Occasionally on the old Usenet of the 1980's and 90's I used to post stupid, insane, little fan theories for my own amusement. I still do that, but nobody reads them. I just posted one I was exceptionally proud of, but I realized it was doomed to obsurity. But then I remembered the blogosphere! Here it is, the secret origin of the Time Trapper and why he bothers fighting the Legion of Super-Heroes instead of mucking about with some other section of universal history.
My theory : The Time Trapper is actually the servant of low-level bank robber Tim Connors. Every time he tried robbing a bank, the LSH stopped him. Finally, after an encounter with Triplicate Girl, he realized he could never beat them. He decided what he really needed was a distraction. He went to Chronarch's Time Machine correspondence course, and Querl's insane robot course and built an insane time travelling robot who was programmed to do one thing: fight the LSH enough of the time that they can't bother with preventing bank robberies. Time Trapper attacks correspond with the times Connors returns from Ventura. The plan was successful enough that Connors has capital to improve the plan by doing things like hiring renegade controllers and manifesting the livng incarnation of entropy. Sadly, Connors was killed by Mano during the whole conspiracy thing. But the Time Trapper goes on, fighting the LSH for no particular reason...
There is hope, however, because Mordru is hiring a gaff for his new head act.
Posted by Mike Chary at March 21, 2005 8:39 PM