Title Character
Clark Kent/Kal/El/Superman
Supporting Cast
Lois Lane | Jimmy Olsen | Ambush Bug | Steel
Villains
Central Rogues Gallery (Alexander "Lex" Luthor, Bizarro, Vril Dox/Brainiac, Cyborg-Superman, Darkseid, Doomsday, Lobo, Mister Mxyzptlk, Mongul, Phantom Zone Criminals [General Zod]) | A-L | M-Z (Superboy-Prime)
Spin-Offs
Supergirl (Kara Zor-El/Linda Danvers/Supergirl, Supporting Cast, Rogues Gallery) | Power Girl | Superboy (Conner Kent/Kon-El, Jonathan "Jon" Samuel Kent, Supporting Cast, Rogues Gallery) | Legion Of Superheroes (The Founders, Silver Age, Bronze Age, Five Years Later, Postboot, Threeboot, Retroboot, Rebirth, Other Heroes, The Fatal Five, The Legion of Supervillains, Other Villains, Supporting Cast)
- Amazing Technicolor Population: As a post-Crisis Sklaran, she's got yellow skin.
- Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Averted. "Beauty" may be pushing it, but she has had her share of hits to the face and the results thereof.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: She was born with powers because her mother saved The Hag (aka Mysa Nal)'s life and was blessed in return.
- A Boyand His X: A Girl and her Furball (aka Timber Wolf).
- The Hedonist: Likes booze, likes hot guys, likes having a good time.
- He-Man Woman Hater: Sklaran culture inverts this, seeing men as the legendary Amazons of Earth did, servants who were occasionally useful for procreation. In time, Kono develops some respect for her male teammates—though she still objectifies the heck out of them.
- Heroic Host: She was possessed by the spirit of Amethyst of Gemworld for a brief time.
- Intangibility: She can remove all the density from an object (or from herself), making it immaterial. It's one way she steals.
- The Lad-ette: All female Sklarans are like this. She's also a pervert and inveterate peeper—kind of like you'd usually expect from a teenage boy.
- Locked into Strangeness: Her possession by Amethyst permanently tinged some of her hair purple. How much tends to depend on the artist.
- Loveable Rogue: Raised by Sklaran Technology Raiders, effectively 30th century pirates, and has an impish, brash attitude.
- Ret-Gone: Kono was wiped out by Glorith's time manipulations just prior to Zero Hour, though another version of her showed up in the Reboot.
- Shameless Fanservice Girl: She has no qualms about that fact that using her powers to make herself intangible sometimes leads to leaving her clothes behind, but no one else is comfortable with it. It's not for sexiness so much as a reflection of her ladette-type attitude.
- Sizeshifter: More of a weight-shifter. By changing the density of an object, she can make it lighter or super-heavy and tough.
- Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: For one thing, she's nicknamed after her favorite type of booze, Kono juice. For another, she's distressingly frank about sex and crime.
- Youthful Freckles: She's got 'em.
A young man who applied for membership in the Legion, only to be turned down, Bobb Kohan then entered the Academy to train his powers and skills, ultimately becoming a teacher there.
During the events of 5YL, he joined the Legion, but quickly became disillusioned. When he left, he spoke out against the Dominator-controlled Earth government and was captured and experimented upon by said Dominators. After being freed by Danielle Foccart, aka Computo II they joined the remnants of the Legion.
After the SW6 Legion formed their own separate team, he attempted to join, but was rejected once more.
With this he joined the UP Milita Academy, the successor to Legion Academy, alongside the Substitute Heroes and others.
- Amazing Technicolor Population: Sometimes he's blue. Sometimes it's just his hair.
- Attention Whore: His characterization in the Whos Who and during 5YL. It's implied that this attitude might be what's actually keeping him from being accepted into the Legion.
- Badass Teacher: Became a teacher at the Academy after several years as a student.
- Barrier Warrior: He can create crystal shields.
- Commuting on a Bus: Prior to 5YL, Crystal Kid mainly showed up during Legion Academy or recruitment-based storylines.
- Crystal Weapon: Can create these, or shoot crystal projectiles.
- Dude, Where's My Respect?: He's trying a little (read:way) too hard to get attention and praise, and so people tend to ignore or look down upon him.
- A Crystal Person: He can turn inorganic things into crystal, but only as long as he concentrates on them. By transmuting the air, he can create crystal constructs.
