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Fun Silver Age facts:

The Legion didn't allow members who had the same powers as existing members, even if theirs were better versions. The only exceptions were Superboy, Supergirl, Lightning Lad, and Lightning Lass, until the rule was revoked later.

The Legion was explicitly a super hero club, where members filled their time with video games, dancing, and plugging themselves into machines that would decide who'd have the most fun kissing who.

The Legion had a rule that they had to have their headquarters on Earth.

You couldn't be in the Legion if you were over 18. It was kids only. (Later stories would have this rule revoked.)

If you got married, you had to leave the Legion. (Another rule later revoked.)

The Legion decided who would go on a mission by sitting in front of a model of the solar system (with the planets attached by wires) and setting it to spin. Whoever got hit first would be the mission leader. The other members of the team would be decided by whoever got hit by the other planets when their wires broke.

All of the black people in the world went to an island off the coast of Africa and moved it to another dimension. The member Tyroc the Screamer, whose power was that his screams could warp reality and whose schtick was that he constantly angry, came from there. (Later retconned to the island being full of alternate reality refugees and black people were still a part of future society.)

Lightning Lass posed as her brother for months after he died.

Lightning Lad never really came back to life. It was the Legion's pet shapeshifter, Proty, who took on Lightning Lad's form and powers and posed as Lightning Lad for years.

The Legion kept a pair of sentient shapeshifting blobs as pets, even though the blobs were just as intelligent as they were. The second was named Proty II, like that goldfish from your childhood.

The Legion was too intimidated by Superman to ask Superboy to join them, so they recruited Supergirl first and Superboy later via time travel. When they recruited Supergirl, she already knew about them because Superman told her about the adventures he had with them as a boy, so they originally claimed to be the identical children of the original team.

Every time Superboy went home, they erased his knowledge of the future so he wouldn't cause any paradoxes. This didn't stop him from building a device that could see into the future so that he'd know he'd become best friends with Bruce Wayne after his parents were murdered.

Ultra Boy's real name is Jo Nah. He got his powers by being swallowed by a space whale.

One of the writers of the Legion, Jim Shooter, got the job at 14 years old. A few years later, he wrote up some rather crude sexual notes describing the sex lives of various members, including comments that one member was essentially the team bicycle while one couple was very eager to share their bed and experiment. This being the 60s/70s, he kept writing for a few years after that.

You forgot that the shapeshifting blobs just so happened to look just like sentient semen blobs

and that the second of those semen blobs effectively married its 'owner' after impersonating a dead Legionnaire (forget which one) permanently

I mentioned the Lightning Lad bit but figured that mentioning he got married to Saturn Girl would be going too deep.

> going too deep

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I don't know which version of the Legion the game is based on but I'm really glad it's not this.

Now I really want some kind of meme or plot where the game briefly reverts to the silver age Legion though. I want them to meet that barricade guy in the crack comm's banner. And maybe space moby dick.

This is all the Silver Age Legion.

Sorry. The era of the Legion that this game's based on is known either as the Post-Boot, Zero Hour, or Reboot Legion.

Any advice on picking superpowers for people interested in apping a character that normally doesn't have any?

My suggestion would be to pick something that gives you the most interesting fodder to play with for the character. The mods are good at splitting up characters into groups and providing different types of threats for players to choose from during plots. So it's usually best to try to figure out what would be most fitting or interesting for the specific character rather than trying to predict what will be most useful.

Also the mods are really helpful with answering powers questions, so if you're having trouble, don't hesitate to go to the mod contact and ask them. I think most of us have done it at some point. They also let people change powers if a power isn't working out, so keep in mind that if you try something and it doesn't work well, you can always change it in the future without much fuss.

Go with something you think would be cool. It doesn't have to be interesting or unique, just roll with it. Doesn't matter whether it's boring or weird, just that you think you'd have fun with it. Just keep in mind that some of the 'traditional' powersets might have to be broken up into multiple powers, while other powersets can be combined into one.

For example, super strength and invulnerability? Two separate powers. Being slightly faster, stronger, and tougher than normal? 'Enhanced physiology'.

One possibility is to go to http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Random and see what you end up with, but there's been a lot of really stupid shit added there recently as people take established powers, insist they're different because this comic/video game/manga handles them differently, and creates a new article for them. Or creates needless sub-articles. You might end up with a few garbage results, but keep trying or just do a wiki dive until you find a result you like.

Both bits of advice people have given so far are good. Really, it's just best to go with what's most fun or interesting to you for the character to have. Seconding the use of the powers wiki but an easier way to use it might be starting from this page:

http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Supernatural_Powers_and_Abilities

It has all the categories of superpowers and the superpowers listed underneath mostly exclude the useless sub-articles or you can at least tell from the title what they are to skip them. Ironically, the example pic on that wiki page is of the Legion.

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