Character and Object Tracking
Name |
Previous Appearance |
Next Appearance |
Heroes |
| Violet (Salu Digby) |
Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #100 (story #2) |
Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #100 (story #3) |
| Ultra Boy (Jo Nah) |
Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #100 (story #2) |
Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #100 (story #3) |
| Live Wire (Garth Ranzz) |
Legion: Secret Files #1 (story #1) |
Legion: Secret Files #1 (story #2) |
| Invisible Kid (Lyle Norg) |
Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #100 (story #2) |
Legion: Secret Files #1 (story #2) |
| Spark (Ayla Ranzz) |
Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #100 (story #2) |
Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #100 (story #3) |
| Kinetix (Zoe Saugin) |
Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #100 (story #2) |
Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #100 (story #3) |
| Sensor (Princess Jeka Wynzorr) |
Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #100 (story #2) |
Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #100 (story #3) |
Chameleon (Reep Daggle)
(also
appears as a Krq’ll) |
Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #100 (story #2) |
Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #100 (story #3) |
| Saturn Girl (Imra Ardeen) |
Legion: Secret Files #1 (story #1) |
Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #100 (story #3) |
| Cosmic Boy (Rokk Krinn) |
Legion: Secret Files #1 (story #1) |
Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #100 (story #3) |
| Triad (Luornu Durgo) |
Legion: Secret Files #1 (story #1) |
Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #100 (story #3) |
| XS (Jenni Ognats) |
Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #100 (story #2) |
Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #100 (story #3) |
| Star Boy (Thom Kallor) |
Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #100 (story #2) |
Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #100 (story #3) |
| Apparition (Tinya Wazzo-Nah) |
Legion: Secret Files #1 (story #1) |
Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #100 (story #3) |
| Brainiac 5 (Querl Dox) |
Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #100 (story #2) |
Legion: Secret Files #1 (story #2) |
| Ferro (Andrew Nolan) |
Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #100 (story #2) |
Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #100 (story #3) |
| Gates (Ti’julk Mr’asz) |
Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #100 (story #2) |
Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #100 (story #3) |
| Element Lad (Jan Arrah) |
Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #100 (story #2) |
Legion: Secret Files #1 (story #2) |
| |
| Umbra (Tasmia Mallor) |
Appears in flashback to Legion of Super-Heroes v4
#100 (story #2) |
| M’Onel (Lar Gand) |
Appears in flashback to Legion of Super-Heroes v4
#100 (story #2) |
Villains |
| Benn Pares |
None |
None to date |
| |
| White Triangle terrorists |
No appearance; mention only |
| White Triangle assassins (3; unidentifiable as to which
of the five they are) |
Appear in flashback to Legion of Super-Heroes v4
#0 |
Supporting
Characters |
| Koko |
Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #100 (story
#2) |
Legion: Secret Files #1 (story #2) |
| Shvaughn Erin |
Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #100 (story #1) |
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| Tenzil Kem |
Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #100 (story
#2) |
Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #100 (story #4) |
| Chuck Taine |
Legionnaires #< > |
Legion: Secret Files #1 (story #2) |
| R.J. Brande |
Appears in flashbacks to Legion of Super-Heroes v4
#100 (story #2) and Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #0 |
| |
One-shot Characters:
unnamed
Stargater passengers (4; none seen before)
unnamed
medical person |
Locations |
| Sn’p’pn-3 |
No appearance; mention only |
| Vyz’nger Sector |
No appearance; mention only |
| |
| Legion headquarters |
Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #100 (story #2) |
Legends of the Legion #1 |
| Monitor room, Legion headquarters |
Legionnaires #< > |
Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #100 (story #5) |
| Library, Legion headquarters |
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< > |
| Cafeteria, Legion headquarters |
Legionnaires #< > |
Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #100 (story #4) |
| Brainiac 5’s lab, Legion headquarters |
Legionnaires #< > |
Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #100 (story #4) |
| Medical bay, Legion headquarters |
Legionnaires #< > |
Legionnaires #68 |
| |
One-shot Locations:
Deep
space
Sn’p’pn-3
(planet) |
Alien
Races and Creatures |
| Galactic Antibody |
No appearance; illusion only |
Technology |
| Levitating furniture |
Legionnaires #< > |
Legion: Secret Files #1 (story #2) |
| Med table |
Legionnaires #< > |
Legion: Secret Files #1 (story #2) |
| Mark-459 cruiser |
Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #100 (story #2) |
Legion: Secret Files #1 (story #2) |
| Transuits |
Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #100 (story #2) |
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| Mission Monitor Board |
Legionnaires #< > |
Legion: Secret Files #1 (story #2) |
| Omnicom |
Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #100 (story #2) |
Legion: Secret Files #1 (story #2) |
| |
One-shot or Untracked Items:
Emergency
med table with localized gravity field
Library
Omnicom
Benn
Pares’ blaster |
| General |
The Adventures in the DC Universe comic largely
shared the same continuity of the animated Superman and Batman
cartoons, and moving forward, with the Justice League Adventures
cartoon. This issue, however, is an exception. The character
designs seen here – most notably that of Chameleon – differ
from those seen in the “New Kids on the Block” episode of
Superman, and from the Justice League Adventures series
– but they match (with a “cartoony” influence) those
of the current Legion comics. Ergo, this issue will be tracked as
though it occurred in the DC Universe, not the “Animated Universe.” |
Analysis Notes
| This story obviously occurs after Team 20 returns to the
30th century in Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #100 and apparently after
the Legion Day celebration in that issue’s second story (based on
the 13:5 flashback), but before several of the members leave to investigate
the Fires of Creation in Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #101.