- Imagination-Based Superpower: Since he can convert air into crystal, he can pull off all kinds of stunts.
- La Résistance: Opposed Earthgov independently after it fell under the control of the Dominators. It didn't go too well.
- Losing the Team Spirit: The Legion during 5YL was thoroughly not what he'd had in mind at the Academy, and after Wildfire's seeming death, he quit in order to foment rebellion against Earthgov and the Dominators.
- Multiple-Choice Past: Like many minor characters his origin was changed over time.
- Mutant: His revised origin gives him his power from birth. This made him particularly interesting to the Dominators.
- No Ontological Inertia: If his concentration breaks, all of his transmutations are returned to their former state. It's possible that he may have lost this as of 5YL. He encases some Dominators while escaping them and doesn't say a thing about concentration.
- Small Name, Big Ego: Thinks he and his powers are a much, much greater deal than they actually are.
- Taken For Crystal: He can encase people in crystal by converting the air around them, since his powers only work on inorganic things.
- What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: He was rejected the first time because the Legion didn't think his power (untrained at this point) was very useful, compounded with the fact that it wore off when he stopped concentrating.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: Living under a harsh dictatorship and being brutally experimented on left him with little in the way of a sense of morality or rule of law. Does it hurt the Khunds? Does it help people escape their rule? That's "good" enough for him. He has always been careful to avoid harming innocents, however.
- Chest Insignia: Circular sound waves emanating from a point. Sometimes it's a spiral, for some reason.
- Escaped from the Lab: After his birth, when his sonic powers were discovered, he was handed over to Khund scientists, and only escaped after several years.
- Famed In-Story: According to the 2995 Sourcebook, Echo is well-regarded among the people of the galaxy for his efforts against the Khunds, including helping people escape from Khund-dominated worlds. Besides the Khunds, he's also famous for using his powers to jam terrorist signals during the Shindand Incident.
- Fantastic Racism: The Khunds bloodily conquered his homeworld while he was a baby and subjected him to constant torture in their labs before he escaped, permanently crippled. He's got a couple of, ah, minor issues with them. Just a few complaints.
- Handicapped Badass: He has powerful sonic abilities, but he needs a respirator to live.
- Hazy-Feel Turn: All he's interested in is fighting the Khunds. To that end, he fell in with a criminal gang which focused on Khundish targets, then got headhunted for the Legion of Super-Villains. After being defeated by the Legion, he studied them, learned that they had always been far more opposed to the Khunds than the Villains ever were, and applied for membership which was approved after a probationary period. So long as they oppose the Khunds and don't give in to the hypocritical olive branch the UP keeps offering those damn savages, he's fine with the Legion.
- Losing the Team Spirit: One of several Five-Year-Gap Legionnaires who had no confidence in 5YL Dirk Morgna's leadership, and left the team as a result.
- Mutant: He was born with his powers.
- Single-Issue Wonk: Khunds, Khunds, KHUNDS!!
- They Would Cut You Up: Khundish experimentation left him forced to have a respirator mask permanently attached to his face in order to live.
Depending on which source you go with, Berta is either from a small tribe on another planet with the power to control wind, or has a recessive genetic anomaly which pops up in female members of her family.
Her first attempts to join the Legion failed, and she began to attend the Legion Academy with several other rejects.
During the Bronze Age, Berta began cultivating a more mature and somber attitude (as well as a different appearance) which she hoped would help her gain entry into the Legion at last.
During the Five-Year Gap, she finally joined the Legion during their last big membership drive, only for the team to disband shortly after. Offered a teaching position at the Legion Academy by Chuck and Luornu, her former teachers, she became the harshest, most successful trainer there.
During 5YL she was chosen to lead a reconnaissance mission into the Khund invasion, where she and her squad were massacred.
- Amazing Technicolor Population: One thing she keeps between her original design and her new one is her light yellow skin.
- Blow You Away: Her powers.
- Character Development: Started out a flighty, bubbly type, with a flirtatious attitude (much like Comet Queen), but in her later appearances she was a lot more driven and somber. According to her Who's Who, she's cultivating this mature attitude in order to impress the Legion. After her membership and during 5YL, however, she's got a lot to be legitimately serious about.
- C-List Fodder: Killed fighting Khunds in 5YL.
- Drill Sergeant Nasty: When training troops during 5YL.
- Facial Markings: Around her eyes, after her appearance change.
- Flight: Can make the wind carry her.
