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Wildfire/ERG-1/NRG/Wildflame

AKA: Drake Burroughs

Homeworld: Earth

Abilities: Composed of anti-energy, energy blasts and manipulation, sees different wavelengths including X-Ray.

Drake Burroughs exists as a cloud of sentient antimatter energy in a containment suit. This grants him incredible powers, although he can never be truly human again. There have been two other primary versions of Wildfire in different Legion continuities. In the Reboot Legion, he is a composite of Atom'X and Blast-Off named Wildfire; in Prime Legion continuity he has taken the name ERG-1. His primary romantic interest is Dawnstar, despite their complications.

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• The Ageless: Energy doesn't age, so he'll be around for a good long while, unless something kills him.
• Atomic Superpower: Wildfire is composed of and can control antimatter.
• Blessed with Suck:
  • Wildfire cannot contain his form without a special suit and he cannot touch most beings without burning them. This places a burden on his love life and social abilities, and makes him quite short tempered.
  • At first Wildfire believed that he could only fire his anti-matter energy in a massive blast which would leave him dispersed. Thus he naturally refused to demonstrate this power at the Legion tryouts, and so was rejected as his other powers were redundant. After unleashing his power to save the Legionnaires on Manna-5, he learned how to control his anti-energy more efficiently in the process of re-assembling himself.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: As a student, Professor Vultan felt he had a lot of potential, but no self-discipline. Ironically, discipline is now incredibly important for him.
• Brutal Honesty: He and Quislet often got teamed up by writers for their banter, frankness and trash talk abilities.
• Can't Have Sex, Ever: Because he doesn't have a body. When he managed to put one together with the help of Quislet, his touch still burned Dawnstar.
• Clingy Costume: Without his ERG-suit, Wildfire is just a mass of anti-energy, shapeless and largely unable to interact with the rest of the world.
• Commander Contrarian: He often serves as a voice of dissent, even if it means playing Devil's Advocate, in order to make people explain their rationale behind opinion or decisions.
• Dangerous Forbidden Technique: Using his powers at too high a level can damage or destroy his Containment Suit. He keeps spares.

• Determinator: It takes strong willpower to keep himself from dispersing when outside of his suit. It takes even more to reassemble himself if he is dispersed.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: Wildfire was killed off in the Noodle Incident known as Black Dawn, when he merged his energy with the sun in order to restore it after Dr. Regulus made it unstable. He eventually managed to return, however.
• Energy Beings: He is pure anti-matter energy.
• Flight: He can self-propel at speeds quick enough for casual intergalactic flight whether in a suit or not, though it's safer with the suit, since he doesn't have to concentrate on keeping together as well.
• Fling a Light into the Future: His devotion to the Legion is just as endless as his lifespan, thus he's the light who in the 57th Century restores the Legion from darkness. He's so good at it there's a Legion in the 853rd century.
• Fusion Dance: Postboot, Wildfire was created by the fusion of the powers and souls of two dead heroes, Randall "Atom'X" Burroughs and Jahr-Drake "Blast-Off" Ningle.
• Handicapped Badass: He's reliant on puppeting his containment suits around to interact with the world. In addition, like a spacesuit, the suits aren't constructed with the full range of motion that a living body would have. Hence he's unable to perform much in the way of, say, martial arts because the techniques are too complicated.
• The Heart: Postboot, but not in the main series itself. Two Flash Forward series—Legends of the Dead Earth and DC One Million—show Wildfire as the only surviving member of the original Legion in both the 57th and 853rd centuries, respectively, having kept the Legion name alive all that time.
• Heroic Sacrifice:
  • At first it was thought that he'd died saving three Legionnaires on the planet Manna-5, but he'd only damaged his suit so badly it couldn't contain him any longer. He was out of commission until he managed to reassemble himself via force of will, something that would come to happen more than once.
  • However, he seemed to have destroyed himself permanently when he was forced to use his power to re-ignite the sun. Not quite.
• Hot-Blooded: Passionate and impetuous.
• I Am a Monster: One of his first reactions after his accident was to call himself a "thing", and claim that he wasn't even human anymore. After he was forced to shoot his terrified former girlfriend's car in order to save a bunch of kids she was fleeing toward when her car went out of control, he used this trope by name.
• I Am Not Left-Handed: As he was under the false impression that if he used his anti-matter energy as a blast it would destroy the suit and kill him, he attempted the join the Legion based upon the powers his original suit allowed him to imitate, and was rejected since they were all redundant. After he revealed his incredibly strong energy powers at the cost of damaging his first suit, he reformed himself (now with much greater control than before) and joined based on said abilities.
• Incompletely Trained: Quislet was teaching him how to create a body with his powers, but ended up being forced back to Teall for good. Without his help, Drake was unable to maintain his body and was forced back into a suit.
• Intangibility: In his energy form, he can pass through solid things, but not force fields.
