History: Headscratchers / LegionOfSuper-Heroes

* Of all the stupid fanwank changes made by TMK, the one I hate the most is what they did to Dev-Em (making him a psychotic killer). Granted, he didn't have much of a presence before their reboot, but he was established in Silver Age lore as a villain who'd redeemed himself (formerly known as "the Knave of Krypton") AND refused Legion membership. The combination of those two things made him fairly unique, but apparently that was of little use to the then-new regime. Unfortunately, it seems as though this is one bad idea that Geoff Johns has no intention of "rebirthing" away.

* Terra-man. Don't get me wrong, he was one of the coolest villains on the show. I can understand him going after Abel when he was told that Abel created the Imperiex technology. But why would he continue to go after him after the Legion got in the way? Considering how powerful the Legion (and Kell-El) were, why not team up and try to take down Imperiex directly?

* The complete and utter snobbery of the Silver-Age Legion. I mean seriously, how could you reject someone as cool as ''Chlorophyll Kid''? Sure, it sounds lame at first, but then you get into the wicked cool exotic seeds he carries around, and suddenly the Legion looks like a bunch of idiots for rejecting him. Same for all the rest fo the [[TheWoobie Substitute Heroes]]. I just felt so bad for those guys, who worked ''so hard'' to be heroes, only to be completely rejected by the people who inspired them. And the Legionnaires are even [[JerkAss complete jerks]] to each other, kicking one long serving, loyal, dedicated member just because he temporarily lost his powers. And you couldn't have duplicate powers, because somehow it never occurred to them that if two people had the same really useful power, then they could help with two different emergencies at two different parts of the universe simultaneously, or at least they would have twice the manpower on one mission or something. AND they got huge freakin' statues that would rival Stalin put up in the town square so that all the puny non-legionnaires can bask in their glory. The overall feeling you get from them is that their the snotty members of some sort of juvenile club, like the [[TheLittleRascals Little Rascals']] He-Man-Womun-Hater's-Club combined with all the elite prep-school douchebaggery of the Gossip-Girl set and secret elitism of Skull and Bones for some kind of Big-Hero-Laim-Superpower-Hater's-Club.
** For the record, when not ragging on the unhealthy politics of the Legion, I'm really incredibly fond of them. I rag because I care.
** Well as far as multiple people with the same powers, don't forget that most of their members are from races where all the members have those powers. Having a limit of one is a handy excuse for not letting in everyone from Saturn.
** Concerning the Legion rejecting guys like Chlorophyll Kid, you can blame this entirely on Silver Age writers thinking [[ViewersAreMorons Readers Are Morons]]. As far as Legion writers were concerned back in the day, if it wasn't a ''cool'' power it wasn't a useful power, even if it would be very useful when employed creatively. The statues were just a bit of classic Silver Age weirdness. People weren't as cynical back then so a bunch of humongous statues felt like an innocent act of respect rather than chilling and cult-ish. ValuesDissonance applies.

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