| 1 | [[WMG:[[center:[-''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' '''[[Characters/{{Superman}} Main Character Index]]'''\ |
| 2 | '''Title Character'''\ |
| 3 | [[Characters/SupermanTheCharacter Clark Kent/Kal/El/Superman]]\ |
| 4 | '''[[Characters/SupermanSupportingCast Supporting Cast]]'''\ |
| 5 | [[Characters/SupermanLoisLane Lois Lane]] | [[Characters/SupermanJimmyOlsen Jimmy Olsen]] | ComicBook/AmbushBug | ComicBook/{{Steel}}\ |
| 6 | '''[[Characters/SupermanRoguesGallery Villains]]'''\ |
| 7 | [[Characters/SupermanCentralRoguesGallery Central Rogues Gallery]] ([[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Alexander "Lex" Luthor]], [[Characters/SupermanBizarro Bizarro]], [[Characters/SupermanBrainiacCharacter Vril Dox/Brainiac]], [[Characters/SupermanCyborgSuperman Cyborg-Superman]], [[Characters/NewGodsDarkseid Darkseid]], [[Characters/SupermanDoomsdayCharacter Doomsday]], Characters/{{Lobo}}, [[Characters/SupermanMisterMxyzptlk Mister Mxyzptlk]], [[Characters/DCComicsMongul Mongul]], [[Characters/SupermanRoguesGalleryPhantomZone Phantom Zone Criminals]] [[[Characters/SupermanGeneralZod General Zod]]]) | [[Characters/SupermanRoguesGalleryAToL A-L]] | [[Characters/SupermanRoguesGalleryMToZ M-Z]] ([[Characters/SupermanSuperboyPrime Superboy-Prime]])\ |
| 8 | '''Spin-Offs'''\ |
| 9 | ''Characters/{{Supergirl}}'' ([[Characters/SupergirlTheCharacter Kara Zor-El/Linda Danvers/Supergirl]], [[Characters/SupergirlSupportingCast Supporting Cast]], [[Characters/SupergirlEnemies Rogues Gallery]]) | ''Characters/PowerGirl'' | ''Characters/{{Superboy}}'' ([[Characters/SupermanConnerKent Conner Kent/Kon-El]], [[Characters/SupermanJonathanSamuelKent Jonathan "Jon" Samuel Kent]], [[Characters/SuperboySupportingCast Supporting Cast]], [[Characters/SuperboyEnemies Rogues Gallery]]) | ''Characters/LegionOfSuperheroes'' ([[Characters/LegionOfSuperheroesFounders The Founders]], '''Silver Age''', [[Characters/LegionOfSuperheroesBronzeAge Bronze Age]], [[Characters/LegionOfSuperheroesFiveYearsLater Five Years Later]], [[Characters/LegionOfSuperheroesPostboot Postboot]], [[Characters/LegionOfSuperheroesThreeboot Threeboot]], [[Characters/LegionOfSuperheroesRetroboot Retroboot]], [[Characters/LegionOfSuperheroesRebirth Rebirth]], [[Characters/LegionOfSuperheroesOtherHeroes Other Heroes]], [[Characters/LegionOfSuperheroesTheFatalFive The Fatal Five]], [[Characters/LegionOfSuperheroesLegionOfSupervillains The Legion of Supervillains]], [[Characters/LegionOfSuperheroesOtherVillains Other Villains]], [[Characters/LegionOfSuperheroesSupportingCharacters Supporting Cast]])-]]]]] |
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| 13 | [[foldercontrol]] |
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| 15 | [[folder:Triplicate Girl/Duo Damsel/Triad/Una/Duplicate Damsel]] |
| 16 | [[quoteright:276:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/triad_01.jpg]] |
| 17 | ->'''AKA:''' Luornu Durgo, Marie Elkins |
| 18 | ->'''Homeworld:''' Cargg |
| 19 | ->'''Abilities:''' Able to split into three bodies (as Triplicate Girl/Triad); two bodies (as Duo Damsel); or unlimited bodies (as Duplicate Girl). (5YL Only:Project force fields) |
| 20 | |
| 21 | Triplicate Girl is Luornu Durgo. Born on the planet Cargg, she has the natural ability to split into multiple bodies. Luornu is trained in her planet's foremost style of fighting which allows her to take full advantage of three forms fighting simultaneously. This ability has varied over the years and she has used other names such as Duo Damsel, Una, and Duplicate Girl. Her romantic partner and later husband is Bouncing Boy. In Reboot Legion continuity, Luornu uses the alias Triad. This version is the only Carggite whose bodies each have a distinct personality. She was originally Brande's GirlFriday, but joined the team almost immediately after they were formed. In Prime ("Threeboot") Legion continuity, Triplicate Girl is the only inhabitant of her planet. |
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| 23 | * ActionGirlfriend: During one of the periods where Chuck/Bouncing Boy had lost his powers, she split and dealt with muggers who'd attacked them. This was hard on Chuck's self esteem, although he bounced ba--''recovered'' by successfully defending himself in a similar situation and realizing that he wasn't useless. |
| 24 | * AllLoveIsUnrequited: Held a torch for Superboy and Invisible Kid I. |
| 25 | * AllOfTheOtherReindeer: In 5YL, at least, Carggites regard one of their race losing a body as a mortal sin nigh-unto blasphemy/murder. As such Luornu had some bad reactions from a few others of her kind, particularly after she (apparently) lost a ''second'' one. |
| 26 | * AndIMustScream: Glorith brought back one of Luornu's bodies after killing her and de-aging her over and over again in order to break her. |
| 27 | * BadassTeacher: Due to the Legion Code at the time banning married Legionnaires, she and Chuck became Reserve Legionnaires and trained students at the Legion Academy. |
| 28 | * BashBrothers: Unsurprisingly, she makes a really great team. |
| 29 | * BrokenBird: One of her counterparts later in the [=FYL=] Legion's era. |
| 30 | * DarkSecret: One of a conspiracy of four Legionnaires dedicated to avenging Superboy's death (long story), by killing the Time Trapper. She didn't even tell her husband about it. |
| 31 | * DoppelgangerAttack: Luornu frequently takes a level in badass by training in "Tri-Jitsu", a Carggite martial art focused around invoking this trope by tactically splitting and recombining. |
| 32 | * {{Doppelmerger}}: Luornu has the power to split into multiple bodies. When she re-merges into one body, she gains the memories and knowledge that her divided selves obtained. She is also practiced in the art of "Tri-Jitsu", which involves attacking the enemy in a trifecta with marital arts while splitting and recombining. |
| 33 | * DrivenToMadness: In one incident, Princess Projectra was hit by a "pain plague" that would have killed her by agony if the Legion hadn't quickly put her into a device that would allow another to absorb the pain for her. Even so, the pain was too strong for any one Legionnaire to handle, and--you see where this is going. Even so, the pain still drove both herselves temporarily insane. |
| 34 | * DualityMotif: She can split into two people, and in some versions has two eyes of different colors. This is strange since 1) she had the ability to split into three before one body was killed, but didn't have three eyes, 2) it's a planetary power and other people from the planet don't have this, and 3) when she splits, each body has two of the same color eyes, making it impossible for her to pretend to not be split when she is. |
| 35 | * EmpoweredBadassNormal: In 5YL she discovered that long-term exposure to the force field belt Brainiac 5 had given her had resulted in the power to project DeflectorShields. |
| 36 | * EscapeArtist: To a degree, since she can make a duplicate to undo bonds, or get outside of a cell, or stop a deathtrap she's trapped in and so forth. |
| 37 | * FaceHeelTurn: One of her duplicates fell in love with a superhero, Nam-lor, whose power aura screwed with her mind and turned her evil. He went along with "Lelith"'s thefts to try and snap her out of it, but when she tried to get him to kill Bouncing Boy, Nam-lor realized that the only way to save her was to leave her. After a couple of days, the duplicate returned to normal. In the meantime, poor Lournu felt like you would if your arm or leg turned against you. In 5YL, this duplicate apparently never turned completely back to normal--when they were together she existed as a voice in Luornu's head and when they were separate she cheated on Chuck, whom she held in contempt. This duplicate was thought killed, which was actually a bit of a relief for Luornu. After being discovered and freed from Glorith, however, the duplicate finally came to appreciate the life she...they(?)...uh, ''Luornu'' had. The equivalent of centuries of torture can do that to a gal. |
| 38 | * FightsLikeANormal: As splitting is her only superpower, she's received training in martial arts, weaponry, stealth, technology, etc. in order to be an extremely effective member of the Espionage Squad. |
| 39 | * GirlFriday: Luornu was introduced as R.J. Brande's secretary and assistant in the reboot (it turns out that being able to be in three places at once is really useful for an assistant), but left to join the Legion within a few issues. Brande took her under his wing after she escaped a BedlamHouse on Cargg. |
| 40 | * GiveGeeksAChance: Had a bit of a thing for Lyle Norg, and eventually fell hard for Chuck Taine, an overweight, humble, FunPersonified type of guy. |
| 41 | * HappilyMarried: To Chuck "Bouncing Boy" Taine. They were the first Legion couple to get married. In every continuity where they're married, they've never been shown as anything but absolutely ''crazy'' for each other. |
| 42 | * HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Her power is [[MundaneUtility useful for doing chores]] and [[PowerPerversionPotential pretty fun in bed]], but not much good in combat. At least, not until she became [[WeakButSkilled a master of Tri-Jitsu]], a martial art based around the fact that you have six arms, six legs, and three potential points of attack to coordinate from. She is also an expert infiltrator. Go somewhere and be seen to walk back out ... after leaving ''two'' of your selves hidden somewhere. Gather information from three different places at once, then combine to share and correlate it. She can also split to escape bonds or have an attack go between herselves. |
| 43 | * HumanAliens: Pretty much identical to a human except for the splitting. |
| 44 | * InterspeciesRomance: Luornu ''is'' technically an alien, as opposed to a descendant of human colonists like many Legionnaires, thus her relationships with non-Carggites count as this. |
| 45 | * [[LastOfHisKind Last Of Her Kind]]: Threeboot Triplicate Girl started out as an amnesiac in the ruins of a world called Cargg, and eventually duplicated enough to repopulate it. She/they sent one of her as an ambassador to the United Planets, who became a Legionnaire... but can't go home again. See StrangerInAFamiliarLand, below. |
| 46 | * LiteralSplitPersonality: Postboot, each duplicate embodies a different personality aspect, in a [[TheThreeFacesOfEve Three Faces of Eve]] pattern. Specifically, "Lu-Orange" as the shy Child, "Lu-Purple" as the Seductress, and "Lu-Neutral" as the Wife holding them all together metaphorically. Taken to an extreme shortly before the start of the "Emerald Vi" and 20th-century arcs, where Shrinking Violet and the Emerald Eye split the three personalities into separate bodies with distinct character redesigns, who were not able to recombine. The Preboot and Retroboot versions of Triplicate Girl are more Single Minded Triplets (see below). Threeboot is a whole other story originally but works out similarly to the Single Minded versions. |
| 47 | * MadeOfPlasticine: A villain who can neutralize powers managed to catch her mid-split, and it turns out their bodies are ''really'' fragile at that point. Fun! |
| 48 | * MindHive: 5YL canonizes the notion that Nam-Lor's aura permanently altered the personality of her other self into a hedonistic Jerkass who existed as a voice in her head that Luornu had to threaten with repression to control. This subplot inspired the similar characterization of Reboot Luornu's "Purple" duplicate. |
| 49 | * PowerPerversionPotential: A mild example; early in her relationship with Chuck Taine, she split into two people and each of her selves kissed Chuck on both cheeks at the same time, which he seemed to enjoy. |
| 50 | * ReallyGetsAround: Played with and averted in Threeboot's who's-who segment; Cosmic Boy put her up to it to study the personalities of Element Lad, Sunboy, and Ultraboy. |
| 51 | * RetCon: 5YL pioneered the notion that three separate personalities are natural among split Carggites, but with societal repression causing this to be considered mentally abnormal in the modern day. Some later versions of the Legion continued with this trend. |
| 52 | * SelfDuplication: Probably one of the more interesting variations. Luornu used to be able to split into three distinct bodies, each with their own will and personality. [[spoiler: After the death of one of them at the hands of Computo, she could only split into two bodies.]] |
| 53 | ** Luornu finally received a major power upgrade. She now has the power to split herself into an apparently endless number of identical bodies no matter where she is. It is not yet known if there is an upper limit to her duplication ability. |
| 54 | * [[SingleMindedTwins Single Minded Triplets]]: Some versions. |
| 55 | * StrangerInAFamiliarLand: Threeboot Triplicate Girl is shunned by her other duplicates back home because of how she's changed from her experiences on Earth. |
| 56 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Computo's return left her paralyzed with terror and unable to mobilize against him, due to the trauma she'd suffered when the villain had killed one of her selves. |
| 57 | [[/folder]] |
| 58 | |
| 59 | [[folder:Phantom Girl/Apparition/Phase]] |
| 60 | [[quoteright:135:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fanty_1520.jpg]] |
| 61 | ->'''AKA:''' Tinya Wazzo |
| 62 | ->'''Homeworld:''' Bgztl |
| 63 | ->'''Abilities:''' Intangibility, travel to Phantom Zone. |
| 64 | |
| 65 | Born on the planet Bgztl, Tinya has the natural ability to become intangible and phase through objects. It has been implied that Bgztl is part of the Phantom Zone. Her romantic partner and later husband is Ultra Boy. During her brief time in the 20th Century, she became a member of [[ComicBook/LEGIONDCComics L.E.G.I.O.N.]] named Phase. In Reboot Legion continuity, Tinya uses the name Apparition. She was the daughter of Bgztl's representative to the United Planets, and joined the Legion almost immediately after they were formed. This version has a child with Ultra Boy named Cub Nah. Phase is explained as her long-lost Carggite duplicate. \ |
| 66 | In Prime ("Threeboot") Legion continuity, Tinya is still Phantom Girl and her planet occupies the same space as Earth in another dimension. Her predecessor Linnya Wazzo used the code name Phantom Girl as a member of ''ComicBook/TheTerrifics''. |
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| 68 | * AwesomeAnachronisticApparel: She's got bell bottoms in her Grell-era outfit. |
| 69 | * BrutalHonesty: Always very frank and straightforward with her opinions. |
| 70 | * ContinuitySnarl: During the TMK era, Tinya was killed in front of Ultra Boy; about the same time, ''L.E.G.I.O.N.'' had an amnesiac Bgtzlian from the future--"Phase"--suddenly appear, with the obvious implications. However, Jo and Tinya were reunited shortly before the first reboot, while "Phase" was revealed to be Tinya's long-lost sister "Enya". After the reboot, "Enya" never existed... [[VoodooShark so it turned out that Tinya was half-Carggite (Triad's race), and her illegitimate father secretly abducted and sold her other two selves before anyone found out]]--and one of ''them'' became Phase, who [[SplitPersonalityMerge merged with the then-bodiless Tinya]] while she was trapped in the 20th Century. Not quite as bad as Wonder Girl, and the Threeboot swept the whole thing under the table, but still... |
| 71 | * DimensionalTraveler: |
| 72 | ** She (and other Bgtzlians) can travel into the Phantom Zone at will. Everyone in the Phantom Zone gains {{Flight}}, PsychicRadar, and {{Telepathy}} as part of the nature of the place. |
| 73 | ** In Pre-Crisis days and in the Threeboot, Earth and Bgztl occupy the same physical space, but different dimensions. Tinya is the only one of her race who can cross between them. She can even hold conversations with one side while in the other, which can confuse on-lookers, [[BlessedWithSuck and ruin potential relationships]]. |
| 74 | * EtherealWhiteDress: Her costumes are always white. Add her power (phasing through things) and she can be mistaken for a ghost girl. |
| 75 | * GirlishPigtails: In the Grell era outfit. |
| 76 | * HumanAliens: Bgztlian, but close enough to human (and/or Carggite) to interbreed. |
| 77 | * {{Hypocrite}}: Retroboot Tinya repeatedly brings up that she hates people touching her without her saying so. Yet she goes around hugging people all the time, see No Sense of Personal Space below. |
| 78 | * {{Intangibility}}: Like all natives of the planet Bgztl, she possesses the ability to shift to another dimension, allowing her to phase through solid matter. As a veritable phantom, she cannot be harmed by conventional means of attack. It also enables her to access the Phantom Zone. |
| 79 | ** In the Threeboot version it's explained as Bgztl being a planet in another dimension which exists in the same space as Earth and her shifting her mass between our dimension and that one as a unique power. She's visible in both worlds (which gets awkward in the one she's not paying attention to) and is solid and can sense in only one at a time. This solves the floor problem (and causes a new one when someone has to go to the core of a planet) when you realize that she can't avoid the planet by shifting to a dimension with an identical planet in the same place. |
| 80 | * InterspeciesRomance: She's a Bgztlian in love with the altered human Ultra Boy. |
| 81 | * Main/MostCommonSuperpower |
| 82 | * NonhumanHumanoidHybrid: The Reboot version of Tinya was discovered to be half-Carggite, and her permanently-phased self re-merged with one of her bodies which had been flung into the 20th Century in order to come back to corporeality and marry Ultra Boy. |
| 83 | * NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: A relatively mild case, but Tinya really, really likes hugging people. The Legion, Brainy aside, are fine with it though. |
| 84 | * NotSoImaginaryFriend: In the Reboot, Apparition is seemingly killed in an accident, but Ultra Boy is able to see and interact with her. Later, her mother and eventually Saturn girl were able to see her as well. During the events of Final Night she was restored to materiality. |
| 85 | * OfficialCouple: With Ultra Boy in most continuities. Trying to change it is rarely met with any enthusiasm. |
| 86 | * PowerOfTrust: Early on in his career, Ultra Boy pretended to have been hiding a criminal past and "betrayed" the Legion in order to infiltrate a group of hidden infiltrators. Only Phantom Lass believed that he hadn't truly betrayed the team. She covertly helped him out with his plan and it worked perfectly. In light of her faith in him, the two of them started one of the most stable relationships in the Legion. |
| 87 | * RebelliousPrincess: In Postboot, she's the daughter of her planet's ambassador and earns her way into the Legion virtually as soon as they're announced to the world for helping to defeat a terrorist attack on the United Planets. Her mother's not pleased with either this or her romance with Ultra Boy. |
| 88 | * ShapeshifterModeLock: Her Reboot self was permanently dispersed for awhile. |
| 89 | * SpiritAdvisor[=/=]NotSoImaginaryFriend: Tinya became this for Jo in Postboot, after she was incinerated by the White Triangle. She got better. |
| 90 | * TeethClenchedTeamwork: She wasn't fond of Timber Wolf or Dawnstar, the former because she thinks he's rather dense, and the latter because of her arrogance. |
| 91 | * TragicIntangibility: During her interim as a ghost Postboot, her intangibility was active permanently. This meant whenever she wanted to hug her boyfriend, she'd pass right through him and when she wanted to rest her head on her mother's shoulder, she'd fall to the floor. All this emphasized she wasn't just another weird alien, she was actually dead. |
| 92 | * TrappedInThePast: Thought killed in a shuttle accident, she was actually sent into the 20th Century and stripped of her memory, operating with L.E.G.I.O.N. as Apparation. [[RetCon And then she was just dead]]. [[TrickedOutTime And then she]] ''[[TrickedOutTime wasn't.]]'' But only after Zero Hour had doomed ''everyone''. [[TheMultiverse Until they all came back again]]. Comics! |
| 93 | * UncannyFamilyResemblance: She looks almost identical to her ancestor Linnya, who is a member of ComicBook/TheTerrifics team. |
| 94 | * UnevenHybrid: Cub, Tinya's son with Jo in the Reboot is half-human, a quarter-Bgztlian and a quarter-Carggite. |
| 95 | [[/folder]] |
| 96 | |
| 97 | [[folder:Chameleon Boy/Chameleon]] |
| 98 | [[quoteright:216:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/reep_daggle_002.jpg]] |
| 99 | ->'''AKA:''' Reep Daggle |
| 100 | ->'''Homeworld:''' Durla |
| 101 | ->'''Abilities:''' Shapeshifting |
| 102 | |
| 103 | Chameleon Boy is a Durlan. His physiology allows him to change shape into anything. This makes him a useful member of the Legion Espionage Squad. It is later revealed that his father is R.J. Brande, who bankrolls the Legion. |
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| 105 | * BigBrotherMentor: Cham eventually becomes this to the Batch [=SW6=] Legionnaires. |
| 106 | * BizarreAlienBiology: Even in their natural form, Durlans can move their organs around inside their body to protect them. Cham survives a shot to the head this way. |
| 107 | * BlackBeadEyes: His Threeboot counterpart has tiny black eyes in his normal form. |
| 108 | * CharacterDevelopment: He started out as a jokester who used his shapeshifting for fun, but after becoming the head of the Legion Espionage Squad and learning he was RJ Brande's son, he developed more of a moody and cerebral nature, while still keeping a sense of humor. |
| 109 | * CloudCuckooLander: His Threeboot counterpart is rather eccentric. |
| 110 | * DePower: After he was released from Takron-Galtos, he discovered that the power-neutralizing cuff they'd put on his antennae had somehow permanently disabled his shape-shifting abilities. This necessitated a dangerous trip to Durla with his father to gain them back. |
| 111 | * FantasticRacism: As a Durlan, he gets a lot directed his way. In fact, that's the reason he joined the Legion: to provide a positive example of his people to counter that and the Legion was pleased to be able to play their part for that goal. |
