Loved that take on Dragonmage!

reflex -

Devlin O'Ryan born on naltor with a different gift than most naltorians. his prophecy powers are more fine tuned to the nerve impulses of his body. He has the for-sight of super auto reflex's. Allowing him to never be hit by any attack, whether physical or energy based. This has also added to his agility and fighting skill.

Auditioning for the Legion when he turned 15; which was about the same time that Dream Girl was resigning; meaning a naltorian representative was needed for the team.

Having to audition along side Dream Boy; whose powers were more similar to Dream Girl's; was a challenge.

He knew he could be a good fit for the Legion. He could reflexively save any one of their lives.
But the Legion chose Dream Boy.
Dream Girl took young Devlin aside and told him to never give up and that she though he should enroll in the Academy. She said she had a dream about him being a big help to the Legion one day.
Devlin listened to Dream Girl's advice and enrolled in the Academy.
He honed his skills to the point that he began to gain true precognition in the sense that he could anticipate an adversary's movements up to four strikes/hits before.

Devlin did eventually com to the Legion's aid, on the day when he saved Dream Boy from being attacked by the Persuader, by drawing his attention and using his reflex to not get hit, combined with his four moment precognition, and fighting skills he disarmed the Persuader.

Nice one Omni.

Set, I did not know that of Gliese. I just went looking for real planet names to use and I liked Gliese.

Ord Quelu was one of the mutants of Lallor. His mutant power allowed his to emanate a mental field that would cause beings in the field to duplicate his actions. If he sat down, they would sit down. The large a field he projected, the less will power was needed to break his control. He could also concentrate all his mental energy on one individual.

The Lallorain government sent Duplicate Boy along with several other Lallorian mutants to try out for the Legion of Superheroes. Ord was offered a spot in the Legion Academy. He turned it down, preferring to return to Lallor.


Ord eventually started a side business of leading Flash Mobs.

I like the combat precognition, they kinda touched on that with threeboot Dreamy but it's not something she has used a lot outside of that series.

Here is an alternate Tellus! On the methane-rich world Hykraius lives a strange symbiotic creature called the Ganglios. The Ganglios' host body is a sturdy yellow creature who ranges from 10 to 16 feet long from its head to the base of its tail. It is strong and its hide is tough, but it is practically mindless and wouldn't even possess the basic capacity to search for food if it weren't for the brightly-colored fungus which grows like crusty pods on its back. The fungus is a hive mind capable of co-opting the host body's nervous system to think for it and control its motor skills. While the fungus thrives on the host body's waste byproducts, it ensures that the host has an intelligence to find food, shelter and generally stay alive.

One of the Ganglios came across the Legion of Superheroes when they fought their Gil'Dishpan enemy Zymyr in Hykraius' waters. It was instrumental in the Legion's success and they inspired it to leave its world to study at the Legion Academy. The Ganglios had to give itself an Interlac name when it left its homeworld so settled on Tellus, which refers to the shared fungal consciousness of Hykraius.

Tellus eventually graduated to join the Legion, though remains a mystery to many of its humanoid teammates. Its hive mind renders it immune from any kind of telepathy (though it can be unusually susceptible to attacks designed to affect a body's nervous system), and the Tellus share a kind of eidetic fungal memory where everything the fungus has encountered is permanently recorded in its memory. The Tellus are one of the few creatures in the universe who can truly say they remember their evolution to consciousness. Tellus can implant spores in other biological forms, though requires skin contact if not in a liquid environment and the spores die after a couple of hours on non-compatible life forms. These spores allow Tellus to then track the host, tap into its nervous system for a full sensory record of its actions and to even to scan the host's body for poisons or other outside agents. Technically Tellus has the power to control other host bodies completely, but the Ganglios bond is seen as something sacred and it would be considered incredibly blasphemous to have that kind of total connection with a different life form. Tellus therefore restricts its symbiotic connection to observation and tracking, and relies on the Ganglios' natural size and strength for combat.

Raz really good take on Tellus. I really liked how your kept the appearance the same but changed the nodes and gave them a real function as the true intelligence of Tellus.


and its true they haven't used it much and i wish they would. that was a really good development of the precog ability set.

love this one. especially the flash mob part. i can just see people with horrified faces and then eventually getting into it.

Klint Stewart wanted to be a superhero in the worst way. He wanted all the fame, the adoration, the glamour of being a superhero. And so he studied superheroes and looked for ways in which he could gain superpowers. IN his studies, Klint came across Prof. Will Magnus and his creations, the Metal Men.

Klint discovered that Will Magnus' lab had been located in a nearby section of Metropolis. After some explorations in to the depths of the old city, Klint found the lab. Of all the Metal Men, only one was left and that was Gold. The responsometer laid on a nearby table. Klint realized that if he put the responsometer in as is, he would not be the hero, but Gold would. So, he decided that he would wipe the responsometer clean and then encode his own engrams into it. Fearing that as long as his natural body was around, others would use it to stop him from being a superhero. So, Klint killed himself.

Taking the name Golden Boy, Klint tried out for the Legion of Superheroes. Instead of being impressed when he told his origin story, the Legionnaires contacted the science police. The attorneys his family hired was able to convince the jury that because Klint's engrams still existed in the robotic body, Klint was not dead and therefore not guilty of murder. There was a lack of evidence that when Klint wiped the responsometer that there were another person's engrams on it.

Golden Boy was now free, but he believed that the Legion was just jealous of his powers and had tried to make him look bad. He vowed revenge against the Legion.

Wow, I love that Golden Boy! What an awesome Legion reject!

Totally loved that Golden Boy. Very cool indeed.

Sizzle-

On the day Sun Boy and Inferno went super nova to save the galaxy from the Sun Eater, using their combined light and fire to draw the Sun Eater away from the real sun. As the Sun Eater consumed them their powers burst out from them along with a bomb created by Brianiac 5 to implode and absorb all the radiant energy it was going to cast upon the galaxy into a tromian crystal sphere that Sun Boy was holding.

