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

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Since the entire premise of the Legion was centered around Superboy, and Superboy no longer existed in the [[Post-Crisis]] universe, the continuity of the series didn't work. DC's initial patch was to say that one of the Legion's foes, the Time Trapper, had created a pocket dimension containing an Earth with a Superboy. However, this issue kept coming up, with more and more patches needed to fix things.

 

 

A combination of [[Continuity Snarl|continuity issues]] and low sales brought DC to the point where they rebooted the series. The reboot was written by [[Mark Waid]] and Tom McCraw in 1995, as part of the ''Zero Hour'' [[Crisis Crossover]]. This incarnation of the Legion was a youth corps run by [[The Federation]], to symbolize its member worlds and species working together. This version sidestepped the Superboy issue by being inspired by the 20th century's age of heroes in general. The new version tried to [[Adaptation Distillation|distill]] all of the Legion's history to date, while adding its own twists -- some of which [[Fanon Discontinuity|didn't work that well]] ({{spoiler|Sneckie}}) Still, this version lasted until 2004 with a few writer changes and [[Retool|ReTools]]; then, they were wiped out (or at least [[Put on a Bus|detached from the main line of DCU history]]) during the build up to ''[[Infinite Crisis]]'', and replaced with a third version -- the "threeboot" Legion.

* ''Legion Lost'' (volume 2) (2011-2013)

* ''Legion of Super-Heroes'' (volume 7) (2011-2013) (finally cancelled in 2013, after entering the New 52 without many continuity changes)

* [[Aborted Arc]]

** In related series ''R.E.B.E.L.S.'', featuring Vril Dox II, an ancestor of Brainiac 5's from the 20th century, the earlier Dox makes a [[Deal with the Devil|deal with Neron]] in exchange for knowledge, offering up not his own somewhat tarnished soul, but instead placing the debt on his bloodline and setting it to come due in "about 1000 years." After ''R.E.B.E.L.S.'' was canceled, a team of Legionnaires was sent back to the 20th century, leading to a meeting between Querl and his ancestor in which Vril mentioned Neron in a guilty sort of way... and then nothing came of it. It was implied, however, that the insanity of Brainiac 5's mother could be related to this deal.

** Timber Wolf was mutated into a mute, inhuman beast that was treated like a pet by his teammates.

** Wildfire was killed off in the [[Noodle Incident]] known as Black Dawn, with the only details stated being that his death was horribly violent.

*** Writer/artist (and Legion superfan) Colleen Doran was overheard at a con referring to Shvaughn Erin as "Sean" many months before the Bierbaums worked their strange magic on him/her. In general the Threeboot Legion got this treatment in "Legion of Three Worlds" where they had more members of their Legion dying and basically being swept under the rug to make the old Legion the main Legion.

** Sun Boy turned traitor and ended up being horribly burnt, to the point that he was mistaken as a monster by his own friends.

** The Emerald Eye in the postboot "Emerald Vi" arc.

** The Miracle Machine is preboot continuity.

* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: And loads and loads... One might say [[Incredibly Lame Pun|they are Legion...]]

** Not just the team, but the Legion titles seem to exist in a universe all their own. In the 1980s, DC released a ''Who's Who'' maxi-series dedicated solely to the Legion, covering just about every named character that has been in a Legion-related book since the 1960s.

* [[Spinoff Babies]]: The SW6 clone team, who starred in pre-Zero Hour ''Legionnaires''.

* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: Glorith's unhealthy obsession with Valor in v4.

* [[Star-Crossed Lovers]]: Wildfire and Dawnstar.

* [[Star-Spangled Spandex]]: Threeboot Star Boy, and current-era Starman.

 

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