Board Thread:Episodic and Issue Discussion/@comment-47881-20130227210719/@comment-1635895-20130228001649

Regulus22 wrote:

Lagoon Boy, if you actually pay attention to his development, instead of incessant hating on him because you liked Superboy and Miss Martian together and think that he's just a replacement, is THE MOST LIKABLE NEW MEMBER OF THE TEAM.

I dunno. I'm not really much of a "Shipper", and although I enjoyed the SuperMartian relationship, it wasn't anything I ever got excited over developments in, and I still don't like Lagoon Boy particularly.

I tend to dislike characters with catchphrases, because it just seems unrealistic for teenagers to have catchphrases. I should know, I am a teenager, and naturally, most of my friends are teenagers. But back to Lagoon Boy specifically, he doesn't have a great attitude when on Team missions, and I didn't really care when he was abducted, apart from the advances in story it gave us.

I can appreciate the character as a realistic(ish) representation of the type of person in a group not everyone likes, but apart from that, I don't really have much of a connection with him.