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Originally posted by Xben:
- Should their [sic] be a Kid Quantum listed for the Glorithverse? (Not that I care personally, but just thought I'd ask)

Kid Quantum

"James Cullen" of Antares II
First appearance: Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #33
Joined Legion: (original) Undepicted; (new) Legionnaires #11
Left Legion / apparent death: (original) Undepicted
Dates of Legion membership: August 15, 2973 - July 16, 2974; October 30, 2995 -

When the Protean race was discovered on Antares II in the middle of the thirtieth century, the explorers who found it also found a gold mine of historical relics and scientific knowledge. With the permission of the sentient, telepathic, shape-changers, the United Planets sent teams of archaeologists and scientists to Antares to learn what they could. Two members of this one team were Niles and Esther Cullen of Xanthu, who the Proteans considered great friends. Less friendly was Dr. Norm Eldor, who was sent to prison for stealing artifacts and notes.

But then disaster loomed: Glorith, the power-hungry empress of Baaldur, set her sights upon having a race of shape-shifters serve her, and seduced a young Protean into giving away its race's secrets. She was going to use this information to enslave the Antareans, but her plan never went through. The Proteans caught wind of it and took all their massed intelligence and placed it in a biological shell that could not change shape. The young Protean who made the mistake of talking to Glorith volunteered to animate it. This "Soul of Antares" would hide itself from Glorith until the threat had passed, and, with the help of seven Proteans who had remained sentient for this purpose, would eventually restore the race's minds. The Proteans trusted their soul to Dr. & Mrs. Cullen, who adopted the pretense that he was their son, "James."

After staying with the Cullens for about a year, James decided that the newly-formed Legion of Super-Heroes would be a better place for him. Using one of his Protean relics, a time-stasis belt that incorporated the technology of the legendary Llorn race, he applied and was accepted as Kid Quantum. But soon his secret was discovered by Glorith, and one of the Proteans warned him of the danger. He and the Protean staged a fight on Mars, where Kid Quantum pretended his belt overloaded and disintegrated him. The Legion believed him dead, and he was mourned as the first Legionnaire ever to die in the line of duty. To prevent further such incidents, the Legion instituted a rule that would deny admission to anyone whose powers are based on outside devices.

The Proteans knew he wasn't dead...but where was he? One of the Proteans manoeuvred itself into a position to be adopted by the Legion, where he became Chameleon Boy's pet, Proty, and hoped to use the Legion to locate Kid Quantum. When Proty grew attached to the Legion and eventually sacrificed his life to revive Lightning Lad,another Protean, known as Proty II, tried the same thing. But neither Lightning Lad, who now had Proty I's mind, nor Proty II, who eventually found the demeaning position of "pet" intolerable even for this purpose, were able to locate him.

Finally, in 2986, the two hit upon a plan:they hired the bored, rich, R. J. Brande to take on the search. He did so eagerly. Brande disappeared from all sight until in early 2995, when Chameleon Boy, his son, decided to track him down. He found him on the far-off world of Yal, where it turned out Kid Quantum had been hiding himself with the aid of the local authorities for all these years. After defeating the Hunter, who tried to capture him for the Dominators, with the help of the other Proteans, and a brief stopover as captives of Leland McCauley IV, he and the Protean went back to Antares and returned sentience to their people. His ship was captured by the Khunds for a while, but he was rescued by several of the younger Legionnaires. The machine that gave the Proteans their sentience back also somehow imbued in him the powers once possessed by his belt. His sin atoned and mission fulfilled, he has left Antares to become a Legionnaire once more, serving with the youthful New Earth team.

Originally posted by Reboot:
Again, no Arthurian Legion?

Originally posted by Xben:
Yeah, I knew he had a different history. I was just wondering if he had enough appearances to warrant being on IB's list. I'm not planning on voting for him or anything, though.

Originally posted by Quislet, Esq:
Didn't do 100. I eliminated duplicates, except I kept the threeboot Colossal Boy because I liked the race of giants (created by Bizarro Brainiac) and Gim able to shrink to 6 feet high. I did eliminate Kid Quantum I and Thunder as I didn't like them.

Oh gee I have to number them now. IB, I am just going to number my top 25. The rest you can give one point each or go from the top down for the ones after 25.

Originally posted by Xben:

I have to say there is something odd about trying to differentiate in my head a lot of the Pre-boot characters from their Retroboot counterparts. Up until a certain point, they share pretty much the same character history. Even more true with the "two" Gates.

Originally posted by Invisible Brainiac:
Ask and ye shall receive Would you mind double-checking if I got the list right?

{Arthurian Legion)
Alchemist
Brainiac 5
Chameleon
Cosmic Boy
Dragonmage
Dream Girl
Ferro
Infectious Lass
Inferno
Invisible Kid I
Invisible Kid II
Karate Kid I
Leviathan
Live Wire
Matter-Eater Lad
Nemesis Kid
Polar Boy
Saturn Girl
Shrinking Violet
Triad
Ultra Boy

Originally posted by Set:
In order? Oh, madness!

Here's just a bunch I like (65 total, I couldn't do 100!), with some numbered;

Originally posted by Invisible Brainiac:
Xben, Lardy,

I made up my own list over the weekend and came to the same conclusion. I originally thought of limiting to 50, but since some votes have come in already, let's just roll with it. I'll work on trimming down Round 2 instead.

Thanks for bringing this up