Title Character
Clark Kent/Kal/El/Superman
Supporting Cast
Lois Lane | Jimmy Olsen | Ambush Bug | Steel
Villains
Central Rogues Gallery (Alexander "Lex" Luthor, Bizarro, Vril Dox/Brainiac, Cyborg-Superman, Darkseid, Doomsday, Lobo, Mister Mxyzptlk, Mongul, Phantom Zone Criminals [General Zod]) | A-L | M-Z (Superboy-Prime)
Spin-Offs
Supergirl (Kara Zor-El/Linda Danvers/Supergirl, Supporting Cast, Rogues Gallery) | Power Girl | Superboy (Conner Kent/Kon-El, Jonathan "Jon" Samuel Kent, Supporting Cast, Rogues Gallery) | Legion Of Superheroes (The Founders, Silver Age, Bronze Age, Five Years Later, Postboot, Threeboot, Retroboot, Rebirth, Other Heroes, The Fatal Five, The Legion of Supervillains, Other Villains, Supporting Cast)
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The Legion of Substitute Heroes
The Legion of Substitute Heroes is a 30th Century super-hero team of rejected applicants to the Legion of Super-Heroes, who they originally deemed their super-powers as useless. They were founded by Polar Boy, Night Girl, Stone Boy, Fire Lad, and Chlorophyll Kid to prove themselves as actual heroes. The Team in General
- Be Careful What You Wish For: A team of Legion rejects who trained their powers and abilities in order to help the Legion, always hoping for the chance to join. And they finally got that chance in the 5YL timeline, joining in an era where Earthgov (secretly controlled by the Dominators) was actively persecuting the Legion. At least they got to be there for one significant Legion event—the disbanding. After that they became the backbone of Jacques Foccart's band of freedom fighters. Close enough.
- Big Damn Heroes: Before the Legion discovered their existence, they devoted themselves to secretly bailing their counterparts out of trouble or fighting off unseen threats for them, something that continued even after the Legion found them out.
- Butt-Monkey: Collectively, they tend to find themselves used as comic relief.
- Depending on the Writer: They're either reasonably effective superheroes or are something of a joke.
- Gaslighting: They used all their powers together to create an illusory hellscape which allowed them to easily beat the mentally-unstable League of Super-Assassins.
- Lower-Deck Episode: Stories occasionally focused on the Subs, particularly the earliest ones in which they secretly helped the Legion without revealing themselves.
- Mundane Utility: After bombing as superheroes, Color Kid and Fire Lad went into business as very successful glassblowers.
- Offscreen Inertia: Averted. Some authors forget that the Subs don't just sit around sucking all day. They train all the time to improve their abilities, fight crimes and solve mysteries (some Legion-level) that the LSH never even hear about. This makes them remarkably effective, at least when they're not supposed to be a joke.
- Superzeroes: The group consists of this, all of them being rejects from the Legion of Super-Heroes. The Subs have varied in terms of effectiveness across continuities, and most of them were rejected on the grounds that they needed more training in order to control their abilities more than because their abilities themselves were useless.
- Took a Level in Badass: Depicting as well-meaning but not-entirely-effective for much of their career, the original Substitute Heroes ultimately wound up joining the Legion proper in its darkest hour, when it was being hounded out of existence by a corrupt Earthgov. When the Legion itself falls apart, they refuse to be hounded into quiescence. While Polar Boy is ultimately arrested for trying to incite a riot, the other founding members go underground, train themselves up, and form the core of the resistance movement.
- Took a Level in Dumbass: For a period in the 80's, the Subs were the target of some rather mean-spirited writing that had them losing all the Character Development and improvements they'd made since their first appearances. For example, one retelling of their origin in Secret Origins added the Cruel Twist Ending that the Legion had to fight off the uncontrolled horde of alien mooks the Subs created to overrun the base, with a shell-shocked Legionnaire telling a reporter "...if only there weren't so many of them."
- True Companions: Perhaps moreso than the "real" Legion, the Subs see each other as family first.
- Unskilled, but Strong: One of the primary reasons why many of them can't join the real Legion.
- What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: The other primary reason many of them never make it to the real Legion.
Animal Lad
AKA: Ennis Jahnson
Homeworld: Earth
Abilities: Can turn humans into animals, and animals into humans, or some combination of the two.
- Ascended Extra: Similar to Rainbow Girl, he made one appearance in the Silver Age before Geoff Johns brought him back as a Sub in the Retroboot (in Justice Society of America (2022) #7 to be exact).
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: He's got blond hair and was rejected because Dynamo Boy's scan proved Ennis was too heroic.
- Incorruptible Pure Pureness: He was rejected by the evil Dynamo Boy because a scan showed Ennis's innate goodness would make it impossible to tempt him into villainy.
- Life Saving Misfortune: His rejection from the Legion happened during a time when it was taken over by the evil Dynamo Boy, who was looking to stack the roster with criminals and people he could tempt into villainy. This included the adult Legion of Super-Villains.
- Mythology Gag: His modern day redesign sports a modified Superman costume with an "A" on the chest, alongside his lion head is meant to harken to the Silver Age Superman's weird transformations.
- Power Incontinence: He's currently stuck as half human, half lion.
Antennae Lad
AKA: Khfeurb Chee Bez
Homeworld: Gryxor
Abilities: Can hear and broadcast radio transmissions.
- Brown Note: Downplayed. His antennae pick up and broadcast radio transmissions from all sorts of different places and times and play them all at once at an ear-splitting volume, which didn't harm the Legionnaires testing him so much as intensely annoy them.
- Power Incontinence: His power could actually be really useful if he could even slightly control what transmissions he picks up, getting access to transmissions that haven't actually occurred yet for instance would be nice if done intentionally, but transmissions from a hundred years ago in a different universe are going to be pretty useless almost all of the time as are most transmissions in general. Plus, it seems he can't control his volume.
- 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"
AKA: Ral Benem
Homeworld: Mardru
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.
- Heart Is an Awesome Power: He slowly learns to control the direction and to an extent shape of plants he's speeding the growth of making his power much more useful in a fight, and depending on just where a plant starts growing from, like say on or in an opponent, it always was. The subs first real fight as a group was against Plant Men, which worked out really well for Ral.
- Heroic Build: Originally played straight when he was first introduced in the Silver Age, up until the 1980s when the Subs were rewritten as a group of incompetent fanboys, and he was made rather obese. Following the return of the "original" Legion, he was slimmed back down.
- Super Power Lottery: Indirectly. There are a number of unusual plants in the galaxy with qualities that can be weaponized or otherwise useful in battle.
- This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman: During 5YL, it turns out that Dominator technology is plant-based, just in time for Ral to demonstrate that he's learned to do much more with plants than simply make them grow.
- Took a Level in Badass: By 5YL, he's learned how to manipulate plants much more effectively.
- What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: He started out with the ability to speed up or slow down the growth of plant life, and that was it. This caused him to be turned away when he applied to the Legion since while his power did have very useful applications those applications were not so useful in a fight. As with the other Subs, with training and experience his abilities expanded considerably.
Color Kid (Color King)
AKA: Ulu Vakk
Homeworld: Lupra
Abilities: Can change the color of any object.
- Ambiguously Gay: In some continuities, most notably the cartoon.
- Blinded by the Light: Eventually learns to do with with his color-projecting powers. It's mentioned that thanks to training he can affect whole squadrons of enemies by 5YL.
- Heart Is an Awesome Power: When it can turn Green Kryptonite into harmless Blue Kryptonite, when you can use it to turn the air black (remember, Night Girl is his teammate), and when you need an effective disguise or you want to disorient your foes. His power has greater applications that it at first appears since he's actually changing the color of the object and with some things this wreaks much larger molecular changes, like with Kryptonite.
- Master of Disguise: Want to look like a different race or species, or blend in with an Amazing Technicolor Population? Here's your man!
- Master of Illusion: His power can create simple illusions by, say, changing the air into numerous colors.
- Mercy Kill: In 5YL, as the rebels are invading the Dominators' chambers, he turns off the device keeping Sun Boy's brain-dead yet constantly burning body alive.
