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Lady Zand: See Zand, Lady.
LaPlante, Dan: 193. The boss of shallow tabloid TV reporter Ransome Mackelvane. Mac gives his address as 909 Third Avenue, 19th Floor, NYC, and says that it is he who has forced Mackelvane to do all the horrible stories about Trevor Barnes and WW.
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Lightning: 600. One of a group of superheroines WW enlists to stop a swarm of cyber-sirens.
Loder, Dickie: 74. A self-confessed crackhead, Dickie has gotten flamethower gloves from either the White Magician or Ares Buchanan. He uses them to shoot policewoman Isabelle Modini. Diana manages to catch Modini before she can fall to her death, and talks Dickie into giving himself up and finding a more noble side to himself.
(75) Loder has a chance to dry out in the hospital. He comes up to Modini's room to confess that he's a junkie but wants to apologize. She thinks him a loser. When her supposed police guard enters the room, the door hides Loder behind it. The "guard" gets out a gun and points it at Modini; he's actually a hitman. All Loder has to do is remain quiet and he will stay out of sight and unharmed.
Instead he shouts for help. The hitman winds up emptying his gun into Loder as Loder tries to stop him, and thus Modini is spared. Though Loder dies, Modini's attitude toward Diana and her philosophy of human worth, is completely changed.
Lombard, Steve: 191. Wrote an article that wound up in Becca Doherty's WW Scrapbook (#12 in a series, that is) headed "Love Calls for Super Heroine?" with the subhead: "Dr. Trevor Barnes of East 128th Street seen with Amazon Princess." Gee, I thought Steve was a sports reporter for WGBS and Clark Kent's co-worker; guess that was pre-Crisis. The Shattered God uses the article as seen through Becca's eyes to track Trevor and thus Diana.
Lycus: Teen Titans (2008 version) 62. Seems to have the potential to be a major Cassie foe. Lycus is another son of Ares (and thus Cassie's nephew), but he was mortal and when he lived was king of Libya during the Golden Age of Greek Myth. Now Ares has brought him back to life (and given him a Hellhound) because Cassie has not become Ares' avatar, which is why he gave her his lasso in the first place.
Now "every time Lycus MURDERS someone in his father's name while [Cassie is] near, he grows STRONGER." So the stage is set for lots and lots of gore, DC's present forte.
Every time Lycus murders, Cassie suffers a lapse or weakening of her own power. It is only when she becomes angry -- allowing Ares' power to grow within her -- that she shows uberpower.
When Cassie asks her father Zeus to help her against Lycus, he announces that when she accepted Ares' lariat their power link was severed. Conveniently he adds that he "cannot interfere directly" though we all see that Ares certainly can. No one gives a reason for this.
