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Hmmmm, lets see what I can come up with for a 10-member Legion, using my own, self-imposed restrictions:

1)Supergirl (a 20th century link is needed)
2)Brainiac 5 (I find it hard to imagine a Legion w/o him)
3)XS (completely underused)
4)Harmonia (interesting powers and backstory IMO)
5)Rainbow Girl (A little off, but that could be interesting)
6)Shadow Lass (An underused character IMO)
7)Night Girl (with Shady? Unstoppable)
8)Violet (I love her attitude and my pick for Dept Leader)
9)Lightning Lass (Need a stable relationship in the Legion)
10)Element Lad (one of the most powerful, and choice for Leader)

(Wow, just realized that I went almost all female with this team.)

Hmmm...

1 - Dev-Em
2 - XS
3 - Dawnstar
4 - Wildfire
5 - Brainiac 5
6 - White Witch
7 - Vi
8 - Ayla
9 - Kent Shakespeare
10 - Cham

Uncanny X Legionnaires

Ala the grim and gritty X babes books.

1. Projectra (On the fence leader)
2. Chemical Kid (bad boy new guy)
3. Timber Wolf (he's got claws)
4. Nemesis Kid (alternate universe version might be evil ... makes Projectra uncomfortable)
5. Dawnstar (she needs to be toting some huge guns)
6. Bloodclaw (he's got claws)
7. Dev Em
8. Spider Woman
9. Shadow Lass
10. Karate Kid 2

Some Legionnaires show up in multiple (or all) variations, such as the Founders and Brainy. This then, would be the others, the Legion of One World (as in, only existing in one world, but coming from many different continuities).

1) Tellus
2) Tyroc
3) Kid Quantum II
4) Reflex (Devlin O'Ryan)
5) Shikari
6) Nightwind
7) Kinetix
8) Crystal Kid
9) Dream Boy
10) Gazelle

You're so sweet

Why not? Girl power!!

So my original "perfect" team from a writing perspective was:

Kinetix
Gates
XS
Chameleon
Polar Boy
Saturn Girl
Wildfire
Brainiac 5
Shikari
Kid Quantum II

My 10-member animated series Legion:

Live Wire
Saturn Girl
Brainiac 5
Gates (I think the kids would dig him)
XS
Andromeda
Apparition
Bouncing Boy
Kinetix (of course!)
Cosmic Boy

A 10-member uber-powerful Legion:

Andromeda
Mon-El
White Witch
Kid Quantum II
Element Lad
Wildfire
Brainiac 5 (those forcefields are killer)
Saturn Girl
XS
Gates (teleportation is extremely powerful, tactically)

A 10-member peacekeeping/diplomatic/developmental Legion to be deployed to poorer, less developed planets:

Tellus
Gates (sense a pattern here?)
Kinetix (she loves to help others)
Andromeda (sans the xenophobia)
Infectious Lass
Kent Shakespeare
Chameleon (I think he'd like this sort of thing)
Dreamer (ever the diplomat)
Apparition (ditto)
Cosmic Boy

1) Jeckie (no 2 ways about it she has to be there)
2) Star Boy - hunk appeal
3) Chollyrphll Kid - sexy Adventure Comics new costume version...not fat hunk of lard version.
4) Phantom Girl...keep the str8 boys interested
5) Element Lad ....keep the gay boyz interested
6) Superboy....keep DC interested
7) Kent Shakespeare....you got have the token character to kill off in #3.
8) XS cos she is the best new character to be introduced in good knows how long.
9)Phantom Boy ----cos he looked hot
10) me.......

I created one I liked a few weeks ago ...

a carbon copy JLA

1) Mon El
2) Andromeda
3) Rond Vidar
4) Dawnstar
5) Karate Kid
6) White Witch
7) Lightning Lad
8) Gear
9) Wildfire
10) XS


Something else else like that ... I can't remember

anyway the trick is ... they guys die and/or disappear ... after coming together to fight a big bad ... or they are the elite of the Legion

Their death leaves a gap in the Legion (a Science Police type organization)

thereby leaving their loved ones on a year long mystery tour to find them ... or come together to fight the big bad which is back.


so preliminary characters would:

Dream Girl
Projectra
Timber Wolf
Saturn Girl, Cosmic Boy

Brainy ... a member of the original elite who was left behind

maybe Andy survives.

Lightning Lass

and it builds from there involving a planet hoping star spanning caper.

