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These ten characters seem so obvious to me that I don’t think any further elaboration is necessary.

1 MoonHawk & SunHawk (husband & wife) – Planetary Champions of Thanagar

2 Dono & Mara (brother & sister) – Planetary Champions of Kormo

3 Superma & Superbo (mother & son) – Planetary Champions of Almerac

4 Ubuntu & Satyagraha (father & daughter) – Planetary Champions of Myrnah

5 Parsifal & Quixote (brothers) – Planetary Champions of Avalon

Daxam- During the Great Darkness, the New God known as Darkside corrupted the people of Daxam, controlling them and boosting their power levles to rule the universe. But The Legion was able to defeat Darkside's rule.

even though Darkside was gone his taint was still deep within some of the Damaxites.

The average Damaxite doesn't have any super powers under a red sun. But what no one knew was that even though Darkside wasn't in power long he was there long enough to sire several off spring that are half Damaxite and half New God.

Now they are in hiding with their mothers who still worship Darkside. They have formed a clan of their own that lives out in the dessert lands of Damax's southern hemisphere.

They roam the dessert gather materials and followers for the day when Darkside will return. They defend their settlement fiercely and are seen as out laws. One of them is the leader of this pack and rules his clan with an iron fist much like his father, who reveals in torture and pain.

Larn Fald- the eldest of the Children of Darkside. He resembles Darkside the most. His height and weight are that of the average Damaxites but his skin is a hard shell hide of rock just like his father. He is also strong and near invulnerable to most physical attacks.

As the eldest son, he automatically ascends to the role of clan leader upon turning 15. He remains in this role till the return of his father. As he is a son of Darkside he is imbued with the knowledge of the new gods and apolokpis. Due to this he follows the ways of apolokpis to the best of his abilities, punishing those who don't obey and punish those who do.

The way he does this is that he possesses a power that his father does not. He has the power of persuasion. This ability comes from a latent meta gene with in his mothers side of the family. Her family for generations were senators and held various seats of power influence in large part due to their persuasive abilities. but with their gene's combined with that of Darkside it brings it to a whole new level.

there have been rumblings lately that Larn has finally amassed enough followers to rise a revolt and stage the settings to bring back Darkside.

I much prefer this take on a Darkseid cult to what we got in the comic...Larn Fald on his own would be a good foe even if they never get round to bringing Darkseid back!

I love the idea of expanding on what sort of long-term effects the Great Darkness Saga would have had on the people of Daxam.

A race of people who spent at least *ten centuries* capable of spaceflight, surrounded by an interstellar community, but forced to remain at home, due to their weakness to lead, which they are pretty much sure was engineered to keep them homebound.

And then they get a taste of the power that is, quite literally, their birthright. Yes, they lacked control, but they surely *remember* what it was like to soar through space, to descend upon worlds, and to be *feared.* From an introspective race, on the edge of utter irrelevance to matters of UP import, to the most terrifyingly relevant people in the universe, it must have been a bit of culture shock, even after the effects of Darkseid's control where a distant memory. While homebodies, the Daxamites aren't totally cut off from the rest of the UP through long-distance communiction, and while few would say it to a Daxamites face, everybody in the UP didn't magically forget what happened. Researchers who may have thought of themselves as good friends and colleagues of Daxamite researchers they'd never physically met may suddenly have found themselves less comfortable with their 'old friends.'

A lot of people would be quietly saying, behind closed doors, 'It's a good thing they can't leave Daxam, but even *that* isn't a foolproof solution, as we've just seen...'

And at least some Daxamites, quite possibly *a lot* of Daxamites, would be idly dreaming of what it was like to be able to fly into space and cross the void between worlds, afraid of nothing, able to go anywhere, and do anything...

Even if a Darkseid cultist *didn't* have unnatural powers of persuasion, it seems likely that there would be an audience receptive to those sorts of sentiments. Darkseid himself may not be remembered fondly by all, or even by more than a tiny minority, but he was the one who showed them that they didn't *have* to remain trapped on the prison that is their homeworld, so that the more subtle 'cultist' might stress the need to trust the message of Daxamite freedom and independence, if not the messenger that was Darkseid.

Random thoughts;

Fifteen seems a little old (since it suggests that the Great Darkness Saga happened fifteen years ago, which would make the Legionnaires who were already adults then perhaps forty or so 'now'...).

On the one hand, if the child was five or so, and yet had an unnaturally adult perspective (almost as if there was something of his father lurking behind his child's eyes...), that could be creepy and push the timeline back a bit.