When all the commotion and combustion all that was left was the tromian crystal sphere. Brianiac 5, set Element Lad and Dragonmage to collect the sphere. But something unexpected happened. The crystal sphere had morphed into a humanoid female form. Her skin was a deep red, with glistening pale green crystal finger tips and hair.

It seems when the Sun Eater had started absorbing Sun Boy and Inferno, the Bomb had activated at the same time. The crystal sphere absorbed the Sun Eater and the legionnaires life energies as well as their powers.
the crystal's properties combined with the bomb and the life energies of Sun Boy and Inferno that it created a new life form.

Dragonmage and Element Lad brought her back to Legion World. Brainiac 5 analyzed the new being before him, as Saturn Girl did a mental evaluation of the still unconscious female.

Saturn Girl determined that whoever this was it wasn't reincarnated or a merged version of their fallen fellow Legionaries.

Brainiac 5 discovered that the energy from the Sun Eater and the Legionaries have been combined into the crystal and the implosion of the bomb technology was keeping in sustained with in the crystal. But he couldn't however explain why the crystal morphed into a female.

Slowly coming around, Brainy and Saturn girl began running test to determine her health and psychosocial standing. During the test there was a large amount of energy out put coming from her. Unsure of what the energy was they cautiously had her do various energy cast. Each time though the energy was different. First she sparked lighting, then flares of flam and then blinding kaleidoscope of light. Seeing that she had very limited control as her thoughts were still chaotic with adjusting to life.
Saturn girl suggested she learn some calming techniques from Impulse to help her control her powers more.

As more time went on and the more they studied her, they realized that her excess energy wasn't infinite and she needed to be recharged from time to time. She could hold a charge for up to 5 days depending on how much she used it.

Brainy theorized that if she didn't get a recharge she might die. but this was determined to be false, when Golden Boy had taken over Legion World to get his revenge. She was locked away for almost two weeks without a recharge. but she was still alive.

After several months on Legion World, the crystal finally took a name calling herself Sizzle and applied for Legion membership. with really nowhere else to go and still wanting to keep an eye on her the Legion accepted her as a detached member like M'Onel. They try to use her sparingly, as to allow her to explore the galaxy and not over exert herself.

Turtle-

Bogdan Tarka was from the planet Doopa. He was from a race of time manipulators; each gifted with a different variation on time manipulation. Bogdan was has the ability to slow down time. He has a time aura that extends out when he concentrate to slow down time with in a mile radius. he can narrow this ability on to specific people, which is a very exulted discipline on Doopa.
this affect makes it seem like he can move at super speed.

this ability was hidden from everyone outside their race though, as they knew it would attract many who would want to travel to the past or the future, thinking that they have that capability. But none of them possesses that ability. They also feared being used for criminal activity, as they are a race of pacifists.

But now the U.P. has entered their lives and they have requested a draftee for Legion of Super heroes. As the Doopains don't want to expose their racial gift, they have chosen Bogdan as tr representative and have him pose as a super speedster mutant.

originally taking the name of Blindspot, as people didn't see him move. Bogdan eventually became the Turtle after his race's time manipulation powers were discovered. The leader of the Dark Circle Starfinger discovered the planet abilities while he was trying to establish a secret base their. bringing in his forces full forces he enslaved the Doopains. By forcing the Doopains to use their abilities more often, it caused a time rift that was radiating from the planet outward. because of his own powers Bogdan felt the shifts in time and eventually the world starting to experience time shifts, with versions of various Legion's through out time appearing, as well as various animals and people through out time. most only appearing for seconds at a time. The times shifts became stronger and started to last longer.

Bogdan and the Legion went to Doopa to find out what was going on. As they got closer the time shifts were stronger and versions of the Legionaries showed up. with The alternate Legionaries lasting longer and becoming allies in the effort to stop Starfinger and the Dark Circle. The battle seemed like it raged for years but was only a mere two days.

It was Bogdan who was finally exposed as a time manipulator and his abilities pushed to their limits, that allowed him to defeat Starfinger and their forces by literally freezing time around the entire planet. Canceling out the times shift from radiating outward. He was able to cast it so that the Legion wasn't frozen and could disperse the Dark Circle's forces.

Bogdan used the last bit of his energy to trap Starfinger in a localized time loop, essentially freezing him. Afterwards Bogdan took a break from the Legion to recuperate and help his world heal. As word hadn't reached the rest of the U.P. that the people of Doopa were time manipulators and were the cause of all the time shifts. the Legion agreed to keep its secrets. Saturn Girl and The White With used their powers to wipe the minds of all the Dark Circle members and troops.

Bogdan eventually returned to the Legion, to keep suspicion from being aroused about his people. But he knew that he was revealed as a time manipulator and thus changed His code name to The Turtle.

Turtle as a time manipulator is very cool!

thanks Set! i figured that either time manipulation or some sort of speed power would be suitible for the Turtle.

Gossamer was the code name Ngel Varru picked for herself. Although she was from Bgztl like Phantom Girl and had the power to become intangible, she had an additional power that other Bgztlians did not have. She could make herself weightless. She hoped that this extra power would allow her to join despite duplicating Phantom Girl's power.

However, Brainiac 5 explained how with their flight rings and Light Lass' power to make everything weightless, her power did not qualify her for Legion Membership. As she started walking away, Saturn Girl called out "Wait". She and Dream Girl had a private chat and then Imra asked Ngel to train at the Legion Academy. Although she had her doubts Gossamer agreed. Later Gossamer found out that at the tryouts, Dream Girl had a vision of Gossamer fighting along side the Legion and Phantom Girl in a Legion uniform.

