Topic: 21st Century Legion - Original Draft Version
Eryk Davis Ester
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Just an idea to play around with:
Reinvent the Legion as a 21st century (Earth-based) super-hero team. How would it work stripped of its futuristic sci-fi setting? What would the new origins of the characters be? What would the series be like? Should it be part of the mainstream DCU, or an alternate reality?
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Interesting exercise, Eryk. I'll do the first part.
Let's start out with the Ranzz origin. Since it's unlikely for them to have landed on the planet Korbal, I postulate that twins Garth and Eileen Raines and their older brother Mark were vacationing on a boat when they came upon an island somewhere in the Carribbean. It was a secret outpost for a clandestine government and was populated by mechanical "lightning beasts" that protected its secret lair. Garth (or Eileen, take your pick) got the idea to use the beasts to recharge the boat's motor, but the move backfired and, well, you know the rest of the story.
Mark Raines, realizing the enormous power he now possessed, left their farm home near Winthrop, Kansas. Garth took a plane to the the city of Metropolis to search for him. And that's where he ran into ...
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quote:Originally posted by He Who Wanders: Interesting exercise, Eryk. I'll do the first part.
Let's start out with the Ranzz origin. Since it's unlikely for them to have landed on the planet Korbal, I postulate that twins Garth and Eileen Raines and their older brother Mark were vacationing on a boat when they came upon an island somewhere in the Carribbean. It was a secret outpost for a clandestine government and was populated by mechanical "lightning beasts" that protected its secret lair. Garth (or Eileen, take your pick) got the idea to use the beasts to recharge the boat's motor, but the move backfired and, well, you know the rest of the story.
Mark Raines, realizing the enormous power he now possessed, left their farm home near Winthrop, Kansas. Garth took a plane to the the city of Metropolis to search for him. And that's where he ran into ...
great start HWW !!!! but i'll let someone else continue .....
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Checkmate in conjunction with STAR Labs and Camus are trying to develope superpowered operatives. Young Irma Ardeen has tested high in telepathic tests. Through a series of trainings, meditations, and chemical therapy, She has become the premier telepath at Checkmate.
However, her power gives her access to the plans for various government leaders and how they would use her and any knowledge that she can gather for them. She is able to destroy all records of her time at Checkmate (etc.) and plants a subconscious command that they are to forget about her.
While flying to Metropolis, she encounters.....
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Aboard the plane bound for Metropolis, Garth Raines encounters Rex Kline, a high school basketball champion from Braydon, MN, who was known back home as "Cosmic Boy" for his amazing feats on the court. What no one knows is that Rex and his younger brother, Paul, have amazing magnetic powers, due to their father's exposure to an experimental form an electromagentic radiation in the laboratory where he worked.
Rex's college scholarship was cancelled when Braydon was hit by an economic downturn. So, with the last of the money he's saved, Rex is flying to Metropolis to look for a job. On board, he and Garth spot two other passengers, a gorgeous blonde named Imra Ardeen and ...
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Billionaire transportation mogul R.J. Brande, on his way home from a meeting with Bruce Wayne, with whom he discussed some revolutionary technology his company has developed based on a recovered boom tube.
But after thoroughly covering its tracks, Luthor Corp. has sent assassins to off R.J. and steal the technology for Lex Luthor.
While deplaning with her two new friends (and isn't that redhead a cutie?), Irma gets a mental image of what the assassins are about to do. She warns Garth and Rex, who use their powers to disable the crooks, who, of course, have no knowledge who their real employer is.
After heaping them with thanks, R.J. turns to his assistant and ward, Lorna Durgo (no Lorna Doone jokes, please) of Carthage, Mo., and says, "Get these kids names and numbers. I want to see them in my office first thing tomorrow morning. I see great things in their future."
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Meanwhile, a young woman of the European aristocracy is chafing under her mother's strict control. As daughter to the U.N. Ambassador, Tamara Wazzo (I couldn't use "Tonya", could I?) enjoys New York but longs for adventure and romance. Although her family had long practiced a branch of witchcraft which permitted them to become phantoms, Tamara has only used this power in the secrecy of her home. She believes she could use her abilities to help people, if only she knew where to begin - and could get away from her mother.
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Eryk Davis Ester
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After working late into the evening, Lorna Durgo has finally identified and tracked down the three "kids' names and numbers" and has arranged a meeting with R.J. for them at 10:00 AM the following morning. In order to accomplish this, she has had to put off tons of work that keeps accumulating on her desk.
