History ComicBook / LegionOfSuperHeroes2020

From the pages of ComicBook/BrianMichaelBendisSuperman, a new Legion of Super-Heroes seeks out the membership of Superman's very own son Jon Kent, due to his involvement in the establishment of [[TheFederation the United Planets]]. What follows is a series of events circulating around Aquaman's trident and the President of the United Planets being less than okay with super-powered teenagers just bending time and space without even a shred of conscious thought at the possible ramifications.

[[caption-width-right:350: [[CosmicRetcon Here We Go Again]]]]

It's an aimless affair, actually.

The Legion's two issue miniseries for ''ComicBook/DCFutureState'' was recently revealed to be the new status quo for the actual Legion ongoing...

And if that wasn't enough, Bendis also announced [[https://brianmichaelbendis.substack.com/p/legion-of-superheroes-tv-show-buh he was spearheading an animated adaptation]] of this particular run of the Legion for HBO Max.

** General Nah is a domineering, violent blowhard of a leader ''and'' a father.

* ContinuityReboot: The first one for the Legion since the retroboot from 2007 to 2013. Also the first version of the Legion to have a Doctor Fate on the roster.

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:Doctor Fate apparently explodes in the eleventh issue... only to come back in the next issue.]]

* {{Jerkass}}: Mon-El is nasty to nearly everyone, to the point Colossal Boy sincerely hopes he quits the Legion because Mon-El's so draining to be around.

** Colossal Boy mentions his ability isn't to grow big, but to shrink from his already gigantic size, which was the character's backstory in the Threeboot Legion.

* ShowDontTell:
** Triplicate Girl is only ever seen in her three different components, and at no point does she ever merge back into a single person making it vague if she does have to power to split into three people or if she's really three girls who share a mind. It's finally averted in the twelfth issue, when the three components of Triplicate Girl are shown splitting off into more triplicates.

The Legion's two issue miniseries for ''ComicBook/DCFutureState'' was recently revealed to be the new status quo for the actual Legion ongoing.

** Saturn Girl apparently has such little control over her abilities outside of Titan's hivemind that she thinks she accidentally brainwashed the entire Legion into believing they needed Jon as a member. While in past Legion continuities, Imra sometimes had a couple of issues with her mental powers at a younger age (like Reboot!Imra being unaware she was subconsciously controlling a comatose Cosmic Boy), they were never ''this'' bad.

* DistinctionWithoutADifference: Subverted with Monster Boy. Monster Boy can alter his form like Chameleon Boy. However, Monster Boy claims his powers aren't the same. Truly, while Monster Boy can only appear to turn into different types of monsters the only difference between him and Chameleon Boy is his powers appear far more limited.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: After being named the new leader of Rimbor, Ultra Boy decides that his savage civilization needs to be more civilized and after announcing his intention to change things, he proceeds to beat up anyone who argues against it. Even worse, Dawnstar, a noted descendant of Earth's Native Americans, announcing her attraction after watching Ultra Boy beat up people, is very disconcerting.

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:Doctor Fate apparently explodes in the eleventh issue...only to come back in the next issue.]]

Creator/BrianMichaelBendis's ComicBook/LegionOfSuperheroes is the latest ContinuityReboot for Creator/DCComics' 31st century based superhero team.

** Imra's parents on Titan appear to be somewhat emotionally abusive and it's implied she was banished from Titan's hivemind for wanting to join the Legion.

** Saturn Girl apparently has such little control over her abilities outside of Titan's hivemind she thinks she accidentally brainwashed the entire Legion into believing they needed Jon as a member. While in past Legion continuities Imra sometimes had a couple of issues with her mental powers at a younger age (like Reboot!Imra being unaware she was subconsciously controlling a comatose Cosmic Boy), they were never ''this'' bad.

** The Legion suffers from this due to being InnocentlyInsensitive, as they expect far too much of Jon Kent's capabilities as a hero based on what he'll eventually do and not what he's currently done. The impetus for recruiting him as a Legionnaire was because he suggested forming the United Planets even though he didn't actually do anything to help create or lead the United Planets beyond that. It stands out a lot from how the original and Retroboot Legions were fans of Clark Kent as Superboy, merely went back and offered him a place in the Legion because they wanted to thank him for being an inspiration and then eventually helped him grow into his role as a hero.

** The same cannot be said for [[spoiler:Zod]], when he shows up in chapter 10.

* BuffySpeak: The Legionnaires have this in spades. All of them. The bulk of the dialog consists of them sort of rambling on and on using future slang like "qrot."

* ContinuitySnarl: The editing on this series leaves something to be desired with numerous inconsistencies throughout each issue.
** In the eighth issue, Ayla appears as Lightning Lass while fighting against Crav Nah. While the origin issue showed she had lightning abilities alongside Garth back before the Legion was created, every scene featuring her among the Legionnaires showed and identified her as ''Light'' Lass with no indication of any electrical abilities. The most glaring detail of this discrepancy is her costume had a visible feather on her chest, while in the eighth issue it's been replaced by two lightning bolts.
** White Witch was previously identified as Mysa Nal. In the ninth issue she's now named Xola Aq.

