Element Lad/Reboot

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Element Lad
Legion of Super-Heroes member
Reboot » Post-Zero Hour
Real name Jan Arrah
First appearance Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #71
Initially joined Legionnaires #37
Left / rejoined Lost between Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #125 and Legion Lost 1
Stats
Status Deceased
Home planet / Species Trom
Other teams joined Legion Rescue Squad
Aliases Progenitor
Powers Transmutation
Other versions
Preboot versions Element Lad
Element Lad
Element Lad/Alchemist
Reboot versions Element Lad/Progenitor
Threeboot versions Element Lad
Televisual versions Element Lad
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Biography

Trom

Jan's father Tarn Arrah was the leader of Trom, which had been discovered by RJ Brande some time ago. Tarn was the creator of tarnium, the element which was needed to create Stargates. Only Tarn and Jan were adept enough to create this element.

Tarn and his wife Garra were negotiating with the United Planets for membership when a squad of White Triangle Daxamites came and used their heat vision to destroy Trom. They had feared that the the transmutation powers of the people of Trom would allow the United Planets to become unbeatable.

Luckily, Jan and RJ Brande had managed to get off-planet in time, though they could do little else but watch helplessly while Trom was destroyed.

Disintegrate

[Brainwashing]

Legion

[etc]

Transmutation

[Mordru]

Time blurs

In the Great Rift Disaster, Element Lad, Kid Quantum and Drake Burroghs were tasked with sealing the Rift itself. They were successful, but Drake's containment suit was destroyed and Jan, KQ2, and half the Outpost and those inside it were pulled into the Rift.

Thrown outside the material universe, Jan sealed his teammates in pure Green Tromium to protect them. He spent months calculating, longhand as the computers and clocks of the Outpost had ceased to function, how to get them back into the universe proper. Eventually, he succeeded. After a fashion.

He became separated as they crossed the barrier, and while they emerged displaced only in space from their origin point, thrown into a "Second Galaxy", he landed in the same place... billions of years earlier.

Transmutating himself into Green Tromium, he drifted for a long time. Eventually, he landed on a planet, and there, disappointed at the lack of life, began to "help it along"...

Progenitor

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Powers and abilites

Element Lad could alter the atomic structure of matter. After his transformation by Mordru, he could also transform himself into other substances, and found it easier to "transmute" other substances by doing so.

After several billion years of practice, as the Progenitor, he could manipulate matter incredibly finely and on huge scales.