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Better make that "has not yet made an appearance" - those sneaky Coluans. I have no doubt that he's been hiding out in a hippie commune with Terrence McKenna.



And go on to be Wildfire's third wife, perhaps.

Mrs. Tachyon pushed her way to the front of the queue.

It was not difficult, as her sturdy Tesco shopping cart was outfitted with weaponry just slightly less formidable than a star cruiser. There was the Fourth Wheel, which seemed to spin randomly, but also seemed to unerringly target the nearest ankle. Atop the masses of black plastic garbage bags perched Most of a Cat. His name was Guilty, and the claws in his one front paw moved at only slightly subluminal speeds. The cart, and Mrs. Tachyon, also emitted an Odiferous Miasma, the least noisome component being stale pickling vinegar.

“I’m sorry,” said Saturn Girl pleasantly to the old woman, wispy grayish hair streaked with white. “I’m afraid you may be above the age limit to be considered for membership in the Legion.”

“Millenium hand,” said Mrs. Tachyon, “and shrimp.”

QUICK CHARACTER SKETCHES

Like a meteor, a fist the size of an extra-large Christmas ham came crashing down. A hundred yards away, plasteel cracked, and transparent aluminum windows rang.

Sockdolager, the Dominion ultra-brute, appeared stunned by the blow. But then, his wide red eyes always gave him that appearance. He teetered for a moment before his adversary, and then fell with a crash into the newly-formed crater.

“God bless us, every one,” said Tiny Tim.

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“Fire, kryptonite radiation, lead… every alien race has some fatal weakness. I am master of them all. I am… Infra, the Anti-Alien!”

“There is no Devil. There is only me.”

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The Aravels of Galadriel, trainers of the Leetas, and Tasarindor Aravel, Leeta-Prime

In the Galadrene language, “Leeta” refers to a particular native animal, a cat-like predator, whose name is also synonymous with revenge. Leeta are never hunted: it is proverbial on Galadriel that one who kills a Leeta kills himself. First the Leeta’s mate, then its parents, then siblings, then cousins, will seek out a Leeta-killer and exact revenge. When extra-planetary hunters recently came to Galadriel seeking Leetas as prey, the native organizers of the expedition, as well as their families, were swiftly wiped out by packs of Leetas. Even the alien hunters themselves, supposedly safe on distant worlds, were soon found dead. Leetas had stowed away aboard trading vessels, and sought them out on their own homeworlds

Some three thousand years ago, a Galadrene woman seeking revenge against the crime syndicate which had murdered her family, assumed the masked identity of “Leeta”. Mastering a wide range of scientific disciplines, she and her daughters fought crime as feared vigilantes. As time went on, their descendants augmented their skills, becoming stronger, faster, more agile, and more intelligent than the ordinary Galadrene, and adding more and more sophisticated technological devices to their arsenal. As time went on, the “Leeta” became official government position, a sort of privateer vigilante.

Something else else less than a millennium ago, due to the influence of the Leetas, serious crime became unknown on Galadriel. At that point, the Leetas became a profit center for the Galadrene civilization. They became “Champions-for-Hire”, sent out to bring law and order to distant worlds. The colonial expansion period which immediately preceded the creation of the United Planets was a particularly lucrative time for Galadriel, as Leeta after Leeta was dispatched to the “frontier” planets.

And yet there was always ever only one Leeta. All were the descendants of the original “Leeta-Prime”- daughters or nieces or cousins of the just-previous Leeta.

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Project Demoncat, aka Zardula (Rauguren) Aravel, is the in vitro son of the late Leeta-87 and Hate-Face

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Doctor Chernobyl


Why has this not been a thing yet?
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The Anti-Wanderers

At a remote space-in, a group of seven Adventurers / Bounty Hunters gathers for the first time. In discussing their odd and varied abilities, they realize their collection of powers is similar to, but in some ways the exact opposite, of the famous Wanderers. They decide to form a group, and call themselves the Anti-Wanderers.

