What Members Would You Like To Appear In A "Legion Of Super-Heroes" Film?

Austin Butler for Element Lad!

R1 Who?

Josh Hutcherson is Bouncing Boy

Tied for #1 = Dream Girl / Star Boy & Supergirl / Brainiac 5.

Tied for #3 = Phantom Girl / Ultra Boy, Chameleon Boy / Colossal Boy, Invisable Kid 1 / Night Girl, Shadow Lass / Mon-El, Light Lass / Timber Wolf & Matter-Eater Lad / Element Lad.

Tied for #9 = Triplicate Girl / Bouncing Boy & Shrinking Violet / Sun Boy (with no votes).

Brainiac 5

What about Arms-Fall-Off Boy? Infectious Lass? Porcupine Pete?

Dream Girl & Star Boy have always been my favorites. Insanely Dream Girl was re-conceived for "Supergirl" the TV show as a genderfluid character named "Dreamer", but all long time fans know that Dream Girl has been since her conception in the 60s a beautiful and alluring woman.

I don't care a bit if Star Boy is white or if he's black (he's been both in the character's history).

Definitely Brainy.

The original three - Lightning Lad, Saturn Girl, Cosmic Boy.

Dream Girl, Invisible Kid (Lyle Norg - when they made him gay in the Archie Legion), Tyroc, Shadow Lass and Mon-El

Projectra

Karate Kid and Princess Projectra?

OP, you forgot:

The White Witch/ Blok

Princess/Queen Projectra (aka Sensor Girl)/ Karate Kid

and Shrinking Violet should be paired with either Duplicate Boy or Light(ning) Lass, and Element Lad should be paired with Shvaughn/ Sean Erin.

Who is Austin Butler?

Anti-Lad

Ferro Lad

There are a number of gay legionnaires. When Shrinking Violet dumped Duplicate Boy for failing to save her when she was kidnapped, she hooked up with Lightning Lass (formerly Light Lass), who had at the time broken up with the male Timber Wolf.

Element Lad was suspected by fans to be gay for years and years before he inexplicably started dating a woman@1981, but then the Bierbaums confirmed he was at least bisexual in the early 90s when his longtime girlfriend Shvaughn Erin was revealed to be a man named Sean Erin who was taking drugs to change his sex (and who then stopped taking them to change back--although he and Element Lad stayed a couple).

There are also two gay members of the Legion Academy who are in a relationship, Power Boy and Gravity Kid.

And there is also a gay member of the Legion of Super-Villains: Lightning Lord.

Where is the KILL YOURSELF OP option? FF for shitry, faulty poll.

Later on, dead Legionnaires Invisible Kid and Chemical King were revealed to have been boyfriends.

And in one iteration, Brainiac 5 and either IK or CK.

Hi, 2015 bump troll. I see you're active tonight. Too many anti-Trump and pro-protest threads for you?

What do you mean, r17? I could have started a new thread but then you’d be a whiny bitch about the search function.

Or do you not get that in Russia? Or China?

The Legion Of Super Heroes was my all time favorite comic book when I was a kid growing up. Loved Mon-el. Sexy and strong.

Mon-el.

An old cover from the 1960's.

Tell us more about Austin Butler. He's cute.

There must be a Colossal Boy and I am gonna need to see an eight foot buldge.

Brainiac 5, Duo Damsel (keep up, OP), Shrinking Violet and Phantom Girl also are necessities. Keep it Silver Age, and add Element Lad's gayness.

Ya'll do remember the affair between Shrinking Violet and Light Lass, of course.

I was obsessed with the LSH as a kid in the 70s. There was an issue that traumatized me as a kid. Not sure why. But in it, they expelled Gravity Lad for killing someone (I think), when he could have just been subdued by dropping a tree branch on him. Something like that?

It just made me so sad that they kicked him out.

My mistake - Star Boy, not Gravity Lad. That was just one of his powers.

No Legion of Super-Heroes film until we get a Legion of Super-Pets movies first!

Triad sans Bouncing Boy

[quote] I was obsessed with the LSH as a kid in the 70s. There was an issue that traumatized me as a kid. Not sure why. But in it, they expelled Gravity Lad for killing someone (I think), when he could have just been subdued by dropping a tree branch on him. Something like that?

