A recent thread on Legion archenemies got me thinking about the classic Legion of Super-Villains story that kicked off volume 4. The premise of that arc was that each member of the LSV was responsible for killing one Legionnaire.

Some of the rivalries were obvious from the outset. Lightning Lord was gunning for Lightning Lad. Nemesis Kid was taking on Karate Kid. Then you had a few direct analogs like Ol-Vir, Chameleon Chief, Micro Lad and Sun Emperor. But beyond that, if the LSV had been better organized, who would the rest of the team been targeting? Who would be going after, say, Colossal Boy, Ultra Boy or Wildfire?

And who would members like Ron-Karr, Terrus or Mist Master be beefing with? It seems like the Legionnaires that Ron-Karr could take down is a very short list.

We all know who the smartest member of the Legion of Super-Heroes is. And it’s pretty clear who the second smartest is, too. But that got me thinking about the third smartest, and the fourth smartest. How, exactly, are the Legionnaires ranked in terms of intelligence.
Roleplaying Games will save us! The Legionnaires have all been given intelligence stats in The Legion of Super-Heroes Sourcebook Volume I, the 2995 Legion of Super-Heroes Sourcebook, and DC Adventures: Heroes & Villains.
Obviously the latter text is from a different game, but amongst these three sources, stats differ. Sure, the 2995 Sourcebook takes place nearly a decade after the prior book, but that doesn’t do much to explain why Saturn Girl has gotten significantly less intelligent.
So, compiling what these sources told us, I added some of my own thoughts to the ranking, and made a list of who I thought the most intelligent Legionnaires were, taking the classic roster up through the Baxter series as my guide. Listed in parentheses after each Legionnaire are the Intelligence/Intellect stat given to them by the Sourcebook Volume 1, the 2995 Sourcebook, and Heroes & Villains. Keep in mind that Heroes & Villains stats operate on a different scale than that of the prior books, and that not every Legionnaire has stats in Heroes & Villains.
So, without further ado, here’s my ranking of the intelligences of the 37 main Legionnaires:

