Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes The All-Summer 2012 Super Top 25 Favorite Legionnaires Poll!

I'm pretty sure those three have never officially been Legionnaires (except Power Boy in the Adult Legion, which I didn't count).

Wasn't Lamprey part of the team during the Khund war?
I thought that she and Crystal Kid and Nightwind were killed or something.

But, yes, Gravity Kid was just in the Academy.

I got carried away with my remembering.
lol

It's funny how after only 24 voters, there isn't a single Legionnaire that everyone can agree should be in at least the top 25.

Arrgh! Also just noticed I missed seeing Thunder on the list.

Nightwind was killed while she and Lamprey were instructors at the UP Militia Academy. Crystal Kid would later join said Academy as an instructor after the Earth blew up.

Jo, Cham and Shady are taking it away!

Ha, even Earth Man and Dream Boy have votes, but Atmos remains voteless. Creep.

Three of the people I voted for still only have a single vote. My tastes remain confined strictly to my mouth, I see.

*GLARE* Next you'll tell me Harmonia has votes.

I wonder how many of Tasmia's votes are for Umbra, rather than Shadow Lass?
Mine is for Umbra, anyway.


And Set - did you vote for Sizzle?
I came so close to voting for her.

Weren't Chuck and Lu part of that group?
I've always thought that the team there was an underground part of the Legion.

I totally voted for Sizzle. And Turtle and Dream Boy, too. I like the mutts!

any time, Candle!

Count me in with the Drura and Luornu votes.

Mine too!

As of 33 voters, only 7 Legionnaires made it to 20 or more votes;
Phantom Girl, Chameleon Boy, Ultra Boy, Shrinking Violet, Dream Girl, Element Lad and Shadow Lass. That'd be an interesting line up!

(With write-ins, Lu got 11 and Drura got 8, so they don't make the 20+ club.)

And poor Conner/Superboy still has less votes than Flederweb!

If I'm counting correctly, there's 24 characters with 14 or more votes, with another 3 at 13. Only one character created post-1980 is in that bunch.

Not surprised to see who the post-1980s character is, and I'm also very pleased that character is really a gem.

Also quite pleased to see another of my faves doing reasonably well at 12 votes, considering the character's newness.

Pleasantly surprised at Violet. She's not usually this popular!

This might probably change later, but I just HAD to post it -

Gates is ahead of not one, but TWO founders by one vote!

And Kinetix is tied with Sun Boy now, and is ahead of several preboot Legionnaires too!

Go and

I believe Zoe is currently part of a three-way tie for twenty-third position!

24 votes plus a write- in for Lu. It would be fun to run a poll of which versions people prefer for some of the longer serving (suffering?) legionnaires who've endured multiple reboots, re-imaginings etc. For example, I think Waid's Atom Girl and butt- kicking Dream Girl were awesome; the Silver Age incarnations not so much.

Yeah, it'd be interesting, but a nightmare trying to count versions of characters. Some of these guys change drastically from one writer to the next, while others seem to make it through complete reboots with minimal changes to the essential character.

That is extremely awesome, not just because Kinetix is my #1 fave. it's also because I've always known her to have a few diehard fans, but not many fans period. She always seemed such a polarizing character.

But lately she's been doing really well, even going on to win last year's Multiverse Legion Idol

I'm pretty sure Future did a poll some time ago asking us to choose between the Preboot, Postboot and Threeboot versions of some Legionnaires. i can't for the life of me find it, though. I've tried searching the terms "poll", "Legionnaire", "favorite", "multiverse" and "Boot" and it didn't turn up.

Sean, you might be interested in watching out for the Multiverse Survivor and Multiverse Idol games. Last year, Future ran Survivor and I did Idol. They both split the Legionnaires amongst versions.

The difference is that in Survivor, posters vote out the ones they dislike. In Idol, voters give points to the ones they like most.

You can check them out here -

Multiverse Legion Survivor
Multiverse Legion Idol

I'm thinking of making Idol an annual event.

Very true. Cosmic Boy, Colossal Boy, etc. tend to feel very similar from boot to boot, but Projectra, wow, she goes through some serious changes!

I would traditionally have thought her third most popular of the reboot characters, behind Gates and XS. I suspect the latter has suffered quite a bit due to her increasingly messy continuity over the past few years.

Maybe third-most popular of the Reboot-originals, but if we include the Reboot Legionnaires with Preboot versions she tends to slip further down the list.

Kinetix also has a lot of people who actively dislike her, which is why she tends to perform poorly in Survivor-style games as opposed to polls or Idol-style ones.

I wonder if there are any other readers like me out there who used to REALLY like Gates (he was probably one of my top 5 all-time favorite Legionnaires during most of the Reboot) but now don't care for him much. I actually didn't even include him in my top 25 list in this poll.

I think his personality, which used to feel so fresh and interesting in a Legionnaire, began to grate on me after awhile. I mean, there's only so long an anti-establishment/anarchic figure can be a part of the establishment before they start to seem like a hypocritical sell-out isn't there? Some writers have had a better handle on him than others but when he's written badly, he's written REALLY badly IMO.

My other two issues with him are 1) he doesn't seem right to me with the Preboot team (I would have rathered they just introduce the Preboot Gates than bring this one over); and 2) I HATE his recent ugly physical transformation in Legion Lost. I know I shouldn't really hold a crappy DCnU writer's poor decision-making against him but the look of a character is important to me, and I couldn't vote for him looking as stupid as he does now.

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Re: Kinetix - except for two things, I think she was actually one of the shining stars of the Reboot, and if those two things hadn't happened I'm sure she would have been higher on most people's lists. The 'journey' and character growth she experienced was great to watch. She was probably the most fun Legionnaire to read about and I imagine she probably would have been fun to write too. Which is why it's so unfathomable that they first made her a mute giant zombie after the Anomaly, and then when that story went nowhere, DnA did it AGAIN a few years later. They killed the character long before Geoff Johns did IMO.

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As for the other Reboot Legionnaires, I think they were all a success actually. XS and Magno I love and they were definite Top 25ers on my list and even Monstress, who I HATED throughout the PMS years , was totally redeemed and made a worthy, interesting Legionnaire under DnA.