Talk:Legion (Marvel Comics)

message: Legion was called Schizophrenic back in the 80/90's where no one really took mental illness tags seriously. Since then, comics have referred to him as having Dissociative Personality Disorder (used to be called Multiple Personality) however they also point out that it is not known whether
a) He really has it 
b) His powers give him symptoms of it, but he is not actually mentally ill
It should also be pointed out that when characters may refer to him as anything, e.g. mentally ill, schizophrenic it may often represent how they feel he is, not necessarily what he is. 
I do not contribute to wikipedia enough to make these changes, but I think that an effort should be made to classify him correctly
Disco (talk) 02:56, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Schizophrenia v Dissociative Personality Disorder (Multiple Personality)

message: There's a lot missing here about Legion's multiple personality disorder that I myself am not equipped to write out fully for the article.  As far as I know, though, the powers that David had available to him at any given time were based on which personality was dominant.  The personalities turned out to be, in fact, the minds that he'd drawn into his own psyche as a child.
Also, after the Marvel Universe 'came back' from the Age of Apocalypse storyline, there was an X-Men story where Legion's multiple personalities had actually seperated from his mind and were existing as spirit-like entities until the X-Men were able to put them to rest.
I'd write all this up myself, but I don't have the resources available at the moment to make a proper go of it.  Can anyone else handle this?--MythicFox 11:55, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Legion's Personalities 

message: The, rather extensive, list here of Legion's powers and the personalities with them have no foundation in canon to my knowledge.  Does anyone know any better?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.204.147.103 (talk) 23:12, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Extra Personalities? 

message: Don't know how to do it but here is the site: http://www.marvel.com/universe/Professor_X
Except that that seems to be a very imprecise lay use of the term "autism", even if it IS Marvel themselves using it- roughly equivalent to conflating schizophrenia and MPD. Catatonia would appear to be somewhat closer to medically accurate.  Additionally, I find myself questioning the wisdom of citing one official source as evidence of "a number of writers" agreeing on a description. Are their other examples of this usage, or just the one?75.33.43.166 13:17, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citing Autism. 

message: Why is this article so long if the article on Legion on Marvel.com is so short?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Golem866 (talk • contribs) 15:30, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't see how the length of a Marvel article is basis for the length of a Wiki page. - Debuskjt  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.37.247.106 (talk) 23:29, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Length of Article 

message: I am removing the category tag stating that Legion is a Fictional characters on the autistic spectrum for reasons I listed in the Citing Autism section
Tydoni (talk) 22:27, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: All of this is beside the point.Nowhere does it say in the article that he has autism. Nowhere is there a source (from Marvel or any secondary source) saying he has autism or ever had. That's why it doesn't belong. ZarhanFastfire (talk) 02:16, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: X-Factor Issue 108 from 1986 explicitly states that Legion is Autistic.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.118.91.186 (talk) 13:01, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Removing the autism tag

message: I am not going to edit anything because I have no background in comics other than liking the movies and TV shows that are developed from them. But right at the start of this page it says that Magneto is Legion's father!?!? The rest of the lengthy article discloses at length that Professor X is Legion's father. Can't believe no one has noticed this.Dkelber (talk) 18:17, 18 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Obvious Error in the Opening Line?