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Dark Legion
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The Dark Legion is a fictional organization from the Sonic the Hedgehog comics. It is composed of a group of technocratic Echidnas.
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Founded by Menniker, son of Dimitri, the Dark Legion was originally made up of a group of disgruntled Echidnas opposed to the Brotherhood of Guardians and their ban on excess technology. After their first battle, the Legion was banished to the Twilight Zone, a realm where time passed differently than on Mobius proper, resulting in four Mobian generations to every single Dark Legion one. However, they would later return over the years to battle the Guardians and strike at the Echidna people. Overall, the primary goal of the Legion has been to first dominate Angel Island, and then the rest of Mobius.
The main identifying trait in the ranks of the Legion is their devotion to technology. These echidnas are so obsessed with mechanics that they even replace parts of their own bodies with machine implants. They also believe themselves superior to other species.
The Dark Legion was the resistance force on Angel Island against the Eggman Empire backed Dingos. However it is revealed that since then the Legion has splintered into two groups: the Frost Legion and the Flame Legion and are currently caught up in a civil war. The Flame Legion is still under the command of Lien-Da, but the Frost Legion has sworn allegiance to an Echidna that bears a startling resemblance to the late Kragok. As a result of this power struggle, the Dark Legion has been effectively eliminated as a threat to Sonic the Hedgehog, his allies, and his enemies alike-for the time being. However, Dr. Finitevus has made plans to reunify the Legion under one Grand Master: the reborn Enerjak.
In the possible future of Mobius: 25 Years Later, the Dark Legion remains under the control of Lien-Da. In the unaltered timeline, their role has been reduced to little more than a social group. However, in the alternate Mobius: 25 Years Later, the Legion serve as military support for King Shadow the Hedgehog, working as brutal law enforcers and going by the name Chaotix. They were commanded by their old enemy Knuckles, who later turned traitor and joined a battle against Shadow. Following Shadow's defeat, they were presumably all imprisoned.
Father of Menniker, founder of the Dark Legion, Dimitri later assumed command of the Legion from Kragok while in his Enerjak persona. Following the drain of his powers by Mammoth Mogul, he was sustained by a vast number of cybernetic implants. He was later immobilized, and handed over leadership of the Legion to Lien-Da. In the Mobius: 25 Years Later story, Dimitri has been reduced to a cyborg head in a floating glass orb. This incarnation is his current form in the present comics as well, where he is currently working with Dr. Finitevus, who is also responsible for Dimitri's floating head form.
Son of Dimitri, Menniker was driven to rebellion after his father's seeming death. Founding the Dark Legion, he took drastic steps against the Brotherhood of Guardians. He was banished by Steppenwolf, his cousin, but returned in an alliance with Overlanders. Menniker planned to attack the Floating Island with a missile, but was stopped by the current Guardian, Aaron. Menniker leaped on the missile to stop Aaron, telling him about a control that would kill them both if he touched it. Aaron pressed it deliberately, ending the threat of Menniker and the missile at the cost of his own life.
The son of Menniker, Moritori Rex devised a means to observe Mobius from the zone in which the Legion were imprisoned, and used this knowledge to attack the vulnerable Echidnaopolis in the time of the Guardians Hawking and Tobor. He became locked in mortal combat with Tobor, and using a teleportation device transported them both to the Floating Island, ruined by nuclear fallout. Both became wounded, and then separated. When Guardian Hawking came to find his son, Rex deceived the Guardian and went with him to Haven, where his eyes, blinded by the battle, were replaced by a multi-functioning visor.
Over the next several decades, Moritori posed as Tobor and served as a Legion spy inside the Brotherhood of Guardians. His deceit came to an end when he revealed himself to Knuckles the Echidna. Fleeing Haven, once again blinded, this time by Spectre, Tobor's son, he returned to the Dark Legion, becoming a high ranking member, and his eyes were replaced again by superior Legion implants that were virtually identical to his original eyes.
