Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes Long Live the Legion! LAST ROUND!!!! ACTION, Reboot or Threeboot? Ends Tuesday, 8/19

I like how he's portrayed in JSA, so it's Action for me.

The only characters I'd prefer 'Threeboot'... is, believe it or not, just the punkass leader with the black spots. Isn't 'prefer' such a lucid word? Now that's a character with plenty of depth and potential for some development, since flawed heroes are twice as much fun to read.


... Oh, and if Sun Boy actually returns in 3boot, not counting a poster and a cover, it'd be him too, tied with Dirk from the '60s. Whoever benefits from deputy roles are a direct mirror of the leader, so ditto for that.

All things being equal, I'd go with classic Thom, no question. BUT I like him in JSA and would like to see his story play out there, not have it quashed early to rush him back to Nura and the Legion just yet.

That said, I'll vote Threeboot, because he's a character I'd like to see explored more.

3boot Thom gets my vote. I love, love, love reboot Thom but he's not as hot looking. I loved original Thom as well but the repulsive schizo Action/JSA version is a completely different character.

ACTION Star Boy

I take it this is a vote for threeboot Cosmic Boy?

Sun Boy's one of my favorites. Please remember to post your Sun Boy choices when that character actually comes up.

COSMIC BOY: Action- 7, Reboot- 13, 3boot- 2

SATURN GIRL: Action- 15, Reboot- 5, 3boot- 1

LIGHTNING LAD: Action- 8, Reboot- 3, 3boot- 7

PHANTOM GIRL: Action- 6, Reboot- 3, 3boot- 11

TRIPLICATE GIRL: Action- 3, Reboot- 15, 3boot- 3

COLOSSAL BOY: Action- 12, Reboot- 2, 3boot- 5

CHAMELEON BOY: Action- 11, Reboot- 4, 3boot- 4

INVISIBLE KID: Action- 3, Reboot- 15, 3boot- 2

BRAINIAC 5: Action-6, Reboot-16, 3boot-0

ULTRA BOY: Action-15, Reboot-0, 3boot-2

STAR BOY: Action-9, Reboot-2, 3boot-3

I decided those .5 votes just looked silly. If those that picked half-characters want to record new votes for them, they can record them in their votes this round. Anyone who hasn't voted for earlier characters are welcome to-- though please don't jump ahead or list 'mass' votes.

SHRINKING VIOLET/LEVIATHAN/ATOM GIRL: Action, Reboot or Threeboot?

Whoever she is, I hope she goes by the name 'Shrinking Violet'. Atom Girl, the gung-ho Tom Boy with a thing for guns and a Brainiac 5 conncection shared by Imsk, has a distinctive attitude and potential. But that hair-- and the name!

Leviathan I can do without. If early reboot Vi could be plucked from that boot's timestream and plunked down beside the other characters, I'd pick her. But that ain't in the bounds of this survey.

I'm choosing Action Vi, even though it's largely sight unseen (I know she *appeared* in ACTION, but I don't have the slightest sense of how Johns will write her, do you?) I didn't care for the ACTION uniform.

Vi won't be the last ACTION Legionnaire chosen mostly as a means of extrapolating from pre-5YL characterization. Dangerous proposition, isn't it?

TMK's is for me the definitive version. So, it's classic - especially if she becomes Vi. Hate Lara Croft Vi from Reboot. And so far, she has been a sideline character in 3boot.

SHRINKING VIOLET: Action

Since I can't get FYL, I choose Threeboot.

I'll also vote for Action Vi (ooh, that sounds good) based on her earlier portrayals.

I liked her relationship with Ayla, that's what it makes her unique among the legionnaires....a huge transformation from shy meeky young girl to really angry scarred woman to mellow out war veteran to the last Legion leader of the 5YG until the Zero Hour.

Reboot Vi had some interesting personal growth (no pun intended) during the evolution (Emerald Eye taking control of her) until the death of Leviathan.

3boot Vi has some attitude and is nonchalant when it comes to fighting.

I choose: Action Vi, hands down.

