santinibros
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In response to your question about Simon, two things: 1) His death was totally non-violent, so it didn't have that blood-porn aspect that Wanda and Rogue's deaths had. It didn't seem like he was being torn apart for our amusement. He just gracefully vanished. 2) Wanda and Rogue's deaths were both played out in part from Wolverine's point of view, his anguish over not being able to stop Rogue from killing Wanda or save Rogue from Reaper. That's the "fridging" aspect that Simon didn't have.
Simon’s death wasn’t violent in the same way, maybe, but he essentially disintegrated. I expect that if we’d done the same to Wanda or Rogue, you’d consider those deaths to still have been violent.
I also don’t know that I buy the notion that Wanda and Rogue’s deaths were somehow all about Wolverine and only Wolverine just because he happened to see them.