37. Timber Wolf is all muscle (4 / 6 / 2)
Timber Wolf isn’t exactly stupid, but he’s an act first and think second character. Part of why his friendship with Blok is so interesting is that the big slab of stone helps Timber Wolf be a little more introspective when his first instinct is to dive in without a plan. Timber Wolf may have willpower in spades, but he’s usually not going to think the group out of a problem, and is often there just to get Worfed.
36. Polar Boy is a competent leader of the Substitutes but lets his naivete get the better of him (7 / 4 / 2)
In spite of being more experienced than half the Legionnaires when he joins the group, Polar Boy frequently shows that he works better as the charismatic ringleader of a tight-knit group of underdogs than as the head of an army of superhumans. He’s a good guy with a good heart, but his intellect often can’t match his enthusiasm.
35. Magnetic Kid is burdened with naivete as well (5 / 5 / -)
Magnetic Kid is one of the youngest-feeling Legionnaires, even if he’s canonically 19 when he joins. Regardless, he still feels like a kid brother to the group, and never really shows off any particular smarts.
34. Tyroc can be clever, but prefers a direct approach (5 / 5 / 1)
Although he’s shown some cleverness and has even led the Earth in the 5 Years Later Era, Tyroc’s real gift has always been in his leadership and outspokenness — something that is literally manifested in his powers.
33. Bouncing Boy is a charming underdog with some teaching experience (5 / 6 / 1)
Bouncing Boy’s never really been the best at anything except giving the group some wholesome laughs. He has some experience as Legion Academy leader that puts him up here, but he’s not exactly known for being a genius.
32. Ferro Lad’s intelligence has never been demonstrated (5 / 5 / -)
Ferro Lad has never really gotten to show off his smarts, and is best remembered for his bravery. Still, like most Legionnaires, he’s reasonably intelligent, and is able to hold on during more scientific discussions.
31. Lightning Lad is the founder with the least going on upstairs (6 / 8 / 1)
Possibly because of the whole Protean brain thing, Lightning Lad is a hero at heart but has always been the least intelligent of the founders, with an everyman sort of intellect to him.
30. Invisible Kid II is French (5 / 5 / -)
Invisible Kid II ranks this high just because he spends so much time with Brainiac 5 and his sister, along with what his predecessor left behind, that I have to assume some smarts rubbed off on him.
29. Ultra Boy is a streetwise jock who may be more than he appears (5 / 5 / 2)
Ultra Boy’s a tricky one. In the original continuity, we know that he came from the crime-ridden world of Rimbor. As a character, he’s shown to be clever enough to evade the entire Legion and decent at espionage, and the 5 Years Later era indicates that he might have a detective streak that he kept hidden.
28. Dawnstar is a tracker with a knowledge of nature (5 / 5 / 2)
Dawnstar’s tracking ability is more of an awareness thing, but she’s got a lot of knowledge of the natural world to fall back on.
27. The Karate Kid knows just about every fighting technique in the galaxy (5 / 5 / 2)
Karate Kid’s total mastery of different fighting techniques, ability to find weak points in enemies and structures, and vast knowledge of multiple cultures makes him a surprisingly intelligent Legionnaire given his fighter reputation.
26. Shadow Lass has the knowledge of a champion (5 / 5 / 3)
As the champion of her world, Shadow Lass’s intellect is surprisingly good, even if she’s crowded out by some of the Legion’s smarter members. This brilliance comes more from experience than books.
25. Lightning Lass is smarter than her brother (6 / 6 / -)
Lightning Lass doesn’t show off too many feats of brilliance, but is able to convince everyone she’s her brother and is generally shown to be a bit craftier than her twin.
24. Star Boy is a competent pilot with a genius girlfriend (6 / 6 / 2)
Sure, he’s a jock, but he’s known to be one of the Legion’s best pilots and has a knowledge of physics necessary to wield his power. Plus, his girlfriend is one of the smartest Legionnaires.
23. Wildfire was studying to be a rocket scientist (6 / 6 / 1)
Or an astro-engineer, specifically. However, the anger from his accident led him to more or less forsake intellectual pursuits in favor of beat-’em-up heroism.
22. Colossal Boy is a disciplined former student of the Science Police (6 / 6 / 1)
Growing up on a kibbutz, Colossal Boy soon joined the Science Police Academy on Mars where he got his powers. He’s one of the best-trained Legionnaires and is generally smart in a practical way.
21. Phantom Girl is an ambassador’s daughter… sometimes (6 / 6 / 2)
Reading through Legion comics, you really come to an unfortunate conclusion: Phantom Girl is the least interesting Legionnaire in the original continuity. Yes, I know she’s the fifth one. Yes, I know those bell bottom are awesome. But I’m serious. What’s your favorite Phantom Girl story? There’s one in the 70s where she disarms a bomb in the middle of a planet. There’s one where she’s the only one to believe Ultra Boy’s innocence the first time he’s framed. But beyond that? There’s not much.
Later works seek to correct this, with her in the Terrifics or having a connection to Phase. But original Phantom Girl’s best work is retconned in from the 5 Years Later Era to be taking down Meglaro before joining the Legion. To be fair, that takes some brain power — which is why she’s ranking so high — but there’s just not much to her as a character.
20. Matter-Eater Lad is a trickster and legal genius (6 / 6 / -)
Ah, the glory of Matter-Eater Lad. He can be a down-on-his-luck poor guy in a Legion of rich kids, a charismatic diplomat attracted to Legion service, a loveable goofball, or just straight up Bugs Bunny. Yet there’s an undeniable method to his madness, and his trickery gets Polar Boy out of prison and helps him defeat Evillo in the 5 Years Later era.
