Anonymous
asked:
Follow-up to the question about approval for killing characters: could something like that slip by without Axel and company finding out? Like if a writer wanted to kill Iceman and NIck Lowe approved it without thinking the higher-ups needed to sign off? (Maybe killing Iceman is a bad example, but there must be something on the borderline where an editor might assume it's OK but the higher-ups wouldn't.)
Probably not to the level of killing Iceman, no, because there’d be plenty of chatter about that beforehand–solicits, interviews, promotion–so that it’d be pretty impossible to keep completely below the radar. But on occasion a storyline or story concept is put into motion that causes a problem, and then needs to be rethought on the fly. Doesn’t happen often, but it has happened, and it will likely happen again once in a while.