Legion of Super Heroes "Who Am I?" Talkback (Spoilers)

[The Penguin]

Chameleon Boy and his unique powers take center stage, but what kind of risk is he undergoing?


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Episode #19: Who Am I?
Original Airdate - November 3rd, 2007
In order to infiltrate Imperiex's ranks, the Legion decide to have Chameleon Boy take the form of the villain Persuader. But in order to make the disguise complete, they must also reprogram Chameleon Boy's mind so that he believes that he actually is Persuader. Things go terribly wrong when his Legion teammates are unable to make Chameleon Boy remember who he really is.

Comments?

[batsy2]

i thought it was a cool episode and persuader finally talked and that giant ship they were in looked similar to the death star

[ShadowGUN]

Cool episode. Gotta say I didn't saw Superman being a one of Imperix shapeshifter coming. I was also surprised that Superman personality rub off on him and became good. I do have a question how was Chameleon Boy able to take off the mask and armor when he was Persuader? I mean aren' t they suppose to be part of him.

[CyberCubed]

Wow, this was a really good episode. A plot twist I didn't see coming, and I'm glad they didn't spend the entire episode on Chameleon boy thinking he was Persuader.

Its amazing how much better this show has gotten since Season 1.

[jv2k]

I saw the plot twist coming when superman actually came close to hurting a team mate but it was still really well done.

Over all a good episode. Once again LoSH does better than The Batman.

[tb4000]

Batman and LOSH both having eps with villains that can shapeshift or make carbon copies. Uh huh.

[creativerealms]

The twist caught me by surprise and it was suppose to. The spies were placed so deeply undercover that their original personality was replaced with that of the person they were pretending to be. fake Superman did not even know he has fake until Chameleon boy had a memory he should have had too but did not. Very well played.

Also Imperiax is actually seeming like more of a threat. This episode and Chained Lightning make Imperiax feel imposing, merciless and will do anything. His order for both Persuader's to be killed when he knew the one that came first was a fake the whole time, man.

[90'sCartoonMan]

Love the twist in this episode. At first I thought it was mostly going to be about Cam and having to fight off Persuader's personality, but then they did that Computo thing where Superman discovers he's not who he thought he was!

The rest of the episode was really good, with Roncar struggling to fight who he was and who he became modeled after. I liked the philosophical bit at the end. My only real problem with the episode were those missiles headed to Durlan...the Legion were blowing them up, but the explosions weren't that big or dangerous.

[Azrael24]

braniac's plan was raelly stupid, imho. it made no sense to me why he would do that to chameleon boy when he could have just put the tabs on the real persuader. not to mention so many things could have (and did) go wrong with his plan. otherwise good episode

[tb4000]

Well, Brainiac is a Brainiac, even if he is a good guy. They don't always think about the harm getting to a goal will cause, only that the goal is achieved.

[shadowspiderider]

thraxes want destroyed chameleon boy 's home planet

[Anthonynotes]

Amusing episode, though noticed Imperiex lost *another* minion (after Lightning Lord quit a few episodes back). Maybe he should focus less on satisfying his Star Wars fanboyness via how he made that base of his, and focus on keeping his hired minions on (by, um, *not* calling them that in front of them quite as often). ;-)

(Apparently "Star Wars" popularity spans clear to the Legion and Imperiex's time-era... talk about a "classic"! ;-) ).

-B.

[Steven C]

Good episode, too bad Superman X didn't do more though.

[RONDC20]

Man this show keeps on getting better and better. Season 2 has managed to plesantly surprise. Each progresive episode in season 2 gets better. The weakest episode this season so far was the Timberwolf episode, Im not saying it was a bad episode, just that it has been my least favorite this season so far, but was still really good.

"Chained Lightning" was awsome "Karate Kid" was really good and now "Who am I" was great. I love it when a Superhero animated series manages to surprise me like this. I thought after the Golden era that is the Timmverse DCAU ended with JLU that we were never going to get another decent Animated Superhero show. I mean The Batman is mediocur and weak at best and Teen Titans was ok, but this is a great series.

I did not see that plot twist coming. I caught me totally off guard and when a series like this manages to surprise me well thats a big deal.

[Simpler Simon]

I liked the plot twist, felt they really rushed the first half of the episode to get to that point. Cham's personality change, infiltration, Persuader's escape, arrival, the Legion's rescue, Cham regaining his memories, the twist reveal - just way too much coming in at a breakneck pace. If they'd wanted to focus on Roncar's change of heart at the end, there were more streamlined ways to build to that.

Plus, is it just me or was anyone else expecting another twist to top the Roncar reveal in the end? If the episode was all about plot twists, they needed one more in there. If it was a character driven episode, it needed less clutter.

[The Weed Of Cri]

A good episode with a neat plot twist, but this is the second episode in a row that featured no female Legionnaires. Where are they all? And with a team that consists of about two dozen active members, why are we seeing the same four (Lightning Lad, Timber Wolf, Chameleon Boy, and one or both Supermen) in every episode? This is also the fourth episode featuring a Legionnaire having an identity crisis (one previous with Brainiac 5, and two with Timber Wolf, who is really starting to bore me). Let's see them mix it up a little bit.

[ROBOTRON]

4 stars

Good episode.

Good story with Cham. I'd like to see more of this develop later in the season. This is how LOSH should be instead of a bunch of stories filled with "fluff" and "silliness".

[Treadwell]

I liked the plot twist, felt they really rushed the first half of the episode to get to that point.

Seemed that way to me, too, although I also did like the twist.

The animation, draftsmanship and modeling (facial shadows) were really great this week. I forget the name of the animation company but it looks like there's another TMS on the block for higher quality overseas animation. The same company is given partial credit for the show open (clips from season premire, which was also very well executed.)


One thing missing this year is Brainiac 5's obsession with Superman. I know he's grown between seasons but there should still be a trace. I really liked the subtext in the first season that only those familiar with Superman/Brainiac history would know, in that Brainiac 5 seemed to be feeling guilty for what the young Superman had yet to endure from B's predecessors. I wonder if the "young man" Supes has gone through any of that yet.

[The Weed Of Cri]

Brainy seems to have gotten over his man-crush, but it looks like Chameleon Boy may be developing one. Some of the worshipful looks he was giving Superman in this episode were giving me the creeps.

[Livy1213]

I'm a little confused where Superman X's distrust for Brianiacs has gone since the premiere.

[Jacob T. Paschal]

A good episode with a neat plot twist, but this is the second episode in a row that featured no female Legionnaires. Where are they all? And with a team that consists of about two dozen active members, why are we seeing the same four (Lightning Lad, Timber Wolf, Chameleon Boy, and one or both Supermen) in every episode? This is also the fourth episode featuring a Legionnaire having an identity crisis (one previous with Brainiac 5, and two with Timber Wolf, who is really starting to bore me). Let's see them mix it up a little bit.

Because it may be easier to have the same VAs in a recording booth to be able to record their lines for multiple back-to-back episodes.

[Ian]

A good episode with a neat plot twist, but this is the second episode in a row that featured no female Legionnaires. Where are they all?While there has so far been no in-universe explanation for their abscence (aside from "they're all fighting Imperiex!"), they're most likely missing because focus groups wanted fewer females (http://www.worldsfinestonline.com/WF/batman/tnba/backstage/interviews/berkowitz.php) (scroll down to the text next to the pic of Hawkman, Green Arrow and Lantern). Stupid focus groups.