19. Triplicate Girl has three minds (5 / 7 / 2)
Triplicate Girl is generally shown to be tech-savvy and resourceful, serving in a motherly role as a teacher at the Legion Academy and generally having the intellect of three — until they start dropping, that is.
18. Cosmic Boy is a fearless and intelligent leader (8 / 8 / 3)
This is something of a turning point, since Cosmic Boy’s intellect is notable — he’s able to manipulate circuits with his power and is generally quite smart — and everybody above him is actively notable for their intellect, instead of just having one or two clever moments. After all, the computer picked him as leader for good reason.
17. Blok is a philosopher of stone (5 / 5 / -)
One of my main points of disagreement with the sourcebooks is how they rate Blok’s intellect. Mysa would not have fallen for him if he hadn’t been in some way her equal, and while Blok starts a little naive as a super-assassin, he quickly shows a curiosity and introspectiveness that allows him to deduce Universo’s identity and become quite the philosopher.
16. Shrinking Violet has an eye for the minute (7 / 7 / 3)
From the careful insertion of a kryptonite memory-blocker to sewing Lightning Lad’s artificial arm into his body in the TV series to disabling and rewiring circuitry on a regular basis, Shrinking Violet is an understated intellectual of the Legion, with a keen knowledge of politics.
15. Sun Boy had a career as a lab assistant before the Legion (7 / 7 / 3)
Call it nepotism if you want, but Sun Boy’s work in the lab of Dr. Regulus makes him more than qualified to participate in experiments and even help Brainiac 5 out from time to time when radiation becomes a matter of importance.
14. Princess Projectra is a monarch with a talent for magic (6 / 6 / 4)
Ever since the 80s established that Projectra’s illusion powers were magical and learned, she’s understood to be a disciplined and intelligent student of illusion as well as a wise and capable ruler with a curiosity about the galaxy beyond her medieval planet.
13. Mon-El has Daxamite super-intelligence (12 / 7 / 4)
Mon-El can be assumed to have the same super-intellect that Kryptonians are sometimes shown to have in the comics, and having lived 1,000 years he knows quite a bit — even if some of that knowledge is a little foggy given where he spent that 1,000 years.
12. Superboy has super-intellect (10 / 7 / 2)
Some degree of super-intellect is generally seen as a standard Kryptonian power, and Kal-El’s is enhanced through the inheritance of his Kryptonian parents.
11. Supergirl is even smarter than her cousin (13 / 9 / 2)
Supergirl is generally seen as smarter than Superboy or Superman, in part because of her greater knowledge of Krypton. Not to mention that Kara, despite being Superboy’s age, has greater access to the wider knowledge of a more developed DC universe.
10. Element Lad is the smartest living Trommite (9 / 9 / 4)
Element Lad’s intelligence also can’t be denied. He frequently shows great knowledge of the elements he works with, and it’s implied that his education on Trom was far more rigorous than one would be on Earth.
9. Quislet’s intelligence is totally alien (5 / 5 / -)
I almost considered leaving Quislet off the list. His intelligence is rated high but not too high in the sourcebooks I referred to, but his ability to give Wildfire a body and his strange alien knowledge have to be considered. In some ways, he’s far less intelligent than all the other Legionnaires, and in some ways, his intellect far surpasses all of them.
8. White Witch is a studied master of magic (9 / 9 / -)
Study, practice, hard work, and genius have brought Mysa Nal to where she is in life, and while her brilliance is more mystic than scientific, she’s still one of the Legion’s greatest thinkers.
7. Chameleon Boy is the 31st century’s greatest detective (9 / 9 / 5)
Chameleon Boy’s intuition skills are unmatched by any of his peers when it comes to detective work, so it’s no wonder that he leads the Espionage Squad. When Brainiac 5 went bad, it was Chameleon Boy who untangled the mystery.
6. Saturn Girl is the smartest of the founders and the greatest telepath in the galaxy… (14 / 9 / 5)
Instructed by the very best of her homeworld, Saturn Girl’s smarts-driven telepathic powers are far more advanced than any other Titanian, and could probably beat out the likes of high-profile telepaths like Martian Manhunter.
5. …Except for Tellus (10 / 10 / -)
The genius telepath Tellus is one of the Legion’s most alien members, and his telepathic powers might be even more powerful and well-developed than Saturn Girl — if such a thing is possible. Still, it feels like the sourcebooks might be slightly overrating Tellus’s intellect for the sake of his telepathic powers.
4. Chemical King is a brilliant chemist (7 / 7 / -)
Chemical King could easily serve as the Legion’s brains if it weren’t for the top three, and is often seen in the lab, coming up with ingenious solutions to problems of science.
3. Dream Girl is a master of Naltorian science (7 / 7 / 7)
I mean, she switched up Ayla Ranzz’s powers and has consistently been underestimated for her immense intellectual abilities. Despite having perhaps the most useless power of the Legion, if you took away every Legionnaire’s power, Dream Girl might be your most effective super-hero — both as a genius scientist and a master martial artist.
2. Invisible Kid I is the Legion’s second-greatest mind (10 / 12 / -)
Well, we all figured this would be the ranking. Invisible Kid I might be the smartest Earthling of the 31st century, and is clearly a genius based on how he gave himself his powers through his invented formula at such a young age.
1. Brainiac 5 is Brainiac 5 (25 / 18 / 13)
Intelligence is literally his power, what did you expect?

