The Legion Forever
In mid-November, when we heard about the passing of Carlos Pacheco, who drew, among many other cool things, the Avengers Forever miniseries with Kurt Busiek. As a sort of tribute, I proposed on the Subs podcast that we come up with our own version of a Legion Forever team. The only ground rules were that it includes members or Legion-related characters from any timeline or any continuity, and the pitch had to include a rationale as to why they were together. Here's what I came up with:
- Silver Age: Hate Face
- Never met anyone else on the list
- Bronze Age: Brainiac 5’s Supergirl sex robot
- Might have met Wildfire or M-E Lad
- Bronze Age: Wildfire, in his original ERG-1 containment suit which allowed him to mimick the powers of various Legionnaires
- May have met the Supergirl robot but didn't know at the time she was a robot, although he would surely have heard about after she was destroyed
- 5YL: BION (after it had been reprogrammed by Brainy)
- Would have fought M-E Lad as BION, fought and killed Duplicate Girl as Computo, had their powers as well as Wildfire's when it emerged and took over Danielle Foccart
- 5YL: Matter-Eater Lad, with the innate power of the Miracle Machine
- Would have known about Hate Face but never met him, may have met the Supergirl robot when she was impersonating Supergirl, worked with Wildfire briefly, worked with Duplicate Girl (although she is a different version of the one he worked with in the 5YL timeline)
- Reboot: XS (prior to the first L3W meeting)
- Doesn't know anyone else
- Animated: Jordana Gardner, the Teen Lantern
- Doesn't know anyone else
- Retroboot: Duplicate Girl
- Would have heard of Hate Face, maybe met the Supergirl robot, worked a bit with Wildfire but she got married and left the Legion at the same time as he joined (he would barely know her, but she worked with him periodically), hates BION because it's a version of Computo which killed one of her bodies, worked with M-E Lad in the Silver Age and with XS in L3W
- Threeboot: Cosmic Boy
- Post-L3W, would have met and worked with an older Wildfire, probably didn't work too closely with M-E Lad in L3W, would have met XS and Duplicate Girl in L3W
- Rebirth: X-Ray Girl
- Doesn't know anyone and nobody knows a thing about her so she's a blank slate to do whatever the writer wants with her