** When Invisible Kid was first revealed, he was stated to be from Earth. In issue nine he mentions being from the planet Kit-Son.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: After being named the new leader of Rimbor, Ultra Boy decides that his savage civilization needs to be more civilized and after announcing his intention to change things he proceeds to beat up anyone who argues against it. That Dawnstar, a noted descendant of Earth's Native Americans, announces her attraction after watching Ultra Boy beat up people, is very disconcerting.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:Doctor Fate apparently explodes in the eleventh issue.]]
* EpicFail: According to ''ComicBook/DCFutureState'', the Legion only lasted for a hundred days, or barely ''three months'', before it fell apart due to whatever [[spoiler:Element Lad did]].

* JerkassHasAPoint: Imra's dismissive parents may have been right to not want her to leave Titan if she somehow ended up brainwashing the Legion into recruiting Jon Kent ''by accident''.

* TimeSkip: The ''Future State'' miniseries jumps ahead several years to show the United Planets has apparently fallen apart, the galaxy is something of a mess, the Legion's fractured, and [[spoiler:Element Lad is apparently a PresidentEvil and was responsible for a horrific event that ruined everything to begin with]].

* WhatTheHellHero: Superboy isn't cool with Saturn Girl mind-wiping his best friend Damian Wayne (aka, the current Robin)'s mind to believe he's having a dream.

* AdaptationalDumbass: Blok, normally interpreted as being intellectual despite his outward appearance, has a much more simplistic form of speaking here.

** Triplicate Girl is only ever seen in her three different components, and at no point does she ever merge back into a single person making it vague if she does have to power to split into three people or if she's really three girls who share a mind.

* ContinuitySnarl:

** White Witch was previously identified as Mysa Nal. In the ninth issue she's named Xola Aq.

** Gold Lantern's backstory is supposedly amazing but so far nothing's been revealed of it, just that everyone tends to speak highly of him.

* AdaptationalNameChange: Mon-El has Mon-El as his real name, rather than Lar Gand. White Witch's real name is Xola Aq rather than Mysa Nal.
* AdaptationSpeciesChange: Mon-El is a Kryptonian rather than a Daxamite.

* LackOfEmpathy: None of the Legionnaires seem to give a shit about Damian Wayne being Jon's friend, and are barely perturbed when Jon calls them out on wiping Damian's memory.

** Ferro Lad in this continuity is shown to be Black. When Jim Shooter created the original Ferro Lad in the Silver Age, he wasn't allowed to make the character African American because DC didn't want to lost distribution in the South.

** President Brande is largely based on R.J. Brande and his time as Earthgov president, but the elements of Brande being a female president and her more shameless, underhanded actions are strongly reminiscent of Jean Chu from the Reboot Legion.

* AllThereInTheManual: The first trade paperback collection identifies the nameless skeleton Legionnaire as "X-Ray Girl," and identifies two other Legionnaires, Entropy Kid and Radius Lad, who only appeared once in a crowd shot in #9.

* CompositeCharacter: R.J. Brande is now Chameleon Boy's mother instead of father.

* GenderFlip:

* CompositeCharacter:

* OffModel:
** In the video of Dawnstar's recruitment her wings are made of feathers like they appeared in previous continuities, whereas her redesign gave her energy wings that disappear when she's not flying.

* CompositeCharacter: Computo is a combination of the original version of the character and Danielle Foccart, who was briefly possessed by Computo's essence before taking the name for herself as a Legionnaire.

* AdaptationalJerkass: Mon-El is rather haughty and seems to dislike Jon Kent because they're both Kryptonians.

* NoNameGiven: One of the various reoccurring background Legionnaires is some sort of glowing green skeleton inside of a costume designed like a hazmat suit. As of the eighth issue they still haven't been properly identified, so it's unknown if this is some redesign of a preexisting Legion character or someone brand new like Gold Lantern or Monster Boy.

* InspirationallyDisadvantaged: Gold Lantern is implied to be be blind due to the fact that his mask doesn't have any eye holes. [[OffModel Most of the time]].

* ContinuitySnarl: In the eighth issue, Ayla appears as Lightning Lass while fighting against Crav Nah. While the origin issue showed she had lightning abilities alongside Garth back before the Legion was created, every scene featuring her among the Legionnaires showed and identified her as ''Light'' Lass with no indication of any electrical abilities. The most glaring detail of this discrepancy is her costume had a visible feather on her chest, while in the eighth issue it's been replaced by two lightning bolts.

* ShoutOut: Monster Boy's got the ability to transform into different monsters, as in actual, preexisting monster characters such as [[Film/Frankenstein1931 Frankenstein's Monster]] and the martians from ''Film/MarsAttacks''.
* ShowDontTell: Triplicate Girl is only ever seen in her three different components, and at no point does she ever merge back into a single person making it vague if she does have to power to split into three people or if she's really three girls who share a mind.