On the other hand, nothing exists in canon to contradict the idea that Darkseid hadn't been planning this for a long time, growing clones of Superman and Lydea Mallor and some random Oan Guardian, for instance, and hadn't visited Daxam a decade before the Great Darkness Saga to 'plant some seeds' for his future plan.

It's also entirely possible that the 'Children of Darkseid' aren't 100% accurate as to their exact parentage, and are descendents of some hitherto nameless Apokaliptan New God *servants* of Darkseid (one or more of whom, like Orion and Kalibak, may have actually been descended from Darkseid!) who went to Daxam to 'prepare the way' for their master's decade-later arrival.

thanks Raz. he would make for an interesting villain.

especially if he was combined with some of the ideas Set mentioned.

i have never actually read The Great Darkness. everything i used was just from what i read on Wikipedia. But i love a lot of your concepts about freedom and independence that they would feel. your totally right. i just thought an event like that would have a lasting affect on the people.
and i kind of think of it as like a Greek myth, like Hercules except instead of Zeus we have Darkside.

his being 15 was more to put him on par with the Legion and being able to fight them now. When TGD happens he was just a baby. i like the concept that some of the "Children of Darkside" aren't actually his biological children but maybe those of the other new gods.

Krypton and Daxam are huge.

At least ten times the diameter of Earth, four to five times the density, with gravitation forty to fifty times that of Earth. Krypton, at least, was so massive that spontaneous nuclear fusion was occurring at its core.

Krypton was said to have a hundred billion inhabitants at the end-- about 1/7th the population density of 21st-century Earth. (Assuming a similar land-to-sea ratio) Similar to the United States-- plenty of room for big cities, but still lots of open space.

I imagine Daxam as having a population of less than a billion. A very small population for such a large planet. Imagine the entire human population living in Belgium; the rest of the world would be untouched wilderness.

What might be hiding in that vast, untouched wilderness?

The Darkseid Cult, apparently.

I am not sure most Daxamites feel "trapped" on Daxam. They have been portrayed as mostly homebodies, isolated, xenophobic and parochial, possibly with an constitution more like Hobbits than Terrans. (Of course, there is always the occasional Took or Baggins, but those are outliers, like Ol-Vir and Res-Vir.)

I have sometimes thought that the Daxamite wilderness is where Nam-Ek eventually ended up.

I'd tend to agree with the relatively small population. They've been a super-advanced (capable of interstellar space flight) civilization for over 1000 years, and birth rates tend to plummet in older societies.

But even if there's only a *million* of them, and 99% of them are totally happy on Daxam, that would leave 10,000 (the 1% leftover) that might look up to the stars and think it unfair that every other UP race has that entire universe to play with. Even if it was only one-tenth of 1% that longed for something more (or remembered somewhat fondly feeling all-powerful, under the red sun), that's 1000 potential Darkseid cultists...

Even *one* Daxamite nutjob (like Ol-Vir) can be terrifying. A dinky little cult the size of the Waco group made up of individuals who can potentially match Superman for power is exponentially more so, I think.

From a pocket dimension not unlike Marzal, which can be accessed from Baja California;

Queen Khalifiya and her amazons occasionally ride forth from the extradimensional realm her people settled, astride the magnificent griffons that have been extinct on earth for well over two millenia.

Led by an elite group of female warriors possessed of superhuman strength, vitality and longevity, the people of her hidden realm are of African descent, and follow a more worldly branch of Sufi Islam that seeks perfect understanding of the divine through scientific research, philosophical discourse and artistic expression.

While her elite warriors ride their great griffons directly, the Queen herself appears astride a flying chariot pulled by a pair of ebon-winged specimens of unusual size, and commands greater physical strength than her already superhuman guards, proving able to fire arrows through the hulls of Khundian attack ships!

It is unclear if Queen Khalifiya is the same person who led her people through the dimensional rift to settle this realm millenia ago, or merely the latest to bear this name, but the legend, often disputed as myth, has been proven true time and again as her people emerge to help deal with threats to the earth itself, lending their not-inconsiderable aid, and then returning to their own hidden realm.

[Bizarro Yellow Lantern Le-Mon
When the Universe of 31st-century Htrae, the cubic Bizarro-World, was threatened with destruction in the Great Crisis, all the inhabitants rejoiced—except one. Le-Mon, the Bizarro duplicate of Lar Gand, was filled with terror. Of course, Le-Mon is always filled with terror, just as Green Lanterns are ever fearless. His super-cowardice activated his “powerless ring”, which projected a protective field around Htrae, assuring that it would always continue to exist somewhere in the Multiverse no matter how many times history was retrobooted.

