Thread:AustinDR/@comment-6489422-20151119050024/@comment-27818776-20151119053749

I wouldn't worry about it myself. For example, with Hopper's promise that he made for his mother, it can go two ways: 1) it could just be him trying to prove that he could keep a promise (which I personally believe), 2) he made the promise, because he truly loved his mom. It doesn't really help that he only brought her up once in a scene that could be interpreted as insignificant.

Syndrome has no valid freudian excuse, plain and simple. "Oh, you don't want me to be your sidekick? Well, when I grow up, I'll build machines to kill all supers, and then I'll unleash a machine onto the populace and endanger several lives, just so that I can be a super!"