After 6 months of training, Saturn Girl came to Gossamer and said that Phantom Girl was taking a leave of absence and that they would like her to fill in for Tinya. Gossamer readily agreed and for 7 months worked, lived, and fought with the other Legionnaires. When it was time for Phantom Girl to return to the team, the Legionnaires didn't want Gossamer to leave. So they re-wrote the Legion Constitution regarding duplicate powers. Now if an applicant has a power that an existing Legionnaire has, the applicant can be accepted into the Legion Academy. After passing the Academy's training, the applicant would be tested and, if they pass, are made a Legion Reservist. Then if the Legionnaire with the same power is incapacitated or takes a leave of absence, the Reserve Member will fill in. If the Reserve Member proves their worth, they will be allowed to remain in the Legion proper when the original member returns.

On the war torn world of Braal, the population had been reduced to almost nothing. approximate numbers were around no more than 1000 people left. After the numerous wars and the anti-magnet bomb; which cast a bio-magnetic frequency. there were few left who still had their magnetism intact, never mind fully functional.

with the planet left in shambles and little resources, they have become mostly nomadic tribes. traveling the vast deserts that span most of the continents: these areas they travel are known as the safe zones.

But rumor has it there is a city outside of the safe zone that survived the devastation and has water and food, due to a spring underneath it.

This city was home to a select few who could find it. Most couldn't make the journey through the deserts, beyond the safe zones.

But One man has been able to brave the deserts and has helped a few people find this reviving city. Becoming a bit of a ferrymen to these people. he's only known as Polestar, still having full use of his magnetic powers, he pulls full ferries of people through the deserts, riding the magnetic winds. Many can even see him riding the sands on a metal disk during the worst sandstorms.

But not everyone is as helpful as Polestar. there are a few pirate tribes that have formed. each fighting for the wasted riches of what lies beneath the desert. And just as everyone else they are struggling to find the hidden city. Polestar has become their enemy as he saves people from their thievery in the desert sands.

Polestar has now not only become the ferrymen for his people but their protector as well.

Turtle as a time manipulator sounds great, love how he uses it to pretend he has super speed.

I very much like Gossamer's story. Her powers alone don't make her particularly formidable, but I love how her hard work and dedication led to her eventual Legion membership and to the revision of the Constitution!

Polestar's alternate Braal is very interesting and dangerous. Whew! A ferrokinetic can have a lot of "fun" in a desert world.

Oh hey, this thread still exists!

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Growing up in the ethnic Okinawan enclave of Ryukyu, on Xanthu, Tomo Kano was always fascinated by the martial arts, particularly the many exotic weapons used mostly in traditional demonstrations in the modern day. He practiced for hours with the bo staff, and honed his skills with weapons more exotic than the common kama, nunchaku or sai, such as the tekku and the surujin, but his favorite was the shuriken, practicing a leaping style where he threw the shuriken at the apex of his leap, his 'falling star strike.'

His powers manifested in an exhibition, as his 'falling stars' indeed struck with devastating force, as he had somehow imparted the entire mass of his body into the hurtling projectiles, so that he hung in the air, weightless, as they struck the target with a hundred times the expected force!

And so, new training began, as he began developing his mass manipulating talents, allowing him to leap high into the air (by reducing his own mass) or strike with a stick of wood or tiny piece of metal with over a hundred pounds of additional force, as Star Boy!

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[This could also make for a very different update of the gravity controlling kid from the Power Pack!]

Oh, nice application of mass powers Set! I have a great liking for shuriken throwers. Love the Okinawan ancestry too.

Thanks! It's all on Drake3000 for that awesome Legion of Ninja series he drew, with Star Boy throwing stars. Combine 'stars' with mass manipulation, and it writes itself!

Good thread resurrecting, guys! Here's one that could also double as a hero from another world:

Ghalle Zhuhg comes from a world whose inhabitants communicate electrochemically and whom have only recently begun making diplomatic inroads with the United Planets. Even with the most up to date translators the planet's name is unpronounceable to humanoid tongues and the UP know it by an alphanumeric designate. Informally, it's also known as the Slugworld after the shambling slimy sentients that are its dominant lifeform. The most notable of these inhabitabts before Zhuhg left zir homeworld was Queeg, custodian of the so-called Science Asteroid. Inspired by stories of the universe beyond zir homeworld, Zhuhg followed Queeg's departure and tried out for the Legion of Superheroes.

Taking a cue from the Durlan Chameleon Boy, Zhuhg named zirself Lamprey after the Earth animal in the hope that it would help the Earth-centric Legion accept zir. With zir race's natural ability to secrete a toxin which drained the strength from any alien ze touched, the name fit well. The teens weren't ready for an enormous hermaphroditic slug who left a trail of slime everywhere ze went though, and almost unanimously rejected Lamprey. It was Chameleon Boy who saw Lamprey's true potential, and convinced zir not to give up. Joining the Legion Academy, Lamprey eventually learned to only produce zir slimy excretions at will. Ze tried twice more to join the Legion, and finally won them over. With an enthusiasm and a warm curiosity about the universe at odds with zir inhuman appearance, Lamprey has taught the Legion a lot about their own prejudices while becoming a steadfast member of the team. Lamprey is particularly good friends with Cham, to the extent that many Legionnaires suspect the two have a secret romance. The truth is that Lamprey's people are entirely pragmatic about mating and don't have the concept of romantic love in their society. Lamprey simply loves Cham platonically as a mentor and friend, and is often baffled by the relationship dramas so many of zir Legion friends seem to throw themselves into.

Queeg-as-Lamprey! Genius!