(also this way many of the uber powerful Legionnaires are taken off the table. The team is inspired by the Justice Legion yet, something completely different. Maybe the first 6 issues is actually the Justice Legion story.)

I find that making a Justice League team of only 10 members is fricking difficult. Possibly because there have just been so many awesome Leaguers whom I've really enjoyed reading over the years.

Making a ten-member Titans team is a bit easier; there have been lots of awesome Titans but I'm just really more fond of some others:

1) Kole
2) Donna Troy
3) Cyborg
4) Beast Boy
5) Starfire
6) Flamebird
7) Argent
8) Tempest
9) Terra III
10) Miss Martian

Basically the Wolfman-Perez Titans with my favorite Kole back, and Argent as newbie. Terra III so we can have a cool Terra without the baggage of the original. I almost put Blue Beetle, but ended up with MMiss Martian instead.

A different sort of Justice League, composed of characters I'd love to have seen more of;

1) Amazing Man (assume properties of objects touched, not the magnetic powers version)
2) Jason Blood / Etrigan
3) Rocket Red 4
4) Nightwing
5) Olympian
6) Firehawk
7) Vixen
8) Hawkgirl
9) the Bulleteer
10) Moon Maiden

I wanted to consider Tomorrow Woman and Element Woman as well, but their powers were very similar to those of Moon Maiden and Amazing Man, respectively.

Other odd eggs could be Bloodwynd (although I like Jason Blood better, as team magic-user) or Aztek (cray-cray powerset, and Etrigan and Olympian already have a raft of unnecessary powers...). I resisted the temptation to put Booster Gold in there as well.

I secretly love Moon Maiden and Tomorrow Woman!!!

and Firehawk of course. I like Vixen as well but she gets plenty of air time.

Nightwing is the best leader ever, from both the big two!

I know right? I generally don't like characters introduced with a Sentry-like 'oh, I was always here, you just forgot me' origins, but Moon Maiden is very cool.

[Triumph, not so much. Too powerful to be useful in a team book, IMO. Same with Maxima. 'Oh, I have all of Superman's powers, and all of Magneto's powers, and all of Jean Grey's powers, and a bunch of other random crap that makes even the Martian Manhunter and Sersi jealous...']



With the blue energy wings, she's got an *awesome* visual, and is not nearly as confusing, origin-wise, as Firestorm himself can be.

Goldstar, a female Booster Gold expy, is also cool, although not so much as Booster himself, IMO. (And Goldstar has never been a member of the Justice League, so I didn't even consider her.)



Yeah, Vixen has gotten more play than her fellow Detroit Leaguers, that's for sure! And I just like Nightwing. Leader. Solo. Whatever! More Nightwing!

Coming up with just ten Titans, on the other hand, is much harder for me...

1) Kole
2) Duela Dent
3) Prysm (Argent and Mirage get a lot of love, Prysm, not so much!)
4) Terra (the original crazy one, working out her issues, one bad-guy face at a time! Accept no substitutes!)
5) Zachary Zatara (cause it's time to step out of big sisters shadow!)
6) Golden Eagle
7) Arsenal / Roy Harper
8) Jericho (100% less evil and crazy!)
9) Son of Vulcan
10) Tempest (Garth)

The Titans are an odd one. I can easily make top 10 lists of Avengers or X-Folk or Leaguers or Legionnaires that are all women, but I find myself disproportionately preferring male Titans. Some have squiffy hard to define powers, like Lilith or Raven or Anima, others have awesome powers and / or great characterizations, like Miss Martian or Bombshell, but I only like in moderation.

I wouldn't mind adding Osiris or Phantasm (yeah, Danny Chase, all growed up!) or, obviously, Nightwing, to the list, or even the forgotten Protector or Talon, but it was already dude-heavy!

If there ever was a Legion universe 'Justice League 3013' sort of team, I don't know about anyone else, but I'd want the Black Canary expy to be She-Roc, a gender-reversed Tyroc, who looks sort of like this;

Superman: Horace Lafeaugh
Batman: Myke Chypurz
Wonder Woman: Sussa Paka
Green Lantern: Roy Travich
The Flash: Klint Stewirt

Ditto! It's a shame that Moon Maiden was never used again after she was retconned back into existence. She was certainly powerful and heroic enough to fit in with the Satellite League.

Tomorrow Woman ended up being restored to life after the Trinity series, but I don't think they ever did anything with that. Ah well.

