Lightning Lord
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Lightning Lord is a fictional supervillain published by DC Comics. He debuted in Superman vol.1 #147 (August 1961), and was created by Jerry Siegel and Curt Swan.
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[edit] Pre-Zero Hour
Lightning Lord (real name Mekt Ranzz) is a founding member of the Legion of Super-Villains.
A single birth on a planet where twin births are the norm, Lightning Lord developed an anti-social personality in response to his circumstance of not having a twin sibling. When the spacecraft which he was travelling in along with his younger brother and sister (Legion of Super-Heroes members Lightning Lad and Lightning Lass) ran into electrical difficulties, the Ranzz siblings were forced to land their craft on the planetoid Korbal. In an attempt to lure the local lightning beasts to recharge their battery, they were charged with electrical energy themselves, giving them the power to generate lighting. Given his newfound ability, Lightning Lord decided to turn to a life of crime.
He has an adversarial but protective relationship with his siblings, and during any given encounter will usually attempt to get one of them (usually his sister) to join him in his life of crime.
It was implied in Legion of Super-Heroes (fourth series) Annual #3 that Mekt is gay[citation needed].
[edit] Post-Zero Hour
Following the Zero Hour "Legion reboot", Lightning Lord was relatively unchanged, although he now hated his siblings and there was no Legion of Super-Villains.
In the Legion Worlds miniseries it was revealed that he was rehabilitated and working on his parents' farm.
[edit] One Year Later
Following the most recent Legion reboot, Mekt shows up as a leader of a group of "black ops" superheroes called The Wanderers. He recruits his sister, Karate Kid, Ultra Boy, Star Boy, and Mon-El to fight an incoming invasion of Dominators. His anti-social personality was replaced and instead he is suicidal (it is implied the crash on Korbal was deliberate). He has lightning powers, but it is unclear if he has the alter ego of Lightning Lord.
[edit] Other media
He also appears in the Legion of Super Heroes animated series. His first appearance was in the episode "Champions": having a rivalry with his brother, he competed against him in an Olympic-type competition and unknowingly makes a deal with the Fatal Five to win it. He did not exhibit any powers, but had them in his second appearance in "Lightning Storm." He is voiced by James Arnold Taylor.