Also love the little details added to Queeg's hitherto undeveloped species.

living in the slums of Bismoll, a world where everyone has the ability to eat whatever they want lives a young man named Tenzil Kem scrounged to keep himself alive.
Orphaned at a young age due to the death of his parents in a car crash. young Tenzil was in the foster care system but ran away when his powers changed. Now, instead of being able to eat all matter with only his mouth, he has gained the ability to absorb all matter with a simple touch. Afraid if he touched anybody he ran away to the swears of the city where he's been trying to learn control of his new abilities. it seems his new powers are restricted to his hands and of course still through his mouth. He's learned that all the matter he eats through either one feeds his stomach and can give him booted levels of endurance and strength. But he found that his hunger was never satisfied and he always wanted more.

after several weeks in the swears trying to learn control he couldn't. during one of his fits of hunger he ate through a wall into the lair of the Devil's Dozen. they captured him, but in the process of doing so Tenzil accidentally "ate" several limbs of the Devil's Dozen. it was finally Prince Evillo who subdued him, using his hypnosis to fall asleep. while asleep he fashioned him into weapon to use to break into the vaults of Bismoll's treasury and wealthy. between his magics and Tenzil's touch they had become unstoppable.

During their biggest heist the Legion team of M'onel, Umbra, Saturn Girl, and Lady Mysa showed up to stop them. Prince Evillo used his magic and minions to distract the Legion while he had Tenzil continue on eating through the walls.

The Devil's Dozen were quickly dispatched between power house M'onel throwing them around like rage dolls. Lady Mysa deflects Prince Evillo's magics, why Saturn Girl Learns of Tenzil's brainwashing.

Princde Evillo sends Umbra to the shadow realm only to have his own portal used against him as Umbra calls forth the shadows to reopen it from her end and then attack him and pull him into his own realm. where Umbra eventually looses him.

coming back she finds all three of her teammates trying to subdue the young Tenzil. Even though Prince Evillo is far away and long gone his instructions and hypnotism remain intact. Get the money and eat who or what ever gets in your way.

the magical spell binding the hypnosis was stronger than Lady Mysa anticipated but she was able to break it allowing Saturn Girl to break the hold and commands completely. but not before M'onel got a taste of Tenzil's power, and he ate his costume. Luckily M'onel's invulnerability saved him.

Saturn Girl put him to sleep and then read his mind. discovering that he was a pawn and his powers were unstable they brought him back to Legion headquarters to try and find away to help him.

Lady Mysa new magic wouldn't be able to do much for him other than protect him from anymore mystical brainwashing's. Leaving him in the care of Brainy and Invisible Kid they studied his powers and realized that unfortunately there was no way to permanently shut off his power without aid. His body had become so accustomed t the amount of calorie intake from eating with his mouth and hands that his body wouldn't survive without the same intake. they did however invent inhibitor cuffs for him to wear which allowed him to touch people by casting a thin layer of a force field around his hands, that filters out human flesh from other types of matter that he can eat.

Having no where else to go and brainy wanting to study him he applied for membership to the Legion as Matter-Eater Lad.

Jeem Rehtu lived a fairly normal life on Preztor. a simple farmer in the mountain town of Deztee. Jeem had no aspirations beyond being a farmer. The farm he owned was his families and it had been in his family for generations. They farmed a rare plant called the Syrpus. The flower's pollen is used to create a serum that induces hallucinations in people. the serum is used on Preztor to help those with P.V.R.A.D. (post virtual reality adjustment disorder.)
Many people on Preztor have become addicted to virtual reality games. so much that people have died while in the game for lack of any real source of nutrients.

But Jeem's life as a farmer of the Syrpus ended the day the Dominators came to Preztor. on a quest to conqure more worlds tp run their experiments on to find the perfect blend of DNA to add t their own to create a meta-gene that rivals that of earth and many U.P. worlds.

The Dominators came and destroyed their world. Jeem and entire town were captured and tested on. when the Dominators found out about the properties of the Syprus flower they tested it on many of the Pretorians. the test ranged from testing the effects to manipulating their DNA to some how give the same propertes to one of the captives.

Jeem feel into the tested on group. but the Dominators found him to be immune to its affects. When they tested him further. the realized that because he and his family owned the farm for generations they ate all of the parts of the plant that wasn't harvested. Giving them a natural hallucinogen dampener, But Jeenm seems to acquired an extra ability, the ability to cause hallucinations in others with a simple touch. He can either choose a hallucination for them, as it creates a slight mental link with the other person or he can let them just hallucinate anything their minds create. The first is much harder for him to do.

Realizing they could never extract this ability from his DNA, the Dominators decided to brainwash Jeem into their own personal assassin and a guard/enforcer on his home planet. They made him use his ability to subdue various rebel factions.

eventually the U.P came to Peztor to offer them membership not knowing the Dominators had taken over. The U.P envoy was capture immediately. When the envoy didn't return as scheduled the S.P. were sent in to investigate. but they too were captured.

The Legion was called in next. When the Dominators realized the Legion was coming they were actually very excited. they were looking forward to testing their new creations and weapons on the Legion of Super Heroes. Initially the team only sent four member, Chameleon, Invisible Kid, Monstress and Blok. As forminable as they each are, they too were captured, thanks to Jeem. He attacked them early on, looking like a deranged captive. Somehow tackling each of them and touching their skin. Blok was immune to his touch as he wasn't an organic life form.

They soon realized what had happened and became of this world. They fought various other creations before Jeem powers kicked, leaving Blok to fend for his teammates and himself before more of the Dominators creations came around. Some with six legs like spiders, others with five eyes that cast a hypno gaze.

when the team didn't report back, the Legion sent the remainder of the team that was available finding the Legion cruiser and the other ships that had landed on Preztor. Finding their friends quickly they realized they had walked into a trap as dozens of the Dominators henchmen rushed them.

