Will she become a recurring character?
Is she Naltorian?
We know she was a student of Rond Vidar's and held him in great esteem.
He told her she should have been named Cassandra for warning him to be careful on the day he died!!
She warned Adajpu that observing the birth of the universe would unleash certain doom!!
She told Saturn Girl that Titan would not survive!!
Let's talk about Professor Harmonia Li!!

Is she more likely to become a villainess, a Legionnaire or a Legionnaire's love interest?

Initially, I hated her wordy monologue in Legion #1, but now that I've fantasized a complete back-story, I feel it fit her personality perfectly!!

I swear there was some chemistry between her and Brainy!

She was another thing about #1 that I loved... I look forward to seeing more of her...

So (maybe) does Brainy!

Where there's Harmonia, there must be discord... and who could cause more discord than ?

Well, maybe , but we'll ignore that for the time being!

Maybe that'll take some of the crazy out of his eyes!!
The look on his face in the scene where he's holding up the flight ring is downright Starlin-esque!!

My thought was that she was intended as a Dream Girl II? I'm not sure what Nura's status is at the moment.

Maybe it's the craziness that comes with being sexually deprived?

He usually builds robots for that.

This disproves my thought HOW exactly?

OMG!! I just had a terrible thought!!
Did Professor Harmonia Li even survive the destruction of Titan?
Did she get on one of the evacuation shuttles in time??
Did she decide to stay at the Time Institute and face death bravely, as her beloved teacher Rond Vidar did??
Did Brainiac 5 try to talk her out of it, or was he too busy salvaging whatever equipment he could??

Rhino, Rhino, Rhino---you MUST know that Paul would never be so cruel as to deprive us of both USALUS and Harmonia in the same issue, right?

You're right, of course.
Over at the DC boards, Minty Fresh suggested that whatever evil was unleashed by viewing the universe's origins may be possessing Professor Harmonia Li and will turn her into the Legion's next great villian!!

Uh-oh!

Time viewer...Time Trapper...

Shit! is Harmonia the Time Trapper?!?!

Also, I'm glad I'm not the only one who wondered if she's actually Naltorian, too.

Hmm... Brainy and a Naltorian, where have I heard that idea before?

Well, hopefully Paul won't kill her as that would take it to even MORE familiar ground....

A Google image search for Harmonia Li brought up the Harmonia Axyridis-a type of ladybug.

You people are a riot to listen in on!
Love the bug!

And I doubt that Levitz will use a female for the TT.
The reaction to Glorith wasn't very good and even worse to Lori.
I loved them, but I love women to have POWER in comics.
Unfortunately, they are made to either go crazy, hook up with a guy or act silly.
sigh

Professor Harmonia Li + Ladybug = new Insect Queen!!

Does she resemble Dr. Chaseer from the Baxter era? Sounds like Paul could have easily slipped in this already estalished character instead of creating a new one.

I really hope he's not rushing into a new Time Trapper story.

We never really saw Chaseer after the "Lucky Day" story, right? I always thought that was too bad.

Just please let there be no fridgings. [crosses fingers] I think Brainy's had enough dead partners/friends for a while. Hell, I think everyone's had enough.

Seconded.

Really too early to tell, anyway.

I'd say the Infinite Man is more likely.

That's a good catch.

Still too cosmic for my tastes at this point, though.

I suspect Harmonia Li once was had her sexual awakening courtesy of Rond Vidar and soon will become Brainy's love interest!

Keeping with the tradition of Brainy and Rond sharing lovers!

Maybe she is the Mother of Ronds child?

^ Actually, that's a good point. Are there any other likely candidates who could be the Mother?

Poor Brainy. Maybe it'll turn out that Li IS Rond's child, from the FUTURE'S FUTURE!



No wonder the dude's gotten to be such a grouch.

^^^ Oooohh who would that make her mother then? Caress?

Yeah. One recurring Asian character would already make him more forward-thinking than Joss Whedon!

Geoff already killed this continuity's Dragonmage in Lo3W.

Unless... Dragonmage is an inherited title, and he actually killed Dragonmage's father!

"Harmonia Li" is an anagram for "Mail a Rhino" -- which suggests that she will soon be contacting you personally to answer these questions.

