Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes Long Live the Legion! Which of Luornu's bodies was killed by Computo?

I know, the purple-neutral-orange shtick didn't surface till many years later, but it seems to me that their was clear evidence of Lu's three personalities before that.

And given her unstability, I'd say it was "neutral" who was killed leaving "Duo Damsel" to be composed of "orannge" and "purple".

It was purple-Duo Damsel who ran off with that space-gigolo (can't remember his name) and orange-DD who stayed with the safe nice-guy Chuck.

When Superboy was forced to leave the Legion "forever" for tax reasons, it was purple who snuck off to kiss him before he left. Orange most likely ran home to cry into her pillow or something.

I can't think of any othe examples right now, but I'm sure there's plenty.

There was textpage during TMK, a supplement to the main story in 41 or 42, where Lu's second body turns up as Glorith's slave-- where we see an entry in the surviving Lus' diary after the first Computo story.

One personality ("Purple") was angry and resentful that the Legionnaires seemed more concerned with rescuing members besides her third body, while the other surviving Lu ("Orange") was almost apologist for them.

So that would seem to bear out your theory that the Lu that died was the core, "Neutral" body.

Personally, I think it was Maxene.

This is all retrofitting though. In Act. 380, Chuck asks Luronu which of her bodies is the "real me". DD says herself that both of her bodies are exactly alike. No difference. It is Nam'lor's energy aura that turns one of her bodies temporarily evil.

I don't think there's any evidence of her having different personalities before or after this story until the TMK era when they retrofitted the split personalities in. Not that I mind. I think it made her a more interesting character, I just don't think there's any evidence of it in the actual stories.

Yeah, the multiple personalities thing was completely a TMK invention.

And I don't like it.

For once I agree with Eryk. I don't like the multiple personality Lu at all, never have.

Let's follow this through to it's logical conclusion: it means everyone on Cargg should have multiple personalities. Imagine the chaos that should take place as a result of that.

And while we're at it, why does Winath have such a small population? If two people are born (almost) every time there's a pregnancy, why doesn't it have a steady population explosion? They're doubling up every time.

I think I recall, once they firmly established Lu's multiple personalities, that they also said it made her an extreme rarity among the Cargggites. Wasn't it one of the reasons she came to Earth in the first place, she didn't fit in at home?

As for Winath, if twins are as common as depicted, I'd think that the average number of *pregancies* per woman would be half or less than on other human-populated planets.

I prefer the multiple personalities angle, but only when they're not grossly exaggerated. I think it gives her more character.

Then again, I started reading Legion in the TMK era, so maybe some of it has to do with the version of the characters that you're first acquainted with.

Lu was said to be an 'abnormality' because of her different personalities so I don't think Carggg would have too much of a problem that way. I think it was explained because of her heritage (Bgztl/Carggg).

As for Winath I would think either pregnancies are rarer or maybe the pregancies just take longer. Perhaps they have the gestation period similar to an African elephant.

Either way would help to explain the difference in the ages of Garth/Ayla and Mekt.

Lu is not half Bgztlian. That was the explanation for Apparition/Phase's multiple bodies last boot, replacing the previous PG and Phase are identical cousins mess, which replaced the previous PG was stranded in the past with amnesia by Glorith and took the new name Phase nonsense. Sigh. It was simpler in the old days befoe Crisis and Zero Hour and all these other damned "events."

I don't think there's much of an age difference between the Ranzz twins and Mekt either. Mekt just has white hair because of a fight with Garth which turned his red hair white.

Do'h! Of course it was Tinya, not Lu.

I wasn't basing the age difference between the Ranzz' on Mekt's hair (I know about the fight) but on other stories, like Legion Worlds #2) where he is shown at least 2 years or more older. Never have found a mention of how much but family photos make me assume at least 2 if not more years. I'm two years older than my younger brother but you'd never see me carrying him around like Mekt did Ayla.

Scott, try not to let slips like that happen again okay. I've got this whole idol worhsip thing goig on, and I can afford to lose another faith.

My only excuse is I'm recovering from bronchitis and am doped up on cough medicine.

Ah, cough medicine ... opium for the miseries.

Regarding Lu: I think KidChaos' theory is interesting, although the evidence is rather slight. I almost wish that the creators had thought of giving the Lu's bodies different personalities in the Silver Age. It would have made her character much more interesting by giving her an internal conflict beyond her crush on Superboy.

Like Stu, I preferred Lu's multiple personalities of the reboot era. One of my favorite scenes was when Lu's confessed that part of her regarded Ferro as not too bright, which prompted him to stand up for himself and end his friendship with her. That scene would not have been possible (or at least as convincing) with the preboot Lu.

Two years is a big age difference between siblings? You must be Catholic.

Devil's advocate:
A preboot Lu with multiples, growing up in a conformist society, could have been under much more pressure to be normal than her more rebellious reboot selves were. She may have been lying to herself, not just Chuck.

Hell no! Agnostic, thank you very much. Keep your organized religions to yourself.

Actually grew up in predominately LDS areas of Nevada so 2 years is a big gap between children. Normal ages differences are in the 10 month to 16 month range.

I still say that if there was not at least 5 years difference in the Ranzz' ages then either Mekt was larger than normal for his age or the twins were smaller than normal.

He was larger... he ate his twin!

I'm sure Imra can vouch for Garth being "smaller than normal"...

No wonder she didn't mind Proty's replacement...

This threw me. I've got six siblings, and most of us have a difference of about 12 months.

We were raised Catholic, and when the Lutherans in MN first heard there were seven kids, they presumed we were Catholic. Which I never understood having gone to a parochial school. When we moved to MN and had sex ed (?!?!) then I figured it out.

As for the Ranzzses (sp), I'd gotten the impression from the DnA run that that Mekt was a few years older. That he had time to appreciate his difference from the rest of Winnath, before getting the sibs.