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XS
AKA: Jenni Ognats
Homeworld: Aarok
Abilities: Super-speed
The daughter of Dawn Allen of the Tornado Twins and granddaughter of Barry Allen, The Flash. Jenni was born in the 31st century and, unlike her cousin Bart Allen, did not have super-powers. However, the alien Dominators captured her for their experiments and activated her latent metagene and connection to the Speed Force. Using her newfound powers to escape, Jenni joined the Legion of Super-Heroes as their resident speedster, XS.
- The Bus Came Back: After having vanished for a decade thanks to her grandpa causing Flashpoint, Jenni finally reappears in Flash #761 when she's pulled out of the Speed Force by Max Mercury. Her appearance and costume, as well as her referring to Bart as her cousin, give an indication she's not associated with the new Legion continuity.
- Canon Immigrant: First appeared in the Postboot Legion; Legion of 3 Worlds retconned her as being a refugee from the Retroboot Legion's world and had her join them.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Jenni seems to have completely disappeared from the DCU thanks to Flashpoint, even though her cousin and Gates still exist.
- Cowardly Lion: Originally, but in literally her second appearance she gets over it in time to save the entire Legion from an explosive device planted in Kid Quantum's coffin.
- Dogged Nice Girl: She developed a crush on leader Cosmic Boy and later M'Onel; both went unrequited.
- Everyone Can See It: Since she's so vivacious and outgoing, she wears her heart on her sleeve when it comes to her (many) crushes.
- Fragile Speedster: Notably, unlike most speedsters, she's never shown vibrating through solid objects (destructively or otherwise)- probably because this would make Apparition obsolete.
- Hope Spot: Her appearance in Flash #761 shows Jenni looking just as she did before Flashpoint, and it's unclear if she was trapped in the Speed Force all this time or if, somehow, the previous version of the 31st Century and the Retroboot Legion still exists unconnected to the current Legion.
- Humans Are White: An aversion of this, being half-African American.
- Motor Mouth: She talks a mile a minute.
- Oblivious to Love: Didn't realize that Magno had a crush on her until it was too late.
- Retcon: Geoff Johns wrote that Jenni is originally from the main DC Earth, along with Bart and their parents, and that the families migrated to Earth-247 to hide from Professor Zoom and his soldiers. He also gave her the same Rapid Aging as her cousin — previous stories had specifically shown her as still a baby in Bart's home time period, which was more than a decade before the Legion era.
- Strapped to an Operating Table: Her origin story has her growing up without superspeed, despite being the granddaughter of the Flash and the daughter of one of the Tornado Twins- until, in an attempt to understand and duplicate her bloodline's powers, the Dominators abducted her, and the trauma of their experimentation triggered the emergence of her powers.
- Super-Speed: Jenni can run at superhuman speeds and projects an aura that makes her immune to the extreme heat she puts off while running. While XS' top speed has yet to be clocked, she is fast enough to run on water and was also able to break through the timestream without the Cosmic Treadmill thanks to some coaching from her grandfather, Barry.
- Trapped in the Past: gets stuck in the 20th Century, where she gets mentored by The Flash himself about using her superspeed more effectively.
- Traumatic Superpower Awakening: Being abducted and experimented on by Dominators awakened her dormant Super-Speed abilities.
Kinetix
AKA: Zoe Saugin
Homeworld: Aleph
Abilities: Manipulates and reconstructs inanimate objects
Zoe Saugin, a 30th-century native of the planet Aleph, gained the power of telekinetic magic and became the superheroine known as Kinetix.
- Ambition Is Evil: Ultimately averted, but her well-intentioned obsession with gaining powers wasn't portrayed as healthy.
- And I Must Scream: After she was killed by Superboy-Prime, Mordru absorbed her essence into himself, which the White Witch explained meant he absorbed all her magic, her spells, pretty much her soul, into his being. Mysa promptly did the same thing to Mordru and absorbed his body and power into herself, turning her into the Black Witch. It's unknown if Zoe is still alive in some way inside Mordru, inside Mysa.
- Back from the Dead: Post-Flashpoint, she's alive, has her original appearance, and is a part of the restored Legion timeline. Thus her death seems to have never happened to begin with.
- Breakout Character: Supposedly, the writers introduced Zoe with the intention of having her corrupted by the Emerald Eye and becoming the Postboot Emerald Empress (obsession with gaining powers, after all); however, readers really liked Zoe, so the writers went a different route and she got to stick around as a hero.