^ I *really* like that idea!

And also, no death scene + no body + unreliable source = 1001 ways Dragonmage could still be alive.

Dragonmage totally needs to come back, although, and I know this *never* happens with magic-based characters, with actual defined powers, and not just 'Xiao casts a spell, shit happens.'

MEOW!! Kitten has claws!!

Sorry, rhino.

The more I think about it, the more I think Whedon is to me as Grunge is to Fanfic Lass.

She seems to give off a sinister vibe--the virtually unhurt sole survivor of such a calamity should raise Brainy's suspicions, favored pupil of Rond's or not...

Yeah, I wonder why Harmonia was unhurt...

Random theory: She is secretly a Green Lantern.

She was Rond's pupil in more ways than one.

If she's a Lantern, then it's pretty churlish of her to not have saved her colleagues with a big green cartoon shield or something.

Maybe she was sick of them taking credit for all her discoveries AND them never making more coffee when they drank what was left in the pot.

She's EVIL!!
...or our last hope against whatever was unleashed in the time institute!!
...or the mother of Rond's child!!
...or Naltorian!!
...or a 2nd tier character who'll never show up again!!

...or the next Green Lantern? I have a feeling Dyogene will be contacting her soon!!

Maybe she'll be the new Insect Queen and control the bug or bugs from Ozifer that will be the new Green Lantern(s).

If people are tired of seeing Brainy, maybe he could go on sick leave after his encounter with Saturn Queen and Professor Harmonia Li could take his place (temporarily) as the resident big brain. We don't know what her intelligence level is, but her common sense must be a Level 10 at least.

I just hope she doesn't know any martial arts, being an Oriental woman. Give her a a good old-fashioned gun or let her be a surfer or gourmet cook or something.

She won't be the new Insect Queen because Insect Queen has already shown up in the Superman books. It was some insectoid alien who copied and later possessed Lana.

My fear is that she becomes Karate Kid 3.

i'm so on board that train. it's a rond homage!

Hey!!
One of my outlandish theories came true! Well, half true anyway.
So, in # 7 we discover that Prof. Li is really, really, super-duper old & that she used to live on Earth. Oh, also she can play a mean ancient musical instrument & has Brainy & the High Seer panting like dogs in heat!
Go, Harmonia!

I haven't had a chance to give my theory as to who HL might be.
Whoever or whatever she really is I hope she doesn't go on to, oh I don't know, mentor the new Green Lantern Legionnaire or something silly like that.

I wonder if she is not some how connected to Jong Li Earth's first Green Lantern from the Green Lantern: Dragon Lord limited series?

Well, we're finally about to learn something, I guess.
In honor of possibly finding out who she is:

original photo from a Chloe Dao show

no comment. off the record, she is evil.

Well hello there power boy. this train is ready for boarding.


Just tie harmonia to the tracks first.

Were I evil (okay, more evil...), I would have used my position at the post office to send a thousand votes for Harmonia Li to be Legion Leader, using different names and area stamps, so that they appeared to be from different areas of the country and force Paul Levitz to deal with that.

But that wouldn't be punishing him, since he actually seems to like the character, so much as punishing myself...

I'd be sending DC a cart load of red shirts in her size.

Heh, she's already wearing a lot of red... That reminds me that her new look is about the only thing I like about the character.

I'm still burned that an ethnic Chinese character is mastering the four Greek elements, and not the five Chinese elements... (And she's generally shown using air/wind powers, which is the one element of the 'classic four' she shouldn't have!)

For Paul, with his clever wordplay with Dyogene / Diogenes, and the world Panopticon, I expect better use of Wikipedia.

Oh great darkseid! They put her in a cheongsam ! Where is apache chief and el dorado? 30 years ago that's where.

Well, those are also four of the five Japanese elements, and four of the five Tibetan ones, so maybe Paul got confused Or he thought giving her metal would make Cosmic Boy redundant, but didn't care about making Nightwind redundant since he'd exiled her to Takron-Galtos...

and he thought nothing would make Sun Boy redundant anyway.

I wonder if Paul will write a story with Dragonwing and Harmonia discussing their "shared" homeland. Doesn't seem like Harmonia's been keeping either her ethnicity or her "immortality" secret.