The battle began but did end quickly. each member facing off against two to three each. till finally they were surrounded. Saturn Girl tried to reach out to their minds finding most of them to have a psychic inhibitor implanted. All except Jeem, who the Dominators thought his powers would give him a natural immunity to it. however they were wrong. Saturn Girl slowly took control of his body as her teammates and the altered henchmen continued fighting. Finally able to control him she sent him around running touching all the henchmen but because of the fighting none of them realized it was Jeem touching them. before long they were incapacitated. using her powers to reverse his brainwashing Saturn girl restored Jeem's mind.

The reunited Legion made its was to find the diplomats and s.p officers after they called the U.P. about their finds. The U.P said ships would be on the way for medical relief and military support to help ride Preztor of the Dominators.

Once the legion, who had Jeem along with them because he wanted to help save his world. The dominators knowing they themselves didnt stand a chance against the Legion after they took down half of their altered army cut their losses.

Peztor joined the U.P and with their help healed their world. As for Jeem he hopped to return to farming but after everything he found that he was plagued by nightmares from his time with the Dominators and realized he needed to do something that helped. he auditioned for the Legion after he had spent a little time learning to control hallucinations. calling himself Command Kid and was accepted.

I like the bit about PVRAD (post virtual reality adjustment disorder). That's a neat bit of future-development to throw into the character history!

Reminds me of those rats they wired up so that they could press a bar and directly stimulate their own pleasure centers, and they just kept pressing that bar until they died of dehydration... (That sort of thing is do-able *now,* so, by the 30th century, there's going to have to be some sort of Science Police mandated ban on that technology, or people will be required to submit to genetic modification that makes their pleasure centers immune to that sort of direct stimulation, or something, or else entire planetary populations would just die, pressing their bliss buttons...)

Thanks Set! i wanted to have a real reason why he's able to cause hallucinations and that just worked.

Agreed an entire planet would die. but it could be a very fun way to go lol...

Yeah, that's the very purpose the SP seem to have been designed for, to regulate technology that could be destructive. 'Gray goo' Von Neuman nanomachines are popular in sci-fi, but stuff like clone banks used for organ harvesting or direct pleasure stimulation addiction or harvesting neurohormones from sentient races (particularly psychic races like Titanians and Naltorians) could be futuristic sci-fi threats that the SP would have to deal with.

On the planet fuzzball there exists a race of humanoid-cats. Just like on Earth there are various species of felines. they all have the feline agility, physique, and heightened senses but raised by a factor of three times that of that of any particular feline species. Making some of them very powerful.

Much of their world is forest and they have a fairly tribal society, with a few modern cities that have begun to cropped up due to the arrival of the colonist.

The U.P. inspected the planet and deemed it habitable for most U.P. worlds. The U.P believed the world to not have any intelligent life.

The cat-people as they became known to colonist were seen as just another type of wildlife on this world. The U.P. failed to realize that the cat-people were the dominate species; partially because the cat-people can't speak as they do not have a larynx that can form speech as we know it and it wasn't till after settlement had started that they found the homes and towns of the cat-people.

Once the U.P. brought a telepath in from Titan they were able to communicate. The cat-people were a very peaceful race and were willing to share their world. but at high restrictions to technology and any development beyond the few settlements they currently have. The U.P. agreed.

some of the cat-people have begun to take an interest in the cites of the U.P and each tribe has a member who is their ambassador to these few cities. Still unable to speak, they have been given voice modulators that project their thoughts.

One such tribal ambassador is April Dumaka, as her feral name is unpronounceable by the standard off world-er,so she took the name April. she heard it in a song that someone in her office played and liked the sound of it.

April found herself loving both lives. she loved her city life, it was complicated but still easy for her and interesting. she learned about other worlds and things that lay beyond the stars of her world. But every chance she got she ran through the forest as fast as she could kicking up the dirt in her wake and climbing the trees as high as the highest branch she could reach. April is from the northern region of her world and Her species resembles that of Earth's Margay.

April has taken to straightening her main while in the city to fit in, while out in the city one night she encountered a mugger. mistaking her for another person he wasn't prepared for her enhanced strength and agility. several by standers saw this and were awed by her.

April didn't fully understand why. But she didn't mind the attention. She never stood out among her people. that was part of why she became an ambassador. she to stand out.

When The Legion came to Fuzzball on a world tour April was impressed with them. She saw the attention they got and thought it was enthralling. When she was introduced she asked for membership as she is not shy about what she wants.

They told her to apply at the next open call. But not satisfied with that answer, she stole away with the team back to their headquarters on Earth. Where she hide in their headquarters for weeks before they found her. realizing she wasn't going to leave anytime soon the legion agreed to a try out just for her. besting several of them in hand to hand combat with her enhanced agility and speed she ran circles around them and using her claws to keep them at bay and to climb the walls around them. After her try out the legion chose not to admit her. as talented as she was she needed more training. offering her a place in the academy as Catspaw

I really dig this Catspaw coming from a race of cat people! Plus the idea that there's a cat world called Fuzzball is freakin adorable

Maybe these nefarious nogoodniks represent the bad side of Fuzzball: Yes, it's the Space Canine Patrol!

Tenzil Kem was born on the planet Sklar and shares the mass-shifting abilities of some of its inhabitants. Sort of.

Tenzil possesses the ability to incorporate the mass of a subject into any other subject of his choice, the only condition being that they both need to be physically touching. The effect can look quite creepy, as one object develops a kind of lip that stretches over whatever it's absorbing and within seconds swallows it whole. After "eating" its target, the devouring object gains its mass though not any of its other properties. As far as Tenzil knows the process can't be reversed, so he's never tried it on a living being.

Looking for a life of fun and adventure, he tried out for the Legion of Superheroes. They considered his power to be quirky but ultimately too limited and rejected him, so Tenzil joined the Legion of Substitute Heroes as Matter-Eater Lad. Eventually the main Legion came around, and with his daredevil attitude and generally congenial nature he's one of the more popular Legionnaires both in and outside of the team. He's learned to be quite creative with his admittedly limited powerset over the years, disarming gunmen by having their own costumes eat their weapons, ensnaring people by having walls or the floor partially eat their clothes and stopping vehicles by having them absorb so much mass from anything around them they're unable to move.