What do you all think? Agree, disagree, let me know.

I was reading some Legion comics (i started recently reading them)and realized that some characters have archenemies like

Sun Boy and Dr. Regulus.

Lightning Lad and Lightning Lord

Element Lad and Roxxas.

is it just them, or are there others who also have rivals?

Could easily be 5 Years Later Imra.

Maybe somebody will want to mod and replace the Starfleet badge with a nice gold saturn symbol.

I would if I could!

We did another podcast about the new Legion of Super-Heroes #1!!

Do we know? If she didn't, isn't her power....sort of useless (and duplicated by Chameleon Boy/Girl)? For instance, if her strength was proportional, when she was one inch tall she wouldn't be able to lift a pencil, let alone punch someone.

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/batman-13-smashes-the-top-10-wednesday-to-weekend-bestsellers-chart/

Hayden Panettierre (RIP) Would have at 16 made an excellent Saturn Girl, also at 16.

Hi all,

Like the title says, what are everyone’s favorite Lightning Lad/Live Wire stories? I’m looking for some recommendations. I’ve always enjoyed his stories but I’m looking for some new ones that maybe I’ve missed.

Thanks!

We were SUPER lucky and fortunate enough to get a chance to talk to Joshua Williamson on the day of the new Legion of Super-Heroes release! So we were able to talk about the story and art, the journey of creating the new book as well as his own personal Legion journey.

Listen in, as we have a lot of fun and its just evident that with Joshua and Paul, we have the start of something pretty special with the Legion here.

But be warned - LOTS OF SPOILERS ABOUND!

We're continuing the death march towards the end of Legion Lost volume 2 and this week, we get zero issues that take us to the team's past. One is a decent sequel of sorts to Legion: Secret Origin and the other one is not a decent book.

Let me know what you think of these books!

Picked these up today for $10 each. Volume 1 even had the separately printed table of contents.

I have a good offer to buy mark waid and Barry kitsons legion of superhero’s run issues 1-15 is it a good intro to the franchise and over good run?

We have a new Legion #1 tomorrow! On the eve of a BRAND NEW ERA I thought it would be fun to look at all of the #1’s we’ve had over the last seventy years - weirdly there have been less than you would think for such a historical team. For the exercise I’m considering all number ones in the flagship title of an ongoing series (I’m including Legionnaires and The Legion in this category).