Sighing at the long night that awaits her, she dials the phone to order Chinese food. As she places the order she gently strokes the latest addition to her "genie" lamp collection, which is displayed in the place of honor on her desk (reserved for her latest acquisition.)
As she waits for the restaurant employee to take her order, she sighs again and wistfully thinks "I wish I could split into three so I could keep up with all this work." There is a sudden, brilliant flash of light followed by billowing smoke, both of which combine to leave her momentarily blind.
As the smoke and her sight clears, she sees her reflection in the mirror across the room...but she's seeing triple! Or is she? Looking to her sides, she realizes that her wish has been granted by the magic "genie" lamp! There are now three of her!!!! She's triplets!
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The 16-year old boy loved his part-time job at the costume rental shop. He had always enjoyed disguising himself as somebody else, imitating voices and mannerisms to perfection. Was it the role-playing or the subterfuge that was so appealing? His father, an undercover cop, thought the boy had a great talent for disguise and deception - and encouraged him, teaching him the tricks of the trade. Reed Daggly planned to follow in his father's footsteps someday, although, at this point in his life, he didn't know if he wanted to put in the years required to be assigned to undercover work.
It was a slow Saturday afternoon at the store, and Reed spent some time looking through a newspaper. His attention was captured by a story about three teens who had saved a rich businessman...
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I was just thinking that certain Legionnaires' origins would not need to be changed at all or very much.
Colossal Boy - Just change the vacation to someplace other than Mars - Inhales fumes from strange Meteor Ferro Lad - Mutant with disfigured face - post-boot origin puts him in the 21st century anyhow Invisible Kid - invents invisiblity serum Sun Boy - locked in experimental reactor by father's disgruntled employee Karate Kid - trained by sensei Bouncing Boy - ingested experiemnetal synthetic rubber formula.
Any others that wouldn't need to be changed?
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Well, there's also that offshoot of the Ute tribe that lived downwind of the U.S. government's Nevada Atomic Test Site, and got more than a normal dose of radiation. Fortunately, though, rare chemicals in their water supply diverted the particles into having nearly entirely benign effects, and the last three generations seem to have been growing bigger and bigger wings on their backs.
Nobody could take photos of these people, though, as the radiation in the area both made visitors sick and screwed up the film in their cameras. Still, one particular family had also gained what a particularly desperate reporter for the Enquirer mis-described as "psychic powers ..."
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Meanwhile, in Carlsbad, California, Jose Rimbaud has paddled his surfboard out to catch the waves. All his friends heeded the reports that advised against surfing in the high storm surf, but "Surfer Jo", as he was known in the community, couldn't resist the swells.
Now Jonah is a pretty strong swimmer, but this morning the waves are pretty strong even for him. He misjudges the wave and it throws him down, deep beneath the surface. For a moment he's too disoriented to know which way is up. He swallows some water and for the first time he starts to think that just maybe he might have made a mistake.
He desperately swims for the light but something seems to be sucking him down. It feels like he's in a whirlpool and darkness surrounds him. GULP.
He's washed up...somewhere...in a dank cave lit by phosphorescent fish. It stinks. It really, really stinks. He notices that the water is acidic and seems to be eating away his neoprene suit. He climbs up on a pile of flopping fish and tries to figure out just what has happened to him.
...to be continued.
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Sally Digby is the shy but intelligent daughter of a faculty member at Ivy University. There she befriends Professor Ray Palmer, aka the Atom, and learns of his ability to shrink in size. Without Palmer's knowledge, she repeats the same process that gave him his powers. Fortunately, there are no side effects and she is able to shrink to sub-atomic size with no problems. It is also there that she meets a prodigy by the name of Lyle...
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Quentin Docks was the fifth - and only successful - product of a designer baby program, code-named Brainiac, conducted by a black-ops division of Star Labs. The genetic manipulation raised the boy's intelligence far beyond that of any other human being, but he still lacked the social skills that developed throughout childhood. Both parents were totally absorbed in their work at Star Labs and regarded him more as a successful experiment than a child.
Quentin grew up on his own, with free reign to pursue whatever interested him within the confines of the premises, quickly surpassing the best scientists. The directors began to get nervous as the years passed and wondered if they could possibly control him as he reached his teen years. They began to look around for a way to unload the boy and wash their hands of whatever he might do in the future. Someone suggested the maverick R.J. Brande might be interested in hiring him....
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