Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Spaceopoly TRIAD: only for serious mindbending!

All three actors played characters also played by Martin Freeman.

Hey, yeah! Wow, I didn't expect to see this come up again. But you're turn, EDE.

Let's try:

Alan Arkin
Roger Moore
Steve Martin

All have played dentists?

Not what I was looking for, though it is along the lines of "All have played x".

All have played Inspector Clouseau!

That's it! They're the three actors who've played Clouseau who aren't Peter Sellers!

OK, how about

Doctor Who (1963)
Mission: Impossible (1966)
Law & Order (1990)

Series Premier year?

The years are the series premier years, but I mention them just to distinguish between other versions of the various franchises. So the Triad I have in mind has nothing to do with the series premier year.

I don't think Steven Hill ever had any Dr Who appearances... So I will guess that all three shows had complete changeovers from their original casts, and had successful runs even afterward.

You got it, Kent. That was what I was after.

okay, then. I always think of great ones when it isn't my turn! Hopefully I can recall one of those and post it later today...

Christopher Lloyd
Anne Hathaway
Mr. T

No takers? And here I thought this one was too easy!

Clues will start on Friday.

Ah, they were all the villain / nemesis in the third installment of a franchise (Star Trek III, Dark Knight Rises, Rocky III).

You've got it!

OK, how about

Monarch
Darkseid
Superboy Prime

Of course, they are all big-time DC villains - but there is a specific thing they all share that may not be unique to them, but is certainly rare amongst villains in general (I can't think of anyone else for whom it is true).

They were all based upon real-world sources?

Dunno about Monarch, but Darkseid was originally based on Nixon (complete with cabinet), and S-Prime of recent years on the generic annoying fanboy.

They all killed their fathers?

They came from a dimension different from the one they wreaked havoc in?

None of those are the answer I'm looking for, and I think only IB's could be argued to be true for all three.

The thing I'm thinking of (which again, is pretty rare for villains, though not necessarily unique to these guys) are incidents which take place in three specific stories. Two of those stories are Legion stories (should be pretty easy to guess which two villains that refers to).

Were they each murdered by their younger self?

Superboy Prime in Lo3W, Darkseid in Foundations, and... well, honestly, I have no idea about Monarch, but I'm guessing given his "time-travely" nature, that might have happened at some point.

That's basically it. I couldn't remember if Darkseid in Foundations had been actually murdered by his younger self, but his younger self definitely attacked him or tried to kill him. Superboy Prime had the same thing in Lo3W, as you mention.

As for Monarch, it's basically his origin back when he was Hank Hall, aka Hawk. It happens in Armageddon 2001 #2 (the closing bookend of that Summer Annual event) - the difference being that the older Monarch is pretty happy about it, even setting it up to ensure his own creation. (Ugh, what a story. I wasn't a Hawk & Dove reader, but I can only imagine how that would have felt at the time).

I'll bet a bunch of Captain Atom readers were pretty pleased, though.

OK, this is one that hits me right at home:

George Perez
The Edge from U2
and... me!