http://majorspoilers.com/2008/09/28/hero-history-the-five-year-gap-legionnaires/
Originally posted by Cogito
Who the hell is Karate Kid II and what has he done?
Val Armorr was a study in contrasts, disciplined, controlled… yet determined and crazy enough to face Tom Welling in one-on-one combat. Myg , on the other had, was his precise opposite in all but martial skill. Growing up on planet Lythyl, Myg was raised knowing that he could have anything that anyone else had, so long as he could kick the $#!+ out of them in combat. He quickly rose in statue, trained by the toughest combatants the galaxy had to offer… until the arrival of one Brin Londo, the Legionnaire known as Timber Wolf.Timber Wolf’s real mission was more than just showing off his testicular fortitude: he came to Lythyl because Val Armorr’s will asked him to, to plant a seed. The legends say that Lythyl’s soil was so rough that nothing could grow, and Val wanted to dispel the myth. Working in concert with Val’s teacher, the Sensei, Timber Wolf found that this plan wasn’t going to be easy, as Myg is a master of nearly all forms of unarmed combat.
For all his skill though, Myg was still young enough to fall for a little-known combat stance called “The Rimbor Sucker Punch…”
As was often the case, though, Timber Wolf’s scorn overrode his ability to foresee the future, as Myg not only returned the United Planets with them, but eventually came to enroll in the Legion Academy to honor the man who proved that Lythyl wasn’t everything the legends thought it to be.
Many of the applicants that ended up in the academy weren’t psychologically suitable for Legion duty, like Comet Queen, or didn’t possess the power to make them useful in all fights, like Visi-Lad (more on him later.) As Karate Kid, Myg showed that he had both those qualities, in spades.
When the Legion started losing members left and right after the Magic Wars, Karate Kid was offered a membership in the team, a job at which he excelled. Unfortunately, his history as a head-knocker on Lythyl made him an easy target for Earthgov’s campaign to smear the Legion, and Myg snapped, going on the run into Dominator space. The disc-heads captured him, and subjected him to torture, genetic manipulation and brain-washing in their chambers on Earth. When the Legion discovered Myg’s status, they found it difficult to try and save him, what with his trying to kill them all…
