Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes The Favorite New Legionnaire Poll!

Pick your favorite of the new recruits!

As i have only read issues 1-2 I probably should have abstained, but I am 99% sure my answer would be the same even after I read the rest of the issues.

*pre-emptively glares at all Harmonia Li voters*

I haven't read any of the nuDC Legion issues so my vote is based only on my pre-52 exposure. And it's a vote based purely on their visual too; in particular their intricately designed plastic jacket. Must be hell to draw but it's beautiful to look at.

I actually don't particularly like any of the new Legionnaires at all. But if I had to rank them it would be as follows:

Dragonwing
Chemical Kid
Comet Queen
Glorith
Harmonia Li

HAHAHAHA I think Comet Queen winning in the polls says it all.

When Comet Queen is more popular than you, you have problems ...

I haven't even read those!

I actually like Dragonwing. Initially I just liked her visual, but I do like her spirit and powerset.

Surprisingly, her time as a Legionnaire is making me like Comet Queen more. Her second round in the Academy didn't charm me much, but there's something about her mixing it up with the Legionnaires proper that works better for me.

Comet Queen and Fire-Breather Lass are defs my faves!

I'm liking them all but Chemical Kid got my vote.

I voted for Chemical Kid.

And in order of preference at this point after him:

Comet Queen
Dragonwing
Glorith
Harmonia

Same here. I like her visual and I like her attitude. I don't think she's necessarily the best *Legionnaire* candidate, but she's definitely the most interesting of the five.

Chemical Kid is next up, then Comet Queen, who, unfortunately, I like even *less* now that we've seen that her origin is the same as Night Girl (infatuated with a Legionnaire, made herself super-powered in an attempt to be a stalker).

Glorith and Harmonia Li are my least favorites, both in personality and powers.

Chemical Kid for me too. It's rare that legacy characters are done well. Probably the strongest argument for Chemical King's early demise was that his powers appeared limited and complicated. It's cool that Levitz would want to revisit this power set. Chemical Kid has a personality that's different enough that he is his own person.

From there:

2) Comet Queen - She's just fun. The Legion needs that levity.

3) Dragonwing -Visually appealing with an attitude, but still learning. Some good story potential.

4) Harmonia - More mature than the rest. I'm anxious to learn more of her story. The concept of a hero out of time also has potential.

5) Glorith - I'm having trouble warming up to her. Possibly because Paul is holding back too much. We really need to learn more about her, and need to get some kind of explanation regarding how she relates to the villain Glorith. There's an elephant in the room. Address it already, or I'm going have a hard time committing to this character.

I hated Harmonia until the latest issue. Finally (!) seeing in action, in uniform, and acting like a Legionnaire did it for me. She's my new fav!

I like Glorith, I'm afraid.
I like her look and her potential.
I also like the mystery surrounding her; her past, her connection to Mysa, Blok and Harak, and the ones that claim her - which makes her future scary.
Her costume has changed to mostly lavendar, like the Gloith of old and her hair could go white at any event or moment.

I like Comet Queen next, then Dragonwing.
Harmonia and Chemical Kid are last.
The last three have things about them that I like, powerset or looks, but I don't really 'like' them much.

It was always gonna be Comet Queen for me....she is the kind of character that really exemplifies the Legion spirit - her powers are more kooky than straight-up damaging and she's all heart.

Of the others, Chemical Kid/Dragonwing share the next spot, then Harmonia, then Glorith. Harmonia and Glorith are a looong way away from being anywhere near the others though

Comet Queen, if she's really able to travel at light speed through outer space, is kinda/sorta the new Dawnstar of the team. Replace tracking powers with 'make clouds of choking smoke,' and she's got her own unique thing, as well.

They can't really travel at light speed, can they?
Not only would time stop for them, but it would take forever to get anywhere but short distances.
Since they're both mostly space travelers, it just wouldn't work.

I've always felt that Dawny, and the other space fast Legionnaires, somehow created a dimensional warp or black hole wrinkle or something, around themselves.
Which is pretty unique, of course, and if they can do it, so could CQ.

They kinda have to be able to, since Mon, Jo, Dawny and Drake have been shown traveling faster than the cruisers can keep up (and the cruisers can break lightspeed, presumably by doing some hyperspace thing to get around pesky science).

Traveling at lightspeed (or faster), without some sort of time dilation or mass approaching infinity or whatever, is one of those things that a sci-fi setting with people traveling in their lifetimes to hundreds of different worlds kinda requires.

Narratively, it's a necessity for the Legion (and non-Legion residents of the UP) to be able to get around at trans-light speeds, so if they want to wave their hands around and say 'wormholes' or 'hyperdrive' or 'space-time warping bubble of altered reality' or whatever, I'm comfortable with that.

They seem to have faster-than-light communications *built into their rings* as well, which, well, is that 30th century 'might as well be magic' sort of technology.

Sun Boy being able to shoot fire in outer space still pisses me off 'though, since that's just crazy impossible! Heat doesn't propogate across a vacuum! Burnination doesn't happen without stuffs to burninate! Argh! <shakes fist in impotent nerdrage>

Sun Boy's heat must be drawn from another dimension, from a star or something.
The sun's heat does travel in a form of energy wave, doesn't it?
Our sun certainly heats our planet, doesn't it?

And, traveling at lightspeed doesn't get you anywhere fast in space type distances. The closest star to Earth is 5 light years away.
And nothing travels faster than light, does it?
I know in the old days of comics, Supes and the Flash could and Dawnstar especially, although she couldn't effect time the way the other two could.
But, science has caught up with comics now and they need to come up with a scientific way to deal with their flight, even if it's just pseudo science.
imo

*poof*

*poof*

The heat doesn't travel through space to warm the earth. If it did, it would be hotter way up in the mountains, because they are closer to the sun. (Something else else I wondered about when I was a kid!)

*Light* travels from the sun to the earth, and wherever it hits, creates heat. The darker the surface (albedo) the more heat, so it's cooler in the arctic, where less light is hitting, thanks to the white snow bouncing so much of the visible light back, and lowering the amount of heat generated by sunlight (the same process explains why you get hotter in the summer if you wear a black shirt).

Sun Boy can generate light, and, using vast amounts of light, heat up things in space, but he couldn't generate flame, because flame is the chemical process of stuff burning, and there's nothing to burn in space, and he couldn't shoot 'heat' in space, because heat is just agitated molecules, and, again, vacuum doesn't have molecules to agitate.

I'm not sure, but I don't think lightning can exist in space, either. Certainly not sound. And yet Lightning Lad and Tyroc have both been seen using their powers in vacuum.

Heck, Saturn Queen even managed to set up a little campfire in a vacuum!

Hence my assertion that they have to be able to travel faster than light.

Vote for Nam'Lor.

Well, last time I looked, our science says that nothing can travel faster than light, so Dawnstar and etc., can't do it.
If DC wants to do it, they have to make something up to explain it, imo.

Time is affected by speed until it reaches 0.
If Dawny and the others were even traveling at lightspeed, everything would be frozen for them, timewise, thoughtwise, imo.
Ah, physics.

And the sun hurls great arcs of flaming plasma from it's surface. It may be something connected to gravity but it's outside or above any atmosphere that the sun has.
I don't think that Dirk generates the flame he uses, he has to be drawing it from somewhere, so perhaps he draws the oxygen with it.


Anyway, go Glorith!

Okay, there's 6 of you (so far) who need to line up for a good, old-fashioned glare-ing.