User blog comment:Red Canary/Need to rant? We all do./@comment-5069635-20120518035056/@comment-3524202-20120519014428

Aqualad needed to be a villain. If no one loves you, and everything you care about is taken away from you in a firey explosion (Or in a hail of bullets.) you become a villain, or a total badass, and you can't do that with "Aquaman's Sidekick the Teams apathetic token black guy."