- Innate Night Vision: Some sources say she's got a thermal vision ability, allowing her to see the currents of wind and use her powers more effectively.
- Monochromatic Eyes: Solid blue before and solid white after her appearance change (though the artist forgot sometimes).
- Multiple-Choice Past, Some stories go with the Mutant backstory below, others say she's from a small tribe on another planet where everyone has wind powers. She herself claimed that her grandmother gave her her powers once, which doesn't exactly add up and may have been changed.
- Mutants: She says her powers come from a certain genetic anomaly that occasionally pops up amongst females of her bloodline. If she's not an alien, this may explain her appearance.
- Sympathy for the Devil: Downplayed as Wildfire is far from a devil, but he is a harsh teacher with an abrasive attitude. After hearing his story and realizing just how much of a wreck his life had become after being turned into living energy, she and Lamprey developed a strong sense of empathy for him. At one point they even got into a physical altercation with Laurel Kent and Comet Queen when they bad-mouthed the guy.
- You Don't Look Like You: Her appearance radically changes between issues, as does her personality. Welcome to minor character-hood in the Legion!
His original codename was Impulse but he later dropped this. Born on Earth, he received powers when a virus replaced all the cells in his body with enhanced versions. This gives him superhuman strength, superhuman speed, and superhuman healing. He was active during the Five Years Later era, until he was erased from time during Zero Hour. There is also a younger version of Kent Shakespeare in Reboot Legion continuity as a cadet. In the modern age, Kent has shown up as both a member of the Legion and one of the Supermen of the future alongside Laurel Kent as Superwoman.
- The Cameo: He was identified as one of the Legion cadets from the last days of the Reboot Legion, sporting pink glasses alongside versions of Polar Boy and Stone Boy.
- Combat Medic: He was studying medicine when he caught the virus that gave him his powers and eventually became a paramedic on Medicus One, and yes, he can fight.
- Famous Ancestor: Word of God is that his first name was deliberately chosen to put Superman in mind, and that he was intended to be his descendant, though this was never revealed in-universe as the people working on the Superman comic felt this was stepping on their toes, and also because his creator, Al Gordon, left the book.
- Flying Brick: Although he needs a flight ring for it.
- Healing Factor: He's a fast healer.
- Intergenerational Friendship: While working at Medicus One, he made friends with a young girl named Ivy who lives there.
- Lightning Bruiser: Super-Strength, Super-Speed, and Super-Toughness with a Healing Factor on the side. Not on Kryptonian levels, but still very impressive.
- Losing the Team Spirit: One of the many Legionnaires to lose faith in Sun Boy's leadership and quit the LSH as a result.
- The Medic: Kent has extensive Medical knowledge, having attended Medical School. He is a capable paramedic, and has spent time working in the Medicus One clinic outpost.
- Parental Substitute: To Ivy on Quarantine.
- Plot-Relevant Age-Up: Inverted, as Glorith turned him into a kid with all his memories intact the last time the Legion fought her before Zero Hour: Crisis in Time!.
- Real Men Wear Pink: Sometimes the lenses of his glasses have a pink or purple tint to them.
- Remember the New Guy?: He shows up in issue 12 with almost no introductory build-up. Though this is not as blatant as most examples, given that during the Five Year Gap it was likely that there would've been new Legionnaires who joined in that time.
- Ret Here: A living example, as he was created as a result of Glorith rewriting the timeline.
- Smart People Wear Glasses: As mentioned, he's a qualified paramedic and he wears the 30th Century equivalent of glasses.
- Superman Substitute: He was blatantly created as a stand-in for Superboy, though not a direct stand-in as Mon-El was made to replace Kal-El's role as the Legion's inspiration, and Kent was seemingly created for the sake of having another Superman-esque Legionnaire.
- Super-Speed
- Uneven Hybrid: Inker-Writer Al Gordon, who created him, says that he was intended to be descended from Superman, and that the virus affected him because of his part-Kryptonian heritage, rebuilding him into something somewhat closer to his ancestor.
- What Could Have Been:
- There were plans to send him into the 20th Century alongside Celeste Rockfish and Ivy to be with time-displaced Timber Wolf.
- As mentioned, he was also supposed to be a descendant of Clark Kent aka Superman.
Laurel Gand is a Daxamite. Her physiology gives her incredible powers in yellow sunlight, although she is vulnerable to lead. Glorith used Andromeda to replace the position of Supergirl in history when Supergirl was erased from existence. Her cousin is Valor, which mirrors Supergirl's relationship to Superboy. Brainiac 5 was her romantic partner for a long time, although she eventually married Rond Vidar.
