LEGION

Legion

Legion is a fictional character, an antihero appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics. David is the mutant son of Professor Charles Xavier and Israeli Holocaust survivor Gabrielle Haller. He has severe mental illness, including a form of dissociative identity disorder, with each of his personas controlling one of his many superpowers.

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L.E.G.I.O.N.

L.E.G.I.O.N. is a science fiction comic book created by Keith Giffen, Bill Mantlo and Todd McFarlane and published by DC Comics. The principal subject of the comic book is a team of fictional extraterrestrial superheroes. The characters first appeared in Invasion! #1 . The original series chronicled the formation and activity of an interplanetary police force whose mission was to act as a peace-keeping force in their galaxy.

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legion

Noun

  1. The major unit or division of the , usually comprising 3000 to 6000 infantry soldiers and 100 to 200 cavalry troops.
  2. A large military or semimilitary unit trained for combat; any military force; an army, regiment; an armed, organized and assembled militia.
  3. A national organization or association of former servicemen, such as the , founded in 1919.
  4. A large number of people; a multitude.
  5. A great number.
    Where one sin has entered, legions will force their way through the same breach. — John Rogers (1679-1729) Google Books
  6. A group of orders inferior to a class; in scientific classification, a term occasionally used to express an assemblage of objects intermediate between an order and a class.

Adjective

  1. Numerous; vast; very great in number; multitudinous.
    Russia's labor and capital resources are woefully inadequate to overcome the state's needs and vulnerabilities, which are legion.


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