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So I had this dream in which I was reading a new Legion series, and it featured a Legion composed of about 100 members. These included some former villains and also some completely unfamiliar characters. I enjoyed the dream so much that, on waking up, I decided to compose a list of the possible membership of a 100-person Legion. And here it is:

THE LEGION OF 100 SUPER-HEROES
1. Andromeda
2. Atmos
3. Babbage
4. Beauty Blaze
5. Blok
6. Blood Claw
7. Bouncing Boy
8. Brainiac 5
9. Calamity King
10. Canine Boy (Cannus)
11. Captain Marvel Jr. (Thunder)
12. Catspaw Lass
13. Chameleon Boy
14. Chemical King
15. Chlorophyll Kid
16. Color Kid
17. Colossal Boy
18. Comet Queen
19. Computo (Danielle)
20. Cosmic Boy
21. Crystal Kid
22. Dawnstar
23. Dragon Lad (Dragonmage)
24. Drama Queen (Yera)
25. Dream Boy
26. Dream Girl
27. Duplicate Boy
28. Element Lad
29. Emerald Empress (Cera Kesh)
30. Esper Lass
31. Evolvo Lad
32. Ferro Lad
33. Fire Lad
34. Firefist
35. Flat Lad (Ron-Karr)
36. Flederweb
37. Gas Girl
38. Gates
39. Gear
40. Teen Lantern (Jordana Gardner)
41. Impulse Kid
42. Infectious Lass
43. Inferno Girl
44. Insect Queen
45. Invisible Kid (Lyle)
46. Karate Kid (Val)
47. Kid Flash (Jenni)
48. Kid Quantum (Jazmin)
49. Kinetic Kid (Zoe)
50. Kono Girl
51. Lamprey Lass
52. Life Lass
53. Light Lass
54. Lightning Lad
55. Magnetic Kid
56. Matter-Eater Lad
57. Mentalla
58. Mon-El
59. Monster Lass
60. Nemesis Kid
61. Neon Girl (Celeste)
62. Network Lass (Theena)
63. Nightwind
64. Orion the Hunter
65. Phantom Girl
66. Polar Boy
67. Porcupine Pete
68. Power Boy (Jed Rikane)
69. Quislet
70. Radiation Roy
71. Reflex Boy (Devlin)
72. Rond Vidar
73. Saturn Girl
74. Sensor Girl
75. Shadow Lass
76. Shikari
77. Shrinking Violet
78. Silver Slasher
79. Spider Girl
80. Splitter Lad (Arm-Fall-Off Boy)
81. Star Boy
82. Stone Boy
83. Sun Boy
84. Superboy (Clark)
85. Supergirl (Kara)
86. Superman-X (Kel-El)
87. Super-Monkey (Beppo)
88. Tellus
89. Timber Wolf
90. Titania
91. Triplicate Girl
92. Tyroc
93. Ultra Boy
94. Urk (little gray guy from the Academy)
95. Veilmist
96. Visi-Lad
97. Weirdo Legionnaire (Proty II)
98. White Witch
99. Wildfire
100. Zymyr
101. Night Girl
102. Invincible Girl (Laurel Kent)
103. Plaid Lad
104. Dev-Em
105. Devil-Fish
106. Quantum Queen

Who did I miss? If the Legion's membership could be this large, which other characters should be included?

Missing: Calorie Queen, Shadow Lad, Magno, and Elasti-Lad (Jimmy Olsen).

Maybe some of the Wanderers. Night Girl. I have an idea for how Plaid Lad could be a really cool character. I always thought Aqualad was a good candidate for traveling to the 31st century and joining up. Kon-El. And I'd rather substitute new characters for some of your villains and less plausible rejects.

I don't even have to review your list (though I will shortly) to say that I would LOVE such a thing. The more the merrier. Sure, many members might not be seen for a year or so at a time, but better than NEVER being seen at ALL. WOW. I'd love it.

Just the other day I was looking at some of my pseudocomics I drew as a kid (yes, I've kept them all these years... I'm thinking of making fun of them over in the BITS forum) and one thing I always seemed to do was have GOBS of characters running around.

Now to review your list and condemn you for leaving out someone I love!

Well, you included Infectious Lass and Super-Monkey, so no complaints here! Although I prefer Lamprey as a lass!

And I *SO* wanna here the Plaid Lad proposal!

The exclusion of Night Girl was a mistake -- I thought I wrote her name down but I guess not. And I forgot Lamprey was female.

I, too, would like to hear more about Plaid Lad.

(EDIT: I also forgot about Laurel Gand.)

It's a real "Dream" Legion. And I love that little guy..."Urk?" Maybe those "flying fish" Legion Academy Cadets, too? A few more non-humanoid members would be cool! I'd also like "Lume". He(?) was very different and looked quite beautiful and serene. I'm sure he'd become great friends with Mysa.

Wait, you have both Andromeda and Laurel Gand? What's up with that? Two that I'd really like to include: Jacques Foccard (perhaps with different, Jericho-like powers) and Lazon, my favorite LSA member.

Wow, one hundred members and we are still complaining that some people are left out. Fun, though.

Rainbow Girl's "updated" power (splitting in 4 different forms with a special power for each form) would be great too. I don't know how I forgot Dori, especially after using her as inspiration for some fan art I made!!

You mean Laurel *Kent*, right, not Laurel Gand?