• Interspecies Friendship: Reboot Wildfire grew close to Shikari, a Kwai. Of course, as an formerly-human energy being, any friendship he makes is technically this nowadays.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy:
  • Decided to let his pre-accident girlfriend continue believing he was dead in order to allow her to move on and find love again.
  • Even though he and Dawnstar love each other, his status as an (basically) immortal energy being leads to their relationship being very difficult, and not just in the physical way. He's willing, even encouraging toward her finding something closer to home—but the thought doesn't make him happy.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's got a sharp tongue and an abrasive attitude, but he's firmly dedicated to the Legion.
• Logical Weakness: Being composed of energy, he can be affected by devices or powers designed to absorb or manipulate energy.
• My God, What Have I Done?: In 5YL, he was deeply shocked to see the state of Dirk's body when he possessed it, and too ashamed of his technical desecration of the dead to come clean to his teammates and Dawnstar about it.
• No Biological Sex: Because a cloud of pure anti-energy would look weird with dangly bits. He still thinks of himself as male, however.
• No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup: His original Containment Suit.
• One Size Fits All: Averted in regards to his Containment Suits.
  • His original suit was designed by the now-dead Professor Vultan and allowed him to utilize his energy in flexible ways, and thus mimic the powers of several other Legionnaires. It was destroyed by his first Heroic Sacrifice.
  • Every suit since then has been an imperfect copy, nowhere near as as comfortable (according to him) nor as efficient, and the powers they provide (if any) tend to be far less versatile. They all let him use Super-Strength, Flight and energy blasts, at the very least though, and his Super-Senses and X-Ray Vision appear to be inherent to himself.
• Powered Armor: His various Contaimment Suits operate this way, super-tough and allowing him to use his energy to replicate Super-Strength, FTL Flight, and Energy Blasts, among other things.
• Second Love: During his college days, Drake had been seeing a young lady named Kerri, who thought he was dead after his accident. Afterward, he fell for Professor Vultan's daughter, and believed she felt the same. It's not clear if this was the case or she thought leading him on would make it easier to keep him around. (See Unwitting Instigator of Doom)
• Sense Loss Sadness: Sight and hearing are all he has left.
• Soul Jar: In 5YL,having just barely been able to reassemble himself from his Heroic Sacrifice, the exhausted Wildfire, with solar energies mixed in with his anti-matter energies, felt himself slipping away. Desperate for a safe receptacle to place his combined energies into before he dispersed for good, he found Sun Boy's corpse on Shangalla and stuck himself inside it. He spent a while hiding the truth within his containment suit, before having to reveal himself during Zero Hour.
• Star-Crossed Lovers: With Dawnstar.
• Superpower Lottery: A being of pure anti-matter energy, Wildfire possessed a variety of superhuman abilities, depending on which Containment Suit he's wearing.
  • Flight: He could travel at faster than light speeds without the aid of external applications.
  • Hand Blast: Wildfire could produce concentrated blasts of pure energy for offensive attack.
  • Nigh-Invulnerability: Although Wildfire's containment suit can be destroyed, his energy body is virtually invulnerable and can only be dispersed under the most extreme of conditions. Even then, most of the time he could use his willpower to reassemble.
  • Sizeshifter: He could expand his mass and volume several times greater than normal, allowing him to achieve heights similar to that of Colossal Boy, or contract it to shrink like Shrinking Violet.
  • Super-Senses: He seems to be able to perceive wavelengths beyond normal human senses, sometimes bolstered by whatever suit he's wearing.
  • Super-Strength: He, or rather his suits, possessed a strength level many times greater than that of the average human. This seems to be consistent across suits.
  • Super-Toughness: His suits have this by necessity.
  • X-Ray Vision: Like his teammate, Superboy, Wildfire possessed the ability to see through varying layers of solid objects. This seems to be inherent to himself rather than his suit.
• That Man Is Dead:
  • After his accident, Vultan had to break it to him that his life as Drake Burroughs, normal human, was no more.
  • Reboot Wildfire says as much of the two people who were fused together to create him.
• Unable to Cry: After discovering he was no longer human and life as he'd known it was over, you can bet he gave it a shot, but a cloud of pure energy doesn't have tear ducts.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom:
  • Unbeknownst to Drake, the reason Vultan had a Containment Suit ready so quickly after Drake's accident was because Vultan was terminally ill and had planned to use the suit to prolong his own life. Vultan unselfishly chose to sacrifice his chance at using it for his student's sake...
  • ...While Vultan and his daughter Zera were helping him adapt to his suit, however, Zera was also secretly siphoning portions of his energy and using them to extend her unknowing father's lifespan. But when Drake left Earth for over a year with Vultan's blessing, the good doctor died. Drake didn't know about this until Zera tried to kill him for revenge by draining him to death.
• Was Once a Man: Drake was originally an astroengineering student. While he was doing work on a new propulsion system, the unit's safety valve snapped and discharged a blast of anti-matter energy. He was engulfed instantly but somehow his consciousness survived and Drake found himself transformed into a being of pure anti-energy.