- Brought Down to Normal: She lost her powers early on, prompting her to go on a search for new ones or a way to restore them.
- Cat Girl: Postboot crone!Mysa turns her into one for a while.
- I Just Want to Be Special: After using a mystical artifact to save her mother's life, she developed a strong interest in obtaining more artifacts, eventually finding one which gave her the ability to reconstruct and control inanimate matter.
- Matter Replicator: Can deconstruct and reconstruct matter as she pleases.
- Power Tattoo: Briefly.
- Put on a Bus: Along with the rest of the Postboot Legion.
- Bus Crash: During Legion of 3 Worlds, she was killed in the fourth issue when she took on Superboy-Prime, unaware of his immunity to magic.
- Redhead In Green: Her original costume was red and gold, but after she was repowered her costume changed to green.
- Red Herring Mole: She was constantly portrayed as a potential Emerald Empress-in-the-making, until The Reveal of who had the Eye.
- Sealed Good in a Can: Apparently, as a Terrorform, Zoe absorbed the lingering magical energy of Universe-247 after it was destroyed during Infinite Crisis.
- Ship Tease: She has a thing for Leviathan, but he's killed before it can go anywhere.
- The Starscream: When Violet remade the Legion in the image of the Emerald Eye, Kinetix tried to turn on her teammates to usurp the Eye's power for herself.
Gates
AKA: Ti'julk Mr'asz
Homeworld: Vyrga
Abilities: Teleportation
Born on the planet Vyrga, he is an insectoid lifeform with the ability to create portals through space. Unlike the other Legionnaires, he was unwillingly drafted and believes they are a fascist organization. This is representative of his leftist politics, and he is known for being an outspoken socialist. He originally appeared in Reboot Legion continuity, but he switched over to the Original Legion during Final Crisis.
- Bee People: He is from a race of sentient insects.
- Breakout Character: He was introduced in a brief cameo where he angrily turned down an offer of Legion membership, but readers liked him and wrote in asking for him to return, so the writers obliged.
- The Call Knows Where You Live: Unlike almost every other Legionnaire, he was not a volunteer. His planet drafted him so they'd have a representative on the team.
- Canon Immigrant: Postboot is the only Legion continuity with a Gates. In Legion of 3 Worlds, he notices and calls speciesism on the parallel universes. He joins the Retroboot Legion to even things out a bit.
- Chummy Commies: He is a true-believing communist and was initially very vocal about it, though this aspect was eventually toned down a lot.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: Cynically killed off in the first issue of Legion Lost v2, 2011...although it turned out he was Not Quite Dead.
- Mass Teleportation
- My Species Doth Protest Too Much
- Only Known by Their Nickname
- Portal Cut: Ra's al Ghul loses most of an arm being cut off by the edge of one of Gates's portals being used to rescue someone from the villain's grasp, taking the arm with him. This is the first indication that the portals which he's been using for years have sharp edges, which is kind of terrifying when you consider that he can create and move them about at will...
- Soapbox Sadie: Most of his dialogue consists of complaining about the "capitalist police state" he's been drafted into.
- Strawman Political: He's a revolutionary communist and most of his appearances make fun of him for his extreme views. This doesn't stop him being an interesting and well-developed character, though.
- However, his beliefs turned into a Chekhov's Gun when the Legion was being controlled by the Emerald Eye of Ekron, as his political viewpoints and philosophical outlook were so strong his willpower managed to shake off the Eye's control and regain a brief sense of self before he was turned into an egg.
- Thinking Up Portals: Gates has the ability to create glowing green, circular teleportation "gates", which people and objects can travel freely through to emerge from a partner gate at a location he himself defines mentally (it is also possible to make the trip in reverse, travelling from the partner gate to the original gate).
- We Are as Mayflies: Inverted. Gates's species has a much shorter lifespan than humans, with 20 being elderly.
Magno
AKA: Dyrk Magz
Homeworld: Braal
Abilities: Magnetism manipulation
- Break the Cutie: In his early appearances Dyrk is upbeat, idealistic, and eager to help people as part of the Legion. Losing his powers makes him not only ineligible for Legion membership but effectively a cripple and a second-class citizen on his homeworld, which does quite a number on his self-worth (especially with his older brother around to rub it in at every opportunity).
- C-List Fodder: Magno was one of several characters introduced specifically to raise the stakes of the Mordru arc by giving the villain heroes to brutalize without seriously affecting the status quo.