Thus, for no good or logical reason, the Silver Age Bizarro World of Htrae exists in the current 31st-century world of the Legion.

Having saved Htrae from destruction, Bizarro Yellow Lantern Le-Mon is shunned, hated and reviled by all other Bizarros—and is therefore Bizarro World’s Planetary Champion, its greatest hero. Which terrifies him.

Love the idea of a planet that's immune to reboots.

Agreed love your bizarro world!

no reboots? i'll take a world like that please!

Well that's certainly an ironic post when combined with your current sig.

I have had Bizarros on the brain the past few days because I am trying to come up with a way to insert some into my series, so I was mightily tickled that you chose that exact topic, Mr T5477!

That is a brilliant and super simple way to do it too...kudos!

I love that Mon-El's name is an anagram of 'Lemon.' I never would have noticed that!

The 'super-cowardice' activating his 'powerless ring' was a touch of mad genius. Very cool!

Anndrann - The green skinned military geniuses Anndrann of Anndranna were later banished to Bellatrix, and are famed for their weapons of war. Iron has a deleterious effect on their cognitive abilities.

Metrixx-Kanndrnn, Once a general in the Anndrann army, before Anndranna was being defeated in the war between them and the U.P.; which got them banished. during his time as a general he became an expert in tactics. During the final battle his ship, which was the newest toy of the Anndrann army, was struck from behind damaging its back thrusters and causing them to over heat and exploding the ship.
Going down with the ship everyone thought he was dead. But he was rescued by U.P. secret forces for interrogation and brought to the hospital, The Doctors in the U.P. hospital were unfamiliar with the exact physiologists of Anndrannins; as they kept all weakness top secret. They fused his left side with metal to stop the bleeding and to save his life. The metal they used was Iron. they didn't know that Iron causes a deleterious effect on Anndrannins. Normally a small dose of Iron would only make him become slightly out of sorts. often making him have small flash backs to various battles he's fought. These flashbacks only lasted for a second. But fused with this much Iron, he has now become almost psychotic and is reliving his battles in his mind over and over again. At first he was hard to control. even escaping on a few occasions. One such incident of that was when he was reliving the snapping of A diplomat from another world's neck, as a special task force member to the Anndranian army. But in reality he had killed the hospital's resident head doctor.

Finally subduing him after several more deaths, they put him in to cry o-statis, till they could figure out how to treat him.

almost 600 years has passed since then. Recently he was awakened. Using much of the same technology that was used to create Tharok, they have figured out a way to use his delusions usefully and still have full metal capacity to follow orders. He now only can assess the memories in moments of extreme aggression.

The technology has also increased his capacity for learning and tactical simulations. The U.P. sought to train him as part of the ever secretive Earthgrov special task forces. On his first mission, he completed flawlessly but then he escaped to his home world. Seeing that the way of his people had been changed. that they had moved to a new world and forced into submission angered him. He wanted to fight back for them but he realized that the war he was fight had long since been over for his people and he returned to Earthgrov willingly.

Now we need a fanfic of Tharok vs. Metrixx-Kanndrnn. Was this how Tharok ended up in U.P. custody in the first place, before the Legion?

Polla Reymar is a native of the Dollworld, a planet inhabited by humanoids all less than 1 meter tall. Only half-Dollan, Polla has inherited from her Imskian father the ability to shrink to microscopic size. Due to a bizarre interaction of Krill and Dollan DNA, she is also able to reduce her mass and size independently.

Like all Imskians, she is also able to reduce objects which she carries. However, keeping a large object reduced in size is tiring. For example, reducing the size of another person is as tiring as carrying that person around on her back.

A student at Bergen High School by day, she fights crime on Dollworld as Atoma, in a costume that is an homage to the 21st-century Earth’s Atom.

Polla collects sculptures, statuary, and tchochkes from Imsk, and her room is filled with them: wood, stone, and metal objects which have been naturally irradiated by Imsk’s white dwarf sun, Irulan. She keeps them readily available, as she must regulary bathe in this unique radiation to maintain her powers.

As Polla: Height: 2’6” (77 cm) Weight: 13 lbs (6 kg)
As Atoma: (default) Height: 2 ½ inches Weight: 1/20 oz. (3.5 grams)

I suppose that Atoma must be a member of some sort of “Justice League” of Dollworld, teamed with other miniature heroes. Super-Mannequin, Bumblebee-Batman, Green Dart, Black Hummingbird, and so forth.

i think this is an awesome idea! maybe Tharok found a way to manipulate Metrixx-Kanndrnn, into thinking he was Tharok and that's how Tharok has been able to stay hidden.

i like this idea a lot.

i just have one question, is Imsks is the same as Dollworld or are they different??

and if she's only half, Imskian that what is the other half like? Does her Krill half have any powers of its own???