Tyroc

AKA: Troy Stewart

Homeworld: Marzal

Abilities: Sonic manipulation

Born on Earth, he has reality-warping screams that give him many different abilities. His home is the racial separatist island Marzal. They are a highly advanced society descended from African slaves, who exist in a dimension that only appears to Earth once every several years. During the Five Years Later era, he briefly succeeded Invisible Kid to become President of Earth. There is no counterpart to Tyroc in Reboot Legion continuity. In Prime Legion continuity, Tyroc is briefly depicted as an urban legend.

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• The Chains of Commanding: Being the protector of Marzal meant prioritizing the safety of the island over his Legion duties, so he went on few Legion missions.
• Characterization Marches On: Paul Levitz, despite ignoring him in the 1980s, has devoted enough effort in the current Legion volume to move Tyroc beyond his previous "angry black man" personality and make him likable. For the most part, it's worked.

• Commonality Connection: Both he (protector of Marzal) and Shadow Lass (protector of Talok VIII) clicked right away.
• Expy: Marzal is an isolationist black nation with highly advanced technology. Black Panther, anyone?
• Famous Ancestor: Tyroc is the direct descendant of St'balla, who had led the revolt against the slavers.
• Fish out of Temporal Water: Essentially. Marzal is an island populated by would-be slaves who'd fought off their captors and shipwrecked. Their heavily isolationist tendencies led to the outside world not noticing their island whenever it manifested outside its pocket dimension, leading Marzal's people to come to the conclusion that they were being deliberately snubbed and abandoned. When the island appeared in the 30th Century it took a while for Tyroc and the other inhabitants to realize that 30th Century society wasn't what they thought it was and integrate.
• Heroic Sacrifice: During Zero Hour, he went out trying to scream a dimensional hole big enough for Earth to escape through. It didn't work.
• Humans Are White: In the Silver Age, the Legion of Super-Heroes featured many aliens but no black human or Human Alien members. Tyroc was added as the angry black man that was a common sort of Token Minority back in the day. Supposedly, in the 30th century, the world is above caring about things like race, but the meddling executives, very much of that point in the 20th century, weren't quite up to having a black character as just another guy instead of The Black Guy.
  "I always wanted to have a character who was African-American, and years later, when they did that, they did it in the worst way possible....instead of just incidentally having a character who happens to be black...they made a big fuss about it. He's a racial separatist....I just found it pathetic and appalling." -Jim Shooter
• Last of His Kind: Marzal originated on an Earth that was destroyed during the Crisis, leaving its people the only survivors of that world after it happened. Later, the Dominators destroyed Marzal, leaving Troy as one of the few survivors.
• Leotard of Power: A rare male example, as Mike Grell disliked the character and was intentionally trying to make his outfit as stupid and appalling as possible.
• Navel-Deep Neckline: A rare male example, some of his outfit has a v-cut that reached his navel.
• New Powers as the Plot Demands: His superpowered screams can do basically whatever the writer likes. He could do nearly anything, from teleportation to pyrokinesis to... making it rain glue. The character was soon written out; common wisdom is that the writers had no idea what to do with him. In his reintroduction he seems to have been Retconned into having more conventional Banshee/Black Canary scream powers.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Mike Grell has stated that Tyroc was inspired by actor and football player Fred "The Hammer" Williamson.
• Protectorate: Of Marzal.
• Put on a Bus: After several adventures, it turned out that the frequent use of his scream was causing Marzal to leave our dimension earlier than usual, and he chose to leave with them.
• Reality Warper: His scream lets him do this, in short.
• Reluctant Ruler: After Jacques Foccart left his position as President of the UP to rejoin the Legion, Troy, as his VP was thrust into the position, to his dismay.
• Stripperiffic: Grell's dislike of Tyroc was strong enough that he intentionally made his outfit stupid, comparing it to a cross between Elvis and a football player.
• Super-Scream: He possesses a sonic scream; the pitch, volume, and words of his scream could initially vary to produce a variety of different effects.
• Teleportation: This was one of the more commonly used of his reality-warping powers, particularly as the Legion had no teleporting members.
• Vanishing Village: Marzal Island manifests on a random alternate Earth as an island off the coast of Africa for thirty years before vanishing back into its pocket dimension for two hundred years. In 1579, Tyroc's ancestor St'balla led a slave revolt during a tempest, which led to the ship crashing on Marzal.

Dawnstar

Homeworld: Starhaven

Abilities: Flight, interstellar tracking powers

Born on the planet Starhaven colonized centuries earlier by Native Americans, her abilities include flight and long-range tracking. Her longest-running relationship is with teammate Wildfire.

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• Adaptational Sexuality: Pre-Crisis and Five Years Later, she was only ever shown being attracted to men. When she was brought back in the Retroboot, it was blatantly implied she had been in a relationship with a woman on Thanagar. Her Bendisboot counterpart is later confirmed to identify as bisexual.
• Batman Can Breathe in Space: Not only can she survive in space without a suit, she even can use winged flight when there's no atmosphere. Eat that, physics!
• Because Destiny Says So: When she went on a traditional Vision Quest to find who her ideal mate was, the signs seemed to point to Wildfire, whom she already had feelings for. Unfortunately, his situation is...complicated, to say the least.
• Braids, Beads and Buckskins: She lives in the 30th century on another planet, but wears a fringed buckskin dress and boots anyhow. Justified by her planet having been colonized by 13th Century Native Americans transported there by aliens.
• Broken Angel: Dawnstar in v4 lost her wings after being possessed for three years by Bounty, a thrill-seeking entity that used her tracking powers to go into business as a bounty hunter. The reason for this was never explained, but it sure was EDGY.
• Brutal Honesty: She doesn't hold herself back when speaking her mind, and often gives her teammates harsh criticism.
• Demonic Possession: After the Time Skip following the "Magic Wars", she got possessed by an evil entity called Bounty, who amputated her wings and forced her to use her tracking powers to become an assassin.

• Flight: Dawnstar and other Starhavenites have pairs of large, white-feathered wings that grow out of their upper backs, the result of genetic engineering. In deep space, she can travel at faster-than-light speeds, easily matching Superboy, Mon-el, Wildfire, etc. In an Earth-normal atmosphere or in a sizable gravity well, her speed is diminished.
• Good Is Not Nice: While she's a loyal member and a dedicated hero, she has an abrasive personality and would often butt head with other heroes.
• Hot-Blooded: She has a passionate and opinionated attitude.
• Interspecies Friendship: Like many Legionnaires of her generation, she befriended the part-Kryptonian Laurel Kent. And like many Legionnaires, she was burned in 5YL when "Laurel" turned out to be a Manhunter android and went evil-ish.
• Interspecies Romance: Technically, since Mama Burroughs' boy ain't exactly human any more.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Like her tutor Wildfire, Dawnstar can be highly critical of others' failings, but her sharp tongue is matched by her loyalty.
• Magical Native American: Well, Genetically-Engineered Native American.
• Master of the Mixed Message: Due in large part to her own uncertainties about Drake and his condition. His uncertainties don't exactly help, either.
• Most Common Superpower: Portrayed with maximum cleavage and big breasts.
• Ms. Fanservice: Her original costume was a revealing yellow dress of Native American design, with a plunging neckline and long ornamental fringes on the sleeves and boot cuffs. This costume design went virtually unchanged throughout most of the original continuity. She would also get a lot of gratuitos fanservice scenes, such as taking showers, getting dressed or sleeping in the buff.
• Navel-Deep Neckline: She usually wears a yellow outfit whose neckline shows her cleavage and midriff.
• Protectorate: As a youth she devoted her earnings as a guide, bounty hunter, and tracker-for-hire to funding Starhaven's defenses against the hostile planets of the Core. She agreed to join the Legion Academy after Brande offered her a matching salary.
• Scarily Competent Tracker: Dawnstar has powerful psychic tracking abilities and can track life forms and objects across light years of distance and through interstellar space. She can even use this ability while unconscious, asleep, under mind control, intoxicated and sensory blinded.
• Sleeps in the Nude: She's shown to sleep in the nude, and when sharing a room with Laurel. Supposedly is to illustrate her connection to nature as a Magical Native American.
• Star-Crossed Lovers: Her relationship with Wildfire is fraught with difficulties as he is a formerly-human Energy Being trapped inside a containment suit. And then later animating a corpse. No nookie here.
• Super-Speed: Her Starhaven Physiology allows her to fly at incredibly high speed, to the point she's able to travel in space by herself.
• Will They or Won't They?: Dawnstar had a lengthy romance with fellow Legionnaire Drake Burroughs (Wildfire). Wildfire was an anti-energy being in a containment suit, and thus had no physical body. When he briefly was able to partially reverse this, they attempted a physical relationship, but were unsuccessful. Ultimately, she decided that body or not, he was the one for her, but by then he was animating a corpse and too ashamed of it to reveal the truth.
• Winged Humanoid: Though descended from Earth humans, Dawnstar possesses natural wings. This is a common physical trait of her people however, and is not considered unusual by the standards of Starhaven culture.

