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Legion Lore
Matter-Eater Lad
As a resident of the planet Bismoll, Matter-Eater Lad has the ability to...well, to eat all matter in any form. Yeah, that's it, that's his power (he first premiered in 1962....I wonder what drugs Jerry Seigel and John Forte and their supervising editors were doing 60 years ago, but they musta been wonderful). It was later explained that the inhabitants of Bismoll had evolved themselves to consume any form of matter after toxic microbes contaminated all the edible food on the plant. Their teeth and jaws were modified to allow to bite through and chew wood, metal, stone, plastics, anything. And their digestive systems made to handles the results. (never mentioned is the assumption their indoor plumbing systems had to be totally reworked as well)
Due to the obviously somewhat limited application of his powers, Matter-Eater Lad wasn't seen too much after joining the team. Since the writers didn't know what to do with him or how to use him, they had him be drafted into politics on his homeworld and win a seat in the Senate there. Thus he had to go to reserve status. Some time after that, when an insane Brainiac 5 built the Miracle Machine, which was impervious to any harm, the Miracle Machine unleashed the creature Omega on the team and they couldn't defeat it. Brainiac 5 in a moment of lucidity, solved the problem by calling M-E Lad back to Earth and had him consume the Miracle Machine, thus ending Omega. But also driving M-E Lad insane.
He was institutionalized for several years. And when he finally returned to sanity, he just returned to Bismoll and reassumed his seat in the Senate (as being certificably insane and in an insane asylum was not grounds for removing him from his Senate seat).
Matter-Eater Lad had occasional adventures with the Legion until it's disbandment after the Magic Wars.
POLT
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