Woo, first post on the new boards!

In the middle of the last century, the Murran global civilization split apart in a terrifying internal war, which lasted for twelve years, before one side, desperate that they were about to lose completely and on all fronts, unleashed a bioweapon meant to only affect their enemies.

As bioweapons do, it spread far beyond its creators intentions, and soon the entire world was afflicted with a degenerative genetic disease, causing them to suffer effects similar to that of intense radiation poisoning. Reeling from the effects of their own engineered doomsday weapon, and the sudden loss of their governing body to a last desperate attack by their enemies, the researchers who had designed the weapon sued for peace with the leaders of the more advanced enemy, combining their resources and research to attempt to find a cure for what had become an existential threat to all Murrans.

A fifth of all Murrans died in the next month, before the joint task force developed a cure, of sorts, a pill that would stimulate a dormant segment of Murran DNA to 'fill in the blanks' of the decaying segments of the Murran genome, arresting the progress of the disease, and, to everyone's surprise, awakening the latent Murran metagene, so that every Murran who received the cure also developed a metahuman power!

Decades passed, and the Murrans came into contact with the United Planets, and realized that not all species shared their fantastic abilities. Arrogant in their apparent uniqueness, the Murran government chose to infiltrate the Legion of Super-Heroes, as a prelude to a full scale invasion of the undefended worlds of the United Planets, thinking that only fellow metahumans, such as the Legion, could represent a threat to their meta-genetic superiority.

The Legion anticipated and foiled the Murran invasion almost before it happened, and the Legion not only destroyed the Murran processing and distribution centers for their meta-gene stimulating 'power pills,' but assured that the Murrans could not quickly replace these facilities, as Brainiac 5 seeded the Murran computer infrastructure with a virus that deleted all references to the formula for the power pills, and Saturn Girl erased from the minds of the scientists who oversaw the creation of these pills all knowledge of how to recreate them.

In a world with hundreds of thousands of superhumans, it should come as no surprise that many dozens found ways to hoard and preserve their own supplies of 'power pills.' Some short-sighted individuals found themselves unable to access their caches, when their powers wore off, having stored them in capsules buried deep within the earth, or far below the sea, or in similar difficult-to-reach locations, in an attempt to hide them from the Legionnaires' search. Others intended to sell them to the highest bidder, or ration them out only to friends and family, or even to build up untouchable criminal organizations, being the only people left on Murra with superhuman abilities! A teenaged girl named Lia Frex was one such opportunist, having stolen her entire families ration of power pills and flown them to hide on Murra's moon, using her own metahuman ability, to generate a fiery plume of smoke and force from the soles of her feet and the palms of her hands, and blast off like a rocket into space, faster than any spaceship. She was clever enough to keep a handful for her own use, so that she would be able to return to the moon to reclaim her cache when the Legion left, and had every intention of sharing her hoard with her family, unlike some of her less noble-minded peers.

Within a week of the Legion's departure, it was discovered that the Murran genetic code had not been 'cured' by the power pills, and was indeed still unstable. Hospitals were overflowing with stricken Murrans, slowly dying as their own genetic structures unraveled, and many of those hoarding power pills they had hidden from the Legion came forward to donate their tiny supplies to researchers and doctors who desperately sought any means possible to stave off another potential genocide.

The thought of contacting the Legion, seen by many as the reason they were suffering in the first place, was pridefully dismissed, but Lia shook her head at this pig-headedness and swallowed one of the handful of power pills she had kept for her own family's use, and took off for earth on a fiery plume of rocket exhaust.

The Legion rushed back to Murra, hoping to prevent the planetary catastrophe they had unwittingly unleashed, to find that the majority of the population of Murra was now stricken, with the worst cases having suffered organ failure, and being kept alive only by mechanical life support. Knowing they would never have time, Brainiac 5 reconfigured Murran communications satellites to bathe the entire world in a stasis ray, slowing the rate of decline and buying the Legion precious days to formulate a more permanent solution.

