Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes Splitting the Legion into two teams

I like what "Set" said about splitting the Legion into two teams in the Legion #8 thread. Which creates the question who would you like to see on which teams?

The Milky Way galaxy is big enough for both teams or even base the other team in another galaxy (e.g. Andromeda galaxy) creating a 2nd team with whole new villains and problems. Here is a roster for two teams.

LSH #1
01) Bouncing Boy
02) Brainiac 5
03) Colossal Boy
04) Dawnstar
05) Dr. Fate
06) Element Lad
07) Gates (Creation of teleportation "gates")
08) Gear (Can interface with and modify computers and machinery)
09) Harmonia (Elemental)
10) Ferro Lad
11) Invisible Kid
12) Kinetix (Ability to control the molecular structure of objects, enabling her to animate and reshape them)
13) Kono (Mass-shifting powers allow her to turn herself and others immaterial or super-dense)
14) Lightning Lad
15) Monster Boy
16) Neon (ancient Green Lantern energies)
17) Quiset (Energy being possessing the ability to inhabit and animate inanimate objects)
18) Saturn Girl
19) Soultaker
20) Sun Boy
21) Superboy
22) Supergirl
23) Thunder (powers equivalent to those of Captain Marvel)
24) Triplicate Girl
25) XS
26) Wildfire

LSH #2

01) Andromeda (Daxam powers)
02) Blok
03) Chameleon Boy
04) Chemical King (Control over the rate of chemical reactions)
05) Computo (Can interface with computers and machinery)
06) Cosmic Boy
07) Dragonmage (Spellcasting)
08) Dream Girl
09) Gold Lantern
10) Impulse (aka Kent Shakespeare - super-strength, enhanced durability and speed, medical knowledge)
11) Karate Kid
12) Kid Quantum (Ability to cast stasis fields)
13) Light Lass
14) Matter-Eater Lad
15) Mon-el
16) Phantom Girl
17) Polar Boy
18) Princess Projectra
19) Shadow Lass
20) Shikari (Pathfinding, ability to generate biological armor and claws, flight)
21) Shrinking Violet
22) Star Boy
23) Tellus (Telepathy and telekinesis)
24) Timber Wolf
25) Ultra Boy
26) White Witch

This is a good topic... I will have to think about it more before I can share my teams. I would try to divide the team based on a mix of powers and personalities... I tried doing it and found I was bound by preconceptions on relationships, friendships and the like.

Similarly, I'd want to divide them up so as not to split up some couples, but also as to force some Legionnaires to interact more with people *other* than their usual chums. So while I wouldn't break up Jo and Tinya, I *would* want to put Shady and Mon on the other team, so that they can't 'clique' quite as much, and all of them have to interact more with people of their comfort zone.

And yeah, powers might tie into it as well. Some, like Tyroc, don't really work with a deep space team (no sound in space...). Others, like Dawnstar, thrive there, and are kind of 'cooped up' when stuck planetside.

Not a bad idea, but you really need 2 regular series for this to work.

A lot depends on how easy it is to travel between the base of operations of the two teams. If it's nearly instantaneous it almost doesn't make any difference from having a single team, from a narrative standpoint.

If it takes a while, it creates some interesting dynamics... some Legionnaires could push to be put in the same team of their romantic interest; it'd be easy to create a contrast between "what's best for us" and "what's best for the Legion".
I could see assigning Brainiac 5 the task of making a list of who would be the most efficient in which group, and then let someone like Saturn Girl make the necessary adjustments taking into account each personality and not just the powers (you know Brainy would mess that up).


Having those two in the same team kind of defeats the purpose of splitting the team, doesn't it? I think it's better to separate them, otherwise Supergirl inevitably ends up playing second fiddle to Superboy.
I would have her and Andromeda switch places.



It's been ages since I've read Tyroc, but was it really a limitation that we've been shown? I know that logically his powers SHOULDN'T work in space, but then we have Superboy using super-breath in space.....

Tyroc's first appearance in the Retroboot was in space. I always wondered, if his powers were more like making things vibrate, he could work in space.

^^The weird thing was that Levitz always used the "powers won't work in space" excuse for not using Tyroc in his earlier runs, then coming back to writing a team with Tyroc, rather than trying to work around the limitation, he just ignored it.

I tried to split the team into two, but I kept defaulting to thinking of the team that I created in my fanfic... needless to say, I got far but I didn't think it made sense to share it!

What I think my ideal two teams would be:

LSH #1 - Earth centric

01) Bouncing Boy
02) Brainiac 5
03) Chameleon Boy
04) Chemical King
05) Colossal Boy
06) Computo
07) Cosmic Boy
08) Element Lad
09) Gates
10) Gear
11) Ferro Lad
12) Invisible Kid
13) Karate Kid
14) Kinetix
15) Lightning Lad
16) Princess Projectra
17) Saturn Girl
18) Shrinking Violet
19) Superboy -reserve-
20) Supergirl -reserve-
21) Thunder -reserve-
22) Triplicate Girl
23) XS


LSH #2 - More distant edges of United Planets

01) Andromeda
02) Blok
03) Dawnstar
04) Dream Girl
05) Kid Quantum
06) Kono
07) Light Lass
08) Matter-Eater Lad
09) Mon-el
10) Phantom Girl
11) Polar Boy
12) Quislet
13) Shadow Lass
14) Shikari
15) Star Boy
16) Sun Boy
17) Tellus
18) Timber Wolf
19) Ultra Boy
20) White Witch
21) Wildfire

Team 1/Earth centric team would probably be a lot of stability/politics with just about the full Legion Espionage Squad on call to keep tabs on subtle things with the option to call on the Super children or Captain Marvel variant as needed.

Team 2 would be more covering the wilds of space and trying to deal with whatever pops up (Dominators, Khunds, natural occurances ). Lots of power and flexibility.

Nice mix of Preboot and Reboot there!