Saturday, June 13, 2020

Current Legion of Super-Heroes Roster

I've probably told this story before, but starting in the early '90s I quit comics for a while, and only came back to them in about 2001, when I had a sudden hankering for Legion of Super-Heroes comics and nothing would do but that I start collecting them again. 

When I did, it was in the middle of the DnA run of the reboot. I fancy the "Dream Crime" storyline had just started. Anyway, I snarfed up a whole batch of back issues and was able to get myself up to speed without too much trouble. But one thing that would have really helped me was the answer to this question: who all is in the Legion of Super-Heroes these days? 

I couldn't find an answer anywhere. There was no list in the comics; there was no definitive list online. So when, at the dawn of the threeboot, I launched Legion Abstract, one thing I wanted to make sure I did was provide a list of current Legionnaires. 

I haven't updated it since the fourboot came along; I was waiting for Bendis and Sook to come up with some kind of handy reference. They haven't. So I'm doing what I can. Here's what I'm drawing on. I have Superman #14, but not Superman #15 (my comic shop sold out of it). I have both issues of Legion of Super-Heroes: Millennium. I don't have Doomsday Clock, although I will refer to it once. And I have Legion of Super-Heroes v8 #1-6. I'm going to be going through all of these and see what information about the Legion roster we can regard as established. Squinting at Frichtman tags and so on. I won't provide footnotes, but I will hold myself to the standard of, I won't put anything in there that wasn't on the page someplace. 

If you can come up with something I missed, please let me know in the comments. Anything with a question mark is something that needs to be confirmed. (Note: Bendis and Sook seem to be mostly playing it conventional when it comes to the Legionnaires' real names and home planets. Anything like that that I leave out of this list, it's not that I'm doubting that what we all think is the answer is the answer. I'm just saying, here's what we know that we know.) 
 
Legionnaire Name Planet Notes
Blok Blok Dryad
Bouncing Boy Charles Foster Taine Earth
Brainiac 5 Querl Dox Colu
Chameleon Boy Reep Daggle
Colossal Boy Gim Allon Earth
Computo Computo n/a?
Cosmic Boy Rokk Krinn Braal
Dawnstar Dawnstar Gr'Ell Starhaven I hate the "Gr'Ell" thing
Dr. Fate
Dream Girl? Nura Nal Naltor
Element Lad Jan Arrah Trom
Entropy Kid pink and purple uniform, alien, long skull; name revealed on Reddit
Ferro Lad Andrew Nolan
Gold Lantern Kala Lour
Invisible Kid Lyle in LSH:Millennium #2; edited to Jacques in later printings?
Invisible Kid II Jacques Foccart Earth or Kit-Son in LSH #5; it's not clear what the deal is with the Invisible Kids
Karate Kid Val
Light Lass? May not be the same person as Lightning Lass; it's not clear. Is there a Light Lass?
Lightning Lad Garth Ranzz Winath
Lightning Lass Ayla Ranzz Winath Not 100% sure she's a Legionnaire, but she does have a flight ring
Matter-Eater Lad?
Mon-El Lar Gand Daxam or New Krypton
Monster Boy Arune Singh Tor-Etto
Phantom Girl Tinya Wazzo Bgztl
Princess Projectra? Wilimena Morgana Daergina Annaxandra Projectra Velorya Vauxhall Orando
Radius Lad name revealed on Reddit; don't remember seeing him in the comic book
Saturn Girl Imra Ardeen Titan
Shadow Lass Tasmia Mallor Talok VIII
Shrinking Violet?
Soultaker has only appeared in Doomsday Clock
Star Boy
Sun Boy?
Superboy Jon Kent Earth
Timber Wolf Brin Londo Zuun
Thorn Rose Forrest Earth officially the Legion's liaison to the UP; not necessarily a regular Legionnaire
Triplicate Girl Luornu Durgo Cargg
Ultra Boy Jo Nah Rimbor
unknown
White Witch Mysa Nal or Xola Aq Naltor or Zerox
Wildfire Drake Burroughs Earth
X-Ray Girl green-suited skeleton; name revealed on Reddit

2 comments:

  1. We definitely need a chart with pictures and maybe a one sentence summary of each Legionnaire at this point.

    The new Element Lad appears to be this green skinned guy, so I'm still assuming the skeleton is Chemical Person.

    https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Jan_Arrah_(Post-Rebirth)

    I also have to admit I kind of like the Gr'll thing, but I like little wink-nudge homages like that. Turning her natural wings into some kind of energy thing annoys me more.

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  2. Yeah, we have confirmation on Element Lad; no problem there.

    I'm okay with the wings. It does make her more of a standard human with a superpower than a futuristic humanoid, but oh well.

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