>>3325136>>3325144Yeah, but–let's be honest–they were basically furniture. Lena is literally the cover girl, so you'd think there'd be more to the story or that she'd be allowed a comeback, especially since Uprising went out of its way to make the situation even sadder by revealing her first mission was the very thing the assassination undid. To be fair, the only time we've seen her outside of flashbacks since was Reflections, and I imagine they wanted to keep it light with her at the time for the sake of the holiday. It's really weird to think that two-year-old comic is her most chronologically recent appearance. Perhaps I'll get what I want when things actually start progressing again; but that would require things to... progress. So blehh. Oh well; I got drinks, these threads, and y'all; we'll get there together.
If it makes more sense to you, she might have been converted into a sleeper agent who was only “programmed” to “activate” once she was in position to make the kill, which might explain why she aroused such little suspicion or fed into a narrative that she had just always been a double agent. The full conversion followed, but the way I see it, if she has the capacity to gloat, then she also has the capacity to -not- gloat and is therefore choosing to mistreat others even when she doesn't need to, which dampens a lot of my sympathy for her. Full disclosure, as you may have parsed by now: no, I am not particularly fond of her. She hurt my favorite character with (so far) no repercussions, so of course I’m not. It’s the same reason I don't like Widowtracer (However, I'll give you a freebie and say it’s also because I think it does a disservice to Widow herself; everyone talks about Reflections “sinking” the ship in the context of Emily, but the same comic shows Widow isn’t over Gerry and likely isn’t ready for a relationship. No one ever seems to talk about that wrinkle, which even I as someone who dislikes her thinks is unfair).
