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OKAY, this is gonna take a minute... (there were 33 character listings with 5 categories each to vote in!)
SHANGHALLA RESULTS There are a couple interesting ways to display the results of this survey. I ranked the characters BY CATEGORY 1st, interpreting the results as best I could. The results BY INDIVIDUAL are listed below that. In individual listings, I included a 1-line summation of the death & the issue where it happens of each character (in case you were curious...). If you would like to see more about the character and the death in question, you can: try to find a copy of the issue where they died (as a back-issue or in one of the Legion Archives hardback collections) or just look here Legion Help File and download the absolutely amazing Legion help file constructed by Chaim Mattis Keller.
RESULTS BY CATEGORY Funeral For a Friend - A Legend Is Born These were legendary moments for either the character or the series. The creators and editors did the character proud in crafting this moment. #1 at 94% of his votes, Ferro Lad was made a legend in death, reminding others about sacrifice and the power of one person, even if you're not the most beautiful, powerful or popular hero around. #2 TIED at 58% of their votes, Supergirl and Karate Kid came in second their valorous sacrifices. #3 at 55% of his votes, Invisible Kid is a visible legend. #4 TIED at 45% of their votes, Chemical King and Proty was the catalyst that made them legends. SHOCKINGLY: #5 TIED at 42% of their votes, Mentalla and Nemesis Kid! I suppose either by being a real big villain or an example of Projectra's ferocious strength or what not to do to get into the Legion!
ARGH!!!! Still Seeing Red!! Votes in this category could have meant that the character's death was needless or questionable. It could also mean that you felt ripped off because you really liked the character and wanted to see more of them; death being a generally final thing for a character, especially if they don't appear in animated cartoons, TV shows or movies. #1 at 61% of his votes, the way Blok died got us most riled up. #2 at 58% of his votes, the fate of Jan Arrah angered most Legionworlders. #3 at 55% of his votes, Leviathan dying as a suicide-wish seemed like a waste to most of us. #4 TIED at 42% of their votes, Laurel Kent made a surprising step out from her retconned legacy and joined Sun Boy[, Chameleon Boy, Princess Projectra and Karate Kid of the SW6 Legion , Monstress and Dr. Gym'll[b] in our riteous fury at their deaths. #5 at 39% of their votes, the unsuspecting Academy graduates [b]Nightwind & Power Boy rounded out the category.
YAY!!! Hated them anyway! Just as in real life, some people don't get your attention; and if they do, you don't like them. You might daydream about anvils falling on their heads or wish for their removal from your life. In a fictional universe, you can watch it happen without having to wipe the blood or remove a body! #1 at 55% of his votes, Atmos seemed to deserve death. Well, a the majority of voters relished it anyway! #2 TIED at 42% of their votes, two of the scummiest Legionnaires ever: Nemesis Kid and Firefist! #3 at 32% of his votes, Kid Quantum - James Cullen in his 1994 reboot - scored high here, proving that arrogant and ineffective are a bad combination when creating (or rebooting) a Legionnaire. #4 at 29% of her votes, Laurel Kent scored high here as well as in the ARGH! category -- maybe we just hated her transformation into a manhunter?!?! Or maybe she was underdeveloped mostly and it icked us out that she was flirting with her ancestor in her intro? #5 TIED at 16% of their votes, Laurel Gand and Proty earned a few votes here, but it probably reflects wo much we like the others.
Who???? They were in the Legion? These were probably the most unknown characters in the list - either by name or by connection to the Legion. Some of that could have been alleviated by a picture (as comics is a visual medium and a picture is worth more than 1000 words), but that would indicate - to me anyway - that the character wasn't defined well enough if you don't know their name, right? #1 at 77% of his votes, Eltro Gand was the most forgotten hero. #2 at 74% of his votes, Reflecto/Stig Ah, unsurprisingly, came in a close second. #3 at 52 % of his votes, Firefist also came up blank for folks. #4 at 48% of his votes, Lallorian Beast Boy seemed to be largely forgettable. #5 at 45 % of their votes, Nardo's victims Blockade Boy & Plant Lad slid below the radar most of our collections.