- Monochromatic Eyes: His eyes are solid black. Well, sometimes.
- Rainbow Lite: His costume always includes a color spectrum representation somewhere in the vicinity of his upper torso, and this "rainbow" never contains more than five colors. Usually red, orange, yellow, green and blue.
- Sensory Abuse: He can use his powers to project a rapid pattern of colors which can nauseate and disorient his foes.
- Shoulders of Doom: His costume's upright external shoulder pads/pauldrons give him a distinct silhouette, even if they're a bit smaller than most examples.
- Took a Level in Badass: Like his teammates, he started showing what his powers could really do with training and practice as a member of Jacques Foccart's rebels during 5YL, using his powers for camouflage and misdirection...and even offensively!
- What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: The page picture, even! However, one sourcebook mentions that he spent a great deal of time aggressively studying his own powers to eventually avert this, as can be seen in the other entries here.
Double Header
AKA: Frenk and Dyvud Retzun
Homeworld: Janus
Abilities: Has two heads. (Really.)
- Badass Normal: No, wait, come back! They turn out to be a remarkably good fighter after some training. And probably counseling.
- Cerebus Retcon: It's later revealed that their race was created by the Dominators.
- Human Aliens: Part of a race that starts as conjoined twins, then grows apart with age.
- Killed Offscreen: By Earth-Man, prior to the "Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes" storyline.
- Multiple Head Case: Their sole "power" is that they have two heads with different personalities and will eventually split into two people.
- Mundane Utility: Word of God shows
that by 5YL they managed to utilize their unique talent to headline a very successful sitcom. - Punny Name: Maybe? Retsin's the special ingredient in Certs, a breath mint. Get it?
- Self-Duplication: Kinda. Eventually, they'll split into two whole people.
- Sibling Yin-Yang: Sort of. The heads are technically brothers, and they hate each other.
- What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: Even among the Substitute Heroes, having two heads that never cooperate is an incredibly pathetic "power".
Fire Lad
AKA: Stag Mavlen
Homeworld: Schwar
Abilities: Breathes fire with moderate control at best, resistant to flame/heat.
- Breath Weapon: He can breath fire, and on Schwar with it's low oxygen levels had fair control. In Earth's oxygen rich atmosphere he creates a lot more fire than he wants and does not have the control he needs to keep from being a danger to his allies.
- Flaming Hair: It seems to be a permanent illusion of some sort.
- Magic Meteor: Stag gained his fire breathing abilities after exposure to a strange meteorite.
- Monochromatic Eyes: Develops solid white eyes in the Bronze Age for some reason.
- Pointy Ears: Has these in 5YL for some reason.
- Power Incontinence: A fire-breather with allergies. During 5YL, he got training from a speech pathologist that allowed him much better control, at the cosssst of hisssssing hisss ssibilantsss.
- Required Secondary Powers: By 5YL he explicitly has a high degree of fire immunity, which was implied before by the fact that the lower half of his face isn't a charred ruin.
- 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.
- Verbal Tic: During 5YL.
- You Don't Look Like You: His design receives a complete makeover in 5YL, giving him a more demonic appearance including reddish skin. No explanation is given.
Infectious Lass
AKA: Drura Sepht
Homeworld: Somahtur
Abilities: Spontaneous generation of infectious diseases, immunity to disease.
- Amazing Technicolor Population: Her skin is a pale blue-white.
- Ascended Fangirl: A fan of superheroes and the Legion who becomes a Legion affiliated hero in her own right.
- Facial Markings: In most appearances, she has a blue blotch around her eyes that resembles both a mask and bacteria. In 5YL, it seems to be missing, so it may have been a mask of some sort. (Or an artistic error).
- Gender Bender: One of her viruses can change a person's sex.
- 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, reduces two dedicated terrorists to vomiting bags of sick who eagerly give up the location of their ringleader.Infectious Lass: Hi, fellas. You're now officially walking hot zones....Arrow: I'm... I'm willing to die for my cause.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?
- Heroic Host: Her race are natural carriers for massive colonies of microorganisms of all sorts which they may inflict upon others while remaining unaffected. Sometimes even intentionally!
- Ideal Illness Immunity: A trait of her race.
- Interspecies Romance: Starts dating the human Jacques Foccart (aka Invisible Kid II) in 5YL.
- Logical Weakness: In light of the fact that her entire race is immune to disease, and thus she spent most of her life not having to worry about whether she was infecting people, the amount of control she does have (and eventually gains) over her powers is impressive.
- Plague Master: A rare heroic example.
- Put on a Bus: In Retroboot, she was banished to Limbo by Earth-Man (where she joined up with Doctor Thirteen and a Nazi gorilla).
- Power Incontinence: During her Legion interview she gave Star Boy a common cold, then planned to follow up with a light dose of flu. Instead, she gave him something that sent him to the ground with agonizing stomach pains. After a later rejection, she did the same thing to Quake Kid without even meaning to use her power, and one point she infected Color Kid with a gender-reversing virus. It took her years to learn proper control.
- Superpower Lottery: The existence of a virus which can change a person's gender implies all sorts of sci-fi diseases and bizarre effects.
- Technicolor Eyes: In 5YL she has golden irises. She doesn't not have them in prior appearances, but her irises aren't as detailed. Not Supernatural Gold Eyes because her powers aren't magical or (apparently) psychic.
- Took a Level in Badass: Like her teammates, she gains a lot more control over her powers by 5YL.
- Unskilled, but Strong: Like many of her teammates, her inability to control her powers is her downfall. In her second attempt to apply for Legion membership, she boasts that she's much more powerful than before and can even cause epidemics... but her control hasn't improved remotely.
- What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: Initially, she could only give people aches and sniffles. Afterwards, she averted this by becoming much more powerful; it's just that she lacks meaningful control over her diseases.
Porcupine Pete
AKA: Peter Dursin
Homeworld: Earth
Abilities: Shoots quills from his body.
- Ace Pilot: Shows inpressive piloting skills in 5YL.
- Flechette Storm: He launches all of his quills every time, making him equally dangerous to friend and foe.
- Gonk: His facial features are somewhat simian, or perhaps hedgehog-like.
- Multiple-Choice Past: Depending on which version you read, he either got his powers from a curse or was born a Mutant.
- Nice Guy: The Who's Who mentions that in stark contrast to his spiky appearance, he's gentle and good-humored by nature.
- Spike Shooter: Shoots quills from his body. All over his body. At once.
- Stripperific: Probably to let as many quills as possible fly, or so he doesn't have keep picking them out of as many clothes.
- Took a Level in Badass: During 5YL, he demonstrated that he'd gained full control of his spikes, something he'd made a bit of progress in beforehand.
- Unskilled, but Strong: His quills are extremely harmful.. to friend and foe alike, since he can only shoot them all at once and in all directions surrounding him.
- Youthful Freckles: In his first appearance, and sometimes afterward.
Rainbow Girl
AKA: Dori Aandraison
Homeworld: Xolnar
Abilities: Wields the powers of the mysterious emotional spectrum, resulting in unpredictable mood swings, sometimes broadcast empathy. Projects a rainbow around her head when using her powers, sometimes.
- All Your Powers Combined: In the modern age (with the advent of the concept of the emotional spectrum), she can use the powers of the numerous Lantern Corps. They still influence her own emotions, however, which can be a problem.
- Emotion Control: Some stories give her the ability to control the emotions of others, though she still has a case of Power Incontinence.
- 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.
- Rainbow Lite: Her costume includes a "rainbow" of only three colors (blue, green and red).
- Retcon: Previously, she only had the ability to affect her emotions and sometimes the emotions of others and project a rainbow around her head—nowadays she's got a lot more going for her.
- Rule of Funny: Whether or not she can affect other people or just herself seems to depend on this.
- What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: One consistent thing about her powers is that she can alter her own emotions. Bank robbers, beware.
Stone Boy
AKA: Dag Wentim
Homeworld: Zwen
Abilities: Able to transform his body to stone, but forced to remain inanimate.
- Declining Promotion: Upon winning a contest that would have granted him membership in the Legion, Dag realized he couldn't leave his friends in the Subs behind.