Ornitho / Aviax
(1) Omnifish
He has many of the abilities and attributes of various sea-creatures, but does not change form. Rather, he has specific mimicry organs always present in his person. His thumbs and forefingers resemble crab or lobster claws. His other fingers are tipped with spines, capable of delivering neurotoxic venoms similar to the stingray, jellyfish, or sea anemones. His hands and feet are webbed. He has a bulbous ‘melon’ in his forehead which allows him to produce and focus ultrasonic pulses, rather like a dolphin or porpoise. However, it is far more powerful, similar to the “Canary Cry”. He has two useful octopoid tentacles growing out of his shoulders. Shark-like teeth.
Enhanced senses, including magnetic and pressure senses. Climbs walls like a starfish, due to suckers on his hands and feet. Probably other adaptations as well. Requires a force-field enclosed layer of water in order to survive on land. Other than the above, has the appearance of a typical, teal-blue, bipedal humanoid gill-man.

Elvo / The Elvar
(2) Trolo the Trollar
Physically huge, small-headed, small-brained, typically supermuscular troll. Carries an ordinary club. Not a magical, psionic-energy club. Just a big, solid, stone club. Well-used.

Immorto / ReAnimage
(3) Professor Zomb
Of Tartarus. Exceptionally intelligent zombie. Not Immortal, but rather, Undead. Looks something like Solomon Grundy, only shorter and skinnier. When he falls apart, he puts himself back together again. If portions of his body are destroyed by fire or other energy attacks, they grow back in a disgusting, liquidy manner. Also able to cause necrosis in living tissues he touches. (At will.) Or, can induce a temporary, death-like coma in others. Possessing no subconscious mind, the only sleep he ever gets is on those rare occasions when someone decapitates him. Somehow, his head always finds its way back.

Dartalg / Dartallon
(4) Pangolix
Seven-foot-tall, pangolin-like creature from the planet Pengguling. His near-indestructible scales are made of kryptokeratin, the same substance Superman’s hair and fingernails are made of. This and other biological enhancements grants him-- and all his race-- trans-Daxamite invulnerability. Unlike terrestrial pangolins, he has no claws. Only smooth, rounded fingers.

Quantum Queen
(5) Shadow Woman
She displays a wide variety of anti-light-based powers that would be the envy of any Planetary Champion of Talok.
Powers similar to:
Shadow Lass
Polar Boy
Phantom Girl
Invisible Kid
Triplicate Girl (creates a ‘dark rainbow’ of replicas, but all of the colors are black.)
Green Lantern (flight, force-shield, solid-shadow constructs)

Psyche
(6) Orexia
Rather than affecting the emotions, her power affects the appetites of living organisms: hunger, thirst, lust, even the desire to breathe. She is able to both enhance and depress these desires in others to any degree, according to her will. Think about that for a minute. Also, vampirically feeds off the appetites of others.

Celebrand
(7) Dr. Thomas Bethlehem / Tom O'Bedlam
Tall and slender, and dressed in foppish 16th-century French dress, Doctor Thomas Bethlehem is a brilliant physician, chemist, and psychiatric surgeon who serves as the leader of the Anti-Wanderers.
Except when he degenerates into Tom O’Bedlam, a dangerous psychopathic berserker, with an insatiable thirst for combat. Absolutely unpredictable in battle strategy, he has access to a wide variety of bizarre weaponry, including (but not limited to) the Molasses Gun, the Lasso of Non-Boolean Logic, the Sword of Odrowseth, and Schroedinger’s Catapult, which always and never misses.
Tom O’Bedlam is actually the dominant personality, with Dr. Bethlehem surfacing only occasionally.

[i]There was actually an eighth Adventurer, an assassin by the name of Slayee, the Buffpyre Vamper, but she just didn’t fit in with the rest of the team.

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On Earth in 1066, Britain was being conquered by William.