It's an old story actually from the 60s, but it was reprinted in an issue of Superboy and the Legion of Super-heroes in the 1970s. It's called "The Legionnaire Who Killed." Star Boy is hunted down by the former boyfriend of Dream Girl 9who was not then a superhero), and who carries a deadly gun and a shield that blocks Star Boy's powers. Star Boy shoots him to death, and then has to go on trial because the Legion has a strict code against killing: Superboy is his lawyer for the defense, and Brainiac 5 is his prosecutor. Brainiac 5 shows that Star Boy could have directed his power upward and disarmed the man non-lethally by making foliage fall on him.

There is a vote that's very close: we are told that all the female Legionnaires except Saturn Girl vote to acquit Star Boy "because of his long-standing relationship with Dream Girl" (yes, they are that shallow) and all the male Legionnaires except Superboy and Mon-El vote to expel Star Boy--and that latter group is the majority. It ends with Star Boy being expelled, but Dream Girl invites him at the end of the story to join the group she has recently joined, The Legion of Substitute Heroes.

A year or so later, for helping the full-time Legion with an especially hard case, both Star Boy and Dream Girl are bumped up to the big leagues again.

Another pairing left off in the poll: Wildfire/Dawnstar

If they were to make a Legion film - which storyline would you like to see them adapt? The Great Darkness Saga is a no-brainer but what others would make for a good film?

The Legion is un-filmable. If they had a small, core team, it defeats the point; a full scale team with 20 or so leads - impossible in a normal-length movie.

R32, so maybe a TV series, like Titans, makes more sense.

They aren't going to pay 20+ leads for a tv series, R33 - they only had a handful of main Titans and a few recurring guest stars. A tv series is even less likely than a film. The Legion is epic or nothing.

Unknown twink actors in Spandex shouldn’t be that expensive. Put an ad on Grindr.

Does anyone remember Princess Projectra? She had the power to create illusions.

It 's gotta' be Colossal Boy and Star Boy(along with his sexy facial hair)

I always wished they would've made a Legion film, from back in the day, before storylines got so complicated. It's one reason I preferred DC comics too Marvel(you had to think too much with them) I'm very old school, I think I stopped buying comics when they went to 50cents.

When I was overseas in the service, my mother threw out my comic book collection. I probably could've retired a few years earlier with what I had. Thanks, mom.

Cosmic Boi.

Night Girl’s relegation to the Substitute League never made a lot of sense to me. Her power may not be suitable in daytime on Earth. But LSH operates across multiple planets.

Superboy needs a yellow sun, right? But he’s not ineligible if LSH needed help on a red sun planet.

And all of the mischief in LSH on Earth happens in the daytime. But real mischief makers are more common at night.

Also, whatev.

[quote] Night Girl’s relegation to the Substitute League never made a lot of sense to me.

But Princess Projectra's, Shadow Lass's, Cosmic Boy's, and Night Girl's costume did make sense?

They could pair it down - cast a Superboy and build around him being trapped in the future. Throw in Saturn girl, Lightning lad, Cosmic Boy, Triplicate Girl and Colossal boy - you can focus on the death of one of Triplicate girl's bodies to save the day.

R40, no. It didn’t make sense with them either. But “you have the power of Superman in the dark and much of Earth is often in the dark, but we can’t use you” seemed WRONG! I was a kid then, though.

I just want a Colossal boy gay porn. "How big is your dick?" "How big do you want it to be?"

[quote] Does anyone remember Princess Projectra?

No, no one else has mentioned her on this entire thread. it would be impossible to go through this thread and find any mention of her.

[quote] But Princess Projectra's, Shadow Lass's, Cosmic Boy's, and Night Girl's costume did make sense?

How the women's costumes (except Projectra's, which looked more uncomfortable than ridiculously skimpy) stayed on was a complete mystery. But the editors did finally explain how Cosmic Boy's logic-defying costume: it was made of metal threads, so he could use his magnetic powers to adhere to his body.

The insane gravity-defying costumes all came in the Seventies--Mike Grell designed some true abominations (like the Night Girl and Laurel Kent costumes which in both cases were basically just black strips and triangles laid over the nipples and vagina), but fans actually designed some of the uglier ones.

This one, which Saturn Girl wore for over a decade, was one of the stupidest ones designed by fans: on one hand it was slutty, but on the other it was wildly awkward and uncomfortable looking with those awful thigh boots. Keith Giffen put her back in her classic neck to toe outfit with the skirt, which was much more in keeping with her personality--though wittily Steve Lightle once had her wear the costume below (minus the gloves and thigh boots) as a swimsuit!

Laurel Kent's superpractical costume (the high heels must make it even more fun), by Mike Grell.

