Legion of Super-Heroes (comics)/Characters: Difference between revisions

The ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes]]'' has been ongoing in one form or another since 1958, encompassing three completely distinct continuities and several more "branch" continuities. That being the case, there are many alternate versions and a lot of [[Character Development]] involved, and what tropes apply to what characters varies from version to version. Here's a thumbnail reference for what refers to what part of continuity:

'''Batch SW6'''--One of the most significant ongoing storylines from 5YL, involving a group of time-paradox duplicates of the early Legion (who went on to star in the [[Spin-Off]] ''[[Spinoff Babies|Legionnaires]]'' until ''[[Zero Hour]]''). The term comes from the cryptic labels of the [[People Jars]] the duplicates were found in. <ref>Well, that was the reason in-story. It actually came from half of a fan's postal code.</ref><br />

'''Retroboot''' / '''Deboot''' / '''Johnsboot'''--The version of the original continuity Legion that appeared starting in 2007's "The Lightning Saga", branching off from the Preboot continuity just before 5YL, except that Superboy didn't die.<ref>Superboy had to die because changes to Superman's history post-Crisis erased Superboy from history. A "Pocket Universe" Superboy was introduced and killed to patch the plot holes. Superman's history was (partly) changed back, so this is no longer necessary.</ref> So named because its tone was set by writer [[Geoff Johns]]. }}

'''DnA'''--The [[Darker and Edgier]] "Legion of the Damned" and "Legion Lost" stories by '''D'''an Abnett a'''n'''d '''A'''ndy Lanning. }}

The version of the Legion currently appearing in comics is the "Retroboot" based on the original "Preboot" continuity, described above.

== The Founders ==

=== Cosmic Boy/Polestar ===

'''Abilities:''' Magnetism manipulation }}

=== Saturn Girl ===

'''Abilities:''' Telepathy }}

=== Lightning Lad/Live Wire ===

'''Abilities:''' Electrical generation and direction }}

== Silver Age (1960-1969) ==

=== Bouncing Boy ===

'''Abilities:''' Inflatable body, invulnerability (Preboot); expert mechanic (Postboot) }}

=== Brainiac 5/Brainiac 5.1 ===

'''Abilities:''' 12th level super intelligence; force-field projection (Postboot only) }}

=== Chameleon Boy/Chameleon ===

'''Abilities:''' Shapeshifting }}

=== Chemical King ===

'''Abilities:''' Can alter the speed of chemical reactions }}

=== Colossal Boy/Leviathan/Micro Lad ===

'''Abilities:''' Giant growth }}

=== Dream Girl/Dreamer ===

'''Abilities:''' Precognition }}

=== Element Lad/Alchemist/The Progenitor ===

'''Abilities:''' Capable of transmuting the elements }}

=== Ferro Lad/Ferro ===

'''Abilities:''' Can turn into living iron, gaining super-strength and invulnerability }}

=== [[Green Lantern/Characters|Green Lantern]] ===

'''Abilities:''' Green Lantern power ring }}

=== Invisible Kid I ===

'''Abilities:''' Invisibility }}

=== Karate Kid ===

'''Abilities:''' Martial arts master }}

=== Lightning Lass/Light Lass/Gossamer/Spark ===

'''Abilities:''' Electrical generation and direction (as Lightning Lass/Spark); gravity manipulation (as Light Lass/Gossamer) }}

=== Magnetic Kid ===

'''Abilities:''' Magnetism manipulation }}

=== Matter-Eater Lad ===

'''Abilities:''' Matter consumption }}

* [[Temporary Bulk Change]]: In a Preboot [[Silver Age]] issue involving the Legionnaires trapped in a prison camp for superheroes, M-E Lad was hit by a ray that slowed down his Bismollian metabolism to that of a normal human, thereby making it impossible for him to eat anything anymore. He had previously eaten about a ton of dirt in order to form an escape tunnel, so when his metabolism slowed down he swelled to the size of a balloon.