Elsewhere in the Galaxy, the Green Lantern of Sector 2813 was a Vathloni Kryptonian named Nala Dal-Tox. She was potentially one of the most greatest Green Lanterns of all time. (As Krypton had not yet exploded, kryptonite was ten time more rare than Astatine) However, the half-century she was a Green Lantern was a particularly quiet, peaceful time in Sector 2813. She never had a chance to distinguish herself.

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Larson Hobbes:
Using a new, experimental time machine of his own invention, Superman travels fifty years back in time, permanently losing his powers from the effects of chronal radiation.
After a brief stay in a mental institution, he becomes a journalist in London, assuming the name Larson Hobbes.
Fifty years later, now an old man, Larson Hobbes convinces his younger, future self to do more rigorous testing of the time machine in his Fortress of Solitude before attempting a journey into the past.
It takes some doing to convince the Man of Steel; Diana’s golden lasso is ultimately involved.
Although Superman does not take the journey back into the past, the elderly Larson Hobbes still exists, a temporal anomaly.

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This could totally have been a thing in the Silver Age:

The Legion of Super Ex-Girlfriends Revenge Squad

Princess Elwinda of Nadir
Nemesis: Chameleon Boy

Janice Warren
Nemesis: Chameleon Boy

Dori Aandraison
Rainbow Girl
Nemesis: Sun Boy

Keiki the Mergirl
Nemesis: Sun Boy

Ethyl Niwtyn
Ethyl Eyeful
Nemesis: Matter-Eater Lad

Captain Frake
Nemesis: Ultra Boy

Zera Vultan
Nemesis: Wildfire
(Zera actually did try to kill Wildfire once, to avenge the death of her father.)

Shvaughn Erin
Nemesis: Element Lad

I tweaked a few of them. (Tweaks in green)

Iresa {Plumb}
{Mass Lass}
{Powers similar to Weight Wizard and Star Boy}
Nemesis: Bouncing Boy

Zynthia {Leing}
{Insect Queen}
Nemesis: Star Boy

An Ryd
{Ghost Girl}
Nemesis: Ultra Boy

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Well, I've been poking around the Earth-K paracosm, and I'm pretty sure where Young Legion is headed.

However, there are a number of characters I have encountered along the way that I doubt that they will be meeting in their adventures.

I'm just putting them here for safekeeping.

The Non-Metal Men
Carbon
Phosphorus
Sulphur
Selenium
Iodine
Bromine

The Other Heroes of Bgztl
Yzopok Girl
Tryptophantom Girl

From the 5th Dimension
Jnnjnnzz, Imphunter from Zrfff
Mordrimp the Merciful

Miscelaneous
Suzie, the Were-Woozie
Tiramisu (Her name means 'make me happy')
The Liquid Shoemaker of Buckleberry
Peter Chest, the Spectre
The Green Woman of Xishuangbanna Rainforest, Jinghong, China (Plant Elemental of the 31st century)
and her sidekick, The Spriggan
Ultravioletman & Cybergorgo
Substitute Boy (He found the Silver Age Superboy's yellow costume)
Arandor Meron, "Stink King" (The half-Daxamite son of Polecat)

The Adult Brainiac 5's Rogues Gallery
Mr. Absolute Zero of Tharr
Dapper Dan
Double-Header Two of Janus
Francula & Drakenstein
NP-Brainiac (from beyond the 865th century)
more than 83,000 years in the future
Plasticine of Planet Hagen
The Red Leeta of Galadriel
Rekojeth (Xart Prax)
Roxxas the Mad
The Solution
Zyx of Tharn

The Adult Brainiac 5's Partners
Squerl Dox (Brainy-Yak 5 of Earth-C-minus)
Kara Squirr-El of Earth-C-Minus
The Karabot Mark II
Golgotha (A Brain Globe of New Rambat)
Doxologress of Colu (linked to the Strength Force)
Ennis & Dori Jahnson
Tryx Prax aka "Trixie" (daughter of Xart Prax)
Nokomis of Amazonia
Neuron Nyryn of Gil'Dishpan
Groucho (aka Harpo) Marx a Coluan sorcerer, educated on Tharn. Casts his spells silently.
Zoron K'Ziff, the Yellow Martian of Ra'Ahem H'Ronmeer (H'Ronmeer's Compassion)

When Ama Lurra of Earth (Bilbao, Euskadi) was twelve-and-one-half years old, she became pregnant. This was a complete surprise, as she had never even so much as kissed a boy.

