Finally…the worst of the bad. Read on, if you dare.

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#2 is sort of a tie.

Purifier (Giant-Size X-Men 002) / William Stryker (Giant-Size X-Men 019)

OK, so admittedly minions, by definition, aren’t supposed to be all that super by themselves without their leaders. But the Purifier is pretty pathetic even by peon standards. 3 clicks of life and Toughness and some range and a click of 2 damage make him decent Mastermind fodder but little more.

Maybe his Minion power will help? He gets Willpower — that’s good — and a hefty +2 AV boost if his leader’s present. Great! But he’s still stuck with just 2 (or less) damage and thus has no way to crack heavy armor, unless his leader can help.

That, then, is the problem. The leader, William Stryker, is just as weak, with only a little Leadership to help his already Willpowered minions to act. Worse, he doesn’t get the much more effective Outwit until mid-dial (and thus almost dead) and by that time, he’s likely to have either lost his Purifiers or he’s getting KOed before they can take advantage of his Outwit.

Since I hate caricatures of religious people like this Stryker guy, I get a little satisfaction from the fact that even though he and the Purifiers are supposed to work well together, they don’t, actually.

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#1

Princess Projectra (Superman 038)

Everything’s wrong with this caster of illusions.

• Why would you pay 70 points to give Super Senses to just ONE fellow Legionnaire only if they stand next to her?
• Why would you pay 70 points for 4-range Barrier — especially when it really takes 8 range Barrier to really be good at it?
• Why would you pay 70 points for a weak DV of 16 that, incredibly, only sinks lower and lower after that first click? Super Senses is poor consolation.
• Why would you pay 70 points for single target, 4-range Mind Control — that you have to PUSH off that precious 16 DV to get to?
• Why would you pay 70 points for the much better power combo of Stealth and Probability Control, when it doesn’t show until she’s half-dead?

Seriously, the only things good about her are that she’s a flying wildcard, like nearly every OTHER Legion member…and you’ll want to use any one of them before you should even look at her. In fact, the only reason to even glance her way is if you’re trying to build a Legion team…a big one, where she’ll be so barely significant to the action that she’ll be ignored in favor of your big guns — or somehow draw fire from them.

Proof that royalty doesn’t always equal superiority, Princess Projectra takes the crown as the worst HeroClix figure of 2011.