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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.
Eventually, Keith Giffen took over the book, along with [[Running the Asylum|fans-turned-writers]] Tom and Mary Bierbaum, and the series ''really'' jumped into the [[Dark Age]] with the "Five Years Later" [[Time Skip]]. Earth is ruled by alien invaders. One character was [[Retcon|retconned]] into an [[Applied Phlebotinum]] [[
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.
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** 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.
** Shvaughn Erin was turned into a pathetic transgender stalker
*** 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.
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