Blok

Homeworld: Dryad

Abilities: Super-strength, durability, energy reflection/deflection

The only member of his race to survive the destruction of the planet Dryad, Blok's stony physiology makes him incredibly strong and durable. He is a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes, although he originally appeared as a member of the League of Super-Assassins, a group of brainwashed villains who were tricked and brainwashed by the Dark Man into thinking the doomed planet Dryad had been destroyed by the Legion. Unlike the other members, he was a native of said planet. His long-term romantic interest is the White Witch.

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• Arch-Enemy: His former colleagues among the League of Super-Assassins want him for themselves after they join the LSV.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: Although he understands good and evil, he finds the nuances of organic behavior difficult to understand at times.
• Breath Weapon: Eventually he develops strange "pipes" on his shoulders that spew energy when he's upset.
• Commonality Connection: He and the White Witch felt isolated from their teammates, and found solace in each other.
• Energy Absorption: Owing to his silicon-based nature. He can also reflect it.

• Heel–Face Turn: After learning that the Legionnaires had been helping evacuate Dryad, he shook off whatever brainwashing had affected him and offered his aid to stop the Dark Man.
• Immune to Mind Control:
  • He is highly resistant to telepathic attack or possession, as seen when Esper Lass failed to possess him during the attack of the Legion of Super-Villains.
  • The Dark Man's brainwashing affected him, but not as badly as the other members of the Super-Assassins, likely due to the resistance mentioned above.
• Interspecies Friendship: He seems drawn other Legionnaires with unusual appearances, such as White Witch and Timber Wolf.
• Interspecies Romance: Although crush on Mysa Nal is (to all appearances) one-sided in the early comics, it's reciprocated after she becomes the Black Witch.
• Last of His Kind: Blok is possibly the last of his people, convinced at first by The Dark Man that the Legion was trying to destroy Dryad when they were actually trying to save it. Later, signs turn up that his people may exist on something besides a physical level.
• Metamorphosis: Knowing nothing of his race, he suspects he may be entering a pupal form of some sort after his body starts undergoing strange changes. We never get to see how he would've turned out, since Roxxas kills him.
• Mighty Glacier: His massive size makes him slow and sometimes clumsy. He has to wear three flight rings.
• Multiple-Choice Past: In the Legion of Super-Assassin's first appearance, he was implied to have been a mutated human. Once it was decided to make him a recurring character this was changed.
• Nigh-Invulnerability: He is far more durable than a normal human, and can probably withstand impacts and pressures that could severely injure or kill a human with no discomfort.
• No-Sell: Against energy attacks, or attacks which only work on organics.
• Odd Friendship: Blok seemed to have an interest in people with unusual appearances, like Timber Wolf and White Witch.
• Only Sane Man: Since the Dark Man's brainwashing didn't take as well with his alien brain, Blok was disturbed by the cruelty and violence of his comrades in the Super-Assassins.
• Sacrificial Lamb: His FYL counterpart. His death at the hands of Roxxas was what nudged the Legion into finally reforming.
• Scars Are Forever: He debuted with a formation of stone around his neck in the shape of a collar and large nose. They both got broken off.
• Super-Strength: He is many times stronger than a normal human being, although his strength level is unknown.
• Token Good Teammate: Shown to have a sense of honor and responsibility from the start, unlike his more-brainwashed fellow assassins.
• Warrior Poet: He has a more reflective and philosophical frame of mind than many among the Legion, and this is reflected in his thoughts and speech. He also appreciates art and beauty.

Invisible Kid II

AKA: Jacques Foccart

Homeworld: Earth

Abilities: Invisibility, formerly Uncontrolled Teleportation and Dimensional Travel

Jacques Foccart is the successor of Lyle Norg (Invisible Kid I), who drank Norg's serum to save the world from Computo.

Jacques's younger sister, suffering from a strange energy overload in her nervous system, seemed beyond help until the Foccart family was contacted by Dr. Gmy'll, who told them about how Brainiac 5 of the Legion had come across their daughter's case in a medical journal and believed he could cure her strange malady.

Accompanying his sister to Legion Headquarters, he watched nervously as Dream Girl and Brainiac began scanning and repairing his sister's brain. Unbeknownst to him, Brainiac had incorporated the advanced circuitry of Computo, his computer who had gained an evil sentience long ago, into the implants he placed within Danielle's brain, and the malevolent AI not only took control of poor Danielle, but (by possessing the computers via the scanner) all of Legion HQ.

As the computer inside his sister's body taunted Brainiac Five and Jacques, the brilliant Coluan managed to palm a telepathic earplug into Jacques's hand and shared a fantastic plan with him: Within the infirmary, there was a sample of the invisibility serum invented by Lyle Norg, aka Invisible Kid. Jacques could take it, become invisible, and work against Computo, who was trapped within a weak human body. However, there was a chance that stopping Computo would kill Danielle (though she was dying anyway due to Possession Burnout). Also, since the serum was designed for Lyle Norg's DNA, it might cause an allergic reaction within Jacques body that could prove fatal. Jacques, after a bit of debate, chose to take the risk.

With Computo's focus entirely upon its hated creator, Jacques was able to access the serum and drink it. As Computo faced the Legionnaires on multiple fronts, Jacques got his hands on a hypo disc which he used to knock out Danielle's body.

Danielle survived her separation, and in light of his courageous actions, Jacques Foccart was voted into the Legion, just in time for The Great Darkness Saga. During his first official case, he came into contact with Darkseid himself, who could not only see him, but chose to allow him to live as homage to his courage, albeit forever marked with a streak of white hair.