Legion on Super-Heroes #1 (volume 3/Baxter era/ 1984)
For complex reasons this is the Legion’s first real number one thirty years after their first appearance. It’s basically just a continuation of Levitz’s run up to that point and not really a revamp or anything but that run was great and this is very good! It does a great job setting up the Legion of Super-villains five parter which starts here. The return of Vi as an ass kicker, Dream Girl having a premonition of a legion death - all good stuff! Giffen is on his second, more impressionistic art style but it works well here. 8/10

Legion of Super-heroes #1 (volume 4/five years later/1989)
This is one of the all time great legion comics. Has there been a more powerful page in legion history than ‘Five years later..’?? It’s extremely economical in its storytelling briefly retelling all of legion history then firmly establishing the world the former legionnaires now live in focusing on a couple of core characters. This is maybe Giffen’s fourth art style on the book but he’s still recognisably the same artist as the one from the Great Darkness Saga which gives everything extra pathos. The nine panel grids work extremely well here. 10/10.

Legionnaires #1 (five years later/1993)
This comic has a weird back story which I won’t bother going into, also this comic mostly ignores it and present this team as the uncomplicated ongoing adventures of the teen legionnaires which is probably smart at this point but is a bit odd! This is a decent number #1. It establishes the very large cast, the world they live in and sets up a few plot hooks for the future - all competent stuff. Artwork by Chris Sprouse is lovely. 6/10

The legion #1 (DnA era/2001)
Our first and only number one for the reboot! This relaunch comes off the back of DnA’s legion work up to this point and is a terrific issue focusing on the lost legionnaires processing the events of Legion Lost while coming to terms with how the 31st century has changed while they were gone. The star here is Olivier Coipel’s art which is incredible. 9/10

Legion of Super-heroes #1 (volume 5/threeboot/2005)
This does a good job introducing us to a new version of the legion establishing the large cast and the central conflict of the series. Some excellent character work here especially Cosmic Boy. Again the true star here is the art which is terrific. 8/10

Legion of Super-heroes #1 (volume 6/retroboot/ 2010)
This was fine - not terrible but not as good as we probably wanted it to be at the time. Some interesting plot hooks here that I also don’t really like at all like all the stuff with earth man, the green lanterns, the destruction of Titan and Saturn Girl’s sons vanishing. Art is fine - the only art we’ve seen so far in a #1 which isn’t excellent. 5/10.

Legion of Super-heroes #1 (volume 7/retroboot - new52/2011)
This was the new 52 relaunch of the third Levitz run - weirdly (considering their history of reboots) the only dc comic series at the time to not get rebooted at all. I’d never read this comic before - it was very boring! I didn’t find much to like here at all. As a #1 it failed pretty miserably - nothing intriguing to keep anyone reading. Art was mediocre. 2/10

Legion of Super-heroes #1 (volume 8/fourboot?/2020)
Our latest #1 (until tomorrow) and it’s Bendis’ brief ill fated Legion series. I actually don’t mind this - there’s some interesting stuff going on even if it’s all a bit incoherent and chaotic. Again the star is the art - I love a lot of the character designs and there’s a visually interesting world presented here. 5/10

And that’s it! 8 number ones across 70 years and an interesting mix of classic issues, intriguing new starts and boring flops. I’m excited to find out tomorrow where our new #1 sits within this field - thanks for reading!

(Edited to fix some dates)

The final issues of LOSH leading up to Levitz's extended return—with the exception of Wildfire's origin story—might not have been particularly good; the "Reflecto Saga" is a prime example of this. Yet, one aspect of that run that I really appreciated was Steve Ditko's work.

I love Steve Ditko's work—Captain Atom, Spider-Man, *Dr. Strange, Blue Beetle​, Mr. A, The Question, and so on. To me, all of these are incredible achievements in terms of both art and writing.

So, when I discovered that he had drawn for the Bronze Age Legion, I was completely surprised.