When her daughter Primera was born, the child grew at a rate fify times that of an ordinary child, aging nearly a year each week.

Not only did Primera Lurra grow and mature physically, but she matured emotionally and mentally as well, absorbing information and understanding at the same incredible rate.

By the time she was chronologically six months old, she had grown to an apparent physical and mental age and of sixteen years.

And by that time, Ama was pregnant again.

It was eventually determined that through a peculiar mutation, each gamete Ama produces has two full sets of chromosomes, and immediately begins growing into a baby.

Basically, every time she ovulates, Ama becomes pregnant with what is essentially a clone of herself.

Her parthenogenic offspring are not identical copies of Ama, however. Each carries the Metagene, and this is expressed very differently in each daughter.

There are some commonalities. Each girl initially grows at a highly accelerated rate, until apparently in their mid-teens, after which they age normally.

Furthermore, each expression of the Metagene in each of the daughters is exceedingly powerful.

The first daughter, Primera, has powers similar to Daxamites.

The second child, Segunda, is a powerful telepath and telekinetic, easily the equal of Saturn Girl and Kid Psycho combined.

Tercera is a shape-shifter, capable of assuming any form from the tiniest virus to a medium-sized planet. She is able not only to alter her appearance, size, and mass, but her elemental and atomic structure as well.

This allows her, at the very least, to replicate all the abiliites of her sisters. (Or of any member of the Legion, for example.)

Cuarta has mastery over the natural elements: stone, water, wind, fire, lightning, metal, plant and animal life. She is able to conjure and control each or all of these elements, as well as transform one element into another. As a subset of her powers, she is able to control the weather and tides, and create and control, for example, storms, tornados, earthquakes and volcanoes.

Quinta controls spacetime, with powers including, but not limited to, teleportation of herself and others, unlimited time-travel, and interdimensional transport.

Ama Lurra herself is immune to the ordinary hormonal treatments used to suppress ovulation. It took until she was nearly eighteen before the medical doctors and bio-engineers of the 31st century were able to synthesize an effective suppressant for her peculiar condition

Fortunately, the five daughters do not share their mother's hyper-fertility, evidently a unique expression of the Metagene peculiar to Ama. It is equally fortunate that each of the young women's personalities is honorable, heroic, valiant and unselfish. Ama Lurra is the Mother of Super-Heroes, not villains. This is her super-power.

Due to their peculiar aging process, Ama and her five daughters all appear to be very nearly the same age. They are also as alike in physical appearance as twin sisters.

Miscellaneous Musing #: 155
As is well known, the DC Cinematic Universe went with ‘grim-&-gritty’ for years, now taking a break with Shazam!. And possibly Aquaman, although the humor there may be unintended.

But I was thinking, what if they took super-hero comics back to their roots? In the Silver Age, the protagonists of the comics would commonly use their god-like super-powers to prank their friends.

Superman “teaching” Lois or Jimmy “a lesson”. The Justice League giving Batman a “mystery” for his birthday. The Legion in Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #72: "The World of Doomed Olsens!”

The whole idea is pretty creepy and terrifying in a twilight-zone kind of way.

Imagine Adventure #247 as a live-action movie, recreated panel by panel.

Terrifying. In a much more personal way than an existential threat to the Earth.

the Legion’s second appearance, imprisoning Superboy for perceived future actions, was even scarier than the first appearance. They never even gave him a chance to explain the misunderstanding.

Not sure which is more disconcerting to me: cosmic power exercised in the service of ignorant hubris, or cosmic power exercised in the service of personal, sadistic amusement.

I just read that the other day actually, and yeah it was very Minority Report of them! I particularly like how Imra just casually turned the entire town against him without thinking twice about it...that girl don't mess around!