During the Five-Year Gap, he stuck with the Legion, until he couldn't accept Earthgov's abuse of them anymore, and formed a resistance cell against the corrupt government, which several former Legionnaires and Subs would end up joining. He also married Drura Sept, aka Infectious Lass. It was he who gave the speech which convinced the lower castes of Dominator society to no longer support the oppressive ruling class who were pressuring them into war.

After the Dominators were driven away, Earth destroyed and New Earth established, he unhappily found himself named the President of New Earth. However, when the Adult Legion and the Legion consisting of SW6 members were formed, he happily rejoined the former and left running New Earth to Tyroc.

In Reboot Legion continuity, there is a version of Jacques who becomes a government spy.

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• Accidental Murder: Jacques was fighting the Khund Wharlik when his adrenaline-based teleportation kicked in and sent them both into space. Jacques had his transuit, which protected him, but Wharlik had no such thing and died. Horrified, Jacques decided to have Doctor Gym'll remove his teleportation powers so something like that wouldn't happen again.
• Affirmative-Action Legacy: Hails from Côte d'Ivoire and is both black and French. Well, the first part counts.
• Commonality Connection: Let me count the ways:
  • White Witch understood how he felt as a "newbie".
  • As a member of the Legion Espionage Squad, he was close with all its members.
  • Having come face-to-face in with death (in the form of Darkseid) and overcoming his fear, he formed a respectful bond with Sensor Girl who had had similar experiences.
• Die or Fly: In spite of having no training, Foccart performed admirably in what might be considered an informal first Legion mission.
• Dimensional Traveler: This and Teleportation were adrenaline-activated powers caused by Jacques's DNA being different from Lyle Norg's. Eventually, they proved too dangerous and had to be removed.
• '80s Hair: Has a long, fluffy mullet during 5YL. (Some artists salvage this by making it a ponytail instead).
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Inverted. In spite of their own differences with each other, Jacques had so many Commonality Connections with the other Legionnaires that he fit right in.
• Gratuitous French:
  • 'e 'as got la fantistique aczent. Plus perfect, non?
  • By 5YL it's toned down. Much better, n'est-ce pas?
• Humans Are White: One of the characters who averts this.
• Interspecies Romance: With Infectuous Lass in 5YL.
• Invisibility: Like his predecessor Lyle Norg, Foccart can become undetectable via light waves in the range of human vision. Unlike Norg (at least Preboot), Foccart was invisible to other levels of EM detection as well.
• Legacy Character: In the original continuity is the successor of Lyle Norg (Invisible Kid I).
• Locked into Strangeness: He got the white streak in his hair from being touched by Darkseid.
• Morton's Fork: Between possibly dying from an allergic reaction to Lyle Norg's invisibility serum or definitely dying at Computo's hands, along with his sister and Brainiac 5, Jacques knew there was only one choice.
• My God, What Have I Done?: He treats the death of Wharlik as this, in spite of not really being responsible.
• No Biochemical Barriers: Zigzagged. Although Lyle Norg's invisibility serum had been specifically tuned to his own genetic profile, Jacques managed to safely drink it without a fatal allergic reaction, and even gained invisibility as Norg did. However, he also developed uncontrollable and adrenaline-triggered teleportation/dimensional travel, presenting a different danger altogether.
• Power Incontinence:
  • Preboot, Thanks to his DNA being different from Lyle Norg's, he developed teleportation and dimensional travel as unexpected side-effects from the serum. However, they were activated by adrenaline and he couldn't control where he ended up, which meant that every time he was startled, or angry, or fighting, he might get sent who-knows-where. Thus, after he accidentally teleported himself and Wharlik, a Khund he was fighting, into space, he had it removed. At least one incarnation has them back/never lost them, however.
  • Postboot, Jacques was permanently invisible.
• Reluctant Ruler: He hated being President of New Earth and happily left Troy Stewart/Tyroc in charge so he could rejoin the Legion.
• Super Serum: He took Lyle Norg's original invisibility serum. However, since he was genetically different from Norg's, his invisibility works slightly differently, and he gained Teleportation/Dimensional Traveler powers as well.
• Teleportation: This and Dimensional Traveler were adrenaline-activated powers caused by Jacques's DNA being different from Lyle Norg's. Eventually, they proved too dangerous and had to be removed.
• Token Minority: Introduced shortly after Tyroc was Put on a Bus, he was the only Black Legionnaire for writer Paul Levitz’s decade-long run.

White Witch/Jewel/Black Witch

AKA: Mysa Nal

Homeworld: Naltor (Preboot); Sorcerer's World (Postboot)

Abilities: Sorcery

She was born on the planet Naltor where natives have the ability to see the future, but did not share this gift with other Naltorians. Because of her handicap, she studied magic on the Sorcerer's World and became extremely powerful. Her sister is Dream Girl, and her longest romantic partner is Blok.

