User blog comment:Vitalius/Who is the patner ?/@comment-4928331-20120614084503/@comment-96.241.72.70-20120616171855

Wow, you bring up good points. I hadn't considered the fact that the partner referred to in season 1 and season 2 could be seperate individuals. The Partner's manner of speaking in Salvage was....How do I put it, to casual and sort of youthful in a way to be Darkseid? If it isn't, then I don't have a better guess. I get this feeling we'll be seeing more of Darkseid and Apocalypse later on. (Which is good, as I'm rather fond of Barda.)

I'm still have difficulty imagining what Sprtsmaster could have done to make someone catatonic like that. As for the White Martian theory, there does seem to be this 'M'gann's evil brother' theory floating around. I think we'll see him (Greg admitted even revealing M'gann's family background at that point in time was an unintential slip) eventually, maybe even as a Sportsmaster imposter. It would certainly make M'gann rethink the way she uses her powers if she saw a family member she likely very close to misusing them.

That being said, Greg has also stated that White Martians are NOT inheritantily evil in this continuity.