Despite Spark’s comment in 5:2, she never uses her lightning (which
was restored in Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #101) in the story, so
we may assume that the story occurs prior to that tale as well.
We will tentatively place it between the second and third stories in Legion
of Super-Heroes v4#100, and between the first and second stories
in Legion: Secret Files #1, which also occur between those two. |
| 1 |
Saturn Girl and Live Wire are the ones who should be clutching
each other. This may indicate residual clearing of Saturn Girl’s
influence over Cosmic Boy. (This story was apparently drawn prior
to the events of Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #94.) |
| As seen on pages 2-3, Sensor is not strapped down to the
med table. It must have a localized gravity field included as part
of standard equipment, in lieu of physical straps. |
| The White Triangle terrorists Lyle mentions were presumably
not actual Daxamites from the Direct Action Cadre, but just run-of-the-mill
humans. |
| 2-3 |
The role call panels here are not counted in the Panels/Speaking
count. |
| 2:1 |
First word balloon is from Invisible Kid, continued from
the previous page. We will attribute the other two to Violet and
Ultra Boy, since they are piloting the ship. |
| 2:2 |
Star Boy’s position: “Assume crash positions!”
followed by people posing like that was a joke in the movie Airplane!
Star Boy has a reputation for being a lousy pilot — gaining the nickname
“Crash” Kallor on the Internet — so the “crash position”
isn’t out of bounds. |
| 2:3 |
We can presume that, since Sensor is the most injured member
of the team, she was specifically targeted as being the least human, and
thus the most fitting for the xenophobic terrorists’ focus. |
| Note that the three in this panel are Chameleon, Spark,
and Sensor: Chameleon is Spark’s “secret admirer,” and
there is a love interest/friendship relationship between him and Sensor,
as well. |
| 2:4 |
Star Boy would have been sent out with the other “heavy
hitters,” but his Daxamite-style powers are still largely untested,
and Lyle probably wanted to retain one from that class in case they were
needed. |
| 4:2 |
Coloring goof on the top panel on the right side wing of
the headquarters. |
| 5:2 |
Spark is never seen using her lightning in this story.
As mentioned above, for this story to fit into continuity, it must occur
while she still had her gravity powers. As a result, “…our
lightning blasts!” should be read as “…your lightning blasts!”
Further, Ayla’s personal issues with be separated from her twin,
Garth, with different powers could well contribute to a feeling of joint
ownership of the lightning powers despite her not possessing them in this
story. |
| 5:6 |
Interesting that they choose to draw in Ultra Boy’s
stubble in the full-figure panel but not in the recent close-ups. |
| 6:1 |
Saturn Girl spent too much time in the 20th century; she
seems to think she is Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Deanna
Troi. |
| 6:3 |
Spark is misdrawn here; the band from her transuit should
be on her left arm. |
| 7:1 |
Spark is in the left foreground, speaking. |
| 8:4 |
Gates’ speech here is a nice counterpoint to the typical
“What do you mean, my appearance? You humans are the
most hideous things I’ve ever seen!” speech so often given by
aliens in this circumstance. |
| 9:1 |
One wonders how the Legionnaires got out of the ship, given
that the ship is using all its power to fight the tractor beam.
Maybe they snuck out the back door? |
| 9:6 |
“Krq’ll” = “Crackle” and “Sn’p’nn”
= “Snappin’.” What happened to “Pop?” |
| 10:1 |
If the blobs are too mindless for Saturn Girl to get a
fix on, they are probably too mindless for Chameleon to frighten. |
| 10:3 |
Violet had grown large to be able to handle more blob at
one time. She appeared to be asking XS to work with her on the blob
section she was gripping, so it seems counterproductive to shrink and
release the blob segment just as XS starts running. |
| 11:4 |
Of course they detected you, Lyle. As we’ve
seen with Banderkat and Tharok, your invisibility doesn’t extend
much past the simple visual spectrum. |
| 12:5 |
It is convenient that the people left at headquarters for
Ferro to talk to are some of the ones who know him best from their experience
with Team 20: first Brainiac 5, then Gates, and now Shvaughn Erin. |
| 13:3-4 |
The seating of the founding Legionnaires, the other passengers,
and the clothing worn does not match what was seen in Legion of Super-Heroes
v4 #0, to which these are a flashback. |
| 13:5 |
Based on the presence of members of Team 20 and Umbra and
Sensor, this scene occurs after Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #100
(story #1). The most logical place for the scene would the during
the Legion Day celebration in the second story in that issue. |
| In the preboot continuity, Chameleon was R.J. Brande’s
son. Their proximity in this flashback should not be read as indicating
any such relationship in the current continuity, however, unless we want
to also read significance into other character placements: Sensor and
Brande both have telepathic powers; XS is the granddaughter of Barry Allen,
and Brande has well-established interests in the 20th century heroic age;
Brainiac 5 is a former Brande employee; M’Onel and Brande have displayed
a certain friendship; but there is no special connection to be made with
either Umbra or Gates, except as representatives of non-human members
of the United Planets, of which Brande is the current President. |
| 14:4 |
Hard to identify, but the rightmost characters in the antibody
bubble are Invisible Kid and Kinetix, although Chameleon and XS should
be in there as well. |
| 14:5 |
Triad could be referring to any number of “B”
science fiction movies, but this “blob” plot is reminiscent
of the Star Trek (original series) episode “The Immunity Syndrome,”
where the Enterprise is being sucked into a single-celled organism the
size of a planet. |
| 15:1 |
“Vyz’nger” is a Tuckerization of “[Mort]
Weisinger,” longtime Legion editor during the Silver Age. |
| 16:4 |
Brainy blowing up labs is standard operating procedure.
