Board Thread:Episodic and Issue Discussion/@comment-47881-20130227210719/@comment-25866432-20130228002033

Rassilon of Old wrote:

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. I hated the couple, but Lagoon Boy is just a d*ck. I can't stand him. He's overagressive, CLEARLY has anger issues (especially in the earlier episodes), is rude to people, including the secretary General of the god damn UN when he is accidentally mistaken for an alien (you can't really blame him, come on), is overpossessive/controlling of Miss M (he doesn't want her spending time with her ex), and is actually the LEAST likable member of the team. I honestly wanted him to die on the Reach ship, or at least while saving blue. And his catchphrase is just lame and annoying. I like arsenal better than him. At least arsenal does something rather than get pissed off.