| 112 | * GreatDetective: Probably the best investigator in the Legion and a mainstay (and later leader) of the Legion Espionage Squad. His Threeboot self has a consulting role with the SP. |
| 113 | * HatePlague: Got exposed to Mordru's blood crystals, which filled him with blind hatred for Superboy. He then proceeded to capture Superboy and shapeshifted himself to fool Brainiac 5 and Lightning Lad into thinking Superboy had gotten free. Superboy managed to escape (for real) and restore him to sanity. |
| 114 | * IAmWho: Congratulations, your father's the richest man in the galaxy! Who, er, abandoned you as a baby and hid his identity from you your entire life, even after meeting you in person and knowing exactly who you were for years!...Why aren't you more happy? |
| 115 | * InterspeciesRomance: |
| 116 | ** Flirts a lot with the ladies of the Legion, and he's the only Durlan member. His pre-Crisis self fell for two IdenticalStranger human women (one of whom was from another dimension). |
| 117 | ** His Reboot self had a thing going with Spark, but events kept interfering to get in the way for quite a while. |
| 118 | * LukeIAmYourFather: In Preboot, it turned out that Reep was the son of R.J. Brande, who was actually a [[ShapeshifterModeLock Mode Locked Durlan]]. |
| 119 | * MagicPants: His clothes typically change with him when he shapeshifts, assuming [[TechnicallyNakedShapeshifter he's wearing any clothes at all]]. |
| 120 | * MasterActor: To back up his shapeshifting. |
| 121 | * {{Nephewism}}: Pre-Zero Hour following his mother's death and his father becoming ill, amnesiac and mode-locked Reep and Liggt were raised by their mother's sister Ji. |
| 122 | * NoBiologicalSex: Threeboot Chameleon is androgynous. |
| 123 | * OlderAndWiser: In the Five Years Later continuity, Cham becomes the mentor to the younger "Batch [=SW6=]" Legionnaires. |
| 124 | * OneTwinMustDie: Pre-Zero Hour Durlans forced twins to fight to the death in the Right of Survival as "only through death can the choice of the gods be surmised". Reep won the right of survival by killing his twin Liggt but regrets it and feels remorse over his sibling's death for the rest of his life. |
| 125 | * TheQuietOne: Due to the cultural differences between himself and the others, as well as his own natural reserve, he started out as this. |
| 126 | * ReplacementGoldfish: After his UnwantedRescue, Princess Projectra hooks him up with Janice Warren, an heiress who [[IdenticalStranger looks uncannily similar to]] his lost love Elwinda. Eventually, they fall for each other, but nothing seems to come of it in the end. |
| 127 | * ShapeshifterModeLock: If exposed to Cancelite, a Durlan is frozen in whatever form they were taking at the time until it wears off. He also temporarily loses his powers due to illness. |
| 128 | * SuperpowerLottery: Indirectly. The universe is full of strange creatures with a wide array of abilities, and Chameleon Boy can shift into any of them. |
| 129 | * TechnicallyNakedShapeshifter: In Jim Shooter's run on the Threeboot continuity, Chameleon admits to not wearing a costume and actually being naked the whole time while using shapeshifting to appear clothed. |
| 130 | * TimeyWimeyBall: Continues to exist even after his [=SW6=] counterpart is destroyed, at least for a while. |
| 131 | * TokenNonHuman: For most of the Silver Age, Chameleon Boy was the most alien-looking out of all the Legionnaires. While a few had weird skin colors, only Cham was bald, with pointy ears and antennae. |
| 132 | * TrueSight: His antennae allow him to instantly memorize someone's form perfectly,as a result he can also tell when someone's in disguise by how their form subtly changes. |
| 133 | * UnpleasantParentReveal: The unpleasant part being that Brande had known Cham for ''years'' without making a peep about it. |
| 134 | * VoluntaryShapeshifting: Like all Durlans, Reep possesses the ability to transform his body's size, shape and color to mimic any person, creature or object in the universe. |
| 135 | ** [[MasterOfDisguise Master of Disguise]]: Obviously. |
| 136 | ** RubberMan: The team's resident stretcher when Jimmy Olsen isn't around. |
| 137 | ** ShapeShifterBaggage |
| 138 | ** ShapeshiftingSquick: Given a nod in Threeboot, in which one character suggests that Chameleon is not attracted to non-shapeshifters. |
| 139 | ** SizeShifter: He can't shrink or grow as small or big as Shrinking Violet or Colossal Boy, but this is one of his abilities as a shapeshifter. The fact that a different Durlan was able to pose as Violet (thus shrinking to microscopic size on numerous occasions) might suffice to give some idea of how small he ''can'' get. |
| 140 | * ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: After his discovering his long-lost father was secretly RJ Brande, who'd been funding the Legion for years, he made one of the few impulsive decisions of his life and took several Legionnaires on a mission to spy upon the Khund, which ended up getting them led into a trap with no apparent hope of rescue on a frozen asteroid. They were rescued in the end, but a) everyone could very well have died b) Light Lass and Timber Wolf broke up their long-standing relationship over a MistakenForCheating incident that also harmed Saturn Girl and Lightning Lad's marriage, and C) he very nearly touched off an open war between the United Planets and the Khunds, and therefore was sentenced to Takron-Galtos for treason...with all the other criminals the Legion had busted and his powers neutralized. |
| 141 | * UnwantedRescue: Once became stranded in another dimension and fell so deeply in love with Elwinda, a native princess, that he would have [[IChooseToStay chosen her over his old home]] even if he ''wasn't'' stuck. He was about to marry her when his teammates managed to yank him back into our dimension. Cham was displeased, to say the least. |
| 142 | * YouNoTakeCandle: Early in Postboot, when he's just learning to speak Interlac. And kept up much longer than necessary as a form of ObfuscatingStupidity. |
| 143 | [[/folder]] |
| 144 | |
| 145 | [[folder:Colossal Boy/Leviathan/Micro Lad]] |
| 146 | [[quoteright:193:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/colossal_boy_001.jpg]] |
| 147 | ->'''AKA:''' Gim Allon |
| 148 | ->'''Homeworld:''' Earth (Preboot/Threeboot); Mars (Postboot) |
| 149 | ->'''Abilities:''' Giant growth |
| 150 | |
| 151 | Colossal Boy is a human member of the Legion. Exposure to a radioactive meteorite gave him the ability to grow incredibly large. His mother is President Allon, and his wife is Chameleon Girl. In Reboot Legion continuity, he is a member of the Science Police who takes the name Leviathan when he joins the Legion. [[spoiler: This version dies in battle against Doctor Regulus.]] In Prime Legion continuity, he belongs to a race of giants and has the power to shrink to normal size. Everyone calls him Colossal Boy, but he insists that his name is Micro Lad. |
| 152 | ---- |
| 153 | * AmateurSleuth: Since he had actual police training, he was one of the better detectives on the team. |
| 154 | * AmicableExes: With Gigi Cusimano. |
| 155 | * ArchEnemy: Tarik the Mute would probably qualify for this, as he held Gim's parents hostage and posthumously attempted to kill his mom. |
| 156 | * AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: He can increase his size up to twenty-five feet. |
| 157 | * BaitAndSwitchTyrant: Although he was portrayed as being out of his depth as the Legion's leader without Cosmic Boy advising him, he never quite crossed the line into full Umbridge-ness. |
| 158 | * CompositeCharacter: Threeboot Micro Lad is a combination of Preboot Colossal Boy and supervillain Micro Lad. |
| 159 | * ContinuitySnarl: Jim Shooter's run on the Threeboot continuity disregarded him being from a race of giants and having the power to shrink to normal size, instead following his pre-established premise of being a human who can grow to gigantic size. |
| 160 | * FriendOnTheForce: SP Officer Gigi Cusimano, an old flame of his. |
| 161 | * GameBreakingInjury: Following an injury at the hands of Starfinger, 5YL Colossal Boy suffered intense pain whenever he grew. This ultimately necessitated leaving the Legion and taking a less-intensive job with the Science Police. |
| 162 | * GentleGiant: He is known for having a big heart no matter what his size. |
| 163 | * HappilyMarried: To Chameleon Girl aka Yera, a shapeshifting [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Orange-Skinned Space Babe]]. It started a bit strangely, and there ''have'' been a couple of hiccups, but they're very much in love. Plus, it ain't like her shapeshifting powers stop working in the bedroom... |
| 164 | * HopelessSuitor: Had a thing for Shrinking Violet for a long time. When it seemed to have finally been reciprocated, she turned out to be [[VoluntaryShapeshifting someone else entirely]]. |
| 165 | * [[IHaveYourWife I Have Your Parents]]: Tarik the Mute transmuted his parents into glass and forced him to give away Legion secrets on pain of shattering. |
| 166 | * InformedAbility: Leviathan is said to be a top S.P. officer, which implies awareness that losing a teammate is part of the job, yet he gives up the leadership position mid-mission when Kid Quantum I is killed in action. |
| 167 | * InterspeciesRomance: His teenage crush on Shrinking Violet (an Imskian) seemed to be going nowhere for years until she suddenly started accepting his advances, and over several months they developed a relationship so deep it survived the revelation that "Violet" was actually a Durlan by the name of Yera who'd replaced his longtime crush. |
| 168 | * LoveObstructingParents: Averted. Once they get over their shock (the marriage was secret), Gim's parents ''adore'' Yera. But they ''do'' want any kids to be raised Jewish. |
| 169 | * MartyrWithoutACause: In Postboot, his "heart's desire" is to die to save the lives of his teammates (ItMakesSenseInContext - see MyGreatestFailure, below). |
| 170 | ** Which inspired one Elseworlds, "Superboy's Legion", to feature him doing just that - dying in the fledgling Legion's first encounter with the Fatal Five. |
| 171 | * MyFistForgivesYou: Socks Element Lad in the face after learning that the "Shrinking Violet" he'd fallen in love with and married was an impostor, and that Element Lad was the one who'd discovered it [[WeWouldHaveToldYouBut without telling him]]. Element Lad concedes that he deserved it. |
| 172 | * MyGreatestFailure: In the Postboot, he was appointed the Legion's leader for one mission that ended in the death of Kid Quantum; he immediately abdicated in favor of Cosmic Boy and never forgave himself. (See MartyrWithoutACause, above.) |
| 173 | * TheNeidermeyer: In the Postboot, Leviathan was introduced as one of these (since he was a former Science Policeman in that continuity). [[BreakTheHaughty The Haughty is soon Broken]]. |
| 174 | * RetGone: When Glorith ages the [=SW6=] Gim to death, his adult version vanishes, cluing the Legionnaires in to the nature of [=SW6=] as time-displaced versions of themselves, rather than clones. |
| 175 | * {{Sizeshifter}}: While training as a Science Police officer on Mars, Gim Allon was affected by the emanations of a meteorite that impacted nearby, giving him the ability to grow to enormous size and strength. |
| 176 | * SuperCop: Gim trained to be a police officer before becoming a Legionnaire, even after he became a hero he continued his training and became an officer. |
| 177 | * SuperStrength: Even at normal size, he's considerably stronger than a typical human. |
| 178 | [[/folder]] |
| 179 | |
| 180 | [[folder:Invisible Kid I]] |
| 181 | [[quoteright:202:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/invisible_kid.jpg]] |
| 182 | ->'''AKA:''' Lyle Norg |
| 183 | ->'''Homeworld:''' Earth |
| 184 | ->'''Abilities:''' Invisibility |
| 185 | |
| 186 | Born on the planet Earth, Lyle Norg developed a serum that allowed him to become completely invisible. This made him an important member of the Legion Espionage Squad. Norg was killed by Validus of the Fatal Five. In Reboot Legion continuity, Lyle Norg' survives and is romantically involved with Chemical King. In Prime Legion continuity, Lyle Norg is known for struggling with his father who is in the Science Police. |
| 187 | ---- |
| 188 | * AmazonChaser: Threeboot Invisible Kid develops a crush on Gazelle after seeing her in action. |
| 189 | * AnArmAndALeg: Threeboot Invisible Kid loses an arm after his flight ring explodes, and gets an alien one grafted on. |
| 190 | * BoyMeetsGhoul: Shortly before his death, he fell in love with a mysterious, ethereal girl named Myla. After his death, it turned out she was a ghost all along. However, it seems he [[TogetherInDeath ended up in the same place she did]]. |
| 191 | * TheChainsOfCommanding: Served as Legion Leader during possibly one of the worst years ever: the Legion was temporarily outlawed by Universo when he took over the Earth, the Khunds invaded, the Sun-Eater attacked, the Fatal Five were formed to fight it and became an ongoing criminal concern, Ferro Lad became the first Legionnaire to die (and stay dead) in order to destroy the eater, Doctor Regulus attacked for the first time, and the Dark Circle cult and Mordru the evil wizard revealed themselves, with the latter nearly taking over the entire UP. Small wonder Lyle scaled back his Legion activities and spent most of the rest of his life doing relaxing work in the lab after his term was up. |
| 192 | * DeadPersonImpersonation: At one point, it seemed that he wasn't dead and had been trapped in another dimension all along, but that was just a demon impersonating him. |
| 193 | * DyingMomentOfAwesome: After having deduced that the Tharok's separated brain components were controlling Validus during his rampage, Invisible Kid tries to destroy them, only to be caught in the massive giant's grip. With his dying breath, he crushed the components, even as he himself was crushed. The rudderless Validus instinctively fled. |
| 194 | * TheEveryman: Threeboot has him as an obvious audience identification character. |
| 195 | * FantasyForbiddingFather: Threeboot Lyle's father Lon seems to be a subversion of this at first, encouraging his son's scientific exploits and even supplying him with alien tissues to experiment with. Turns out he's turning Lyle's research in to his Big Brother-type bosses in the Science Police. |
| 196 | * GadgeteerGenius: In the Postboot continuity, Brainy was more the pure scientist, doing things like creating antigravitic material as a side effect of an experiment, and Lyle was more the engineer, doing things like taking said metal and producing flight rings from it. |
| 197 | * HappilyAdopted: Reboot Lyle Norg was raised by the Foccart family. |
| 198 | * {{Invisibility}}: He can turn himself and his clothing invisible at will. His invisibility cloaks himself from many types of detection: ocular, auditory and telepathic. |
| 199 | * NaiveNewcomer: Threeboot's first arc is told almost entirely through his perspective and is about how alien everything is to him. |
| 200 | * NewMeat: Threeboot again. |
| 201 | * ProfessorGuineaPig: See SuperSerum, below. |
| 202 | * ScienceHero |
| 203 | * SuperSerum: The source of his powers. In the Threeboot, he gives the serum to the Science Police in exchange for them leaving the Legion alone- but not before somehow encoding it with a virus that gives the Legion a backdoor into SP computers after it's analyzed. |
| 204 | * TeenGenius: Threeboot Brainy goes so far as to say that Lyle's plan involving the virus mentioned above was the cleverest thing a human had done since the discovery of fire. |
| 205 | * TeenSuperspy: Postboot, this was his pre-Legion job, and he goes on to found the Legion Espionage Squad with Triad, Apparition, Shrinking Violet, and Chameleon. He also leads the Squad in most continuities where it exists. |
| 206 | * WordOfGay: Postboot. |
| 207 | [[/folder]] |
| 208 | |
| 209 | [[folder:Brainiac 5/Brainiac 5.1]] |
| 210 | [[quoteright:240:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/legion_of_superheroes_6_cover_by_sinccolor_d31djja.jpg]] |
| 211 | ->'''AKA:''' Querl Dox |
| 212 | ->'''Homeworld:''' Colu |
| 213 | ->'''Abilities:''' 12th level super intelligence; force-field projection (Postboot only) |
| 214 | |
| 215 | Born on the super-intelligent planet Colu, he is a 12th-level intellect considered a genius even by their standards. This makes him an incredible scientist, inventor, and strategist in combat. His ancestor is the super-villain [[Characters/SupermanBrainiacCharacter Brainiac]], and he takes this name to redeem his family's lineage. His longest romantic partners have been Supergirl, Andromeda, and Dream Girl. |
| 216 | ---- |
| 217 | * AdaptationalSexuality: Following decades of his various counterparts being attracted to men and women, the Bendisboot Brainy is openly acknowledged and referred to as demisexual. |
| 218 | * AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Totally green-skinned. Just ask Supergirl. |
| 219 | * AmbiguouslyBi: Postboot Brainy shows attraction to both Andromeda and Invisible Kid. |
| 220 | * ArchEnemy: That would probably be Pulsar Stargrave, a green-skinned villain of uncertain origins, who may be the original Brainiac, time-tossed from from his last battle with Superman into the 30th Century. He claimed to be Querl's father at one point, and is a brilliant scientist. |
| 221 | * BadassBookworm: He's the Legion's brains, but he can also throw down when he has to, and is rarely a hindrance when things get physical. Given who some of his teammates and enemies are, this makes him a certified badass. |
| 222 | * BarrierWarrior: Brainiac 5's primary invention is his personal force-shield generator. He wears a belt that projects an impenetrable forcefield around himself; can sometimes extend the field to do more creative things with it. |
| 223 | * ABirthdayNotABreak: In a two-part story taking place in issues 378 and 379 of ''ComicBook/AdventureComics'', he and fellow Legionnaires Superboy, Karate Kid, Duo Damsel and Princess Projectra get poisoned on his birthday while trying to fulfill the Coluan birthday tradition of drinking kono juice in ivory cups, leaving them twelve hours to live. Brainiac 5 narrowly avoids [[DiedOnTheirBirthday dying on his birthday]] along with the other four Legionnaires when Ultra Boy uses the Miracle Machine to revive them just before their twelve hours are up. |
| 224 | * BrainsAndBrawn: With Supergirl, Preboot, and again in ''New Krypton''. |
| 225 | * BreakoutCharacter: Quite possibly the best known member of the Legion. |
| 226 | * CharacterDevelopment: In the Levitz era, Brainy eventually outgrew most of his InsufferableGenius characteristics to become wiser, more thoughtful and more humanist in perspective. Subsequent portrayals have [[StatusQuoIsGod mostly ignored]] this. |
| 227 | * TheChessmaster: His super-intelligence is sometimes played this way. |
| 228 | * CreateYourOwnVillain: |
| 229 | ** Computo, his AI creation, eventually rebelled against him and became a recurring foe, even killing one of Triplicate Girl's selves. |
| 230 | ** [[spoiler:During one of his crazy periods, felt like he wasn't getting the credit he deserved, so he used the Miracle Machine to create the unstoppable Omega, a living agglomeration of '''all''' hatred, '''everywhere''', demanding to be named Ruler of the Universe in exchange for the secret of stopping him.]] |
| 231 | * DarkSecret: One of a conspiracy of four Legionnaires dedicated to avenging Superboy's death (long story), by killing the Time Trapper. |
| 232 | * DeadpanSnarker: Being around other people is like being stuck on the short bus for him, so this is a natural result. |
| 233 | * FlatEarthAtheist: He is an atheist, even though the Legion has met -and sometimes fought- gods, and Superman personally met [[ComicBook/WarWorld one of God's agents]]. |
| 234 | * FutureMeScaresMe: Threeboot Brainiac 5, who finds difficulty in working with his (adult) retroboot alter ego. |
| 235 | * GadgeteerGenius: He is able to create very advanced technology such as time machines (such as the Time Cube, Time Spheres and Chronexus), Flight Rings, artificial intelligences, and Force Shields. Brainy is also knowledgeable with medical technology as well, having invented the anti-lead serum for Mon-El and curing Matter-Eater Lad of his madness. |
| 236 | * GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: Supergirl thought so, anyway. |
| 237 | * GuileHero: Often portrayed this way. |
| 238 | * InsufferableGenius: More often than not, depending on the writer. In the Postboot continuity, he's so fed up with the other Legionnaires pestering him for help that [[spoiler:when the Emerald Eye grants his heart's desire, he becomes invisible and inaudible to everyone but himself and simply goes about his own projects without interference]]. This is most apparent in ''Legion of Three Worlds'', where Retroboot, Postboot, and Threeboot Brainy all have to work together and just can't stop arguing (albeit for different reasons; one of them is distrustful of an older Brainiac 5 because he's never trusted any adults before and isn't about to get in the habit of it). |
| 239 | * {{Irony}}: He was always one of the loudest voices against using the Miracle Machine to fulfill the Legion's desires, both out of the danger involved and because the Legion might go soft if they did. [[spoiler:Then he goes nuts and uses the Machine to make Omega, the most dangerous thing in the universe, for entirely selfish reasons.]] |
| 240 | * KickTheDog: His plan to kill the Time Trapper involved bringing the comatose body of Jaxon Rugarth aka the former Infinite Man into his presence. Rugarth was the innocent victim of a science experiment GoneHorriblyWrong, and Brainy knew or suspected that the outcome might include his death. |
| 241 | * LegacyCharacter: He is introduced as the great-great-grandson of Superman villain Brainiac, was so popular that writers eventually created Brainiacs 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, and 13. |