- Grievous Harm with a Body: Could be used as a club or dropped on/thrown at people in his immobile stone form.
- 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.
- The Needless: In his stone state he doesn't need to eat, drink, or breathe. After the Subs disbanded, he ended up a deep-space explorer.
- Nigh-Invulnerable: His stone form is even tougher than it looks, able to survive being used as a club or tossed off a cliff without even a crack.
- Partial Transformation: Eventually, he learns how to transforms parts of himself, such as his fists or his head, into stone. This makes him considerably more useful, as you might imagine.
- Sleepwalking: Later on in his preboot career (during 5YL), he trained himself to do this, enabling him to move will in stone form.
- The Stoic: Often characterized as being an extremely taciturn and serious individual
- Stone Wall: Essentially invulnerable in stone form, but incapable of movement.
- Taken for Granite: What his power amounts to, turning into an immobile statue. Eventually, Preboot Stone Boy learned how to turn just his fists to stone, but this is usually ignored by other incarnations.
- Took a Level in Badass: Since Zwenians' stone forms are a form of sleep state, he trained with a hypnotherapist in order to be conscious and able to move in stone form. He also learned, as mentioned, to partially solidify himself.
- Training the Gift of Magic: Everyone on his planet can turn their whole bodies to stone and hibernate for up to six months. Dag, on the other hand, has been trained to do things like solidify his fists, and after a few years of training can even move in fully stone form without having to hibernate. Technically, he could go back to his planet and be a superhero there.
Heroes of Lallor
The Heroes of Lallor were a group of five teens from the planet Lallor who gained powers after exposure to atomic fallout. They were exiled from their dictatorial homeworld and made their way to earth. The team in general
- The Exile: Exiled from their planet by Prime Minister Vorr, who was worried they'd prove a threat to his dictatorship. As it turned out, rightly so, though not in the way he expected.
- Gone Horribly Wrong: The aforementioned Vorr had planned to use secret nuclear armaments to cement his control over Lallor. When one of his scientists bungled and the lab blew up, not only were his plans revealed, but the fallout ended up creating five threats to his rule...and the heinous act of banishing the five innocent youths from their home planet led the people to finally rise up and strike him down.
- Let's You and Him Fight: After being exiled, Marden King, brother of the deceased villain Monster Master, welcomed them to Earth...but warned them that the "wicked tyrants" in the Legion Of Superheroes might see them as rivals and force them to leave. Things eventually got sorted out.
- Mass Super-Empowering Event: The quintet all gained their powers due to the same event.
- Name Order Confusion: On Lallor a person's first and last name are interchangeable. Yes. It's certainly not because an author accidentally called Duplicate Boy Ord Quelu instead of Quelu Ord, or anything like that.
- Overshadowed by Awesome: When Duplicate Boy's powers briefly seemed to briefly stop working out of guilt, the broadcast news of Lallor lamented as the end of an era—much to the annoyance of his less-powerful teammates, who were still quite active, thank you very much.
- Radiation-Induced Superpowers: They all got their powers due to nuclear fallout.
- True Companions: They were all born with powers and have been together since. Sometimes Duplicate Boy's arrogance causes a bit of friction, but it seems they'll be together for the foreseeable future.
- Two Girls to a Team: Life Lass and Gas Girl are the only girls on the otherwise all male team.
Beast Boy
AKA: Ilshu Nor
Homeworld: Lallor
Abilities: Can change into (and control?) animals.
- All of the Other Reindeer: Aside fromhis teammates, the people of Lallor were terrified and disgusted by his shapeshifting powers, leading him to leave Lallor for Vorn, the planet of beasts.
- Animorphism: His power is to change his form to that of any animal in the universe.
- Attack of the Killer Whatever: Vorn was a dangerous place even before Beast Boy started whipping the local wildlife into a frenzy.
- The Beastmaster: He can mentally command animals, though some such as the Maw seem to have very powerful instincts.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: While he was on the run from the combined forces of the LSH and his former colleagues the Heroes of Lallor, he took the form of a dog, who a little girl fed and gave water to, treating him kindly. When the girl was attacked by a maw, one of the creatures he'd set free on Vorn, Beast Boy threw himself, still in dog form, into the creature's jaws to push her away.
- Blinded by the Light: One of the forms he took on Vorn was a Flasher-Beast, a sort of reptilian ape that could emit blinding rays from its eyes.
- Your Mind Makes It Real: Flasher-Beasts may also create detailed hypnotic illusions.
- Cruel Elephant: The form he uses to disguise himself among the captured Vornian animals is a tork, an innocuous-looking elephantoid with a horn on each of its two heads.
- Driven to Villainy: The rejection of the people of Lallor turned him into a misanthrope, though to his credit, his first instinct was to isolate himself and drive people away (admittedly, from their homes) rather than kill them outright.
- Earth Is the Center of the Universe: The threat Beast Boy poses hits closer to home when he gets himself shipped to Metropolis on Earth, with a bunch of Vornian beasts in tow.
- The Exile: The second time was self-imposed.
- Face–Heel Turn: Embittered by society's rejection, he became a misanthrope who was willing to endanger innocent people's lives in order to live alone with the beasts of Vorn.
- Fantastic Racism: Prejudice against shapeshifters seems to be widespread across the galaxy, and Lallor was no different.
- Fast Tunnelling: In Vornian Mole form.
- The Hermit: Tried to drive the last settlement of humans off of Vorn in order to be alone with its native life.
- Heroic Sacrifice: In spite of his bitterness, in the end he threw himself into the jaws of a much more powerful beast known as the maw to save the life of a little girl who'd fed him and been kind to him while he was in dog form.
- Killed Off for Real: He's a comic book character whose friends regularly interact with a group that has figured out how to revive their own deceased members but he's not coming back.
- Let's You and Him Fight: Uses the Flasher-Beast's mental illusions to make the Legionnaires think they lost their powers and forces Mon-El and Superboy to fight to the death in order to save the other Legionnaires. Superboy's invulnerable costume getting ripped tips Brainiac 5 off to the truth.
- Madden Into Misanthropy: Being treated like a freakish monster by his fellow Lallorians his entire life eventually made him snap. Not even the company of his teammates could bring him back from the edge.
- Multi-Armed and Dangerous: One of his forms is a slith, essentially a six-armed gorilla.
- Multiple Head Case:
- One of his forms, the gurn, is a Lallorian animal which resembles a two-headed tiger.
- The above-mentioned tork has heads on the front and back of its body.
- Needle in a Stack of Needles: Hides himself among numerous Vornian creatures being shipped to Metropolis Zoo by taking on the form of one of them.
- Psychic Static: He can guard his thoughts from Saturn Girl, though it's not clear if he has to be in animal form to do so.
- Red Is Heroic: His uniform is mostly red, and he started out as a hero until he was Driven to Villainy, yet in the end turned out to be a better person than even he thought.
- Required Secondary Powers: Although not explicitly stated, he's shown ordering animals around, so he either has some psychic command power or is really good at animal handling. Whichever the case it, failed against the maw.
- Shock and Awe: When in the form of a Lightning Monster of Korbal, he can shoot lightning bolts from a protrusion on his head.
- The Strategist: Demonstrated this ability while trying to drive people away from Vorn, organizing its varied native animals in co-ordinated group attacks that left the experienced hunters of the planet baffled, and even held up against the Legion.
- Super-Hearing: His Lallorian darkbeast form, as a cave-dweller, has this.
- Superpower Lottery: While on a rather smaller scale than Duplicate Boy, as you can see from just these examples, there are a lot of very strange, very powerful animals out there in the universe, and on the planet Vorn in particular. Beast Boy can both transform into and control them.
- This Was His True Form: Takes on his original human form in death.
- What You Are in the Dark: In spite of becoming a Misanthrope Supreme, he gave his life to save a kind child rather than simply continuing to flee the Legion in his dog disguise.
Duplicate Boy
AKA: Quelu Ord
Homeworld: Lallor
Abilities: Power duplication
- Always Save the Girl: He surrendered to the "evil tyrants" of the Legion of Super-heroes when he realized that collateral damage from fighting them could injure Violet.
