User blog comment:ScoobycoolDoo/Who's the mole?/@comment-4626193-20111124023043

It looks to me as if this mole issue has been about Superboy from the start. It looks like this is being sewn progressively. The 2nd and 3rd issue were the first steps. Remember Joker saying "you will go down in history as the man who sold JL". Him failing to stop Joker in his dream. And his confession that he was mind fed to destroy Superman. And again his confession that he does not feel for anyone not even his girlfriend. And Batman (being rarely wrong) has still hunches about him. There is a consistent progress about his story in a gloomy way, you can tell he is not going to end up in a good place. My guess is something bad will happen at the end of the 1st season which will largely be rising from his rebellious, stubborn, violent, naive nature in addition with his mind education. He will be brought into a position in which he will feel he has to do what he was meant to be.

But I do not think it will be in an evil way. Though it will something of his fault, about his nature. True he is not pure good nor he is pure evil. He is actualy an animal, a neutral. He just plays along whatever comes his way, eager to prove himself. By far he is the most ambitious and most inexperienced in life of the group, which really makes him a weapon, a ticking bomb. Maybe it was intented that he be rescued by JL from the start all along by the Light. So that noone suspects about him. They called his absence temporary in a very assured manner.

So maybe we will see him leaving the team (that may be the reason we do not see him in the next season poster). I do not think he will die though, he will be ousted, or maybe he will deem himself too dangerous and begin solo working, or maybe he will eventually join Red Arrow after that. And after the next season we could see him rejoining.

Now come to think of it, it would be kind of interesting to have 2 teams instead of one. One of them regulars that work with JL and the others the rebellious youth outsiders.

Not only Superboy but it seems almost all of the team members have some kind of dark secret in their pasts. So far we can guess some of those, as they are hinted; - Aqualad being homesick and his true father being Black Manta (though at his stage it seems he has no knowledge of it). - Miss Martian possibly being a white martian (it is hinted too exaggeratively) and her (possibly) urge to know everyone's thoughts, urge to read minds, insecurity about her true i.d. would be found out by someone maybe. She might have switched with the real M'gann (maybe the real one got dead by an accident in a lone place and she was the only one around and decided to play Cinderella). - Artemis, in addition to her parents' criminal past, probably she herself too had done some kind of evil - criminal acts during her training by her dad. Robin and Kid Flash really do not have that much of a dark thing with them, their characters are too kiddy, good kids. They got insecurities (one is afraid Batman won't need him anymore, the other is afraid he will not be as good as Flash), which is normal for a kid at their age with that much responsibility.

These stories progress at a good pace up to now in the show, making all of them interesting characters. However as I said it is clear that there is much more revolving around Superboy.