Yawn. Cheap melodrama still sells? The votes in this section could indicate a few things, including (but not limited to): the quality of the story's art/writing, the unnecessary death of the character in question, an obvious (bad) attempt at milking sales and/or adding gravitas to a storyline or anniversary issue. #1 TIED at 48% of their votes, Magnetic Kid and the SW6 Legionnaires Chameleon Boy, Princess Projectra and Karate Kid[b] all died cheap, as far as we're concerned. #2 at 45% of their votes, [b] Duo Damsel makes her presence known - just because she has 3 bodies doesn't mean we want to see them die! #3 at 39% of his votes, Kid Psycho scored high here with his sudden appearance in the Crisis, perishing on the same page. #4 at 32 % of her votes, Triplicate Girl also makes this list, proving that Lu got the bad end of Legion writing, as far as we're concerned. #5 at 26% of their votes, the minor, rushed, convenient deaths of Mentalla , Laurel Gand, Grev Mallor/DnA Shadow Monster didn't go over well for quite a few folks.
RESULTS BY INDIVIDUAL CHARACTER FERRO LAD - died in Adventure #353 by delivering the absorbatron bomb Superboy couldn't, thus saving the solar system from the Sun-Eater. Funeral For a Friend - A Legend Is Born 94% ARGH!!!! Still Seeing Red!! 3% YAY!!! Hated them anyway! 3% Who???? They were in the Legion? 0% Yawn. Cheap melodrama still sells? 0%
INVISIBLE KID I - was killed in Legion HQ in Superboy & the Legion of Super-Heroes #203 by a rampaging Validus. Um, that was the plot. No, really. Funeral For a Friend - A Legend Is Born 55% ARGH!!!! Still Seeing Red!! 29% YAY!!! Hated them anyway! 0% Who???? They were in the Legion? 0% Yawn. Cheap melodrama still sells? 16%
CHEMICAL KING - died in Superboy & the Legion of Super-Heroes #228 to stop the explosion that would have started World War VII. For another (IMO infinitely more interesting) view of this death, check out Secret Origins #47. Funeral For a Friend - A Legend Is Born 45% ARGH!!!! Still Seeing Red!! 16% YAY!!! Hated them anyway! 6% Who???? They were in the Legion? 23% Yawn. Cheap melodrama still sells? 10%
PROTY I - died in Adventure #311 by knocking out Saturn Girl and sacificing his own life to resurrect Lightning Lad. TMK had a different view of this resurrection, as revealed in Legion Annual (3rd Series) #3 . Funeral For a Friend - A Legend Is Born 45% ARGH!!!! Still Seeing Red!! 0% YAY!!! Hated them anyway! 16% Who???? They were in the Legion? 16% Yawn. Cheap melodrama still sells? 23%
TRIPLICATE GIRL - Luornu's 1st Body - was killed in Adventure #341 in combat against Computo. Funeral For a Friend - A Legend Is Born 39% ARGH!!!! Still Seeing Red!! 23% YAY!!! Hated them anyway! 6% Who???? They were in the Legion? 0% Yawn. Cheap melodrama still sells? 32%
BEAST BOY - traitor of the Heroes of Lallor, died in Adventure #339 rescuing a child. To recognize his heroic sacrifice and turnaround, even in light of his recent attacks on the Legion, he was immortalized on Shanghalla. Funeral For a Friend - A Legend Is Born 29% ARGH!!!! Still Seeing Red!! 0% YAY!!! Hated them anyway! 13% Who???? They were in the Legion? 48% Yawn. Cheap melodrama still sells? 10%
BLOCKADE BOY & PLANT LAD - died in Adventure #344-345 in Nardo's Superhero Penitentiary: one protecting Matter-Eater lad, the other lashing out at the guards. Their sacrifice enabled the Legion to pull their own escape later on. A little reminder that not all heroes in the universe end up in the Legion. Funeral For a Friend - A Legend Is Born 29% ARGH!!!! Still Seeing Red!! 3% YAY!!! Hated them anyway! 3% Who???? They were in the Legion? 45% Yawn. Cheap melodrama still sells? 19%
KARATE KID I - died in Legion of Super-Heroes (2nd series) #4 to foil the Legion of Super-Villains' plans for Orando. Funeral For a Friend - A Legend Is Born 58% ARGH!!!! Still Seeing Red!! 29% YAY!!! Hated them anyway! 3% Who???? They were in the Legion? 3% Yawn. Cheap melodrama still sells? 6%
NEMESIS KID - Legionnaire traitor, was executed in Legion of Super-Heroes (2nd series) #5 at the hands of Projectra for his part in conquering her planet Orando and mortally wounding her husband Karate Kid. Funeral For a Friend - A Legend Is Born 42% ARGH!!!! Still Seeing Red!! 6% YAY!!! Hated them anyway! 42% Who???? They were in the Legion? 3% Yawn. Cheap melodrama still sells? 6%
