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Oneofthosedf wrote: Well, to be honest I'd rather have plotholes than your 'explanation". It's way too complicated and just makes more questions. It is mostly speculation which is nice and all but it can't be called an explanation.

I pretty much made it up on the spot. I live in the US and haven't seen the newer episodes yet besides what I read on the wiki.

I didn't think my explanation was particularly complicated. It reads to me like a typical plot point in Young Justice. I wrote it because I feel that it's a better explanation than Omniverse's retcon that Kevin's backstory is just false memories and ties together Aggregor, Devin, Ragnarok and the Rooters in a more logical fashion than the canon explanation.

I'll break it down in simpler terms. Here's the canonical explanation:

Ragnarok is a villain of the week who was invented for Kevin to angst over about his dead dad. His goal is to bottle the sun and sell it, which would destroy the Earth. In omniverse he's retconned into a member of the rooters, which makes his goal nonsensical as the Rooters require Earth intact for their nebulous plans.

Aggregor was the big bad of one season, who was written as a stereotypical one-dimensional villain whose goal is universal domination. In omniverse he's retconned into a rooter, which also renders his goal nonsensical as it has no relation the nebulous goals of the rooters and which most likely result in their destruction.

Devin was an Osmosian Plumber and Max's protege. He tried to stop Ragnarok and died in action. This stands out noticeably since in TOS Max didn't have any relation to Kevin, whereas logically he should have been motivated by guilt over Devin's death to act a surrogate father figure to Kevin. In Omniverse, this is explained by stating that Devin's relationship with Max was just false memories. This doesn't explain why Kevin's family lived in Bellwood in the first place (both of his houses were in Bellwood) or why Kevin's photo of his dad had Ragnarok's key as the frame. It also requires an extensive amount of evidence planting and memory alterations to keep anyone from noticing incongruities, to a degree that is simply impossible for a mere Cerebrocrustacean to accomplish. To creat and maintain such a huge conspiracy in such a short amount of time the Rooters would have to be on the same level as the antagonists in the movie "The Adjustment Bureau," which would make them undefeatable even for Ben.

My explanation, which is completely non-canon and made up entirely by myself, is this:

The Rooters are an ancient conspiracy of Osmosians from Osmos V who infiltrated the Plumbers, a U.S. government branch that for a few centuries was monitoring paranormal activity on Earth and other planets. In recent years, the Rooters expanded the Plumbers into a full-blown galactic police force, though the Plumbers remain largely Earth-centric, expaining why Earth has recently become a strategically valuable planet when only years before it was a backwater. To accomplish their canonical actions they'd had to be planning things many decades in advance with mass infiltrations and whatnot.

Osmosians are the descendants of humans from Earth who were transplanted to Osmos V millenia ago by an unknown party (Galvans? Daigon?). The immigrants were genetically experimented on and crossbred with various alien species to presumably create supersoldiers. As a result, the Osmosians developed various abilities all centered around manipulating matter and energy. Unfortunately, misuse of these powers can drive them insane, rendering them useless for their intended use and they were thus abandoned by their creators.

Ragnarok was an Osmosian and a member of the Rooters. His powers eventually drove him insane and he decided to steal stars and sell them for profit, killing billions of innocents in the process.

Devin was an Osmosian and a member of the Rooters. He was assigned to infiltrate and observe veteran Max Tennyson who was famous for defeating Vilgax the Conqueror, tricking Max into believing him a friend. As part of a Rooter experiment, Devin married an Earth woman and conceived a son (Kevin) that he genetically altered for weaponization. His surname and Kevin's middle name is actually derived from the name of the project: Weapon Eleven. Despite warnings by his superiors, Devin began to develop true love for his wife and son. When Ragnarok went rogue and tried to steal the sun, Devin was sent to stop him. During the confrontation, Ragnarok told Devin information that, combined with his growing fondness for his wife and son, caused him to doubt the Rooter cause. Devin faked his own death and went into hiding. Years later, he re-emerged under the alias Aggregor; as he had recently undergone a second puberty due to reaching a century in age and presumably underwent cosmetic surgery, his appearance had changed to the point where he was unrecognizable. Aggregor attempted to steal the power of a Celestialsapien, intending to use the omnipotent power to rewrite reality so that Kevin wouldn't be endangered by the Rooters and could live a normal live. Unfortunately, this failed when Ben intervened and Aggregor was ironically attacked and defeated by his own son Kevin.

The Amalgam Kids are the children of other Rooter agents undercover as Plumbers who were chosen for the genetic experiments that created Kevin. They were trained as soldiers and used as a hit squad for a short period before they were reassigned as sleeper agents, had their memories surpressed and were given false identities. Alan was left in the care of his human mother and Osmosian/Pyronite father, while the others were placed on the street as the orphaned children of dead plumbers. Presumably this was done as yet another cruel social experiment.

The reason why Max didn't show a relation to Kevin in TOS was, in this explanation, because Kevin was homicidally insane at the time and wouldn't have listened to Max even if he did try to explain the truth.