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Warning: may involve rampant speculation. Do not take too seriously.

Element Lad and Dream Girl: in SLSH #230, Element Lad addresses Dream Girl as "Beautiful" twice. When she later assumes Legion leadership, he hardly has a good word to say about her; in fact, he's hostile. Annoyed because he hoped to be leader? I think not. A rejected romantic overture back around #230 was surely at the root of this.

Brainiac 5 and Invisible Kid: the objects of much speculation post-boot. However, in the pre-boot Universo Project, Saturn Girl delves into Brainiac 5's mind and sees an image of... Invisible Kid! Of all the legionnaires, why him? Regrets over Lyle's death? Or was he harbouring unacknowledged affection even way back then?

Spark and Chameleon: They were such a cute couple! Too bad they apparently never got back together after Legion Lost.

XS and Cosmic Boy: She had a crush. He didn't catch the clues or was not interested.

Computo and the adult Reep: There were hints, but it never got off the ground.

Colossosal Boy and Shrinking Violet: He wanted it bad, but she was devoted to Duplicate Boy.

Apparition and Timber Wolf: Brin was all ready to step in as surrogate dad, but Jo turned out to be alive after all.

And then, in reboot, SHE wanted it bad, but he went and got killed. And now 3boot Vi's beating up his gay brother.

This non-relationship belongs on Springer or something.

XS and Magno: They had a date but nothing more came of it. Probably for the best, you can't trust a man in pink...

Vi and Ferro: There was something there, I thought, but they were both too shy!

Ferro and Inferno: He was nice to her, she called him a pervert.

Umbra & M'Onel - she certainly wanted him, and they may or may not have gone on a date while the others were on Summer World, but nothing doing long-term.

Superboy and the Emerald Empress: not for lack of her trying. Possibly the model for the Valor-Glorith romance.

I'm surprised this one hasn't been mentioned. Could it be that we've convinced ourselves that it was for real?

Condo & Lyle Perhaps the relationship that generated the most speculation. Were they an item? More than just friends? Was Condo the mysterious "C" on the message? We may never know for sure because it was never developed in any boot.

Matter-Eater Lad & Shrinking Violet: Remember that Hughes-drawn issue of LEGIONNAIRES set on the Atlantis dome of New Earth? Once again, Violet let a far-away semi-boyfriend keep her from a fella who was crazy for her.

Who was the long-distance boyfriend she was referring to? Was it Duplicate Boy? (And if so, did she seriously think he was still her boyfriend?)

In "The Revolt of the Girl Legionnaires", the girls were conniving but the boys were dead serious!

Element Lad and Light Lass -- Jan was genuinely thrilled when Ayla kissed him.

Star Boy and Phantom Girl -- Could Tinya have made Thom forget Dream Girl? Maybe not, but he certainly seemed eager.

Brainiac 5, Cosmic Boy and Invisible Kid all dated Triplicate Girl but I can't see any romances blooming from here.

Superboy couldn't run away fast enough when Saturn Girl tried to kiss him, but as an adult he was all too happy to kiss her under the mistletoe, twice.

Sir Tim, the semi-boyfriend at this time was Devlin O'Ryan, the new Reflecto.

Dare I mention Irma and Proty?

Lana Lang & Star Boy: Ok Lana was just trying to make Superboy jealous and Star Boy was involved with Zynthia at the time.

Jimmy Olsen and Phantom Girl, Triplicate Girl, & Saturn Girl (I think): Jimmy was visiting the Legion and Lucy Lane was supposed to be watching through a time viewer (but she fell asleep). Three girl Legionnaires feign interest in Jimmy to make Lucy jealous. Jimmy bought the routine and thought they were actually interested in him.

Blok & The White Witch: Did this go anywhere?

Me and Phantom Girl! Couldn't she hear my pre-pre-pre-pubescent innocent longings for her through the comics page?!?!

Chameleon Boy and heiress Janice Warren from the Action back-ups.

You must have come from the innocent and sweet end of town. My Ma would yell at me for holding the book up in the air to try and see under Violet's dress.

Not to mention Princess Elwinda, and I seem to recall he had at least one other girlfriend who only appeared once. Has Reep ever had a romance that did go anywhere?

Vi and Tenz also went out in an issue of the Action Comics run. They were just friends who were commiserating. Tenz was having family problems and Vi missed Duplicate Boy. Of course, when Qued saw them together, he jumped to the wrong conclusion and acted like a jerk, as usual.

"He's so brilliant...strong-willed...proud, handsome...and so logical! Maybe if he had a little less logic, he'd have realized why I came!


"She's so foolhardy...frail and beautiful! The way she stares at me with those dark eyes, as if...BAH! illogical!"

Violet and Chuck dated back in the Archie Legion. I thought that was a nice moment.

We should see more dating - bring back the computer kissing contest machine.

I think you mean Ambassador Jeryl. Pink skin with fins instead of hair. In Who's Who, it states that she kept away from him after his Khund invasion stunt, watching out for her political career.

That's what I'm screamin'!

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I guess nobody mentioned it: Saturn Girl and Timber Wolf in "A cold and lonely corner of hell" #289... it was just before the Great Darkness struck that Chameleon Boy went on this wild goose chase to Khundia dragging Brin and Salu (Yera?) with him...

They crashlanded after Imra and Gim saved them, resulting in Gim and Salu cuddling and Brin holding Imra in his arms... well nothing really happened, but Ayla arrived at the exact intimate moment... and in the end, the relationship between Brin and Ayla never got over this. Those were the 80s

I just loved those first Levitz stories - those personal tidbits were exactly what made his run so very rich, his characters so alive. Exactly what WaKs Legion nowadays is missing.

With all that cleavage around (Salu! Tinya! Dawny! Projectra! Shady! Imra! Well, the latter two changed their costumes soon in the Levitz run...) it was definitely hard to focus on the story as an adolescent... I always wondered why Dream Girl did not wear something more revealing, considering that she was protrayed as the biggest fox out there... was she not jealous of the other girls getting more cleavage attention?