KID PSYCHO - Legion reservist, died in Crisis On Infinite Earths #3 trying to protect London from the anti-matter wave threatening the universe. If there had to be a sacrificed hero from every DC era in the Crisis, the Legion's 'secret weapon' (kept so secret, the members didn't know to call during the Khund-Earth War, the Great Darkness, devastating attacks by Mordru, Omega, etc.), appearing only in his introductory tale and then as a cameo in special issues and Secrets of the Legion of Super-Heroes #3, was a safe bet. Funeral For a Friend - A Legend Is Born 19% ARGH!!!! Still Seeing Red!! 6% YAY!!! Hated them anyway! 0% Who???? They were in the Legion? 35% Yawn. Cheap melodrama still sells? 39%
SUPERGIRL - died in Crisis on Infinite Earths #7 in combat with the Anti-Monitor. Her actions saved Superman's life and bought the remaining universes essential time for survival. Funeral For a Friend - A Legend Is Born 58% ARGH!!!! Still Seeing Red!! 32% YAY!!! Hated them anyway! 6% Who???? They were in the Legion? 0% Yawn. Cheap melodrama still sells? 3%
MENTALLA - Legion reject, died in Legion of Super-Heroes (2nd series) #26 at the hands of the Emerald Empress when Mentalla turned on the Fatal 5 in her admission to the group. Her diary, according to Who's Who of the Legion of Super-Heroes #4, revealed that Mentalla had planned to infiltrate the Fatal 5 on her own to show the Legion how valuable she could be. Funeral For a Friend - A Legend Is Born 42% ARGH!!!! Still Seeing Red!! 3% YAY!!! Hated them anyway! 13% Who???? They were in the Legion? 16% Yawn. Cheap melodrama still sells? 26%
SUPERBOY - died in Legion of Super-Heroes (2nd series) #38 saving his Smallville and the Legion of Super-Heroes from the machinations of the Time Trapper. His death proves that, while Kal-El may have served to inspire the 30th century's heroic age, no one is powerful enough to stop corporate editorial policy. Funeral For a Friend - A Legend Is Born 35% ARGH!!!! Still Seeing Red!! 35% YAY!!! Hated them anyway! 6% Who???? They were in the Legion? 0% Yawn. Cheap melodrama still sells? 23%
LAUREL KENT - Legion Academy graduate, was revealed to be a Manhunter robot agent and suicide bombed her former comrades in Legion of Super-Heroes (2nd series) #43 when she failed to find the New Guardians birthed in the (largely forgettable) Millenium mini-series. Funeral For a Friend - A Legend Is Born 3% ARGH!!!! Still Seeing Red!! 42% YAY!!! Hated them anyway! 29% Who???? They were in the Legion? 10% Yawn. Cheap melodrama still sells? 16%
DUO DAMSEL - Luornu's 2nd Body - was slain in Legion of Super-Heroes (2nd series) #50 by the Time Trapper, in a display of contempt for a hero and their power thus far unseen in Legion comics. Funeral For a Friend - A Legend Is Born 16% ARGH!!!! Still Seeing Red!! 32% YAY!!! Hated them anyway! 0% Who???? They were in the Legion? 6% Yawn. Cheap melodrama still sells? 45%
MAGNETIC KID - Cosmic Boy's little brother Pol sacrificed himself in Legion of Super-Heroes (2nd series) #62 to remove the magical planet-sized lock covering Sorcerers' World. Yes, really. In the 1990s even. (Giffen has since said in interviews that this story arc was one of his most uninspired.) By the by, Levitz crafted sympathetic 'hard luck hero' myths around Star Boy & Lightning Lad, Levitz annihilated the Krinn family. Funeral For a Friend - A Legend Is Born 13% ARGH!!!! Still Seeing Red!! 19% YAY!!! Hated them anyway! 10% Who???? They were in the Legion? 10% Yawn. Cheap melodrama still sells? 48%
REFLECTO - STIG AH - no, you didn't miss an issue! - paid the ultimate price completely off-panel battling the Molecule Master during Black Dawn. Introduced first in as part of the Adult Legion's possible future in Adventure #354, he was first seen in a cameo in Legion (3rd series) Annual #1; his Legion career summarized in the Legion Mayfair RPG Sourcebook the Bierbaums authored. Funeral For a Friend - A Legend Is Born 3% ARGH!!!! Still Seeing Red!! 0% YAY!!! Hated them anyway! 3% Who???? They were in the Legion? 74% Yawn. Cheap melodrama still sells? 19%