The Laurel Gand of the SW6 Batch called her superheroic identity "Andromeda" in order to distinguish herself from her older counterpart.
In Reboot/Postboot Legion continuity, Andromeda is a member of the terrorist White Triangle group until she learns to become a hero.
- Adaptational Jerkass: The original Laurel Gand was essentially just Kara Zor-El in everything but name. Laurel of the Reboot Legion, on the other hand, started off as an unapologetic racist who had to go through a Break the Haughty experience to start learning empathy and to begin unlearning her prejudiced views when she realized just how horrible her beliefs and the White Triangle really were.
- Arch-Enemy: In 5YL, Zaryan the Conqueror, who led the invasion of which she was a Sole Survivor, bore a grudge against her for managing to drive his forces away.
- The Atoner: After the Daxamite attack on the Postboot United Planets, she joins a convent to atone for her sins.
- Defector from Decadence: In the Postboot continuity, she was indoctrinated into the Daxamites' xenophobic teachings since birth and sent to be a Sixth Ranger Traitor for her people's planned genocide against humans, but saw the light and fought back against them.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: Before turning over her new leaf, Postboot Andromeda was a hugely racist bitch, only agreeing to join an interspecies, pro-integration organization like the Legion because being a superhero surrounded by "lesser races" still beat being an ordinary teenager going to school back home, where she didn't have any powers.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: She rejoined the (now-underground) Legion and made her peace with Brainiac 5 just in time to get killed by a bomb while fighting Khunds.
- Expy:
- Laurel Gand was devised in 5YL to take the place of both Supergirl when that character was removed from the Preboot timeline. Her name was taken from Laurel Kent, Superman's (alleged) descendant and Legion Academy student from the original continuity. Technically speaking, Laurel's storyline may be viewed as one possibility for what may have happened if Supergirl had lived long enough.
- She also got aspects of Mon-El's original storyline, such as the lead serum wearing off.
- Famous Ancestor: Directly descended from Del Gand, brother of Lar Gand, aka Mon-El, aka Valor.
- Flying Brick: Daxamites are descended from ancient Kryptonians who'd adapted to a slightly different environment.
- Has a Type: Intellectuals with hearts of gold, for certain, having fallen for both Brainiac 5 and Rond Vidar.
- I Choose to Stay: In the Reboot, after helping the Legion repel a Dark Circle attack upon Durla, Sister Andromeda chose to remain on the plant and help the insular Durlan society work its way toward tolerance.
- Kryptonite Factor: Like all Daxamites she has a fatal allergy to even trace amounts of lead. In all continuities where she exists, Brainiac 5 developed a serum which soon rid her of the problem, but early on in the Postboot she had to wear a transuit at all times to avoid exposure (and actual physical contact with the "lesser races").
- Light 'em Up: Her Reboot self developed light/energy manipulation abilities after being exposed to the Fires of Creation.
- Love Cannot Overcome: After Laurel and Brainiac 5 made an unsanctioned attack on Glorith in retaliation for her near-genocide of the Daxamites, Brainy became infuriated at being reprimanded for insubordination by Legion Leader Polar Boy and quit the Legion to pursue his studies privately on Colu, assuming Laurel would accompany him. Instead, she quit the relationship.
- The Mole: In the Postboot, Laurel was secretly a member of the White Triangle, and gave the Daxamite-led group the formula to the serum that protected her from lead.
- Racial Remnant: Glorith exterminated the population of Daxam, leaving only those who'd been off-planet such as Laurel herself.
- Rescue Romance: Trying out for the Legion, she dug deep within the earth, but hit a vein of lead. Brainiac 5 quickly devised a serum to save her from exposure and they fell in love.
- Ret Here: In V4, she was a side effect of a small-scale Cosmic Retcon.
- Second Love: After she left the Legion, she fell in love with Rond Vidar/Green Lantern as they fought Khunds together, eventually bearing his daughter.
- Set Right What Once Went Wrong: In a way. Her SW6 self, who (like all the SW6 Legionnaires) had memories that dated to before she and her Brainiac 5 broke up, became determined not to repeat the mistakes that led to them ending things.