| 242 | * LoveMakesYouCrazy: Querl is so obsessed with Kara that he once built a Supergirl-alike android in his dream. |
| 243 | * MayDecemberRomance: His Retroboot counterpart during ''New Krypton'' is still in love with Supergirl, even though, at that point in time in the 21st Century, she's still a teenager and he's an adult. Of course, Querl doesn't admit this to Kara because she had yet to actually join the Retroboot Legion. |
| 244 | * MissingMom: In Postboot, it turned out that Brainy was traumatized by the memory of his mother, Brainiac 4, [[MissingMom abandoning him just as soon as she'd finished giving birth]]. Brainiac 4 was a statuesque blonde woman, by the way. [[spoiler:Also a sociopath, who took on several wildly varying identities before eventually leading the Dark Circle and trying to kill Querl, all in pursuit of finding something that would provoke an emotional reaction in herself.]] |
| 245 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: The many times when one of Brainy's creations becomes a problem for the entire Legion (see: Computo). |
| 246 | * NonActionGuy: Depending on the continuity. He's always preferred to be mission control, but in some (especially Preboot) he can still pack a hell of a punch. |
| 247 | * OvernightAgeUp: Following the assault on Glorith in the final dozen or so issues of v4 prior to ''Zero Hour'', he was aged into an old man and had to wear PoweredArmor to even get around. |
| 248 | * PoweredArmor: Briefly wore something like this after being aged by Glorith. |
| 249 | * RequiredSecondaryPowers: He has a force field belt that (before ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths, at least) was explicitly noted to have the ability to automatically generate breathable air whenever creating a closed shield. Even before he invented the [[BatmanCanBreatheInSpace transuits]], it was stated that he didn't need a conventional space suit for this reason. |
| 250 | * ScienceHero: His only real power is his brain, after all. |
| 251 | * ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder: Goes crazy with remarkable frequency. [[spoiler:The apparently decorative wires on his face are, in Postboot continuity, part of a mental ''limiter'' that keeps him from becoming so intelligent that he becomes hopelessly focused on matters of cosmic knowledge, useless and/or insane.]] |
| 252 | * TheSmartGuy: Fit the role in every Legion continuity. |
| 253 | * TheSpock: Since very early on. Brainiac 5 is usually portrayed as being anti-social, cold towards others, aloof and self-involved. The reasoning for this is his heightened intelligence which always surpasses those around him, making it difficult for him to relate communication his point to others. |
| 254 | * StuffBlowingUp: In some continuities, the frequency with which his experiments explode is a RunningGag. |
| 255 | * SummonBiggerFish: Notably employed against the ''Time Trapper''. |
| 256 | * SuperIntelligence: Querl has a "12th-level intellect" (each level of intelligence represents a separate thought track, allowing him to think about or solve twelve equations simultaneously), which grants him superhuman calculation skills, amazing memory and exceptional technical know-how. This increased intellect gives him superior calculating abilities, an encyclopedic memory and innovating scientific knowledge. |
| 257 | * TakeOverTheWorld: Think bigger. Try the ''universe''. |
| 258 | * TeenGenius: When he was a teen. |
| 259 | * ThouShaltNotKill: Brainiac was the prime mover of a plan to kill the Time Trapper. This not only violated the Legion Code against killing unless in the defense of others or oneself, but also resulted in the seeming death of the Infinite Man, the tragic victim of a scientific accident. Upon being censured for this by Polar Boy, Brainiac 5 left the Legion. |
| 260 | * {{Troll}}: He's subjected hilariously to a [[ItsAWonderfulPlot Wonderful Life plot]] in a side story in one of the Postboot issues. When it appears that everyone else really would be better off without him, he decides he would rather go on existing just to make them miserable. |
| 261 | * WritingAroundTrademarks: After DC introduced Brainiac, the makers of a toy computer called "The Brainiac" complained. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20061211052422/http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com:80/2006/11/30/comic-book-urban-legends-revealed-79/ DC had to place a trademark notice for the toy computer in the comic, and made Brainiac a robot with a computer mind.]] This made things complicated for Brainiac 5, who could not be a descendant of Brainiac and was retconned as the descendant of a humanoid who Brainiac adopted and who later rebelled. The animated version simply made Brainiac 5 and all Coluans robots, with Querl based on the original's code. In 1988 (the original change was in 1964), Brainiac was retconned back into being a living Coluan (fully confirmed in [[ComicBook/SupermanBrainiac 2008]]) making this moot. |
| 262 | * YearInsideHourOutside: His Glorithverse counterpart. During an Annual which acted as a recap of events in Legion history altered to fit the new continuity, Glorith kissed Brainiac 5 for a few seconds after he discovered that she'd been manipulating the Legion the whole time. Due to her time manipulating abilities she made the kiss last an eternity, effectively driving him insane in order to make him forget this revelation. |
| 263 | [[/folder]] |
| 264 | |
| 265 | [[folder:Superman/Superboy I]] |
| 266 | ->'''AKA:''' Kal-El (Clark Kent) |
| 267 | ->'''Homeworld:''' Krypton |
| 268 | ->'''Abilities:''' Super-strength, speed, senses, flight, and invulnerability |
| 269 | |
| 270 | Superboy was originally the identity that Clark Kent adopted using his powers to help others as a teenager in Smallville before he became ComicBook/{{Superman}}. His exploits as both Superboy and Superman was what inspired Cosmic Boy, Lightning Lad, and Saturn Girl to form the Legion of Super-Heroes. The three of them would later travel back through time to meet him, after which they brought him to the future and made him a member. |
| 271 | ----- |
| 272 | For tropes regarding Superboy, see Characters/SupermanTheCharacter. |
| 273 | [[/folder]] |
| 274 | |
| 275 | [[folder:Shrinking Violet/Virus/Veye/[=LeViathan=]/Atom Girl]] |
| 276 | [[quoteright:152:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shrinking_violet_7.jpg]] |
| 277 | ->'''AKA:''' Salu Digby |
| 278 | ->'''Homeworld:''' Imsk |
| 279 | ->'''Abilities:''' Able to shrink to microscopic size; giant growth (Postboot only) |
| 280 | |
| 281 | Shrinking Violet is Salu Digby. Born on the planet Imsk, she has the natural ability to shrink down to sub-atomic sizes. During the Five Years Later era, she was romantically involved with Light Lass and briefly used the codename Virus. In Reboot Legion continuity, Shrinking Violet also gains growing powers and takes the name Leviathan in honor of her fallen teammate Gim Allon. This is later shortened to simply Violet. In Prime Legion continuity, she uses the codename Atom Girl. |
| 282 | ---- |
| 283 | |
| 284 | * AloneAmongTheCouples: One night she was bummed that every lady in the Legion was seeing someone else in the Legion while Duplicate Boy was all the way over on Lallor, so Matter-Eater Lad decided to take her on a friendly date. After he swept her off her feet, she gratefully kissed him--and then DB teleported in and tried to start a fight. |
| 285 | * ArchEnemy: Micro Lad went and ''made'' himself hers. First he tried to usurp her place in the Legion by beating her in a fight, spent some time in the Legion of Super-Villains as her opposite number, after which he joined an Imskian rebel movement and had her kidnapped, stuck in a sensory deprivation tank for a year, and impersonated. In the end, she got the joy of spitting right in his dead damn face. Not through her own doing, mind. |
| 286 | * AnArmAndALeg: In 5YL she loses her leg during a battle with the Khunds and has it replaced with a prosthetic until she can spare the (rare, during 5YL) downtime to get it regrown properly. |
| 287 | * BatmanGrabsAGun: As a member of the Imskian military. |
| 288 | * BirdsOfAFeather: Pre-kidnapping, she tended to be closer to her fellows in the Legion Espionage Squad better than the others; post-kidnapping, she gravitates more toward strong, confident types. |
| 289 | * ButchLesbian: In the Five Years Later continuity, down to the buzz cut. |
| 290 | * [[FutureMeScaresMe Alternate Me Scares Me]]: Batch [=SW6=] Salu is intimidated by her tougher, more bitter [=5YL=] counterpart, at least until she gets to know her better. |
| 291 | * CaptureAndReplicate: The original version is victim of this. She is kidnapped by Imsk-native radicals and replaced in the Legion by Yera, a Durlan actress who used her native shapeshifting abilities to assume Violet's identity (the radicals had told her that Violet wished to go on a secret vacation). Yera's charade is later exposed and the real Violet is rescued. |
| 292 | * DoNotCallMePaul: |
| 293 | ** Her friends rarely ever refer to her by her birth name "Salu", and she seems to prefer going by either "Violet" or "Vi." |
| 294 | ** In the Threeboot she is a brash {{Action Hero}}ine, who hates being called Shrinking Violet. She's Atom Girl. |
| 295 | * EyeScream: During the Braal-Imskian War she found herself forced to defend a heavily-injured Cosmic Boy from her fellow troops. While doing so, the delirious Braalian managed to injure her face, blinding her eye and leaving a scar. Ultimately, she had the eye replaced, but kept the scar. |
| 296 | * FantasticRacism: |
| 297 | ** Thanks to Imsk's occasional conflicts with the UP, Imskians can be poorly regarded by some UP citizens. |
| 298 | ** After her experience of being impersonated, she has a pronounced dislike for shapeshifters, at least when they imitate her. |
| 299 | * FantasticVoyagePlot: Between her powers and her transuit, Vi's a natural for these. |
| 300 | * HeroicBSOD: In one story, an accident while training in the gym led to her nearly being crushed, and she not only developed a fear of her own power, but she was traumatized to the point where her sanity lay in the balance. Brainiac 5 managed to help her by taking her to a planet of giants while she was asleep--they got into a situation where she was forced to use her powers to save him, [[EpiphanyTherapy and then she was fine]]. |
| 301 | * HumanAliens: As an Imskian, yes. |
| 302 | * InterspeciesRomance: Whenever she dates a human, or rather any non-Imskian. |
| 303 | * {{Irony}}: Prior to her kidnapping, Salu's social anxiety kept from from developing her friendship with the other Legionnaires as much as she'd've liked; post-kidnapping she's much less shy, but her experiences and newly impetuous attitude threaten to isolate her from them. |
| 304 | * LegacyCharacter: Postboot Salu changes her codename to "Leviathan", or more accurately "[=LeVIathan=]" after gaining Gim Allon's powers alongside her own in the aftermath of the "Emerald Vi" debacle. |
| 305 | * LockedIntoStrangeness: Salu picks up a lock of green hair in the aftermath of being freed from the Emerald Eye. |
| 306 | * LongDistanceRelationship: Spent a long time engaged in one with Duplicate Boy. She pined for him on Earth, and all the way over on Lallor he spied on her with his telescopic vision and occasionally teleported by when he had free time and felt like it or when he saw her with a different guy so he could try to punch him out. Maybe not the healthiest relationship. |
| 307 | * LoveTriangle: Her original version was in one with Duplicate Boy and Colossal Boy. She choose the former. |
| 308 | * MasculineFeminineGayCouple: Was the Masculine ButchLesbian half of her relationship with Lightning Lass in the Five Years Later Legion. This aspect was downplayed in the Retroboot though they were still ostensibly a couple (more blatantly but still without it said outright). |
| 309 | * MyCountryRightOrWrong: A downplayed case, the planet Imsk has some issues with the United Planets, which can occasionally cause tension between her and the rest of the team. When Imsk actually goes to war with Braal, she feels obligated to leave the Legion and join their military, though she eventually becomes highly critical of the war and eventually rejoins her friends after being dishonorably discharged for protesting. |
| 310 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: During the war against Braal, Violet was one of the officers (Chief of Security, specifically) who oversaw the development of an experimental damper device intended to neutralize the inherent magnetic fields within the Braalian's bodies which granted them their powers. When the device was tested at Venado Bay it did that, [[GoneHorriblyRight and also maimed thousands of Braalian soldiers in nightmarish ways, leaving most dead or crippled]]. Violet was appropriately horrified, and openly protested the damper's further use, eventually getting thrown in the stockade for refusing to back down. She keeps the scar on her eye (given to her by a delirious Cosmic Boy at Venado Bay) as a symbol of her protest. |
| 311 | * NonindicativeName: Costume-wise. Her [=SW6=] counterpart is the first version of herself to adopt a purple uniform. She, uh, herself ([[TimeTravelTenseTrouble ???]]) prefers green. |
| 312 | * ScarsAreForever: After Imsk separated from the UP, she joined its army and gained a scar across her eye in the attack on Braal--at a delirious Cosmic Boy's hands. She chooses to keep it, even after being ordered to remove it by her superiors. |
| 313 | * ShrinkingViolet: {{Trope Namer|s}}. |
| 314 | ** She lived up to this trope in the post-Zero Hour reboot. |
| 315 | ** Her original/post-Infinite Crisis incarnation started out somewhat shy (she is not completely comfortable around other people) but TookALevelInBadass after being abducted, and became rather aggressive. |
| 316 | * {{Sizeshifter}}: In all continuities, Vi and other Imskians are able to shrink from standard humanoid body sizes. In the Postboot continuity, after Salu is finally freed from the Emerald Eye, she also gains Gim Allon's abilities to grow. |
| 317 | * SociopathicHero: Threeboot. |
| 318 | * SpitefulSpit: Gives Micro Lad's corpse one. After all, he was one of the ones who stuck her in the tank. |
| 319 | * SymbolMotifClothing: One of her costumes was designed with a "vine" motif, which is the way some violets grow. It also incorporates an "S" and a "V". |
| 320 | * TheTease: After recovering from her kidnapping, Violet flirted with a number of Legion guys who she'd once regarded as out of her league (to Sun Boy's pleasant surprise), but soon looked for more lasting relationships. |
| 321 | * TookALevelInBadass: Following her capture and torture at the hands of Imskian rebels, she got a lot tougher and angrier, as well as taking an intense course in martial arts that left her one of the best hand-to-hand fighters in the Legion. |
| 322 | * TookALevelInJerkass: Her ordeal made her a stronger person, but it also made her a good deal more brash and sarcastic, showing less of the gentle, kindly personality she'd had before. She mellows out somewhat after a while. |
| 323 | * WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Postboot Vi after she bonds with [[ArtifactOfDoom the Emerald Eye]], especially after she accidentally causes Leviathan's death with it. |
| 324 | ** EvilCostumeSwitch: Vi switches to an Emerald Empress-themed battle bikini after the Eye is revealed. |
| 325 | ** GollumMadeMeDoIt: The Eye sometimes materialized a duplicate of Salu to represent its influence. |
| 326 | ** MoreThanMindControl: The Eye actually influences her personality slowly over time. |
| 327 | * WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Emerald Vi -- her attempt to [[ReforgedIntoAMinion reforge the Legion into her emerald-themed minions]] to find a way to resurrect Leviathan spirals out of control to the point that she causes half of them to be trapped 1000 years in the past, while she and the Eye only escape because of the mess the rest of the Legion had to deal with. |
| 328 | [[/folder]] |
| 329 | |
| 330 | [[folder:Bouncing Boy]] |
| 331 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Bouncing_Boy_6690.jpg]] |
| 332 | ->'''AKA:''' Chuck Taine |
| 333 | ->'''Homeworld:''' Earth |
| 334 | ->'''Abilities:''' Inflatable body, invulnerability (Preboot); expert mechanic (Postboot) |
| 335 | |
| 336 | Bouncing Boy has the power to inflate himself and bounce around like a giant ball. This combination of invulnerability and velocity makes him a surprisingly useful combatant. Born on Earth without any powers, he received his abilities by accidentally drinking a super-plastic formula he believed was soda pop. He has shared a long-term romantic relationship with Triplicate Girl of the planet Cargg, one of his fellow Legionnaires whom he eventually marries. In Reboot Legion continuity, Chuck Taine has no powers and is the Legion's mechanic. |
| 337 | ---- |
| 338 | * AdaptedOut: Aside from Chameleon impersonating him in the questionably canon letters page backup feature, he doesn't exist in the Threeboot continuity. |
| 339 | * {{Acrofatic}}: It helps that he can bounce. |
| 340 | * BadassTeacher: Due to the Legion Code at the time banning married Legionnaires, he and Luornu became Reserve Legionnaires and trained students at the Legion Academy. |
| 341 | * BeTheBall: Already rotund, he can inflate into a large ball that gathers momentum as it bounces. Whether his body actually inflates—as in, takes in air—or his individual cells expand, decreasing his overall density while increasing his overall dimensions, is not explained. |
| 342 | * BigBeautifulMan: Artists have drawn him with a fair amount of muscle over the years, making him appear beefy instead of simply fat. And even without that, fans find him attractive and utterly adorable. |
| 343 | * BigEater: Subverted. Chuck is implied to have a big appetite but it's never really seen on panel, save for the incident where he drank the experimental formula that gave him his power. He didn't bother to look down at what bottle he was reaching for. |
| 344 | * BigFun: Bouncing Boy's addition to the Legion of Super-Heroes provided a vehicle for humor. |
| 345 | * BouncingBattler: He combines this with BeTheBall. One story revealed that he'd studied advanced mathematics to learn to aim multiple bounces just right. |
| 346 | * BroughtDownToBadass: Even in the periods when he doesn't have powers, he still has Legion training in self-defense, piloting, and investigation, and proves quite formidable on his own. His experience with trajectories makes him an expert user of {{Weaponized Ball}}s, as well. |
| 347 | * DemotedToExtra / AscendedExtra: Like Matter-Eater Lad, Chuck was deemed too silly for the Postboot Legion, so he was recast as a non-powered mechanic contracted to the Legion. However, he proved popular, so during the [=DnA=] era he was promoted to "Chief Engineer" and joined the main cast... with his rather unique spaceship, the [[ShoutOut Bouncing Boy]]. |
| 348 | * DePower: |
| 349 | ** Got hit by a matter shrinking projector ray that not only neutralized the serum, but also knocked about twenty pounds off of him. |
| 350 | ** In order to mock him, the sadistic Computo restored his powers so he could futilely try to rescue his friends. The foul computer said the restoration would last half an hour, but it was really only a few minutes. |
| 351 | ** A rebellious scientist working for Prince Evillo brought back Bouncing Boy's powers... |
| 352 | ** ...only for them to apparently go away on their own. But then they came back after he threw his body into an energy field. |
| 353 | * {{Determinator}}: Bouncing Boy was rejected by the team ''five'' times before they let him in the sixth time. After later becoming semi-retired and becoming a reserve member, he eventually became a mentor to younger members and an occasional leader. |
| 354 | * TheEveryman: A perfectly regular guy, whom fortune smiled upon. His modesty and sense of humor make it easy for his students at the Academy to relate to him. |
| 355 | * ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: He's a guy and he bounces. |
| 356 | * FunPersonified: Pretty much his job for most of his career with the Legion. During the Preboot era, he was the Legion's self-appointed "Morale Officer". |
| 357 | * HappilyMarried: To Luornu, preboot and retroboot. They were the first Legionnaires to get married, they've never been shown as anything but absolutely ''crazy'' for each other. |
| 358 | * TheHeart: He helps keep the Legion grounded, since in many ways [[TheEveryman he's what they're fighting for]]. |
| 359 | * InASingleBound: Or Bounce, in this case. |
| 360 | * InnocentlyInsensitive: Not having been close to Luornu during the first Computo crisis or a full-time member when it happened, he was legitimately baffled about why she was terrified and refused to confront the evil computer when it returned. In his favor, he immediately felt like a heel and began comforting his wife after she told him. |
| 361 | * InterspeciesRomance: With Luornu, who ''is'' technically an alien, as opposed to a descendant of human colonists like many Legionnaires. |
| 362 | * IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: After his powers came back the second or third time, he kept them secret so he wouldn't be pressed back into full-time Legion membership. He'd rather devote that time to Luornu. |
| 363 | * HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Yeah, he seems silly, but think about it: he's pretty much physically invulnerable, can accelerate to outrageous speeds when he bounces, and then he slams into you in a massive attack from above. A 200 pound mass moving at 80 miles per hour generates an awful lot of kinetic force... |
| 364 | * LethalJokeCharacter: Even the ''Legion'' can underestimate him sometimes. But more importantly, so do [[UnderestimatingBadassery supervillains]]. |
| 365 | * MrFixit: Postboot was too serious for Bouncing Boy, so it had Chuck Taine as the Legion's resident mechanic/engineer. |
