Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes New Member most likely to succeed?

Glorith, Comet Queen, Dragonwing, Chemical Kid, and maybe Harmonia are all new members. Who has the goods to go the distance and be a long-term effective member?

Glorith and Dragonwing seem likely candidates to be evil! Dragonwing was tempted by Cosmic King, wanted to kill the Taurus Gang, and has threatened to go out burning. Glorith is, well, Glorith! And wants to change history!

Chemical Kid is a spoiled and materialistic brat, even if he is an interesting one.

Comet Queen is the student who finished the Academy quickest in it's history and a former member of the subs.

Could Comet Queen be the cream of this crop?

Comet Queen will send the others home in a trash bag.

Just keep Comet Queen away from Bouncing Boy so she doesn't get distracted.

Seriously, though, Comet Queen has the "heart", that's true. But Chemical Kid may also have hidden depths, and he can be quite an asset in battle. Glorith also stood her ground surprisingly well against Cosmic King.

As for Harmonia, we could argue that she has "maturity", knowledge and skill - but out of the 5 newbies I think she's the one who has the longest way to go to be accepted by fans!

Glorith will be revealed to be a "reborn from protoplasm" original Glorith and turn evil. Comet Queen will die stopping her. Dragonwing and Chemical Kid will mature a little and become great Legionnaires.

Putting aside my unhealthy love of all things Comet Queen.....lots of fans seem to hate her, so I think unless the things that define her personality are toned down a lot she isn't likely to ever become a fan favourite (and it would be a shame if she IS toned down IMO, because she is a pretty radical departure from every other woman on the team personality-wise).

I too caught Glorith's "I wish I could change the past" line and had a little shudder....if not Paul, SOMEONE is gonna turn that poor girl evil.

I agree that Dragonwing and Chemical Kid are gonna be the standout Legionnaires once they both mature a bit. I hope Dragonwing keeps her bitter edge and CK keeps his snarky arrogance to some degree, but I think they are the newbies with the most long-term viability.

I had forgotten that Harmonia was even on the team until this thread tbh....I don't really want her on the team, but if she is gonna be a Legionnaire it would help if she wore something a little more flashy than slacks and a labcoat. Even Brainy has a distinct costume!

Harmonia Li needs a code name.

I nominate Slacks-and-a-Labcoat Lass
(that should get her killed off real quick).

I see Chemical Kid as starting to mature. Dragonwing too a little. However I still see Dragonwing as not fitting in.


What exactly are Harmonia's power(s)? I can't remember.

She supposedly has elemental powers.

It would be very awesome if it was the Chinese elements of earth, fire, metal, water and wood, but since she's been shown pushing someone back with what appears to be air manipulation, I'm guessing she'll be air/earth/fire/water.

Maybe she can have all six elements. That would be nice, and the metal powers would make her and Cosmic Boy a formidable pairing in battle.

I'd say Comet Queen, although I haven't much liked the character in the past. She may have the enthusiasm, dedication and power to be a big contributor to the Legion.

Chemical Kid could run into the same problem as Chemical King: writers can't exploit his power well enough. He should be a key member, however; as for his reckless arrogance, maybe Sun Boy could teach him a few lessons on how to tone it down - or he'll just get it knocked out of him over time.

I think Dragonwing is running on looks and acid character - acid spit just strikes me as silly along the lines of Matter Eater Lad.

Harmonia Li seems to be a cold fish. I was hoping she'd be the new Rond Vidar - time researcher, pals with Brainy, etc. She's an ancient immortal; how will she fit in with teens and young adults? Her power over elementals, whatever they may be, is pretty interesting; it could be aligned with Glorith's magic.

As for Glorith, it's like waiting for the shoe to drop. Will she go evil, or just off on her own? I'd prefer to see her mature and become a useful and powerful member of the group.

Harmonia Li. In a Legion that has lost a number of members she adds experience, intellect and power. She can relate to Brainiac and shares at least a few of his interests. She helps to look after the younger, newer members.

She has versatile, elemental powers. As well as being useful for the team in varying situations, they provide a variety of visual effects as well.

She is a little distant and secretive. However Salu, Jeckie and Dawny are not always fluffy people to be around either.

Her costume is quite cool too.

So it's Harmonia for me by quite some distance as she has the maturity and accomplishments to already fit into an experienced team.

Right up until her experiments threaten everyone and Brainy has to choose his sides.

I see Glorith following a similar path to White Witch, as she becomes more settled. We already saw a glimpse of that on Rimbor.

While I like Comet Queen, her powers don't seem to be sufficient for me. That's not everything though. likewise Dragonwing and Chemical Kid seem underpowered too. But Fire Lad has been shown to be effective and Chemical Kid is getting tutored and should come through. But these four are longer bets. Comet Queen has already been taken out of active duty (before everyone else was) They've had a lot of panel time and have just started to come through.

Dragonwing seems fairly limited, at first, with just fire and acid attack powers, but it's not like the Legion hasn't always had room for Lightning Lad, Lightning Lass and Sun Boy, who also contribute energy attacks, and little else. That's one of the sweet things about a 20+ member team, not every one of them needs to have *all* the powers.

