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Ferro Lad's mask to me.

Remember in Doomsday Clock they had Doctor Manhattan saying he had Ferro Lad's flight ring because it'd been thrown back in time by the force of the Sun Eater's explosion?

OH, somehow on first glance I thought he was just bald instead of wearing a mask. But, yeah, Ferro Lad seems likely. Giving him a 20th century career also evokes the reboot version coming from the 20th century.

So, if this is basically just going to undo Ferro Lad's death for the Retroretroboot, I'm not sure how I feel about that

Douglas Nolan

What if Ferro Lad's 'death' by damage so massive it overcomes the invulnerability of the iron isotope he becomes instead causes his body to be shunted backwards in time, as a defensive reaction (while leaving behind a cast off iron husk that appears to be his corpse). He 'dies' in the 30th century, and wakes up in the 21st.

BUUUUT. This doesn't have to happen just the once. What if he 'woke up' in the 27th century, lived some time there, faced some monstrous threat, 'died' and woke up in the 24th century, had yet more adventures, faced another Sun-Eater level destructive force, 'died' yet again, and woke up in the 21st century? What if we went all Morrison-level weird with this, and those two data points we have, 21st and 30th, where not the beginning *or* end of his story? What if he has been the legend behind the 'bronze golem' Talos in ancient Greece, a distant past to us, but his far future, since he has to get blasted out of quite a few timelines quite a few times to travel that far back! What if his Legion appearance in the 30th century was not his first rodeo, and he had been shunted back here from the 33rd century, and the 37th before that?

What if his memories are non-linear. He doesn't remember the future adventures at all, so even though his 30th century time as a Legionnaire happened 'before' he was shunted back to the 21st century, he doesn't 'remember the future.'

But what if he remembers the past? It *hasn't happened yet* to him, but might he still faintly remember inspiring the legends of the bronze golem Talos, in ancient Greece?

And if that's the case, what about that mask? He says he's deformed, a birth defect. Something you'd think would be ludicrously easy to repair in the 30th century. What if there's another explanation, the more common reason one wears a mask, to conceal an identity. Could he actually be an alien, and not a human at all? (And not some 'acceptable' alien like a Durlan or a Talokkian or a Coluan, but one that's traditionally an enemy, or seen as a menace to the United Planets races, or just an alien from a race that hasn't 'outed' themselves to galactic civilization yet?) Or, and here's where the non-linear time thing kicks in, what if he conceals his features because *people would recognize him.* In the past, he was someone that lots of people (or just the wrong people?) would instantly recognize. Maybe he was a national leader. Maybe he was a celebrity. Maybe his face was on currency. Too many questions would arise, if he took that mask off...

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