Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Spaceopoly The Non-Legion Comics Trivia Thread Pt 5

Tasmanian Devil?

you got it!!!

While brainwashed, Taz was already being set up for greatness - we see him taking on Wonder Woman, and Diana commenting on how surprisingly strong Taz is. we evne get a panel of Taz smashing Diana into the ground.

Guy Gardner probes the mind of an unconscious, still brain-washed Rocket Red, and uses that to un-brainwash Taz (the first one he frees in this way).

After Sonar is defeated, Aquaman resigns. Hal remarks that the League loses a lot of strength... and Taz raises his hand, saying he has plenty of strength!


Other Reserves brainwashed include Black Canary, Huntress, General Glory, Metamorpho. Blue Jay escapes brainwashing because Flash (Wally) was resisting his OWN brainwashing (with a nudge from Jay Garrick), and tosses an unconscious Blue Jay away, pretending that Blue Jay is escaping. Mister Miracle manages to escape from the brainwashing machine first.

Wally and Dr. Light (Kimiyo) also get brainwashed, but were full League members as of this story. JSA members Alan Scott, Jay Garrick, Wildcat, Al Pratt and Charles McNider also get brainwashed.

the JL America (Guy, Fire, Booster Gold, Wonder Woman, Bloodwynd, Maxima, Agent Liberty) guest star, but are not brainwashed in this story. Aquaman is captured and Elongated Man injured and Hal Jordan turned amnesiac, but not brainwashed. Sonar coerces Sue into coming to his side (with E-Man's life as a trade), but Sue only pretends to go along and is undermining Sonar from within.

Crimson Fox and Power Girl round out the cast of full JL members, and Maya is introduced.

over to you, CMK

During the Millennium crossover, which other hero revealed to Superman the nature of the Manhunters' infiltration of Smallville?

Wally West?

Nope.

Martian Manhunter?

Not J'onn.

Batman?

Not him either

Hal Jordan?

Not Hal.

Booster Gold?

Captain Atom?

Spectre

stile has it, it was the Spectre!!

I remember it well. I've read that comic many times, how the Manhunters had hoped to capture the infant Kal-El but failed and so set up numerous unwitting sleeper agents in Smallville to monitor him and follow him across the world, most notably Lana Lang, and now those agents - more than half the town - appeared dead. It took Spectre to discover that they were not truly dead but rather it was a ruse to keep Superman busy and unable to interfere with their plans during Millennium.

Crazy fun story. And in a side item, while recapping the events leading up to Millennium in that so convenient way heroes used to do in their thoughts, Spectre thinks of the many heroes defending the new chosen ones as a "veritable Legion of Super-Heroes".

In the Ultimate Universe the Maker (Reed Richards) is defeated and surrendered by his "people" in the City thanks to the convincing arguments by "Anthony", Tony Stark's sentient brain tumour. Yet later The Maker escapes and with Pietro, Hulk and Kang takes over the world and discovers the explanation behind Tony's brain tumour. What is that explanation?

sentient brain tumor... wow! that stunned me for a moment

Good spot on The Spectre's Legion name drop, stile
There's a lost Tale of the Legion where Kid Spectre joins the team.

Horror stories would have the brain tumour as actually an unborn twin, whose intelligence has survived.

Yeah the sentient brain tumour was a pretty wild idea. Ever since the first Ultimates comic we knew that it was because Tony had been diagnosed with an incurable brain tumour that he had gone down the Iron Man path along with increasing donations to charities etc. He wanted to do something meaningful with the time head left. Since he continued to survive over the years, by the time of this series the question of what was happening was discussed, and according to Tony he decided to stop any treatment and see what happened - and what happened was his tumour started talking to him. Only he could see it (it appeared as a young pre-teen boy) but he could give it access to various computers etc so it became a kind of co-pilot and additional genius. This is definitely weird and finally towards the end of the Ultimate Comics Ultimates series in 2013 we were given an explanation.

The explanation involves things or people or aliens or events etc that are well known in the Marvel Universe so that's why I thought it might work as a trivia question, so throw us your wild theories.

Kid Spectre? I'd read that. Good guess but no it is not an unborn twin.

The Shiar did it!

Is the "brain tumor" some sort of Ultron AI?

It's a way for his brother to control him?

Not the Shiar
Not an Ultron AI
Not caused by his brother Aaron

All good guesses. Keep trying. I pretty much guarantee that everyone will have heard of the cause, even if never thought of in these circumstances.

Dr. Doom did it?

ooh was it the Supreme Intelligence? It sounds like some kind of crazy SI shenanigans!