Mon-El

**Mon-El** (nicknamed **Valor** by the Legion Of Superheroes) the former prince of Daxam, who crash-landed on Earth after escaping the ravaging of his home planet.

After he came to Earth, he banded a team of young heroes in the 31st century, calling themselves the Legion Of Superheroes.

## Biography

#### Early Life

Mon-El was born on the planet Daxam.

At some point prior to travelling to 2021, Mon El founded and joined the Legion of Superheroes. H used the ideals and inspiration of Superman to inspire the legion to protect the 31st Century's version of the Earth.

#### Travelling to the past

While on a mission, the Legion hit a wormhole and were transported 12,000 years into the past. They decided to put themselves into cryo-sleep until they re-awoke in the 31st century, but awoke earlier than anticipated, in the 21st-century, when a torpedo hit their ship in 2021. After Kara Danvers woke up, she took Mon-El, Superboy and Brainiac 5 out of cry-sleep where they met Superman's team.

## Personality

Prior to Mon-El's arrival on Earth, he was a selfish, spoiled, party boy and womanizer who was ignorant to most of what was going on on Daxam; despite these negative traits at the time, Mon-El was proven to have some morals; for example, he was against slavery.

After being part of the Legion, Mon-El has matured.

## Powers and Abilities

#### Powers

* **Daxamite physiology:** Normally, like all Daxamites, Mon-El's capabilities are no greater than a normal human of his physical conditioning. However, once charged by the energy of a yellow sun and metabolized into his body, he becomes able to perform various inhuman feats.
	+ **Solar energy absorption:** While Mon-El's powers are dependent on the energy spectrum from a yellow sun, his body is able to constantly and passively absorb such energy while exposed to it, essentially keeping his reserves fully charged near-constantly. Direct exposure to sunlight will also accelerate his recovery from any injuries he does manage to sustain.
		- **Accelerated healing factor:** Mon-El's solar charged metabolism accelerates his healing and allows him to burn calories at a fast rate, making him resilient to weight gain.
			* **Contaminant immunity:** Mon-El has an immunity to all forms of disease and contaminants on Earth.
			* **Extended longevity:** Like Kryptonians, Mon-El's lifespan is considerably longer than a normal human and likewise ages much slower.

* **Superhuman durability:** Mon-El is essentially invulnerable to all Earthly weapons, with needles unable to penetrate his skin.
* **Superhuman strength:** Mon-El's strength is enhanced under a yellow sun, enough to easily kill a normal human if he were to attack them directly.

* **Abilities via Legion Ring:** Each member of the Legion is granted a special ring that serves as a form of identification, along with granting each member several other capabilities.
	+ **Flight:** The ring that Brainy invented for the legion has been seen to enable Mon-El the ability to fly through unspecific means.
	+ **Telepathy immunity:** The ring that Brainy invented for the legion has been seen to give Mon-El the ability to resist telepathic abilities.

#### Abilities

* **Genius-level intellect/Expert tactician/Leader:** Mon-El has a very high intelligence due to growing up in an advanced civilization. Having lived on Daxam until adulthood, he has far more knowledge about other alien species, their abilities, and heritage than Kara Danvers. Mon-El gradually matured into a wise, capable leader, as he founded and lead the Legion to protect the universe.

## Equipment

* **Legion ring:** Mon-El's legion ring allows him to fly.
* **Legion Suit:** Mon-El wears a suit that carries a hollowed out House of El symbol in the middle of the chest, likely in regards to Superman, with a cape that's made of a special Kryptonian material.

## Appearances

### Man Of Steel

#### Season 3

* Legionaries
* Man or Machine
* Good and Parasite
* The Light is in
* It takes Humanity
* Dominator
* The Kryptonian Way
* The speed of thought
* Red Faced
* Human For A Day
* Superboy lives
* Back to the 31st century
* Spark the light (Archived Footage)
* Till We Collapse
* Golden Ring
* Superfriends Forever

## Trivia

* Despite Mon-El's name ending with "El", he is not actually a member of the House of El's bloodline

## Behind the scenes

* In the DC comics, Mon-El (alternatively spelled as M'Onel) is the alias of Lar Gand, a Daxamite superhero inspired by a young Superman. He has been also known as Valor.
* In the DC comics, Lar Gand was an amnesiac who was given his famous alias of "Mon-El" by Superman. The name is derived from the day he arrived on Earth, Monday (Mon) and Kal-El's own Kryptonian family name (El) as he had believed him to be not only a fellow Kryptonian, but his brother before his Daxamite physiology was revealed.
* Alternatively, in the post-*Zero Hour* version, Lar gets the name "M'Onel", which is the Martian word for "Wanderer". Moreover, in real life, Monel is the name of a group of nickel alloys.
* Mon-El's actor, Chris Wood, is married to Melissa Benoist (Kara Danvers). They met while filming Season 2 and started dating at some point during 2017.