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In regards to this comment: "Ironically, this fell in the middle of what is widely considered to be a low point in the Legion's history. The Conway stories were not very well-received, and often seemed to lack ambition." This is an unsupportable, clearly subjective claim (can it be demonstrated that the stories were widely disliked, and what are the criteria for possessing "ambition" in regards to a 1980 mainstream super-team comic?). Generally speaking, comments like that are only appropriate if the alleged fan discontentment actually amounted to something (the Spider-Man Clone saga, for instance)

Rather than many small quasi-stubs, could it not make sense to expand List of Legion of Super-Heroes members into a table? This would also make it simpler to track where and where not there are changes between the original and rebooted versions. unkamunka 02:15 15 Dec 2003 (UTC).

Is there any place in the article for a outline of the in-comic history of the Legion? --khaosworks 03:35, 24 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Sure! I'd suggest renaming the History header to Publication history, and adding a new section entitled Team history or Fictional biography, perhaps with sub-sections for the pre-reboot and post-reboot teams. This will mirror the structure I've been using for some other DC articles, such as The Flash, Green Lantern and Hawkman. -mhr 03:42, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Question - why is the new Mark Waid/Barry Kitson reboot called a "reimagining"? I mean, obviously it can't be called "the reboot", but I can't find a cite for it in the external links. It seems very clunky as a term, unlike reboot itself, post-boot, pre-boot, pre-Crisis, and so on.

For the record, in the fan circles I hang out in the three major continuity eras of LoS are usually called pre-boot, reboot, and newboot (or somewhat more raunchily, preboot!Legion, postboot!Legion, and bitchy!Legion, but nevermind that, heh), but if pos. I'd like to know whether the current header is based on a quote or an official naming that I missed before I go in and change all those pages. - Tinderblast 02:27, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Because that's what Waid called it repeatedly in Wizard and elsewhere. Plus a "newboot" won't be "new" for very long (you can call it bitchy!Legion if you want tho :p) - SoM 02:57, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thank you, that's all I wanted to know. (And I do, secretly ;). -Tinderblast 04:00, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

The phrase I have been hearing used for the current continuity of the Legion is the Threeboot. I like this, and have been using it, since it tacitly acknowledges the Glorith as Time Trapper period as a seperate reboot.

Preboot: Superboy (young Kal-El) and Supergirl (Kara Zor-El) were members.

Crisis on Infinite Earths happens, and (eventually) wipes out Superboy and Supergirl from Legion history. the various ad hoc kludges eventually lead to the MordruVerse for a couple of issues, then a 'running' reboot with Glorith taking the Time Trappers place. Valor (Lar Gand/Mon-El) takes the place of Superboy. Story basically takes up where it left off, with the changes in place.

Zero Hour reboot: total restart, from the begining.

Threeboot: current continuity. Post Infinite Crisis. VikÞor [[User talk:Vik-Thor|Talk]] 04:55, 12 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Isn't it Chameleon Kid? At least I remember this being his name when I was reading them in the early 80s.

No, it's always been Chameleon Boy. Or Chameleon in the reboot era. --khaosworks July 7, 2005 10:58 (UTC)

Though there was a Chameleon Kid in the Legion of Super-Rejects. Perhaps that's what the original poster is remembering? --Patrick T. Wynne 8 July 2005 17:54 (UTC)

The LSR guy was Chameleon King, actually, but yeah. That might be it. --khaosworks 22:37, July 18, 2005 (UTC)

What about the fact that the Legion had itself an entire Big 8 newsgroup - the only superhero group to ever do so? And should we list all the Legion-related titles that were published, including Karate Kid, Wanderers, Valor, Cosmic Boy, Legionnaires 3, Science Police, Inferno, Timber Wolf, etc? DS 17:50, 18 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I've just created a Wildfire wiki but I am not sure how to add Wildfire to the "List of Legion Members" page; anyone who knows how to do so is welcome to do so. Also a picture of him would be nice, and if anyone wants to add on reboot history I'd be grateful. Manticore 23:49, 8 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I've seen Static (I think, it's been awhile) mention a faux LSH, w mems incl Fanboy ("In Here"). And (with N small irony) Dave's "Legion of Substitute X-Men" (as I call them) in 107-8. I'd mention both... Trekphiler 09:29, 21 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

i know that earth-247 was "revealed" to be the DnA Legion's earth. BUT isn't that much like how Earth-Eight "would be the home of Kyle Rayner, Huntress if the multiverse continued to exist."? So did the adventures really take place on Earth-247 or did Earth-247 exist because of the Alex's multiverse split. Exvicious 23:19, 27 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent point! I'm going with the latter. And thank you for clearing up something that had been subconsciously bothering me. I didn't want to have to think of it as another "pocket universe" kinda thing. CovenantD 23:49, 27 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I think that's a smart way to look at it. The Legion reboots kind of break my heart. --Chris Griswold 13:57, 28 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yep. And something else that's been driving me nuts about that - "Earth-8" wasn't part of the merged Earth in Crisis - only 1 (Silver Age DC), 2 (Golden Age DC), 4 (Charlton), S (Marvel Family/Fawcett) and X (Quality) were - all the other Earths were simply obliterated. So Kyle, etc must have been from one of the five merged Earths, they simply couldn't have been from something which retroactively didn't exist. - SoM 01:09, 28 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Earth-8 is where Kyle, the new Huntress, the new Firestorm, and Breach *would have come from* had it not been destroyed. Because there was no Earth-8, when they were "created", they got pushed into Earth-Post-Crisis. wizardimps 07:41, 29 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The way I read it, remember that in their last appearance the Legion was lost in the time/space stream. What if when Luthor split the Earths they found their way to that one? Shikari mentioned that she found them, she ended up in New Earth's future while the rest of the team was lost and now that they're in the multiverse she could find them? wizardimps 07:41, 29 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

SoM, the way I interpret it, each of the 5 remaining worlds contained within them the potential for the rest of the multiverse, even if that particlular universe had been destroyed by the Anti-Monitor. Kinda like a ZIP file embedded in the coding of the post-Crisis universe. :) CovenantD 14:04, 28 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]