I'm actually hesitating between Classic and Reboot. I do like the shrink/grow power of Leviathan, and I love the way she was portrayed: shy but fearless. Classic Vi, well, I liked her in 5YL. But I hated the way the Yera thing was resolved. How Vi could even TALK to Colossal Boy after that is a mystery to me.

I'm going with Reboot Vi.

Reboot Vi by a long mile.

Even though 5YL had more of an interesting "history", we were able to get to know the reboot Vi much better.

And I have a soft spot for her. What can I say.

I enjoy Threeboot Vi for her overt toughness, but I don't have the connection like I have with the Reboot character.

I really loved Reboot Vi until she became Leviathan. It's not that I hated her having the growing powers, but suddenly, the character I'd grown attached to became 2-dimensional and rarely seemed to use her shrinking powers anymore.

I was never a big fan of Classic Vi until TMK. The question here is: will Action Vi be allowed to turn into the complex TMK Vi?

Atom Girl: meh.

Given my reservations about how Action Vi will be portrayed, I've decided to give the vote to Reboot Vi even though I have reservations. (If TMK were in the running, it wouldn't be a contest!)

Reboot certainly cleaned up a lot of the character's caricaturist flaws and made them believable. A vote to Reboot Salu. And "Atom Girl" didn't get the extreme Waid treatment, and she was barely featured anyway. (Not the 'barely' that I prefer... ) Heck, I'd even take Animated Violet over her.

SHRINKING VIOLET: Never cared for reboot LeViathan and Atom Girl is still too much of a blank slate though she has had some interesting moments. Classic Vi may well be one of the most well developed characters of them all. Her journey was tremendous and the changes she went through seemed natural. Classic Vi by far.

Ultra Boy - Action

Star Boy - Threeboot

Salu - Action as "Shrinking Violet"

My original Saturn Girl vote was for Adventure, pre-pink bikini Imra or barring that, 3boot. If you shifted mine to Action Imra, please change it to 3boot. Based on what I've read, the Action version is a totally different take than the Adventure version, I don't equate the two.

Violet -- unfortuntaley, I must abstain. The Violet I want to see again was "killed" by the Yera-disguised-as-Vi plot. None of the given options suffice.

Action Vi. When I came on board, Violet was actually Yera, but when the reveal was made, I was intrigued by this tough as nails, justifiably angry woman giving Duplicate Boy what he deserved.

OK, I'm going wtih Imra = Irma reboot! since I'm no longer allowed to fence sit (I had reboot & 3boot).

I liked LotR (no, not Lord of the Rings) Virus, but since she's not available, I'll go with reboot Vi since I like her costume and I like Simone's portrayal of her just before the 3boot.

COSMIC BOY: Action- 7, Reboot- 13, 3boot- 2

SATURN GIRL: Action- 15, Reboot- 6, 3boot-2

LIGHTNING LAD: Action- 8, Reboot- 3, 3boot- 7

PHANTOM GIRL: Action- 6, Reboot- 3, 3boot- 11

TRIPLICATE GIRL: Action- 3, Reboot- 15, 3boot- 3

COLOSSAL BOY: Action- 12, Reboot- 2, 3boot- 5

CHAMELEON BOY: Action- 11, Reboot- 4, 3boot- 4

INVISIBLE KID: Action- 3, Reboot- 15, 3boot- 2

BRAINIAC 5: Action-6, Reboot-16, 3boot-0

ULTRA BOY: Action-16, Reboot-0, 3boot-2

STAR BOY: Action-9, Reboot-2, 3boot-4

SHRINKING VIOLET: Action-8, Reboot-5, 3boot-1

SUN BOY: Action, Reboot or Threeboot?

Early Sun Boy was one of the stars of the LSH. I'm not sure why he gradually fell off the radar-- power similarity to Wildfire?

Reboot Dirk has the advantage of having settled his familial demons while young, however he never actually became a Legionnaire.

Threeboot Dirk really should be getting tons more story than he's been getting- though for all that he's had prominence, in a sense. Can't stand him as a blond and he hasn't had a uniform that's a patch on the original.

I choose ACTION- especially as Johns has stated that Dirk's one of his favorite characters.

ACTION Dirk, as long as it's the real Dirk from before 5YG (which is appears it is).