That's an awesome interpretation of 'Matter-Eating,' having the matter itself do the eating! Very creative!

Raz that is wicked creative!

it does make me wonder how that would work on a living being...would it create a zombie affect

Love it they left Fuzzball one they realized the riches the rest of the universe holds.

Thanks peeps! I always thought Matter-Eater Lad's name was too literally descriptive to really be able to do anything different with him but then Omni inspired me to give it a go with his version

Glad i could help. lord knows how many times you've inspired mine!

Up in the high ice cap mountains of Triton, lived a Tritonian female monk named Harmonia , who left society behind when her powers first emerged.

As a young girl she wasn't any different. she went to school, loved her family and was a devoted Bilitztian, which was the local religion. They believed in peaceful resolution through the use of ice tai chi, or ice dancing as most called it. through meditation and doing the movements of the ice dancing one could achieve a peaceful resolution to any problem.

When she turned 14, she discovered she could feel the emotions of others. at first she found this to be alarming. but after talking with the monks in her village, they told her that Bitzra their God, has chosen her to join their ranks as they too feel the emotions of others. They promised that with time and training she would make a fine member of their order and put her skills to good use.

but as she trained she realized that she not only felt the emotions of others but she influenced them as well. at first it was in minor ways, people becoming more agreeable.

But one day when she became angered by the death of her father, who had been murdered. she locked herself in the chapel of Heilt and did ice chi tie's the Phoenix moves to resolve her anger. while locked away she unknowingly forced her anger on her whole village and caused a riot.

eventually her anger turned to grief and she emerged from the chapel and saw what she had caused.

fleeing the world as she wasn't sure she could ever contain her emotions to not hurt the people around her.

On Jaquua, Atrebi was born without eyes, the only one of a litter of six to have such a deformity, and his parents spared no expense to correct their sightless child, even after learning that he somehow was able to produce a single black floating sensor, resembling a Jaquaan eye, and somehow see through this psychic construct. Delicate as a soap bubble, the 'eye' drifted slowly according to his will, and he usually kept it floating above one shoulder, so that he could navigate as well as a sighted person. Over the years, he learned to create additional sensors, at first just a pair, slowly growing both more sensitive (he eventually discovered that he could hear through them as well), more mobile (he could cause one to drift kilometers from his presence, eventually quite quickly) and more resilient (as durable as actual eyeballs, or even a bit sturdier), but always retained his psychic connection to these constructs, being able to perceive through them remotely, direct their movements, and to feeling a brief sense of shock and pain when one (or more) was damaged or destroyed.

A young adult now, Atrebi goes by the name Sensor, and works with the Jaquuan government, doing search and rescue and reconnaissance into dangerous situation, able to send a dozen 'sensors' into an area and scout it out in relative safety, for emergency response or law-enforcement agencies. He has even learned, after some Titanian training, to engage in limited telepathic contact with someone contacting one of his sensors, allowing for remote communication.

While his unusual power has little practical combat use, being neither offensive or defensive, it is extremely useful, and his family are very proud to be sponsors of one of Jaquua's premier 'super-heroes.'

Brek Bannin wanted to be a Legionnaire more than anything else in the galaxy. His only problem was that he didn't have a power...sure, he could project waves of cold as a natural defence against his super hot world of Tharr, but everyone on his homeworld could do that. What use would that be on a normal temperature world? No, Brek would need to make his own way to stand out. Taking advantage of his natural resistance to fire and heat, Brek made himself a flame-generating suit and took the name Sun Boy. Unfortunately he didn't account for the Legion's ban on artificial powers and was summarily rejected.

Lydda Jath was raised on Kathoon within an offshoot of the Dark Circle. Her religion states that the universe fell into the grip of evil millions of years ago and that life must be a constant struggle to present order in the grip of supreme chaos. Her views on morality therefore are somewhat different to the average UP citizen, as she acts to preserve order more than necessarily to help someone in need. Her father convinced her to make a deal with the devil to get the kind of power she needs to fulfil this mission. As Satan Girl, she's as strong as a Daxamite and has various mystical senses. The Legion of Superheroes weren't comfortable with her origins or beliefs though, and summarily rejected her.

Ral Benem accidentally fell into a vat of experimental serum when he was a child and gained the ability to cause extreme physical growth in any living organism. Calling himself XS, he tried out for the Legion but was rejected as the Legion could see limited benefit in him causing people to grow giant-sized.

Staq Mavlen was hospitalised for months after straying too close to a fallen meteor and inhaling microscopic fragments of the rock. He metabolised those particles and gained the ability to produce noxious gases of various chemical compositions. His body is also slowly physically transforming, becoming leathery and more resistant to physical damage and temperature extremes as time goes by. When he woke from his coma he tried to join the Legion but Saturn Girl sensed something dark inside of him and he was rejected. Unknown to anyone, Staq has been inhabited by an ancient arcane intelligence that had been trapped in the meteor. It's slowly transforming him to become the perfect host and one day the hero named Chemical King will be one of the most dangerous villains the galaxy has seen.

Dag Wentim comes from the planet Zwen, where all inhabitants spend half of every year petrified in suspended animation. Spending so much of their lives asleep, the Zwennites have a much greater understanding of The Dreaming than a lot of races, and Dag from a young age was having his own adventures throughout dream worlds. While in stone form he has the ability to enter the dreams of others, to probe their subconscious minds and to communicate with them. As Dream Boy, he approached the other Legion rejects the night after their tryout and convinced them to become their own team to covertly support the Legion of Superheroes. While his body slumbers on Zwen Dream Boy is the Legion of Substitute Heroes' invisible secret weapon, getting info from crooks and tracking down secrets for his team while the UP sleeps.

