The Mole-Splendid Relationship

This article focuses on the interactions between The Mole and Splendid.
==Overview==
In their few interactions, it is shown that they are not fond of each other at all, likely due to Splendid's impatience and The Mole's blindness clashing whenever they interact, generating a conflict between the two. It could be argued that their conflict is one-sided, as The Mole shows fewer signs of disliking Splendid than the other way around.
==Splendid's Side==
Splendid is shown to harbor great contempt towards The Mole, although when or why it started isn't certain. In Gems the Breaks, The Mole becomes his first intentional kill and only intentional kill that was out of personal anger and not to defeat a criminal. In See What Develops, Splendid gets annoyed at being paired with The Mole and at his getting a photo of him changing out of his reporter attire, Splendid goes to great lengths to try to stop and possibly even kill him. He also doesn't show much concern for him in group scenes compared to other characters.
==The Mole's Side==
It is hard to tell what exactly The Mole thinks of Splendid. On one hand, in Gems the Breaks, The Mole becomes annoyed at Splendid's laser beam slowing down traffic and honks at it (though it is unknown how he knew it was there in the first place). On the other hand, in See What Develops, he has no problem with working alongside Splendid (though like everyone else in the episode, he doesn't know this is Splendid as he is in disguise), suggesting that the conflict is mostly one-sided.
==Trivia==
*The two are on negative terms, but they have several things in common:
**Both have a high survival rate.
**Each one kills more than he dies.
**Each one survived his debut.
**Each one's first death was in his third appearance.
**Each one survived his two starring roles.
**Each one has his own Ka-Pow! episode.
**They receive three starring roles apiece in the TV series; each one's fate is different in his second starring role from his fate in his first and third starring roles.
**Their pop-up book pages in the intros to TV episodes for each one involves moving a tab along an arc to make scenery move behind the character.
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