Does Lauren know who Gretel is now?
What's interesting about the Hamster & Gretel finale is that Lauren can clearly see that Superhero Gretel has a very close connection with Kevin, whom Lauren knows has a little sister named Gretel. In fact, it's perfectly obvious that he's directly involved with her's and Hamster's super heroics. The whole episode, I was just waiting and waiting for Lauren to figure out that Gretel the superhero was Kevin’s little sister Gretel. At this point, I'd be astounded if Lauren was still clueless.
But notice something else. Not only did she not bring it up, but Lauren had no sign of surprise at all. No reaction whatsoever to the realization that her friend Kevin was directly involved with superheroes Hamster and Gretel. In fact, look at the scene in which Gretel recruits Lauren for her help. Gretel tells Lauren that Mordros attacked Kevin. Kevin is not an uncommon name. She could've been talking about anybody named Kevin, and yet, Lauren immediately knew which Kevin Gretel was referring to (granted, the chinchilla had Kevin’s hairdo, but still).
A while back, I made a blog post on Tumblr about a headcanon I had that Lauren would naturally put two and two together on her own someday and just choose to not say anything. I never thought that this would come true, but ladies and gentlemen, I think Lauren's known who Gretel was for a while. When she figured it out, I'm not sure. I may have to think on that.
It kind of puts that little chat that Kevin and Lauren had in Miss Direct into a whole new perspective. Was Lauren really just telling Kevin why she personally wasn't willing to tell people about her secret identity, or did she have an idea of what Kevin was getting at and was trying to subtly remind him to keep his sister's identity a secret?
What about Lyle though. Lauren can surely be trusted with Gretel's secret identity, but can Lyle? It wasn't very clear if he was actually giving up evil or not.
