what is the deal with Batch SW6 ?

[kid_omega_prime]

i like to know more about the Batch SW6 thing from the legion of super-heroes ? I heard they are a group of time paradox duplicates of the original Legion of Super-Heroes. Originally they were believed to be Clones developed by the Dominators, but it was later revealed that their creation had actually been engineered by the Time Trapper. Attempting to prevent the cataclysmic destruction to the entire 31st Century that would take place during the events of Zero Hour, the Time Trapper created temporal duplicates of the Legion of Super-Heroes, from the point in time when he believed they were at their strongest, just prior to the death of Ferro Lad.

what I also like to know is... 1) if there time paradox duplicates then are they pasts of the real ones are from a different past like the all new x-men from marvel ? 2) what ever happened to them ?

[SJNeal]

Whatever Wiki article you pulled this from:

i like to know more about the Batch SW6 thing from the legion of super-heroes ? I heard they are a group of time paradox duplicates of the original Legion of Super-Heroes. Originally they were believed to be Clones developed by the Dominators, but it was later revealed that their creation had actually been engineered by the Time Trapper. Attempting to prevent the cataclysmic destruction to the entire 31st Century that would take place during the events of Zero Hour, the Time Trapper created temporal duplicates of the Legion of Super-Heroes, from the point in time when he believed they were at their strongest, just prior to the death of Ferro Lad.

Can probably also answer this:

what I also like to know is... 1) if there time paradox duplicates then are they pasts of the real ones are from a different past like the all new x-men from marvel ? 2) what ever happened to them ?

[MajorHoy]

They probably never existed anymore. (How many reboots has the LoSH had since then?)

[Pharozonk]

They probably never existed anymore. (How many reboots has the LoSH had since then?)

They were erased from history when they merged with their adult selves to stabilize the time stream during Zero Hour.

[Jim Purcell]

Originally they were suppose to be the 'real Legion of Super-Heroes' kept in stasis by the dominators, while clone versions were released, thinking they were the real thing. These clones would go on to become the adult ’5 Years Latter' version of the team. This was an attempt to have cake and eat it too, by having two versions of the Legion running around. And Adult and Classic version (which is why Legionaries the series was created) but editorial waffled on the idea, and they ended up being time paradox duplicates. And then were eliminated during Zero Hour. The post Zero Hour legion has a lot in common with the Batch SW6 Legion.

[colonyofcells]

The sw6 legion might be somewhere out there in the infinite multiverse.

[kid_omega_prime]

They were erased from history when they merged with their adult selves to stabilize the time stre during Zero Hour.

so then the main legion and batch sw6 legion are one in the same then ?

[GlennSimpson]

so then the main legion and batch sw6 legion are one in the same then ?

Yes, kinda like in the current X-Men where the original X-Men got pulled to the present.

[Tenzel Kim]

so then the main legion and batch sw6 legion are one in the same then ?

Yes and no. The Time Trapper basically gave a splitsecond of the main Legionnaires lives a life of their own. Think of it as having a second of your life stolen and the you of that second, which would still have all your memories of what happened before, getting a life of its own. So up until the second was stolen their lives would have been the same (as they would have been the same character), but after that second they would have their own separate lives.

[Spiderboy12]

so then the main legion and batch sw6 legion are one in the same then ?

Like the last poster--yes and no. There were actual multiple reasons that the SW6 batch were not exactly the same. For one thing, as revealed in an annual from this run (LSH v4 pre-Zero Hour) Proty I was supposed to have had his psyche transferred into Garth Ranzz (Lightning Lad) when Garth was resurrected way, way, way back in Adventure Comics #312 (the story of which would have been altered in the post LSH v4 #4-5 "Glorithverse", since Superboy was removed from the story). In the SW6 batch, Garth's "real" persona resurfaced. Also, at the moment the SW6 batch was taken (before Adventure #350), Lluornu Durgo's third body had died fighting Computo, so she was now Duo Damsel rather than Triplicate Girl. In the SW6 batch, she had all three of her original bodies.

That's not even counting the fact that, because of the timestream manipulations that removed Superboy (and previously Supergirl) from the history of the Legion meant that, in the SW6 batch, the "original" published threesome of Superboy, Supergirl, and Mon-El in the actual Adventure Comics run had been replaced by Valor and Laurel Gand. So in that sense, they weren't the "original" Legion at all.

[Jim Purcell]

But they were the the younger versions of the adult Legion that existed at the time.

[ultradav]

Originally they were suppose to be the 'real Legion of Super-Heroes' kept in stasis by the dominators, while clone versions were released, thinking they were the real thing. These clones would go on to become the adult ’5 Years Latter' version of the team. This was an attempt to have cake and eat it too, by having two versions of the Legion running around. And Adult and Classic version (which is why Legionaries the series was created) but editorial waffled on the idea, and they ended up being time paradox duplicates.

Which was a shame they didn't go with the plan, IMO. They could have had a reboot without actually rebooting.

[kid_omega_prime]

But they were the the younger versions of the adult Legion that existed at the time.

Five Years Later / Batch SW6
Leviathan (Batch SW6)
Shortly thereafter, duplicates of the Legionnaires from their early days surfaced as part of a Dominator experiment, including one of Colossal Boy. This young hero and his team went on to become the Legionnaires of New Earth, with the younger Gim taking the codename Leviathan. Leviathan had a crush on Gossamer instead of Shrinking Violet this time. When Legionnaires past and present confronted Glorith and Mordru to save Cosmic Boy, Gim and the younger Leviathan responded to the call. During this encounter, Leviathan was aged to dust by Glorith. As a result of Leviathan's death, the elder Gim Allon faded from existence, confirming a timeline link between the Legionnaires and the adult Legion.