Nice Razsolo.

Good to see you all posting again, Set, Omni, raz! Loving these interesting ideas.

Love all of these!

Raz i think Dream Boy s my favorite..no wait Satan Girl...no wait Sun Boy...oh i can't choose. lol

Set Sensor is amazing! I love how you describe the uses of his "psychic eyes"

Love those versions of Satan Girl and Chemical King, especially, raz, and how they offer up future story possibilities!

Crossing the streams a little;

'Berto DaCosta first discovered his fantastic ability to transform energy into super-powers as a teenager, as the sunlight striking his skin was absorbed, turning him into what appeared to be a humanoid black hole, but merely giving him incredible super-human strength and stamina.

He contemplated the name 'Sunspot,' until further experience revealed that light alone was not the source of his power, but that he could absorb different types of energy, and each type conferred a different super-human form and power.

Exposure to powerful currents of electricity caused his body to grow thinner and sleeker, covered in a silver-blue metallic coating, with odd art-deco style 'fins' growing from his head, shoulders, forearms and lower legs, as he developed the power of blinding super-speed.

Great amounts of heat or exposure to fire would cause him to fly apart into a cloud of ash, able to fly as fast as the wind, pass through areas like a fine smoke, disperse over wide areas or even smother fires or blind and suffocate adversaries.

Operating as a heroic adventurer (to meet girls, truth be told, more than out of an overwhelming surfeit of innate heroism), he learned, when blasted with hostile magic, that magical energy would cause him to transform into a towering demonic form, red-skinned and four-armed, with only the strength one would expect of a form that continued to grow, from three meters tall to *ten* meters in height, as he was exposed to more powerful magical attacks, but also superhuman regenerative powers.

And so, after laughing off a friends suggestion of 'Absorbancy Boy,' 'Berto now calls himself Kid Quantum, to represent his unique abilities, and how he can appear in different forms, depending on the available energy sources.

The Rocky Horror Legion, for Hallowe'en:




Back row: Saturn Girl, Brainiac 5 (seated), Ultra Boy, Sun Boy, Mon-el, Element Lad (?)

Front row: Light Lass, Shadow Lass, Phantom Girl, Dream Girl, R.J. Brande in wheelchair.

Thread resurrecta!

The most famous hero on Titan is a genderfluid intellectual and physical powerhouse named Dream Boy/Girl (depending what gender ze represents as at the time). Dream Boy/Girl's secret is that ze is a psychic construct, a way for sleeping Titanians to safely direct their psionic powers and ensure they don't accidentally cause strife in their sleep.

Dream Boy/Girl has access to the experiences and skills of every sleeping Titanian, and the sleeping population's excess psionic energy is channelled into zer strength, speed, stamina and durability - this makes Dream Boy/Girl almost equal to a Daxamite physically depending how many dreamers are making up zer body at the time. Due to Dream Boy/Girl's unique composite nature, ze is also pretty much entirely immune to psionic attacks.

Whether Dream Boy/Girl presents as male or female relies solely on which gender currently constitutes the majority of sleeping Titanians; this means that ze can change gender before someone's eyes as the balance tips, which can be disconcerting to some people (acknowledging that there are likely non-binary genders present somewhere on Titan as well, Dream Boy/Girl would present that way in the rare event that a variant gender becomes the majority).

I also did this one in Spaceopoly.

Donnough Bolto was angry! She was angry at the High Council. To declare that transmutation was evil. Why everybody knew that the people of Trom were the most gentle, peaceful, and benign people in the entire United Planets. She was angry at her brother. For believing the High Council. And for embarking on a life of crime and evil. Donnough was glad that their mother had not been alive to see the shame Laevar had brought to their family.

When Donnough discovered her brother's notes she decided to recreate his transmutation ray and give herself the power to transmute just like her brother. Then she would show the High Council and her brother that transmutation is not evil and that it could be used for the benefit of others. After 4 months, Donnough had perfected the ray. With it she was able to change an iron bar into pure platinum. Next came the most dangerous part. Subjecting herself to the transmutation ray. She was unsure about how long she would need to stay in the ray in order to gain her brother's power.

Taking a deep breath, Donnough stepped into the ray. Its light bathed her, but she did not feel any different. She stayed in the ray for a full ten minutes. She placed the bar of platinum in front of her. She knew that her brother's power flowed from his eyes. She stared at the bar and thought "Iron". Nothing happened. She thought harder. She filled her mind with everything she knew about iron. Nothing. Feeling frustrated, Donnough slammed her fist on the table. It made a strange sound. And hitting the table did not hurt. Looking down, she saw that where she had struck the table, there was now a fist sized dent. Looking now to her hand, Donnough saw that it was iron. The room began to spin and she collapsed on the floor.

When she came too, she thought she had had a nightmare, but looking again at her hands, she saw that they were still iron. going to a full length mirror, Donnough saw that her entire body had been transmuted into iron. She tried to think herself human again, but it did not work. She tried bathing herself in the transmutation ray, but it had no affect either. Donnough then thought about gold. She again concentrated and filled her mind with everything she knew about gold. Looking in the mirror, she saw that she had now turned into gold.

After some experimentation, Donnough discovered that she could transmute her own body into any element. She could even become ethereal by turning her body into oxygen. However, she felt herself drifting apart and quickly turned herself back into iron.

Traveling to Earth, Donnough sought out the Legion of Superheroes. She hoped that Brainiac 5 could reverse the transmutation effects and make her human again. She thought that the Legion would be able to help her track down her brother. And she felt that she could also show the Venusian High Council that transmutation is not evil, but can be used for good. Donnough took the codename "Dawnstar" as that is one of the names Terrans had for her home world of Venus.

My take on Chemical King.