- Sole Survivor: In 5YL. As a youth the asteroid upon which she and her parents lived was invaded by the Khunds as a precursor to invading Daxam itself and everyone but her was killed. She managed to reactivate the asteroid's defense system (having been shown how it worked by her parents) and decimated their fleet, driving them away. This made her a hero to Daxam and a hated enemy of the Khunds.
- Star-Spangled Spandex: She wore a starfield outfit.
- Statuesque Stunner: She is 6'2".
- Superpower Lottery: Before Valor joined the Postboot Legion, Andromeda was the team's most powerful member. While active under a yellow sun, Andromeda possesses powers that are common to all Daxamites including Eye Beams, Flight, Super-Breath, Super-Senses, Super-Speed, Super-Strength and X-Ray Vision.
- Taking the Veil: In order to atone for her past as a member of the White Triangle, Reboot Andromeda chooses to join the Sisters of the Eternal Cosmos.
- Weaksauce Weakness: Like all Daxamites, she has a natural weakness to lead; however, she took a serum to prevent it from affecting her.
At first, Celeste Mccauley of the Rockfish Detective Agency seemed like nothing more than a highly-competent private detective, who first came to the attention of Earthgov (and thus the Dominators) when Dirk Morgna hired her to investigate a paternity suit against him.
Using Morgna as a catspaw (no, the other kind) the Dominators subsequently hired her to seek out evidence of an apparent contract between Earthgov and Roxxas the Butcher, the genocidal lunatic who had wiped out the Tromian race and recently killed Blok of the Legion of Superheroes in the hopes of finding and eliminating Roxxas before evidence of their connection could be brought to light.
Her investigations led her to the Legion, and then to Roxxas himself who beat her to the edge of death. As she lay in the Legion infirmary, her life flashing before her eyes, she recalled approaching a dying alien with a strange ring—and then her room and the surrounding areas became suffused with bright green light, in the middle of which Celeste sat, apparently completely healed.
As it turned out, several years ago while on vacation, she'd tried to save the life of mortally-injured Green Lantern. Although she'd failed, the energy within the Lantern's ring "remembered" her and intervened at the point of her death, fusing with Celeste to save her life.
Timey-wimey stuff during Zero Hour briefly turned her into a Darkstar, and then made her disappear.
- Angst? What Angst?: She adapts pretty quickly to losing her body, although she doesn't really get the downtime to worry about it, what with everyone and their mother attacking the Legion, getting retconned into a Darkstar, and then going and vanishing before the end of the universe.
- Back from the Dead: Sent to investigate Roxxas, the pirate severely injured her. At first, it seemed she'd miraculously recovered, gaining strange energy powers in the process, but in truth, her body had died, and the energy from a Green Lantern ring merged with her consciousness/soul to keep it from passing on.
- Barbie Doll Anatomy: As living energy.
- Energy Being: After Roxxas killed her, she unwittingly became one of these, but inhabited her old physical body until it was aged into non-viability.
- Fusion Dance: A mass of Green Lantern energy fused with her in order to save her life. At first, she seemed to have become a living receptacle to Lantern energy, but later it turned out she was a full-on Green Lantern Energy Being.
- Heroic Host: While she had a body she was essentially this, for the amalgam of her mind and Green Lantern energy she had become.
- Karmic Jackpot: By trying to save a dying Green Lantern, she was eventually saved from death (twice over!) and gained incredible superpowers in the process.
- Mysterious Employer: She thought she was working for Dirk Morgna and Earthgov, without knowing that both were being controlled by the Dominators.
- The Needless: Once she becomes an Energy Being, she doesn't need any of the things physical beings do.
- Private Detective: And like so many fictional private detectives, her cases had all been pretty run-of-the-mill until the big one changed everything.
- Rapid Aging: During a fight with Glorith, her body was aged to death, but it turned out Roxxas had actually killed her all that time ago and the Lantern Energy had melded with her consciousness.
- Retcon: Invoked. One day, she suddenly went from having tried to save a Green Lantern and getting empowered to having tried to save a Darkstar and getting empowered. This is actually commented on as an example of the timelines collapsing because of Zero Hour.
- Ret-Gone: Zero Hour wiped her out along with everything else, and she didn't show up in the Reboot or any other continuities outside 5YL.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: She's actually the beloved cousin of Leland McCauley, one of the richest men in the galaxy. She is however, reluctant to use her family connections, to the point of changing her name.