ELTRO GAND - sacrificed his body to animate his ancestor Mon-El/Valor who was apparently slain due to Eltro's well-intended blundering (again discussed in detail in the Legion Mayfair RPG Sourcebook by the Bierbaums), the two spirits somehow shared the body of Mon-El until Eltro was knocked loose and killed in the Time Trapper's attempt to usurp the Daxamite body in Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) #4. (Most of Mon-El & Shady's relationship was, therefore, 'supervised' by Eltro?!?!) Funeral For a Friend - A Legend Is Born 3% ARGH!!!! Still Seeing Red!! 0% YAY!!! Hated them anyway! 3% Who???? They were in the Legion? 77% Yawn. Cheap melodrama still sells? 16%
BLOK - was killed by Roxxas as the start of his Legion assassination campaign in Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) #3, made infamous by then-Legion writer/artist Keith Giffen's confession of the decision-making process: he pulled Blok's name out of a hat. Funeral For a Friend - A Legend Is Born 23% ARGH!!!! Still Seeing Red!! 61% YAY!!! Hated them anyway! 3% Who???? They were in the Legion? 0% Yawn. Cheap melodrama still sells? 13%
TORNADO TWINS - DON & DAWN ALLEN, descendants of the legendary Barry Allen/Flash and friends of the Legion, were executed by the Dominator-controlled Earth government as traitors in Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) #17. Funeral For a Friend - A Legend Is Born 23% ARGH!!!! Still Seeing Red!! 35% YAY!!! Hated them anyway! 0% Who???? They were in the Legion? 26% Yawn. Cheap melodrama still sells? 16%
DR. GYM'LL - 3-armed short grumpy alien doctor for the Legion, died in Medicus One when it was stuck by fragments of the exploding moon after the Dominator's Triple-Strike Plan was implemented in Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) #19. Funeral For a Friend - A Legend Is Born 19% ARGH!!!! Still Seeing Red!! 42% YAY!!! Hated them anyway! 6% Who???? They were in the Legion? 10% Yawn. Cheap melodrama still sells? 23%
CIRCADIA SENIUS - insectoid scientist, former Chronarch of the Time Institute, colleague of Brainiac 5 & Rond Vidar, fell victim to the exploding moon in Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) #19, even as he manually aimed and launched a special sattelite to balance Earth gravity in the moon's absence. Funeral For a Friend - A Legend Is Born 16% ARGH!!!! Still Seeing Red!! 29% YAY!!! Hated them anyway! 3% Who???? They were in the Legion? 29% Yawn. Cheap melodrama still sells? 23%
ATMOS - one-time Legion reject and full-time arrogant Xanthu hero, appeared a few times in Legion (2nd series), but joined and left the Legion during the 5 years later gap (discussed in the Bierbaums' Legion RPG Sourcebook) before finally being killed by the Dominator-twisted-Computo, Bion, in Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) #21. Funeral For a Friend - A Legend Is Born 6% ARGH!!!! Still Seeing Red!! 3% YAY!!! Hated them anyway! 55% Who???? They were in the Legion? 23% Yawn. Cheap melodrama still sells? 13%
NIGHTWIND & POWER BOY - Berta Harris & Jed Rikane, Legion Academy graduates (Nightwind even was a Legionnaire whose career took place during the 5 years later gap), were killed by invading Khunds on Xolnar, where the two heroes were UP Militia Academy drill instructors, in Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd Series) #15 (Nightwind) and #17 (Power Boy), respectively. Funeral For a Friend - A Legend Is Born 13% ARGH!!!! Still Seeing Red!! 39% YAY!!! Hated them anyway! 0% Who???? They were in the Legion? 26% Yawn. Cheap melodrama still sells? 23%
PRINCESS PROJECTRA, KARATE KID, CHAMELEON BOY - SW-6 teen versions, died unexpectedly in the explosion caused in unrelated story-events by Universo's eerie henchman Grinn activating the self-destruct switch of the Dominator metahuman-experimentation/brainwashing chambers during the Terra Mosaic in Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) #32. Funeral For a Friend - A Legend Is Born 3% ARGH!!!! Still Seeing Red!! 42% YAY!!! Hated them anyway! 0% Who???? They were in the Legion? 6% Yawn. Cheap melodrama still sells? 48%
SUN BOY - Legionnaire turned spokesperson/unwitting lackey of the secretly Dominator-ruled Earth government, was shot in the head by his former lover, Science Police Chief Circe, in a mercy-killing/suicide in Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) #36, after null-radiation exposure caused an ongoing burning cycle in his body, of which he remained painfully aware. Funeral For a Friend - A Legend Is Born 32% ARGH!!!! Still Seeing Red!! 42% YAY!!! Hated them anyway! 13% Who???? They were in the Legion? 0% Yawn. Cheap melodrama still sells? 13%