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• All of the Other Reindeer: Mordru, fearing her power, sabotaged the rite which would show her maturity as a sorcerer and secretly cursed her with the visage of a horrible witch from Zerox's history. This was believed to be a sign of some hidden evil within her, and the people of Zerox shunned her.
• Anti-Hero: Seems to have become this in the Retroboot, due to absorbing Mordru's magic and becoming the Black Witch.
• Arch-Enemy: Mordru. Once her teacher, he feared her power and nearly destroyed her life.
• Black Eyes of Evil: As the Black Witch, her eyes are totally black.
• Break the Cutie: Previously depicted as a slightly shy, bookish type in a (platonic?) relationship with teammate Blok. At the start of v4, she was shown to be in an abusive marriage with former archnemesis Mordru. She was rescued by the reconstituted Legion just in time to discover that Blok had been brutally mutilated by genocidal pirate Roxxas the Butcher.
• Commonality Connection: Due to her eldritch ways and personal reserve, Mysa feels isolated around other people. Blok, as the last member of his race, feels the same.
• Dark Is Not Evil: As the Black Witch. Or at least, she's trying not to be. Having absorbed all of Mordru's evil energy makes it a struggle.
• Dating Catwoman: During the Five-Year Gap, she fell in love with Mordru, who had lost much of his power and become an apparently more even-tempered person. Believing that he had truly changed for the better, and that she could help him in his reformation, she even became one of his many wives. We all make mistakes.
• Disability Superpower: She is born on a planet of precognitive seers, but without that ability herself. She did, however, show an innate talent for magic and eventually became one of the most powerful sorceresses in the galaxy.
• Domestic Abuse: Thanks to his mixed jealousy and fear of her power, as well as his unstable "love" for her, Mordru subjected her to horrible abuse, until her self-esteem was shattered.
• Dreaming of Things to Come: She can't do this, unlike the rest of her species... except in the Retroboot continuity, where she can, only Mordru doesn't want her doing it.
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: As the Black Witch, her hair goes completely dark, while her skin remains pale.
• Evil Mentor: The wicked sorcerer Mordru was one of her teachers.
• Fisher King: As the Black Witch, she's the ruler of Sorceror's World. It looks a lot nicer than when Mordy was in charge, even if she hasn't gotten all the people stuck in the walls out.
• Fountain of Youth:
  • In both the original and postboot continuities, the White Witch was "the Hag," a wizened old crone, as a result of Mordru's curse. She got better (and younger).
  • During a battle with Glorith, she was youthened into a teenager again and took the sobriquet of "Jewel".
• Heel–Face Turn: Embittered by rejection she faced from her own people and the Zeroxians, twisted into hideous form and tricked into believing a great evil lay inside her Mysa was vulnerable to Evillo's persuasion and joined his Devil's Dozen as The Hag. But Nura, her sister, never lost faith in her and came up with a cure for Mordru's curse which restored her original self. Mysa then found true friends among the Legion and shook off the pain of her past.
• Heroic BSoD: Near the beginning of v4, following being rescued from her abusive marriage and seeing her previous love interest Blok get butchered.
• Heroic Host: Eventually, she became the human host for the magic thought lost during the Magic War, and for Amethyst of Gemworld.
• Locked into Strangeness: A lifetime of studying magic and being exposed to eldritch energies made her into an albino with the attendant stark white hair.
• The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body:
  • As The Hag, she seemed every bit the wicked witch she appeared to be. This was probably due to bitterness at her situation.
  • When she was de-aged a second time, she apparently took the opportunity to make up for all the fun times her studies had cost her the first time she was a teen.
• Muggle Born of Mages: Played with. Unlike other native Naltorians, she had no natural precognition abilities. It turned out that instead, she had an astonishing gift for magic.
• Mystical White Hair: In Preboot she was born a redhead, but her intense magical studies turned her hair and skin white.
• Power Tattoo: Postboot.
• Power Dyes Your Hair: After merging with the spirit and power of Amethyst of Gemworld, her hair turned purple.
• Power-Upgrading Deformation: The deeper her studies into magic, the more her body changed.
• Psychosomatic Superpower Outage: As her husband, Mordru did his best to destroy her will and suppress her power. It worked, too, until Bouncing Boy helped her make the first steps to recovery.
• Reforged into a Minion: Mordru altered her into the Hag, a magical henchmen for Prince Evillo, who shows up an issue before her curse is broken and we meet the real Mysa Nal.
• Ship Tease:
  • Blok developed a crush on her, which it wasn't clear whether or not she reciprocated, although she regarded him as a good friend. In the restored timeline, they get together.
  • After Blok is killed, and she's de-aged into a teenager again, she and Timber Wolf are teased together.
• Shrinking Violet: Given her poor experiences early in life, it's not hard to see why she feels uncomfortable around others.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: She and Brainiac were never pals, and the breaking point came when he planned to use the comatose Jaxon Rugarth/Infinite Man against the Time Trapper without regard for Rugarth's safety. She blew up at him and Polar Boy, then resigned from the Legion.
• Then Let Me Be Evil: Not knowing what had gone wrong with her ceremony, Mysa believed that the Zeroxians were right when they claimed that she had some great evil inside her. Believing herself irredeemable and that she had no place else to go, she accepted Prince Evillo's offer to join his Devil's Dozen under the sobriquet of The Hag.
• Unrelated in the Adaptation: Reboot White Witch isn't related to Dream Girl.
• Vancian Magic: She is able to cast a variety of spells, creating a strong force field, transmutation, absorbing magic, creating massive teleportation portals, and other feats. However, she could only commit to spells if she remembers them, added with the time-consuming preparation for her to use her powers, which could take hours.
• Wicked Witch: Her Postboot incarnation invoked this trope in her appearance, though she was more amoral than evil. Then she got de-aged into an attractive twenty-something and became a lot more pleasant.

Polar Boy

AKA: Brek Bannin

Homeworld: Tharr

Abilities: Cold control

Born on the planet Tharr, he has the natural ability to create and control ice. Originally rejected by the Legion, he founded the Legion of Substitute Heroes. The real Legion accepted him when he learned to control his powers.In Reboot Legion continuity, Polar Boy is only ever a member of the Substitute Heroes; while in Prime Legion continuity, Polar Boy is a member of the Wanderers who can slow down molecular movement.

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• Artificial Limbs: He lost the major part of his right arm to Tusker, and replaced with a fully functioning new arm made of ice.