- Technically-Living Zombie: Technically, her body died back in the infirmary after Roxxas's beating. She, having become an Energy Being without realizing it, had unconsciously devoted most of her energy into keeping it alive.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: She seems to dislike Brainiac 5, for reasons unclear.
Devlin O'Ryan's mother was chief of the Xanthu Bureau of the Daily Planet, and as a teenager he became an Interstellar Press intern working for the original branch of the Planet in Metropolis.
Working alongside star reporter Iris West-Allen, they looked into the strange behavior of Earthgov, and Devlin's investigations soon brought him to Winath, where the Legion of Super-Heroes was starting to reform.
Ultimately, he and Iris revealed that Earthgov was under the control of the Dominators, and the exposed aliens detonated powerspheres all over the globe, causing massive destruction and releasing null radiation which inadvertently activated many humans' metagenes.
Devlin found out about his own metagene when as he was looking through the Dominator's vaults, SW6 Lighting Lad took him for a Dominator and blasted him. This led to the discovery of the SW6 Legionnaires.
He started a relationship with the SW6 Shrinking Violet shortly afterward, only to end up in a long-distance relationship after he joined the "adult" Legion while the SW6 Legion went off on their own.
During a battle with Glorith, he was youthened into a child, and forced to leave the Legion, but was called back again in order to harness his abilities in a mystic ritual designed to stop Glorith once and for all...and then Zero Hour poofed him out of existence.
- Accidental Marriage: After the Legion took a few Khundish Legionnaires, one who went by Firefist believed that Devlin was insulting him and blasted him, over Devlin's protests. Upon learning he was dead, Firefist's mate Veilmist said that by Khund tradition, she would become the property of whomever had killed her husband. Whoops.
- Apologetic Attacker: More like: "No! Stop! Don't attack me, you'll only—"
- Attack Reflector: His main power, with some limitations. He has to be consciously or subconsciously aware of the attack, and said attack has to be moving above a certain speed.
- Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu: His powers managed to defeat Glorith, but she de-aged him into a child.
- Child Prodigy: He had a journalism degree from a prestigious university by the time he was fourteen.
- Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: He beat Mordru solo.
- Expy: It's never mentioned if he's a descendant of Jimmy Olsen, but as a red-headed teenage Daily Planet reporter, it seems likely he was intended to bring him to mind.
- Hope Spot: For a few moments, it seems that the magic-users of the Legion might be able to use him to stop Glorith (and thus save the timeline), but then Zero Hour wipes him out.
- Intrepid Reporter: He and Iris West-Allen blew the lid off of the Dominators' secret control of Earthgov.
- Kid Hero: Fifteen-years old as of 2995.
- Meaningful Name: "O'Ryan" could be said to be a hunter for truth, just like his namesake Orion.
- Punny Name: It would have been. Initial designs of the character had three stars on his chest, evocative of Orion's (O'Ryan) Belt. The design got simplified to only a single one. Granted, the joke was a little forced anyway.
- Ret-Gone: Zero Hour wiped him out along with everything else, and he didn't show up in the Reboot or any other continuities outside 5YL.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: Had a relationship with the SW6 Shrinking Violet, but Devlin committed himself to joining the adult version of the Legion, and assumed that the SW6 Violet would join alongside him. She didn't. They had a long-distance relationship, but it turned out that the SW6 Legionnaires weren't clones, but had been plucked from earlier in the Legion's timeline, thus she would've had to go back—if the universe hadn't gone ka-blooie, anyway.
- Wide-Eyed Idealist: He was created to being some youthful idealism and energy back to the Legion.
April Dumaka, alias Catspaw was briefly a member of the Legionnaires in the now-discarded continuity known as the Glorithverse.
Sold out to the Dominators by her boyfriend Ansis, April was genetically modified into a feline-human crossbreed and kept within their chambers under Metropolis, until the SW6 Legion freed her and several other prisoners.
In addition to granting her cat-like abilities, she seems to have changed mentally and emotionally, becoming more bestial in her behavior, particularly when it comes to her mating instincts.
Although changes near the end of Zero Hour wiped Catspaw from existence, she's shown up in other timelines, sometimes as a member of the Legion.
- Angst? What Angst?: Even though April Dumaka has a tragic backstory, Catspaw seems to be enjoying herself quite a bit. That said, she is pretty pissed when April's old boyfriend apparently shows up, but she gets over it quick and starts trying to make time with him.
- Beast Man: Catspaw has the agility, speed and senses of a cat, as well as retractable claws on her fingertips and toes. She has excellent night-vision and animal-like instincts.
