Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes Legion Moments that Made You Go "WOW"!

Or "Squee", or "Hell Yeah", or "I don't care who sees me, LONG LIVE THE LEGION!"

For the Post Zero Hour Legion, best moment was at the end of LSH 80 when the team free themselves of UP interference. In a single stroke they expose President Chu, beat the Fatal Five, get RJ Brande as UP President and all the "lost" Legionnaires save Apparition return. Man, so satisfying.

on a more "squee" level, the recent Power Boy - Gravity Kid relationship made me squee when Gravity Kid tells Power Boy he'll bring him home if he ever rots on Takron-Galtos. Awww. You two have a nice, long, happy relationship while teasing each other all day with your sex costumes!

The end of the Universo Project, where Imra *apologizes* to the mind-controlled Ultra Boy and Mon-El, because she 'doesn't have time to be gentle' as she shuts off their brains, leaving Universo gaping in shock. "Two of the most powerful men in the universe, and they fell over because you just looked at them?"

Such an 'Oh yeah!' moment for me.

I'm also partial to Karate Kid kicking Darkseid in the head during the Great Darkness Saga. "Astound this, stone-face!" No fear, no hesitation, no fretting that he was 'out of his league' or that a roundhouse kick wasn't going to do more than surprise Darkseid.

The end of Legion of the Damned was also a nice moment for me. Seeing the Legion, together again, with everybody present after a harrowing four issues of the non-Blighted members having to fight their teammates was satisfying.

So was the end of the postboot Mordru battle, Legionnaires 50. The Legionnaires totally outsmarted Mordru care of some great illusions and teamwork.

Not to mention the conclusion of the White Triangle Saga, when some split-second timing by RJ Brande, Jan Arrah, Brainiac 5 and the 3 founders saves the day.

For individual Legionnaire moments...

Postboot Brainy using multiple miniature forcefields to reflect dozens of shots back at some terrorists, in Legion 1.

Gates rescuing Kid Q II and taking Ra's al Ghul's arm off in the process, in Legion 8.

Live Wire leaping into the mouth of the Element Lad/Omniphagos creature and stopping it by himself, Legion Lost 12.

Andromeda standing up to, and almost beating, Roxxas in Legionnaires Annual 2. With some help from Violet.

Shrinking Violet taking down Micro in LSH 66.

I also liked when she goes to have a chat with Darkseid at the end of the LSH Annual 2.

After all that she goes down in his cave, tells him she has never been afraid of him, it comes of as if she is scolding him for stealing her child and he had better watch out.


I also loved how the Legion walked out of the light in Legion #1. It was my desktop wall paper for ages ... They came to reignite hope to the UP.

In Legion of the Damned, when XS breaks free of her "cell" and rescues Imra .... I never liked XS any more than those panels where she runs. And Saturn Girl as well ... reaching out the whole time to someone in order to escape.

That's one of my favorite post-boot moments, too.

Another is when Gim realizes he's not cut out to be the leader and turns the reins over to Cosmic Boy. The early reboot was set up with the government interfering in the development of the Legion far than it did in the preboot. Much of this was interference was meant to answer the question, so how could a team of teenaged heroes truly be on their own? (Plus, governments just like to interfere.)

On paper, Gim was the ideal leader: a Science Police officer who had risen through the ranks (due, albeit, to political machinations). But his first mission as Legion leader ended in disaster with one Legionnaire dead.

What makes the Legion unique is that they are young, idealistic heroes who haven't been corrupted by fear and politics (which, sadly, go together more often than not). It was very mature of Gim to realize he wasn't the best choice for leader. This was the beginning of the Legion finding its own way.

The Wildfire-led battle against the Progeny battleships in Legion Lost v.1 #10. I've seen lots of space battles in comics, and that one's definitely in my Top Five.

I had that for my wallpaper for awhile, too. It reminded me of the opening sequence for the Justice League animated series.

I would also put the scene from Legion of Super-heroes #5, where Queen Projectra personally executes Nemesis Kid. Truly badass!

It was mentioned up above, but one of my "WOW!" moments was Live Wire flinging himself into the Element Lad/Omniphagos mess. I had been expecting some sort of heroic sacrifice, but not THAT character. I was suitably impressed.

A squee moment I had recently was re-reading the Computo story in Legion. Brainiac's face when he helps Computo become "enlightened" is really sweet and adorable. The shot of him reaching up to Computo's "hand" is really very pretty. I rolled around on my bed a little bit giggling and squeeing.

Lots of awesome WOW moments mentioned above

Perhaps a lower-key WOW moment, but Kinetix's heartfelt plea to Violet and Spark to turn away from the Anomaly in LSH 113 was a satisfying moment for me, since she FINALLY got over her pwoer lust. I just wish the story had had more impact.