- Asskicking Leads to Leadership: In the Heroes' first appearances, DB is the leader by virtue of being the most powerful. As time went on, however, Evolvo Lad's genius and talent for strategy led to him taking over.
- Beauty Equals Goodness: When Marden King temporarily convinced the Lallorians that the LSH was evil, he had difficulty believing that a pretty girl like Shrinking Violet could be a villain. For her part, Violet felt that this handsome boy sure didn't look evil.
- Crazy Jealous Guy: Deeply possessive of Shrinking Violet when he dated her, often checking up on her with telescopic vision, or threatening harm upon guys she hung out with. When he thought she was sleeping with Colossal Boy, he legitimately, tried to murder him, and their fight destroyed a mountain range.
- Dumb Jock: Not the brains of the team, for sure. Tends to focus on imitating simple physical powers over the far broader applications of others.
- Fatal Flaw: His impulsiveness and Hair-Trigger Temper.
- Foregone Conclusion: One Adult Legion story showed that he and Violet had married as adults and had children. Events have conspired to take this well out of continuity, however.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: His teammates don't dislike him, per se, but they tend to roll their eyes and get annoyed at his Glory Hound antics. Post-kidnap Violet launching into a tirade and shoving the "I'm-sorry-I-didn't-tell-anyone-you-were-being-impersonated" gift he sent her into his mouth and breaking up with him for good downright amused Evolvo Lad, and none of the others lifted a finger to help, either.
- Glory Hound: Soaks up a lot of attention from the Lallorian media.
- Interspecies Romance: It's not clear if Lallorians are humans or Human Aliens, but Violet's an Imskian and he's not.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He can be childish and a bit of a Dumb Jock, but he does want to help people.
- Long-Distance Relationship: Engaged in one with Shrinking Violet, but the fact that he can easily teleport across the universe (and does, when Matter-Eater Lad takes her out on a date), raises some questions...
- My God, What Have I Done?: After Shrinking Violet shoved his apology gift down his throat, he went through a long period of depression.
- My Greatest Failure: He thought Violet was cheating on him with Colossal Boy, but when he realized it was actually someone impersonating her, DB came to the conclusion that Violet must have gone undercover on a mission without telling him. In a fit of jealous pique, he decided not to investigate any further or reveal the deception. The real Violet, meanwhile, had actually been kidnapped months before and was being tortured at the hands of Imskian rebels, and could have been rescued long before the truth finally came out if he'd only said something. DB spent a long while justifiably beating himself up over this one, and was never the same afterwards.
- Oblivious to Love: As teens, Life Lass and Gas Girl had crushes on him (and Life Lass still loves him as an adult), but he doesn't notice.
- Power Copying: He can copy any power he has properly encountered, and can use more than one at the same time.
- Power-Strain Blackout: This occasionally happened when he tried to imitate something incredibly powerful (like Validus), or tried to use magic.
- Psychosomatic Superpower Outage: After his greatest failure he felt so guilty that he actually temporarily lost his powers. He gets them back thanks to a ruse by his teammates, but he never gets over Vi.
- Strong, but Unskilled: He's well-aware that he's the most powerful hero in the universe, and as a result hasn't bothered to really train and study his powers or learn even the basics of personal combat—in fact according to his Who's Who entry he has no particular skills for anything at all—and has a limited imagination that revolves around simply choosing powers that let him beat things up. As such, he tends to be quite shocked when he runs into limitations such as Validus being off the scales in terms of physical power or his power being unable to process magic properly. At least he would be shocked if he was conscious.
- Superpower Lottery: His "single" power works out more like all the powers ever since he's met a lot of superheroes and villains, and he can combine them if he wishes.
- Took a Level in Dumbass: As noted by his teammates, his guilt over Violet left him out of step for years, even after his powers came back.
Evolvo Lad
AKA: Sev Tcheru
Homeworld: Lallor
Abilities: Can shift between weaker super intelligent form and super-strong less intelligent form.
- Animorphism: He can de-evolve into an ape.
- Awesomeness by Analysis: In his hyper-evolved form.
- Beleaguered Assistant: Gets pretty frustrated trying to check Duplicate Boy's impetuous nature. In fact, by the time of the Who's Who, he's become the de facto leader...and still dealing with DB's issues.
- Hollywood Evolution: Can become an ape, a caveman, or a big-headed psychic genius in addition to his baseline form.
- Informed Attribute: He claims that in his evolved form his brain's more super than Brainiac 5's, but we never see him accomplish anything on the level Brainy has.
- The Leader: Although Duplicate Boy is the leader in the initial appearances due to being most powerful, by the 80's his advanced intellect in evolved form makes Evolvo the one who's really running the show.
- My Brain Is Big: His "intelligent" form includes an expanded cranium.
- Psychic Powers: Demonstrated telepathy, at least, when evolved.
- The Strategist: In his evolved form.
- Super-Intelligence: In his evolved form.
- Super-Strength: As a cave-man or ape, he has enhanced physical abilities, but since he's nowhere near as strong as Duplicate Boy he prefers to stay in his evolved form and strategize.
- Teen Genius: As a youth in his evolved form.
- Took a Level in Dumbass: Unsurprisingly, his caveman and ape forms aren't exactly intellectuals.
Gas Girl
AKA: Tal Nahii
Homeworld: Lallor
Abilities: Can turn herself into any kind of gas.
- Alien Hair: In her later appearances, her hair flows and moves like a visible gas, and since we can see her scalp through it, that's probably no coincidence.
- Deadly Gas: She's unlikely to do this, being a hero, but she could.
- Elemental Shapeshifter: Can become any gaseous element she wishes.
- Knock Out Gas: Can turn into this.
- Super Smoke: Her power in a nutshell.
Life Lass
AKA: Somi Gan
Homeworld: Lallor
Abilities: Imbues inanimate objects with life.
- All Love Is Unrequited: Gas Girl needles her about keeping her feelings for Duplicate Boy well into adulthood. Too bad he can't get over Shrinking Violet.
- Animate Inanimate Object: Her power is to make these.
- Our Homunculi Are Different: She can bring inanimate objects to life.
- Shrinking Violet: She prefers to let her objects do the (literal) talking for her.
The Wanderers (Preboot)
The Wanderers originally appeared as another team of adventurers predating the Legion, who were turned temporarily evil by a Negative Space Wedgie to set up a Let's You and Him Fight plot. In the late Eighties, Doug Moench wrote a Legion spin-off title starring them — or at least clones of them created by a rogue Controller. The clones were created with enhanced powers and drastically different appearances. The team in general
- But Now I Must Go: At the end of the Moench miniseries (the dinosaur arc), the team decides that their destiny is to follow The Greys who had been killing the dinosaurs in the arc to A Higher Plane Of Existence.
- Came Back Strong: The rogue Controller Clonus, who'd created the monsters who killed the original team, cloned them and brought them back with enhanced powers and forms so they'd win round two.
- Clone Angst: The various Wanderers had mixed feelings about their new selves. One frequent complaint was that clones like themselves could not reproduce without the children turning into monsters. As demonstrated by the children of Clonus and his wife Velissa, who killed the original Wanderers.
- Dark Age of Supernames: Most of the team adopted new codenames to accompany their new selves.
- Temporarily a Villain: Shortly after meeting the Legion of Super-heroes for the first time, due to having been affected by radiation from the Nefar Nebula. Fortunately, they were subdued and the effects wore off after a couple of weeks.
- Whodunnit to Me?: The plot of the first arc of the Moench series. Clonus finds the corpses of the original Wanderers, and has a clone of himself create clones of the team to find out who (or what) killed them.
Dartalg
AKA: Dartalon (true name unknown)
Homeworld: Unknown
Abilities: Fires darts from his body.
- Came Back Strong: Sharp quills grow out of his body after he was resurrected, which quickly replace themselves, and may be launched. Previously he only had a blowgun.
- Clone Angst: Dartalon was the Wanderer most uncomfortable with his changes from when he was Dartalg.
- Expy: As Dartalg, he had a green costume and primarily used a missile weapon with trick ammo.