FIREFIST - Khund soldier temporarily assigned to the Legion, was apparently killed during one of the Mordru conflicts when the Khund cyborg stupidly attacked Ryan O'Devlin (the unofficial Reflecto) in Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) #47, OR he was killed a bit later by a beserk Timberwolf in response to Firefist killing his Legion-loyal wife, the teleporter Veilmist. This is as good a time as any to admit: I only have vague recollections of these Legionnaires, and so totally missed the deaths of the other Khund temporary Legionnaires - Veilmist and Bloodclaw - in Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) #58 and #46, respectively. Ooops. (Like anyone even noticed ) Funeral For a Friend - A Legend Is Born 6% ARGH!!!! Still Seeing Red!! 0% YAY!!! Hated them anyway! 42% Who???? They were in the Legion? 52% Yawn. Cheap melodrama still sells? 0%
LAUREL GAND - the remade Supergirl, died protecting Weber's World from a Khund bomb in Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) #59. Funeral For a Friend - A Legend Is Born 16% ARGH!!!! Still Seeing Red!! 35% YAY!!! Hated them anyway! 16% Who???? They were in the Legion? 6% Yawn. Cheap melodrama still sells? 26%
KID QUANTUM I - apparently created to die in any continuity, the DNA reboot Xanthusian James Cullen was killed by Tangleweb in the 1994-rebooted Legion's 1st encounter with the intellect-devouring insectoid monster in Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) #62. Funeral For a Friend - A Legend Is Born 19% ARGH!!!! Still Seeing Red!! 3% YAY!!! Hated them anyway! 32% Who???? They were in the Legion? 29% Yawn. Cheap melodrama still sells? 16%
LEVIATHAN I - Collosal Boy in another life, sacrificed himself in Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) #83 to stop Dr. Regulus from destroying the polluted planet Gallan and the combined Legion/Work Force team there (after Gim was already rebooted as an officious government-appointed soldier in the Legion). Leviathan's death revealed his own wish to die in battle and the escalating meddling of Legion leader Shrinking Violet and her secret Emerald Eye. Funeral For a Friend - A Legend Is Born 16% ARGH!!!! Still Seeing Red!! 55% YAY!!! Hated them anyway! 6% Who???? They were in the Legion? 3% Yawn. Cheap melodrama still sells? 19%
MONSTRESS - was killed in Legion Lost #11 by Jan Arrah in his Progenitor phase, when fatally-optimistic Monstress caught his eye trying to bond with him. He realized that he, as the Progenitor, had not created her, and so judged her 'variant' and, as the Progenitor was wont to do in such situations, unmade her on the spot. Funeral For a Friend - A Legend Is Born 32% ARGH!!!! Still Seeing Red!! 42% YAY!!! Hated them anyway! 13% Who???? They were in the Legion? 0% Yawn. Cheap melodrama still sells? 13%
JAN ARRAH - PROGENITOR, Legionnaire turned galactic tyrant, was shattered and lobotomized in Legion Lost #12 by Live Wire's suicidal electrical-release, but Live Wire's powers somehow coded his brain-engrams onto the tromium crystal remains, spurring a rebirth at the Trom burial site of yet another DNA fused being: the crystal body, likeness and transmutation powers of Jan Arrah fueled by the lightning, mind and spirit of Live Wire. So Jan is gone but his body is still an active part of the DNA Legion. Uh-huh. Funeral For a Friend - A Legend Is Born 23% ARGH!!!! Still Seeing Red!! 58% YAY!!! Hated them anyway! 3% Who???? They were in the Legion? 0% Yawn. Cheap melodrama still sells? 16%
GREV MALLOR - was put to rest in Legion #24 by cousin Tasmia Mallor/Umbra when she returned to Talok VIII to take back the mantle of shadow champion. While Grev enjoyed a long (if largely unseen) career pre-1994 as a Legion Academy graduate and Talokian planetary champion, he was rebooted by DNA as a shadow-fueled cybernetic zombie stuck on protecting Talok VIII by covering it in unpenetrable darkness and removing alien influences violently. Funeral For a Friend - A Legend Is Born 10% ARGH!!!! Still Seeing Red!! 35% YAY!!! Hated them anyway! 3% Who???? They were in the Legion? 26% Yawn. Cheap melodrama still sells? 26%
And now, a moment of silence for the dead.
