Kid Quantum/Jazmin Cullen

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Kid Quantum
Legion of Super-Heroes member
Reboot » Post-Zero Hour
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Kid Quantum, as she looked while Legion leader.
Art by Oliver Coipel
Real name Jazmin Cullen
First appearance Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #82
Initially joined Legionnaires #60
Left / rejoined N/A
Stats
Status In limbo
Home planet / Species Xanthu
Other teams joined Amazers
Aliases N/A
Relatives James Cullen (Kid Quantum, brother)
Powers Time manipulation, energy blasts
Other versions

Biography

Origin

Jazmin Cullen was born with the same minor time-manipulation abilities as her brother, James. After he was killed on the Legion's first mission from his over-reliance on his power-augmenting stasis belt, she resented both him for bringing shame to their family and the Legion for getting him killed.

As a result, soon after his death, she underwent a dangerous operation to increase her natural power to a level where she wouldn't require outside aids to be useful. She then joined Xanthu's home-grown super-team, the Amazers, with a chip on her shoulder.

Amazers

Kid Quantum as an Amazer. Art by Jeff Moy.

She first encountered the Legion directly when Star Boy was summoned home to rejoin the team, and brought several other Legionnaires with him in an attempt to convince Xanthu's government to let him remain with the Legion. Ordered to fix a Legion-Amazer fight for the right for Star Boy to stay with the Legion, she complied until Lamar, the diplomat who arranged the fix, made an offhand comment that the Amazers beating the Legion would repair the damage done by her brother's death. Disgusted, she walked off and the Legionnaires won in short order.

She was later a part of the Task Force who engaged Mordru. Saddened over the loss of Atom'X, she played a critical part, slowing Mordru for much of the battle until he finally noticed her, when only Invisible Kid's intervention saved her. Exhausted, she played no further part in the fight and was hospitalised for a short time afterward. She then returned to Xanthu, mentioning that she wanted to help plan Atom'X's memorial.

Legion

The next time she encountered a Legionnaire, however, was when Star Boy and Monstress, fearing the worst with communications with Xanthu lost, returned home to find the planet being invaded. As the Khunds arrived to kill the fleeing invaders, Star Boy off-handedly offered her a place in the Legion, and she accepted to show up the "bunch of pampered show-offs". She was officially voted in soon after, and ended up spilling her life story to Karate Kid, saying how she was finally starting to grieve for her brother after all that had happened.

When the Time Trapper transformed most of the team into replicas of the Silver Age team soon after, she was one of the exceptions, the time link of her power having "impressed" the Trapper.

She served with the Legion for some time until the Blight arrived, gradually accepting the team more and growing close to Element Lad, until, after the Blight attack, she was one of the Legionnaires lost in the Rift.