These recent discussions involving him, kind of give me a new appreciation for Cole(just a little bit), I mean I don't want to give it to him like the other fella on the thread, but he is fairly interesting, even if he is kinda pathetic, a character so flawed has it's own charm after all.
Though, I've been thinking about him and the wards as a whole, i know HERO as an organization is far from being truly heroic, as Deus himself has pointed with disdain, but, I feel a little weird than some the Captains, especially Malik(or rather only him, I mean, Nyx for instance surely wouldn't give a fuck) were okay with Xanthe experimenting with a bunch of orphans, since, I think is safe to assume they all knew, since all of that taked place within one of HEROs base, an a lieutenant of Kronos go to stop Ella when she freed the wards.
Though, perhaps was something Xanthe did under the table?, with just some selected squads knowing?, is hard to tell.
Coming back to Cole though, reading his card, i think he might have benefited from having been mentored by Malik, their powers/monster parents are different of course, but are close enough for Cole to having learned some useful stuff, like his fourth evo literally gave him a technique similar to one of Malik's(seekers same name and all), and even more than that, I'm sure Malik could probably be a good foster parent, and Cole may have ended as a cool dude instead of being a little sociopath with delusions of grandeur