Spoilers Superman Spoiler Thread

[Thomas Shey]

It’s interesting that the IG doesn’t actually have that many LSH expies, even though they’re a very famous expy collection; they don’t compare to the Squadron Supreme or similar. There’s Gladiator, Oracle, Fang, Astra, Hobgoblin, Mentor, Smasher, and Titan; the others are less obvious.

As I recall there was a fairly clear Sun Boy expie too, though I'm not sure we ever got a name for him.

 

[jian]

As I recall there was a fairly clear Sun Boy expie too, though I'm not sure we ever got a name for him.

There were a whole bunch (Electron, Starbolt, Impulse etc) who had ambiguous energy powers that could make them expies of various Legionnaires, but it’s usually not a good match - Electron has electric and magnetic powers (making him both Garth and Rokk), Starbolt has heat powers and flight (making him both Sun Boy and Wildfire) and Impulse is basically Cyclops if his powers were derived from being an energy being in a suit (like Wildfire).

 

[Thomas Shey]

There were a whole bunch (Electron, Starbolt, Impulse etc) who had ambiguous energy powers that could make them expies of various Legionnaires, but it’s usually not a good match - Electron has electric and magnetic powers (making him both Garth and Rokk), Starbolt has heat powers and flight (making him both Sun Boy and Wildfire) and Impulse is basically Cyclops if his powers were derived from being an energy being in a suit (like Wildfire).

Probably because those three got focused on late in the day; Starbolt was flying early on, but so where some of the others so I just wrote it off to a device. I do think Impulse was pretty clearly derived from Wildfire (he started out sort-of doing the open his helmet thing to do his most serious energy blasts, though that gets into his whole schtick as to why).