therealsongbirddiamondback:
CHILDREN CRUSADE SPOILERS
Nrama: The climax of the story brought two major deaths — Stature and Vision. While I can understand Vision since the original recently came back in Avengers, what can you share about the decision to kill off Cassie? Was it perhaps motivated by the inherent tragedy of having Scott Lang back, but his daughter dead?
Heinberg: Cassie’s death was foreshadowed as early as Crusade #2. Her objective was always to bend or break the rules of time and space to bring her father back from the dead. The Vision and Kate each warned her that there would be a price to pay if she succeeded. And her death was the ultimate price.
I love Cassie — and I’m not a big fan of killing comic book characters in general — but it felt to all of us that there had to be high-stakes — and even tragic — consequences to the kids’ actions. Just as Wanda’s actions had tragic consequences. To me, that felt very much like the lesson the kids had to learn from Crusade. No matter how noble your intentions, the life of a super-hero comes with huge costs and consequences.
She was my favorite Young Avenger :’(