Matter-Eater Lad - in Other Media

In Other Media

• In an episode of the Legion of Super Heroes animated series, Matter-Eater Lad (voiced by Alexander Polinsky) appears (in his civilian identity as Tenzil Kem) as a participant in the Intergalactic Games, an Olympics-like event in which Lightning Lad also competes. When the Fatal Five attack the Games, Kem, along with Jo Nah of Rimbor, helps the Legion defeat them, at one point eating through the handle of the Persuader's Atomic Axe. He does not have a speaking part in the episode. He reappears in the episode The Substitutes, where he tries out for the Legion as Matter-Eater Lad and gains membership. He distinguishes himself by calmly eating an ionosphere-eating monster without a worry - and notes it tasted like chicken. In addition, he appears in the first season finale, Sundown, helping to stop the Sun Eater. He returns in the Season Two premiere, taking a bite out of Emerald Empress' magical weapon, the Emerald Eye of Ekron, and accidentally putting himself into a coma. In the episode In The Beginning, he is shown to be conscious, but still in the hospital. In the Dark Victory two-parter, he is shown to have returned to active duty.