Garth Ranzz - in Other Media

In Other Media

• In Superman: The Animated Series, Lightning Lad made a cameo background appearance in the episode "New Kids In Town". He later reappeared in an episode of Justice League Unlimited titled "Far From Home".

• He is part of the core Legion team in the Legion of Super-Heroes series, voiced by Andy Milder. Lightning Lad is the Legion's field leader in this version of the story. Physically he looks almost identical to his earlier comic book counterparts, except for a lightning bolt-shaped scar over his right eye which glows when his powers are activated. He is also portrayed as brash and hot-headed with a somewhat competitive attitude towards Superman, though they seem to develop a closer relationship later on. The episode "Champions" shows him to be a top "dodecathlete" in the Intergalactic Games, a sort of future Olympics. After Saturn Girl is left in a coma in season 2, he swears revenge on the people who did it to her. In the episode "Chained Lightning," it was revealed that he and his brother Mekt had received their powers during an attack by Lightning Beasts, during which their sister was presumed to have died. Later in that episode, Garth loses his right arm during a battle with his brother when Imperiex attacked, and gained a new arm called the Cybernetic 4000. It is revealed to the Legion that Ayla had not perished during the Lightning Beast attack as they originally thought, but was instead shifted to another state of being, becoming an energy vortex that Imperiex attempted to tap into in order to power a new weapon. With Mekt's help, Garth was able to restore Ayla back to the way she was before the incident.

• Lightning Lad, along with Cosmic Boy and Saturn Girl, appeared in live-action for the first time in the eleventh episode of season 8 of the CW series Smallville, entitled Legion airing January 15, 2009 portrayed by actor Calum Worthy. In the episode, Garth is generally portrayed as the overzealous fan of Superman, a talker who tends to say more than he should, asking why Clark isn't wearing his cape or flying, initially expressing disappointment in Clark's attitude before Clark rallies them to help him defeat Brainiac, Garth helping to neutralise the particles of Brainiac after Rokk extracted from Chloe. He is the only Legion member to be referred to by his full codename. At the end of the episode, Garth is given an autographed baseball by Clark, which he attempted to play off as a gift for his sister. Garth mentions the ball is the only piece of memoribilia not in the History museum.