New Amalgam: Legion of Pain

The Legion of Pain (Theater of Pain + Legion of Super-Villains), evil counterparts of the 30th Century heroes called the Legion of the Galaxy (Guardians of the Galaxy + Legion of Super-Heroes).

Top Row (Leaders), L-R:

King Magus:
Amalgamation of: Magus + Cosmic King
Real Name: Adam Krinn
Aliases: Adam Cosmic (Adam Warlock + Cosmic Boy), “Laevar Warlock”
Biography: In a future that may or may not come to pass, a traumatic event in the life of young hero Adam Cosmic will drive him insane and amplify his magnetic powers a thousand times over. This new force, calling himself King Magus, will threaten the very existence of the universe. Using his powers, he reaches into the past and creates a cult that worships him called the Circle of Truth (Church of Truth + Dark Circle), which he uses to ensure that his transformation will happen. The weakened alien powerhouse Deathseid (Thanos + Darkseid) knows of King Magus and sent several agents to make sure that Adam Cosmic doesn’t become him. When Adam Cosmic learned what he was destined to become, he went into exile until he decided to fight against his fate. Rejoining the Legion of the Galaxy, he teamed up with Deathseid and the Annihilation Five (Annihilation Wave + Fatal Five) to fight against the Circle of Truth. The cosmic convergence that occurred because of the battle between Adam and Magus resulted in their powers uniting and soon being divided evenly between them. With King Magus at the weakest he’s ever been, Deathseid struck down the villain with the remained of his powers, the exertion of which killed him.
But, Deathseid’s sacrifice was for naught, as King Magus returned much later. Still weak and without his followers, he took the identity of Venusian alchemist Laevar Warlock to assemble a team of villains from across the universe. They call their new alliance the Legion of Pain!
Powers: Super strength/stamina/durability; energy absorption and expulsion; intelligence; elemental transmutation; telepathy; intangibility; magnetism powers that affect the natural magnetism of all atoms, which allows him to warp reality.

Princess Planet:
Amalgamation of: Protégé + Saturn Queen
Real Name: Eve Tege
Biography: Eve Tege was a citizen of Saturn’s moon Titan, born of New Eternal (Eternal + New God) descent. When Titan was invaded by the Circle of Truth, young Eve, who sought to become more powerful, willingly gave herself to the cultists and she was taken to their throneworld. Her beauty infatuated her new god, King Magus, and he amplified her natural powers to a great extent in exchange for bearing his child. Eve was five months pregnant when King Magus was seemingly killed by Deathseid and, due to the comic connection between the parents, she suffered a miscarriage. King Magus soon returned to Eve as they began to create the Legion of Pain; they cannot bear another child until Magus regains his powers. Eve took on the name Princess Planet and became a co-leader of the Legion of Pain. Though in love with King Magus, Eve was seduced by her teammate Lodestone Lord when he tried to usurp Magus’ leadership.
Powers: Telepathy, telekinesis, hypnosis, accelerated healing; duplication of nearby metabeings’ powers.

Lodestone Lord:
Amalgamation of: Brimstone Love + Lightning Lord
Real Name: Brin Ranzz
Biography: Born on the planet Vesath (Vesper + Winath), Brin Ranzz, along with his younger siblings Stakar and Aleta, discovered the ruins of an ancient god. They accidentally opened a tomb containing lightning-shooting monsters, which attacked the children. When Brin awoke, he realized that he was changed into a demonic being with flame and electric powers. Thought to be a monster, Brin was attacked by the citizens of his home town, and he left the planet to search for his siblings. When he came to Earth, he was forced to fight Stakar, who joined the Legion of the Galaxy as the shock-blasting Lightning Hawk (Starhawk + Lightning Lad). After realizing who each other are, the stopped the battle and they went back to the Legion’s headquarters in the city of Neotropolis (formerly New Metropolis [New York City + Metropolis]).
Stakar and Aleta promised to help Brin recover his human form, with help from the Legion’s smartest member, Matriac 5 (Martinex + Brainiac 5). Staying at the Legion HQ, he began hearing the voice of King Magus in his mind, telling him that his brother and sister are jealous of his power and wish to take it for themselves. This made Brin outraged, and he attacked the Legion. He was recruited into the Legion of Pain and made a co-leader. Now vainly proud of his abilities and appearance, the Lodestone Lord once attempted to usurp King Magus’s rule over the LoP by seducing his lover Princess Planet.
Powers: Super strength/stamina/durability; horns that generate blinding flashes of light, projection of flame and lightning bolts; flight and space survival.