Well, my idea for Plaid Lad is this. Here's a guy who knows he has lame powers, but he's still a superhero at heart and wants to contribute. So he joins Toastmasters and takes courses on public speaking and etiquette and political science and basically schools himself in the ways of diplomacy. (And of course he's become more expert in physical combat. But all Legionnaires are supposed to do that, right?)

Now he's like the Legion's ambassador. He's charismatic and likeable and gets along with everybody. If the Legion needs someone to smooth things out with Earthgov, Plaid Lad is their man. If some loose cannon has barricaded himself in a room with some hostages and a gun, Plaid Lad can calm him down and defuse the situation. Any time the Legion wants to apply a light touch to a situation, they can send in Plaid Lad. Not necessarily alone!

And eventually he and the other Legionnaires come to realize that his power is more than just a pretext to have him on the team. It really does help him out a little bit. Because it means that he understands patterns on a deep level. He can, for instance, sight-read binary. Some (not all) of the most unbreakable codes are completely transparent to him. 21st-century bar codes, for instance, would be like see-Spot-run stuff as far as he's concerned. Basically, he'd be as smart as Brainy for anything involving patterns (even patterns involving human behaviour). And his powers would also let him visually present this kind of information, not that this would often be really useful.

That sound good to anyone?

It sounds very good and original, proving that when one has your imagination and creativity even the "lamest" power and "character" can become a great addition to the Legion! In only a few words: I love it!

How come Andromeda, Atmos, Babbage, Blok, B5, Gates and Gear (amongst others) get to keep their names, but poor XS gets The Worst Name Ever, and Inferno, Thunder, Dragonmage, Kinetix and others get downgraded to bad names?

Oops, I meant Laurel Kent, not Gand. I fixed it. I also added Plaid Lad.

Amp Girl, and the infamous Floating Fox-Like Creature Boy.

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Original-recipe Dev-Em?

Oh, and Devil-Fish! Gotta have Devil-Fish.

I agree with reboot in that I would prefer Kinetix, Thunder, Inferno and others keep their non-lad/lass/boy/girl/kid names.


But props on making the list and including peoplelike Babbage, Theena and others. Sweet!

Lallor hero Beast Boy.

Wanderers: I nominate Quantum Queen and Re-animage because of their unique powers.

Particon and Radion, former Workforce members.

Here's my 100 member list
1.Absorbancy Boy
2.Andromeda
3.Blok
4.Bouncing Boy
5.Brainiac 5
6.Calamity King
7.Calorie Queen
8.Chameleon Boy
9.Chemical King
10.Chlorophyll Kid
11.Color Kid
12.Colossal Boy
13.Comet Queen
14.Computo
15.Cosmic Boy
16.Crystal Kid
17.Dawn Allen
18.Dawnstar
19.Dev-Em
20.Don Allen
21.Douglas Nolan
22.Dream Girl
23.Duplicate Boy
24.Elastic Lad
25.Element Lad
26.Evolvo Lad
27.Ferro Lad
28.Fire Lad
29.Gas Girl
30.Infectious Lass
31.Insect Queen
32.Invisible Kid I
33.Invisible Kid II
34.Karate Kid I
35.Kid Psycho
36.Lamprey
37.Laurel Kent
38.Lazon
39.Life Lass
40.Lightning Lad
41.Light Lass
42.Matter-Eater Lad
43.Mentalla
44.Molecule Master
45.Mon-El
46.Nemisis Kid
47.Neutrax
48.Night Girl
49.Nightwind
50.Phantom Girl
51.Polar Boy
52.Porcupine Pete
53.Princess Projectra
54.Psyche
55.Quake Kid
56.Quantum Queen
57.Questar
58.Quicksand
59.Quislet
60.Radiation Roy
61.Re-Animage
62.Reflecto
63.Rond Vidar
64.Saturn Girl
65.Shadow Lass
66.Shrinking Violet
67.Shvaughn Erin
68.Silver Slasher
69.Spider Girl
70.Star Boy
71.Stone Boy
72.Storm Boy
73.Sun Boy
74.Superboy
75.Supergirl
76.Tellus
77.Timber Wolf
78.Titania
79.Triplicate Girl
80.Tyr
81.Tyroc
82.Ultra Boy
83.Veilmist
84.White Witch
85.Wildfire

Darn I ran out of characters guess I'll have to compromise.

86.Kent Shakespeare
87.Celeste Rockfish
88.Devlin O'Ryan
89.Kono
90.Monica Sade
91.Catspaw
92.Dragonmage
93.Kid Quantum
94.Thunder
95.Gear
96.Gates
97.Kinetix
98.X-S
99.Shikari
100.Monstress

How about Hate Face? Maybe Teen Lantern, or Princess Xenobia?

I added a few more characters, and replaced Cary Wren with Teen Lantern, who I had totally forgotten about.

Princess Xenobia might also be a good choice, but I have yet to read that issue.

Maybe I reviewed the lists too quickly,MYG... (Karate Kid II)?

How about a new Dynamo Boy or Girl. Echo?
I like the idea of the original Wanderers, the Substitute Heroes, as well as the Heroes of Lallor joining. I would also like to see a 31st century teen New God in the mix.

Ironically, I for my part always felt that XS WAS The Worst Name Ever... it was her character and crappy code-name that made me hate the Reboot instantly. Talk about a bad start - you just can't undo it...

I never cared for the name "XS" either.

And I'm nominating Rainbow Girl again. She didn't just make pretty colors, guys!