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Based on the use of the word "niftiest" I'll change my answer to Sun Boy. Sounds very 60's and I recall him always often shown to be piloting the Legion Cruisers.

Star Boy!

Varalent is right!

If you head over to the Encyclopedia Galactica, you can find a "Meet the Legionnaires" thread on page two (you'll have to change the settings to show all topics). You can find the quote there.

Vee, you're up!

What I'm right?!!!!!!! My philosophy professor use to say "When knowledge fails try logic." I guess he was right!

Since I'm at work, I'll have to offer up an easy one.

In the Adventure era, the Legion faced an invasion of Earth by the Black Circle. How were the Black Circle's forces defeated and by whom?

IIRC the Dark Circle was forced off of Earth by use of the Miracle Machine. I forget which Legionnaire actually used it.

I think Brainiac 5 was the one who used it.

Correct & correct, Brainey remembered the Miracle Machine when he wished that Karate Kid was at HQ instead of in Japan and Val suddenly appeared.

Since you each got half but Quis answered first, I'll give the next turn to him.

Quis?

I can think of four Legionnaires that suffered from nervous breakdowns or mental illnesses.

Name them.

B5 - His preboot "Crazy Brainy" period.
Sensor - I think that locking yourself in a darkened room and screaming at anyone who comes in not to look @ her counts as a breakdown.
Tenzil - went insane from eating the Miracle Machine.
Kinetix - Her anomolus near-catatonia. And you could make a case for her at the moment too, since she can barely form coherant sentences.

You got two of the ones I was thinking off. I should probably specified pre-boot Legioonnaires.

While you make a good case for the two post-boot characters, the two pre-boot characters I am thinking of had it specifically stated that they were suffering from a nervous breakdown/mental illness.

Cosmic Boy also suffered from a mental breakdown, from using the gauntlet's that Brainy made for him. I would also say that Mysa/White Witch suffered a breakdown after her marriage to Mordru.

Not the two I was thinking of.

Hint: One resulted in the Legion constitution being amended. The other cause a leader to resign.

Brainiac Five
Matter-Eater Lad
Lightning Lad
Sun Boy

These are the four I was thinking of.

Brainiac 5 when he create Omega
Matter-Eater Lad when he ate the Miracle Machine
Lightning Lad when he was Leader
Sun Boy when he suffered space fatigue and marooned the other Legionnaires.

Your question Awkward Pause Boy

Hmmmm....

I've come up with one, but could have all of the details wrong in my head. So the winner won't necessarily have to provide the right response, just what matches my preconceptions.

What common household tool did Ultra Boy use to escape from the jaws of the Ultra Beast?

I thought he just blasted his way out. But then I thought of the most recent mini-series. Didn't he use pepper to make the Ultra Beast sneeze?

Nope, at least, not in my mind.

And if I recall correctly, this happened around the time that Ultra Boy was rather close to a mental breakdown.

Woops, yeah a few details mixed up here.

It wasn't an "Ultra-Beast" per se, but the same genre of creature. And, it wasn't close to when he had a little breakdown, but it was close to a time during which Lightning Lad exhibited some rather compulsive behavior.

um ... a can opener??

hmm.... nice guess Drake!! I am stumped by this one.

A flashlight, which Jo used to make the Super Moby Dick of space open it's mouth.

Correct, The Big Bad.

Which just goes to show you that the most powerful of foes should still go to their dentist.

Okay, then. I don't know if this has been asked, but which legionnaires (post boot and pre boot, and yes, you have to specify) have lost their powers, be it temporarily or permanently?

Free bonus: Kon-El is one.

Pre-boot:

Cosmic Boy (after the 5YG)
Triplicate Girl/Duo Damsel (following the death of her second body at the Time Trapper's/Glorith's hands...before said body was revealed by Glorith to be alive)
Chameleon Boy (during/after the Great Darkness)
Star Boy (lost his Superboy-like powers, though he retained his mass-shifting ones)
Sun Boy (Adventure Comics # 302)
Bouncing Boy (on two occasions)
Lightning Lass (lost lightning powers, gained gravity-cancelling ones and vice versa later)
Dawnstar (wings not present as Bounty after 5YG, retained tracking powers)

Post-boot:

I'll take the bonus Kon-El, though I don't know just when that happened.
Kinetix
Magno
Spark (lost lightning powers, gained gravity-cancelling ones and vice versa later)
Umbra
XS (during the Savitar story in Flash and Impulse)
Element Lad (very briefly, during the Mordru story)
Ferro (sort of - he's still iron, but can no longer become flesh)

That's all I can think of.