- Demoted to Extra: He spent all of ten issues as a member of the Legion before getting summarily depowered, was given just enough development to be interesting, and then mostly got relegated to the background before the Legion Worlds miniseries finally managed to abandon the character in a way that gave him no resolution but also left him in a position from which it would be hard to bring him back into play. And then the Legion's continuity was rebooted entirely a few years later anyhow.
- Decomposite Character: Magno fills the role in the Legion that, pre-Crisis, was occupied by Pol "Magnetic Kid" Krinn, who in this continuity does not become a superhero.
- Depower: Dyrk loses his powers in the fight against Mordru, and ends up as part of the Legion's support staff when the team won't give up on him.
- Extra-ore-dinary: Can manipulate metal.
- Middle Child Syndrome: Averted. He's the second of four children, but the truth is his older brother Omar is the one who constantly feels the need to assert his superiority. His parents are shown to be loving and supportive towards Dyrk, if somewhat blind to Omar's cruelty; his little sister Trin openly idolizes him to the point that she was devastated that Dyrk had to leave the Legion because she felt it wasn't fair to him. All the while Omar grumbles about not getting enough respect when Dyrk ignores his needling and insults.
- Magnetism Manipulation: Before losing his powers he could manipulate magnetic things with them.
- Mission Control: Following his loss of power he became home base support for the team.
- Ship Tease: While XS is depicted as crushing on a number of different guys, Dyrk was the first one to show interest in her... which she didn't notice until after she'd accidentally brushed him off. And then the timeline ended.
- Sucksessor: Several characters - most notably Live Wire - treated him this way after he joined the Legion in Cosmic Boy's absence.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: In Legion Worlds #3, Cosmic Boy promises to let Dyrk, now a Sci-Cop, in on what the Legion is up to (the construction of Legion World and their return to active duty) as soon as he has a chance. The Legion ran for a year or two after that, but even when Cosmic Boy is shown returning the planet where Dyrk is still presumably serving as a police officer, Dyrk is never mentioned again and has yet to appear in any subsequent versions, not even L3W.
Inferno II
AKA: Sandy Anderson
Homeworld: Earth
Abilities: Pyrokinesis, flight
A former ally of the Legion of Super-Heroes in the future, but currently resides in the present day.
- Ambiguous Situation: She's either the only character introduced as a member of the Workforce who doesn't have a pre-Zero Hour counterpart, or she's the reboot version of a fairly obscure Legion of Super-Villains member called Beauty Blaze.
- Anti-Hero: She has a quick temper and a bad attitude which causes strain in her relationships. As a member of the Workforce, she shown killing opponents by immolating them, much to the chagrin of Legion members.
- Broken Bird
- Canon Immigrant: Sort of. First appeared in the reboot era, and came to the present as part of a story where several Legionnaires were stuck in the present day. When they returned to the future, she stayed in the present. Since she was not Put on a Bus with the rest of the reboot (and briefly headlined her own comic), she could in theory show up at any time. A green-skinned version also appeared in the Threeboot.
- Flying Firepower: By expelling her fire she can propel herself forward with great accuracy and speed.
- Green-Skinned Space Babe: In the Threeboot where she comes from Mercury and has light-green skin.
- I Choose to Stay: In the past she befriend a group of homeless girls and confront a monster that was haunting her and the mall. Conquering her fear of the dark and saving the lives of the girls, Inferno decided to stay in the past as she felt no allegiance to the Legion or their future.
- Playing with Fire: Inferno has expert control over fire. She can generate this fire from within herself, often fueled by anger, and any ambient fire around her. She has such fine control over fire that she can burn shards of glass into chunks or cause massive explosions. She can also inflame her body or boils liquids.
- Primal Fear: She has a fear of darkness. Shadows, low light and the night sky all give her an intense fight or flight reaction. Covering her eyes or shrouding her in darkness will cause her to panic.
Monstress
AKA: Candi Pyponte-Le Parc III
Homeworld: Xanthu
Abilities: Super-strength
A heroine with super-strength from the planet Xanthu with a heart as big as her frame.
- All of the Other Reindeer: After her mutation, she lost all her old friends and even her own father took himself out of her life.
- Apron Matron: A young version, as she's always calling her teammates "dear" and watching out for their emotional well being without being overbearing.
- Back from the Dead: Post-Flashpoint, she's alive and a part of the restored Legion timeline. So, technically, never dead to begin with.
- Beast Man: After her mutation, she looks like some sort of troll minus the fangs. Or a Khund, as it turns out.
