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What Andrew wrote!
The Scottish budget's due (trying to get the details right now); the PM, Mr "can't be bothered about detail" Johnson is up here today, as unwelcome as the virus; our fishing industry is on its knees; we await the new Scottish vaccine from Valneva,  but this LSH v. X-Men thingy is much more important
The Legion was designed surely as light, superhero entertainment, and  who among us wouldn't want to be in the LSH club? Am I right or a merangue?
X-Men, freaks hunted and feared by the world.  Doesn't seem a lot of fun. And the stories were much more serious.  I admit to enjoying them at the time but always felt they were a bit underpowered. Like that superhero trio in the back of, I forget which, Charlton comic.
No, no. Floors being wiped with The Legion drying off to nice shine while the X-People scamper on back to  the mansion.

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To add to the sidebar, I submit ?Why I Dislike the Legion?

Adventure Comics 308. Sun Boy figures out Lightning Lad was really a girl because the back of LL?s neck is not as tanned as the rest of his skin, thereby indicating prior longer hair length, indicating that LL was a girl with a boy?s haircut.  Because, as we know, there would be no other way to tell the difference!

I might not have been the most worldly 10 year old, but that was my last issue. 

I can?t count characters like Stone Boy as bad cuz they were created to be bad. Not like, say, Brother Power.  Someone actually thought that was a grand idea. 

[profh0011]

At various times in my life, I might have said Dr. Zachary Smith (Jonathan Harris) on LOST IN SPACE, because he was so damned annoying, selfish, devious, and could never ever seem to give a straight answerr to any question.  But having just re-watched the entire 3 seasons for the first time in decades, I was genuinely surprised at just how entertaining he could be, and just what a good actor Harris could be... with the right material.  The problem was often that producer Irwin Allen decided to give Harris CARTE BLANCHE to write his own material (anbd presumably, that of the Robot as well), and sometimes he just went too damned far.  And then of course, I just watched 2 1st-season episodes back-to-back which, while generally good episodes (and one of them has been a longtime favorite), in one, Smith was a COMPLETE IDIOT from start to finish ("One Of Our Dogs Is Missing") while in the other, he seemed downright MENTALLY UNHINGED, SOCIOPATHIC and EVIL ("Attack of the Monster Plants").  I'm so glad he was never quite this bad later on.



So, thinking about the question, the next candidate that came to mind was Assistant District Attourney Barrington on the 1980s MIKE HAMMER series with Stacy Keach.  He was consistently a rat-faced weasely bastard, with a non-stop irrational hatred for Hammer, always ready to believe the worst and eager to have Hammer's license revoked and have him put behind bars.

And it occurs to me, looking back, that during the period of 1985-88, I KNEW someone just like him at work, who actually spent 3 whole years trying to have me FIRED... because he realized that I had figured out that HE was incompetent, and he was afraid I would try to have HIM fired.  What a COMPLETE A**H***.  (I keep hoping and praying that our paths never cross again.  Otherwise.... I might not be responsible for what might happen.)

Thank goodness there was NO such character in the 1958-60 series with Darren McGavin (which I'm watching right now, for the first time ever-- and LOVING every minute of it!).

[The Australian Panther]

I agree the Imperial Guard was a direct rip-off of the Legion. I'm surprised DC didn't sue - but I guess imitation is the finest form of flattery.

Apparently around that time there was a handshake agreement of some kind between Marvel and DC. They would each do a 'version' of each others characters - as a one-off. Particularly the Avengers and the Justice League. DC didn't take it seriously and they did do a version of the Avengers in the JLA, but the characters were instantly forgettable. Marvel on the other hand had Roy Thomas, who was always a huge fan of the golden age DC characters. He went for it with both hands and gave us the Squadron Supreme. Who have become a fixture in Marvel continuity - several different versions. Since an agreement had been made, DC have never made an issue out of it. Probably too late now anyway. Although, if Marvel decides to use the Squadron in the Movie MCU, there could be interesting times.
An Aside. The Squadron's nemesis is one Emil Burbank. Who he?
Burbank is a town in Oklahoma. Its named after a famous Botanist and Plant Breeder.
His name? Luther Burbank. Geddit?
The latest reboot of the Legion places them about [I think] 10 years in the future.
[This was done before, in a series just called Legion by Keith Giffen. No, not L.E.G.I.O.N. that was also Giffen but that was something else entirely.   
Spoilers! This version of Bouncing Boy comes on like a combination of Wolverine and The X-men Villian, the Blob.
The artist is very strange. Doesn't - and therefore probably can't- draw feet. So every character in long shot looks like Oscar Pistorius the South African sprinter, nicknamed the "Blade Runner,". Very odd.
Also, and my major gripe with the Legion, they are in their mid to late 20's and they are still called Boy, Girl, Lad and Lass. I don't know about you but I objected to that when I became a teenager and certainly in my 20's it was completely unacceptable. So for me that spoils the book. I can imagine that the powers that be want to keep the names copyrighted and to do that you need to keep using them.
Somebody asks, 'What are you reading?' The Legion of Superheroes. Who are the characters? Oh, some of them are Saturn Girl, Bouncing Boy, Cosmic Boy, Matter-eater Lad ....." 'Seriously Dude? You are reading a childrens' comic?' DC obviously gets it, because most of the more recent characters have reasonable names.
'Timber Wolf', Dawnstar, Wildfire,Andromeda .....'       
If I had those powers and somebody called me 'Bouncing Boy' I'd be tempted to punch them in the mouth!
Cheers!