Originally posted by Ken Arromdee:
1) Brande is killed, reverts to orange Durlan form when he dies (implying that the orange form is Durlans' natural form, which is something that's been on again, off again).
This, to me, is a quandary. As of pre-Crisis continuity, the purple-robed green-tentacle monsters are the 'true form.' As of Brande's tale of his past in the recent Adventure, the purple-robed, green-tentacle monsters are the true forms, and he explicitly *designed* the orange form, to set other sentients minds at ease (with the help of a marketing/PR firm). As of Invasion, Durlans could shapeshift in the early 20th century, and it was previously established that the war that gave them these abilities occured in the times when Democritus was first proposing the theory of the atom.
And yet, as of War of the Supermen, Durlans are orange-skinned humanoids, and were long before they could shapeshift (since War of the Supermen retcons the Durlan war from classical times to post-20th century).
Right now, based on past continuity and most recently re-established continuity (from Brande's story in Adventure), Brande assuming orange humanoid form and not tentacle-monster form in Lo3W is a mistake (as is War of the Supermen, in general).
Possible explanations that would make this *not* a mistake;
Everyone off of Durla expects a 'dead' Durlan to revert to orange humanoid form.
1) The mortally-wounded Brande chose to revert to orange humanoid form and somehow 'locked' it in that shape to maintain the pretense that this is the Durlan's true form (knowing that his pretense of being human would not survive medical examination of his corpse).
2) Brande isn't really dead. A hole in the body of a creature with no vital organs is, for the most part, annoying and painful, but rarely could lead to fatality. Brande had been considering going underground, and leaving this 'life' as R.J. Brande behind, and chose this convenient assassination attempt to fake being dead.
Cham knows this, which explains why he looked so surly and annoyed during the reading of his father's 'last will and testament.' It's a sham, and, regardless of his intentions, it feels to Cham like his father is running away again...
Why the Time Trapper, who demonstrates on Leland McCauley the ability to age someone to death, would send someone to *shoot* Brande, remains a mystery, like why the Joker would tie up an unconscious Batman and suspend him over a vat of acid instead of shoot him in the face before he wakes up...
2) Brainiac 5 makes a point of saying that he alone created Mon-El's anti-lead serum. There seems little point in this statement unless it's meant to retcon away the story where Saturn Girl created the first, temporary, anti-lead serum. However, it doesn't explicitly contradict that since he could mean that he just created the final one.
I suspect that any cool Legion invention that doesn't stem from Brainy (Mon-El's creation of the element that was later used to fashion the Flight Rings, Dreamy's use of Naltorian tech to change Ayla's powers so that she could remain a Legionnaire, and Imra's creation of the first anti-lead-poisoning serum) are going to be retconned into being all-Brainy, all-the-time.
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