Legion of Super-Villains

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The Legion of Super-Villains are a supervillain team that features in DC Comics.

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History

Legion of Super-Villains in Superman v1 #147.

Among their ranks included Cosmic King, Lightning Lord and Saturn Queen who became bitter enemies of the Legion. (Superman v1 #147)

They were contacted by Lex Luthor in the 20th century where they provided him equipment to allow him to escape prison. They then journeyed to that time period in order to ally with him against Superman with the trio battling their Legion counterparts. (Superman v1 #147)

Another plot by them was to eliminate Dr. Larx Kenrik who was famous in the 30th century for his works in promoting peace. This involved arranging events where he presented the Universal Trophy to the Legion of Super-Heroes only to provide the trophy that had been coated in powerful explosives. Upon touching it, the trophy was to detonate thus killing Kenrik and Sun Boy with this act not only killing the doctor but also discrediting the Legion of Super-Heroes. This knock on effect was then to allow the Legion of Super-Villains to reign supreme. Crucial to the plot was Chameleon Chief who infiltrated the Legion headquarters to place the bomb but he was ultimately discovered and captured. This allowed for Chameleon Boy taking on his guise to enter the supervillains base and expose them leading to their defeat by the superheroes. (Superboy v1 #208)

Lightning Lord formed a new Legion of Super-Villains, with each of them swearing a blood oath to kill at least one Legionnaire. Lightning Lord swore on his oath to kill his brother Lightning Lad, which he said had been his destiny since he was born. Dream Girl had a prophetic vision about one of the Legion dying in the near future, and went on a retreat to the gambling planet of Ventura with Star Boy to take her mind off a grim future. Micro Lad robbed a casino’s bank in the name of the Imskian liberation movement, and when the Legionnaires confronted him, he shrank out of sight. They called in Shrinking Violet, who was eager to deal with the man who’d caused her so much pain in the past. She beat him to a pulp, further infuriated when he attempted to take her hostage again, but a dimensional portal opened up and whisked Micro Lad to safety. Colossal Boy, who’d only ever lived at home, and then at Legion hq, got an apartment with Yera. They settled into their new place, and Colossal Boy learned from the news that his mother Marte Allon had resigned as Earth President. Mon-El, Shadow Lass, Chameleon Boy, Ultra Boy and Timber Wolf helped restore the topography of Daxam, and while Shady and Mon-El were hopeful for the planet’s future the cynical Chameleon Boy reminded them that the Daxamites were currently extremely unpopular with the U.P. They received a distress call from Takron-Galtos about a renegade Daxamite destroying the facility and laying waste to the guards. They found Darkseid’s acolyte Ol-Vir was responsible, and had freed a number of visitors. He committed a ritual sacrifice to Darkseid, killing one of the guards with his heat-vision before the Legion could stop him. Mon-El called Ol-Vir a disgrace to Daxam, and threatened to break every bone in his body, while his fellow Legionnaires fended off the escaped prisoners. Ol-Vir initially scoffed at Mon-El, but the battle turned against him, and when a dimensional portal opened up and a voice offered him membership in the Legion of Super-Villains he decided he might as well accept, and flew through. The Portal also scooped up Ron-Karr and Chameleon Chief. Light Lass, happy to retire as a Legionnaire and let her brother play hero, joined her friend Sarah’s commune on Winarth. Light Lass said she was sick of adventure, and much happier farming and looking after children. Unbeknownst to her she was being tracked and observed by M. Wayne, a private investigator hired by timer Wolf. Radiation Roy ambushed her, and after knocking he rout with a blast of radiation, a dimensional portal opened up, taking them both back to the Legion of Super-Villains. (Legion of Super-Heroes v3 #1)

Overview

Each of its members were said to possess one fantastic superpower. (Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen v1 #63)

Members

  • Cosmic King : male Venusian alchemist with the power to transmute matter into other substances. (Superman v1 #147)
  • Lightning Lord : a male who was the brother of Lightning Lad with the pair getting their electric abilities from a lightning monster. (Superman v1 #147)
  • Saturn Queen : a female telepath from Saturn who used her abilities to hypnotise her foes. (Superman v1 #147)
  • Chameleon Chief : a shapeshifter with the power of super-disguise. (Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen v1 #63) Though possessing similar powers as Chameleon Boy, the Chameleon Chief was also able to change the shape of other objects. (Superboy v1 #208)
  • Echo : a male wearing a blue costume who referred to himself as the master of sound who could direct powerful sonic attacks. (Adventure Comics v1 #355)
  • Beauty Blaze : a blonde haired female who wore a fire medallion on her chest and had the ability to control fires and flames which she could direct as attacks against her enemies. (Adventure Comics v1 #355)
  • Sun-Killer : Kodama was a male human from Earth who could project solar energies and became devoted to serve Saturn Queen. (Adventure Comics v1 #522)
  • Questor : Xart Prax was a male Coluan who had technologically enhanced super-intelligence. (Legion of Super-Villains v1 #1)
  • Immortus : a seemingly mechanical being constructed on Zuun possessing a body shaped of pure Inertron making him indestructible and powered by an antimatter furnace that gave him his strength as well as speed. (Legion of Super-Villains v1 #1)
  • Akka : a female from Sklar who was skilled in extreme martial arts and combat with superhuman reflexes. (Legion of Super-Villains v1 #1)
  • Micro Lad : Lalo Muldron was a male from Imsk who had his peoples natural ability to shrink to microscopic size with him being killed by Akka for questioning Saturn Queen. (Legion of Super-Villains v1 #1)

Notes

  • The Legion of Super-Villains were created by Robert Bernstein and Al Plastino where they made their first appearance in Superman v1 #147 (August, 1961).
  • They appeared as teenagers in Adventure Comics v1 #372 (September, 1968).

In other media

Television

  • In Legion of Super Heroes, the Legion of Super-Villains appeared in the animated television series where they appeared in the episode "Lightning Storm". They were led by Lightning Lord with their ranks consisting of Hunter, Esper, Tyr, Wave, and Ron-Karr. Publically, they called themselves the Light Speed Vanguard who portrayed themselves as a team of superheroes who sought to outperform the Legion of Super-Heroes but in reality they were financially motivated protectors with them being extortionists and assassins.

Appearances

  • Superman v1: (1961)
  • Adventure Comics v1:
  • Legion of Super-Heroes v3:
  • Legion of Super-Villains v1:

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