- Improbable Weapon User:
- Prior to his "resurrection", he used a blowgun.
- Besides shooting his quills in his new form, he can also throw them, which probably counts.
- Spike Shooter: Dartalon could shoot "darts" which he can quickly regrow.
- Trick Arrow:
- Pre-resurrection, he had a bunch of trick darts in his pouch.
- As Dartalon, he often plucks quills out and dips them in sedatives, explosives and so forth to do the same thing.
- Wolverine Claws: He has quickly regenerating "darts" that he can launch at people, and usually maintains a set between his knuckles.
Elvo
AKA: Elvar (true name unknown)
Homeworld: Unknown
Abilities: Enhanced speed and agility.
- Came Back Strong: His new body is shorter and more agile, and he gained the ability to focus his will through his energy sword, making it more powerful and capable of firing blasts.
- Cool Sword: His "Power Sword" is a blade with energy running through it that tends to look like it's coated in flame.
- Master Swordsman: In a time of casual intergalactic travel and all sorts of amazing futuristic weapons Elvar more than gets by using his energy sword.
- Pointy Ears: The reborn Elvar has very oversized (by human comparison) pointed ears.
Immorto
AKA: Re-Animage (true name unknown)
Homeworld: Unknown
Abilities: Immortality, Healing Factor, can bring recently-deceased organisms back to life.
- Came Back Strong: After coming back, he no longer aged, his healing factor became even faster and gained the ability to heal others, to the point of being able to reverse recent deaths.
- Healing Factor: He can quickly regenerate from very severe damage.
- Healing Hands: Re-Animage's enhanced powers allowed him to heal and revive other people.
- No One Could Survive That!: He always had the ability to come back to life when killed, but he was vaporized. Yet Clonus still managed to get enough of him to clone!
- Really 700 Years Old: His true age is unknown but he can no longer age as the same properties which give him his healing factor prevent his physical aging.
- You Are in Command Now: In the series, "Re-Animage" was forced into the leadership role of the team, since Celebrand, the original team's leader, was not cloned successfully.
Ornitho
AKA: Aviax (true name unknown)
Homeworld: Unknown
Abilities: Can transform into any bird-like creature, even imaginary ones.
- Came Back Strong: Clonus's tinkering broadened his powers, allowing him to become any flying creature he could imagine, as well as creatures related to birds, such as (wink wink nudge nudge) dinosaurs.
- Extreme Omnisexual: Aviax transformed in order to have sex with a dinosaur once, in Wanderers #12. (For the record, it was a Phlebotinum Killed the Dinosaurs meets Only You Can Repopulate My Race plot.)
- Flight: He can fly in even in space due to his gravity nullifying enhanced bone structure.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: Previously he could turn to any bird, after coming back it was any bird, bird-like creature or flying creature—even ones that don't actually exist.
Psyche
AKA: Unknown
Homeworld: Unknown
Abilities: Can control, enhance, and remove emotions.
- Came Back Strong: Her powers were greatly enhanced, to the point of becoming a psychic vampire.
- Emotion Eater: Post-resurrection, her powers developed to the point where she was constantly feeding on the emotions of anyone near her for sustenance. The effect is harmless, but her teammates are a little leery around her nevertheless.
- Emotion Control: She can manipulate the emotions of those near her. This power gets much stronger after she's "resurrected".
- The Empath: Her entire family can sense the emotional state of others, but she was born more powerful than either of her parents.
- Human Aliens: She's from some far flung corner of the universe but looks human, even if her white hair would be a bit odd on a human of her apparent age.
- You Can't Go Home Again: She tried, but her parents didn't recognize her new body, thought she'd killed their daughter and the planet's defense robots were summoned against the team. When her parents finally recognized her empathic cry for help, they tried to stop the robots and were killed. So now there's nothing to go back to, even though she inherited their property.
Quantum Queen
AKA: Unknown
Homeworld: Unknown
Abilities: Can transform into living quantum energy.
- Artistic License – Physics: "Quantum" may be the Latin word for amount but its modern use is for the smallest possible unit of a thing, so it's probably not worth bragging about using "quantum energy" in the way she does.
- Came Back Strong: After being brought back with Clonus's adjustments, she went from being an impressive flier/energy blaster to one of the most powerful and versatile heroes of the 30th Century.
- Energy Beings: She can transform herself into a "quantum state" of pure living energy.
- Flight: In energy/light form. After her upgrade, she could hit FTL-speeds. Take that, science!
- Flying Firepower: She can fly and shoot "quantum energy".
- Human Aliens: She's from some far flung corner of the universe but looks like some blonde lady with a growing out dye job.
- Intangibility: By fluctuating her frequencies.
- Invisibility: Another one of her powers.
- Light 'em Up: Following her "resurrection", she developed complete control over the entire light and heat spectrum.
- Master of Illusion: She can create holographic projections.
- Planet Destroyer: When she "goes nova" and unleashes enough power, she can do this.
- Self-Duplication: Gains the power to create light-duplicates of herself with her powers and split her consciousness among them so they can operate independently.
- Sizeshifter: Gains the ability to grow or shrink.
- Strong, but Unskilled: Prior to her upgrade, she expected to easily beat Sun Boy, but the canny Legionnaire managed to outfox her.
- Super-Speed: She had this power in quantum state, but it increased after she was brought back.
- Stripperiffic: In the Moench series, she's essentially wearing some pink panties paired with random bits of matching tape.
- Uncertain Doom: Her statue is shown in a future version of the Legionnaire's memorial hall, though how she joined (and died) is as yet unrevealed, if that's even still canon.
The WorkForce
Amber
- Homeworld: Dendron
- Barbie Doll Anatomy: She's not wearing any clothes but she isn't exposing anything per se.
- Full-Frontal Assault: She's not actually wearing anything besides her hooded cape.
- Hidden Eyes: Her hood obscures her face, leaving her eyes not distinguishable.
- In the Hood: Her only piece of clothing is a black hooded cape.
- Mysterious Past: Much like Particon, hardly anything is known about Amber.
Dune
- Homeworld: Mica
- Dishing Out Dirt: Has the power to control and manipulate sand.
Evolvo
- AKA: Sev TcheruHomeworld: Unknown
- Creepy Long Fingers: His fingers are very long and thin, which is highlighted by his diminutive stature.
- Expy: Of the pre-Zero Hour Evolvo Lad. There's also a 20th Century Evolvo, but it's not clear if they're related somehow besides being Expys of the same apparently pretty popular concept.
- Monochromatic Eyes: Black eyes, though they're sometimes drawn with white pupils like the similar looking, but much taller, aliens from Yquem last seen in Rex the Wonder Dog.
- My Brain Is Big: He's got a tall bald head.
- Super-Strength: Like his pre-Zero Hour counterpart, he has a degree of superhuman physical ability in his caveman and ape forms.
Lori Morning
- Homeworld: Earth
- Fish out of Temporal Water: After traveling to the 30th Century to help defeat Chronos she elected to remain there despite being from the 20th.
- Henshin Hero: She only has superpowers when transformed into her superhero form(s). Said forms being a fire caster, a speedster, teleporter, flyer, ice caster, dark caster, a blob with unknown ability, an even younger Thor expy, and so on...
- I Just Want to Be Special: She really really wants to be a superhero.
- Legacy Character: She gets a hold of the Hero Dial from Dial H for Hero for a while.
- Word of God eventually supported Epileptic Trees from the time that she was meant to be the Postboot Glorith. (At one point the Time Trapper calls her "glorious"; glorious + Lori = Glorith.)
- Plot-Relevant Age-Up: The team only allows for adults so the fact that she ages up to adulthood when powered up is important to her remaining on WorkForce.
- Tagalong Kid: She really wants to be a hero and becomes part of WorkForce despite actually being a child.
Particon
- Homeworld: Earth
- Batter Up!: She usually makes constructs shaped like bats.
- Breast Plate: Her armor has two ludicrous lumps stuck to it over her breasts, just in case you were going to forget that she's a woman.
- The Corruption: Was enthralled by the Blight and taken over by their putrefaction. Her final fate is unknown.