And Firehawk is like a slightly more mature female Firestorm (at least, she was after she'd been around for a bit).

Another Kole fan, yay! I always did wonder why Argent was much more loved than Prysm. Maybve it was Argent's personality or her backstory.

Like you Set, I always find myself leaning towards the females. Whether it's the JLA, LSH, Titans, X-Men, Avengers, or even the JSA I always find myself stuffing my team full of ladies.

I like Argent a bit, but Kole already covers the 'create stuff' angle (crystal constructs rather than energy constructs, but still, kinda similar), as does Terra. Prysm offers something different.



The X-Men, in particular, have an embarrassment of riches when it comes to very interesting female characters, but the Avengers, Legion, etc. also have a ton of good heroes who also happen to be ladies.

An all-female Fantastic Four (Invisible Woman, She-Hulk, Crystal and Medusa) could be fun as well!

I want Firehawk to be a scientist who turns herself into Firehawk ... done ... I could even call her Firestorm. done. scientist + accident = powers. plus then she could still be a scientist as a hero too. seems useful.

Nightwing is the Kitty Pryde of the DC U. Personality is a secret weapon!

That would probably be cooler, in the end, than have her origin be 'second-hand hero who is some famous dudes daughter IRL.'



Nightwing and Arsenal both have a certain something that might be overkill on the same team. Non-powered 'sidekicks' who grew up and transcended their former status, much more successfully than some others. (Note, that's Arsenal, not 'Red Arrow,' who pretty much backslid into becoming a color-swapped version of his mentor, instead of a master-of-all-weapons sort of dude as Arsenal. 'Red Arrow,' IMO, is a de-evolution or character regression.)

I agree with you on the Arsenal vs. Red Arrow thing.

I would read an all-female FF with Sue, She-Hulk, Medusa and Crystal!

What I like about Argent's powers is that she's a bit Green Lantern-ish, and in my mind somewhat more versatile than Prysm. Granted, I don't completely understand Argent's powers...

A 12-member Justice League for me:

1) Dr. light (Kimiyo)
2) Wonder Woman (need to balance out the bitchiness!)
3) Superman
4) Batman
5) Green lantern (Guy Gardner)
6) Flash (Wally)
7) Martian Manhunter
8) Vixen
9) Firestorm (Jason/Ronnie)
10) Faith
11) Fire
12) Ice

This team is chock-full of power though a bit lighter on the Satellite era members. Fire and Ice IMO are much better as part of a larger cast.

I think the big 6 are crucial members.

Power Girl was a strong candidate but I wanted more diversity in powers. Left Metamorpho out because we have Firestorm to handle element-changing and MM can shapeshift.

The League has a ton of great characters as former or kinda/sorta members, like the Phantom Stranger, Doctor Fate, Captain Atom and the Martian Manhunter, that I'd rather read in a solo book, because they just have so many (or so much!) powers.

Martian Manhunter, in particular, could have one heck of a solo book. Dark and moody and noir-esque adventures where his detective alter-ego walks into secret invasions by body-snatching aliens, or even supernatural stuff like demonic infestations (which he deals with using super-powers, instead of magic). Sort of a comic book version of the novel 'Tea with the Black Dragon,' where a fairly normal looking noir protagonist may have a bit more up his sleeve than a mean right hook. (And end up in situations that a mean right hook won't fix!)

And then there's the characters I can't choose because I just don't know what the heck the writers were thinking, like with Gypsy or Bloodwynd.

It's X-Factor time!

(as the book ends)


Could be a retro team of some sort, a government sanctioned mutant team or an offbeat investigative team ... or something new.

I just have a sketch so far but I'm thinking something like random characters I just am really into:

Snowbird

Siryn

Sunfire

Prodigy

The latest Nightcrawler

Hellion

I don't know .... need to think more ... I would add Xorn but I think he was over exposed by GM.

and Jessica Drew

... I'd like a creepy supernatural or international espionage vibe. X-Factor Investigations

Maybe a new Dr Spectrum and maybe one of the bad girl Mastermind .. but no the murderer one just the bad one.

I was thinking maybe Warpath but he might be too violent for me ...

and now I want to replace Sunfire with Neal Sharra Thunderbird II.

My X-Factor

1.Havok
2.Polaris
3.Banshee
4.Sunfire
5.Quicksilver
6.Scarlet Witch
7.Blob