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Legion of Super-Heroes The Legion of Super-Heroes is a fictional superhero team appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by writer Otto Binder and artist Al Plastino, the Legion is a group of superpowered beings living in the 30th and 31st c ...
(also called the Post-Zero Hour or Reboot Legion) is a
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team in the 31st century of the
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. The team is the second incarnation of the
Legion of Super-Heroes The Legion of Super-Heroes is a fictional superhero team appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by writer Otto Binder and artist Al Plastino, the Legion is a group of superpowered beings living in the 30th and 31st c ...
, following after the
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version, and was followed by the
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ed version. It first appeared in ''Legion of Super-Heroes'' (vol. 4) #0 (October 1994) and was created by
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, Tom McCraw and
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Publication history

Following '' Zero Hour'', a new Legion continuity was created, beginning with a retelling of the origin story starting in ''Legion of Super-Heroes'' (vol. 4) #0 and then continued in spin-off sister series ''Legionnaires'' #0 (both released in October 1994). Lightning Lad was renamed Live Wire, and after the group's founding, a large number of heroes were added to the roster very quickly. Several members from the previous continuity were given new codenames, and some new heroes were added, including XS (the granddaughter of Barry Allen, the second Flash),
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, and
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. While in some ways following the pattern of the original continuity, the new continuity diverged from the old one in several ways: some characters died as they had previously, others did not, and some Legion members spent time in the 20th century where they recruited Ferro. The Legion also started out having to earn the respect of the United Planets, which they did through two well-earned victories: successfully defending Earth from the White Triangle Daxamites, a group of Nazi-style racial purists; and exposing United Planets President Chu as the mastermind behind the Braal-Titan War, the Sun Eater hoax, the formation of the
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and the brainwashing of future Legionnaire Jan Arrah. New writers
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and
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came on board with penciller
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to produce a dark story leading to the near-collapse of the United Planets and the Legion. In the wake of the disaster, a group of Legionnaires disappeared through a spatial rift and the two existing Legion series came to an end. The
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'' (2000–2001) chronicled the difficult journey of these Legionnaires to return home, while the ensuing limited series ''Legion Worlds'' (2001) showed what was happening back in the United Planets during their absence. A new series, ''The Legion'', was launched in which the Legion was reunited and given a new base and purpose. Written for its first 33 issues by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning, the series was cancelled with issue #38. The most notable addition to the team during the title's publication was the Post-''Crisis''
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who had previously been granted honorary membership.


''Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds''

The Post-''Zero Hour'' Legion reappeared in the 2008-2009 '' Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds'' limited series, written by
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and drawn by
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. The miniseries features the 1994 Legion teaming up with Superman and the Post-''Infinite Crisis'' and 2004 incarnations of the Legion to fight a new incarnation of the
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(led by
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. It is revealed at the end of the miniseries that Earth-247 and its entire universe were destroyed during the events of ''Infinite Crisis''. The Post-''Zero Hour'' Legion, under the guidance of Shikari Lonestar, takes the name "the Wanderers" and decides to travel the Multiverse to look for survivors from the various alternate universes that were destroyed.''Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds'' #5 (July 2009)


Members


Workforce

The Workforce is a
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semi-heroic-super-team, in DC Comics' Post-'' Zero Hour''
Legion of Super-Heroes The Legion of Super-Heroes is a fictional superhero team appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by writer Otto Binder and artist Al Plastino, the Legion is a group of superpowered beings living in the 30th and 31st c ...
continuity. The group was introduced in ''
Legion of Super-Heroes The Legion of Super-Heroes is a fictional superhero team appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by writer Otto Binder and artist Al Plastino, the Legion is a group of superpowered beings living in the 30th and 31st c ...
'' #64 (January 1995).


Fictional history

The Workforce was founded by the corrupt industrialist
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as a response to the Legion of Super-Heroes, founded by his rival
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. When Live Wire was replaced in the Legion by his sister
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, he joined the Workforce with the belief that McCauley could help him find his brother Mekt. While the team often appeared to be performing heroic deeds, everything they did was designed for McCauley's profit.
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commented that the only reasons for being in the Workforce were selfish ones. The team had little teamwork skills, often getting in each other's way in battle. McCauley would often shout orders at them through holographic projection, thereby telegraphing their moves to their opponents. Live Wire eventually quit and rejoined the Legion, inspiring other members to do the same, which forced McCauley to hire new members frequently. A later version of the group consisted entirely of adults, to make the point that the Legion was endangering teenagers. However, a member of this group was actually the eight-year-old
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, using her H-Dial to appear adult. The group disbanded during the "One Year Gap" and was replaced by the "Oversight Watch."


Membership


Original members

* Spider Girl (fired to create "Adult Workforce") * Evolvo (fired to create "Adult Workforce") *
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(quit, joined Legion) *
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(quit, joined Legion) *
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(transported to 20th century Earth)


Later members

*Blast-Off ("killed", see
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) *Particon (contract bought out by R.J. Brande) *Radion (contract bought out by R.J. Brande)


Adult Workforce

* Repulse * Amber * Dune *
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Appearances in other media

In the ''
Legion of Super-Heroes The Legion of Super-Heroes is a fictional superhero team appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by writer Otto Binder and artist Al Plastino, the Legion is a group of superpowered beings living in the 30th and 31st c ...
'' animated series, the "Light Speed Vanguard", although mostly based on the
Legion of Super-Villains The Legion of Super-Villains is a team of supervillains who appear in comic books published by DC Comics. They are adversaries of the Legion of Super-Heroes in the future. They first appeared as adults in ''Superman'' #147 (Aug 1961) and as teens ...
, has some similarity with the Workforce, most notably by being a team of apparent heroes who work for profit, and by having Lightning Lad temporarily join before realizing the truth.


See also

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Legion of Super-Heroes The Legion of Super-Heroes is a fictional superhero team appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by writer Otto Binder and artist Al Plastino, the Legion is a group of superpowered beings living in the 30th and 31st c ...
*
Legion of Super-Heroes (1958 team) The 1958 version of the Legion of Super-Heroes (also called the original or Preboot Legion) is a fictional superhero team in the 31st century of the . The team is the first incarnation of the Legion of Super-Heroes, and was followed by the 1994 a ...
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Legion of Super-Heroes (2004 team) The 2004 version of the Legion of Super-Heroes is a fictional superhero team in the 31st century of the . The team is the third incarnation of the Legion of Super-Heroes after the Legion of Super-Heroes (1958 team), 1958 and Legion of Super-Hero ...
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List of Legion of Super-Heroes members The Legion of Super-Heroes is a superhero team in comic book series published by DC Comics. The team has gone through various iterations. Starting with the founding trio of Cosmic Boy, Lightning Lad, and Saturn Girl, all versions of the team incl ...
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References


External links

* Legion of Super-Heroes (Post-Zero Hour) at the DC Database Project
The Legion of Super-Heroes Reference File
*. {{DEFAULTSORT:Legion Of Super-Heroes (1994 Team) DC Comics superhero teams DC Comics titles * Characters created by Mark Waid Reboot comics