One of the weird things about the Legion of Super-Heroes when it started in the 50s and early 60s was that the editor seemed to think that what the kids who were the reading audience really loved most with the idea of a club was keeping people in and out. So about half the covers from the original run of adventure had someone either being thrown out or trying to force his way in (as with the cover below), and stories regularly featured auditions for the Legion, with such unsuitable candidates as Arms-Fall-Off Boy, Eyeful Ethel, and The Mess. Some of the unsuitable candidates (like Color Kid) eventually joined the JV version of the Legion of Super-Heroes, the Legion of Substitute Heroes, and then some like Spider Girl and Radiation Roy joined the Legion of Super-Villains. And then as someone said above, there was also even a Legion of Super-Pets.

Oops--forgot to add the link:

Poor Shrinking Violet never had a good costume.

Dave Cockrum's Lightning Lad costume is perfection and every artist who thought he could do better should be flogged. (I'm looking at you, Barry Kitson and Gary Frank.)

I actually very much liked this Keith Giffen costume for Shrinking Violet. It was used only for a brief time (and while Violet was not really the person we thought, but worn rather by a Durlan impostor), but it was her best costume.

And it remains the first of her costumes to this day that actually had any violet in it! (More recent versions that are both violet and her traditional green are hideous, IMO).

Cutie Element Lad.

Legionnaire weddings.

Ranked.

I persydidn’t care for any of the non-humanoid Legionnaires, especially the post reboot version of Princess Projectra as a snake.

I’m slightly shocked Bryan Singer didn’t try to get a LSH film made at some point.

If i were doing a Legion movie, I would adapt the original Mordru two-parter. Small cast, introduce the concept, romance, hunky boys.

Duo Damsel

Timothee Chalamet as Brainiac 5

Lucas Hedges - Lightning Lad

Logan Lerman - Cosmic Boy

Kathryn Newton - Saturn Girl

Justice Smith - Invisible Kid

Florence Pugh - Princess Projectra

Joe Keery - Timber Wolf

Elle Fanning - Dream Girl

Dakota Fanning - White Witch

Julia Garner - Light Lass

Miles Heizer - Element Lad

Nick Robinson - Colossal Boy

Odeya Rush - Shrinking Violet

Cameron Monaghan - Sun Boy

With

Ansel Elgort as Lightning Lord

And

Jeff Bridges as RJ Brande

Sun Boy and Dream Girl and I'm good.

A sequence with the Espionage Squad would be great..Chameleon Boy, Shrinking Violet, Phantom Girl, Invisible Kid..

Timothee Chalamet as Shrinking Violet

13 Reasons Why cast needs work...they could just hire them to play a bunch of the roles.

Two of them--Dawnstar and Tellus--were created when the writer, Paul Levitz, really liked the artist he worked with and said he could create any character he wanted to be a Legionnaire as an enticement to stay, so Mike Grell created Dawnstar and almost immediately left the book anyway, and Steve Lightle created Tellus.

Dawnstar looked absolutely ridiculous: like what someone thought a Native American superheroine would look like after watching Cher model "indian" Bob Mackie outfits on the old Sonny & Cher show. But they gave her an interesting personality (she was a bit arrogant for she worked since childhood as a bounty hunter and tracker for years before joining the Legion Academy, and was also caught up in a star-crossed love with Wildfire who could not touch her without burning her). Tellus looked really cool (he was the first completely non-humanoid alien to join the Legion0, btu he didn;t have much of a personality and no one knew what to do with him.

My favorite of all was Dream Girl. She was originally just considered extremely pretty, but then Levitz really worked on her character and established that she was the smartest Legionnaire after Brainiac 5, and the best hand-to-hand fighter after Karate Kid and Timber Wolf. She also had a gigantic ego and so annoyed almost everyone else, even though they usually admitted she was very smart and good in battle. (She was in some ways a very good leader of the team because she was a brilliant battle strategist, but she annoyed other characters so much that her deputy leaders kept quitting.)

[quote]Logan Lerman - Cosmic Boy

This makes me tingle all over. Original Cosmic Boy was my favorite.

Ah...Timber Wolf...

Worst character reboot ever!!!

Okay, can someone help this eldergay remember? As a kid, I remember the Legion of Super Heroes in the sixties, but I only remember it having four members. Am I crazy? I remember Karate Kid and the one who died, Ferro Lad.

R67 - I wonder If you are remembering this story in which Superman goes into the future to visit the Legion who are now adults. Most are married and retired or dead (Shadow Lass) so there aren’t many active Legionnaires left. At the end I recall them admitting Lex Luthor’s descendant into the Legion.

Are there any good, recommended collections of LSH comics that are commercially available?

may have answered my own question