Legion of Super-Pets

[transmetahuman]

Scientists first called it a "protomorph"; one of the scientists' kids thought they were saying "potty mouth", and started calling it "Potty"...

okay, I'll shut up now...

[Lemurion]

Nyarlathotep?

I just want to get the letters "pro" in there somewhere.

Nyarlathprotep?

Just an idea.

[Kenn]

Hmmm. I wonder if Thor would have qualified for membership in the Legion of Super-Pets?




Maybe if Mort Weisinger paid any attention to the properties that DC bought.



No, not Thor, I mean Manhunter's dog (who himself was an android) - "No Dog Escapes the Dogcatcher"?

[Haven Walkur]

I love the idea of a "dark" Legion of Super-Pets; that's not only taking the Pets seriously, it's making them seriously frightening!

I've been doing some research on the Inuat, the unbodied and malevolent spirits of Inuit belief, and I thought that some of their dog/wolf creatures might make an effective origin for "dark Krypto."

Adlet Ten children were once born to an Inuit woman and a red dog. And of these children, five were dogs who crossed the seas to engender the European races. The other five children were the Adlet, wolf-monsters that drink blood, and their offspring are the flesh-eating shape-changers known as the Erqigdlit (singular: Erqigdluq).

Akhlut is a spirit that takes the form of both a wolf and a whale. It is a vicious, dangerous beast, and its tracks appear as wolf tracks that lead to and from the ocean.

Amarok is a giant wolf in Inuit mythology. It will hunt down and devour anyone foolish enough to hunt alone at night. Sometimes considered equivalent to the Waheela, a wolf-like cryptid reported from Nahanni Valley in the Northwest Territories of Canada.
[The waheela might actually BE a prehistoric bear-dog (an Amphicyonid), or perhaps a Dire Wolf (Canis dirus), a creature that co-existed with the gray wolf in North America during the Pleistocene. The waheela is reported to travel alone and not in packs as modern wolves do.]

Keelut is an evil chthonic spirit who resembles a hairless dog.

[jkwleisemann]

I'm thinking some kind of maxed-out Lovecraftian African Ape God, as in that story the name of which I can't remember, with some Rovert E. Howard touches.

*coughs* The Strange Case of Arthur Jermyn.

[Vestnik]

Nyarlathprotep?

Just an idea.

THANK YOU!!!!

[Thrakazog]

What about Gleek and Wonderdog?

[Vestnik]

Amarok is a giant wolf in Inuit mythology. It will hunt down and devour anyone foolish enough to hunt alone at night. Sometimes considered equivalent to the Waheela, a wolf-like cryptid reported from Nahanni Valley in the Northwest Territories of Canada.
[The waheela might actually BE a prehistoric bear-dog (an Amphicyonid), or perhaps a Dire Wolf (Canis dirus), a creature that co-existed with the gray wolf in North America during the Pleistocene. The waheela is reported to travel alone and not in packs as modern wolves do.]

Thanks a lot for the input.

I think I'm going to go with the giant skeleton hound idea. I like the image of a 50-foot-tall cadaverous zombie hound who can breath great gouts of flame and cold (that is, heat-ray vision and super-breath).

I'm going to try to write up the first one of these guys this weekend. Probably Streaky because he's got the simplest power set (in my interpretation, he's a speedster with vicious Killing Attacks).

[OddHat]

What about Gleek and Wonderdog?

Part of a super villain team alond with Zan, Jayna, Wendy, and Marvin. Life with the Superfriends can do terrible things to a child.

[assault]

Part of a super villain team alond with Zan, Jayna, Wendy, and Marvin. Life with the Superfriends can do terrible things to a child.

That's right. They're a whole other team entirely.

A very evil and powerful one: the Super Enemies.

[CrosshairCollie]

THANK YOU!!!!

You'll retract that thanks once you actually try to SAY that.

[Narratio]

Hang on, if you're going to get expansive then the oldest of them must appear. Yes, the original Bat Hound! Hieghtened smell, tracking senses and perhaps a blood draining HKA?

[Haven Walkur]

Ah, no...Ace, like his owner, existed in the wrong century to be a member of the Legion of Super-Pets. The Bat-hound was a 20th Century puppy, and didn't have the ability to time-travel to the 30th Century -- unlike Comet and Streaky, who were members of the Legion.

[OddHat]

Well, the oldest of them all is, strangely, the prototype Streaky.

In the 1930 novel Gladiator, Prof. Danner tests his formula on a pregnant cat before using it on his pregnant wife and unborn son. He drowns all but one of the newborn kittens. The kitten that lives has Super Strength, Invulnerability, Super Leaping, and some Super Speed. Its depredations include slaughtering local livestock and destroying much property, as well as terifying Mrs. Danner. Eventually the Prof kills it with poison.