• Big Brother Mentor: Although he joined the Legion at the same time as Tellus and Magnetic Kid, his years of experience with the Subs meant they looked up to him as this.
• Butt-Monkey: Like many of the Substitute Heroes, he occasionally found himself the butt of comic relief. His reputation as a Sub proved to be something of an impediment as a Legionnaire to those who didn't know better. And then he got elected leader, after which shit hit the fan from all directions.
• The Chains of Commanding: He took leadership during the most tumultuous time for the Legion, and had to deal with certain teammates who looked down on him for a perceived lack of experience and competence. His own lack of confidence didn't help much.
• Convection, Schmonvection: Justified. He can project cold well enough to survive at the center of the earth. Now, how he breathes is another question.
• Darkest Hour: Take your pick: was it when the Legion battled the Time Trapper twice? Starfinger twice? Maybe the rise of the Manhunters or the Magic War, when his friend Magnetic Kid was killed? Or how about Black Dawn, and afterward when (Dominator-controlled) Earthgov started actively oppressing the Legion? Poor guy had to be Leader for all of that, de facto or otherwise. Not to mention he had to be the guy who formally ended the Legion, even though he'd wanted to be a member practically his entire life.
• Handicapped Badass: In Retroboot, Polar Boy's arm was ripped off by Earth-Man. He replaced with a prosthetic made of ice that he animates with his powers.
• An Ice Person: His cryo abilities are native to a select group of people of Tharr, who require it to compensate for the super-heated atmosphere of their home world. He can reduce the heat around himself or other objects, creating a drop in temperature ranging from mild to intense. Because of this, Brek can withstand hotter than normal temperatures. Usually, when he makes an item very cold, ice or frost will condense on its surface.
• Inadequate Inheritor: Since he'd only been a member of the Legion proper for a year when he was elected leader, he tended to find himself having to prove his leadership chops against his more experienced colleagues. Brainiac 5 quit outright when Polar Boy censured him and the other members of the conspiracy to destroy the Time Trapper.
• The Leader: Polar Boy has served as the leader of the Legion of Substitute Heroes for the entirety of their tenure. His optimism and eagerness have cultivated a strong feeling of friendship and respect among his fellow Subs. His compassion is matched only by his dedication and he is quick-witted and a strategic thinker.
• Logical Weakness: Intense heat will negate the effects of Polar Boy's powers.
• Older Than They Look: Tharrians age more slowly than Earth humans, so he spent a good deal of time as kind of a shrimp. It's one of the reasons he got turned down, as he looked somewhat below the Legion's cutoff age.
• Power Incontinence: Got so excited during his initial Legion tryout that he froze the whole room.
• Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: He's got a talent for putting these together and making them effective. Examples include the Legion of Substitute Heroes, and the band he put together to overthrow Evillo's tyranny of Tartarus.
• Took a Level in Badass: Retroboot.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: Kept the dream of the Legion alive when Earthgov was trying to destroy it, and even somehow believed that he'd get a fair trial from Earthgov after protesting them. Thankfully, Matter-Eater Lad managed to outmaneuver Earthgov by playing the publicity game.

Magnetic Kid

AKA: Pol Krinn

Homeworld: Braal

Abilities: Magnetism manipulation

Pol Krinn is Magnetic Kid, the younger brother of Rokk Krinn aka Cosmic Boy, who followed in his older brother's footsteps by becoming a magnoball champion, even though his powers were considerably weaker.

He became a student of the Legion Academy after a terrorist "fireballing" (think firebombing but nuclear-based) killed his and Rokk's mother, then joined the Legion after his brother retired to an advisory position.

During the Magic War, when a sacrifice was necessary to lower the barrier the Archmage had placed around the Sorcerer's World of Zerox, Pol offered himself up without hesitation. This action would prove instrumental in saving the universe from the Archmage.

Rokk and his wife Lydda would name their newborn son in his honor.

In the Reboot, Pol never joined the Legion, remaining a champion magnoball player.

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• Always Second Best: Pol is Cosmic Boy's younger brother, and the preboot incarnation of the character struggles with living in his older brother's shadow and finding a way to live up to his example. It ends in tragedy.
• Death by Origin Story: He was perfectly happy living a normal life until the terrorist fireballing of Metropolis, which severely injured himself and his father and killed his mother. As he recovered, Pol re-evaluated his beliefs and decided to turn his talents toward protecting the innocent.
• Decomposite Character: Postboot, Magnetic Kid's role is split between Pol Krinn (Rokk's younger brother, now a successful pro magno-ball player who never joins the Legion) and Magno (the young Braalian Legionnaire who has difficulty related to being overshadowed by Cos).
• Extra-ore-dinary: As a Braalian, Magnetic Kid controls magnetism and can use it to manipulate metals.
• Flight: like his brother, he can manipulate magnetic waves in order to fly under his own power.
• Force and Finesse: Rokk had the good fortune to be born with incredibly potent magnetic abilities by Braalian standards, but Pol is only barely above average. As a result, he chose to focus his training around accuracy and finesse in order to use what he did have more effectively, as well as distinguishing his methods from his brother's.
• Heroic Sacrifice: During the "Magic Wars", where magic prevailed over science. Pol Krinn sacrificed himself so that the lock the Archmage has placed on the Sorcerer's World could be opened and all the Legionnaires could fight the source of the problem.
• Hero-Worshipper: Idolized his brother his entire life, even though they didn't travel the same path at first.
• Interspecies Friendship: He forged several with his interspecies group of classmates, and became particularly close to his roommate Grev Mallor aka Shadow Lad as his Academy roomie, and Tellus, who joined the Legion alongside him.
• Killed Off for Real: He wasn't brought back after his heroic sacrifice, when he returned as a character it was following a reboot that altered his history and made him a different character than the Pol that died.
• Logical Weakness: Heat weakens magnetism, so his powers (and those of other Braalians) are much weaker in the presence of extremely high temperatures.
• Magnetism Manipulation: Pol can manipulate magnetic metals due to his heritage as a Braalian.
• Oblivious to Love: It took him a while to realize that Ayla/Lightning Lass had the hots for him. When it finally clicked (thanks to her practically throwing herself at him), he made a quick excuse and bolted. Then he got killed. Tsk.

Quislet

AKA: (real name untranslatable)

Homeworld: Teall

Abilities: Object animation

Quislet is an energy being from the dimension of Teall, and was then recruited into the Legion of Super-Heroes. The Teallians exist in a hive mind, but Quislet enjoyed his individuality so tried to escape his people.