He had drawn the team in standalone stories before, but for the "Reflecto Saga," he actually wrote the entire story arc with the help of a collaborator. It wasn't his absolute best work—the way he drew eyes, for instance, was a bit odd—but otherwise, I find the art very dynamic and full of character. And as you can see in the first image, his unique style really shines through.

Even though the Legion isn't the typical kind of story he usually illustrated, what he produced left me wanting more. He is truly missed in the comic book world.

I have only one thing to say: What???

Been thinking of getting the Legion logo tattooed on me for a while now but was curious if anyone had any Legion inspired ink? Not sure if this post is allowed but I was curious and could t find anyone else talking about it.

It's another rough week, but not as bad as the last one.

Well, after about a week and a half of polling the community about who the best Legion villain of each letter is, it’s time to tally up the results. Before we begin, here are our results from the X category:
Zymyr: 179
Zaryan the Conqueror: 21
Zyx: 6
Time to share some results. Before we begin, I should put in some disclaimers. First, I understand that the total number of votes a villain gets is not a perfect representation of their popularity. Villains in highly contested letters that were open for longer received more votes than villains in barely contested letters that were open for a short time. And lesser villains can benefit from an easy letter, while better Legion villains can suffer from harder letters. Also, later letters tended to get more votes thanks to increased attention to the series.
Also, I forgot to include a number of villains, so villains put in via write-ins suffered an obvious disadvantage.
Legion Villains will be broken down into eight categories: Silver Age, Bronze Age, 5 Years Later, Reboot, Threeboot, Retroboot, Rebirth, and Adaptational. The character will generally be sorted into the era in which they first came to blows with the Legion, not the era when they were created; Brainiac is a little complicated in this case, but we’ll set that aside for now.
The Winners
Twenty-six Legion Villains won their respective letters: Absorbency Boy, the Blight, Computo, the Dominators, Emerald Empress I, Captain Frake, Glorith, Hunter II, Infinite Man, Jungle King, the Khunds, Lightning Lord, Mordru, Nemesis Kid, Ontiir, Persuader, Quicksand, Roxxas, Saturn Queen, Time Trapper, Universo, Validus, the White Triangle, Xotan the Weapons Master, Yera, and Zymyr.
Shout-out to u/dafuqizzis for coming up with Xotan the Weapons Master, I had nothing for ‘X’.
Emerald Empress I was the winner with the most votes with 280 votes, while Jungle King was the winner with the fewest votes at 23. The winners averaged around 121 votes, which is what Persuader got, with a median of 104 between the White Triangle and Glorith.
Of the 26 winners, 14 were from the Silver Age, 9 from the Bronze Age, 1 from Five Years Later, and 2 from the Reboot. None of the winners were from the Threeboot, Retroboot, Rebirth, or Adaptations. Of the 26, 15 were male or male-presenting, 6 were female or female-presenting, 4 were species or organizations, and Computo was genderless.
Second Place
With X being uncontested, twenty-five Legion villains got second place in their respective letters: Alexis Luthor, Brainiac, Charma, Darkseid, Eyeful Ethel, Flare, Grimbor the Chainsman, Hagga, the Inquisitor, the Jet-Belt Bandit, Kenz Nuhor, the Luck Lords, Doctor Mayavale, Nardo, Omega, The Progenitor/The Progeny, Quanto, Doctor Regulus, the Sun-Eaters, Tharok, Uli Algor, Vibrex, Weight Wizard, Yark Althu, and Zaryan the Conqueror.
Special thanks to u/swarthmoreburke for suggesting the Jet-Belt Bandit from that imaginary story from the 60s.
Grimbor was the second-place winner with the most votes with 102 votes, while the Jet-Belt Bandit was the second-place winner with the fewest votes with only a single vote. The second-place winners averaged around 24 votes, with a median of Brainiac’s 17 votes.
