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 If Gim Allon can take Lalo Muldroon's codename in the reboot, why not reimagine Karate Kid as Mano?
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They'll all be changing their name to Cancelled Kid by issue 24 anyway...
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they all have to have 'boy/girl/lass/lad' code names apparently (the logic is, i'd hazard, that they'll be able to tell the villains by their lack of said code-names -- "oh, Persuader, eh? obviously a villain", etc.)
Karate Kid therefore probably remains Karate Kid (as "Fist Lad" was too close to "Fister Lad", a character I created when I... Um, forget it, I just have the name, ok? And Tyr makes a much better Fister Lad any day of the future!)
but does this rule qualify...
Kid Quantum for Reboot Boy/Rebooted Girl?
Chemical King as Stoned Boy (not to be confused, of course, with Stone Boy)?
Tyroc as Black Canary - oops! - I mean, Choir Boy?
Ron-Karr as Spy Boy? (Paper-Cut Lad didn't focus group well)
Mentalla as ESPer Lass?
Porcupine Pete as Nemesis Kid (indicating his unlucky love life)?
Lamprey as Aqua Girl?
Dawnstar as Hawk Girl?
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In the "Your dream Legion team" thread, I imagined Val Armorr being Hispanic in heritage and, from his having mastered all kinds of hands-on combat, taking "Mano" as a codename.
I also had some other borrowings from other (comics-company) universes, such as Brek being what worked better all along, "Iceman." If DC and Marvel ended up with a Capt. Marvel each, why couldn't that have been worked out? We can dream, anyway.
If it's a reboot, now is the time to shuffle the name deck a bit. Why waste the opportunity?
I still don't buy Waid's rationale for "Kid," "Boy," etc., though, not after a couple more weeks of mulling it over. It strikes me as too much of a creator rationalizing what he liked in his youth. Which isn't disastrous, but can easily be overdone -- see Tom and Mary "none but the Adventure characters will stick around" Bierbaum.
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*tee hee*
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I wonder if the LMBer Reboot will adopt "Reboot Boy" as his moniker once the WnK series begins. Retro's cool again! 
