User blog comment:Red Canary/Need to rant? We all do./@comment-220.255.2.144-20120520104651

Wow, Lagoon Boy is getting a lot of hate. My sister kinda has a theory about him, which I'm typing about here because I don't know where else to post:

My sister theorizes that La'gaan is suffering from some sort of inferiority complex. I mean, look at it like this: He's Aquaman's SECOND sidekick. He's M'gann's SECOND boyfriend. He might see himself as always second best, especially if he'd known about Aquaman's former closeness to Kaldur and M'gann's previous relationship with Conner (and how special it was to the both of them). To assert himself, he takes inspiration from the confident (if highly arrogant) King Sha'ark (from the show's comics, issue 14 or 15 if I'm not mistaken) from his Conservatory days, and adopts "Neptune's Beard!" as a catchphrase and starts referring to people as "chum" (he was 12 back then, and at that age people are usually influenced by what they see in the long term). It might also partially explain why he reacted so fiercely to Kaldur in "Alienated". His evident loyalty and respect for his king otherwise, he could've been jealous of what Kaldur had, and angry that he apparently threw it all away like that.