Top 10 Legion of Super Hero Members (Pre Bendis)

[Sutekh]

Don't forget Earth-Man. Even if you want.

I almost had! <Choke> *sob*

Now I have to go have a rum and coke and see if I can kill those specific brain cells.

[Samm]

1. Wildfire
2. Dawnstar
3. Timberwolf
4. Cosmic Boy
5. Saturn Girl
6. Lightning Lad
7. Brainiac 5
8. Karate Kid
9. Tyroc
10. Kid Quantum

[Timber Wolf-By-Night]

1. Timber Wolf
2. Sensor Girl
3. Wildfire
4. Element Lad
5. Shrinking Violet
6. Blok
7. Chameleon Boy
8. Saturn Girl
9. Invisible Kid II
10. Ultra Boy

[Captain Nostalgia]

All right I will make this last call for the list and then post the results.

At some point I started tallying the points (10 points for spot 1, 9 points for spot 2, ect)

So I thought it would be fun in terms of points to see who was the most popular legionairres picked.

[Captain Nostalgia]

I kept a tally through this, calculations are probably off because I wasn't planning to do this it just happened organically for my own entertainment....

but of the 31 people who responded here are the most popular legionairres.

(I guess my biggest surprise was seeing three of my favourites in the top 5. (I knew Wildfire was popular but I didn't expect Timber Wolf and Dawnstar to be so high...and poor Sunboy, I was surprised on that one)

1. Wildfire 142
2. Dawnstar 128
3. Timber Wolf 129
4. Brainiac 5 102
5. Ultra Boy 96
6. Saturn Girl 74
7. Phantom Girl 72
8. Mon –el 72
9. Shadow Lass 68
10. Dream Girl 65
11. Matter Eater Lad 58
12. Cosmic Boy 54
13. Lighting Lad 52
14. Princess Projectra/Sensor Girl 51
15. Karate Kid (Val) 39
16. White Witch 36
17. Blok 34
18. Element Lad 31
19. Tyroc 30
20. Chameleon Boy 30
21. Colossal Boy 28
22. Kid Quantum (Jasmine) 28
23. Tellus 27
24. Invisible Kid (Lyle) 24
25. Lightning Lass 21
26. Superboy 20
27. Gates 19
28. Night Girl 18
29. Quislet 17
30. Laurel Grand 17
31. Duo Dasmal/Triplicate Girl 17
32. Star Boy 12
33. Shrinking Violet 12
34. Polar Boy 11
35. Invisible Kid 2 = 10
36. Bouncing Boy 9
37. Supergirl 8
38. Sunboy 7
39. XS 7
40. Dragonmage 6
41. Comet Queen 6
42. Karate Kid 2 (3)
43. Monstress 3
44. Infectious Lass 2
45. Kinetix 2
46. Umbra 1
47. XS 1
48. Shikari 1

[Sutekh]

Nice to see some of my favorites in the top 10, and also seeing Jasmin, from the Reboot, as the highest-scoring Reboot-specific character!

Seeing Karate Kid 2/Myg there at all is a delightful surprise! He got a bad rap. (And then some much-older caucasian named 'Mygg' died in Legion of Three Worlds, so, yeah, whatever.)

And yeah, poor Sun Boy. I think he fared poorest of classic Legionnaires, other than some of the departed like Ferro Lad and Chemical King, or 'added at the last minute types' like Chameleon Girl and Infectious Lass.

And poor Shikari. Dawnstar's a tough act to follow, iconic as hell, and Shikari came off as an unwarranted 'replacement,' when she could have been a great character in her own right.

[Jim Kelly]

Yeah, for some reason a lot of readers like the couple of Wildfire and Dawnstar. So it figures they got high points. I like them, too, but I like other couples just as much or more--Nura and Thom, Luornu and Chuck, Ayla and Brin, Querl and Kara, Mysa and Blok, Imra and Garth, Tinya and Jo, Jeckie and Val.

I never liked the change to the Wildfire codename--I always preferred ERG-1--and what does wildfire have to do with his powers? Wildfires are killing people and animals every summer, because of climate change--destroying vast areas of my province and generating toxic smoke. I also liked ERG-1's real name--Drake Burroughs--Drake + Burroughs, that's a cool combo.

And Dawnstar is supposed to descend from an indigenous tribe, yet her only name is Dawnstar? It would be nice to know if she had another name in her native language.

[Thor-Ul]

I kept a tally through this, calculations are probably off because I wasn't planning to do this it just happened organically for my own entertainment....

but of the 31 people who responded here are the most popular legionairres.

(I guess my biggest surprise was seeing three of my favourites in the top 5. (I knew Wildfire was popular but I didn't expect Timber Wolf and Dawnstar to be so high...and poor Sunboy, I was surprised on that one)

1. Wildfire 142
2. Dawnstar 128
3. Timber Wolf 129
4. Brainiac 5 102
5. Ultra Boy 96
6. Saturn Girl 74
7. Phantom Girl 72
8. Mon –el 72
9. Shadow Lass 68
10. Dream Girl 65
11. Matter Eater Lad 58
12. Cosmic Boy 54
13. Lighting Lad 52
14. Princess Projectra/Sensor Girl 51
15. Karate Kid (Val) 39
16. White Witch 36
17. Blok 34
18. Element Lad 31
19. Tyroc 30
20. Chameleon Boy 30
21. Colossal Boy 28
22. Kid Quantum (Jasmine) 28
23. Tellus 27
24. Invisible Kid (Lyle) 24
25. Lightning Lass 21
26. Superboy 20
27. Gates 19
28. Night Girl 18
29. Quislet 17
30. Laurel Grand 17
31. Duo Dasmal/Triplicate Girl 17
32. Star Boy 12
33. Shrinking Violet 12
34. Polar Boy 11
35. Invisible Kid 2 = 10
36. Bouncing Boy 9
37. Supergirl 8
38. Sunboy 7
39. XS 7
40. Dragonmage 6
41. Comet Queen 6
42. Karate Kid 2 (3)
43. Monstress 3
44. Infectious Lass 2
45. Kinetix 2
46. Umbra 1
47. XS 1
48. Shikari 1

WOW!! XS is so fast than she is in the list twice!!

[caj]

All of my favorites made the top 15 except Colossal Boy (at #21). Thanks for the great thread and for the rankings.

This was a fun thread to read for sure.

[Samm]

I know DC loves to shove Saturn Girl, Cosmic Boy and Lightning Lad down everyone’s throat because they’re the originals and I can respect that, but they’re not the ones that made me a fan of LoSH. Wildfire, Dawnstar and Timberwolf are, and I’m so glad they got the top three spots!! Love Wildfire and Dawnstar as a couple and I instantly became a fan of Timberwolf thanks to the cartoon! My idea LoSH lineup would be:

Wildfire
Dawnstar
Timberwolf
Brainiac 5
Saturn Girl
Cosmic Boy
Lightning Lad
Karate Kid
Tyroc

[Captain Nostalgia]

Seeing Karate Kid 2/Myg there at all is a delightful surprise! He got a bad rap.

Me to. I can understand why Val is everyone's fav, but I always liked Myg, and how he had to step into the challenge of filling Val's shoes.

All of my favorites made the top 15 except Colossal Boy (at #21). Thanks for the great thread and for the rankings.

This was a fun thread to read for sure.

No problem it was fun. I always wondered where my favourites would fair on the list, but I'm sure in the grand scheme of the things a larger sample would produce different results.

[Kaijudo]

WOW!! XS is so fast than she is in the list twice!!

She ran back in time and voted for herself.