- Cat Girl: A hybrid of human and feline.
- Expy: Catspaw was the Legionnaires' rough equivalent to Timber Wolf (who also existed in their continuity, but was not one of the Batch SW6 duplicates).
- Fragile Speedster: Her reflexes and speed briefly allowed her to overwhelm the Fatal Five, until Persuader got a grip on her while she was grappling Emerald Empress. Mano couldn't draw a bead on her.
- The Hedonist: She's doesn't do drugs, but she's big on sex and violence.
- Innate Night Vision: Like a cat.
- Super-Senses: Has the heightened senses (smelling, hearing, vision, and balance) of a cat.
- That Man Is Dead: It's not clear what April Dumaka was like before the Dominators' experiments, but she only refers to herself as "Catspaw", and seems to have wholeheartedly embraced her new animalistic instincts and thought patterns, though she retains April's memories.
- Third-Person Person: Talks like this.
- Touched by Vorlons: She got her powers from gene-altering experiments performed on her by the Dominators.
- Wolverine Claws: She has retractable claws in her fingers.
- You No Take Candle: Although her language is already somewhat simplistic she slips into this when agitated.
Computo is Danielle Foccart who can mentally communicate with computers. Her name is derived from the villainous Computo, who possessed her while she was bring treated for a brain condition.
- Canon Foreigner: Sort of. She existed in the original series but only got powers in 5YL.
- Grand Theft Me: She was possessed by the original Computo as a child (which is how she got her powers).
- Mission Control
- Possession Burnout: The longer Computo was inside her, the more damage he was doing to her. Fortunately, she made a full recovery once he was gone.
- Redeeming Replacement: Of Legion villain Computo, the sentient computer who possessed her in an earlier story (giving her powers in the process). She's also the younger sister of the second Invisible Kid.
- Stolen Good, Returned Better: Getting possessed didn't just fix her nervous system, it gave her computer powers!
- Technopath: She can "speak" to and control computers.
Born on the New Shanghai Colony, he is a powerful magic-user. His spells are always accompanied by images of dragons. In Reboot Legion continuity, Dragonmage is seen as an applicant for the Legion but is rejected.
- Ambition Is Evil: His desire to get his powers back Postboot led him to inadvertently release the Elements of Disaster, who almost destroyed the United Planets.
- Canon Immigrant: He first appeared in 5YL as a new member to join the SW6 Legionnaires; he later reappeared in Postboot, albeit not as a Legionnaire. He briefly turns up as one of Mordru's undead warriors (in the Preboot universe) in Legion of Three Worlds.
- De-power: By Mordru Postboot.
- Ethnic Magician: He's very stereotypically Chinese, at least in appearance and powers.
- Inept Mage: In his early appearances he is not completely trained in the use of his power and is easily rattled, an event that can lead to mishaps of large proportions.
- Squishy Wizard: Later appearance demonstrated greater control, but with bigger psyche disads.
Kid Quantum is James Cullen. He has the ability to create stasis fields.
The original James Cullen appeared during Five Years Later continuity, which was later erased by Zero Hour.
The Proteans were a peaceful race with ties to a highly advanced (and long-gone) civilization. When the evil Glorith learned of their existence, she used her charms to wile the secrets of their race from one hapless Protean who realized what he'd done almost too late to save their race.
In order to protect themselves from interrogation and enslavement at the evil sorceress's hand, the Proteans placed the entirety of their collective unconsciousness (save for seven members of their species who stayed behind) into a humanoid shell. This "Soul of Antares" took up residence with the Cullens, a friendly pair of archaeologists, pretending to be their human son James.
After a year with the Cullens, "James" used a relic known as the Time Stasis Belt to apply to the Legion of Superheroes, and was accepted. Unfortunately, Glorith eventually figured out what had happened and began to seek him out. In order to throw her off the trail, James faked his death and went on the lam so successfully that even his fellow Proteans lost track of him, with two of their race teaming up with the Legion as Protys I and (later) II in the hopes that the Legion would cross his path during an adventure.
(Proty I ended up inhabiting Lightning Lad's body. Long story.)
Proty II, Chameleon Boy's pet/sidekick, asked RJ Brande for his aid in recovering The Soul of Antares, and Brande and his son eventually discovered James, only to fail when Leland McCauley, Brande's rival, who'd acquired the Emerald Eye of Ekron kidnapped James right in front of them.
