Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes Long Live the Legion! The All-OBSCURE Characters Thread!

I'll always fondly remember Rainbow Girl. She was so sassy.

Have to agree with Echo. Seemed like he could be a pretty cool character. Ditto Beauty Blaze from the same Adult Legion story.

On the good side of the ledger, my favorite obscure character is Kid Psycho. Legion Reservist who died saving the world! A true hero in the sense that he shortened his life with every use of his power, and yet, knowing that, was still willing to do so if called upon.

I think it's some of the obscure characters that have made the Legion so interesting over the years. one of my all time favorite subplots was the Colossal Boy-Duplicate Boy brawl in the Himalayans (probably spelled that wrong) over Violet...or so Ord thought. Duplicate Boy was a great "obscure character". He provided an outlet for Violet, and a source of latent tension for Gim Allon. It was evident, even from their first encounter, that they didn't like each other.

I also liked the Atom'X character. I believe that he was originally supposed to be Atmos from Xthanu, but because of a coloring error, a new character had to be created. Radion, another interestingly obscure character became a short-lived rival for Atom'X. There was a lot of juvenile pushing and shoving among the two, before Atom'X scarificed himself in battle...later to become one half the esence of the current Wildfire.
So, Duplicate Boy,(although I'm not too sure if he has "obscure" status), Atom'X and Radion get my votes for my all time obscure characters.

I have a soft spot for Nightwind. I only read a two or three issues in which she actually appeared, but I always have been fascinated by wind. I've always thought of it as a natural extension of flight... Then there's Spider Girl and Night Girl and Infectious Lass too. Reboot there's Particon, the gal with the clunky pink and yellow armor who took part in the battle against Mordru. I remember thinking that if Monstress joined the Legion then the creators should have let Particon join too, I mean she WAS the one who breached Mordru's energy dome, and the Legon had a shortage of energy-casters at that time. Of course, she would definitely have had to have lost that armor. I think the last time she and Radion appeared was during the Legion of the Damned storyline...
I just noticed that all of these are girls. Hm... Maybe I'm related to playboy Dirk?

Is this thread what inspired me to create that roll call of obscure (female) Legion characters, way back when?

I used the Who's Who set to dig 'em up....

My favorite obscure Legion Character is Synde. She only appeared in one panel of the Night Girl back-up story in Superboy & The Legion of Superheroes #212 (my first Legion issue. But that is not why she is my favorite)

She was a rebound date for Cosmic Boy when Night Girl had patrol duty. Cos thinks "Synde is as happy as a clam ... and as intelligent." And that comment made me want to know more about this unfortunate young lady. And made her my favorite obscure character

Lamphrey, as drawn by Giffen in "Seige Perilous." Mmmmm shiney and green. And she liked Wildfire, which is a big plus in my book.

Re-reading the reboot has borne lots of unexpected fruit for me!

Like that girl with the big honkin' bow in her hair and the prematurely shooting cat-claws in LEGIONNAIRES # 43.... what the hell was that?

She needs a code-name.

Maybe "Kitten".

Don't forget Cyfril. Anybody remember Cyfril?

Jeepers! I have no idea who Cyfril is! Enlighten us, Mattew E!

If I remember all the details correctly, Cyfril was a hapless thug who appeared in two or three or four issues in the era following LSH #300. He'd always get nabbed by the Legion or the SP for this or that, or have a building fall on him or something. He may have been involved in the fireballing of the Krinn's neighbourhood in the Cosmic Boy spotlight issue around then. In appearance, he was humanoid, with a face that was pink on one side, blue on the other. I think there were actually a few of these guys, but Cyfril is the one whose name sticks with me.

Was Cyfril the real little guy with the pointy ears?

My baby ain't obscure! He's exclusive.

Leeta 87!
I've ALWAYS wanted to see something about her superheroic career, prior to her amazing Pratfall of Death. Really. I'm NOT kidding!

I'd like to see more of Lamprey, Nightwind, Crystal Kid and Laurel Kent (pre-retcon into a robot).

And those two big-eyed orange finned floating blowfish-looking critters who showed up to the tryouts where Sensor, Polar Boy, Tellus, etc. became Legionnaires.

Rhino has great taste in obscure characters. Quicksand is definitely on the top of my list.

Princess Elwinda and Janice Warren, amazingly similar looking, but from different dimensions, both connected to Chameleon Boy!

My favorite is Lester Spiffany. I always liked him as an answer to the trivia question, "Who was the only person to apply for the Legion with no powers, special fighting skills or weapons?"

I see MLLASH also picked him, though it took me a while to recognize the graemlin.

Lester was also the first rejected Legion applicant!

(Discounting people who were rejected but later became Legionnaires, or who were retconned in later!)

Mi favotite is : Veilmist
Beautiful, powerful, almost a villain.
A lovely bitch.

I don't know if they count because most of them never made it into the Legion's comic book.
Dave Cockrum's Strangers:Tyr,Belladonna,the original Wolverine,Sidewinder and Manta.
And Dave Cockrum's Outsiders:Trio,Typhoon,Quetzal,Power Boy,Reflecto and Nightcrawler.

In the way of Obscure Chars, I have to go with Galaxy and Reflecto from The Post-ZH Annual. Wait, do Statues count? I got really into the Legion are the same time this was published, and I knew by then that Gold Statue = Dead Hero. It was just cool to think about who these two were, what they could do, how they died, etc.

What about Lucifer 7?

Not a hero...but still obscure, yet given kind of an important place in Legion history.