Middle Row, L-R:

The Tearmaster:
Amalgamation of: Fearmaster + Tyr
Real Name: Darraz
Alias: King of the Hunt
Biography: Darraz was the commander-in-chief of his planet’s military, but a war crime he committed lead to an accident that cost him his right arm. He was disbarred from service, and he used what money he had left to buy a weaponized bionic arm and became a bounty hunter. He and his partner Composite-Fractor clashed with the Legion numerous times, most often butting heads with legionnaire Punish Kid (Punisher 2099 + Karate Kid). They later joined the Legion of Pain.
Powers: Darraz is super intelligent; as the Tearmaster, his bionic right arm is superhumanly strong and durable and fires a molecular distortion shape that allows him to change the chemical composition of any substance, even living flesh, so he can kill people by changing them into iron or glass or anything else. His rocket arm, when removed, can also fly back to him on rocket boosters.

Backlash:
Amalgamation of: Flipside + Ol-Vir
Real Name: Oliver Harrison
Biography: Before the Great Disaster, the alien scientists of Deathseid’s planet Apoktan (Titan + Apokolips) developed an army of power ability-mimicking androids based on the Earthly tech of the Amazing-Adaptoid (Super-Adaptoid + AMAZO). They were sent to attack the heroes of Earth during the Crisis Reign event (Dark Reign + Final Crisis), and most were deactivated by the New Eternal Metorder (Master Order + Metron).
In the 30th Century, human smuggler Oliver Harrison and his crew were ambushed in a Science Eye (Public Eye + Science Police) police sting while trading several contraband weapons, including an Apoktanic mimic-droid. Oliver was injured heavily and the mimic-droid activated and dragged him away from the firefight. The droid replaced Oliver’s destroyed body parts with its own machine parts, effectively destroying itself. Super-Spider (Spider-Man 2099 + Mon-El), a member of the Legion of the Galaxy, helped the Science Eye track down the escaped smugglers, and encountered Oliver. The adaptive technology inside his cyborg parts copied Super-Spider’s powers and he used them to defend himself against the hero. Taking advantage of their shared weakness for the element lead, Super-Spider defeated Oliver and the Science Eye officers took him into custody. Oliver took on the codename Backlash when he escaped from jail and joined the Legion of Pain.
Powers: Superhuman strength/speed/agility/durability/stamina/senses; absorption of yellow sun light and conversion of it into strength; projection of organic webbing from forearms; x-ray and laser vision; extension and retraction of poisonous talons from fingers and toes; telescopic vision; flight; wall-crawling. Weak against contact with lead.

Silver Acolyte:
Amalgamation of: Exodus + Silver Slasher
Real Name: Kilan Du Paris
Biography: Kilan Du Paris is a Chinese-French metamutant (mutant + metahuman) from the 21st Century. She blindly follows the metamutant extremist Magnetron (Magneto + The Brain) and served in his army as he and his Brotherhood (…of Mutants + … of Evil) waged a final war against normal humanity and a team of heroic metamutants willing to defend it, the X-Patrol (X-Men + Doom Patrol). Kilan, as the Silver Acolyte, tried to use her psychic powers to kill the X-Patrol’s field leader Mindsye (Cyclops + Mento), but his mental eye beams counteracted her powers, causing a dimensional rift that banished her to the 30th Century.
Now a member of the Legion of Pain, Kilan plans to betray them after they destroy the Legion of the Galaxy and other non-metamutant heroes and villains in order to make metamutants the dominant species in the universe.
Powers: Telepathy, telekinesis, and generation of a silvery psionic coating that allows her to move at high speed and form energy blades.

Shiftox:
Amalgamation of: Venom 2099 + Chameleon Chief
Real Name: Krigt Dagle
Alias: Carson Stone
Biography: Ever since the Great Disaster, the alien race known as the skrultians (Skrulls + Martians) have lost their empire and 3/4ths of their number and became nomadic, interbreeding with a ability-mimicking race, the Xurdans (Xartans + Durlans). Ren Dagle, a skrultian/xurdan hybrid who emigrated to Earth with his pregnant wife, another S/X hybrid, became stuck in a human form when he contracted a disease. His wife and children were forced to take human form in public, to avoid confusion. Krigt Dagle (aka Carson Stone) is the son of Ren Dagle, now the industrialist R.J. Stone (Tyler Stone + RJ Brande), and twin brother of Rep “Rebecca Stone” Dagle. Rep became the first recruit into her father’s sponsored hero team, the Legion of the Galaxy, under the name “Chamelica” (Replica + Chameleon Boy). She was later named the heiress to her father’s company and fortune; Krigt became jealous of his sister, and decided to regain his father’s favor by researching a cure for his frozen form. An accident turned Krigt into a feral villain known as Shiftox. Shiftox battled the LotG and Chamelica, who tried many times to bring back her brother’s sanity. Shiftox later joined the Legion of Pain.
Powers: Super strength/agility/stamina/reflexes; body is mostly comprised of an acidic, toxic sludge that allows him to change shape, stretch, and grow sharp bony protrusions.