It was Lyle Norg, the Invisible Kid, who found a cure. Using Durlan cells donated by Chameleon Boy, cells that were already 'meta-genetically unstable,' and yet perfectly viable, Lyle created a serum that would allow afflicted Murran DNA to adapt to its deficiencies, reshaping itself to become viable once again. With Element Lad's help, vast quantities of the new cure were synthesized, and, wearing special suits, to protect themselves from the effects of the orbital stasis rays, the Legion, along with those Murrans who remained able to function, spread among the populace administering this new cure.

Lia, going by the name Rocket Girl, was one of the few Murrans who still had metahuman powers when given the new cure, and, in an unexpected reaction, found that her metahuman powers had become permanent, making her the first natural Murran metahuman in a new generation of Murrans who did not derive their powers from the power pills.

Today, where the laboratory where the cure was discovered, there is no a park with a central plaza dominated by three statues, one of Lyle Norg, who discovered the cure, one of Chameleon Boy, whose cells the cure was derived from, and suspended on columns representing her fiery rocket exhaust, Lia Frex, Rocket Girl, the first in a new generation of Murran heroes.

(Despite their contributions to the cure, statues to Brainiac 5, Element Lad and Saturn Girl were not approved for this site, as those three Legionnaires were heavily involved in the destruction of the original power pills, and not all Murrans were quite ready to forgive their unwitting involvement in the near genocide of the Murran race!)

Alas, I keep forgetting that not everyone has the long, shameful history with the Legion that I do.

In the Silver Age Doom of the Legion story arc, Mask Man is suspected of being from Dollworld, due to his dwarfish size. Shrinking Violet and Chameleon Boy reduce themselves to doll-size, and interrogate the inhabitants of Dollworld (apparently on a door-to-door basis) in order to see if they can find any intelligence regarding the mysterious Mask Man.

Unfortunately, Mask Man is indeed hiding on Dollworld, and brutally murders both Shrinking Violet and Chameleon Boy. (It’s OK. They get better later.)

The only unusual ability Dollans appear to have is being naturally small in stature, about the size of Zrfffn imps, or, so I would imagine, about one meter tall at the upper limit.

Atoma is ½ Dollan (that is, her mother is naturally from Dollworld) and ½ Krill.

The Krill are the humanoid, but non-terran, alien species that colonized Imsk and Orzde, the two worlds of the white dwarf Irulan’s star system. Shrinking Violet is a Krill, or Imskian. So is Atoma’s father—but that is not generally known on Dollworld.

It is my conceit that an interaction between Dollan and Krill DNA leads to Atoma having the additional ability to reduce her mass independently, an ability not shared by Imskians.

ok awesome that clears it up a lot thank you!

The Janusites are a species which, as they mature, eventually split into two identical beings.

Double-Header, the Janusite member of the Legion of Substitute Heroes, was murdered by “Earth Man”, formerly Absorbancy Boy.

----- and now, the rest of the story -----

At the time of his murder, Double-Header’s mitosis had progressed to the point where he had two heads, three breasts, a 50-inch waist, and three legs.

He was also married. His wife, at a similar stage of mitosis, was Ethyl and Michal Retsun. She (they?) were pregnant with her first child, and Double-Header’s parents’ first grandchild.

She was nearly driven mad by grief at the death of Frenk and Dyvud. After her son was born, she placed the child in the care of his eight grandparents. (both Frenk / Dyvud and Ethyl / Michal have four fully separated parents: two fathers and two mothers)

Do not judge her too harshly. In her state of mind, caring for the little one was impossible for her.

She left Janus, and journeyed to Lythyl. There, she channeled her grief into a desire for revenge, and spent over three years perfecting fierce fighting skills, and exorcising all sense of mercy, pity, and compassion from her heart. She became a fearsome warrior.

Returning to the United Planets, she discovered that Earth Man had been inducted into the Legion of Super-Heroes, and was now dead.

Cheated of her revenge, she returned to Janus. The eight grandparents have reorganized themselves as single family, (the concept of privacy and personal identity being somewhat more fungible on Janus than on Earth) combining their mutual incomes, are living in a large, spreading hacienda. Little four-year-old, three-eyed Sol-Rick Retusn is about as spoiled as a Janusite grandchild can be.

Ethyl and Michal were welcomed back into the family with great empathy. She is still filled with rage and an unsatisfied lust for revenge, but channels this into her secret career as the masked Janusite vigilante, the Three-Legged Woman.

(Of course, there are many three-legged women on Janus, but no Janusite criminal wants to meet this particular three-legged woman.)

Now, for bonus points, which other Legionnaire has (at least in one incarnation) connections to the Krill?

Absolutely love the Murrans, and this is a fun take on them!