- Berserk Button: She can't stand it when people make assumptions about her race based on her appearance. While the notion of assuming someone's race on appearance alone frustrates her, she's spent a lot of time having people mistake her for a Khund despite being a proud Xanthian.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Even Candi has her limits. When she found out her dear friend Element Lad changed her skin pigmentation without her permission, she ripped off his door screaming he had no right to do this to her. She only calmed down when Jan convinced her she looked good in orange and directed her to the Athramites to help her build a new wardrobe to match her tone.
- Brawn Hilda: She is a girly-girl type who was accidentally mutated into a tall, stout, and very muscular Brawn Hilda build.
- Dropped a Bridge on Her: She was murdered by the Progenitor who was an eons old Element Lad who had been driven mad due to an eternity of solitude.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: She started out with a more thuggish accent and attitude. This may have been an affectation.
- Expy: Postboot's rough equivalent to Blok.
- Also, one strongly suspects she was created by an artist wondering, "What if She-Hulk actually had the same body proportions as her cousin?" — when she was green, she looked very much like a female version of the Hulk, and her color change was probably meant to mitigate this. And even the choice of orange as her new color is a significant... thing.
- The Fashionista: She was so picky about her costume that she exhausted and frustrated a race of designers before she finally settled. On a single pair of gloves. Which she believed meant they were "starting to make progress." They later fled in terror at the prospect of working with her again.
- Hyper-Awareness: Candi pays attention to her teammates and how they interact, and if she thinks something's off, she will step in to lend a hand if she can.
- I Am Big Boned: Never stated outright, but her size is due to her mutated bone structure.
- Mama Bear: She had this role in both the Uncanny Amazers and the Legion.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished:
- She was mutated by a genebomb carried by a protester at one of her father's matter fabrication plants. She'd gone to help him after her father physically struck him down and the bomb activated by accident.
- She dies attempting to get through to the Progenitor/Element Lad and awaken his old self.
- Oblivious to Hatred: For someone who knows how to read the room with her fellow Legionnaires, she's got no idea the Athramites are all absolutely terrified of her.
- Odd Friendship: With Postboot Element Lad. Which makes her death all the more sad.
- Palette Swap: Had one invoked upon her by Element Lad, changing her skin from green to orange. After some initial anger (and sweet-talking on his part) she decided she liked it better and forgave him.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: She's used her family's name to influence people. Since her dad effectively disowned her, however, this may have been a successful bluff.
- Ship Tease: She has some with Element Lad, a Nice Guy who finds her appearance and personality fascinating. Which makes "The Progenitor"'s nonchalant murder of her in Legion Lost all the more horrifying.
- Suffrage and Political Liberation: She's the daughter of a rich industrialist, but she's also a nice girl. She discovers that her beloved father impoverished workers in his labor farms, and was mutated when she tried to help one of them out.
- Super-Strength: Her new, Khund-like stature gave her super-strength roughly equal to that of a Daxamite. She was shown to be able to lift an entire Legion cruiser single-handed.
- Super-Toughness: She could survive a direct missile hit without a scratch to her skin.
- Ugly Cute: Zigzagged. Readers likely think this way of her, while her fellow Legionnaires aren't put-off by her in the slightest.
- Undying Loyalty: Partly because of her background, she never gives up on her friends. Even when they're not her friends anymore. Or sane.
- Uninhibited Muscle Power: Adrenaline rushes boost her strength and toughness.
- What the Hell, Hero?: She was enraged at Element Lad for changing her skin color without her permission, but calmed down when he flattered her by stating orange was a good luck.
Kid Quantum II
AKA: Jazmin Cullen
Homeworld: Xanthu
Abilities: Temporal manipulation, throws damaging "q-spheres"
The second Kid Quantum was James' sister Jazmin. After her brother's death, she underwent surgery to augment her power to a level where she would not require the belt.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: Although she bore some resentment toward the Legion for failing to prevent her brother's death. she put her bitterness behind her as she established close friendship within the roster. She appointed Traid as her deputy and soon struck up a romance with Cosmic Boy.
- Humans Are White: Averted; she's black.
- Important Haircut: She sported a curly hairstyle for a long time before getting her hair cut shorter around the time of the Legion volume just before the Threeboot Legion.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Originally. She hated the Legion because she blamed them for her brother's death, but was still heroic in her right. After some time, she decided to leave the Uncanny Amazers and joined the Legion, eventually being elected their leader.
- Legacy Character: The third and last Kid Quantum.
- Redeeming Replacement: Her brother was an arrogant jerk who got himself killed because of his gloating. In the end, she's much nicer and more effective.