Eventually, the Legion freed James, and with the help of Dragonmage, they restored the Proteans' souls to their old bodies...except for the original traitor to their race, who chose to remain in the body of James Cullen and rejoined the Legion.
In Reboot Legion continuity, James Cullen was a human being born on Xanthu. One of the first Legionnaire recruits, he was killed by Tangleweb during a moment of arrogance. His sister Jazmin Cullen had a much longer Legion tenure.
- Artificial Human: Preboot, his body is an organic shell for the Proteans' souls.
- The Atoner: Preboot. All but one of the Protean souls inside "James Cullen" were restored to their old bodies, except for the one who'd unwittingly betrayed them to Glorith to start with. He chose to stay on Earth and joined the Legion.
- Break the Haughty: His Postboot counterpart was a smug, egotistical Jerkass who died because he took too much time to mouth off about his power to get away from Tangleweb before his neck was snapped.
- Faking the Dead: The Preboot "James Cullen" pretended to have been disintegrated by his stasis belt in order to throw Glorith off his scent.
- Humans Are White: Created to avert this.
- "Just So" Story: In 5YL, his tragic story serves as as an explanation of why the Legion doesn't take applicants who derive their powers solely from an outside source such as technology. (At least until they learn he faked his death.)
- Leeroy Jenkins: His Reboot self ignored Leviathan's order to hold back and tried to take on Tangleweb by himself. He got killed.
- Mind Hive: Zigzagged. His Preboot self has the individual souls of all the Protean race within him, but since they share a collective consciousness they act as a Hive Mind instead.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Glorith charmed one member of the Protean race into betraying their secrets, only to discover too late that she was evil. He warned his people of the danger and later chose to atone for his crime by remaining with in the body of "James Cullen".
- Not Quite Dead: Preboot, very shortly before Zero Hour: Crisis in Time!, it was revealed that he survived and was a group of shape-shifting Proteans who had gone into hiding.
- Posthumous Character: Kid Quantum was originally created as one of these, who died tragically to justify the Legion's rule against members using devices for their primary powers.
- Retcon: His death due to malfunctioning stasis belt is said to have been why the Legion refused to allow people whose powers were dependent on outside devices to join.
- Ret Here: In V4, he was a side effect of a small-scale Cosmic Retcon.
- Sacrificial Lamb: Postboot actually showed his induction into and first mission with the Legion—during which, of course, he died, becoming Leviathan's Greatest Failure in the process.
- Sealed Good in a Can: The Preboot "James Cullen" was a humanoid shell inhabited by the collective consciousness of all but of seven the Protean race, in order to protect them from Glorith.
- Sealed in a Person-Shaped Can: As mentioned above.
- Tempting Fate: His Reboot self caught a villain in a stasis field, only to have his belt short out while he was boasting about it. The villain snapped his neck.
- Time Stands Still: His Reboot self augmented his ability to freeze time in a localized area with a "stasis belt", which failed at the worst possible time.
- Alien Abduction: Kidnapped by the Dominators after the Legion was disbanded, but fortunately one of the few who escaped their durance and the destruction of the Dominators' chambers mostly unscathed.
- Amazing Technicolor Population: Pale green skin.
- Chest Insignia: A stylized depiction of an eye. His own eyes are depicted looking like that sometimes.
- Doorstop Baby: Left outside an Earth orphanage, with no ID or letter, and adopted by the Ustins.
- Evolving Weapon: Since his known powers come from looking at things with his special eyes in certain positions, it's implied that he has untapped abilities that haven't been explored yet. Especially after getting two more.
- Exotic Eye Designs: Depending on the Artist, he has black sclerae, yellow irises, and wide black pupils, or they may be as seen in the picture.
- Extra Eyes: Two of 'em. After he was exposed to null radiation when the powerspheres were detonated, he grew yet another pair.
- Eye Beams: Heat vision.
- Happily Adopted: By the Ustins, who took an active role in helping him develop his powers and encouraged him to join the Legion Academy.
- Hero-Worshipper: As a child, he grew up on stories of the Legion and decided early on that he'd join up.
- Mysterious Past: Nothing is known about his true origins. The Who's Who notes that his genetics are humanoid, but he doesn't match known human mutation patterns or have any traceable genetic mutation.
- New Meat: As the least experienced student, he spent his first training mission relegated to the team's cruiser.
- Super-Senses: Vision-based powers.