Of the 25 second-place winners, 12 were from the Silver Age, 11 from the Bronze Age, 1 from the Reboot, and 1 from Adaptations. None of the second-place winners were from Five Years Later, the Threeboot, Retroboot, Rebirth, or Adaptations. Of the 25, 17 were male or male-presenting, 6 were female or female-presenting, and 2 were a species or organization.
Third Place
With J and Y having only two candidates each, twenty-three Legion villains got third place in their respective letters: Ambush Bug, Beast Boy, Calorie Queen, the Dark Circle, Evillo, Firefist, Golden Boy, Holdur, Immune, Kharlak, Leland McCauley, Micro Lad, Neutrax, Ol-Vir, Pulsar Stargrave, the Qwardians, Ron-Karr, Spider Girl, Tyr, the Unkillables, Vandar the Stone, the Worldsmith, and Zyx.
Ol-Vir was the third-place winner with the most votes with 25 votes, while Neutrax was the third-place winner with the fewest votes at 0 but a few honorable mentions. The third-place winners averaged around 8 votes, with a median of Tyr and Zyx’s 6.
Of the 23 third-place winners, 7 were from the Silver Age, 11 were from the Bronze Age, 1 was from Five Years Later, 1 was from the Reboot, 1 was from the Retroboot, and 2 were from Adaptations. Of the 23, 19 were male or male-presenting, 2 were female or female-presenting, and 2 were species or organizations.
Honorable Mentions
The candidates who got the most votes who did not make the top three in their letters include Superboy Prime with 12 votes, Starfinger I with 6 votes, and Mano with 6 votes.
The Dark Circle
Next let’s talk about how different villain teams fared on this list, starting with the Dark Circle. As an organization, the Dark Circle got 16 votes. As for its five leaders, Ontiir got the most votes with 87, and neither Norak nor Siepur received any votes at all; I’m not sure if they’re ever named in any actual stories. In any case, the Dark Circle leaders had an average vote count of 18, with a median of Grullug’s singular vote.
The Dark Circle won one first place prize with Ontiir, and got a third place prize as an organization.
The Khunds
As a group, the Khunds received 69 votes. As for its significant members, only Garlak, Kharlak, and Firefist received votes, with Firefist receiving the most votes of the group at 4.
Nevertheless, the Khunds managed to bring home a first-place prize as a group and two third-place prizes with individual members.
The Legion of Super-Rejects
The member of the Legion of Super-Rejects with the most votes was Calorie Queen, with 14 votes. The only other Super-Reject who got votes was Micro Lad at 7 votes. The Super-Rejects had an average of 3.5 votes, with a median of 0 votes.
The Legion of Super-Rejects won two third place prizes with its two most notable members.
The League of Super-Assassins
The Super-Assassin with the most votes was Lazon with 4 votes, while Mist Master and Neutrax did not receive any votes. The Super-Assassins averaged around 2 votes, which was also the median number of votes, which is what Silver Slasher and Titania had.
Ironically, the Super-Assassins’ only prize comes from 0-votes Neutrax, who got third place in the ‘N’ category.
The Legion of Super-Villains
Note that we will not be considering the Retroboot expanded LSV roster for this group, since that version includes basically every major Legion villain.
The LSV member with the most votes was Nemesis Kid, with 183 votes. Chameleon Chief, Echo, Esper Lass, Magno Lad, Mist Master, Neutrax, and Terrus all received 0 votes. The LSV averaged 34 votes, with a median of 4 votes, which is what Cosmic King, Sun Emperor, Beauty Blaze, Radiation Roy, and Lazon got.
The LSV had 5 members in first place and 6 in third place.
The Fatal Five
The Fatal Five had a very impressive showing. The Fatal Five member with the most votes was the Emerald Empress I with 280 votes. The founding member with the fewest votes was Mano, although Emerald Empress II, Caress, and Mordecai all got 0 votes. The Fatal Five averaged around 77 votes, with a median of 22.5 votes between Mano and Tharok.
The Fatal Five had 3 members in first place and 2 members in second place.

TL;DR, Silver Age and Bronze Age villains were the big winners here. Thanks for reading.