Board Thread:Episodic and Issue Discussion/@comment-47881-20130227210719/@comment-6775379-20130228022838

Regulus22 wrote:

Ninja 989 wrote:

Regulus22 wrote:

Ninja 989 wrote:

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. Exactly like Superboy, Exactly like Superboy, Exactly like Superboy, La'gann was actually friendly to Tseng btw, Exactly like Superboy.

He just isn't a blue eyed heart throb so people take everything with far more fault. I'm a dude, and I think superboy's weird, but he's trying to improve. Lagoon boy is just annoying. And in Happy New Year when Tseng thought he was an alien he said "Yeah, it happens a lot chum." It was obvious that he was trying to be insulting. Lagoon Boy is superboy taken to a far more extreme degree. And superboy didn't have any problem with her spending time with other guys. Lagoon Boy just pisses me off to no end. Chum can mean friend even in real life...

Superboy was overprotective of her to a point where SHE was sick of it, Alpha Males. Lagoon Boy hasn't actually been shown to dislike her with other guys, he wants to know what's going when she spends a night with Superboy? Big Whoop, that's called being a Boyfriend. If your girlfriend spends a night with another guy without an explanation, if you don't ask WTH is going on, then you're incompetent as a man.

Even if you're a guy, Lagoon Boy is obviously harder to relate to then Superboy because he doesn't look human. But, HE IS. In the comics, he was developed way more on the emotional side of things. Lagoon Boy is the most developed character of the new members, even compared to Blue, Impulse and Arsenal who've had more screentime, they haven't really shown anything of themselves. He has, and it's good once you accept him a human being. But doesn't chum also mean fish guts? Or something like that? So what did he really mean?

All joking aside, I don't really get the hatred for Lagoon Boy. I don't really like him, but I don't hate him either. He just doesn't seem to fill any particular function on the team, aside from just annoying Conner and being M'gann's present boyfriend. Which seems strange, since he's the only aquatic member of the team -- well, besides Kaldur, who's of course working undercover, and M'gann, who can pretty much do anything and everything, and thus really has no need for a team anymore.