Composite-Fractor:
Amalgamation of: Multi-Fractor (aka Jigsaw 2099) + Composite Superman
Real Name: Joseph Russo
Biography: Lonna DeMara, a xurdan raised as a human, was manipulated into breaking into a secret Earth govt. facility, which contains the costumes and equipment of pre-Disaser superheroes and villains. An accident during a firefight led her to developing new powers, and, before she became Queen Wasp (Yellowjacket + Insect Queen) of the LotG, Lonna revealed her boss’s true identity for the police to capture in exchange for leniency. The mastermind behind the caper turned out to be another xurdan named Joe Russo, who was undercover in the same facility to steal the pre-Disaster heroes’ powers. The Legion tried to stop him, but a lightning storm amplified Joe’s powers, permanently changing him into a visual amalgamation of pre-Disaster metabeings, most notably Super-Soldier (Captain America + Superman) and Iron Bat (Iron Man + Batman), with the Legion’s powers and more. The Legion was able to best the “Composite-Fractor” by using the fused metabeings’ weaknesses and he was taken to prison. C-F later escaped and became a bounty hunter, working with the Tearmaster. Tearmaster and C-F later joined the Legion of Pain.
Powers: Cybernetic implants with a gorilla left arm and a blade on the right hand. Laser vision from right eye and flight via rocket booster on left foot. Magnetism; telepathy; electric blasts; size-changing; fire blasts; intangibility; super strength; shapeshifting; super-eating; warp-gates.

Bottom Row, L-R:

Unitos:
Amalgamation of: Thanatos + Universo
Real Name: Sarmon Eisenhart/Rick Freeman(?)
Biography: Jealous of the power his son Ron uses as the Legionnaire Jade Giant (Hulk 2099 + Green Lantern Rond Vidar), Sarmon Eisenhart begins experimenting on his own neurological chemistry in the confines of cyberspace. There he meets a digitalized consciousness, who claims to be the spirit of pre-disaster hero Captain Genesis (Genis-Vell/Rick Jones + CM3), who gives Sarmon advanced psychic powers in exchange for becoming his new body. United, the spirit and Sarmon became the villain Unitos and attempted to take over the Earth with their psychic powers. Unitos was one of the Legion’s most powerful enemies, until Jade Giant succeeded in separating his father’s body from the digital spirit and trap it in an unreachable section of cyberspace. Now only half as powerful as before, Sarmon joined the Legion of Pain in exchange for returning his full power upon the LotG’s destruction.
Powers: Telepathy, telekinesis, hypnotism, illusion casting. Unitos can form weapons and tools by combining his telekinetic and illusionary powers.

Turebor:
Amalgamation of: Venture + Grimbor the Chainsman
Biography: The bounty hunter and inventor known only as Turebor was hired by the Legion of Pain to assassinate RJ Stone. He used a device to negate most of the Legionnaires’ powers, but he was defeated by martial artist Legionnaire Punish Kid. Turebor later reappeared as a full-on Legion of Pain member..
Powers: Expert hunter and inventor with numerous weapons and tools at his disposal.

Nemesis Jack:
Amalgamation of: Halloween Jack + Nemesis Kid
Alias: Jordan Druiter
Biography: In the wake of the Great Disaster, many of Earth’s hidden societies, from the undersea kingdom of Atlantis to the island nation of Themsgard (Asgard + Themyscira), were decimated and their native peoples destroyed. After that, an alien species that was studying these people collected genetic samples from the extinct ones and began creating new versions of them on their own planet. In the 30th Century, one of these creations developed free will and escaped the planet in secrecy. Coming to Earth, he used his adaptive shape-shifting ability to take on a human persona, “Jordan Druiter”, and tried to join the Legion of the Galaxy. When his alien creators attacked Earth, they framed Jordan as a spy for them. Now an enemy of the LotG, Jordan became Nemesis Jack, a member of the Legion of Pain.
Powers: The ability to instinctively develop the powers, body parts, and identity he needs to defeat an enemy or survive a dangerous situation. He can change back to his normal form, a green-skinned humanoid, at will.

Carrion:
Amalgamation of: Vulture 2099 + The Hunter
Real Name: Orion
Biography: The cyborg Carrion is an assassin-for-hire who tends to also eat his victims when he’s finished killing them. Hoping to find new prey to hunt, he hunts the Legion of the Galaxy both solo and with the Legion of Pain.
Powers: Cyborg with enhanced strength, clawed fingernails, fangs, and wings for flight. Master hunter and psychotic cannibal.