THANKS FOR VOTING!!!!!!!! __________________________________________________ Shanghalla, resting place for heroes - not the hottest place on 31st century tour guides, but one which we've visited time & time again.
This poll is not meant to offend, but it is crafted from a morbid sense of humor and a trust in the other board members allowing an open conversation about all Legion topics, even the ones that make us uncomfortable (death of even a 'comic book character' carrying a weight in our imagination). In that spirit, let's be completely crass and RATE THE DEATH!!!
These are fictional characters, and as such, some creator(s)/editor(s) chose to kill them. I want to see what Legionworld members think about the manner of each character's death.
We deserve the chance to make our collective judgment seen (even if only on Legionworld)!
THE DEAD: There's a little over 30 choices (SHOCKED when I started making the list). To be included, the person had to remain dead for pretty much the entire continuity they died in (as far as I could tell - please feel free to post if I missed 1 or got the death wrong). Everyone had to be either a Legion member, identified Legion associate, or whose death was critical in a Legion mission. For instance, I wanted to include the legendary Hate-Face (who?) but could find no actual Legion adventure where he participated; Laurel Kent, on the other hand, makes the list for participating in several adventures as a Legion academy student from Grell/Shooter era to almost the end of Levitz era (where she was revealed to be a Manhunter robot and commited suicide after failing against the Legion). Also, I grouped together deaths that happened in the same moment (i.e. Nightwind & Powerboy were both killed by invading Khund forces in the TMK Khund War storyline, the Tornado Twins Don & Dawn Allen were both executed by the Dominators in TMK leading up to the Terra Mosaic storyline, etc.).
THE RATING SYSTEM: Over many years of morbid conversations (and way too many funerals), my friends and I have developed 5 values for rating a death. Here's a full explanation of the criteria (as adapted to comic book form): #1) FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND - a 'good death', befits a hero, the character's moment of triumph
#2) ARGH!!!!! I can't believe they died! I still see red when I think about it!
#3) YAY!!! The Luck Lords are smiling on me! I hated that character! I only wished I could have done it myself!
#4) WHO? - they were in the Legion? they died? Who the heck were they? Did they only appear in half a panel or something?
#5) Yawn. Cheap ploy to sell more books or add drama. Why do they still do this stuff?
Even if you're completely offended (and I apologize if you are), let your voice be heard! Go on & vote!
[ October 29, 2004, 03:58 AM: Message edited by: 235 - Andy S ]
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Great work Andy. I don't think I would have had the patience to track down all those names.
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thanks -- was a little nervous about posting it -- folks being sensitive about such topics and all that
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Great poll Andy! Couldn't believe how many there were in Legion history.
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No kidding. I tried to come up with a similar list without digging through all the books but off the top of my head I could only remember about half of those names. I'd forgotten most of the one-shot characters like Beast Boy.
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Interesting poll; I think it needs more categories, though: some of the listed deaths IMO don't really fit any of the available choices. Monstress, for example: certainly not going to get a 3 or 4 from me, not a 'heroic' death so it shouldn't really get a 1, it fit the story DnA chose to tell so it doesn't really deserve a 2 or 5 either.
Other thoughts: My biggest "AARGH!" goes to the deaths of the SW6 Cham, Val, and Projectra: such a waste of story potential there (dissident factions on Orando seeking to replace Queen Projectra with her younger counterpart, just for a start ... )
Most memorable in a good way: the execution of Nemesis Kid.
"And that reminds me" dept.: you forgot the preboot Emerald Empress.
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i agree that Monstress doesn't really fit into anyone, but i tried to make it as wide a spread as possible
and Sarya of Venegar doesn't fit because she was a villain, always and thoroughly -- the only villains that made the list were either once a legionnaire (like Nemesis Kid) or revealed to be working for the Legion (like Mentalla) or whose death was instrumental in the success of a legion mission (like Beast Boy, Plant Lad, or Nightwind)
which sucks because i thought Sarya kicked major butt
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WHOOPS, sorry, mea culpa, should've read all of the intro before I voted!
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i'm trying to come up with at least 1 new poll a week (each poll lasting around 10 days) ... with the intention of keeping a couple polls juggled at any time by me
i keep on thinking of different ones - fun, a little harsh, a little out there, all that stuff
keep on coming back and voting
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