This wouldn't be a terrible point in the show to bring in the Legion of Super-Heroes villain the Time Trapper, whose original claim to fame was setting up an Iron Curtain of Time past which the heroes couldn't go.

Comic book science is up to making cold the counter to super-speed. ("Cold is the absence of molecular motion, so the ability to create cold is of course the ability to drain super-speed.") That's pretty much underlain Captain Cold's justification as a serious Flash adversary since the Silver Age, and IIRC was…

An image of incorruptibility I buy. But Oleg seems to expect them to be merciful as well— and not even to the innocent, but to the guilty. That doesn't jibe with my understanding of their reputation.

I wouldn't go that far. They cared. (At least in my experience around the same time.) There was just no mechanism to really do anything about it. If it happened in front of a teacher, a bully might get detention, but so what? If it didn't, it's one student's word against another. It's not as if they generally…

Granted, it's hard to imagine how he thought it would be. At least the FBI has a mythology of the untouchable, incorruptible, and virtuous G-man. (A lot less by the 80s than in the 50s or 60s, of course, but it was certainly fully live when, say, Stan made his career decisions.) But AFAIK the KGB's image was always…

He was apparently planning to work for the compassionate branch of the KGB.

Yeah— the Soviets had a continual program of space stations from the beginning of the 70s to 2001. (Salyut 7 as of the show, with Mir to go up two years later.) By comparison, we had nothing along those lines between Skylab (abandoned in 1974, crashed in 1979) and the ISS (launched in 1998).

Where's the drama in that?

Which seems like such a missed opportunity, when they could have gone for:

Though there's kind of a standoff, since the President could justly point out that if she's not President, then none of her appointments are legitimate. And since she reconfirmed J'onn (who committed exactly the same fraud) once his secret came out, and J'onn hired Alex…

Agreed— I think the Superbaby stories were mostly Silver Age, with a few outliers. (Including Kyle Baker's fun- if by then non-continuity- "Letitia Lerner: Superman's Babysitter" from 1999: https://imgur.com/gallery/o… )

talk about lame superheroes.

…and the Waverider?

"Well, adopted niece! Which is kind of odd, if you think about it! But still!"

I would love to see an LSH series, but I don't think it can be done justice on a CW budget. It needs too many characters with too many powers and space travel to multiple planets.

I suspect that between her period as "Superman's Secret Weapon" and her death in the Crisis, Supergirl probably rescued/was the cavalry for Superman more often than the reverse.

Hey, no messing with Luornu's destined marriage to Bouncing Boy! (Sure, the sole convex Legionnaire winding up with the attractive woman who can split into three people was fanservice before the term existed, but still.) Mon-El can date Shadow Lass and like it.

Though even that was sort of an early confusion. Originally he was only invulnerable to metals. (Basically, a method of making him resistant against gunfire, but not good old fashioned fisticuffs or a club to the head.)

If they're dropping the convention that this sort of thing is hard to figure out, then it's wildly obvious.

He tried!