Bumped up from the comments in another post, here's a blindingly obvious statement by Keith Giffen. Over at ComicMix, he's asked about "Countdown", which characters he liked and didn't like.
And everyone knows I hate Karate Kid. One of the reasons I stuck with Countdown was that I'd have a chance to hurt him again!
Giffen already succeeded at killing off Karate Kid twice, the Pre-Crisis version and the SW6 version.
Countdown's version appears to be the resurrected Pre-Crisis (Lightning Saga) guy - I'm a few weeks behind in my reading, so if there's some other explanation, please don't repeat it here - so leave it to Giffen to try to off him a third time. Three times for the same character - that's a hat trick.
I think the Karate Kid in the regular Legion series is safe for now, as he's being written by his original creator, Jim Shooter.
The Karate Kids of the reboot, threeboot, and Elseworlds Legions are still alive... at least, as of this date. I *sincerely* hope it stays that way!!
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