Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes Long Live the Legion! Lo3W: Who would you NOT mind if Supes-Prime killed?

Lori Morning?

Jamm?

Dream Boy?

Ansis?

Holt?

Cub?

Flederweb?

Iresa?

Sinde?

Pete Ross?

Organus

Kid Heavyfeathers? Tina Truth? Nasal Hazel?

Murdermaton?

Himself.

He already killed Krypto once, maybe he can kill some other Super-pets...

Any or all versions of Phantom Girl

Legion On The Run?

Youth against adults?

Monsteress? XS? Gates?

Dan DiDio?

Mike Carlin?

John Byrne?

Even though the context is clearly fictional, I object to the use of this forum to suggest violence be perpetrated against any actual person.*

That said, if Superman Prime beheaded a Didio doppleganger in Final Crisis, I'd LMAO.

*<span style="font-size: 9px;">For the purpose of this post only, I am using the term "an actual person" to refer to Dan Didio.</span>

Sorry all you re-boot and 3boot fans but I have to say anyone who isn't the original.

Doublechinner you missed Mark Waid.

Hopefully he REALLY and FINALLY kills the Time Trapper so we don't have any more of these "retcon/reboot/rejig and it's all the TT's fault" stories.

yeah b/c nothing good has ever come out of comics since 1975...

Dr. Mayavale

Sorry What but the best ever Legion period was the eighties under Levitz. For anyone who enjoyed that period, then the reboot was a creative nightmare - like cancelling Superman, writing off everything and publishing a Smallville comic instead (complete with Afro-American Pete Ross no Lois etc).

Saturn Girl married Lightning Lad... the Legion evolved... and then wham none of it ever happened.
Johns recognizes what I say and is probably going to put right a terrible wrong. Sorry again.

Lori Morning. Definitely.
I never liked Dr. Gymll or the Athramites either.

I second him getting rid of the reboot & threeboot Legions
I've never been able to warm to either version

Whoever decided that superboy did not inspire the legion and gave us the mess that is!(in comic book form only, i don't advocate violence against others...unless i'm doing it.

'Nuff said, by me anyway.

Not Whizzy!

I agree with a lot of what you're saying, but the problem here is that this "evolution" left a lot of great ideas in its wake.

- Shooter created Ferro Lad to die, then we get a glimpse of an interesting, nigh-suicidal Ferro in the SW6.

- Because Condo's powers were hard to convey to the audience of the time, he languished in the background before being cast aside. Literally, the best story about him was told more than a decade after his death!

- Gates, Gear, Xs, and Kinetix, who are all great characters, don't and will not exist because their stories fit into a reboot that some others find distasteful.

- Several characters who aged horribly (Dawnstar and Tyroc spring to mind) could be reworked but won't because their stories are already set in stone.

- The classic Legion, whose origin is tied so closely to Superboy, has already been reworked, and will need to be again

Many problems could be forgiven, but if you can tell a better story, with so much more to work with, then why not?

Off with there heads.

But keep Vi and Ayla from 5YL. Or be enslaved by SBP.


And perhaps the only reason why the best Legion era was the Eighties was that they finally had DC's center stage, with an array of miniseries and spin-offs... plus they had a solid rock by the name of Paul Levitz.

If he had the honour of calling Reboot and Threeboot temporal duplicates, it's certainly Hallelujah by in THIS place!

I don't think any of my all time favorite comic stories involve the death of a superhero...it's not something I really read comics to read about and I think a truly great writer doesn't have to kill a character to write a memorable story. I think killing characters has become a crutch for writers of limited ability or ones that don't want to put the effort in to writing memorable stories. I think killing a character can serve the character well from on rare occassions. If it's a relatively unimportant or unmemorable character, killing them can make them more important or more memorable. But still...not something I really want to see done.

And as a Legion fan I don't really want to see the Legionaires killed even from versions of the Legion I don't like...I don't want to see them erased either. I've been down that path and I wouldn't wish it on anyone...especially fellow Legion fans who tend to develop a personal attatchment to the team and characters.


That said...if I have to choose...


Sneckie, Valor/M'onel...

Or whoever Keith Giffen's favorite Legionaire is(repeatedly).

Off with Superboy-Prime, the worst excuse of a supervillain ever! But I do agree with Superboy (ours): killing characters these days are kind of run-of-the-mill. That's how our society sees death nowadays, IMO, unfortunately. Still, there were a couple of deaths who seemed really special for me, like Superboy (PU) and Barry Allen. Because in these case, they were not simply death, but more like ultimate sacrifices. There was an upbeat side to it.
And, in a certain way, Morrison's death of Martian Manhunter is EXACTLY what is wrong about villainess these days (and I have to congratulate Grant for this slap-in-the-face). It's cheap, senseless, un-heroic. And, as usual, Grant points that out as if it is en passant. Really great stuff, in my opinion.
But back to the topic, I'd get rid of Karate Kid, and every Keith Giffen's hated character. And from Karate Kid's bowels, we would see Gates dead too (she was actually inhabiting KK, making him double boring all this time).

SPOILERS!

Let's see just how many established LSH folks are offed in this mini...
even if Prime isn't doing the actual offing himself...


Lo3W BODY COUNT list


1. RJ Brande

I have a really bad feeling about XS