- Hidden Eyes: Her visor always obscures her eyes.
- Mysterious Past: Nothing is known about her or where she obtained her armor.
- Navel Outline: Her outfit is so skintight her navel and well-toned abs can be easily seen.
- Powered Armor: She wears fancy red and gold powered armor.
- Token Minority: She appears to be the only member of WorkForce with any African heritage.
Radion
- AKA: Roy TravichHomeworld: Earth
- Battle Couple: The relationship didn't last but he fought alongside Spider Girl when they were dating.
- The Corruption: Was enthralled by the Blight and taken over by their putrefaction. His final fate is unknown.
Repulse
- Homeworld: Braal
- Fictional Sport: A retired Magnoball champion, the same sport Cosmic Boy's little brother plays professionally in realities where he didn't follow Cos into superheroics.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: He and the other three members of "Mccauley's" Presidential Oversight Watch give up to the Legion willingly, likely fed up with being used by Ras's Al Ghul.
- Magnetism Manipulation: He can magnetically control things near him.
Blast-Off
- AKA: Jahr-Drake Ningle
- Energy Beings: After being "killed" by Mordru it was revealed he had become this universe's version of Wildfire, as an energy being needing a containment suit.
Stand-Alone Heroes
Atmos
AKA: Marak Russen
Homeworld: Xanthu
Abilities: Flight, protective energy field, nuclear bolts, superhuman physical abilities, transmutation or reconstruction of matter via nuclear bolt, electrical disruption via nuclear bolt, strong force of will, super strength, possible mind control. Full abilities unknown.
After Star Boy left Xanthu, the Tribune which rules the planet decided the world needed a new champion, and chose former child actor and amateur athlete Marak Russen. By altering his genes and flying him through the tail of a comet, they hoped to recreate the events that gave Star Boy temporary Kryptonian-esque powers, but on a permanent basis. Fluctuations within the comet, however, caused Russen to develop a set of different, but quite sufficient nuclear-based abilities.
Following years as the Champion of Xanthu, Atmos made a play to join the Legion of Super-Heroes after Star Boy left the organization, partially so that he could contact the bereft Dream Girl, who had been effectively dumped and abandoned by her lover Star Boy, and rekindle the relationship they'd once had. After the Legion turned him down due to his imperious attitude, he returned to Xanthu with Dream Girl by his side.During the Magic War, Dream Girl came to the conclusion that Atmos had been controlling her mind, and socked him while his force field was down.
Atmos joined the Legion properly during the Five Years Later storyline/continuity (which would seem to indicate that he was proven innocent of DG's accusation or otherwise forgiven) but left as Earthgov (controlled by the Dominators) became increasingly anti-Legion, got captured by the Dominators, and was killed as a test of their Hero Killer android B.I.O.N.
- Achilles in His Tent: Following his embarrassing defeat at the hands of Star Boy, Atmos pridefully refused to act as a hero, despite the threat to Xanthu and the rest of the UP during the Magic Wars. Even a contingent from the Legion pleading for his help wouldn't sway him. This was one of the factors that helped Dream Girl develop the gumption to get her head together and leave him.
- Age Lift: His Reboot version appears to be a teenager.
- Ambiguous Situation:
- Dream Girl, fresh off being dumped by her long-time love Star Boy and a series of unsuccessful dates with other men, is miserable and depressed. Atmos goes out with her and treats her kindly, and she finds herself drawn to him and renewing their old relationship, even though she doesn't particularly like him and knows it's a bad idea. This much is clear. Later, however, she comes to the conclusion that he'd been subtly mind-controlling her into passivity and wanting to be with him. Atmos is never explicitly shown to have mind-control abilities, though his charisma and force of will are mentioned to be extremely strong. Is this a power or completely mundane? If it's a power, does he know it? Can he control it? Is the whole thing just Dream Girl trying to justify a crappy rebound relationship and bad judgement at the lowest emotional point in her life?
- Less seriously: Do chunks of his torso vanish when he uses his powers or is that just his costume?
- Celebrity Superhero: His status as Champion of Xanthu grants him galaxy-wide fame, cash, and excellent living quarters.
- Charm Person: The Dominators noted in their studies that he had a force of will strong enough to be quasi-hypnotic, which is probably the writers being ambiguous about whether this charisma is due to a power or not.
- Combo Platter Powers: If he has any mind control abilities, they would stand out sharply against his chiefly energy-based powers and physical enhancements.
- Crippling Overspecialization: Although he's quite athletic, his powers are such that he hasn't bothered with hand-to-hand combat training. Most of his opponents don't match his level of strength so this usually isn't a problem, until it is...
- Deflector Shield: Called an "inhibitor field", this provides invulnerability sufficient to fly in space unprotected, and of course defends him from physical and energy attacks.
- Delinquent Hair: A red mohawk.
- Domestic Abuse: If he forced Dream Girl into a relationship, then yes, obviously. Otherwise, averted as he just seems a bit overbearing and oblivious to her depression.
- Dumb Muscle: Dream Girl privately thought of him as this, mostly because he was more down-to-earth and less cultured than she was.
- EMP: Can create these as part of his powers.
- Flight: Not as fast as many ships of the time, but still more than fast enough to be casually interstellar.
- Flying Brick: Flight, Super-Strength, and personal Deflector Shields.
- Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke: He was both genetically altered and exposed to an empowering event.
- Hand Blast: Fires "nuclear bolts".
- Heroic BSoD:
- Intimidation Demonstration: He's good at these, backed by his skill as a former actor.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's the willing protector of Xanthu, and he seems to be a basically decent person. However, he's rather boorish and arrogant, and a slave to his pride. During his relationship with Dream Girl, he treated her tenderly, but was a bit patronizing as well as missing the telltale signs that she was depressed and not really enjoying the relationship. Of course, if he mind-controlled her, then he's just a straight-up Jerkass.
- Large Ham: Given to broad, powerful actions and statements.
- Let's You and Him Fight: Regarded Star Boy as a disgrace to Xanthu (presumably for leaving to join the LSH), and shortly after he started dating Dream Girl, the two of them got into a physical altercation, with Atmos suffering the worst of it thanks to Star Boy's Legion training and his own arrogance.
- Matter Replicator: Can deconstruct and re-arrange things on a molecular level with his bolts.
- Mind Control: Dream Girl thinks he has this power. In-universe, he's simply noted as having powerful charisma.
- Mind Rape: Dream Girl eventually comes to the conclusion that, because Universo's long-past "Universo Project" had once incarcerated them together based upon their willpower and because Marak obviously didn't have strong willpower as far as she could tell, he clearly must have had a power that let his will dominate others, otherwise why would Universo have put them together? Therefore Atmos must have been mind-controlling her into a relationship all along! That's...a bit of a leap.
- Opposites Attract: Him and Dream Girl. Deconstructed in that their interests and personalities really had no common ground and being with him just made her miss Thom more.
- Pride: It's what made him try to join the Legion, refuse to enter the Legion Academy, try to fight Star Boy and then become a sulking recluse after being thrashed.
- Politically Incorrect Hero: To a degree. He's basically a homebody who's extremely uncomfortable in the presence of non-Xanthu cultures, and had difficulty understanding why Dream Girl enjoyed mingling with them so much. He is willing to admit when he's wrong, though.
- Prophet Eyes: Except when they're not.
- Protectorate: Champion of Xanthu. Subverted during the Magic Wars when he refused to help out.
- Radiation-Induced Superpowers: This is said to the the basis of his abilities.
- Super-Strength: Not Kryptonian-level as intended, but quite impressive nonetheless.
- Swiss-Army Superpower: His nuclear bolts can alter the form and elemental composition of matter according to his desires and cause electrical disruptions.
- Thought-Controlled Power: His force field appears to need conscious activation, as Dream Girl was able to sock him just after he woke up. She also believed that she had only been able to come to the realization that he'd been mind-controlling her because he was asleep and thus not using the powers to prevented her from doing so all along.
- Underestimating Badassery: During his fight with Thom Kallor, the Legionnaire was able to use his physical training and gravity power to humiliate Atmos in combat and fix the problem they'd been summoned to solve.