Chemical Kid has the same problem as Chemical King, or, to a different degree, Element Lad. He's just insanely powerful, with *dozens* of different ways to incapacitate, confuse, restrain or even kill people just by pointing at them, unless written by someone who slept through high school chemistry, in which case, he's 'can make things rust lad.'

Comet Queen has the same combat utility as Dawnstar, perhaps even greater, because of her ability to generate blinding clouds of 'comet gas' that causes people to pass out. Other than that, she's exactly Dawnstar in a fight, able to fly around at near light speed and be immune to environmental effects / spaceworthy. She's probably even easier to work with, from a writing standpoint, as her comet gas clouds are likely easier to write around than Dawnstar's 'infallible tracking power' which cannot ever be allowed to actually work, because it would wreck the plot of the week...

Glorith is a magic user. Comic book magic users are so unreliable, and tend to pull powers out of their butt. I like her look, with her and Dragonwing competing for the best new visual, but I've never been a fan of characters whose powers come and go, depending on the writer, as seems to be the nature of magic users.

Harmonia Li has been seen using air and earth powers, and it seems likely that she also has water and fire control as well. Because her presence means that Nightwind will never be a member, and that Sun Boy was on the short list to be bumped off (since anything he could do, she could do as *one* of her super-powers), she will never work for me.

At this point, I'd be surprised if any of them make it into the next incarnation of the Legion, whatever that turns out to be.

Despite the reboots, I always picture Nightwind as having been shot by the Khunds and Sun Boy shot by Circe. They're never quite the same for me when it happens

Not that Nightwind couldn't have stories built around her, but Harmonia was a key part of the story, which gives her a foot in the door.

Harmonia was clearly designed to be a Legionnaire whereas Nightwind is designed to be an Academy student and built from there, if that makes any sense?

I'd not really thought of Comet Queen as a sort of light speed type character actually, as it's not something I've seen a lot of. I most clearly recall the try out issue and her origin with Bouncing Boy.

You make a good point about Chemical Kid. I think he's the one who slept through his chemistry classes, along with a few of the Legion tutorials. It would have been good to see his power use expand.

In his first appearance, he needs a super-genius to tell him that he can extinguish fires, because fire is a chemical reaction, and I think it was pretty clear then that he was only slightly more intelligent than a potted plant. So yeah.

Picking up on Erik's point, from a purely story driven perspective, a hint we have as to what would happen next indicates Brainy would try to use a Legion, under his leadership, to help a disaster torn UP.

I see Harmonia definitely being a big part of that. She is close to Brainy and is, since Phantom Girl's departure, the Legion's leader.

Comet Queen is comatose, and it would depend on Brainy's treatment for her. She is with them though.

Glorith has vanished with Zerox. However, one of Brainy's objectives is to recapture Validus. That would probably lead to finding out what happened to the world.
Dragonwing and Chemical Kid are as well sticking around with the Legion as not. They don't exactly have hugely better options.

As for whether a new writer keeps them who knows. There's been a bit of resistance to them all, but they had started to grown on me towards the end. Perhaps others started to feel the same.

I think you've created what will be a classic Legion team up. Chemical Kid, Chlorophyll Kid and Yera (when she impersonated a pot plant infiltrating the Justice League):)

I could see Brainy recruiting Harmonia (for her powers, intelligence and experience) and Chemical Kid (for his powers). He'd probably leave Dragonwing and Comet Queen for now and just grab them later.

If the Legion does get rebooted again, I'm sure it'll be full of familiar faces who've been Legionnaires since the Adventure Era...

With Harmonia as leader, she would be recruiting him

Actually, that may be how he persuades some of the others. "Me? In charge? Of course not. I know that none of you wanted that." Of course, Harmonia is into risky experiments just as much as he is.

I see Brainy as being more invested in the Legion than Harmonia was, and in the last issue he kept working while she agreed with the UP's decision. And Brainy's always logically assumed that he was the most qualified candidate.

And with the Legion disbanded, Harmonia's not leader anymore

Just another Legion on the lam run. I don’t think it’s gone for long, if at all. I think Harmonia has the maturity to roll with the punches a lot more than Brainy. She’ll have her own agenda. Brainy is caught up in trying to atone for his mistakes. It makes him vulnerable to allowing Harmonia to take the lead in certain situations. I think it makes for a pretty good partnership.

Re Harmonia, I just had a thought. In Chinese mythos, the moon goddess Chang'E was a mortal woman who took the elixir of life and floated away to the moon as an immortal. Because of the elixir she can't come back down to Earth, and she left her mortal husband behind.

I wonder if that elixir explains Harmonia's immortality...

Maybe she has a pet magical rabbit, like Chang'E does

There were several ways one could become immortal in Chinese myth. Some were elixirs, meditation, raised by other gods/immortals for great deeds, becoming the best at whatever you do, etc. Some Immortals were never human at all. They were around since the beginning of man. Some are animals that can take human form. The Monkey King was a monkey born from a stone!

The Chinese elements are fire, earth, metal, water, and wood. Harmonia uses air, so I doubt she's based on any Chinese mythology except in a very superficial way. On the other hand, any future writer who does his research could change this.

That's what I'm hoping for.