| 366 | * NiceGuy: Often referred to as "the happiest Legionnaire", and he spreads the joy by being an all-around...swell guy. |
| 367 | * NoSell: When he's in the air, he's not grounded, so electrical attacks don't harm him. His earned his way into the Legion by beating a villain who used electric weaponry which stymied Saturn Girl. |
| 368 | * PinballProjectile: He ''is'' one, most of the time. |
| 369 | * RelationshipUpgrade: Although he'd been been going on friendly dates with Luornu, their relationship took a sharp upturn after one of her duplicates had apparently turned evil, when he stayed by her side as her confidante and helped her find the truth. |
| 370 | * SuperSerum: He gained his powers by drinking an experimental formula he was supposed to be delivering instead of the soda he'd just bought. |
| 371 | * ThoseTwoGuys: The role he and Matter Eater Lad filled in the Postboot. |
| 372 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Told his origin story to a group of Legion rejects in order to encourage them. In hearing that he'd been invited into the Legion after beating a supervillain, Mentalla decided to outdo him and joined the Fatal Five in the hopes of betraying them from the inside. It worked, turning the tide in their next battle, but Emerald Empress killed the young psychic. |
| 373 | [[/folder]] |
| 374 | |
| 375 | [[folder:Sun Boy/Inferno I]] |
| 376 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sun_boy.jpg]] |
| 377 | ->'''AKA:''' Dirk Morgna |
| 378 | ->'''Homeworld:''' Earth |
| 379 | ->'''Abilities:''' Solar energy generation and manipulation |
| 380 | |
| 381 | Born on Earth, he gained heat and light powers after being exposed to a massive amount of radiation by Doctor Regulus, who blamed him for ruining his life. His Batch [=SW6=] counterpart is called Inferno. In Reboot Legion continuity, Dirk Morgna has sun powers but does not become a member of the Legion. The Prime Legion continuity version of Sun Boy [[spoiler: is killed by Superboy-Prime during Final Crisis]]. |
| 382 | ---- |
| 383 | * AcePilot: Sun Boy was an above-average pilot and frequently piloted the Legion LX-811 space cruisers. |
| 384 | * ArchEnemy: Doctor Regulus, who inadvertently gave him his powers when trying to kill him, gained solar powers of his own and frequently confronted Dirk and his allies. |
| 385 | * BlindedByTheLight: He can make himself as bright as the sun. |
| 386 | * BrokenAce: 5YL depicted him as an intelligent, talented Legionnaire, who beats himself up over his failures because he's secretly haunted by his childhood with a strict father who demanded perfection from him. This is why he eventually cracked and defected to the Dominators and Earthgov. WordOfGod is that if they'd had more time on ''Legion'', young (that is, [=SW6=]) Dirk would have confronted and overcome this issue. |
| 387 | * BroughtDownToNormal: Retroboot Sun Boy lost his powers not long before ''Lo3W'' |
| 388 | * CarpetOfVirility: His Preboot counterpart. Fans often joked that Dirk really needed a chest wax. |
| 389 | * ChestInsignia: Luna in its full red glory, with yellow moonbeams radiating fro--Wait, wait...''Oh.'' |
| 390 | * TheChewToy: His deaths throughout the various versions of the Legion. His FYL counterpart was rendered a perpetually burning corpse before he was shot in the head, the Threeboot Dirk had his head completed destroyed by Superboy-Prime, and now [[spoiler: his post-Flashpoint counterpart dies from a crushed skull and then has his body cooked and devoured by the natives of the planet his team crashed on]]. At least he was able to go out like a hero. |
| 391 | * ChickMagnet: One of the few Legionnaires with no associated long-term love interest. Just a ''lot'' of short term ones. |
| 392 | * CreateYourOwnVillain: Inferno bullies Cera Kesh so badly that it leaves her emotionally vulnerable enough for the Emerald Eye to latch onto her, turning Cera into the new Emerald Empress. |
| 393 | * TheDeadHaveEyes: Even as a scorched, desiccated, conflagrant, Wildfire-animated revenant, he's still got himself them fine baby blues. [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wildferno_dont_ask.jpg Aw, yeah, ladies]]. |
| 394 | * DemotedToExtra: Postboot, though he still gains his solar powers (albeit for only a short time, and less controllable- while he has them, he glows so brightly that he needs a tinted transuit to keep from blinding or burning people). |
| 395 | * DudeWheresMyRespect: [=FYL=] Dirk has this in spades, which is why he became a pawn of the Dominion. |
| 396 | * FaceHeelTurn: In [=5YL=], Sun Boy becomes a willing pawn of the Dominators. |
| 397 | * FreudianExcuse: The [=FYL=] Dirk had a really crappy childhood due to an absent mother and a jerkass lecherous father who taught Dirk that all women want a man who is a jerk and that if you don't win you're nothing, which instilled in Dirk the sense that being amorous and boastful would help him get women and that he had to be better than everyone else. To be fair, [[ReallyGetsAround it worked]]. |
| 398 | * GenderFlip: Subverted. A female Inferno appears on the [=WorkForce=] in the Post-Zero Hour continuity, but she turns out to be a different person than Dirk Morgna. |
| 399 | * HandsomeLech: Considered among the most attractive of the male Legionnaires, and pulls ladies like a black hole. |
| 400 | * HeroicBSOD: Retroboot, after he's imprisoned and tortured by Earth-Man. He gets better after seeing his Threeboot counterpart get murdered by Superboy-Prime. |
| 401 | * HiddenDepths: |
| 402 | ** This cheerful party dude happens to be taking advanced physics courses. |
| 403 | ** He may like his fun, but he's absolutely dead serious and driven about Legion work (too much [[SpaceMadness for his own good]] sometimes), and can be a fearsome foe when pushed too far. |
| 404 | * IgnoredEpiphany: [=SW6=] Inferno swore he would become a better person and avoid the same fate as his older counterpart... only not. |
| 405 | * InterspeciesRomance: Dated Laurel Kent, who's got a smidgen of Kryptonian in her. [[spoiler:''Not!'' She was a Manhunter android, which technically still makes this apply]]. |
| 406 | * {{Jerkass}}: Inferno was an insufferable, lecherous pig. |
| 407 | * {{Manchild}}: During Dirk's dreams of his failed tenure as leader following the Black Dawn incident, his inner thoughts revealed that he believed his teammates were leaving because they were all jealous of him for being so awesome. |
| 408 | * MercyKill: In 5YL, after being reduced to an eternally-burning husk of his former self, he got shot in the head by his lover Circe. |
| 409 | * NeverMyFault: How he got his powers. Dirk's father is a scientist, whom Regulus worked for at his research reactor. One day when Dirk and another worker delivered supplies to him, Regulus looked away from an unauthorized experiment to snap at them, whereupon it exploded, injuring Dirk and killing the worker. Upon being fired, Regulus blamed Dirk and used robots to attack him, shoving his unconscious body into the reactor. |
| 410 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: At one point he went on so many missions in succession that he started becoming paranoid and short-tempered with the other Legionnaires, even going so far as to use his powers against them. It turns out that he was suffering from "[[SpaceMadness space fatigue]]", causing pressure on his brain. After this, a rest break was mandated for a Legionnaire after every five missions. |
| 411 | * ParentalNeglect: [=FYL=] and [=SW6=] Dirk. Averted in regards to Threeboot Dirk, whose parents were very understanding and openminded towards the Legion's goals. Though, this ticked Dirk off somewhat, and he left the Legion because he felt he was only a member because of his parents and not because he wanted to be with the team for himself. |
| 412 | * ThePowerOfTheSun: Sun Boy can internally generate an almost limitless supply of solar energy, from the smallest candle flicker to a blistering furnace. He is also immune to virtually all forms of heat and solar radiation, even more so than a Kryptonian or Daxamite. |
| 413 | * PrimalFear: Has a fear of the dark. Fortunately for Dirk, his powers compensate for this fear, and it rarely presents a problem for him. |
| 414 | * ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: Sun Boy undergoes one of these in the gap before 5YL, becoming disillusioned in the face of Earthgov's attempts to discredit the Legion and selling out to them. The turning point, according to WordOfGod, was when he learned about the upcoming execution of the Tornado Twins for "sedition" and silenced his protests when reminded that he could lose his wealthy position in Earthgov. |
| 415 | * ReallyGetsAround: Has had a lot of girlfriends, though this stops at Postboot and Threeboot Dirk. |
| 416 | * RedemptionEqualsDeath: His Five Years Later counterpart decided to finally do some good, only to have the people of Earth reject him for being a sell-out. He's then caught in a nuclear blast and his powers are warped to the point that he's rendered a perpetually burning corpse until his lover Circe puts a bullet in his skull. His body then gets hijacked by Wildfire. |
| 417 | * SpaceMadness: As mentioned above. |
| 418 | * SpoiledBrat: [=FYL=] and [=SW6=] Dirk were this. |
| 419 | * TemporaryBulkChange: Cera Kesh's first act as the new Emerald Empress is to torture [=SW6=] Inferno by throwing his cruelty back at him, using the Eye to give him acne and make him fat. It wore off once her concentration was broken. |
| 420 | * TookALevelInBadass: Threeboot, after quitting the Legion. |
| 421 | * ToxicFriendInfluence: [=SW6=] Inferno had this effect around Live Wire, who was always something of a jerk, but around Dirk he acted out even more. |
| 422 | * WellDoneSonGuy: Was revealed to be one of these in [=FYL=], trying to live up to his father's standards in life (including when it came to sexual conquests), and never feeling good enough. |
| 423 | [[/folder]] |
| 424 | |
| 425 | [[folder:Supergirl]] |
| 426 | ->'''AKA:''' Kara Zor-El (Linda Lee, Linda Lang) |
| 427 | ->'''Homeworld:''' Krypton |
| 428 | ->'''Abilities:''' Super-strength, speed, senses, flight, and invulnerability |
| 429 | |
| 430 | Supergirl is Kara Zor-El, daughter of Zor-El and Allura In-Ze and cousin to Superman. Kara was born in Argo, a Kryptonian city which initially survived Krypton's holocaust. Kara's parents [[ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton1959 sent their daughter to Earth to meet Superman]] when Argo City's environment lost its capacity to support life. After a long period of secret training, [[ComicBook/TheUnknownSupergirl Kara's existence was revealed to the world]], and she took up the "Supergirl" moniker officially. Her exploits also inspired the Legion, [[ComicBook/SupergirlsThreeSuperGirlfriends who made her a member of the team]]. |
| 431 | ----- |
| 432 | For tropes regarding Supergirl, see Characters/SupergirlTheCharacter |
| 433 | [[/folder]] |
| 434 | |
| 435 | [[folder:Star Boy[=/=]Starman VIII]] |
| 436 | [[quoteright:182:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/star_boy.jpg]] |
| 437 | ->'''AKA:''' Thom Kallor (Danny Blaine) |
| 438 | ->'''Homeworld:''' Xanthu |
| 439 | ->'''Abilities:''' Gravity manipulation, formerly pseudo-Kryptonian abilities including lightning vision and flame breath. |
| 440 | |
| 441 | Born on the planet Xanthu, he has the special ability to increase any object's gravity or density or mass. His romantic partner and later wife is Dream Girl. He has also been a member of the Legion of Substitute Heroes. |
| 442 | |
| 443 | Just prior to joining the Legion, his spaceship passed through the tail of a comet and as a result gained a number of abilities similar to those of Kryptonians, including superhuman physical abilities, flight, superspeed and two distinct powers: lightning-vision and fiery breath. These powers eventually faded, leaving him with only his inborn gravity control. |
| 444 | |
| 445 | Following Infinite Crisis he traveled into the past, where his schizophrenia went untreated. He took the civilian identity Danny Blaine and became a member of the Justice Society as Starman. |
| 446 | |
| 447 | In Reboot Legion continuity, Star Boy is the Legion's replacement for Kid Quantum. Xanthu later leaves the United Planets, and Star Boy joins the Uncanny Amazers. In Prime Legion continuity, Star Boy is portrayed as black. |
| 448 | ---- |
| 449 | * TheAce: Postboot only. |
| 450 | * AlwaysNeedWhatYouGaveUp: He never trained his gravity power properly, and neglected it completely after getting Kryptonian-esque abilities. As such he had no control and ended up nearly killing himself when he was caught in a situation that forced him to use it. |
| 451 | * BatmanGrabsAGun: Thinking he had no other options at the time, he grabbed a guy's sidearm to kill a violent criminal shielded from his powers. Eventually, his fellow Legionnaires busted him for not thinking flexibly enough during this life-threatening situation. |
| 452 | * BigEater: The Retroboot version. |
| 453 | * BreakingTheFourthWall: Retroboot again (though only occasionally)- doesn't hurt that he's schizophrenic. |
| 454 | * BreathWeapon: Passing through the tail of a comet temporarily gave him flame breath. |
| 455 | * CarpetOfVirility: Alongside having grown his beard, as an adult Thom is a very hirsute adult on par with probably Timber Wolf for his amount of chest and body hair. |
| 456 | * CharlieBrownFromOuttaTown: Following his expulsion from the Legion, he temporarily joined the Substitute Legion alongside Dream Girl, wearing concealing armor and calling himself Sir Prize. |
| 457 | * CrimeOfSelfDefense: Kenz Nuhor, a jilted lover of Dream Girl, attacked him out of jealousy, using a special shield to turn his gravity powers back onto him. Knowing he was doomed if he didn't defend himself, Thom picked up the blaster of a fallen bystander and shot down Nuhor. Although he was legally cleared of any crime, a Legion court-martial proved that he could have solved the problem non-fatally (by aiming his power ''above'' the shield, dropping an overhead tree branch onto Nuhor and pinning him down with it), and as killing is against the Legion Code, he was expelled. He then joined the Substitute Heroes before ultimately being allowed back into the Legion proper. |
| 458 | * DangerousForbiddenTechnique: After he gained pseudo-Kryptonian powers from a comet, he completely stopped using the gravity powers which had given him so much grief as a youth. Unfortunately, his plans to get captured by a group of criminals and take their operation down from the inside went awry when he discovered that those extra powers had worn off. Forced to use his untrained gravity power, he brought the house down on the villains...and himself. It took months to heal, and even longer to figure out how to use the only power he had left. |
| 459 | * DroppedABridgeOnHim: His post-Flashpoint counterpart spent most of the series on the sidelines due to an injury with it clear he was contemplating retiring from the Legion, when just as he tells Dream Girl he's going to help with the latest crisis [[spoiler:he's crushed by a falling building before Nura can even blink]]. |
| 460 | * FlyingBrick: Part of the temporary power set he got from his trip through a comet tail. |
| 461 | * ForegoneConclusion: Invoked but averted. Postboot Star Boy learns that the Starman that succeeded Jack Knight in the 21st century is him in his future, but Jack tells him that the future can always change. Lo and behold, the future Starman later turns out to be Retroboot Star Boy instead. |
| 462 | * FreakinessShame: His formative years involved more time spent getting poked and prodded in laboratories and doctor's offices than at home, thanks to his power. As such, he grew up feeling like a freak. |
| 463 | * GravityIsPurple: His early costume was purple, and his later "starfield" costume was often depicted with purple accents. |
| 464 | * GravityMaster: Most versions of the character could only make things heavier. The Retroboot version can also make things lighter. |
| 465 | * HumanNotepad: Retroboot Thom's starfield costume doesn't just look fancy, it's also a functioning map of the Multiverse, cooked up by three Brainiac [=5s=]. |
| 466 | * InsanityImmunity: One of the reasons Retroboot Starboy went back to the 21st century was because while his schizophrenia would be nigh-uncontrollable there, he would at least be immune to attempts to read his mind. Very helpful given some of what he was doing. |
| 467 | * LegacyCharacter: Retroactively. Though not originally conceived as such, later continuity connected him to the Starman mythos. |
| 468 | * LightningBruiser: Part of his temporary pseudo-Kryptonian power set. |
| 469 | * {{Mutants}}: Apparently gestating and being born on an orbital observatory exposed him to cosmic energy of some sort which gave him his powers. |
| 470 | * NormalFishInATinyPond: Retroboot Thom during his time among the Justice Society, sort of. By 31st century intellectual standards, he's nothing special. By 21st century standards, when he's head's together, he's one of the smarts of the team. |
| 471 | * OnceDoneNeverForgotten: The Postboot Star Boy crashed a spacecraft ''once'', so all his friends thought he was a [[DrivesLikeCrazy terrible driver]]. |
| 472 | * PurpleIsPowerful: He was wearing his purple costume while he had his SuperpowerLottery abilities. Even after he lost those, gravity manipulation is nothing to sneeze at. |
| 473 | * RaceLift: The Threeboot version is black; all others are white. |
| 474 | * RunningGag: His Preboot self has an unfortunate tendency to crash spaceships, starting when his powers brought down the observatory he was living in as a toddler. |
| 475 | * ShockAndAwe: Passing through the tail of a comet gave him Lightning Vision, which combines this with EyeBeams. |
| 476 | * SuperpowerLottery: Postboot, Star Boy manifested SuperStrength, SuperSpeed, NighInvulnerability, and [[EyeBeams Lightning Vision]], from (unbeknownst to anyone) being caught in the tail of a comet. These extra powers faded after the battle against Mordru. |
| 477 | ** This was also true in Preboot continuity. Star Boy's first appearance showed him having many powers, while his later appearances showed the gravity powers. This was explained away with a story explaining that he had had the gravity powers from birth and the others were temporary. |
| 478 | * SuperSpeed: While temporarily empowered. |
| 479 | * SuperStrength: Ditto. |
| 480 | * SuperToughness: Ditto again. |
| 481 | * TheyWouldCutYouUp: It didn't quite go ''that'' far, but he notes with contempt that the scientists on Xanthu, fascinated with his gravity power, did a lot of very invasive and unpleasant tests and experiments on him that had him running away from home at sixteen and swearing never to see a doctor again. |
| 482 | * ThouShaltNotKill: Broke the Legion Code when he blew away Kenz Nuhor in self-defense. The fact that he was allowed back in later is probably an acknowledgement of the unfairness of that decision. |
| 483 | * WeaksauceWeakness[=/=]BizarreAlienBiology: In Threeboot, he's more or less diabetic because people from Xanthu can't break down sugars properly. Unlike most Weaksauce Weaknesses, this is only mentioned in a throwaway scene and never actually used against him. |
| 484 | [[/folder]] |
| 485 | |
| 486 | [[folder:Ultra Boy/Emerald Dragon]] |
| 487 | [[quoteright:206:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ultraboy.jpg]] |
| 488 | ->'''AKA:''' Jo Nah |
| 489 | ->'''Homeworld:''' Rimbor |
| 490 | ->'''Abilities:''' Able to use one power at a time--ultra-vision, flight, strength, speed, or invulnerability |
| 491 | |
| 492 | Born on the outlaw planet Rimbor, he gained powers when he was swallowed by an Energy-Beast and survived. His powers include flash-vision, flight, invulnerability, penetra-vision, superhuman strength, and superhuman speed, although he can only use one ability at a time. This makes him incredibly powerful but also very limited. His romantic partner is Phantom Girl. He has also used the names Emerald Dragon and Reflecto. In Reboot Legion continuity, Ultra Boy is originally a member of Workforce. This version has a son with Apparition they name Cub. In Prime Legion continuity, Ultra Boy is romantically involved with Shadow Lass. |
| 493 | ---- |
| 494 | * AmnesiacResonance: Ultra Boy remembered he was a good guy when amnesiac and taken up by pirates. |
| 495 | * ArchEnemy: Glorith and Pulsar Stargrave. |
| 496 | * BoisterousBruiser |
| 497 | * ColorCharacter: For a while he worked in the 20th Century under the name of "Emerald Dragon". |
| 498 | * CompetitiveBalance: The [[AllThereInTheManual RPG Sourcebooks]] clearly make his vision-based powers and EyeBeams more powerful than those of Mon-El or Superboy, while his ultra-physical abilities are lesser than theirs. The comics aren't as clear about this. |
| 499 | * CompressedVice: One story shows that he has a mortal terror of being eaten by a massive beast once more. He overcomes his fear to save his friends in the same story, however. |
| 500 | * TheCynic: Jo tends to be more pessimistic and cynical than the others, with Colossal Boy even describing him as a depressing person at one point. His relationship with Phantom Lass helps alleviate this, until she disappears. |
| 501 | * DatingCatwoman: With Spider Girl in v4. |
| 502 | * DependingOnTheAuthor: The level of power of his abilities seems to be dependent on what the author wants to do with him. |
| 503 | * EyeBeams: In his initial appearances, his "Penetra-vision" was expressly able to melt lead and inflict burns on Kryptonian beings (specifically Krypto), this making his EyeBeams more powerful than Superboy's. [[note]]Until X-Rays were better understood, Superman's (and naturally Super''boy'''s) X-Ray vision could melt/pierce stuff like Heat Vision is supposed to, but couldn't melt lead because X-Rays can't penetrate it. Eventually Heat Vision became a separate power from X-Ray Vision.[[/note]] Once Heat Vision and X-Ray vison were officially made different powers, his EyeBeams were renamed to "Flash-vision" and [[RetCon ret-conned]] to be a separate power from Penetra-vision. It's unclear if it's still considered more powerful, but very likely considering his Flash-vision is one of the unique powers that put him on the team. |