Although Umbra almost single-handedly took down the rejects in Legionnaires 44 by herself, she didn't truly wow me until the Legion 24 when she returned to Talok VIII and not only took control of her darkfield again, but led the planet to restore contact with the UP. Really showed how she'd matured and outgrown her old xenophobic and narrow-minded views.

God knows I've said this before on this message board, but my favourite--emotionally high-impact--Legion moment was in the 5-Year Gap era, when Mon-El destroyed the Time-Trapper with full knowledge that it would destroy his reality and everyone he knew and loved.

The thing was, he did so not only out of absolute conviction that it was the right thing to do, but with utter faith that good people would rise up in any (new) reality to fight for justice and protect the innocent--just as the Legion had always strived to do. Fortunately, it turned out that he was right, and a Legion very similar to his own did, indeed, form and thrive.

The cover to this issue really, really spoke to me, with Mon-El gazing ahead with a look of grim determination and nobility on his face, as if staring off into eternity. (As a matter of fact, the cover was redrawn\reused--out of context, if I recall--sometime a few years ago because it was so good/powerful.)

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Other than this, two other very small Legion moments have touched me almost as deeply over the years. In the Legionairres book set on 'New Earth' I loved it whenever Vi acted like the young, innocent, and simple teenaged girl that she was meant to be; longing over boys and figuring out life (and perhaps her own sexuality?). And in the Reboot Legion, I loved the class that Monstress and Projectra showed--especially the time that they were discussing the saying of a small prayer of thanks to the animals they ate for sustenance.

When I was just getting into the Legion, one of the things that really impressed me was the full-page splash of the Time Trapper shouting YOU DARE!

I've sad it before, but that shot of Superboy and Supergirl punching Darkseid together in the final part of GDS remains an iconic moment for me in comics to this day.

Rokk facing down Mordru over Elvabird breast during 5YL.

Even with the team disbanded and him stripped of his powers he showed the power that even the suggestion of the Legion holds in the universe.

The Dark Man was Tharok!

The mysterious Lord of Darkness took out the Time Trapper, Mordru and Mon-el in a single issue.

I'll second the "YOU DARE!" moment in the Time Trapper - Conspiracy issue.

I'll offer our first view of Weber's World, at the beginning of Earthwar, and Sensor Girl/Projectra's total beat-down on the Persuader at the end of the Empress's Fatal Five story.

^^This.

Also, the first full shot of the SW6 team.

Opening scene of Legion Worlds: Monel and Tarok falling out of the sky.

Abnett-Lanning-Lightle's Umbra issue was pretty much an entire "wow" for me.

and my first "wow"

Karate Kid flipping Superboy.

"The Fatal Five Who Twisted Time"
Karate Kid sneaked up on the Emerald Eye
and smashed it with one blow!
But the Eye reformed from its shards until
it becomes whole in all its emerald glory.
The Empress saying, "You are hopelessly beaten"

Wow!

One of my favorite moments from one of my favorite Legion stories ever.

Two big moments come to mind, specifically from Eye for an Eye--Karate Kid's last stand against Nemesis Kid, and then Princess Projectra snapping Nemesis Kid's neck in revenge and when her teammates are horrified by it, the now-queen replies, ”I executed a condemned man as is my royal privilege. Dare any of you to call me wrong.” Holy CRAP.

Also, in the early issues of DnA's the Legion, when the villain was revealed...that made this guy who started out as a HUGE Batman fanboy really happy.

That was a classic. A powerful death for Karate Kid, fighting an 'unbeatable' foe, and yet choosing to go out on his own terms, winning the 'war' to save Orando at the cost of his own life, and a real stand-up-and-be-noticed moment for Projectra, who would never be the fainting princess or damsel in distress in need of rescue again.

Despite Karate Kid being one of my favorite Legionnaires, I thought his death was effective and dramatic and respectful, and so it felt like a strong ending to his personal story.

On a related note, Postboot Cosmic Boy did that when the Legion was chasing after "President McCauely"; the guards were saying they wouldn't be bullied by superpowered vigilantes. Cos goes, "My power is natural to all Braalians... and I'm not trying to impress you with it. I'm trying to impress you THIS." And he shows his Legion flight ring.

Awesome.

Monstress and Shikari jumping down to rescue Preogeny captives in Legion Lost 2, right after Shikari comforts poor Monstress about her sad past, was a great moment too.

As was Kid Quantum II and Element Lad stubbornly refusing to give up even as the rift was swallowing them up in LSH 125.

My wow moment was basically a throwaway panel that reveale that Brin was as strong as he was, like second tier behind the kryptonians, Daxamites, and Jo.