Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5454370-20120920040240

Ok someone didnt want to see his ideals proven wrong on his own board so brought this here. It's suppose to have character discussions anyway eventually so might as well get in on Lagoon Boy before someone does it with "I dont Like Lagoon Boy narf naargnbarkjarken". That's right I am a Lagoon Boy supporter.

Lagoon Boy i think is actually a much better character then he's given credit for.

Alot of people have a problem with the "chum/ neptune's beard" stuff, He talks from the culture he's from that's all it is, if people have a problem with that and took it to the real world as vocally as they do for lagoon boy here, they'd be immediately shut down as a racist. It's not a stereotype either, it's an aspect of the culture amongst the fishier atlanteans which simply shows their pride in being Sea creatures. Neptune's Beard, no different from Oh for god's sake. Neptune to him more likely IS God, and Chum i think is brilliant double entendre, between the surface chums ie friends and sharkbait for seafarers. Kaldur is detached from that culture between shayeris appearing to be a more humanish city state and him being very much adopted into the Poseidonis elite.

For those whom think that Lagoon Boy's past is just a ripoff of kaldur,

We dont know anything about his past other then wanting to go to the surface, which he does share with Kaldur, that we can assume he was trained by atlantean military due to it being ompulsory, and that he was one of many victims of racism at the hands of Orm's purists, which adds a much more dynamic element to hs character then what Kaldur had we first were introduced to him. If we got Lagoon Boy first, people would definately be hating on Kaldur right now.

For those who say that he hasnt got the sort of power range as Kaldur had, here's the play by play

La'gann Powers: Atlantean Adaption, Water Manipulation, Strength Enhancement via sorcery

kaldur Powers: Atlantean Adaption, Water Manipulation, Electricity via sorcery

Notice that their number of abilities are NO different, we just havent seen Lagoon Boy do as much with it in two episodes featuring him at all compared to a whole season where Kaldur was pretty much present in almost every episode as the TEAM LEADER.

Lagoon Boy is awesome, and in time his haters will join the people saying that Artemis is the mole, that Kid Flash should get with Miss Martian and that the timeskip was Entirely a bad thing, a hole where they will live in mockery to the day they die. 