Son of Moritori Rex and father of Kragok, Lien-Da, and Julie-Su, Luger is largely unknown. He married an Echidna named Merin-Da, who gave birth to Kragok and Kommissar before her death. He then married Mari-Su, who gave birth to Julie-Su. However, Luger was an unfeeling and work-obsessed father, and his first children were unwilling to wait for Luger to hand down his position to either of them. Ruthlessly, they killed their stepmother, erased Julie-Su's memory, and quite possibly killed Luger. In any event, Kragok and Lien-Da despised their father so much that they afterwards would name Moritori Rex as their parent rather than Luger.
First wife of Luger, Merin-Da is the mother of Kragok and Lien-Da. She died some time after their birth.
Luger's second wife, Mari-Su is the mother of Julie-Su. She was later murdered by her step-children.
Son of Luger, brother to Lien-Da, half-brother of Julie-Su, and father of Constable Remington, Kragok was the leader of the Dark Legion in the time of Knuckles. He later surrenderred control to Enerjak, and soon after was arrested and then imprisoned in the Twilight Zone with Guardian Tobor. Later, when the two escaped, Tobor seemingly killed them both by launching a suicide run on the Quantum Beam, taking Kragok with him. However, a Dark Legionnaire resembling Kragok has taken over the Frost Legion in the current civil war.
Daughter of Luger, sister of Kragok and Julie-Su, Lien-Da often goes by the name (or possibly title) Kommissar. After Kragok is killed and Dimitri incapacitated, she becomes the leader of the Dark Legion. She now leads the Flame Legion against the Frost Legion in the civil war. Lien-Da also has an intense hatred for Julie-Su.
The half-sister of Kragok and Kommissar and daughter of Luger and Mari-Su, Julie-Su is a Legion soldier after her memory is erased by her venomous siblings. She later leaves the Legion after befriending the Chaotix, and has since faced her former comrades and relatives in battle several times.
An Echidna whose body has been so thoroughly replaced with implants that he's almost entirely mechanical, Xenin is a super-elite soldier of the Dark Legion and serves as Dimitri's personal bodyguard. He was specially built to withstand and match Knuckles' great strength. However, Xenin suffers from an unfortunate lack of common sense, and seems to be capable of little more than following orders, gloating and telling bad jokes. Despite these weaknesses, he is a powerful warrior, and only Knuckles can match his strength in battle. During the Eggman Empire occupation of Angel Island, Xenin was captured by Hunter, and was imprisoned by Dr. Eggman. He and the other captives were pulled into the Zone of Silence when the Sword of Acorns ripped open a dimensional hole in the original Egg Grape Chamber, caused by the Arachne's efforts to release Ixis Naugus.
Originally serving Lien-Da as chief medical advisor, Dr. Finitevus used Hunter's attack on the Angel Island resistance to Dr. Eggman to facilitate his disappearance. Since then, he has apparently gone renegade, assembling his own force of villains including the Destructix and Scourge the Hedgehog. Among his actions have been the prevention of A.D.A.M.'s seizure of the Master Emerald and assuming the duties of the Guardian, all the while intending to use the Emerald to restore Dimitri to his former glory and reunify the Legion.
Chief scientist of the Dark Legion, Cobar first appears in the Mobius: 25 Years Later storyline. Serving as the Floating Island counterpart to Rotor, he was also one of those who determined that due to disruptions of time, Mobius was going to explode. Cobar was also able to hack into the Brotherhood's spy satellite network, by accident. He proposed sending King Sonic back in time to fix things, but Sonic vanished when the time machine malfunctioned. Cobar has not appeared in the alternate future but Shadow does mention him. It is suggested that Shadow may have killed him as he was the only other person besides Rotor who worked on trying to save the future. He retained his memories of the original future as he was near Robotnik's Tachyon Displacement Chamber when Sonic went back in time.
While not actually named as a member of the Dark Legion during his appearance in Mobius: 25 Years Later story, Rutan is the son of Lien-Da, and thus can be considered part of the Legion by heritage. As a result of his parentage, he is cousin to Lara-Su and Constable Remington and nephew to Kragok, Julie-Su, and Knuckles the Echidna.
