Board Thread:Episodic and Issue Discussion/@comment-47881-20130309131959/@comment-34954086-20130310021047

Ninja 989 wrote:

But the ambassador and the scientist have been calling him Black or Black Beetle for like the whole season. And warrior is just so general. Yeah, you massively missed my point. They called him it once or twice. They used Warrior more times this episode and it would allow us to get rid of the atrocious use of Black Beetle on a character who is just Dawur.

Ninja 989 wrote: Ok I missed the part about Kaldur since I had to watch it with the sound off. But she did take his mask, bo, and sword. Those were real. I think that their bigger problem would have been with the other leauge of shadows people. I find it hard to believe that they matchedtheir voices and mannerisms all that well (they're not actors) and some of the team members (robin, for example) are quite a bit shorter than the average adult male ninja guy. And they never took thier masks off either? I just think there are too many things that could have gone wrong and too many little holes in the story for it to have realistically gone off almost exactly as planned. Couple things. Telepathy means acting skills are irrelevant. Grunts don't speak, they just needed to jump in for the Ambush on queue. The Reach didn't need to take their masks off so that entire bit was kinda dumb IMO.

Ninja wrote: Red Arrow might just be doing hero stuff and helping people, or taking care of his infant child. We are wondering. And maybe it's just me, but it looked like Arsenal wasn't actually going with the Runaways at the end of the last episode. They were skateboarding off into the sunset (not really, but you get the point), but he was just leaning against a lightpole watching them go away. It looked to me like he was going his own way. He didn't really fit into the Runways mold either. They're a bunch of regular, unmasked, uncostumed, not-really-superhero teenagers who ended up with powers. He's a costumed, masked guy with a lasergun arm who was a sidekick to a leaguer for a few years.

Depends on how you divide them. Another way, which they evidently bonded over is:
 * Screwed by Luthor
 * Kidnapped
 * Experimented on to advance the Light's capabilities. Cloning and Meta-gene resp.
 * Feelings of abandonment from a father figure from those who're developed. (cept Virgil, who himself doesn't fit in). Ed Sr, Green Arrow, Tye's deal. It may be different actual cases, but that's what they think.
 * Not respected by the Team. Till the saved them in the Runaways case, after he saved them in Arsenal's case.

Oh and btw. Arsenal was never mentored for years. He was replaced basically as soon as he became a sidekick. He's got no experience, just prodigous I guess.