| 504 | * {{Flight}}: As mentioned below, he usually flies using his Legion ring, but he can fly ''way'' faster on his own if he needs to. He also demonstrates at one point that he's skilled enough to outmaneuver Mon-El and Superboy. |
| 505 | * FlyingBrick: To a degree; the twist is that he can only use one of his powers at a time... but his Legion flight ring takes care of flight for him, so he tends to have a slot open. |
| 506 | * FrameUp: Pulsar Stargrave framed him for the murder of his ex-girlfriend at one point. Fortunately, Chameleon Boy was able to exonerate him. |
| 507 | * TheInfiltration: |
| 508 | ** His qualification mission for joining the Legion was to travel back in time to 20th Century Smallville and find out Superboy's real identity without compromising his own. |
| 509 | ** Early in his career, he became aware of secret group of invaders, and fake a criminal record and betrayal of the Legion in order to infiltrate them. Every Legionnaire but Phantom Girl believed that he was rotten to the core, and her faith in him led to a relationship when the plan was revealed. |
| 510 | ** In general, his past on [[WretchedHive Rimbor]] gives him the acting chops to infiltrate criminal gangs with ease. |
| 511 | * InnateNightVision: Since he has the same (or superior) visual powers as a Kryptonian and they can see in the dark, then by implication his penetra-vision can do the same. |
| 512 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Some versions of him are a bit rough around the edges, with his heart of gold occasionally being downright [[HiddenHeartOfGold hidden]]. |
| 513 | * KryptoniteFactor: He's harmed by a mysterious "X-radiation", which acts like Kryptonite for him, though he almost never encounters it. |
| 514 | * LogicalWeakness: Unlike Kryptonians and Daxamites, he can't use his SuperSpeed to break the time barrier because his speed and invulnerability are exclusive and the stresses would destroy his body. |
| 515 | * MagicalEye: He has "Penetra-vision", which is a blanket term that rolls together Telescopic Vision, Microscopic Vision, XRayVision, HyperAwareness (sight-related), and (in his earliest appearance) his aforementioned [[EyeBeams "flash-vision"]] before it was a separate power...not all at once, fortunately. In his initial appearance it's explicitly more powerful than Kryptonian or Daxamite X-ray Vision since it can see through lead (which Superboy and Mon-El cannot) as well as melting it (X-Ray and Heat Vision used to be considered the same thing). However it cannot see through inertron, which is too tough to penetrate and wasn't invented until after his first few appearances. (Superboy and Mon-El usually can't see through inerton either, unless the writers forget). |
| 516 | * MasterActor: He's part of the Legion Espionage Squad due to his acting skills, and can infiltrate gangs easily. |
| 517 | * NighInvulnerability: On roughly a Kryptonian or Daxamite's level. Some sources note that this ability combines a HealingFactor/immunity to poison as well and treats it like one power (akin to Superman's typical invulnerability). Some sources also indicate that this ability is also ineffective against radiation. |
| 518 | * NotSoImaginaryFriend: In the Reboot, Apparition is seemingly killed in an accident, but Ultra Boy is able to see and interact with her. Later, her mother and eventually Saturn Girl were able to see her as well. During the events of Final Night she was restored to materiality. |
| 519 | * ObfuscatingStupidity: In the [=5YL=] continuity, Ultra Boy reveals that he plays dumb to throw off his enemies. |
| 520 | * OfficialCouple: Phantom Girl's unwavering trust during his self-assigned infiltration mission eventually led to one of the most stable relationships in the Legion. |
| 521 | * OvershadowedByAwesome: If you've got Superboy and Supergirl, and you've got Mon-el, you've got three reasons authors tend to have Ultra Boy stories focus on aspects of his life outside of his powers. |
| 522 | * PermaStubble: He stopped taking care of himself as well after Tinya vanished. |
| 523 | * PowerCreep: In his initial appearances, he ''only'' had vision powers, with (at least) Kryptonian-superior XRayVision and EyeBeams, the latter being strong enough to actually burn a Kryptonian. This was later broadened into the more generalized power-set he's usually depicted with. |
| 524 | * ThePowerOfTheSun: Sun Boy can absorb his flash-vision, so it must be solar-based like Superboy's heat vision. |
| 525 | * PropheticName: Got his powers from being swallowed by a SpaceWhale in some continuities. It's even noticed in-story. |
| 526 | * PunnyName: His real name, Jo Nah. He got his powers after being devoured by a space whale. |
| 527 | * RetCon: |
| 528 | ** As mentioned above, he started out with no powers besides Pentra-Vision. In later depictions, his origin story was revealed and he was shown to the full complement of his ultra-powers. |
| 529 | ** As mentioned slightly further above, his EyeBeams were separated from his Penetra-vision and named "Flash-vision". |
| 530 | * SixthRanger: In the Postboot, Ultra Boy was originally the leader of CorruptCorporateExecutive Leland [=McCauley's=] [=WorkForce=], his answer to the Legion. |
| 531 | * SternTeacher: Marla Latham, the Legion's Adult Advisor, personally trained Ultra Boy and accompanied him to Earth in order to monitor the prospective Legionnaire as he attempted to pass his initiation test. Jo was so grateful for his guidance that he modeled his superhero costume after his mentor's uniform. Unfortunately, the knife cuts both ways Marla's strictness led him to be particularly harsh when Jo was framed for the murder of his ex. Although Marla was operating in both the Legion and Jo's best interests by trying to ensure a quick capture and trial, relations between them were strained for a while. |
| 532 | * SuperBreath |
| 533 | * SuperpowerLottery: Subverted. He can utilize the ultra-energy in his body in a variety of ways to emulate several of classic Superman's powers, but only one use at a time. He can change his ultra-empowerment at any time almost immediately but he must make a conscious choice first. |
| 534 | * SuperSenses: His Penetra-vision seems to fold a number of eye-based super-abilities into one blanket "power", which was at least originally intended (along side his Flash-vision) to be stronger than Superboy's relevant abilities in that regard. In fact, Penetra- and Flash-Vision are the unique abilities that got him into the Legion. He appears to lack the ability to utilize other super-senses however. |
| 535 | * SuperSpeed: He can't match a Kryptonian/Daxamite's top speed due to not being able to use NighInvulnerability at the same time or having a friction-shield like other speedsters (at least, when the authors remember/care about that), but he can move and act at super-human speeds. |
| 536 | * SuperStrength: Apparently somewhat weaker than a Kryptonian or Daxamite, but still impressive. |
| 537 | * YouCanAlwaysTellALiar: When he's using his Penetra-vision he can detect biological signs which tip him off to peoples' emotional states. During his initiation mission his method of finding out Superboy's identity initially involved talking to other kids about him and seeing who got nervous. |
| 538 | [[/folder]] |
| 539 | |
| 540 | [[folder:Matter-Eater Lad]] |
| 541 | [[quoteright:160:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/matter_eater_lad.jpg]] |
| 542 | ->'''AKA:''' Tenzil Kem |
| 543 | ->'''Homeworld:''' Bismoll |
| 544 | ->'''Abilities:''' Matter consumption, acidic saliva |
| 545 | |
| 546 | Matter-Eater Lad is a Bismollian. His natural biology allows him to consume any form of matter. This ability seems useless, but it makes him an unstoppable force when confined. He has also been part of the Legion Espionage Squad, and a United Planets senator. In Reboot Legion continuity, Tenzil Kem is the Legion's chef. In Prime Legion continuity, Agent Kem works for the government and monitors the Legion. |
| 547 | ---- |
| 548 | * AbusiveParents: DependingOnTheAuthor. In one story his father is shown to be an abusive gambling addict, with his mother being an enabler (and both are mooching off his Legion wage), although they apparently reform afterward. |
| 549 | * AdamWesting: A fictional version. By the time of the FYL Legion, Tenzil had gained a rock star persona and reveled in the ridiculousness of his power. He's a senator on Bismoll and a star of multiple TV shows, which he used to his advantage to get Polar Boy out of jail by having his trial televised and utterly owning the Dominator-controlled Earthgov. |
| 550 | * BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: He ate the Miracle Machine, dissolving Omega, but his body and mind couldn't handle the ginormous, universe-warping cosmic powers within, so he went insane for a while. He did live and eventually fully recovered, which is pretty impressive if you think about it. |
| 551 | * CainAndAbel: His jealous younger brother Renkil once tried to usurp his place in the Legion by tricking Saturn Girl into believing that Tenzil was thinking traitorous thoughts in order to get him kicked out, then pistol-whipped Tenzil so hard he actually had a potentially-fatal head injury. Things eventually get sorted out. |
| 552 | * CasanovaWannabe: The [=SW6=] version. |
| 553 | * {{Conscription}}: How Bismoll picks its senators, forcing him at one point to leave active Legion service and go home to serve. |
| 554 | * CoolShades: In [=FYL=], Postboot, and Threeboot. In the latter, his shades have a built-in camera and lie-detector. |
| 555 | * DarkerAndEdgier: The Threeboot version isn't above cannibalism, as he at one point [[{{Fingore}} bit Mekt Ranzz's finger off]]. |
| 556 | * DemotedToExtra: As with Bouncing Boy, Postboot was too down to earth for a guy with powers like his, so he became the Legion's cafeteria chef. Threeboot, he's a lawyer who searches for Cosmic Boy alongside the Legion- seeking to arrest him for war crimes. |
| 557 | * DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: |
| 558 | ** Defeated Omega, an otherwise-immortal and unstoppable agglomeration of all hatred in the universe, by eating the Miracle Machine (itself a sort of [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Device]]). |
| 559 | ** He also bit off Pulsar Stargrave's nose (apparently it tasted pretty nasty), and ended the wicked android's invasion of Bismoll by hucking Stone Boy at him from a tall cliff. |
| 560 | * DrivenToMadness: By eating the Miracle Machine, as mentioned above. |
| 561 | * EnergyAbsorption: Energy is a form of matter, so he could theoretically stick a laser gun into his mouth if he wanted a light snack. |
| 562 | * ExtremeOmnivore: Matter-Eater Lad can eat any substance in any amount at super-speed. He can consume an unlimited amount of matter in any form - solid, liquid or gas. He once hollowed out a large meteor in a matter of minutes. |
| 563 | * FunPersonified: In [=FYL=] and Postboot. |
| 564 | * HeartIsAnAwesomePower: He can eat stuff. Hardly a power to write home about. However, seeing as Tenzil Kem's personal definition of "stuff" includes ''laser beams'' and ''doomsday computers,'' you might want to keep him around in case you need to get rid of something. In one story he ate [[CosmicKeystone a supposedly-indestructible wish-granting device]] and so saved The Legion from the invincible monster it had created after everyone else failed. It drove him mad, but hey, he saved the universe! In at least one version, being able to bite through and chew up anything meant the {{Required Secondary Power|s}} of acidic saliva, providing a potentially nasty ranged attack. |
| 565 | * HiddenDepths: Tenz didn't get a lot of characterization until "The Hapless Hero" (Detective Comics #381) where we learn he's from a troubled family and demonstrates a suave charm which one day serves him well as a senator. |
| 566 | * KryptoniteFactor: Magnozite, the most poisonous metal in the universe! The one material in all the universe so deadly that even the almighty Bismollian digestive process is helpless against it! However, it seems to be about as rare as Krypronite's ''supposed'' to be, so Tenzil quickly deduced at one point that a "Magnozite" cage he was trapped in was more likely some ''other'' metal painted in glowing purple paint, and was proven right. |
| 567 | * LethalJokeCharacter: [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway When he says he can eat anything,]] he does literally mean ''anything''. So not only can he destroy objects that nobody else can even scratch (he was the Legion's only method of neutralising the Miracle Machine) but in theory he could bite clean through, say, a Kryptonian. |
| 568 | * ObfuscatingStupidity: As a senator he cultivated a wacky public image so he could catch his opponents by surprise. |
| 569 | * ObstructiveBureaucrat: The Threeboot version. |
| 570 | * PutOnABus: After he ate a cosmic "Miracle Machine", M-E Lad went insane and was returned to his home planet. This was because the writers thought he was too silly and wanted to get rid of him without killing him. |
| 571 | * RequiredSecondaryPowers: A HyperactiveMetabolism and a kind of acid spit that allows him to ''chew'' through anything -- without either of these his powers would be completely worthless. |
| 572 | * SpringtimeForHitler: After getting drafted into serving on his planet's parliament, Tenzil tried to get himself kicked out by cultivating an outrageous public image--carousing with well-known female stars and acting in holo-vids, among other things. Unfortunately the public saw him as a breath of fresh air and loved it, so he decided to embrace the audacity...while doing a lot of good and secretly cultivating political connections on the sly. |
| 573 | * TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: When an enraged Duplicate Boy interrupted his date with Shrinking Violet and challenged him to a fight, Tenz calmly faced the most powerful hero in the 30th Century (who was bending and twisting a street lamp) and told him that that fighting was pointless because it wouldn't change Violet's feelings for either of them, and he wasn't going to run away. Duplicate Boy was floored. |
| 574 | * TeamChef: In Postboot. |
| 575 | * TemporaryBulkChange: In a Preboot [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] issue involving the Legionnaires trapped in a prison camp for superheroes, M-E Lad was hit by a ray that slowed down his Bismollian metabolism to that of a normal human, thereby making it impossible for him to eat anything anymore. He had previously eaten about a ton of dirt in order to form an escape tunnel, so when his metabolism slowed down he swelled to the size of a balloon. |
| 576 | * ThoseTwoGuys: He and Bouncing Boy were reduced to this in the Postboot. |
| 577 | * WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: Averted. His power sounds useless in theory, but in practice... well, if there's anything you need to break into, or any dangerous item you need to dispose of, the guy who can eat his way through, and digest, ''anything''... he's your man, er, lad. |
| 578 | [[/folder]] |
| 579 | |
| 580 | [[folder:Mon-El[=/=]Valor[=/=]M'Onel]] |
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| 584 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/valor_8.png]] |
| 585 | |
| 586 | ->'''AKA:''' Lar Gand (Bob Cobb, Jonathan Kent) |
| 587 | ->'''Homeworld:''' Daxam |
| 588 | ->'''Abilities:''' Super-strength, speed, senses, flight, and invulnerability |
| 589 | |
| 590 | Mon-El is a Daxamite superhero inspired by Superboy. His powers are very similar, although he is vulnerable to lead instead of Kryptonite. Superboy put him in the Phantom Zone when Mon-El was fatally poisoned, and Mon-El stayed there until Brainiac 5 discovered a cure in the 30th Century. This lead Mon-El to become a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes. When Glorith temporarily erased Superboy from time, Mon-El took his position in history. |
| 591 | ---- |
| 592 | * AdaptationalNameChange: In ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes2020'', his name is also really Mon-El, but unlike ''Supergirl'', where the similarity to the House of El is a coincidence, this is because he's a 31st century descendant of Superman. |
| 593 | * AdaptationSpeciesChange: In ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes2020'', he's a Kryptonian rather than a Daxamite. |
| 594 | * ArtifactAlias: Mon-El's superhero identity was the Kryptonian name that ComicBook/{{Superboy}} gave him when he was suffering from amnesia (and was coined because he was mistaken for Superboy's older Kryptonian brother and was found by the Kent family on a Monday). His actual name, as he recalled later, is Lar Gand, but he continues to be known as Mon-El. |
| 595 | * DarkSecret: One of a conspiracy of four Legionnaires dedicated to avenging Superboy's death (long story), by killing the Time Trapper. |
| 596 | * DependingOnTheArtist: Some artists draw his UnderwearOfPower more like blue pants with tight red chaps over them than red pants with blue trunks on top. |
| 597 | * TheEngineer: More so in the "present" than in the Legion's future, but Lar is a very good spaceship mechanic and can build advanced ships (for the time) by deconstructing and repurposing the parts of ships that are far less advanced, as he does with a ship built by Lex Corp in his series. |
| 598 | * FlyingBrick: Like any Daxamite or Kryptonian who spends much time under a yellow sun, he has the power of flight. |
| 599 | * FreakOut: Normally very collected and sensible (that's a thousand years of living for you), but after the serum protecting him from his previous lead exposure wore off, the prospect of having to return to the Phantom Zone, even temporarily, even ''to save his life'', caused Mon-El to panic and lash out furiously, crying that he preferred death to returning. Once forcefully placed in the Zone, he desperately tried to find some way to commit suicide, only barely being pulled from the brink by the efforts of Phantom Girl and Tellus. |
| 600 | * GodGuise: In the "Postboot" Legion continuity, he was worshipped as a god called Valor by many of the humanoid [[PlanetOfHats Planets of Hats]] he founded in the 20th century--which caused problems when word leaked that the Legion was freeing him from the Phantom Zone. Understandably, [[AGodIAmNot he was very uncomfortable with this,]] and he and the Legion worked to keep his actual identity a secret; here, "M'onel" (an alien word meaning "wanderer") was a new alias he invented to hide his identity. |
| 601 | * HumanAliens: Daxamites are visibly indistinguishable from humans, rather like Kryptonians who are part of their heritage. |
| 602 | * InterspeciesRomance: Lar Gand is a Daxamite while none of his love interests are and his most serious love interest whom he goes on to marry is Tasmia Mallor, a blue-skinned Talokite. |
| 603 | * LogicalWeakness: He's got a lot of mental baggage thanks to his time in the Phantom Zone, and is thus vulnerable to mental attacks meant to bring forth memories of that time. |
| 604 | * LongLostRelative: Subverted. In Pre-Crisis continuity, Lar arrived on Earth with amnesia. Since he had Kryptonian-style powers, Superboy supposed he might be a long-lost brother or some such whom Jor-El was also able to save, and dubbed him "Mon-El." His memory returned when he was stricken by exposure to lead, which of course would have been harmless to a Kryptonian. Superboy sent him to the Phantom Zone to save his life, and when Lar was released and cured in the far future and joined the Legion, he kept the "Mon-El" name as his superhero guise. |
| 605 | * MultipleChoicePast: The details of his origin have constantly fluctuated, with the only consistent details usually being that he's a Daxamite who was sent to the Phantom Zone after being exposed to lead and was eventually freed in the distant future by Brainiac 5 once an antidote was created. One notable change is the etymology of the name Mon-El: In pre-Zero Hour and Retroboot continuity, Lar Gand was named that because he came to Earth on a Monday and was mistaken for being Superboy's older brother from Krypton, while the post-Zero Hour continuity spelled the name as M'Onel and established that it was Martian for "He Who Wanders". |
| 606 | * MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: Daxamites tend to be xenophobic jerks, Lar is decidedly not and almost everyone he cares for is from someplace other than Daxam. |
| 607 | * PaletteSwap: His costume is similar to Superman's, only with inverted colors and (usually) lacking a chest insignia. |
| 608 | * ThePowerOfTheSun: As a Daxamite, his cells function like a super battery, hyper metabolizing specific wavelengths of radiation as fuel to enable living functions and/or superhuman abilities. Different wavelengths of radiation have different effects on Lar Gand's physiology and well being, but his cells cannot absorb or utilize all types of radiation. |
| 609 | * PunnyName: Superboy inadvertently gave him one, as Monel is an alloy once advertised as being "as strong as steel" (think about Superboy's own nickname as "the boy of steel"), popular before stainless steel came along. |
| 610 | * SecretIdentity: |
| 611 | ** Superboy and the Kents originally intended for Mon-El to have a secret identity as a traveling salesman named Bob Cobb (as he was so old, the Kents couldn't very well claim to have adopted him as they did with Superboy). |
| 612 | ** Postboot, Valor is a religious figure due to having seeded intelligent life on most of the worlds the Legion hails from, and when they manage to release him from the Phantom Zone, there's very nearly all sorts of riots over different races' beliefs regarding the legendary hero. They manage to get him out in secret, though, and eventually he takes the name M'onel as his new identity. |
| 613 | ** In "New Krypton" he tries to blend in by posing as Science Police officer Jonathan Kent. |
