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Legion of Super-Heroes

The Legion of Superheroes
Super-hero team

Management	Rokk Krinn
Location	Unknown
Status	Active (in the 31st century)

"Long live the Legion!" - Rokk Krinn, Legion

The Legion of Super-Heroes, or simply The Legion, is a team of alien super-heroes who formed in the 31st century as a homage to a hero from the past.

1 Known Members
- 1.1 Affiliates
2 Season Eight
3 Season Ten
4 Technology
5 In the Comics
6 Appearances
7 Trivia
8 Gallery
9 External Links

Known MembersEdit

The Legion of Super-Heroes first appeared in the Season Eight's Legion. The known members are:

Code Name	Real Name	First appeared
Cosmic Boy	Rokk Krinn	Legion
He has the power of all magnetic forces and is able to control them at will.
Lightning Lad	Garth Ranzz	Legion
He has the power to generate electricity within his body and manipulate it externally.
Saturn Girl	Imra Ardeen	Legion
She has the power of telepathy and can communicate with other beings, read minds and control other minds.
Brainiac 5	Brainiac 5	Homecoming
The powerful artificial intelligence reprogrammed to be a force for good and a member of the Legion.

AffiliatesEdit

People who have worked with or have been involved with the Legion at one point or another.

Clark Kent - Inspired the Legion to form. Was saved by the Legion and in return, helped them defeat Brainiac.
Lana Lang - Imra Ardeen asked Lana to convince Clark to kill Chloe (who was possessed by Brainiac), but refused to do so.

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Season EightEdit

Founding Legion members Rokk Krinn, Garth Ranzz and Imra Ardeen traveled through time back to the 21st century to stop the Persuader from killing Superman, aka Clark Kent. They found him to be at Clark's barn where he had just returned from seeing Jimmy off to Star City. After he had cut open his abdomen, Rokk took away his Atomic Axe using his ability of magnetism control and Imra distracted him using telepathy long enough for Garth to knock him out using his electricity before Rokk took away his stolen Legion ring sending him back to the 31st century.

Rokk, Garth and Imra then introduced themselves to Clark as the Legion of Super-Heroes. The three explained to Clark what he is truly destined to be - which is a model for all the galaxy for aliens to come to earth and live among humans. They realized that they had landed on the day Brainiac emerged in a human host and realized that they and Kal-El had to defeat Brainiac to kill the host after the Phantom Zone crystal (Red crystal) was destroyed.

They began tracking down Brainiac while at the same time pondering the 21st century commenting on the state of the planet and how it was being polluted. Garth then began to question Kal-El stating that they may have the wrong person as he was nothing like they had heard about in the future, however Rokk still believed in Kal-El.

They tracked Brainiac at the Daily Planet where he had just began to upload all of the human knowledge leaving the entire planet stood still before using an electro magnetic pulse to temporarily short circuit him. They plan to kill Brainiac by killing the host body, Chloe, before Kal-El stopped them and they took Brainiac back to the barn where they managed to extract him from Chloe with Imra connecting to Chloe telepathically, Rokk using his magnetic powers to extract Brainiac's microscopic parts while Garth used his powers to short-circuit him.

After defeating Brainiac by extracting it from Chloe, they intended on making a better use of it, in the form of Brainiac 5. They later returned to their own time, after Rokk warned Clark about being careful in the days ahead.

Returning from the future to the 21st century once again, Rokk goes to the Daily Planet rooftop to meet Clark and told him that by saving Chloe from Brainiac, he saved her connection to Doomsday and that Chloe is the reason that Doomsday cannot be defeated now since she made him immune to kryptonite when she tried to kill him with it and she stopped Clark from sending Doomsday to the Phantom Zone at the Fortress of Solitude with the Black crystal. Clark states that he wouldn't change his decision on saving Chloe no matter what happened and then Rokk tells Clark that tomorrow is the day he'll die if he goes up against Doomsday alone. He gives Clark another Legion ring since his old one got destroyed a while ago and suggests that Clark send Doomsday to the future to fight the Legion since nothing on the planet can stop him from killing him, then he returns to the future when Clark refuses to accept his help, stating that this is his problem, not the Legion's and that he will embrace his destiny, even if it means that he'll have to die to do it.

Season TenEdit

Brainiac 5 revealed he is now a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes and that he is not the same Brainiac from the past. He also stated that he invented time-traveling. Brainiac 5 came back to show Clark's his past, present and future, and helping him letting go of his darkness which is his past.

Kara Kent slipped on a Legion ring after helping Clark all she could, and traveled through time, ready to accept her own destiny. ^{[citation needed]}

TechnologyEdit

Coming from the 31st century, technology is far more advanced than it is in the 21st century and so the Legion are able to time travel using Legion rings. A person can wear the ring and transport themselves anywhere in time and space as shown when the Persuader stole a Legion ring and went back in time to kill Kal-El so that he wouldn't be able to stop Brainiac from taking all knowledge off of Earth before Doomsday destroyed it.

In the ComicsEdit

The Legion's stories are set primarily in the 30th and 31st centuries (1000 years from the present), but have recurring connections via time travel with the present. Initially, the team was closely associated with the original Superboy and was first portrayed as a group of time travelers who frequently visited (or were visited by) the young hero destined to become Superman.

In later years the Legion's origin and back story were fleshed out, and the group replaced Superboy as the focus of their stories; eventually Superboy was removed altogether. The Legion has remained a somewhat popular DC franchise throughout its publishing history, appearing in regular features during most of this time. The founding members of the Legion were Lightning Lad, Saturn Girl and Cosmic Boy.In other media The Legion of Superheroes appear on Superman Animated Series in the episode New Kids in the Town, Justice League Unlimited in the episode Far from Home and had the Legion of Superheroes animated series that lasted for 2 seasons.

AppearancesEdit

Season Eight: Legion, Doomsday (Rokk only)
Season Ten: Homecoming (Brainiac 5 only)

TriviaEdit

The Legion of Super-Heroes are the second super powered team to appear on Smallville, the first being Oliver Queen's team of heroes that first appeared in Season Six.
The three Legion members who appear in the season eight episode Legion are the three core members of the team from the DC Comics. They also were the ones to form the Legion of Super-Heroes in the first place.
Rokk Krinn is the only Legion member to appear twice.
The Legion of Super-Heroes first appeared in Adventure Comics #247 (April, 1958).
Geoff Johns wrote The Legion's first appearance on Smallville, just as he wrote the Justice Society of America's in Season Nine's Absolute Justice.
The Legion lives in a future directly 1,000 years from the present.
All of the Legion members can fly, because of their Legion rings.
All of the Legion members have only one power with the exception of Brainiac 5 (who has the same powers as his previous incarnations).
In the comics the Legion is responsible for bringing Conner Kent and Bart Allen back from the dead.
There are two references to 31st century heroes toward the end of the Legion's first apperance, Lightning Lad gets Clark to sign his baseball and says its for his sister and Rokk tells him he is acting like a Sub. In the comics, Lightning Lad's sister was Lightning Lass (and later Light Lass) and the Substitute's are a group of Legion rejects who have their own team The Legion of Substitue-Heroes.