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"The League of Super-Assassins was originally created as rough analogies for the membership of Marvel Comics' X-Men lineup at the time, created by mutual agreement between the separate books' writers to have an inter-company crossover by proxy. The Shi'ar Imperial Guard was an homage to the Legion of Super-Heroes which appeared in X-Men #107." -- straight from Wikipedia.
Never knew that? I don't get the parallels?
Neutrax = Prof X
Silver Slasher = Wolverine
Mist Master = Banshee
Blok = Colossus
After that I'm a bit lost. We still have Lazon and Titania....and Storm and Nightcrawler??? Those are stretches.
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Or is Dark Man considered to be another Prof X parallel?
Oh and I forgot Cyclops...is Neutrax a mix of him and Prof X?
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Time Trapper
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I'm not sure I trust that Wiki entry.
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Yeah Lash I agree. I am waiting for the Cockrum authority...Nightcrawler. 
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Mist Master = Banshee??
That's a bit of a stretch, one would think.
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They all are to me. Someone on wiki has some crossed wires.
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Trap Timer
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I always assumed Mist Master = Nightcrawler.
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strange but not a stranger
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I would say Lazon would be the Cyclops counterpart. Living light vs optic beams.
But who would Titania be a counterpart of? Phoenix?
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Time Trapper
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You guys are stretching like Elastic Lad.
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Trap Timer
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Like Elasti-Kid 5, you mean?
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Wikipedia is wrong. When Dave Cockrum created the Imperial Guard (by himself), the idea was that Paul Levitz would do something similar in the Legion. It didn't happen. Gerry Conway was a different writer that wrote the book years later. If he was basing them on the X-Men, he certainly didn't follow any one-to-one analogues.
The LSA were just another group of villains for the Legion to fight because the Legion was a group itself. Everytime the Legion took on a single foe, it violated a sense of fairness in that it was many vs. one, therefore it was natural to create multiple villains to face multiple heroes.
I've interviewed both Dave Cockrum and Gerry Conway on their Legion work, and it's in print for the whole world to see. There's nothing there; it's just Wikipedia being wrong again.
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On a side note I do think the Legionverse would be a great place for DC to do homages of Marvel characters, as they could have alien versions of them.
I tried to rip their soul out.I tried to make them forget Superman.
But they won't.
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I wonder how that would work with a super-hero like, say, Spiderman?
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