History Characters / LegionOfSuperHeroesLegionOfSuperVillains

* AndManGrewProud: How the other Venusians view his creation of the transmutation ray.

* [[IHaveYourWife I Have Your Parents]]: Had Colossal Boy's parents turned into glass and held them hostage for Legion training secrets.

* StartOfDarkness: Tried to create a transmutation ray to solve his planet's environmental problems. Was shunned and exiled for it. [[CreateYourOwnVillain Way to]] [[NiceJobBreakingItHero go people]].

* [[ShesGotLegs He's Got Legs]]: Below the waist, he's practically {{Stripperific}}. It might be his magno-ball uniform.

* PlayingWithSyringes: Whenever he can get away with it.

* RapunzelHair: Spider-Girl possesses extremely long and super-strong prehensile hair, which she can grow (or un-grow)at will.

* WeaksauceWeakness: Adapts ''one'' power to defeat ''one'' opponent, which uncontrollably changes if he encounters another. Strength enough to beat Superboy would be nice to take into battle against a group, but as soon as he ran into, say, Phantom Girl it would turn into the ability to affect intangible people instead. The one Legionnaire who could clean his clock reliably was Duo Damsel, possible the weakest member. He could adapt to defeat any single opponent, or to escape from multiple opponents, but she's both simultaneously, and a more skilled fighter.[[spoiler:And when it came to Projectra, it turned out the ability to see through illusions wasn't all that great against the widow of the greatest martial artist in the universe. [[NeckSnap KRRACK!]]]]

* WhoWearsShortShorts: Below the waist, he's practically {{Stripperific}}.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: She dyed her hair to a shade of blue after she changed her codename to Wave. Her Johnsboot counterpart dyed her hair to a shade of grey to play up the spider aspect of her name by giving it a literal web-like appearance.

* HornedHairdo: When his hair was short.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: A contemporary Saturn Queen came to appear in the Legion comics, with no apparent connection to the LSV, though sometimes she's mentioned in-universe as still being a member (and implied to have hypnotized her way out of legal trouble). She also married Evillo so she could use him to get a Saturnian relic meant to improve a user's hypnotic powers. But she ''seems'' to have changed for the better after claiming the Saturnian throne. Hopefully.

[[Characters/SupermanRoguesGalleryAToL A-L]] ([[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Alexander "Lex" Luthor]], [[Characters/SupermanBizarro Bizarro]], [[Characters/SupermanBrainiac Vril Dox/Brainiac]], [[Characters/SupermanCyborgSuperman Cyborg-Superman]], [[Characters/NewGodsDarkseid Darkseid]], ComicBook/{{Lobo}}) | [[Characters/SupermanRoguesGalleryMToZ M-Z]] ([[Characters/DCComicsMongul Mongul]], [[Characters/SupermanSuperboyPrime Superboy-Prime]]) | [[Characters/SupermanRoguesGalleryPhantomZone Phantom Zone Criminals]] ([[Characters/SupermanGeneralZod General Zod]])\\

''Characters/{{Supergirl}}'' ([[Characters/SupergirlTheCharacter Kara Zor-El/Linda Danvers/Supergirl]], [[Characters/SupergirlSupportingCast Supporting Cast]], [[Characters/SupergirlEnemies Rogues Gallery]]) | ''Characters/PowerGirl'' | ''Characters/{{Superboy}}'' ([[Characters/SupermanConnerKent Conner Kent/Kon-El]], [[Characters/SupermanJonathanSamuelKent Jonathan "Jon" Samuel Kent]], [[Characters/SuperboySupportingCast Supporting Cast]], [[Characters/SuperboyEnemies Rogues Gallery]]) | ''Characters/LegionOfSuperheroes'' ([[Characters/LegionOfSuperheroesFounders The Founders]], [[Characters/LegionOfSuperheroesSilverAge Silver Age]], [[Characters/LegionOfSuperheroesBronzeAge Bronze Age]], [[Characters/LegionOfSuperheroesFiveYearsLater Five Years Later]], [[Characters/LegionOfSuperheroesPostboot Postboot]], [[Characters/LegionOfSuperheroesThreeboot Threeboot]], [[Characters/LegionOfSuperheroesRetroboot Retroboot]], [[Characters/LegionOfSuperheroesOtherHeroes Other Heroes]], [[Characters/LegionOfSuperheroesTheFatalFive The Fatal Five]], '''The Legion of Supervillains''', [[Characters/LegionOfSuperheroesOtherVillains Other Villains]], [[Characters/LegionOfSuperheroesSupportingCharacters Supporting Cast]])-]]]]]

* {{Expy}}: Subverted. Though she bore a strong resemblance to Marvel Comics' ComicBook/{{Medusa}}, whose primary attribute is also prehensile hair, Spider-Girl is actually the earlier character, appearing a year prior to Medusa's debut in 1965.

[[Characters/SupermanRoguesGalleryAToL A-L]] ([[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Alexander "Lex" Luthor]], [[Characters/SupermanBizarro Bizarro]], [[Characters/SupermanBrainiac Vril Dox/Brainiac]], [[Characters/NewGodsDarkseid Darkseid]], ComicBook/{{Lobo}}) | [[Characters/SupermanRoguesGalleryMToZ M-Z]] ([[Characters/SupermanSuperboyPrime Superboy-Prime]]) | [[Characters/SupermanRoguesGalleryPhantomZone Phantom Zone Criminals]] ([[Characters/SupermanGeneralZod General Zod]])\\

* HatesBringTouched: Although it's not so much a matter of pathology as the fact that being able to phase through his bubble means that Phantom Girl can directly injure him.