=== [[Superman/Characters|Mon-El/Valor/M'Onel]] ===

'''Abilities:''' Super-strength, speed, senses, flight, and invulnerability }}

=== Night Girl ===

'''Abilities:''' Superhuman strength, activated in darkness }}

=== Phantom Girl/Apparition/Phase (Tinya Wazzo) ===

'''Abilities:''' Intangibility }}

=== Polar Boy ===

'''Abilities:''' Cold control }}

=== Princess Projectra/Queen Projectra/Sensor Girl/Sensor/Imperiatrix ===

'''Abilities:''' Illusion casting; mind control and super-strength (Threeboot only) }}

=== Shadow Lass/Umbra ===

'''Abilities:''' Generate absolute darkness }}

=== Shrinking Violet/Virus/Veye/LeViathan/Atom Girl ===

'''Abilities:''' Able to shrink to microscopic size; giant growth (Postboot only) }}

=== Star Boy/[[Starman (comics)|Starman]] VIII ===

'''Abilities:''' Gravity manipulation }}

=== Sun Boy/Inferno I ===

'''Abilities:''' Solar energy generation and manipulation }}

=== [[Supergirl]] ===

'''Abilities:''' Super-strength, speed, senses, flight, and invulnerability }}

=== [[Superman]]/[[Superboy]] I ===

'''Abilities:''' Super-strength, speed, senses, flight, and invulnerability }}

=== Lone Wolf/Timber Wolf/Furball ===

'''Abilities:''' Super-human strength and speed, heightened senses, and claws }}

=== Triplicate Girl/Duo Damsel/Triad/Una/Duplicate Damsel ===

'''Abilities:''' Able to split into three bodies (as Triplicate Girl/Triad); two bodies (as Duo Damsel); or unlimited bodies (as Duplicate Girl) }}

=== Ultra Boy/Emerald Dragon ===

'''Abilities:''' Able to use one power at a time--ultra-vision, strength, speed, or invulnerability }}

=== White Witch/Jewel/Black Witch ===

'''Abilities:''' Sorcery }}

== Bronze Age (1970-1989) ==

=== Blok ===

'''Abilities:''' Super-strength, durability }}

=== Chameleon Girl ===

'''Abilities:''' Shapeshifting }}

=== Computo II ===

'''Abilities:''' Controls technology }}

=== Dawnstar ===

'''Abilities:''' Flight, long-range tracking }}

=== Invisible Kid II ===

'''Abilities:''' Invisibility, formerly also Uncontrolled Teleportation }}

=== Quislet ===

'''Abilities:''' Object animation }}

=== Tellus ===

'''Abilities:''' Telepathy and telekinesis }}

=== Tyroc ===

'''Abilities:''' Sonic manipulation }}

=== Wildfire/ERG-1/NRG/Wildflame ===

'''Abilities:''' Composed of anti-energy, energy blasts and manipulation }}

== Five Years Later (1989-1994) ==

=== Andromeda ===

'''Abilities:''' Super-strength, speed, senses, flight, and invulnerability }}

=== Catspaw ===

'''Abilities:''' Super-human strength and speed, enhanced senses, and claws }}

=== Dragonmage ===

'''Abilities:''' Sorcery }}

=== Kid Quantum I ===

'''Abilities:''' Temporal manipulation; shapeshifting, telepathy (Preboot only) }}

== Postboot (1994-2004) ==

=== Gates ===

'''Abilities:''' Teleportation }}

=== Gear ===

'''Abilities:''' Grows organic technology from his body }}

=== Kid Quantum II ===

'''Abilities:''' Temporal manipulation, throws damaging "q-spheres" }}

=== Kinetix ===

'''Abilities:''' Manipulates inanimate objects }}

=== Magno ===

'''Abilities:''' Magnetism manipulation }}

=== Monstress ===

'''Abilities:''' Super-strength }}

=== Shikari Lonestar ===

'''Abilities:''' Flight, transdimensional navigation, bio-armor }}

=== [[Superboy]] II ===

'''Abilities:''' Super-strength, speed, senses, flight, invulnerability, and tactile telekinesis }}

=== Thunder ===

'''Abilities:''' Super-strength, speed, flight, invulnerability }}

=== XS ===

'''Abilities:''' Super-speed }}

== Threeboot (2004-2009) ==

=== Dream Boy ===

'''Abilities:''' Precognition }}

=== Gazelle ===

'''Abilities:''' Conscious metabolic control }}

=== Sizzle ===

'''Abilities:''' Absorbs, alters, and redirects energy }}

=== Theena ===

'''Abilities:''' Bonded to clairvoyant symbiont }}

=== Turtle ===

'''Abilities:''' Invulnerability }}

== Other Heroes ==

=== Dev-Em ===

'''Abilities:''' Super-strength, speed, senses, flight, and invulnerability }}

=== Inferno II ===

'''Abilities:''' Pyrokinesis, flight }}

==== Antennae Lad ====

'''Abilities:''' Can hear radio transmissions }}

* [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?]]: He can hear radio transmissions... all of them. Not necessarily from this universe or time period, mind you, but he can hear them.