| 614 | * StarSpangledSpandex: The black expanses of his Post-Zero Hour costume have a starfield effect. |
| 615 | * SuperpowerLottery: Lar has got the powers available to all Daxamites if they are exposed to a yellow sun long enough including EyeBeams, FlyingBrick, SuperBreath, SuperSpeed and SuperStrength. |
| 616 | * TraumaButton: Being reminded of his thousand-year long durance in the Phantom Zone, watching people suffer and die while he was powerless to aid them, really hammers his. |
| 617 | * UnderwearOfPower: They're not a part of all of his costumes but traditionally he wore blue briefs over his red suit. They're sometimes part of a throwback to Daxam's past as a Kryptonian colony. |
| 618 | [[/folder]] |
| 619 | |
| 620 | [[folder:Element Lad/Alchemist/The Progenitor]] |
| 621 | [[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/element_lad.png]] |
| 622 | ->'''AKA:''' Jan Arrah |
| 623 | ->'''Homeworld:''' Trom |
| 624 | ->'''Abilities:''' Capable of transmuting the elements |
| 625 | |
| 626 | Born on the planet Trom, he possesses the natural ability to transmute elements. The space-pirate Roxxas destroyed his entire planet and he is the last of his species. His romantic partner is Shvaughn Erin, a trans woman in the Science Police. In Reboot Legion continuity, he takes the name Alchemist when Trom is destroyed by the White Triangle. In Prime Legion continuity, he uses the name Element Lad again. [[spoiler: This version is killed by Superboy-Prime during Final Crisis.]] |
| 627 | ---- |
| 628 | * ApocalypseHow: Varies. Preboot, a greedy space pirate/marauder exterminates the Tromians before we meet Jan. Postboot, we meet Jan, Jan's dad, and Jan's whole town before [[PlayerPunch getting to watch]] four Daxamites with the powers of Superman simply roast the planet with heat vision. Threeboot, mention is made obliquely of [[ShoutOut Jan being the only survivor of a genocide by the Daxamites]], now a dead race themselves. |
| 629 | * ArchEnemy: Roxxas, the space pirate who wiped out the rest of his race. |
| 630 | * BatmanGrabsAGun: When confronting Roxxas, Jan manages to get his hands on a death-ray gun...and actually pulls the trigger on the pirate while he's surrendering. Fortunately, Chemical King had used his power to neutralize the batteries and briefly knock Roxxas out, successfully banking on the hope that seeing what he'd almost done would snap Jan out of his rage. (Roxxas, by the by, had gone insane, haunted by the ghosts of those he'd killed. So everyone wins. Until 5YL.) |
| 631 | * BlueAndOrangeMorality: |
| 632 | ** Played with. Element Lad, and the rest of the Tromian race, have a different perspective on the physical universe, due to their powers. |
| 633 | ** Postboot, his own morality begins to shift a bit when he discovers he can alter himself, including his brain, which starts affecting his mind and outlook. Shortly afterward, he changes Monstress's skin from green to orange, just because he thought she'd look better that way and didn't consider her consent. [[spoiler:Ow, my foreshadowing organ hurts!]] |
| 634 | * BrainwashedAndCrazy: Postboot Jan is kidnapped and brainwashed into becoming the Postboot Starfinger. |
| 635 | * ChestInsignia: Depending on the era, it's an "E" in either [[https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ikav8-w86CY/VJ6-2qTAZEI/AAAAAAAAX8g/3qpWrXbHPhI/s1600/ACT_392(640x470).jpg English]] or [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YbNE9KvFbLc/VJ6-yiGZHfI/AAAAAAAAX8Q/JbZhCvHkuIo/s1600/19_ElementLad%2B(527x800).jpg Interlac]] (the latter which looks uncomfortably phallic). Later, it's an upwards-pointing arrow coming up from his legs, which, uh, isn't much better. And then there's [[https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MXfpOsr5W3Q/VJ6-_SV_VsI/AAAAAAAAX-M/JoCu4JStqS4/s1600/LSH_profiles_1978_ElementLad.jpg this one]] he only wore once, for ''some'' reason. |
| 636 | * CloudcuckooLander: Postboot. This seems to be influenced by the fact that he can change his own body, which affects his mind. |
| 637 | * CommonLawMarriage: At one point, he takes Shvaughn to Trom, sharing his lost culture with her and inviting her to pray with him in one of their religious buildings. Shvaugn regards this is as good as a marriage--neither of them are interested in anyone else anyway. |
| 638 | * CreatingLifeIsAwesome: Subverted in "Legion Lost". [[spoiler:Creating a race of genocidal life-forms to wipe out the genetically impure is ''not''. Neither is blowing up your dearest old friend when it turns out you didn't create her.]] |
| 639 | * GoMadFromTheIsolation: In "Legion Lost" it is shown that the events from "Widening Rifts" had caused Element Lad to become lost in deep space for [[TimeAbyss billions of years]], whereby his perspective changes to a point of arguable insanity and he becomes the extremely powerful villain Progenitor. |
| 640 | * AGodAmI: In "Legion Lost", after a few billion years alone, he goes hopelessly insane, creates a race of his own, and becomes a villain with this schtick. |
| 641 | * HourOfPower: Unlike his counterparts, Threeboot Element Lad's transmutations only last for sixty seconds. |
| 642 | * HumanAliens: He's a Tromian. |
| 643 | * HumanoidAbomination: In "Legion Lost", he's gone mad from isolation, become unhinged from time and reality and unlocked the full fearsome potential of his powers. |
| 644 | * InterspeciesRomance: Whenever he dates a non-Tromian, and, well, he ''is'' the last one. He eventually settles down with the human Shvaughn Erin. |
| 645 | * IdentityAmnesia: In "Legion Lost" [[spoiler:a few billion years in isolation destroy everything he was. He even forgets his own ''name'']]. |
| 646 | * LastOfHisKind: Every time (spell his home planet's name backwards, why don't you?). See ApocalypseHow, above. |
| 647 | * LogicalWeakness: His people were wiped out by energy-based attacks, which they couldn't affect. |
| 648 | * MartialPacifist: Some continuities have him as a deeply religious man who only uses his transmutation powers in nonviolent ways- and it's easy to see why, once Leviathan suggests that he just "turn the Fatal Five into Cheez Whiz". |
| 649 | * OddFriendship: His Postboot version with Monstress. He was often seen complimenting her on her appearance and wardrobe without appearing to be hitting on her, but from the way they interacted with one another there appeared to be potential for a romantic relationship. |
| 650 | * ProphetEyes: He's got them when the group finds him in "Legion Lost". [[spoiler:After billions and billions of years alone.]] |
| 651 | * TheQuietOne: Seeing his entire race genocided at the age of about twelve left quite an impact on his personality, giving him a quiet, spiritual streak that set him apart from the others. |
| 652 | * ShutUpKirk: Does this in "Legion Lost" without quite realizing it. [[spoiler:He'd forgotten who Candi/Monsresss was all over again. As she pleads for him show her some sign that he's still himself, he casually notes that she's acting strangely and that, hm, he doesn't ''recall'' creating her. She tearfully says he didn't and he gently caresses her cheek...then explodes/vaporizes her, calling her a "variant".]] |
| 653 | * SingleTargetSexuality: Shvaugn Erin won him over early on, and he never had eyes for anyone else. |
| 654 | * SupernaturalGoldEyes: He's got golden irises in 5YL and Postboot. It's not clear whether or not this is common to Tromians, but since he can play the fundamental building blocks of the universe like a harp he probably deserves them. Prior to this, they'd been blue. |
| 655 | * {{Transmutation}}: Element Lad can transmute substances on an atomic level. |
| 656 | * WeWouldHaveToldYouBut: One of the Legionnaires who figured out that Shrinking Violet had been replaced with a Durlan impostor...and allowed her newfound relationship with an unwitting Colossal Boy to lead to marriage in the hopes of catching her and the people who hired her. Colossal Boy understands why he had to be left in the dark, but also socks Jan in the snoot, which Jan accepts as well-deserved. |
| 657 | [[/folder]] |
| 658 | |
| 659 | [[folder:Lightning Lass/Light Lass/Pulse/Gossamer/Spark]] |
| 660 | [[quoteright:195:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lighninglass.png Lightning Lass]] |
| 661 | [[caption-width-right:195:[[labelnote:Spark]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/llass.png]] |
| 662 | [[/labelnote]] |
| 663 | ->'''AKA:''' Ayla Ranzz |
| 664 | ->'''Homeworld:''' Winath |
| 665 | ->'''Abilities:''' Electrical generation and direction (as Lightning Lass/Spark); gravity manipulation (as Light Lass/Gossamer) |
| 666 | |
| 667 | Born on Winath, she gained electric powers through exposure to a Lightning Beast. She also used the alias Light Lass when she gained the power to alter gravity. Nearly every Winathian has a twin, and her brother Lightning Lad is a founding member of the Legion. Her older brother is the super-villain Lightning Lord, who was shunned for having no twin. Timber Wolf and Shrinking Violet are her most notable romantic partners. In Reboot Legion continuity, Ayla uses the alias Spark. In Prime Legion continuity, Ayla has only used the alias Light Lass. |
| 668 | ---- |
| 669 | * AgeGapRomance: Tried to start one up with Magnetic Kid, though his obliviousness kept him from getting the hint. When he did catch on, he nervously made an excuse and left the room. Sadly, MK was killed before it could be resolved properly. |
| 670 | * AllTakeAndNoGive: How she came to see her relationship with Timber Wolf after he wouldn't leave the Legion with her. BothSidesHaveAPoint, in that ''she'' stayed by ''his'' side through all his tumults and identity crises, but on the other hand, he radically changed his life for sake, even getting plastic surgery at her behest, and was only staying with the "family" she'd asked him to join in the first place. |
| 671 | * AmicableExes: After hooking up with Vi, she and Timber Wolf settle into this. |
| 672 | * BashBrothers: As Light Lass, she often teamed up with Star Boy, who had opposite powers to hers. |
| 673 | * BattleCouple: With Shrinking Violet in a Legion of Superheroes annual. In present continuity, her previous relationship with Timber Wolf is given a nod, helping avoid NoBisexuals. |
| 674 | * CainAndAbel: Not to the degree of Garth and Mekt, but she isn't fond of her [[PsychoElectro lunatic brother]] to say the least. |
| 675 | * ChestInsignia: As Lighting Lass, two lightning bolts meeting at the center of the chest. As Light Lass, a feather. |
| 676 | * DiscardAndDraw: |
| 677 | ** Dream Girl changed her powers from ShockAndAwe to [[GravityMaster making things lighter]]. |
| 678 | ** A furious blast of lightning from Mekt aka Lightning Lord changed them back again, removing every trace of her gravity power. |
| 679 | * DisproportionateRetribution: Not wanting to get back together with Timber Wolf after he refused to leave the Legion alongside her was understandable. ''Blasting him with lightning'' when he tried to talk with her about it was a bit much. Then again, he'd also hired a detective to follow Ayla back to Winath which was sort of crossing a boundary. |
| 680 | * DistaffCounterpart: To Garth. |
| 681 | * FountainOfYouth: An encounter with Glorith restored her from thirty-ish to a teenager again, during which time she took the name "Pulse". Her true age was restored during a battle between Glorith and Mordru. |
| 682 | * GravityMaster: As Light Lass/Gossamer, she can make objects lighter. |
| 683 | * HalfIdenticalTwins: With Lightning Lad. |
| 684 | * InterspeciesRomance: |
| 685 | ** She eventually hooks up with Shrinking Violet, an Imskian to her human. |
| 686 | ** Her Reboot self and Chameleon Boy, a Durlan got together, though events kept interfering with the process. |
| 687 | * LivingEmotionalCrutch: She was Timber Wolf's, and she largely reciprocated. |
| 688 | * LightningCanDoAnything: Like restore your old powers, for example. |
| 689 | * LipstickLesbian: In contrast to Shrinking Violet being a ButchLesbian in the Five Years Later Legion, showing more stereotypical femininity then Violet did. |
| 690 | * LoveAtFirstSight: Developed a crush on Timber Wolf, then known as "Lone Wolf" as soon as she met him, and was instrumental in convincing him to join the Legion. |
| 691 | * MasculineFeminineGayCouple: Was the Feminine LipstickLesbian in her relationship with Violet in the Five Years Later Legion. |
| 692 | * MindOverMatter: Can use her powers to imitate a limited form of this. |
| 693 | * MrsRobinson: Flirted with Magnetic Kid a few times, and even went so far as to make a pass at him, which made him quite uncomfortable. |
| 694 | * MsFanservice: Several of her costumes are cover little more than swimsuits and her second post-Flashpoint costume has such a wide low-cut neckline it's a miracle it stays on at all. |
| 695 | * MyFutureSelfAndMe: "Gossamer" (aka the [=SW6=] Light Lass) worked with "Pulse". At first they thought Gossamer was a clone, but the [=SW6=] Legionnaires were plucked from earlier in the originals' timeline. |
| 696 | * OppositesAttract: Gregarious and outgoing where Timber Wolf is quiet and brooding. |
| 697 | * PluckyGirl: "What grows in sunshine wilts in worry", as Winathians say. Though her first encounter with Darkseid was briefly too much even for ''her'' to get over. |
| 698 | * RaceLift: The Bendisboot versions of Ayla and Garth are now Black, but still hailing from Winath. |
| 699 | * RePower: When she joined, her powers had been deliberately altered into gravity nullification by Dream Girl so that she could stay on the team with her brother. Later, she regained her lightning. |
| 700 | * ReallyGetsAround: Exaggerated into this in Threeboot which has her sleep with half the men in the Legion. |
| 701 | * ReplacementGoldfish: Played with in that Mekt sees her as the replacement for the twin he never had. |
| 702 | * ShockAndAwe: As Lightning Lass/Spark, Ayla possessed the ability to generate and project bursts of high-voltage electricity. Ayla could also absorb electrical current, process it, and it use it to amplify her powers. |
| 703 | * StealthPun: She went from "lightning" to "lightening". |
| 704 | * SweetPollyOliver: In her debut story, she briefly pretended to be her (then-deceased) twin brother come back to life. |
| 705 | * TenMinuteRetirement: Felt burned out and went on a sabbatical after the Legion's first encounter with Darkseid. Lightning Lord and his cohorts in the LSV then kidnapped her and tried to torture her into joining them, re-igniting her desire to protect the innocent from evil. |
| 706 | * WalkingShirtlessScene: On Winath, where there's little in the way of nudity taboos. |
| 707 | [[/folder]] |
| 708 | |
| 709 | [[folder:Karate Kid]] |
| 710 | [[quoteright:240:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/karate_kid.png]] |
| 711 | ->'''AKA:''' Val Armorr |
| 712 | ->'''Homeworld:''' Earth |
| 713 | ->'''Abilities:''' Martial arts master |
| 714 | |
| 715 | ComicBook/KarateKid is Val Armorr. Born in Japan, he is the greatest martial artist in the known universe. He has mastered every known form of martial arts, including a "super karate" that allows him to hold his own against Superboy. His long-term romantic partner and later wife is Princess Projectra. He was killed by Nemesis Kid during "An Eye for an Eye". [[spoiler: He returned to life in "The Lightning Saga" and was killed again by the Morticoccus Virus in Countdown.]] In Reboot Legion continuity, Val Armorr begins his career as a member of Workforce before joining the Legion. |
| 716 | In Prime Legion continuity there is a third version of Val Armorr who helped Ultra Boy learn better control. He briefly dated Shadow Lass and remains good friends with her. |
| 717 | ---- |
| 718 | * ArchEnemy: From the start, Nemesis Kid had it out for poor Val. |
| 719 | * BadassNormal: Karate Kid has no actual superpowers but has never run into any trouble with the Legion's traditional superpower requirement, presumably because nobody wants to say no to a guy who's demonstrated that he can put the absurdly overpowered Silver Age Superboy in a headlock. |
| 720 | * CharlesAtlasSuperPower: Karate Kid's martial arts skills have progressed to the point where they are a legitimate superpower, allowing him to split steel beams and destroy spaceships with his hands, even going so far as to give Superboy a tussle during his entrance exam. In fact, Karate Kid's skills are so advanced that when the United Planets outlaws the use of superpowers in one Preboot story, he is no longer allowed to use his karate or judo because they qualify as a superpower. |
| 721 | * ClearMyName: His Legion career almost ended ignominiously when fellow recruit Nemesis Kid framed him for betraying Earth to the Khunds, but Nemesis Kid's own treachery was discovered in time and Val went on to become one of the greatest Legionnaires ever. |
| 722 | * DroppedABridgeOnHim: In ''ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis'' he and Triplicate Girl end up stranded in the past because Karate Kid's infected with a strange virus; they try to find a cure...[[spoiler: unsuccessfully. Both of them die. He only came back at the very end of the New 52 series.]] |
| 723 | * DyingMomentOfAwesome: After mortally wounded by Nemesis Kid, Karate Kid managed to stun him and used the last of his strength to destroy the device the LSV were using to take Orando to another dimension. |
| 724 | * EmpoweredBadassNormal: An unusual example. Karate Kid doesn't actually have any innate superpowers, yet his development of his martial arts skills has reached the point where he is classified as having them anyway. |
| 725 | * EvilParentsWantGoodKids: Or amoral parents at least. His mother, Valentina Armorr, was a bounty hunter who'd fallen for the Black Dragon. In the timelines where she isn't already dead by the time Sensei finds out about their son, she agrees with him that Val would be better off being hidden and raised without his father's allies finding him, but gets killed before she can get away. |
| 726 | * FadSuper: An unusual case because he is a preexisting character who became one for a while long after he was introduced. In the 1970's, he was suddenly modelled after Bruce Lee (and drawn Asian), given a robe instead of a superhero costume, and spun off into his own series which was sold as a martial arts series until the martial arts fad died out. Also, note that the movie ''Film/TheKarateKid'' came out decades ''after'' his premiere - the credits actually mention that DC Comics owns the rights to the name. (Unfortunately, in-universe he debuted a thousand years later, which leads to silly jokes being made every time he meets someone from the 21st century.) |
| 727 | * FeelNoPain: His discipline allows him to ignore pain. This almost got him killed once when he didn't realize he'd been stabbed. |
| 728 | * Fiction500: His father may have been an evil crimelord, but he was also ''filthy'' rich, as Val learns. |
| 729 | * FrameUp: As a Legion Candidate, he was framed by Nemesis Kid and made to look like a spy for the Khunds. Val never forgave him for this. |
| 730 | * GoryDiscretionShot: Nemesis Kid [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beats him up]] so badly that they actually stop depicting his face and body clearly, but what we ''do'' see is pretty bad. What details they show of his body after he blows up the LSV's machine imply even ''worse''. |
| 731 | * TheGreatestStyle: He uses a future style of Karate that has been refined after one thousand years of progress in a universe of superhumans and aliens. Val is completely human, but his style is ''not''. It enables him to smash through extremely tough constructs, and damage or restrain superhuman opponents as if he had power equal to theirs. |
| 732 | * HappilyAdopted: Upon learning that his blood father was the crime lord called the Black Dragon, Val tells his sensei that he had always regarded the old man as his true father. |
| 733 | * HappilyMarried: To Princess Projectra Preboot. |
| 734 | * HeroicSacrifice: He sacrifices himself to save his wife's home planet. |
| 735 | * HotBlooded: In the Preboot, where he was portrayed as brash, hot-headed, and only too glad to charge into situations. Later versions have portrayed him as more of a stoic. |
| 736 | * IAmWho: Val grew up with no idea that he was the son and heir of the crimelord known as the Black Dragon. Naturally, he refuses to have anything to do with his father's old organization. |
| 737 | * ParentalAbandonment: His father the Black Dragon was killed by Sensei, and his mother either died beforehand or was killed by BD's lackeys when she tried to escape with him, depending on the version of the story. |
| 738 | * ParentalSubstitute: He was raised by his sensei, a former superhero who had killed his villainous father. |
| 739 | * RaceLift: Started out Caucasian and has been {{Race Lift}}ed back and forth to and from Asian a couple times. Most of the time he's considered half-Asian. |
| 740 | * RedeemingReplacement: Sensei raised Val as a hero in order to make up for both his birth father's career as a crimelord and Sensei's own killing of the man. |
| 741 | * SuperReflexes: Thanks to his training he can handle people with SuperSpeed in combat. |
| 742 | * TrappedInThePast: In order to prove worthy of Projectra's hand in marriage, her father King Voxv temporarily sent him to 20th century Earth (and a 70's-era solo series) as a trial. |
| 743 | * TurnOutLikeHisFather: Sensei kept the Black Dragon's comrades from learning Val existed in order to keep this from happening. |
| 744 | * WriterOnBoard: Keith Giffen ''really'' does not like Karate Kid, and has said up-front that any time he ends up writing the Legion he will kill off the character, as he did in 1984. (To Giffen's credit, he gave the the character an appropriately badass exit, saving his wife's planet from the Legion of Super-Villains in a story arc that's remembered fondly by many fans.) |
| 745 | * YourDaysAreNumbered: Upon being poisoned alongside several other Legionnaires and only having twelve hours to live, Karate Kid decides to capture the Fatal Five by himself. He manages to subdue the Empress and Mano, but Validus is too much for him. On the other hand, the battle destroys the Five's HQ and both they and him barely get out alive, which definitely ruins their plans and resources for awhile. |