- Sassy Black Woman
- Time Stands Still: She is able to project stasis fields that halt the movement of time and warp reality within their sphere of influence. Without the belt, this time.
Thunder
AKA: Cece Beck
Homeworld: Binderaan
Abilities: Super-strength, speed, flight, invulnerability
Cece Beck was a quite ordinary girl of 90th century planet Binderaan, when she was transported to the Rock of Eternity by a magical weapon. Here Captain Marvel pass his powers to her as new champion of SHAZAM!.
- By the Power of Grayskull!: "Captain Marvel"!.
- Fish out of Temporal Water: She's from the 90th century, 6000 years after the Legion's time.
- Flying Brick
- Legacy Character: The old Captain Marvel gave her his powers to protect herself.
- Older Alter Ego: Like Captain Marvel. She's around 10 or 12, but her super-powered form appears around 16.
- Put on a Bus / Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: It was established early on that only Thunder had been sent to the Legion's time period; when she changed back to Cece, she appeared in her home time, and when she transformed again, Thunder was back with the Legion. After "Legion of the Damned", which destroyed the stargate system and made interplanetary travel take months or years again, the Legionnaires are devastated by the sudden distance separating them from friends and family, and Thunder, realizing she's lucky enough to be able to visit her parents without a ship, says the magic word and returns home. She says she'll be back, but the timeline ends before she's seen again.
- Shout-Out: Her name and home planet are in-jokes on Captain Marvel creators C.C. Beck and Otto Binder.
- Superpower Lottery: She has all the classic powers of Captain Marvel included Super-Strength, Super-Speed, Flight, etc.
- Time Travel: She discovered that speaking the name 'Captain Marvel' as Thunder in the 30th century would actually spring her back to the 90th century as Cece.
Shikari Lonestar
Homeworld: Kwai migrating colony
Abilities: Flight, transdimensional navigation, bio-armor
She is a member of the alien race known as the Kwai, and she her people's natural powers of flight, pathfinding, and a retractable armored exo-skeleton. She is much less passive than the rest of her people, and does her best to stand up for what is right.
- Bee People: A member of the Kwai, a nomadic race of humanoid insects who live in the "Second Galaxy".
- Canon Immigrant: In the Legion annual that wiped Postboot from continuity and established Threeboot, Shikari was accidentally trapped in the Threeboot world. This clearly earth-shaking development was never followed up on, and she simply reappeared with the Postboot Legion in Legion of 3 Worlds saying "Oh, there you guys are."
- Expy: Of Dawnstar, who was deemed too silly for Postboot.
- Meaningful Name: "Shikari" is a term used in India for a hunter and guide.
- My Species Doth Protest Too Much: Sort of. In the peaceful, community-minded culture of her species, Shikari's wanderlust and more warlike tendencies make her something of a throwback.
- The Nicknamer: Of sorts; some quirk of culture or language leads her to call her teammates names along the pattern of "X Legion" - Brainiac 5 became "Smart Legion" or "Green Legion," Umbra is "Dark Legion," etc. Possible explanation is that she is from a such different part of the universe that even the translated interlac sounds too weird to her.
- Scarily Competent Tracker: This is a racial ability, which eventually leads to Kwai navigators being implemented as a means of using "thresholds" for personal interplanetary teleportation throughout the United Planets, because the Kwai can navigate in the other-space that threshold technology moves mass through.
Gear
AKA: I.Z.O.R.
Homeworld: Linsnar
Abilities: Grows organic technology from his body
Gear is a member of the Lisnarian who hails from the planet Lisnar, they are known galaxywide for their ability to generate gadgets from their techno-organic bodies.
- Defector from Decadence: Gear's species see themselves as nothing but tools for other people to use. Gear (with a little help from Sensor) said "Screw that!" and set out to make his own destiny.
- Do-Anything Robot
- Hollywood Cyborg: His entire species are bio-mechanical machines.
- Humans Are White: One of the characters who averts this.
- Mr. Fixit
- Non-Action Guy: Constantly reiterated that he was a noncombatant.
- Ray Gun: Among Gear's bio-equipment are a number of laser blasters.
Superboy II
AKA: Kon-El (Conner Kent)
Homeworld: Earth
Abilities: Super-strength, speed, senses, flight, invulnerability, and tactile telekinesis
Kon-El/Conner Kent is a human/Kryptonian hybrid "clone".
For tropes regarding Superboy, see Superman - Conner Kent.