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• Animate Inanimate Object: Possesses inorganic objects and makes them move according to his will, though he can't stay in them for long.
• The Assimilator: Defied. He was sent to our world to find other sapient energy beings and bring them back to Teall, when they would be converted into his peoples' Hive Mind. He refused.
• Birds of a Feather: Gets along well with the more light-hearted or non-introspective members of the Legion (Dream Girl, Timber Wolf) and those with similarly alien outlooks (Tellus).
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: He wants to help, but his truly alien perspective can lead to him unintentionally offending people.
• Bolivian Army Ending: The last time he was on Teall, his fellow Teallians were going to inflict Death of Personality on him in order to destroy his individuality and he barely managed to trick his way back onto his spaceship and escape. When Emerald Empress destroys his ship, he's forced to return home once more to survive, this time with no way back.
• Brutal Honesty: He and Wildfire often got teamed up by writers for their banter, frankness and trash talk abilities.
• Bubble Boy: The "bubble" in question being a spaceship he can't leave for long unless possessing something (at least in our dimension).
• Curious as a Monkey: Especially when it comes to gossip.
• Energy Beings: He was a microscopic energy-being from the alternate dimension of Teall who flew around in a tiny spaceship.
• Fun Personified: His primary motivation is to seek out exciting new experiences and have fun.
• Grand Theft Me: Sort of, in that his powers are the possession and animation of inanimate objects.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Easily the most self-centered, egotistic member the Legion has ever had...but he came to this dimension with the specific desire to do good, and firmly declined to pursue his original mission as soon as he got here.
• Morphic Resonance: Anything he animates develops his symbol on it, which appears to be his name.
• No Biological Sex: He's a sexless energy being. That said, he's referred to as a male by non-members of his species, and doesn't seem to care.
• No-Sell: The Emerald Eye turns out to be the first object able to resist Quislet's possession.
• Not the Intended Use: Since he causes whatever he possesses to disintegrate, Quislet can use his powers to destroy dangerous munitions such as missiles, render computers/robots inoperable, or destroy otherwise sturdy objects.
• Possession Burnout: He can only possess objects for a short amount of time, and the objects disintegrate after he leaves them, except for his ship.
• Rebellious Spirit: Quislet's fellow Teallians regarded his independent thinking as a desirable asset in their first astronaut...until he stole their spaceship, told them where to stick their mission and headed through a black hole to parts unknown to them.
• Rogue Drone: He's an escapee from his universe's Hive Mind.
• Shapeshifting: Can alter she shape of anything he's possessing, except his ship.
• Starfish Aliens: Lacks a body in the traditional sense.
• Third-Person Person: It might be due to having been raised in a Hive Mind, or some way to underline his individuality, but Quislet refers to Quisletself as Quislet.
• The Unpronounceable: His real name was an unpronounceable glyph.
• Unskilled, but Strong: His power is useful and versatile, but it has a couple of glaring limitations, namely a limited possession time and the destruction of whatever he possesses. Quislet refuses to train it any further because he regards himself as perfect already.
• Walking Techbane: If he possesses something besides his ship, it falls apart when he leaves it no matter what it is, this includes machines, computers, and Wildfire's containment suit.

Tellus

AKA: Ganglios

Homeworld: Hyrkaius

Abilities: Telepathy and telekinesis

Born on the planet Hykraius, he is a natural telepath with extremely proficient skill. His alien physiology means he needs a helmet to breathe in air, simulating his native environment of liquid methane. He has also been a member of the religious organization Dark Circle, the Legion Espionage Squad, and the temporally displaced Legion Lost.

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• Awful Truth: Accidentally scanned Saturn Girl's mind and discovered she was hiding a terrible secret. Investigations with other new members proved that she, along with several other Legion members were planning to break the Legion Code and kill the Time Trapper. He was horrified to learn that the pillars of the Legion would betray its ideals in such a way.
• Birds of a Feather: Got along well with Quislet, as both of them were very unlike typical aliens in the Legion.
• Cult: During 5YL Hyrakius joined The Dark Circle, a quasi-cult/criminal organization opposed to Mon-el/Valor, and Ganglios (no longer a Legion member) followed them, though he maintains a distant friendship with his former teammates.
• Graceful in Their Element: Is much happier and more agile in places where he can swim rather than walk, and thoroughly enjoys his trip to the Phantom Zone as a result.
• Hive Mind: Not quite, but since Hyrakians are a close-knit society of psychics, they weren't far off. He found the Legion's teamwork and familial atmosphere quite comforting as a result...At first.
• Interspecies Friendship: The only Hyrakian in the Legion, so any of his friendships among them count as this, but he was particularly close with the Braalian Human Pol Krinn and Teallian Quislet, so much so that their loss was one of the main factors to his leaving the Legion. He was also friends with Laurel Kent, the purported descendant of Superman.
• Nice Guy: Very polite and well-intentioned.
• Odd Friendship: Developed one with Magnetic Kid, who joined at the same time he did and shared an interest in improving his powers and distinguishing himself among the Legion.
• Psychic Powers
  • Mind Manipulation: Although rarely used, Ganglios' can force his telepathic powers to control lesser minded beings. Normally he uses this ability to allow himself into other's mind to sift through their thoughts without resistance.
  • Mind over Matter: One of Ganglios' main abilities is his telekinesis. He uses this to move his large, heavy body about with no difficulty as well as levitating himself and others (with more stress per person).
  • Telepathy: One of Ganglios' main abilities. He uses it as a means of communication, investigation, searching, controlling and deciphering. He can even search the mind of an unconscious foe and reach into the subconscious of other individuals. This is a natural ability of his race.
• Training the Gift of Magic: Psychic Powers are normal in his species, but training under Saturn Girl expanded his abilities well beyond the norm for a Hyrakian.
• Speaks Fluent Animal: Or telepaths it, in this case. He's been xenologically trained to be able to use his powers on minds radically different from his own. Like, you know, ours.
• Starfish Aliens: He is a Hykraian hailing from the ocean world of Hykraius. The Hykraians are an aquatic methane-breathing fish-like people.
• Telepathic Spacemen: All Hyrakians are.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Kind of. When he was chosen to join over a Saturnian telepath who went by "Mentalla", the spurned young psychic decided she'd trick the Fatal Five into letting her join and then use her powers to help the Legion capture them. She did so successfully, but the Five realized what she'd done and killed her horribly.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: At first. Finding the Awful Truth above, learning that his friend Laurel Kent was actually a Manhunter robot, and losing his two closest friends in the Legion changed him quite a bit.

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