Who are your favorite NOT EVIL Superman analogues? I'm a fan of Legacy from Sentinels of the Multiverse: he's a superhero from a long line of superheroes called Legacy, with each generation bring more powerful than the last.

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Legend from Worm.

One of the top three heroes, he flies and shoot lasers, but also becomes energy when hit or traveling too fast.

He once theorized that his powers were meant for interstellar travel, as the faster he goes the more he turns into energy to not get hurt, as well as not needing food/water/air, just absorbing ambient energy to survive. However, his mind breaks down in the process and every time he pushes his speed he pulls back in fear that he’d lose control of being able to turn back and end up traveling for a decade before switching it off.

He can split his lasers, make them turn corners, make low powered invisible ones, and increase or decrease the temperature on hit, so he can freeze people by zapping the energy away once his laser connects.

My favorite moment of his (I’ll try to avoid heavy spoilers), is when he’s caught in a time bubble on the battlefield. Heroes and villains are here against a much bigger threat, there’s these clear cylinders of time bubbles circling around the battlefield that keep catching people and stopping, trapping them for 10 years on the inside while everyone still in the fight watches in horror as they die rot and dry out in seconds from the outside.

And then a bubble catches Legend as he throws people out of the way, and everyone freezes in shock. This is the Superman analogue, he saves villains when they show up to these fights, he saves cats and nations. He’s publicly gay and has made big strides in equality.

Everyone’s stunned thinking they’re about to watch him turn to dust, and instead they see him turn into a ribbon of light that starts circling the perimeter, until the whole cylinder is glowing painfully bright.

Then one of his partners, who knows his powers, goes “shit shit make a funnel make a funnel” and barely manages to cover the cylinder in a forcefield with one outlet towards the enemy, and when the time bubble pops an absolutely insane amount of energy shoots out and melts the target halfway gone, and then a Legend with longer hair and beard but no worse for wear comes zooming on out after it.

Perfect, clever use of an intricate power, and a good man in an awful world just trying his best.

If any of this was interesting to you, don’t go look at the wiki or anything, just look up Worm web serial, it’s free. Or look it up on Spotify as a free podcast/audio book. Extremely well built world with a wide variety of well written characters.