==== Chlorophyll Kid/"Plant Lad" ====

'''Abilities:''' Manipulates plant growth; claims he can talk to them, which he cannot }}

* [[Green Thumb]]: Essentially taken to its logical conclusion - he can accelerate the growth of plants, and that's his only power. The inability to actually ''control'' plants is the largest reason for him never being accepted

==== Color Kid (Color King) ====

'''Abilities:''' Can change color of any object }}

==== Double Header ====

'''Abilities:''' Has two heads. (Really.) }}

* [[Me's a Crowd]]: Kinda. Eventually, he'll split into two whole people.

==== Fire Lad ====

'''Abilities:''' Breathes fire with moderate control at best }}

* [[Unskilled but Strong]]: The reason his membership has been repeatedly denied. His fire breath is incredibly potent, but he lacks the ability to control it in any meaningful way. The original incarnation even had terrible allergies that would often activate his powers. Preboot, he would eventually achieve a level of control that was frankly ridiculous, capable of making ice sculptures with his fire breath, but this would be ignored in Retroboot.

==== Infectious Lass ====

'''Abilities:''' Spontaneous generation of infectious diseases }}

* [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?]]: She makes people sick. Like, aches and sniffles (or more exotic diseases).

* [[Heart Is an Awesome Power]]: In the last postboot story, Drura is introduced as a Legion cadet, airlifted in as part of emergency backup during a riot in Metropolis, and demonstrating much greater control of powers than the previous version, [http://www.comicvine.com/148827-infectious-lass/105-195082/ reduces] two dedicated terrorists to vomiting bags of sick who eagerly give up the location of their ringleader.

'''Chameleon''': Oh, you'll die. We'll all die someday. The ''issue'' is, do you want to die in your bed surrounded by loved ones... or bent over in this alley with a ''woefully'' inadequate supply of tissues? }}

==== Porcupine Pete ====

'''Abilities:''' Shoots quills from his body }}

* [[Flechette Storm]]

==== Rainbow Girl ====

'''Abilities:''' Wields the powers of the mysterious emotional spectrum, resulting in unpredictable mood swings }}

* [[Mood Swinger]]: She doesn't have full control over her power to tap into the emotional spectrum, which leads to her going from raging mad to hopeful to cocky and willful in the space of a few panels.

==== Stone Boy ====

'''Abilities:''' Able to transform his body to stone, but forced to remain inanimate }}

* [[Heart Is an Awesome Power]]: He even won a contest held by the Legion proper with membership as the prize, which he rejected because he couldn't bear to abandon his friends.

== Villains ==

=== Composite Man ===

'''Abilities:''' Copies the powers of those around him; shapeshifitng }}

=== Computo I/Mister Venge ===

'''Abilities:''' Controls technology }}

** [[The Baroness]]: Though which version she's closer to tends to vary from comic to comic.

** [[Big Bad]]: In the cartoon.

** [[The Dark Chick]]: In the comics, although she and [[Evil Genius|Mano]] sometimes swap these roles.

** [[Faceless Eye]]: As her main weapon.

==== Earth-Man/Absorbancy Boy ====

'''Abilities:''' Super-power absorption and duplication }}

==== Cosmic King ====

'''Abilities:''' Transmutation of chemical elements }}

==== Lightning Lord ====

'''Abilities:''' Electrical generation and direction }}

==== Saturn Queen ====

'''Abilities:''' Telepathy }}

==== Sun Emperor ====

'''Abilities:''' Solar energy generation and manipulation }}

==== [[Superman/Characters|Superboy-Prime]] ====

'''Abilities:''' Super-strength, speed, senses, flight, and invulnerability }}

==== Chameleon Chief ====

'''Abilities:''' Shapeshifting, can also change objects }}

==== Nemesis Kid ====

'''Abilities:''' Spontaneously develops powers to defeat a single opponent }}

=== Mordru the Merciless ===

'''Abilities:''' Sorcery, immortality }}

=== Praetor Lemnos ===

* [[Big Bad]]

=== The Time Trapper ===

'''Abilities:''' Temporal manipulation; others depending on identity }}

* After the End: He/She/It lives at the end of time, or not. [[Continuity Snarl|Depending on the continuity]]

=== Universo ===

'''Abilities:''' Mind control }}