Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-241978-20140506020322/@comment-241978-20140819231842

Regardless of whether you believe the retcons to be good or bad, they're still obvious plotholes. Every series so far has retconned facts in the preceding series, and sometimes to preceding seasons within the same series (e.g. in UA season 3 Ben was said to have dated wheel chair girl when previous episodes showed was already in a relationship with Julie). Now, retcons aren't a bad thing, but retcons without explanations that open numerous plot holes ARE bad.

The explanation that Devin and Max were friends tidily explained why Kevin's family had lived in Bellwood in the first place: Bellwood had a local Plumber base (first shown in RAT, expanded in Omniverse).

Of course, saying all that was just false memories just raises more questions. How much of Kevin's family life that we saw actually happened and how much was fabricated? Why was Ragnarok trying to destroy the sun? Who was the real Devin?

You know an explanation that doesn't sound stupid? I'll give you one:

It would have made far more sense for, I don't know, the Rooters to be Osmosians from Osmos V, a centuries-old conspiracy that infiltrated the U.S. government and expanded Plumber operations to galactic-scale. The Osmosians are the descendants of humans transplanted to Osmos V millenia ago and crossbred with various alien species to create supersoldiers. The Rooters use their powers to absorb and duplicate alien abilities, explaining their hybrid appearances. Devin was a member of the Rooters assigned to watch veteran Max, but after confronting rogue rooter Ragnarok who was driven insane by his Osmosian abilities and became a psycho for hire, Devin questioned his own actions and faked his own death and later returned under the alias Aggregor. Devin/Aggregor isn't just some random evil overlord, he wants omnipotent power so he can create a world where his son Kevin can have a normal life. Kevin and the Amalgam kids aren't just random people the Rooters snatched up. They're the biological children of key Rooters, engineered as living weapons. Alan Albright's father, for example, is actually an Osmosian passing as a Pyronite, explaining why he and his son can assume a human apperance. The revelation that his protege was actually a villain who manipulated him would be a heartbreaking event for Max. The revelation that his father is a monster who created him to be a weapon would be a heartbreaking event for Kevin.

But no, that would be compelling and dark and edgy. Instead, the writers give us plotholes.