Fenris:
I don’t recall them saying that his power was greater than the corresponding power of Superboy or Mon-El (except, as mentioned, for the vision powers), merely that his invulnerability works differently. I interpreted it to mean that his “invulnerability” was something like the way Green Lantern rings are programmed to protect their wearers, to work whichever way it can adapt to tthe situation.
Speaking of underappreciated powers… What about Wonder Woman’s ability to cloud men’s minds?
Actually, a similar power is used by one of the Body Doubles in their New Year’s Evil oneshot. Merlin the archer is about to kill Bonnie (or is it Carmen? Whichever one is the darkhaired pornstar). She says she wants to tell him something before she dies, runs her tongue over her lips, and shows him her breasts. This causes Merlin to drop his guard, and Bonnie is able to punch him and escape.
The Invisible Girl, err, I mean Woman was always my fav.
They never fully showed her potential until she became Malice.
That’s not so impressive. Any buxom woman in an outfit like that could cloud men’s minds.
When I was reading Legion type stories, I took a liking to Erg. The Legion wouldn’t let him join as he refused to demonstrate his special power. Finally, to save the Legionaires, he used it, which consisted of removing his face shield and focusing all his energy at his target. The reason he refused to demonstrate it before then is that he didn’t exist in form anymore after that. Seems he was just energy in some sort of containment suit.
IIRC, about a year or so later, he finally gathered all his particles together and created a body again.
That would be the Legionnaire better known as Wildfire. He got better at keeping his energy together, but still needed the containment suit.
In 1987-89, he was able to dispense with the suit briefly, but that wasn’t permanent either.
I remember a one-off comment by one Legionnaire about the Daxamite / Kryptonian issue. S/he said something like ‘do you want to tell them they’re not allowed in?’ Although they did punk Superboy before letting him join.
I’ve always been curious about TimberWolf’s unique power. Was it agility? He wasn’t as strong as Mon-El/Superboy (“M/S”) or even presumably Colossal Boy. He wasn’t as invulnerable as M/S. He wasn’t as fast, and couldn’t fly. He wasn’t as good in HtH as Karate Kid. What was his qualifier?
It was the agility and acrobatic talent.
So if Nadia Commenici or Olga Korbett showed up before Brin Londo, he would have been out of luck, I guess
I thought Timberwolf had an advanced sense of smell/tracking ability? am I wrong?
In Infinity War, Sue Storm shows she’s much more powerful than most folks think. She uses one of her force fields to contain the explosion of a gamma bomb.
D_Odds:
Perfect tens? Heck, Timber Wolf is a super-acrobat. He could get elevens from the judges.
Candid Gamera:
While I do recall seeing him act that way in a few stories, I haven’t seen those mentioned in any of the “official” references. But I’m open to revising my view on that.
Mon-El was a (near) sole survivor? I thought that Daxam was fully populated in the pre-boot.
Wasn’t there something unique about Quislet that allowed him come to our univierse in his little ship that was different from the other of his species?
BTW, It looks like we may be in for another reboot of the Legion.
Sir Prize:
True, but he was the only one who ha the anti-lead-poisoning serum, so for all intents and purposes, I treated him as such.
Only that he was more independent of the hive-mind than others. But in physical ability, all of them could do what he did. I see him as the equivalent of Karate Kid amongst Earthlings.
I think it’s more of a marketing re-launch than a continuity re-boot.
What?! That dirty good-for-nothing … she prevented everyone within the blast radius from gaining the powers of the Hulk! :mad:
Well maybe, or they could’ve gained the powers of the Leader, the Abomination, Half Life, the Harpy or considering that they were from 0 feet to 50 feet away from the bomb, all the powers of a radioactive cloud.
I seem to recall now reading a comic a few years ago that had a guest appearance by the Legionaires. I remember now, about making the Wildfire/Erg connection back then. Thanks for the reminder, I have only read that and the two original Erg stories, but for some reason, I found him cool when I read his debut.
Much better name with “Wildfire.” “Erg,” sounds like a Conehead’s cousin or something.
ERG = Energy Release Generator, the name of the suit. It was built originally to help its designer handle radiation therapy for advanced cancer that was beyond 30th century medical science. But Drake screwed up and blew himself up. He needed the suit just a little more, being nothing but sentient energy and all.
On the Teen Titans cartoon a few weeks back, Cyborg revealed one of the most practical super powers (well…super “features,” more like it) I’ve ever seen. A little retractible spotlight, built into his shoulder.
Heck, that’d be even more usefull than true nightvision, in quite a few occasions. You can light things up for other people. Plus, he doesn’t really have to worry about having fresh batteries in the thing. (If his onboard power supply is enough to run a person for an indefinate period of time, a little lightbulb should be no problem at all.)