| 746 | [[/folder]] |
| 747 | |
| 748 | [[folder:Princess Projectra/Queen Projectra/Sensor Girl/Sensor/Imperiatrix]] |
| 749 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/princess_projectra_the_nail_001.png]] |
| 750 | ->'''AKA:''' Projectra Wind'zzor (Preboot); Jeka Wynzorr (Postboot); Projectra Vauxhall (Threeboot) |
| 751 | ->'''Homeworld:''' Orando |
| 752 | ->'''Abilities:''' Illusion casting, later super-senses; mind control and super-strength (Threeboot only) |
| 753 | |
| 754 | Princess Projectra is Projectra Wind'zzor. Born to the royal family on medieval planet Orando, she has the magical ability to generate illusions. She has also used the identity Sensor Girl to conceal her powers. Her romantic partner and later husband is Karate Kid. In Reboot Legion continuity, Orando is a planet of telepathic snake-like creatures and their princess Jeka Wynzorr becomes Sensor. In Prime Legion continuity, Projectra Vauxhall becomes Princess Projectra and bankrolls the Legion. |
| 755 | ---- |
| 756 | * AccidentalMurder: Accidental MercyKill. Sarya, the Emerald Empress, begs Sensor Girl to free her from the power of the Emerald Eye, so she cuts off its ability to perceive the villainess. The grateful Sarya then proceeds to age to death and rot away before her eyes, which SG hadn't expected. |
| 757 | * ActionGirl: A lady from a feudal planet with trial by combat, who spent over a decade as the lover of the greatest martial artist in the galaxy? Yes, she knows a thing or two about fighting. |
| 758 | * BirdsOfAFeather: Besides Karate Kid, she was closest to her fellow friends in the Legion Espionage Squad. |
| 759 | * TheBusCameBack: Her return as Sensor Girl was due to being sentenced to a journey of penance due to the damage caused to Orando during her reign. |
| 760 | * CharlieBrownFromOuttaTown: Preboot, when she secretly returned from retirement as "Sensor Girl." As part of the penance laid down by the Council of Orando, she was unable to reveal her true identity to her friends. |
| 761 | * ClashingCousins: Projectra's grandmother Hagga, Royal Sorceress of Orando and the one responsible for gifting Projectra her powers at birth, had always secretly resented that Projectra had been chosen for the throne over her grand'''son''' Pharoxx. Upon the death of Projectra's father King Voxv, Pharoxx, with their grandmother's backing, tried to take the throne. Although thwarted, the royal pain eventually gave the Legion of Super-Villains access to Orando, much to everyone's misery. |
| 762 | * CleavageWindow: Her Retroboot costume. |
| 763 | * CoolMask: As Sensor Girl she wear a distinctive white mask. |
| 764 | * CrimefightingWithCash: Until her planet blew up and she got her parents' illusion powers in the Threeboot. |
| 765 | * DeathGlare: Following Karate Kid's death, she fixed Nemesis Kid (his killer) with one that paralyzed him with fear. |
| 766 | * FaceHeelTurn: Threeboot was making her into this, but it was canceled by the rushed ending before the last four issues could be made. |
| 767 | * FreakinessShame: Following her transformation into a naga-type creature, Reboot Jeckie feels that her beauty has been destroyed and that everyone else is just being nice when they tell her otherwise. |
| 768 | * HappilyMarried: To Karate Kid, Preboot. |
| 769 | * HotWitch: Aside from her powers being mystical in origin, she comes from a world where magic is practiced commonly, and received training from the Royal Sorceress of Orando herself. As such she often works with White Witch and/or Dream Girl when spells or rituals prove necessary. |
| 770 | * InnateNightVision: Thermal vision is one of her sensory powers as Sensor Girl |
| 771 | * IntellectualAnimal: Postboot, Jeka Wynzorr is a giant snake. |
| 772 | * {{Invisibility}}: As Sensor Girl, her abilities have been heightened to the point that she can project complete invisibility to ''anything'', ''any'' sense, ''any'' power (including telepathy), ''any'' means of perception. Period. |
| 773 | * {{Irony}}: Having been one of the few Legionnaires to kill of her own free will, she found herself confronting the conspiracy several Legionnaires had formed to assassinate the Time Trapper. |
| 774 | * ItsAllJunk: In time, the Council of Orando declares that Projectra has served her penance and and may take the throne again. However, her experiences as Sensor Girl lead her to realize that temporal power and authority are only illusions and that she'd rather live happily with her friends. |
| 775 | * {{Masquerade}}: After revealing her true identity as Projectra to her friends, she kept using the Sensor Girl name and identity. This added another layer to her illusions, as no one outside the team knew "Sensor Girl" could create such things. |
| 776 | * MasterOfIllusion: When first introduced, she projected illusions. After her powers were increased, her illusions became so realistic that the subject of them could not tell reality from her projections. She was now able to effect all of the senses and could shut them down, effectively isolating a person in a prison of their own mind. |
| 777 | * [[MixAndMatchCritters Mix-and-Match Critter]]: Near the end of Postboot, she was mutated into a naga-like form. |
| 778 | * Main/MostCommonSuperpower/ In her humanoid form. |
| 779 | * NeckSnap: How she killed Nemesis Kid, Preboot. |
| 780 | * [[KingIncognito PrincessIncognito]]: During her Sensor Girl phase. Originally her identity was obscured even from her teammates, but it remained a public secret for even longer. |
| 781 | * OddFriendship: After her return from Orando, she becomes close to Timber Wolf, who had been Val's good friend and the executor of his will. |
| 782 | * OverlyLongName: In the threeboot and current versions, her full name is Wilimina Morgana Daergina Annaxandra Projectra Velorya Vauxhall. “Jeckie” to her friends. |
| 783 | * PsychicPowers: As Sensor Girl. |
| 784 | * PutOnABus: After the LSV attack on Orando, and the subsequent death of her husband Karate Kid, Projectra proceeded to take the planet out of our dimension, citing the LSV attack as proof that Orando was unsuited for the United Planets and their modern times and dedicating her life to rebuilding her damaged world. [[TheBusCameBack However...]] |
| 785 | * RaceLift: Postboot. She is changed into a snake alien. |
| 786 | * RichBitch: Threeboot, in the Shooter run. |
| 787 | * RoyalInbreeding: [[WordOfGod The Bierbaums]] suggested that this may explain her susceptibility to mental viruses. |
| 788 | * RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: She's the actual princess (later queen) of planet Orando. |
| 789 | * SnakesAreSinister: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. Postboot Sensor is a giant snake and is easily the nicest version of her. |
| 790 | * SuperSenses: The name Sensor Girl is appropriate enough. She has the ability to "remove the illusions of distance and size," allowing her telescopic and microscopic senses, and can perceive various spectrums at will. Considering Sensor Girl's originally planed identity as a Supergirl stripped down to her (greatly enhanced) Kryptonian sensory abilities, it can probably be assumed that she has those abilities at the very least. |
| 791 | * ThouShaltNotKill: After snapping Nemesis Kid's neck (thus breaking the Legion Code against killing), she tells her horrified teammates that she executed a condemned criminal as per her royal privilege and dares them to call her out on it. Nobody does. When she returns as Sensor Girl and her identity is revealed, the Legion judges Nemesis Kid's death to be self-defense and reinstates her. |
| 792 | * TrueSight: As Sensor Girl she can see through illusions, invisibility and similar deceptions. |
| 793 | * UnderestimatingBadassery: After killing Karate Kid before her eyes, Nemesis Kid thought that canceling out her illusions would make her easy prey, as if that was the only way she knew how to fight. He learned better, but not for long. |
| 794 | * UnstoppableRage: After he kills her consort Karate Kid, Projectra scares the crap out of Nemesis Kid, and breaks his neck with her bare hands. |
| 795 | * UptownGirl: As she's royalty, there's some question among her people about whether her relationship with Karate Kid is appropriate. After he proves his worth, she has to worry about her newfound duties as queen keeping them apart, but he pledges to stay by her side even if he has to leave the Legion alongside her. |
| 796 | * WarriorPrincess: Between casting illusions that can drive you mad, and packing one of the hardest punches this side of Karate Kid, Projectra is one of the toughest female Legionnaires. |
| 797 | * WhatCouldHaveBeen: Originally, Sensor Girl was going to be revealed to be Supergirl, having come back from the dead as an amnesiac, having lost all her abilities but her Kryptonian sensory powers, which were enhanced. This was why she showed things like telescopic and heat vision before her identity as Projectra was revealed. |
| 798 | * XRayVision: One of Sensor Girl's sense powers. |
| 799 | [[/folder]] |
| 800 | |
| 801 | [[folder:Ferro Lad/Ferro]] |
| 802 | [[quoteright:199:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ferro_lad.png]] |
| 803 | ->'''AKA:''' Andrew Nolan |
| 804 | ->'''Homeworld:''' Earth |
| 805 | ->'''Abilities:''' Can turn into living iron, gaining super-strength and invulnerability |
| 806 | |
| 807 | Born on Earth, he has a mutation that allows him to transform into living iron. His brother Douglas Nolan also shares this power. He died shortly into his tenure as a Legionnaire, sacrificing himself to stop a Sun-Eater and save the solar system. In Reboot Legion continuity, he is born in the 20th Century and uses the name Ferro. He meets the Legion while they're trapped in the past and fighting a Sun-Eater during ''ComicBook/FinalNight''. This version survives the encounter. |
| 808 | ---- |
| 809 | * AdaptationalAttractiveness: After his death his mother made a series of Ferro Lad action films in his memory/to make a profit. He's played by a handsome actor in the movies, of course. |
| 810 | * BackupTwin: His brother Douglas. |
| 811 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: The Preboot Ferro Lad was your typical hero-type, but as depicted in 5YL, Batch [=SW6=] Ferro is a fun-loving thrill-seeker who's always testing his limits. |
| 812 | * ChromeChampion: Ferro has the ability to convert the tissue of his entire body into an organic Iron. He is able to transform into this armor-like state at will the process is virtually instantaneous and remain in that form for an as yet undetermined amount of time. If he is rendered unconscious, however, he spontaneously reverts to his normal form. |
| 813 | * ContinuityNod: The Preboot Ferro Lad is best known for sacrificing his life to stop a Sun-Eater. The Postboot Ferro first appears during the ''Final Night'' crossover, featuring another Sun-Eater. He [[MoreExpendableThanYou volunteers himself for a suicide mission to keep the Sun-Eater from destroying Earth]], but at the moment of truth, he is quickly told by [[ComicBook/GreenLantern Hal Jordan]], "[[MoreHeroThanThou That's OK, son, but you've got too much to live for,]]" and rescued. Hal Jordan, currently the supervillain Parallax, sacrifices himself to stop it instead. |
| 814 | * DyingMomentOfAwesome: Preboot. Punches Superboy in the face, then carries a bomb into the center of the Sun-Eater, destroying it. |
| 815 | * FacialHorror: Why he always wears a mask. We never get to see it, but Postboot he looks for medical treatment and is told that not only is his skull structure [[FutureSlang sprocked up]] beyond repair, but his muscle and skin tissue are mixed in with it at random. The only help possible would come from a metallurgist and require him to remain metal for the rest of his life, sacrificing most of his senses of smell, taste, and touch. He still considers it for a while before deciding to keep his fleshy form. Later, he was just starting to accept his appearance when he was wounded and [[ShapeshifterModeLock Mode Locked]] into metal form- with the mask on. |
| 816 | * ForeseeingMyDeath: The Hag, a mystical villainess (who was secretly a transformed Mysa Nal), predicted that Ferro Lad would die engulfed in flames. His death involved delivering a bomb directly into the heart of a Sun Eater. |
| 817 | * HeroicSacrifice: |
| 818 | ** Preboot, Superboy was going to carry a massive bomb into the heart of the Sun Eater, but Ferro Lad recognized that the Eater's red sun radiation had already weakened Superboy and extended exposure would completely remove his invulnerability. Thus, Ferro knocked him out and carried the bomb himself. Both he and the Sun Eater were obliterated. |
| 819 | ** Postboot, he had a twin brother who died protecting him and some of the time-lost Legionnaires under unrelated circumstances. |
| 820 | * MadeOfIron: Literally. |
| 821 | * MissingMom: Postboot, he and his brother were abandoned by their mother and locked up with a number of other metahumans for experiments by a corrupt government-sponsored scientist. |
| 822 | * MoreExpendableThanYou / MoreHeroThanThou: In both the Preboot and Postboot continuities, his most memorable moments involve these tropes. |
| 823 | * NiceGuy |
| 824 | * NightmareFace: He and his twin brother's faces were so horrible that their ''own mother'' abandoned them as babies. |
| 825 | * NotTooDeadToSaveTheDay: |
| 826 | ** At one point after his death, a Controller plotted to use a fake ghost of FL to manipulate the Legion and use them to bring order to the universe. On the cusp of success, Ferro Lad's actual factual ghost suddenly appeared before the Controller, giving him a heart attack. |
| 827 | ** His ghost is also alleged to have helped Invisible Lad and Chemical King, two other Legionnaires who died young, fight a member of the Taurus Gang. |
| 828 | * ParentalAbandonment: Postboot. |
| 829 | * PercussivePrevention: Preboot. Ferro Lad knocks out Superboy and takes the bomb into the heart of the monster in a HeroicSacrifice, knowing that the red sun radiation from the Sun-Eater would have rendered Superboy vulnerable to the bomb. |
| 830 | * PlotHole: The Reboot Legion met their versions of Ferro and his twin brother in the present day DCU. After the Reboot Legion was retconned into being residents of Earth-247 and the original Legion restored as the main future of the DCU, that didn't answer how two separate versions of the Nolan twins existed in the present (Ferro) and the future (Ferro Lad). |
| 831 | * RaceLift: In ''Rebirth'', he actually ''is'' black, as Jim Shooter intended. |
| 832 | * ReplacementGoldfish: Not Andrew himself, but Douglas ends up replacing his twin in an alternate-universe version of the Legion. (This also cures Douglas's insanity, apparently.) |
| 833 | * ShapeshifterModeLock: Postboot. He was mortally wounded by a criminal and only stayed alive by morphing to iron form, forcing him to remain "ironed up" permanently. |
| 834 | * SomeoneHasToDie: Preboot. |
| 835 | * SuperStrength: When in iron form. |
| 836 | * ThrillSeeker: The Batch [=SW6=] version of him is a daredevil with a possible hidden death wish, which Brainiac 5 doesn't ''remember'' Andrew acting like, but Brainy figures nostalgia may have messed with his memories a bit. |
| 837 | * TwinTelepathy: Shared some with his brother Douglas, which drove the latter incurably insane after Andrew sacrificed himself. |
| 838 | * WhatCouldHaveBeen: Jim Shooter wanted to make Ferro Lad African-American, but the editors were worried that they'd lose distribution in the South. So Shooter decided to have him heroically sacrifice himself. |
| 839 | [[/folder]] |
| 840 | |
| 841 | [[folder:Dream Girl/Dreamer]] |
| 842 | [[quoteright:163:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dream_girl.jpg]] |
| 843 | ->'''AKA:''' Nura Nal |
| 844 | ->'''Homeworld:''' Naltor |
| 845 | ->'''Abilities:''' Precognition |
| 846 | |
| 847 | Born on the planet Naltor, she possesses natural precognitive abilities. This power requires her to be asleep, but she is also an expert in science and physical combat. Her sister is White Witch, and her romantic partner is Star Boy. She has also been a member of the Legion of Substitute Heroes. In Reboot Legion continuity, she is Nura Schnappin who takes the name Dreamer when she becomes a Legionnaire. In Prime Legion continuity, Dream Girl is romantically involved with Brainiac 5 until [[spoiler: she is killed by Terror Firma]]. |
| 848 | ---- |
| 849 | * BadassNormal: The strongest non-superpowered hand-to-hand fighter on the team after Karate Kid. |
| 850 | * BigBeautifulWoman: By 5YL, she's gained considerable curves, and has no shortage of male attention. |
| 851 | * CharlieBrownFromOuttaTown: Before she permanently joined the Legion, she temporarily joined the Substitute Legion alongside Star Boy, wearing concealing armor and calling herself Miss Terious. |
| 852 | * DamselInDistress: Dream Girl's early portrayal was a damsel-in-distress who could be easily defeated and captured by enemies, obliging her teammates to rescue her. |
| 853 | * DreamingOfThingsToCome: Like all people native to Naltor, Dream Girl is clairvoyant, and has the ability to forecast future events based upon visions she sees in her dreams. This ability is 100% accurate in all situations, though there have been occasions when Dream Girl has misinterpreted the visions that she sees. |
| 854 | * FaintingSeer: Postboot, she literally only gets visions in her dreams, but visions can strike at any time, resulting in narcolepsy- until she gets over it via TrainingFromHell which results in her no longer sleeping. Ever. |
| 855 | * HeadTurningBeauty: With her stunning pinup-girl looks and figure, a flirty swimsuit-like costume and boldly confident personality, the male Legionnaires completely stopped noticing the other female members on the team and the female Legionnaires soon grew jealous and resentful. |
| 856 | * HospitalHottie: An expert in biotechnology, including medicine. |
| 857 | * HotWitch: Picked up some tricks from her sister, the White Witch, and her own research. As such she's one of a select group among the Legionnaires who participate in magical spells and rituals. |
| 858 | * TheLeader: |
| 859 | ** Dream Girl was a leader of the Legion. She led the team through many crises including one in which Nura handled Darkseid. |
| 860 | ** As the most powerful seer among the Naltorians, she's in line for the position of High Seer, which she takes up during 5YL. |
| 861 | * MoreThanMindControl: After her affair with Atmos of Xanthu, she said that she believed he had some sort of hypnotic power over her. He seems to just be a FlyingBrick with energy blasts, but it's...''[[ComboPlatterPowers possible]]''. On the other hand, she may just by trying to justify his charisma and her bad decisions to herself. |
| 862 | * Main/MostCommonSuperpower: She’s busty. |
| 863 | * MsFanservice: By design, from her very first appearance, she look like a pin-up. She is a sexy blonde girl and her white costumes (especially her iconic leotard) are always very skimpy (even prior to the Legion's sexy-costume era of the 70's). Artist often emphasize her sensuality. |
| 864 | * ObfuscatingStupidity: Her flirtatious persona makes her easy to underestimate; this is generally a mistake. |
| 865 | * OmniscientMoralityLicense: In her first appearance she tampered with seven Legionnaires' lives in order to get them kicked out of active service with the Legion, as she believed she'd seen them dying terribly and wanted to protect them. The only permanent thing she did was alter Lightning Lass's powers without her consent, allowing her to stay on the team with her twin brother. |
| 866 | * ProphecyTwist / PropheticFallacy: Sometimes has problems with this; her visions of the future always come true, but she isn't always seeing what she thinks she is. (Invoked in her first appearance, in which "[[TonightSomeoneDies the Legion will die!]]" turned out to mean "some robot doubles will be destroyed.") Her powers work "literally", in a visual sense. Previsualization, not true precognition. Usually. |
| 867 | * {{Seers}}: Dream Girl has the ability to see the future in dreams and visions. This is a power shared by all natives of her home planet Naltor, but Nura's ability to do so is considered to be among the strongest of her race. |
| 868 | * TeenGenius: She has a keen knowledge of Naltorian super-science and has used these skills to help her comrades. |
| 869 | * TookALevelInBadass: Postboot; see above. In original continuity and Threeboot she can use her shorter-range precognition to predict opponents' moves in battle, and even uses this to take out two Naltorian cops who've been trained in the same skill. |
| 870 | * UnrelatedInTheAdaptation: Reboot Dream Girl isn't related to White Witch. |
| 871 | * WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: Being well aware of the limits of her power, she became a [[RenaissanceMan Renaissance Woman]], and as such is an expert in engineering, science, medicine, the occult, fighting, leadership...the list goes on. |
| 872 | [[/folder]] |
| 873 | |
| 874 | [[folder:Shadow Lass/Umbra]] |
| 875 | [[quoteright:296:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shadow_lass.jpg]] |
| 876 | ->'''AKA:''' Tasmia Mallor, Betsy Norcross |
| 877 | ->'''Homeworld:''' Talok VIII |
| 878 | ->'''Abilities:''' Generate absolute darkness |
| 879 | |
| 880 | Shadow Lass is Tasmia Mallor. Born on the planet Talok VIII, she was given the ability to manipulate darkness. The Talokites choose a different shadow champion in every generation. Her cousin Grev is Shadow Kid, her 20th Century ancestors in L.E.G.I.O.N. are Lydea Mallor and Lyrissa Mallor. Her longest romantic partner is Mon-El.In Reboot Legion continuity, a colder and more aggressive Tasmia uses the name Umbra. In Prime Legion continuity, she uses the name Shadow Lass again. This version dates Ultra Boy. |
| 881 | ---- |
| 882 | * EightiesHair: Has an ''amazing'' feathered mullet in 5YL. |
