Rond Vidar
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Rond Vidar was a fictional character in the Legion of Super-Heroes comic series, published by DC Comics. The character was created by writer Jim Shooter and first appeared in issue #349 of Adventure Comics (cover date October, 1966).
Rond was the son of Legion foe Universo. Sent to live with a family on Earth, Rond proved to be a genius at temporal theory, and won a prize at an early age for his invention of the Time Cube, a device which can transport its contents in time. The Time Cube later proved indispensable to the Legion, who used it to stop Rond's father, Universo, from taking over the world.
Rond continued his research, collaborating on many experiments with Legionnaire Brainiac 5. While instrumental in many temporal advances, including the creation of the Time Beacon, allowing for safe travel through time, Rond's experiments took a disastrous turn when they threw Professor Jaxon Rugarth into a time loop, turning him into the Infinite Man.
At some point in Rond's career, the Guardians of the Universe recruited him to be a covert member of the Green Lantern Corps, since Green Lanterns were banned on Earth at the time. Rond kept this a secret, not even telling his friends in the Legion.
Considering his son (the only other person immune to his powers of hypnotism) a threat to his plans, Universo eventually "killed" Rond in Legion of Superheroes (3rd volume) #30. Rond, however, survived the attack but chose to allow the rest of the world to believe he was dead, allowing him to work better undercover. Rond's survival (and secret identity) was revealed in Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd volume) #50 (cover date September 1988), when he helped save Brainiac 5, Saturn Girl, Duo Damsel, and Mon-El in an attack on a longtime foe, the Time Trapper, whose manipulations had caused the death of Superboy. Due to Earth's ban on Green Lanterns, he left the planet, never to return.
Late in his career, Rond formed a close bond with former Legionnaire Laurel Gand, eventually fathering a daughter by her. When Rond's Green Lantern ring was destroyed in a battle with the wizard Mordru, Rond retired from superheroism.
After the Legion was "rebooted" in 1994, Rond made occasional appearances as a time-travel researcher, but neither his status as a Green Lantern nor his parentage was ever addressed. (a very different Universo was later reintroduced.) As a visual gag, the rebooted Rond occasionally wore outfits resembling the costumes worn by various incarnations of the Doctor in Doctor Who.
It is currently unknown if he is active, or even exists, in the latest "threebooted" incarnation of the Legion.
