Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes Long Live the Legion! "Lemno's" ... is that supposed to be (possible spoiler, so be careful)

Okay, just in case, and if it has been mentioned elsewhere, sorry, but...


Re-arrange Lemno and you get Monel. I mean, he was Legionairre Lemon at one time.

So, are we gonna have a new, war between the silver age legion members in this new reboot reality?

I'm sure I'm not the first to see it, but i haven't read every thread, either. So, if thats the case, will we be seeing all out war between the two groups with them destined to be against each other the entire run of the reboot, or will we see one group come around to the other's point of view?

Or, will both groups wind up teaming up to fight some larger conspiracy, say the new "crisis" thingie?

Any thoughts?

I've seen other people mentioned this possibility, but I don't understand how they are connecting Lemnos with M'Onel (or Mon-El). I don't get it.

Besides what Rick already mentioned above (Monel once being Legionnaire Lemon and Lemnos being another form of rearranging the letters), when he's shown on panel he appears to be bathed in redlight as if he is being kept under a red sun.

As for the 's' in Lemnos not fitting, well it does for me. I think there is more than one, a number of clones. All 'Monels'.

Also Lemnos appears only under red lights. His powers may be an anagram as well. Mon-El was rendered "normal" under the red lights. Remember last series Ghul beating him to a pulp under the red solar radiation.

Waid may have flipped the switch. It would be consistent with the slight depowering of the Legion members. Element Lad has to touch. Ultra Boy has problems with control, etc.

Lemnos may have powers only under a red sun not a yellow sun. In other words in their solar system Daxamites are very powerful but in ours they are ordinary beings. Imagine Lemnos battling the Legion with his own power supply of red radiation? I can already get a cool visual of roaming red sun lamps like Mr. Terrific's T-spheres. Or parts of his costume glowing red. This would also be consistent with the glowing costumes. I kinda like the limitation on Mon-El...erm...Lemnos.

Or it may all be a red herring.

Hi-Risk von Tingle!!

M'Onelvs?

Anyway, I'm thinking more along the lines of a descendent of Lar Gand rather than *the* Lar Gand who, as we all know, is heroic. (Unless Infinite Crisis really is a reboot, in which case we don't know anything about him.) The other alternative is that his time in the Phantom/Buffer/Stasis Zone changed him in a big way.

Let's not forget, "Lemnos" is an anagram of "Melons" - something to think about...

Yes, when thinking of Dream girl, lol.

Are you all suggesting the Lemnos is a transsexual?!

now THAT would be twist!!!

M'Onelvis has left the building.

Eh, its been done. The real twist would be to tell great, straight up Legion stories. (And the "straight up" doesn't refer to sexual preference.)

I don't know if the legion can ever recapture the magic of the first Levitz/Giffen era on legion, but it is sorely missed.

http://www.myrine.at/Lemnos/lemnos.html
http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/Lemnos.html

Maybe Mr. Waid is smarter than we're giving him credit for? Ever consider the possibility that discussion of a red herring may be the real red herring?
Double-think makes my head hurt.

According to legend the Greek island of Lemnos was the home of the Amazons according to an account I was just reading. There was a lot of speculation pre-launch about possible legacy characters in the future of the DCU. Might we be seeing some connection here?

The possibility that Lemnos is Mon-el is getting more and more distant. I can't see Lar discussung slaughter for any reason...at least not the Lar we know.

Does this twist things in yet ANOTHER direction?
"Curioser and curioser"

Maybe it's re-imagined Dev-Em. He wasn't such a nice guy in the 20th Century. Maybe he ended up in the Phantom Zone, hung around with some other criminal types, and came out badder than ever.

There's a thought. I just noticed the name Klarkev while reading through the issue. Another possible reimagined character? Klark-Ev?

Although I was one of the first posters in another thread to voice a suspicion that Lemnos might really be Mon-El, there are two flies in this particular ointment: 1) the hairstyle doesn't really look like Mon-El's (he always parted his hair to the side, didn't he?); and 2) the miscellaneous "s" in a Lemnos/Mon-El anagram (but I did like Lightning Lad's theory that the "s" would be appropriate if Mon-El had been cloned).

I'm really just playing the devil's advocate here, though, because I still think that Lennos might, indeed, be Mon-El.

Mon-El immediately came to my mind when I first read the name "Lemnos". The name seems too goofy to be anything else but an anagram or a red-herring of one.

The fact that the character is a white bread humanoid also lends credence to it being Mon-El.

I enjoyed L#5, but two disappointments were that "Lemnos" is a Cosmic Boy look-alike, and T-Wolf is a Ultra-Boy/Colossal Boy lookalike. What about a white streak in the hair or sideburns for Brin? If Lemnos IS Mon-El, or not, how about a more, distinct look?

I don't mind more distinctive looks, as long as they don't repeat the "shaggy DA" look.

Actually, LEMNOS stands for

Lads
Eating
Matter
Not
Organic
Stuff

Looks like the re-imagined Matter-Eater Lad is going to be a LOT less jovial.

Clearly "Lemnos"'s being constantly bathed in dim, red light is to hide the fact that he needs to wear shades in natural sunlight!

I read this last issue yesterday, and I immediately thought of Mon-El(s).

Mark what are you doing? Bring back the phantom daxamite yesterday!!!

Not that I'm against distinct looks or anything, but I hated the look T-Wolf had in the TMK-era and the reboot. I always thought it made him look a lot older than he was supposed to be. I could do without a white streak. Let's save it for Jacques.