* MagnetismManipulation: An ability common to all Braalians, ML is unusually strong.

* PowerIncontinence: Like so many rejects, she blew her audition when she lost control of her powers and nearly strangled Brainiac 5.

* NamesTheSame: Tyr the Norse war god appeared in an issue of ''Inferior five'', along with the other Aesir.

* BadassMoustache: In the original comics, though this was dropped by the end of the Preboot.

* RealityEnsues: A group of StrongButUnskilled randos who'd only known each other for an hour or so versus the Legion, who had ''years'' of experience fighting super-powered foes alongside each other. They only won the first time by surprising their counter parts, and the Legionnaires were about to regroup before Superboy showed up.

* TheLeader: A cross between the levelheaded and charismatic types, at least by comparison. Titania and the Silver Slasher are mentally driven towards violence, Mist Master's a cocky brat who cracks when things go bad, and Neutrax is a genius, but a cold fish. Lazon's the most effective leader among them due to his personality not being as extreme as theirs and therefore being capable of thinking more clearly. He still hates the Legion and wants to see them dead just as much as the others, of course.

* {{Sadist}}: He gets a kick from watching powerless heroes struggles against his teammates.

The Dark Man, an evil-er clone of Tharok took advantage of the vulnerable youths, brainwashed them, gave them powers and them pointed them at the Legion. Although initially successful with their surprise attack, they were beaten by the Subs and imprisoned.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Brainiac 5 ''had'' been deemed hopelessly insane, but the problem they posed led him to counter their plan and get them captured as well as using Lazon's siphoned energy to awaken his suspended friends. This gave the Legionnaires hope Brainiac could be restored, and they undertook a risky plan to do so.

* SanityHasAdvantages: With Brainiac 5's guidance The Substitute Legion were able to coordinate their powers to create a nightmarish, confusing hellscape which caused the unstable Assassins to have a breakdown.

One day the peaceful planet of Dryad erupted into chaos! Massive quakes tore apart homes, volcanic fissures opened up in the planets crust. The planet was doomed! In all the madness, a group of six native kids saw a group of distinctly costumed individuals ordering citizens to leave their homes, tearing buildings apart to get to the people inside and even manhandling them if they couldn't keep up. Thus they developed a unforgiving grudge against...the Legion of Superheroes due to misunderstanding their rescue and evac efforts as an invasion that had somehow destroyed Dryad.

* IAmAMonster: The blame the Legion for their inhuman forms and abilities...which they know they received from the Dark Man...willingly. Figure ''that'' one out.

->'''Homeworld:''' Dryad

The nominal leader of the team, Lazon is a ''little bit'' less crazy than the others, and has the ability to become a beam of light, as well as generating light and lasers in his human form.

->'''Homeworld:''' Dryad

Considered the most powerful among them by his teammates due to being able to turn into a large volume of any gas he wishes, Mist Master isn't entirely certain of himself.

* ShapeshifterBaggage: Averted. His gas form can increase massively in volume or be restrained to an area as he pleases.
* SuperSmoke: His power. He can become any sort of gas he wants, too.

->'''Homeworld:''' Dryad

->'''Homeworld:''' Dryad
->'''Abilities:''' Metallic Skin, Super Speed, Metal Claws

* NiceHat: ...Headpiece? What ''is'' that thing? Is it part of her?

* SuperReflexes: She can keep up with opponents who have a degree of super-speed.

* WolverineClaws: Her finger- and toenails are super-sharp metal talons.

->'''Homeworld:''' Dryad

* FieryRedhead: Probably the shorttest-tempered member.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Brainiac 5 ''had'' been deemed hopelessly insane, but the problem the Super-Assassins posed helped spur his return to sanity.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Brainiac 5 ''had'' been deemed hopelessly insane, but the problem the Super-Assassins posed helped spur

In the chaos of the planet Dryad's destruction and evacuation, six native teens saw a group of distinctly costumed people who seemed to be in charge ordering people to leave their homes, tearing buildings apart to get to the people inside and even manhandling them if they couldn't keep up. Thus they developed a unforgiving grudge against...the Legion of Superheroes due to misunderstanding their rescue and evac efforts.


The Dark Man, an eviller clone of Tharok took advantage of the vulnerable youths, brainwashed them, gave them powers and them pointed them at the Legion. Although initially successful with their surprise attack, they were beaten by the Subs and imprisoned.

* DoomedHometown: Home''world'', actually. Dryad tore itself apart due to natural forces. but don't tell ''them'' that.

* SanityHasAdvantages: With Brainiac 5's guidance The Substitute Legion were able to coordinate their powers to create a nightmarish hellscape which caused the unstable Assassins to have a breakdown.
* TokenGoodTeammate: One of the reasons Blok agreed to help the Legion was because he was disturbed by the wanton cruelty and violence he'd programmed into the other Super-Assassins.

* SuperStrength: Physically the strongest of the team.

* BatmanCanBreateInSpace: She can hold her breath for a superhumanly long time, and her metal skin protects her from a vacuum.

The nominal leader of the team, Lazon is a ''little bit'' less crazy than the others, and has the ability to become a beam of light, as well as generating light ans lasers in his human form.

* CategoryTraitor: Following his defection to the Legion, the remaining Super-Assassins bear a particular hatred for Blok.