Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes Long Live the Legion! Random LSH panel discussion

Little known fact: A time-traveling Supergirl once played out a similar scene with young Isaac Newton!

I love that the tradition of giggling, gossipy girls in the audience was still alive.

Plaid Lad!

Along with Stripe Boy and Gingham Girl, he would become a founding member of the Textile Teens. Additional members would include Damask Damsel, Voile Vixen and Floral Lad.

The existence of Plaid Lad would seem to support the theory that there are some super-powers not good enough for the Legion of Substitute Heroes.

Re: Clark and Lana

I pointed out on another thread that Clark could easily have kissed Lana and then answered the LSH summons. Of course, he was just being an honorable gentleman by bonking her on the head with apples.

That's what the Subs Auxillary is for!

Right. But I wonder if Plaid Lad is good enough even for the Auxiliary.

Do you know of anyone else who can make things plaid any quicker?

Plaid is the one weakness of The Caped Chameleon from The Tick.

Then I guess Plaid Lad should be placed in the Substitute Auxiliary Reserve just in case the Caped Chameleon shows up in the 30th/31st century.

Plaid Lad is the ultimate legacy hero . Fie on all those speedsters and quarter-Kryptonians and what-not! Where were they when I needed to get beer and chips super-fast at 4AM?

Did Chuck ever know that he was a rebound boyfriend?

Hmm... I wonder if any tapes exist of Bouncing Boy's dates with Iresa?

I'd pay serious cash for some Legion date-tapes! Especially Cos and Sinde's!


Meanwhile, Cockrum very nearly surpasses Swan as "best Lu artist"! Perhaps he even does.

I never really thought about it, but when Chuck inflates, he doesn't fill with lighter-than-air gas, does he? Because it would seem profoundly unlikely that Lu could pick him up and throw him at herself (or catch him without being squished!).

Perhaps he was using his flight ring to counteract his weight...

Geez! I never thought about that either. When he hits the ground, does he get bruised? We've seen him knock people out with impact, so there must be some good mass there.

I would assume that chuck uses momentum to bounce rather than being lighter than air. I can see him using his flight ring to help him gain initial momentum. From that I would say that Chuck is probably the Legionnaire most skilled at using his/her flight ring. i.e. making himself light enough to get maximum bounce without becoming totally weightless and just floating there.

His power <span style="font-size: 18px;">HAS</span> to be something that happens without the flight ring.

He doesn't just get round and sit there.
He bounces like a giant, rubber medicine ball.

His weight must be reduced and the force comes from the built up momentum energy, some physics stuff.

I'm not saying that he doesn't use the flight ring to augment his powers, they ALL do, really.
The ring just can't be how his powers WORK.
imo

Oh, I'm not saying his power can only work with a flight ring. For the most part Chuck while inflated retains arms and legs. I imagine he would have to start his bounce by jumping. In fact I think I remember when he lost his power, him being shown as jumping and the landing with no bounce. His weight could be reduced, but as Set said, he doesn't become lighter than air.

As for the bruising, his inflated body, at least, is rubberized.

And I wouldn't say that a flight ring augments Saturn Girl's power. It let's her fly, but doesn't help her telepathy. But Chuck on the other hand can use the gravity negating power of a flight ring to increase his bounce (full weight on the way down and reduced weight on the bounce up). Of the other Legionnaires, I would say that Timber Wolf (super acrobat) and Karate Kid might use the flight rings in conjunction with their power. We have seen Dream Girl use her flight ring for something other than flying herself, but the ring didn't augment her power.

I always imagined that Chuck's body changes to something like flubber, which would allow him to gain momentum as he bounces rather than losing momentum. This would allow him to get started without the flight ring, but he could probably use the flight ring with his powers as well. When he knocks someone down, it's more because of momentum than mass, though perhaps he could change part of his body back to flesh and bone to increase his mass as he's impacting someone.

This, too, is from one of my earliest Legion comics, SUPERBOY # 200.

I was ten years old when this story was published--an age when girls are more the enemy if not downright icky. I couldn't fathom Legionnaires having girlfriends, let alone getting married!

But I came to like both Lu and Chuck as a result of this story, so it was a shame that it marked the end of their tenures as regular characters. I don't think Cary Bates developed the personalities of any other Legionnaires quite so well as he did here.

That's such a cute page, except for the fact that Duo's boots always make me think of those weird perforated cheese knives.

I think that my favorite incarnation of Chuck is the spiky-haired cartoon version. A guy with those kinds of powers was born to be animated!

Oh, he definitely bounces, even without the Flight Ring, but for him to play volleyball with Lu(s), and for her to comment that he *intentionally* slammed into her hard instead of being light enough to bounce off of her fist, suggests that he's somehow manipulating his weight / mass.

We know that he's got the 'inflatable invulnerable body' thing going on, but it's never really been established if he inflates like a balloon, with a big empty space inside, retaining the same mass, or generates all sorts of extra tissue inside of himself (similar to Colossal Boy, just on the inside).

Is manipulating his mass yet another super-power, in addition to becoming invulnerable and swelling in size and bouncing (which he could do just fine without manipulating his mass, depending on the properties of his body), or was that a Flight Ring assisted weight-reduction for the purposes of volleyball?

That's the kind of nit-picky questions that I get from reading panels.

I sometimes think that he would have been taken more seriously if he was thin, like Speedball, who basically has the same powers.