Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes Long Live the Legion! "Our devotion to each other was unexplainable"

I think a lot of us can relate. I have to say, that 'rebel without a cause/street smart Jo' helped influence how I acted a little, probably b/c I wanted to date girls that were like Tinya (early reboot Tinya.

Yes, Cobie ----------> girl crazy from day one.

I hear the nurses in the delivery room filed a sexual harrassment suit.

Actually, the motivations of the characters in the original "wandholding" ritual in 1963 were quite explainable. Most of them had fairly clear-cut reasons for wanting to risk his/her life, whether it was strong affection for the deceased (Light Lass, Sun Boy), feelings of responsibility for having sent him to his death (Mon-El) or guilt (Saturn Girl). As the star of the show, Superboy could not *not* be there, and Cham was a part of the needed plot device.

It never entered my mind that it had anything to do with team-wide "devotion" to one another. Would Cosmic Boy have willingly volunteered to hold a wand? I'm not so sure. When Ayla disguised herself as Garth come back from the dead, Cos's first impulse was to get "him" expelled from the team.

That the sacrifice has now become a symbol for a degree of team devotion and unity that did not exist at the time seems a bit strange to me.

Even though I grew up with the postZH Legion, that line still brought a tear to my eye.

I dunno about the lack of camaraderie then, since I haven't read everything, but the Legion did squabble from time to time. Remember when Cham did the whole suicide squad on Khundia thing in the middle of the Levitz run? And of course Star Boy's expulsion. *shrug* maybe we're overanalyzing. But the Legion always seemed to pull together despite all this stuff.

I think one of the things that makes the Legion so special is that they started out their heroic careers a) as pioneers (they were the first heroes of their era, pretty much) and b) they started out as a team/members of a team, instead of the JSA or JLA who had solo careers first. I think this would add a lot to the devotion they felt for each other.