Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes Animated Series -- Unresolved Plot Threads

Since the series is long-gone, has there been any word posted anywhere from the writers as to unresolved plot threads?

Two that come to mind for me are:

Episode: Phantoms
What's the secret behind Drax? Was he destined to return, has anyone posted as to his origin, who he really is?

Episode: Sundown (2)
Ferro Lad's body on the asteroid at the end; was he scheduled to come back? Can someone say that he's actually alive or not?

Were there any other important unresolved plot lines bugging anyone else?

-- Walt Sterdan

I believe there was an interview with James Tucker stating that Ferro Lad was 100% dead and that they showed the body to prove it rather than leave people guessing what happened to him.

I'd be here all day if I had to list every dangling plot thread left by the series. Hell, they ended with a cliffhanger (Brainiac) in hopes that it would get another season's attention;Which of course, didn't happen.

[sulk]

Ouch. Thanks for the info (sad as it is); I would have thought that a body blown to smithereens would be a better sign of "dead" than an intact -- completely iron -- body, but there ya go.

Thanks again,
Walt Sterdan

True, but while some plot threads were pretty open-ended (like the Brainiac-as-a-real-boy cliffhanger) a few others were a little more finite, and only two or three that really interested me, like the two above... well, now one, thanks to good ol' Nightcrawler.

-- Walt Sterdan

SC, I was thinking mostly of how Brainiac (1) wasn't really destroyed, even though the Legion thought that he had been. Obviously the writers intended to bring him back at some point in S3.

That was not my impression when I read the interview with James Tucker...I remember that he said that the real purpose to leave him stranded on the asteroid is that there may be a way to bring him back alive IF the fans demand to see him back alive. He also stated that Ferro Lad was still in Iron status - not flesh body....so there was a way to bring him back alive. I remember that also that I was excited and hopeful if they continue the Legion series into the 3 or 4th season. IIRC.

After searching for quotes on the Internet, I'm starting to think this was a statement made in the Second Season preview at SDCC.

I did find this quote -
"Michael and I had also talked...egion as a replacement of Kell-El."

Sounds dead to me.

What about Nemisis Kid, did the show end with him being a member in good standing, and not a traitor.

Yes.

Moreover, there had been that bit with his power being similar to Grimbor's, so there were signs there was something sinister/unspoken there. In other words, even without the a priori belief that he should be a traitor (as per the comic), this is still a dangler.

And, of course, that goes along with the fact that we NEVER saw KK again ... I think even in the "everyone included" finale, he is only in one frame.

On a related note... anyone hear whether there will be as eason 2 DVD?

You can see KK in a couple of shots during the big fight near the end of S2, as well. If you really squint.

I think in one of Matt E.'s reviews of the animated series' comic, he mentioned that another character thought that NK's powers might be mystically based. The idea of him as a "nullifier" is somewhat different from what his powers were in the original stories, yes ? (Certainly nullification is easier to explain in a short time than... counteraction, or whatever the original take was.)

Even if they intended to do the canon thing and have him betray the team, it would have been cool to see the character fleshed out a little more first.

drax is zod and ursa's baby. (though in the superman animated series they had different names, jax-ur and mala). this is evident from the "Z" emblem on his chest and there is definitely someone talking to him in his head...and he's a kryptonian.

i thought he might come back, that they might turn him good, given that he seems to be being controlled (painfully) by voice in his head.

dammit, i love drax. his cute little posh accent ;_;.

i think they were also going to do more with lex luthor's lady descendent, since she was very "NEXT TIME GADGET" about everything.

9 out of 10 guys with cute little posh accents, or nasally accents turn out to be eeeeeeevil. Doesn't seem quite fair, does it ?

Alexis should definitely have returned, too.