Board Thread:Episodic and Issue Discussion/@comment-47881-20130227210719/@comment-25866432-20130227222224

Azure Arrow wrote: "i cant believe we are still arguing about this, arsenal has screwed up multiple times and has proven to be a loose cannon, even if he was still on the team nobody would want to work with him because they couldnt trust that he would try to protect their lives, something that is crucial to working as a cohesive team"

I think you're missing the point. Arsenal may not have worked well as a team member in True Colors, and his actions at the end of War certainly didn't help. Never mind the fact that there were only a few of them still standing when he opened the airlock, most notably Sphere and Superboy -- and I think Robin too, even though he wouldn't have been much use against Blue (remember Before the Dawn). Not saying it was a smart move. It wasn't. They could have died as opposed to merely being captured. But Arsenal obviously wanted to redeem himself in some measure. Otherwise, why did he follow the Runaways after learning why they had come to the War World? If he's so selfish and self-centered, then why did he put himself at risk to help the Runaways rescue the team? He put himself at risk to help the Runaways because they were trying to rescue the team, they had more manpower than he did alone, and they clearly had an alternate way of getting off. He helped them resuce the team because that's what they were doing and he was just playing along. He's going to fit in even worse in the runaways than on the team. He doesn't fit the runaways skateboarder kid profile (he's a masked hero with a laser arm, not a regular kid who just got captured and experimented on) and who's to say that he won't do the same types of stuff to them. I really want to see Tye in his giant form just pick up arsenal and punt him a few miles before the end of this series. He just pisses me off. But not as much as lagoon boy (but that's an entirely different topic).