White Triangle
| White Triangle | |
|---|---|
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | Legion of Super-Heroes vol. 4 #66, (March 1995) |
| Created by | Mark Waid |
| In-story information | |
| Type of organization | Terrorist hate group |
White Triangle is a fictional racist organization in the post-Zero Hour continuity of DC Comics' Legion of Super-Heroes. They first appear in Legion of Superheroes vol. 4 #66, (March 1995), and were created by Mark Waid, Tom McCraw and Lee Moder.
The White triangle group believes that Daxamites are superior to all other beings and that contact with non-Daxamite races is "unclean". Those raised in White Triangle communities are deliberately kept ignorant of the basics of biology and other sciences, so as to maintain their belief in the racial creeds of their society. They are also taught that the story of the Daxamite hero Valor "seeding" many of the humanoid races of the galaxy from a common ancestral group (Earth humans) is a lie.
The White Triangle's isolationist and xenophobic doctrine spread to several worlds, including Earth. Finding the very concept of the recently formed United Planets abhorrent, the White Triangle set about plotting its destruction. Blaming industrialist R.J. Brande's stargate technology for making the UP possible, the Triangle ordered one of their followers on Earth, Roderick Doyle (Brande's business partner), to have Brande assassinated during a trip to Earth. The assassination was foiled by Rokk Krinn, Imra Ardeen and Garth Ranzz, three teenagers who were on the same ship. Ironically, seeing teens from disparate worlds working together inspired Brande to form the Legion of Super-Heroes as a living symbol of the UP's ideals. The Triangle provided Doyle with a bomb to make a second attempt on Brande's life, hoping to kill him, the newly formed Legion and the United Planets general assembly in a single stroke, but the Legion foiled their plans again and a mental probe of the assassins revealed Doyle's role.
Upon Doyle's failure, the Triangle recruited mercenaries to release the prisoners of a supermax private prison called Planet Hell, hoping to use the convicts to destroy the UP and as expendable shock troops. Again, the Legion foiled the plot with the aid of the Workforce.
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