Okay. So I got in the mood of rewatching the show, and I’ve only seen Season Two a couple of times, maybe 2 in total (I never had them on DVD as a kid), so it was great being able to pore over every detail with fresh eyes again. A thought had occurred to me when watching the last episode. How on earth did Norman manage to fake his death if they bury his corpse at the end of the show?

You can make an argument that they just put up a headstone for him when he died. I know it’s a superhero show and there isn’t exactly the most sound logic, but like, there’s no way those bombs could’ve just disintegrated him, especially with the goblin serum in him. And when we see him he’s completely unscathed. So a body was buried at the end, but he is not only alive but also not damaged.

Here’s what I think happened. We already know Miles Warren is experimenting with mammal DNA, and we literally see him and Norman meeting at that dinner where they get Peter’s internship reinstated. What if Norman got Miles to make a clone of him to fake his death?

Maybe he realized that he couldn’t sustain his secret identity for too much longer so he’d rather just fake his death and go off the radar. People were probably going to put the pieces together eventually, especially if Hammerhead and Tombstone snitched on Norman’s involvement in the creation of supervillains (Hammerhead was in protective custody at the end of the series if I understood that scene at the end of Gangland correctly).

I got a little off track there but it’s all kind of necessary to understanding why Norman would want to pin his crimes on a clone and then avoid any legal issues. I think they would’ve definitely done the Clone Saga as the third season without a shadow of a doubt.