Dev-Em
AKA: Dev-Em (Preboot); David Emery (Softboot)
Homeworld: Krypton (Preboot); Titan or Daxam (Softboot)
Abilities: Super-strength, speed, senses, flight, and invulnerability
Youth from the planet Krypton who was on his way to becoming a serious criminal but eventually reformed. He is also one of Krypton's only survivors of its destruction. He is a member of the Interstellar Counter Intelligence Corps and ally of the Legion of Superheroes.
- Continuity Snarl: He was originally one of the many Kryptonians of the Silver Age and was Put on a Bus by having him stay in the Legion's future. This made him available to be brought back during the 1980's Legion series. Okay so far, until Superman's history was changed in 1986 to make Superman the sole surviving Kryptonian. This caused problems. He was variously retconned into a Titanian whose powers turned him into a Kryptonian (which was mentioned only in supplementary material), a good Daxamite, and an evil Daxamite.
- Decomposite Character: Now that there are other Kryptonians again, two characters with that name have been introduced, one Kryptonian criminal, and one cultist in 52; neither one fits with the Legion version.
- Heel–Face Turn: The original Dev-Em was a Kryptonian juvenile delinquent that attacked Superboy; after being thwarted by Superboy, Dev-Em traveled to the 30th century where he became an occasional ally of the Legion.
- Superpower Lottery: In both his Daxamite and Kryptonian iterations, Dev-Em is possessed of the same superhuman abilities (and weakness) of both races while beneath the empowering light of a yellow sun such as that of Earth's solar system.
Rond Vidar/Green Lantern
AKA: Rond Vidar
Homeworld: Earth
Abilities: Green Lantern power ring
A Green Lantern from the distant future and last member of the Green Lantern Corps in the 31st century. Rond Vidar was the son of the renegade Lantern Universo and even before he was inducted into the Corps, he devoted himself to fighting his father and righting his wrongs. As a teenager, Vidar was a genius inventor of time-travel technology, which he used to aid his century's greatest super-team, the Legion of Super-Heroes. As a Green Lantern, he joined their number.
When Superboy-Prime appeared in the 31st century, Rond Vidar was among the first Legionnaires to face off against him and the Legion of Super-Villains. While his comrades escaped the villains' rampage, Vidar bravely fought them off, allowing his friends to get to safety—at the cost of his life. After Vidar's death, the last Guardian, Sodam Yat, was moved to rekindle the light of the Green Lantern Corps once more.
In addition to the Green Lantern Rond Vidar, there was also a Rond Vidar of Earth-247. This Vidar was not the son of a supervillain, nor did he become a Green Lantern. He was, however, still an exceptionally brilliant time-travel researcher and stalwart ally of the Legion.
- Archnemesis Dad: His father Vidar, a super-villainous hypnotist, was a frequent foe of the Legion.
- Doctor Whomage: The outfit◊ he's wearing here looks suspiciously like one of the costumes of another time-travel enthusiast...
- Dying Moment of Awesome: The Preboot/Retroboot version of Rond who died holding back The Legion of Super-Villains, The Fatal Five, Universo, and Superboy-Prime.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Sacrificed himself to hold of Superboy-Prime and his army of supervillains.
- Immune to Mind Control: He cannot be hypnotised.
- Killed Off for Real: He was killed by Superboy Prime, who was pulled into the future by the Time Trapper, in "Legion of Three Worlds".
- Mad Dictator's Handsome Son: His father Universo is a psycho bent on taking control of the United Planets for himself. Rond twice sabotages his plans even before becoming a Green Lantern.
- The Professor: The non-GL version from the '90s Legion.
- Sacrificial Lion: A variation where the character himself has been around for a long time, but his new role as a Legion member came just before his death—he was first revealed to be a member in Legion of Three Worlds, where he was killed. Previously he was only an honorary member, and he had only had the ring for a brief time.
- Rond's death convince Sodam Yat to take action against Superboy Prime. This was the first time he would enter battle in hundreds of year.
- Teen Genius: Possesses an intellect sharp enough to outwit his Evil Genius father, Universo.
Laurel Kent
Homeworld: Earth (Post-Crisis: Manhunter homeworld)
Abilities: Invulnerability, martial arts skills. (Post-Crisis, robotic super-strength, -speed, and -intelligence, heat vision, flight)
Laurel Kent is a candidate for membership in the Legion of Super-Heroes, and a direct descendant of Superman.
Although her sole power was redundant several times over within the Legion ranks, she underwent training at the Legion Academy in order to refine her skills so that she could become a super-heroine on her own.
Post-Crisis: Laurel was retconned to be a Manhunter android, created in the 20th Century to act as a "sleeper agent" awaiting the advent of the "New Guardians"—humans chosen by the Oan Guardians of the Universe who had the evolutionary potential to succeed them and start a new civilization of Guardians originating from Earth. Her duty was to be a sleeper agent on Earth for a thousand years and emerge to destroy the New Guardians and their emergent civilization if they should come to exist in the 30th Century.
(In real life, editors at DC pushed The Manhunters as a Crisis Crossover shortly after the previous Crisis on Infinite Earths in order to help explain who the characters from acquired licenses (like Quality and Fawcett comics) were and how they fit into the New Earth continuity. Every active series was mandated to have one character actually turn out to have been a Manhunter agent all along and poor Laurel lost the roulette).
Everything she'd done up 'til this point was retconned to be a way to use the resources of the Legion to hunt down these nascent "Immortals" as she called them, and she used the Legion computers to cross-correlate genetic and genealogical information in order to track down where the Immortals were most likely to develop.
Upon discovering the location (namely the Grand Canyon area), Laurel dropped all pretense of humanity, explained her mission, and barreled through the Legion's attempts to stop her. Unable to beat her with force, the Legionnaires secretly set up a city based upon Oan architecture and tricked her into believing that the Immortal civilization had already developed and left Earth to take the Guardian's place in the stars.
Seeing no trace of the Immortals she was meant to destroy, Laurel believed she'd failed her mission due to being programmed to wait too long. Asking to Legion to bear witness that she'd done all she could to fulfill her mission and to give her regards if they ever met the Immortals themselves, she self-destructed.
However, some time later a familiar looking woman named Elna (a name Laurel once used) Kent emerged as Superwoman raising some doubt on whether or not Laurel actually was a Manhunter the whole time or if the Manhunter android tried to steal her identity.
- Alas, Poor Villain: Her former friends lament her destruction.
- Ambiguous Situation: Was she a Manhunter in disguise the entire time, or was the real Laurel Kent impersonated by the Manhunter to infiltrate the Legion? For all that the Manhunter android claimed that it was Laurel Kent, that it ended up destroying itself means there's no way for it to verify its claims. And when a woman named Elna Kent appeared calling herself Superwoman, it greatly implies the real Laurel was switched at some point. This isn't the first time the Legionnaires were tricked into believing their connection with a Superman-related character was a lie (regarding the Time Trapper lying to them with the Pocket Universe Superboy to make them believe they never knew the real Boy of Steel).
- Boyish Short Hair: She originally sported long hair, until it became shorter.
- Driven to Suicide: Her Post-Crisis Manhunter self, upon believing that the "Immortals" she was meant to kill before they developed had already incarnated while she was waiting for them, self-destructed.
- Emergent Human: Deny it as she will, the Legionnaires she fights refuse to believe that there isn't some trace of humanity within her after all these years. There seem to be a few hints in this direction, as she declines to use lethal force on her former friends, despite being easily capable of doing so, and frequently asks them to simply step out of her way and let her complete her mission. Once it seems she failed said mission, she immediately stops fighting them entirely.
- Eye Beams: Post-Crisis, Her Manhunter self has these.
- Famous Ancestor: Superman, of course.
- Fights Like a Normal: Since her invulnerability is her only power, she's at the Academy to train her fighting and other skills in order to keep up with superheroes.
- Flight: She has a flight ring, like all Academy students. Post-Crisis, as a Manhunter she can do this on her own.
- Graceful Loser: Her last words were a lament that she'd been programmed to wait too long, and to tell the Legion to give said Immortals her regards if they ever met.