| 883 | * BarrierWarrior: Her shadows can absorb and nullify heat and light based attacks. |
| 884 | * BecauseDestinySaysSo: Traditionally, one Mallor per generation would enter the sacred caves of her planet, receive shadow powers and serve as the planet's protector. She and Grev entered together, and both received them; apparently fate had decreed that one would protect the planet as "Shadow Champion" and the other would be free to travel. |
| 885 | * CastingAShadow: Tasmia can cast dark-fields preventing all light from reaching an area from outside. These can either be complete, effectively rendering useless all light sources within the area, or hollow to allow the interior to be lit. She can also solidify these fields, to use as a more direct weapon. She has the power to create darkness 100 times darker than a moonless night. Her black shadows are impenetrable by light. |
| 886 | * CleavageWindow: In the 1980's Shadow Lass's costume became more conservative, consisting of black tights and a cape, though still with a hint of sexiness due to a revealing 'cleavage window' on her chest. |
| 887 | * CommonalityConnection: She (a protector of Talok VIII) and Tyroc (the protector of Marzal) understand each other very well and get along swimmingly. |
| 888 | * CulturePolice: During the Postboot era, Umbra's origin had her as a hereditary guardian of Talok VIII's culture. Because of her unique interpretation of the role, she almost singlehandedly beats up the Science Police crew sent to make first contact before being knocked out. She was disturbed to find out her people had joined the United Planets by the time she woke up, and she tells the story like a resistance fighter preparing to "free" her people from the U.P.'s cultural hegemony someday. |
| 889 | * DarkIsNotEvil: A superheroine with shadow powers. Definitely a good girl, though her incarnation in the Postboot continuity was an ill-tempered AntiHero. |
| 890 | * DefrostingIceQueen: Postboot. |
| 891 | * DisneyDeath: Gets one in issue #300 when an exploding generator appears to obliterate her during a Khund attack. Two pages later it's revealed Mon-El threw the generator far enough away that the only damage done was to her costume. Especially blatant since this was the same issue that teased her future death as mentioned in DoomedByCanon below. |
| 892 | * DoomedByCanon: An early "Adult Legion" story shows a memorial to "Shadow Woman", who was killed defending the Science Asteroid. This hasn't happened in any continuity, at least so far, except as a MythologyGag. |
| 893 | * {{Expy}}: Personality-wise in Postboot, She's basically Andromeda 2.0. |
| 894 | * FamousAncestor: |
| 895 | ** One of her ancestors is Mikaal Tomas, aka Starman. |
| 896 | ** She descends from a long line of Shadow Protectors, making her name famous on Talok VIII, at least. Among them are Lydea and Lyrissa Mallor, both members of L.E.G.I.O.N. in certain continuities. |
| 897 | * GossipyHens: [[WordOfGod Jim Shooter]], who created her, saw her as a bit of a busybody and gossip. |
| 898 | * GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: A blue-skinned space babe. |
| 899 | * HumanAliens: She's a Talokian. |
| 900 | * LivingEmotionalCrutch: Mon-El has gone through a ''lot'' in his lifetime, and the universe doesn't really let up on him, either. Fortunately her inner strength is more than enough to carry them both. |
| 901 | * InnateNightVision: She has shadow-sensitive eyes that give her the ability to see in darkness. |
| 902 | * MsFanservice: A sexy blue-skinned babe that often wears just a black bikini with a cape. |
| 903 | * MythologyGag: At one point she jokingly covers herself in white makeup and toys with the idea of calling herself Shadow Woman, just to flirt with Valor. |
| 904 | * NiceJobFixingItVillain: The Lydea Mallor clone's shadow powers were enhanced into a corrupting darkness and killer cold. This has the side effect of causing other Servants of Darkness and their mooks to be terrified and confused by Shady's powers. |
| 905 | * PointyEars: Suddenly has these in 5YL, and it appears to stick in further incarnations. |
| 906 | * {{Protectorate}}: She was first introduced as Talok VIII's native superhero. This was later retconned into she and her cousin Grev receiving the same powers at once, thus allowing him to be the Champion of Talok VIII while she joins the Legion. They do protect the planet together when necessary, though. |
| 907 | * [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Proud Warrior Race Girl]]: Tasmia's origin lies somewhere between "native powers" and "unique powers", in that she is the "Shadow Champion" of Talok VIII. In some continuities, this means that all Talokians have these powers and she's officially the best at using them in combat; in others (Postboot particularly), she's officially the best in combat among Talokians, and that earns her the right to her powers. The latter scenario turns out disadvantageous in Postboot when she's missing and presumed dead by her people and they appoint a new champion. |
| 908 | * RelatedDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: Threeboot changes Grev from her cousin to her brother. |
| 909 | * ReligiousHorror: Darkseid makes a twisted clone of Lydea Mallor, a Shadow Protector of the 20th Century and one of Tasmia's revered ancestors to act as one of his Servants of Darkness. Since Tasmia prays to her ancestors, this is kind of like the Devil making an enslaved zombie clone of Jesus. What's that? ''No'', it's not "cool"! |
| 910 | * RequiredSecondaryPowers: Her secondary ability to see in the dark lets her see through her own powers. |
| 911 | * RoyalBrat: At her worst, she can behave this way. However, her puckish attitude helps Mon-El loosen up. |
| 912 | * RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: In some continuities, "Shadow Champion" is a hereditary position, making her akin to a princess or queen who is officially required to kick ass. |
| 913 | * ShipTease: Upon her introduction in Postboot, her narration briefly mentioned an attraction to M'Onel. They had been a long-standing couple in Preboot, but nothing came of it. She's also been paired with Karate Kid (Vol 5), and Earth Man (Vol 6). |
| 914 | * {{Stripperiffic}}: Tasmia's first costume in original continuity was essentially a dark blue bathing suit with a cape. Like many Legionnaires she underwent a sexy makeover in the 1970's, adopting a revealing black bikini-like outfit with gold accessories -- a tiara, bracelets, and an "S"-shaped logo just below her navel. |
| 915 | * SuperStrength: As demonstrated by her ancestor Mikaal Tomas, Talokians possess greater-than-human strength. |
| 916 | * TeethClenchedTeamwork: She thinks Timber Wolf's an ignorant idiot, and isn't one to be shy with her opinions. |
| 917 | * WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Her Retroboot counterpart has broken up with Mon-El and entered into a relationship with TokenEvilTeammate Earth-Man. Tasmia tries to justify this in that he is a warrior befitting of her race, but her teammates aren't exactly buying it. After Earth-Man's death, she continuously mourns his death while attempting to show that he was good man deep down because of his sacrifice. |
| 918 | * {{Xenafication}}: Compare the fight with the Persuader. Some decades ago: Hides behind her shadows and cries for Mon-El to help. After-reboot: Blinds him and mops up the floor with him. (The generic setup is so similar that it well might have been an intentional lampshading.) |
| 919 | [[/folder]] |
| 920 | |
| 921 | [[folder:Chemical King]] |
| 922 | [[quoteright:238:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chemical_king.jpg]] |
| 923 | ->'''AKA:''' Condo Arlik |
| 924 | ->'''Homeworld:''' Phlon |
| 925 | ->'''Abilities:''' Can create/control chemical and energy reactions. |
| 926 | |
| 927 | Chemical King, alias Condo Arlik of Phlon, was a member of the Legion whose mutation allowed him to control chemical reactions. In Reboot Legion continuity he is not a member of the Legion. However, it is hinted that he dates Invisible Kid. |
| 928 | ---- |
| 929 | * DemotedToExtra: The Postboot Condo Arlik is a TV reporter, not a superhero. |
| 930 | * DependingOnTheWriter: The specifics of his abilities tended to change depending on [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands what the writer needed for a situation]] and whether or not said writer had done their science homework. |
| 931 | * DoomedByCanon: One story has Superboy going into the Legion's future and seeing his memorial, with the details of how he died, well before he appeared in the series proper. |
| 932 | * EnergyAbsorption: Can suck the power out laser gun batteries. |
| 933 | * HeroicSelfDeprecation: Tends to be pretty down on himself, a lack of confidence which seems to haunt him to his dying day. |
| 934 | * HollywoodAcid: Can generate this from thin air. |
| 935 | * InstantSedation: Can throw somebody into shock, or drastically slow their metabolism. |
| 936 | * IOweYouMyLife: To Lyle Norg, who stabilized his powers and trained him in their use. |
| 937 | * LegacyCharacter: In Retroboot, a gene-grafting process would be used to give his powers to a hero (Chemical Kid) and a villain (Alchemical Girl). |
| 938 | * NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: The limits of his powers were never really hashed out. He's shown affecting energy reactions as well, for example, including radiation. |
| 939 | * PowerIncontinence: When he was born, his powers nearly killed the doctors and nurses in the room by accelerating their glucose. They thought he had some kind of new virus...then the hospital collapsed. He struggled most of his life to learn how to keep from harming himself or others. |
| 940 | * PowerNullifier: As long as it's run by a chemical reaction of some sort. |
| 941 | * RaceLift: In Postboot, he's depicted with tan skin, whereas Preboot he was Caucasian. |
| 942 | * SacrificialLamb: To stop World War VII, he sacrificed himself in battle against the Dark Circle. This made him one of the Legion's earliest casualties. |
| 943 | * SuperMode: Can use his ability to boost people's body chemistry, briefly turning them into a LightningBruiser, although this also exhausts them. |
| 944 | * SwissArmySuperpower: Just sit down for a while and think about all the chemicals he could generate, the reactions he could cause in someone's body, all the superpowers out there which come from biological reactions or energy reserves...he's got a StoryBreakerPower, if he only had the confidence to match. |
| 945 | * TouchOfDeath: He mentions at one point that he could just shut a pair of criminals' bodies down entirely, but killing is against LSH rules. |
| 946 | * TrainingTheGiftOfMagic: His powers were inherent from birth, but he needed years of training (and Lyle Norg's chemical treatments) so that he wouldn't accidentally wreak havoc on Phlon...or on his own body. |
| 947 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: Largely since writers tended to forget he existed. |
| 948 | * WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: He worries about this in-story, despite his powers actually being pretty useful. Justified in that they started out incredibly dangerous for himself and everyone around him. |
| 949 | * YourDaysAreNumbered: Some sources indicate that his powers were slowly eroding his physiology, greatly reducing his lifespan. |
| 950 | [[/folder]] |
| 951 | |
| 952 | [[folder:Timber Wolf/Lone Wolf/Furball]] |
| 953 | [[quoteright:227:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/timberwolf_the_legion.jpg]] |
| 954 | ->'''AKA:''' Brin Londo |
| 955 | ->'''Homeworld:''' Zuun |
| 956 | ->'''Abilities:''' Super-human strength and speed, heightened senses, and claws |
| 957 | |
| 958 | He was born on the planet Zuun, where his father Mar Londo experimented on him. This gave him enhanced werewolf-like abilities, but also made him prone to beastial savagery. Light Lass is his longest romantic partner. In Reboot Legion continuity he starts out as a gangleader on Rimbor. In Prime Legion continuity his origins are not explained. |
| 959 | ---- |
| 960 | * AbusiveParents: His deceased mother was quite kind, but his father was a mad scientist version of one of those football dads who don't want to raise a wimp so they force their kids to play even though they don't want to. Except the "football" in this case is a powerful radioactive isotope and "playing" involves being injected and zapped with it. |
| 961 | * AddledAddict: In one of his focus stories, he was tricked into becoming one. |
| 962 | * AmicableExes: His relationship with Ayla eventually settles into this, after a long time of pining after her, once she hooks up with Shrinking Violet. |
| 963 | * {{Animorphism}}: [[ShapeshifterModeLock Mode Locked]] into the bestial Furball in [=5YL=]. |
| 964 | * BadassLongcoat: Threeboot. |
| 965 | * BeastMan / WolfMan: To varying degrees depending on which part of continuity you look at. |
| 966 | * BookDumb: Definitely more of a physical and instinctual thinker, rather than an intellectual, though he's not stupid. |
| 967 | * CarpetOfVirility: Some of his uniforms seem designed to show it off, too. |
| 968 | * CatchPhrase: "Think fast!" |
| 969 | * CompressedVice: Also an InformedAttribute. In 5YL, Darkseid, out of the blue sky, claims that Brin is "addicted" to Zuunium before he reverts him back into his human form. Brin and Brainiac 5 later corroborate this, as if it were some steroid he'd been willingly putting into himself (thus causing himself to mutate) instead of something that had been permanently infused into his body largely against his will. It doesn't make a lick of sense, directly contradicts his origin story, and he'd never been seen doing or referencing anything of the sort in all his thirty-ish years as an existing character. The notion (fortunately) appears only in 5YL continuity. |
| 970 | * DidNotGetTheGirl: Ayla breaks up with him over a misunderstanding, refuses to get back together out of resentment in spite of still loving him, and eventually hooks up with Shrinking Violet. |
| 971 | * GameFace: In spite of the plastic surgery mentioned below, he still slips into a feral appearance when agitated, most notably RedEyesTakeWarning. |
| 972 | * GuineaPigFamily: In light of Zuun's declining ecology, Brin's scientist father wanted to raise a strong, tough child who could make something of himself, and so experimented on his own son, injecting him with Zuunium and hitting him with Zuunium rays to give him his powers. Dear ol' dad didn't live long enough to learn that he'd also afflicted his son with a lifetime of physical pain and a slow, lingering death, as well. |
| 973 | * IneffectualLoner: Occasionally averted- in one Postboot story, he takes on the current Fatal Five solo and beats them because [[AnAesop they're horrible at teamwork.]] Generally the "loner" part holds true, though. |
| 974 | * LightningBruiser: Super-strength, -speed, -reflexes, and -agility. |
| 975 | * LivingEmotionalCrutch: His feelings for Ayla were the primary reason he joined and stayed with the Legion, at first. At one point he acknowledges that she's about the only thing keeping him from running off into the wild. This changes with [[CharacterDevelopment time]], although their break-up still tears him apart. |
| 976 | * LossOfIdentity: Most of his storylines involve this in some way. Sit down and buckle up: |
| 977 | ** After being altered by the Zuunium injections and rays, he ended up with newly-developed bestial instincts and in constant agony. |
| 978 | ** Shortly after, Karth Arn, an android in his father's service, mindwiped and brainwashed the disoriented and suffering kid in order to convince him that he had been an android all along and that ''Karth'' was Mar Londo's son. The Legion revealed the truth and he joined at Light Lass's behest. |
| 979 | ** During his time with the Legion, a criminal tricked him into drinking the juice of a certain incredibly addictive fruit and forced him into servitude for more. His time as a junkie was fortunately short-lived, but he still went through a nasty withdrawl. |
| 980 | ** After being thought dead for six months, he returned, far more feral in appearance and personality than before, as well as brainwashed (again) by Tyr. The brainwashing was lost, everything else stayed. |
| 981 | ** At Ayla's insistence, he went under the knife to try and get his old human appearance back. Much to her irritation, he felt disconnected from his old face and wondered if it was the right thing to do. |
| 982 | ** When it finally seemed that he'd gotten an handle on his life, finding family, purpose, and true love within the LSH, Ayla broke one of the legs off his footstool by leaving the Legion and asking him to come along. Though he begged her to stay, she left without him...and he became obsessed and frustrated, his mind slipping a bit, especially after she rejoined and refused to reconnect with him. |
| 983 | ** Prior to 5YL he got hit with strange radiation that interacted with the Zuunium in his system to give him a truly monstrous form, "Furball", which couldn't speak or think properly, and briefly slipped into a proper human form and mentality on rare occasions. |
| 984 | ** After this was reversed, both forms of radiation overwhelmed his system, and the entity known as Aria accidentally sent him back to the 20th century when trying to heal him, changed into a strange-half beast that had difficulty speaking. |
| 985 | ** Then he gets experimented on ''again'', and gets his whole intellect back for the first time in a while, albeit in yet another form. |
| 986 | ** Finally, '''finally''', he was sent back to the 30th century and seems to be doing okay, multi-versal time shenanigans aside. Sheesh! And they call ''Lightning Lad'' the unluckiest Legionnaire! |
| 987 | * MenDontCry: Why he never told anyone that he'd been suffering from chronic pain since getting injected with Zuunium as a child. His father was [[TheSocialDarwinist a Social Darwinist]] type, who raised him to never be "weak", to the point of extracting a promise of such from Brin as he lay dying. |
| 988 | * MistakenForCheating: After he was discovered (by his girlfriend, no less) holding Saturn Girl close for warmth and comfort while they were stranded on a frozen asteroid and promising to take care of her, a number of Legionnaires came to believe that they'd had, at the very least, an emotional affair. Ayla broke up with him over it. |
| 989 | * NecessaryDrawback: In 5YL his increasingly bestial body and eventual transformation into a therianthropic being turn out to have been drastically slowing or holding back an early death by Zuunium radiation for all these years. (How? Never mind that.) Once he's human again, he promptly gets right to the business of dying. |
| 990 | * OddFriendship: With Blok. |
| 991 | * OppositesAttract: He and Ayla were about as different as they could get, personality-wise. |
| 992 | * ParentalSubstitute: Apparition's baby boy Cub Nah began to see Brin as more of a father than his actual father, which is understandable because Brin was the only father figure in his life when he was first born. |
| 993 | * RealMenWearPink: His interactions with Cub Nah. |
| 994 | * RomanticFalseLead: Sometimes plays this role for Phantom Girl, against her [[OfficialCouple already-established relationship]] with Ultra Boy. |
| 995 | * ShipTease: A bit prior to Zero Hour, when he's been returned to a more humanoid form and White Witch is de-aged to a teenager and calling herself Jewel, she takes an interest in him. He's a bit uncomfortable about it, but we don't get to see how it turns out 'cause the universe ended. Ain't that always the way? |
| 996 | * SimplemindedWisdom: His simple, pragmatic nature helps him come up with solutions when his teammates might over-complicate matters. |
| 997 | * TheSocialDarwinist: Not him, but his father, who believed the Zuun's ecology was falling apart and so raised his son to survive by never showing weakness. |
| 998 | * SpellMyNameWithAnS: In this case it's his home planet, either Zoon (earliest) or Zuun (later on). |
| 999 | * SuperSenses: Another result of the Zuunium ray. |
| 1000 | * SuperStrength: Timber Wolf's strength level is several times that of a normal human. |
| 1001 | * TeamPet: "Furball" was this during 5YL, as no one knew better. He was particularly close to Kono. |
| 1002 | * TookALevelInJerkass: His Threeboot counterpart after he received a power upgrade. He became stronger and faster, but he also became more aggressive and threatening to his teammates. Slightly Justified by the reveal that Saturn Girl had been exerting a bit of control over his emotions to keep him in check for a while. |
| 1003 | ** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: One of his outbursts is caused when he's thanking, in his own way, future teammate Giselle for helping in a battle, and learning that the reason why she wasn't with the rest of the citizens in the safety zone was because the city manager locked her out on purpose. He then attempted to tear said manager's throat out before Saturn Girl intervened. Some of his other outbursts after that could be contributed to his overprotective nature with Princess Projectra. |
| 1004 | * WhatTheHellHero: Gave one to Chameleon Boy after his impulsive plan to spy on the Khunds got Brin and a few other Legionnaires stuck on an asteroid with little hope of rescue and led to the MistakenForCheating incident above. |
| 1005 | * WolverineClaws: Timber Wolf has sharpened claws on each hand. |
| 1006 | * WolverineWannabe: It should be noted that while Wolverine is the more famous example, Timberwolf actually predates Wolverine and may have been the one Wolverine ripped off. He bears a strong physical resemblance to Wolverine and having near-identical powers. |
| 1007 | * YourDaysAreNumbered: In 5YL, after Darkseid reverts Brin to human form from his "Furball" identity, his body starts falling apart the way you'd expect someone with radioactive material infused throughout their system, top to bottom, and then blasted with even ''more'' radiation would. |
| 1008 | [[/folder]] |
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