Rutan is a troublemaker, not surprising considering his family's past. He doesn't get along well with Lara-Su, and his mother constantly gets on his case. To top it off, Rutan has a relationship with Espio the Chameleon's daughter Salma. Rutan was also the first to alert his mother to a planned alliance between Echidnaopolis and Knothole concerning the timestream collapse. He made a cameo appearance in the second Mobius: 25 Years Later, but appeared unhappy with his mother's plotting.
A sergeant in the Dark Legion, Rykor was Julie-Su's direct superior before her defection. He wields a super-powered billy club. Together with other Legionnaires, he was seen imprisoned in the Egg Grape Chamber.
An elderly Echidna couple in the Legion who were tasked with raising Julie-Su following her memory wipe. Simon and Floren-Ca became Julie-Su's parents, under orders never to reveal her past to her. Knowing that Simon, who had served as Moritori Rex's second in command, did not fear them, Kragok and Kommissar sent him to ambush an enemy supply convoy with a poorly prepared detachment of troops. Despite his victory, Simon was left with his trademark robotic limbs as a result. They were held prisoner by the Legion following Julie-Su's defection, but later were freed. Both appeared at Knuckles' funeral, but Simon was later seen in the Egg Grape Chamber.
Legion sniper under the command of Kommisar. Syntar was ordered to take out the assassin deployed during the meeting between Dimitri and the Mitre, and also planned to take out Julie-Su. However, his efforts were thwarted by the timely efforts of Lara-Su.
- Hovercrafts - The Legion's most common form of transportation.
- Mechanauts - Robot soldiers similar to SWATbots.
- Bendict - An Echidna android built by the Legion in the hopes of taking over Echidnaopolis through politics. Well spoken, he had much of Echidnaopolis behind him with the notable exception of Constable Remington. Later, he was destroyed when an unconscious Knuckles generated an EMP in his headquarters.
- Quantum Beam - A powerful weapon that transported Angel Island's entire populace to another dimension. It was destroyed by Tobor, and the effects of the beam were later reversed by Chaos Knuckles.
- Frost Legion - Dark Legion soldiers equipped with weaponry powered by liquid nitrogen. Composes one half of the Dark Legion's common troops.
- Flame Legion - Dark Legion soldiers armed with flame swords. Composes the other half of the Dark Legion's standard soldiers.
The Dark Legion first appeared as a terrorist organization, launching devastating strikes against Echidnaopolis. After failing to defeat the Guardian Steppenwolf, they were trapped in the Twilight Zone, only to reemerge for a second strike which likewise failed, despite conspiring with the Overlanders. Later, they launched a mass assault on Echidnaopolis, resulting in the accidental switching of Tobor and Moritori Rex.
When the barrier between Mobius proper and the Twilight Zone was erased by the Ultimate Annihilator, the Dark Legion began a long campaign against Echidnaopolis.
- While the Dark Legion is exclusive to the Archie Comics, the Echidna Dr. Zachary from Fleetway seems very similar to them as both a cyborg and a being dedicated to domination.
- Ironically, while the Legion's greatest enemies are the Brotherhood, the Legion Grand Masters are actually distantly related to the Guardians.
- Luger's current state is unknown, but he is presumed dead.
- Cancelled plot ideas shone on Sonic HQ included Moritori Rex being among the Dark Legionnaires taken prisoner by Hunter. This would serve as an explanation as to why he has not appeared since some time before Sonic's exile in space.[1]
- Some fans speculate from the white tips of Rutan's dreadlocks and spot pattern on face that he is Lien-Da's son by Dr. Finitevus, but his father has never actually been identified by the Archie Comics.
- Some fans speculate that the leader of the Frost Legion in the civil war is in fact Remington, stemming from the fact that Kragok is his father and because the mysterious leader apparently has distinctive hair.
- ↑ Chip and Walter.com. Information about designs for the Flame/Frost Legion Troopers. Retrieved on April 22, 2006.
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