- Head-Turning Beauty: Superboy was entranced the second he saw her. Hey, it's not incest after a thousand years of genetic drift, is it?
- Identical Grandson: A thousand years on, she's a dead ringer for Lois Lane. Of course, Superboy hasn't met her forebear yet.
- Interspecies Friendship: She was friends with former fellow academy student Tellus of the Legion. Post-Crisis, he was hit particularly hard by the revelation that it was all a cover.
- Interspecies Romance: She and Sun Boy start dating, and she's an eensy, weensy bit Kryptonian. Post-Crisis, of course, she's a Manhunter android.
- Lightning Bruiser: As a Manhunter android, she started out with greater-than-human physical abilities. Even by Manhunter standards she has refined and improved herself over the centuries to the point where she's at roughly Kryptonian level.
- Logical Weakness:
- She's not invulnerable to Kryptonite weapons.
- Since her Eye Beams are solar-based, they don't bother Sun Boy.
- Nigh-Invulnerability: The only thing she inherited from Superman is his super-invulnerability.
- Retcon: Post-Crisis, she's revealed to be a Manhunter android which eventually self-destruct during a fight with the Legion. She was more-or-less replaced by Laurel Gand in the Postboot. However, it's speculated that the original character returned in the Retroboot.
- Ridiculously Human Robot: Post-Crisis, neither the advanced scanners of the 30th Century nor the superpowers of those around her were able to tell she was a robot. She even managed to make herself bleed when she was shot with a Kryptonite bullet!
- Shut Up, Kirk!: Post-Crisis, after her reveal as a Manhunter, Sun Boy tries to get through to her and tell her that humanity isn't something you're born to, but a state of mind, and that she couldn't have pretended to be human all those years without being truly human at heart. She flatly tells him that she's a Manhunter and has no wish to be "merely" human, then socks him.
- Significant Anagram: Her alias is Elna.
- The Slow Path: Post-Crisis, it's revealed that she waited over a thousand years for the "Immortals"/New Guardians to show themselves, adopting numerous cover identities along the way. Her last Kryptonian ancestor was a thousand years ago.
- Stripperific: Her costumes are revealing. In fact, the image above makes it look like she's wearing nothing underneath.
- Super-Strength:
- Pre-Crisis, though her strength is at human levels, she doesn't have to worry about breaking her knuckles or tearing a muscle, so she can exert more power than an average human could safely manage.
- Post-Crisis, she's a Manhunter, and this is one of several of her abilities.
- Younger Than They Look: Post-Crisis, this is mentioned quite a bit, in order to provide a clue as to her true nature. She uses her alleged Kryptonian blood as an excuse for this.
Kid Psycho
AKA: Gnill Opral
Homeworld: Hajor
Abilities: "Psycho Force" - Extremely powerful telekinesis predominantly directed toward projecting impenetrable force fields.
- Awful Truth: Completely unaware that the power he'd been blithely using his entire life was actually killing him. Even the Legion couldn't bear to give it to him straight after they rejected him.
- Barrier Warrior: The primary focus of his telekinetic abilities is in making impenetrable physical barriers.
- Bolivian Army Ending: The end of his debut story leaves the question of how many years his power has left him unanswered, but the implications aren't pretty. Crisis on Infinite Earths reveals that he does at least make it to adulthood, though, and gets killed before he can die of a stroke or something.
- Cast from Lifespan: In his debut story he finds out—after a lifetime of freely using his powers—that every time he uses said powers the strain on his brain shaves roughly a year off of his lifespan. As such, the Legion made him a reservist ("No. 1 Secret Weapon") whose abilities would only be used in case of an extreme emergency.
- Commonality Connection:
- After he's rejected by the Legion, he goes back in time to talk to Superboy, figuring that the similarities between the destruction of Hajor and Krypton would help Superboy understand why he was so motivated to join and agree to help him. And Superboy does.
- After his death, it's revealed that Element Lad had always been rather fond of him, as they were both survivors of doomed planets who were trying to do good with their great power.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: All the set-up with Your Days Are Numbered and all that and he dies like a punk when rubble falls on him during the destruction accompanying the Crisis on Infinite Earths, then gets hit by the anti-matter wave. He doesn't even go out making a force field!
- Earth-Shattering Kaboom: His home planet Hajor was hit with an asteroid while he was still a small child and he only escaped with the help (sacrifice, in some versions of the story) of his parents. This may explain why he's so focused on creating barriers with his powers and why he wants to be a hero so badly.
- Flight: Via his telekinesis.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Not only does he freely offer the use of his potentially-fatal powers whenever the Legion needed him, he dies helping people evacuate during the Crisis on Infinite Earths.
- Heroic Wannabe: His background as the sole survivor of his home planet filled him with the desire to use his powers for good.
- Honorary True Companion: Often placed among the Subs in big splash panels full of characters, but not actually a member of that group.
- Let Them Die Happy: Considering how truncated his lifespan must be as of the end of his debut story, this may be another reason the Legion officially made him their secret weapon.
- Mind over Matter: Although he primarily creates telekinetic force fields, he's able to use his powers for other feats. Little things like tearing a hole through the barriers of time and space, for example.
- Mutant: His parents were irradiated by the emanations of a strange space creature.
- My Brain Is Big: As one might expect to a psychic mutant (at least in comic books), his brain and cranium are somewhat enlarged. He usually wears a nifty turban to cover his head.
- Psychic Powers: Had very powerful telekinesis at least.
- Recurring Extra: Tended to show up in the background at important Legion events, often hanging out with the Legion Subs, though he wasn't a member. He also pops up in other continuities, though its unclear if the downside to his power remains canon.
- Ret-Gone: After being hit by the anti-matter wave during the Crisis, his friends forget (at least) how exactly he died.
- Semantic Superpower: Uses his force field-creating power to drill his way through the Time Barrier (an actual physical thing) and thus pass between the 30th and 20th centuries.
- Time Travel: When the Legion weren't clear about why they turned him down for membership, he went so far as to use his power to travel backwards in time and petition Superboy himself to find out why, as mentioned above.
- Your Days Are Numbered: Well, considering he uses his power eight or nine times alone in his debut story and probably freely used it as often as he wished before finding out the Awful Truth...
The Tornado Twins
AKA: Don and Dawn Allen
Homeworld: Earth
Abilities: Pre-boot: Temporary super-speed and associated powers. Reboot: Partial super-speed and associated powers.
- Blow You Away: They were able to use their super-speed to create air effects like the Flash.
- Famous Ancestor: Barry Allen, aka The Flash II.
- Frame-Up: In 5YL Earthgov had them framed for the seditious destruction of the Quebec powersphere and executed.
- Heroic Sacrifice: In the latest version, Don and Dawn are killed fighting Dominator agents in a battle secretly arranged by Meloni Thawne's father.
- I Just Want to Be Special: Pre-Reboot After their temporary powers faded and the technique that bestowed them stopped working, the twins returned to normal life, but found it boring and unfulfilling. Depending on the source they either went into seclusion after a failed attempt to permanently gain speed powers or stayed friends with the Legion.
- Intangibility: Their super-speed allows them to vibrate through things.
- Sins of the Father: Well, "sins". They along with other descendants of JLA members were targeted by the immortal Professor Ivo and had to be saved by the Legion.
- Spotlight-Stealing Squad: They deliberately acted like this in their debut, showing up at cases and solving them before the Legion, in order to drum up publicity for the inaugural Flash Day honoring Barry Allen. There had been a bit of bad blood on the Legion's part until the truth was revealed.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: Post-Reboot, Don's marriage to Meloni Thawne re-ignited the feud between the Allen and Thawne families and ultimately got the twins killed.
- Super-Speed:
- Pre-Reboot, the twins hadn't naturally inherited Barry Allen's speed powers, but managed to make a deal with a biogeneticist to be temporarily gifted with super-speed.
- Post-Reboot, the Twins appear to have been born with superspeed on a somewhat lower (but still impressive) level than Allen's. Considering XS has Allen's full level of speed, it's possible the potential was there.
