So, while reading the Legion of 3 Worlds thing, it occurred to me that a simple solution (and what certainly appears to be the solution Geoff Johns is going for) is to have each of the various Legions be the Legions of a different Earth.

I’ve only read the Waid reboot of Legion, and no other appearance from them, and that’s what I assumed was happening when I heard the original Legion showed up in the JLA/JSA crossover.

For shame. You always have a choice.

Hypertime Bubble.

Crossed over with JSA. I didn’t have a choice, dammit.

(And, well, it was the vehicle to bring Wally back, which I approved of at the time since I thought it meant Barry was once again safely sealed away. Whoops….)

But, yeah, the LSH fans are so fanatical about their preferred version that it’s almost impossible to tell ANY type of story without royally pissing off some significant group of the fanbase, which is why it’s so hard to get an LSH book selling well these days (the threeboot version had just about everything possible going for it, with the Teen Titans push and a big-name creative team, but even that didn’t work because LSH fans were dismissing it before the first issue was even published).

As far as HOW they’re going back to New Earth instead of their own, Geoff set that up back in Booster Gold (and in Lightning Saga but I can hardly blame anyone if they didn’t read THAT). While time traveling, it is apparently easily possible to be shunted to another Earth. Now as far as WHY they’re all going back to New Earth instead of different ones…hell if I know.

But I will say that they’d be better off making the Threeboot team the one for New Earth then the one that knows Superman from Earth-2.

I think they’re all futures of New Earth. Consider:

Kal is connected to the main, Pre-Crisis Legion.

Kara is connected to Threeboot Legion.

Bart is connected to Zero Hour Legion.

All three characters are from New Earth, so it could be that the other Legions are all alternate futures of New Earth. Makes just as much sense as anything else.

And to tie it in to the Superman mythos even more:

Kon is connected to Zero Hour Legion.

I’m not too big a fan of the other two Legions being from parallel earths, because they’ve all been accessible from New Earth at one point or another.

Oh well, I’m sure it has something to do with all their time travelling and what-not; every future exists attached to a future Earth and that just gets shuffled around whenever they travel back in time and change something.

OR whatever.

Honestly, easiest way to say it is that they’re alternate futures of the same Earth. Because once we start basing the other Legions on other Earths then you have to come up with a reason for them to all go back to New Earth and blah blah blah blah.

Alternate Futures, Alternate Legions. The End.

Somewhere it’s was established that the zero hour legion was the E-2 legion . i think it was in 52.

That’s just plain wrong. There was nothing in 52 about the Legion. And nothing about there being an Earth 2 Legion anywhere else.

There’s also a GA Starman story in which mad scientist villain the Light pulls back “Futurites” from an undisclosed later time period; they’re bulletproof giants who can’t breathe 20th century air without their special masks.

The Golden Age Flash also did some forwards time travel now an again, and the JSA had a few adventures that sent them into the future besides the on Aijit mentions above.

Now, it’s almost certainly true that no one developed a consistent future for E-2 beyond the occasional reference to one of those old 1940s tales….

All three characters are from New Earth, so it could be that the other Legions are all alternate futures of New Earth. Makes just as much sense as anything else.

@Hangmanjury, that works for me. But DC seems to be intent on cataloging everything and giving each universe a simple, consistent timeline.

Of course, there are only two ways to maintain that: (1) Never do any future and/or time travel stories, ever. (2) Treat future stories as the same level of canon as past stories. That means not killing off characters who have been seen alive in the future, not bringing back characters who are still dead in the future, and not allowing anyone to change the past.

Once you allow time travelers to start changing history, any semblance of a consistent timeline goes out the window,