He probably does it to test catastrophic conditions for some experiments,
since equipment is replaceable where lives are not. |
| 16:5 |
Technically, the text behind Ferro should be in Interlac,
but that would go counter to the introductory-level accessibility focus
of Adventures in the DC Universe. |
| 17:3 |
Never happened before? Yeah, right. |
| 17:6 |
Benn Pares previously appeared in the preboot
continuity in Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes #213, trying
to steal the Miracle Machine. In that story, he was revealed to
have some sort of a 6th sense that alerted him to traps and alarms, plus
powers that allowed him to overcome them. |
| 18:1 |
Pares’ blaster looks very fat and squat here.
Comparing to later appearances, especially in 19:1, it is clear that an
added ink line resulted in a coloring error to cause the warped appearance;
the top curve of the rear two-thirds of the blaster should not be present. |
| 18:2 |
Chuck Taine is drawn a lot fatter here than his usual merely
chubby appearance. |
| 18:3 |
Since this story occurs after the Legionnaires stranded
in the 20th century return home, Pares’ tunnel must not have been
completed until after their return. (Man, that’s bad timing.
Maybe Pares’ trap-detection powers can detect incipient time travel;
on the other hand, maybe they let him know when the bulk of the team would
be away on a mission.) |
| 18:6 |
It is entirely probable that Gates’ recent stay in
the 20th century, with its increasing attention being paid to the effects
of tobacco smoking, has intensified his focus on the effects of second-hand
smoke. |
| 19:4 |
It is unclear whether the physical discontinuity of Ferro’s
arm can occur with Gates’ powers, which are usually seen as providing
full teleportation. What probably occurs is that Ferro’s entire
body is teleported across the room, with his fist leading the way. |
| 19:5 |
The blaster bounces, but Chuck Taine (“Bouncing Boy”
in the preboot) does not. |
| 20:1 |
No way to tell which of the guys is speaking here; we’ll
give the nod to Invisible Kid, as leader. |
| One Legionnaire is partially hidden by the word bubble. |
| 20:5 |
Note that the affected transuits belong to Ayla and Garth.
As twins with the close linkage they have shown, it makes sense for Sensor’s
projection to be affecting them both in the same way. |
| Jo and Tinya, the Legion’s #1 co-dependent couple. |
| XS is presumably hidden behind 20:4. |
| 20:7 |
All nine Legionnaires in the antibody bubble are accounted
for here. (Who’s who cannot be generally identified for most
of them.) Sensor and Triad can be seen above the Stargater, too. |
| 21:1 |
Only twelve Legionnaires are seen here, but thirteen were
out of the ship. Since all the bodies seem to be segmented, we will
assume that Sensor is the one not seen here. Neither word balloon
can be associated with an individual, so both are uncredited. |
| 21:2 |
Ayla is observing that her transuit isn’t damaged
after all. |
| Coloring errors: Ayla’s face, Rokk’s ear, Lyle’s
forehead. |
| 21:4 |
Lyle’s logic leap that the Galactic Antibody was a
projection of Sensor’s initially seems to be a bit sudden, but the
seeds were present in 21:2. |
| 22:1 |
This is apparently the Medlab at Legion headquarters.
If it were Medicus 1 (where Sensor might get transferred to once the doctors
examine her), one may be sure that Dr. Gym’ll would be shooing everyone
out of the room. |
| Coloring Error: Tenzil is in the lower left, colored like
M’Onel. |
| 22:1-2 |
Poor Element Lad. He gets to appear in a non-speaking
role in two panels here, not even getting named back in the role call
at the beginning of the issue. (On the other hand, Umbra and M’Onel
only got to appear in a flashback cameo, and Monstress and Dyrk Magz don’t
get any appearances at all.) |
| 22:2 |
Spark and Brainiac 5 developed something of a friendship
while in the 20th century, to the point that she can probably get away
with a comment like this. |
| Note again the friendship/love interest relationship that
Chameleon and Sensor have. |
| 22:3 |
Ultra Boy is to the far right. |
