Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes Shady dumps Mon-el???? Hmmm...smells like...

Earth Man! I agree with some other posts..Shady is being mind controlled by Earth Man..and for maybe a long time..hence who would just up and dump someone in a very long term relationship..after Legion world when she was so still in love with MON...then she was taken over by Mr. N who then started to sleep with our favorite lady from Talok...wow this Earth man thing is really starting to get interesting..Thanx Paul!!!!

she's totally gonna be the one in that bed on the cover of that upcoming issue. poor mon'- it's still cheating even if your bf is in the phantom zone!!

Creepy non-con stories make me go .

Gotta' add: I don't see how it could be cheating if somebody else is controlling your mind when you do it.

i don't get why earth-man would want to tap rings with shady (besides her being hot in a comic book drawing sense) - he's gotta be real conflicted at this point, or totally drunk and next day regretful. 'i did what with a what??'

I have to say that this is what Paul wants us to think after reading #4 and speculating about the dark figure in bed with E-Man on the cover of #6.
This is why I think it cannot be Shady.

On the other hand the " too obvious to be true, so therefore IS true " theory is viable.

I like the idea of Shady as part of the Legion Espionage Squad, "working in the shadows", so to speak. She certainly looks like she's showing more of a sleuthy side with her suspicions of Earth Man and getting some info about Brainys' enhancements to Earth Man's ring. I like this aspect of her character. The "warrior" side of her nature can get a little one note. Shady for leader!

She just wanted to know if she could get his ring off (so to speak) without setting off any alarms. Why the ring has to come off for them to do it I don't understand. I guess the ring has to come off before the gloves do, but still . . .

I am sticking to my theory that there is an imposter on the team. There have been shadow manipulators on Earth, most notably The Shade and Nightshade.

I'm enjoying the way Shady and Earth-Man (among others) are written this time out. Definitely staying tuned to see what happens.

But Shady's costume is still stupid.

I don't see what's so unacceptable about this relationship. Shady likes big strong alpha males, and maybe she wants to see if she can cure him of his racism.

ITS TABOOOOOOOOOO

I wouldn't exactly call EM big and strong and certainly he's no Alpha Male ... what, just because he led that loser group of "Justice Leaguers"?
If anything he's just a mixed up, bigotted, dumb jock type to me.
Can someone truly be cured of their racism? Mmmmmm, I don't buy it, sorry.

I'd like to think that yes, people can overcome their racism, but this is no run of the mill garden variety racist. This is an evil, power hungry, megalomaniacal control freak who has done grievous personal harm to half the Legion and becoming intimately involved with him should be antithetical to any Legionnaire's personal belief system.

IMHO, of course.

any way it turns out its gonna be awesome. especially when she gets knocked up.

After laying with Shadow Lass he's going to LOVE aliens.

*GASP!* What if Earth Man accidentally absorbs the power to conceive and winds up being the one getting knocked up!?!

no Shady of mine would ever ....

Well said.

Brilliant!

I'm reviving this thread because I just noticed something relevant.

In Superboy #237, which was written by Paul Levitz, Shady tries to distract Wildfire so her teammates can steal the Quintile Crystal. (Never mind why.) She does so by pretending to seduce him, saying:

Now this is a very embarrassing scene which presents Shady in a negative light, and I suspect Paul regrets having written it, but the thing is, Shady's comments actually make some sense. As we all know, she did join the team partly because she was attracted to Brainy, and then when she discovered he already had a girlfriend, she "sunk her hooks" into Mon-El. This comes up again in one of the last issues of v3, I forget which one, where Shady says that on her planet, it's normal for Talokian women to choose men without the latter having much say in the matter.

So Shady's fling with Earth-Man was actually consistent with the way Paul has been writing her for thirty years. Shady was not acting out of character in sleeping with Kirt.

I still think, though, that as unfortunate as Paul's portrayal of Shady may have been, he cannot be accused of pervasive sexism -- he generally does an amazing job of writing female characters, especially compared to other writers of his generation.

Is it possible that Shady's attraction to Earth-Man was a side effect of Brainy's special enhancements to Earth-Man's flight ring?

That's an intriguing thought.

Brainy made it clear that the ring was supposed to have some sort of effect on Earth-Man, and yet Earth-Man seemed to short that out with his Green Lantern Ring. What if he didn't just turn it off, but somehow reversed it (probably not deliberately, since I don't think he actually was all that clear on what it was doing anyway), so that, instead of being influenced by the ring to be more tolerant of and cooperative with his Legion teammates, they were influenced to be more tolerant of him?

It would explain various Legionnaires being okay with him walking up and touching them, to absorb their powers. I could see Colossal Boy not reacting fast enough to stop him, or even Element Lad biting his tongue and putting up with it, but when he walked up and put his hand on Projectra, I expected her to judo-flip his mutton-chopped ass through the nearest wall.

It also says something about Earth-Man's attitudes about power that he touched Shadow Lass all the live-long day, and never once bothered to use her powers. He probably considered her powers 'weak' or something.