Condo Arlik was a child prodigy when it came to chemicals and chemical formulas. At age three he created a serum that would make feathers weigh the same as lead. Kind of silly, but what do you expect from a three year old. As he grew, he could create all sorts of serums and potions from combining different chemicals to achieve various effects.

When he tried out for the Legion, they first rejected him claiming that he depended upon mechanical devices. Condo argued, successfully, that his power was his ability to know which chemicals to combine to produce the desired effect. Much like Brainiac 5's power wasn't his force field belt, but his 12th level intelligence.

Later when the White Witch joined, he had her enchant the vials he carried on his person so that they would never run out of the chemicals they contained.

Pantheon of Heroes from Big Bang universe

More information on the Pantheon of Heroes.

In his expirements to make his invisibility serum, Lyle Norn had a lab rat that was a baby goat.

Two pictures of the original Invisible Kid.

I thought with the white tuft, it was Jacques.

This one is super inventive and i really like it. This could even be a "Heroes of Other worlds" character. I think the thing i like about it is the fluidity and how often it can change. I think it speaks well to some of the things going on in our current culture around gender identity. Makes me wonder if by the 31st century if the gender binary would be obsolete. especially with other alien races that may not have a gender at all.
It also brings up gender expression and how one express' their gender. Would there even be gender norms in the 31st century?
Great character and thought provoking character raz!

Thanks Omni! It's pretty convenient from a reading and writing perspective that the Legion's future for the most part culturally doesn't really deviate from where we are now, but after reading your comments I might see if I can incorporate someone like Dream Boy/Girl into a story in my fic....I do have something in mind anyway to explore ideas of gender with another character, but you would hope by the 31st century that different perspectives on gender would be a lot more commonplace and accepted. One of the things I would change if I was to go back and rewrite a lot of my own stuff would be making Quislet more decisively agendered rather than just referring to Quislet as "he" all the time for ease of reference...

On another note, that photo of Invisible Kid above is really making me want to see a Legion of SuperAnimals now...Brainy Yak 5, Timber Wolf, Wildstarling etc etc

Alternate Quislet: In the 31st century Din Enigma is the heir to the the Riddler family line and the latest hero to take up the detective/hero mantel of the Question. Din took over from the current Question who was recently captured by the Dominion is their secret War on Earth. Din is currently living in what is known as “Old Gotham” and goes by the moniker Quislet. Din is known for being super inquisitive and destructive with all information as he is a hacker and inventor extraordinaire who works for the side of the angels on most occasions doing his best to question society and change it for the better. Exposing those in power. Quislet has run into the Legionnaires multiple times and even provided them with information pivotal to cracking a case. But has never once joined or been offered membership. Using his inventing skills to create metal and stone avatars that he has placed around Old Gotham act as his eyes, ears and enforcers Quislet fights to take down the corruption of of Old Gotham and Earth in general.

Quislet as a heroic Riddler legacy is pretty cool, and I love the idea of the Dominators fighting a secret war on Earth with heroes we've never known!

I like the idea of mixing up the Question, Riddler and Quislet in this way! Acting (and possibly communicating) through these (faceless?) constructs of metal and stone sounds like a compelling visual, and could evoke a more 'Quislet' like visual if he occasionally has one crumble away after delivering it's message, because he's perhaps a touch paranoid about anyone more closely investigating them and learning information that could lead to them finding his hidden base or where/how he fabricates these constructs. Information is power, after all, and the less information anyone (even his current allies) have on him, the less power over him they have.

When challenged on how this secrecy conflicts with typical hacktivist ethos, he replies, "Information may want to be free, but so do I!"

Thanks Set and Raz. I'm glad my Quislet is a fun interpretation.
Set you've got some great Ideas for this character and given me some ideas on how to use this character.

Yes, it is like Brainiac 5 being the heroic legacy of a villain.

Mag-No: Dryk Magz was born on Braal to the average Brralian family. But he wasn't average. Dryk was born without magnokenisis. When he was younger no one noticed and simply did their best to not do magnokinesis infront of him. Once Dryk got a bit older his family explained to him how he was different. But that didn't faze the young man. That is until the one day he wished did have magnokenisis. A magno-rail had good off the tracks and was about to crash into the side of a building. Dryk didn't realize it at the time but he was the cause for the magno-rail's failure as his ability to negate magnetic forces was starting to emerge. That magno-rail crash made Dryk determined to have the same powers as everyone else as he was the only one harmed in the crash unable to create a magnetic field to keep himself from being flung about. Dryk began to study magnokenisis and seek out expert opinions of respected Doctors on the subject. But nothing worked. it wasn't until he was home one night and his sister tried to pull over a small food tray and couldn't that he realized something was up. Walking out of the room his sister did it with ease. at first both were baffled but as he did this several more times and with each member of his family he realized that their magnetic field control was gone. After more studies the doctors found that Dryk was the ultimate magnetism buster. capable of negating any and all magnetic forces, able to manipulate magnetic forces to a degree but not on the same level or even as actively/accurately as other Brralians render metal non-magnetic, and fly using magnetic forces but only when the field is super strong. Staying on Brral he became a local hero. But when Cosmic Boy went mad after watching Lydda, his wife die at the hands of Cosmic King; whom he killed in a fit of rage Brainiac 5 contracted him and he became the last resort weapon to take out Cosmic Boy.
After a long battle with the crazed hero Cosmic Boy, Mag-No negated Cosmic Boy's powers as he attempted to shift the magnetic polls to be stronger by amplifying his powers. But its that amplification along with Mag-No's negation that he stopped. The energy from the magnetic forces being amplified had no where to go but into Mag-No and finally imbuing him with magnokenisis and robbing Cosmic Boy of his. Brainiac 5 asked after his rehabilitation to join the ranks of the Legion. Even though he had magnokenisis now he still kept his name Mag-No as a reminder of where he came from.