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This is becoming ridiculous.

if you’re asking why certain characters tend to come back and continue to make appearances, the answer is that creators are interested in them and pitch stories involving them.

if you’re asking why we don’t make it a priority to use your favorite character, the answer is that there are ten-thousand characters in the Marvel Universe, they cannot all be on stage at the same time, and if a particular character didn’t click, they go back into the mass of characters. And forcing a creator to use a character they have no interest in never ends well.

You liking what you like isn’t at all a problem. Every fan is different. Every reader is going to have their own favorites.

But your taste specifically doesn’t get to dictate the publishing plan. It’s one small component, just as your favorite character is one character in ten-thousand, so too is your opinion just one opinion amongst the greater mass of all of your fellow fans–some of whom feel the same, some of whom want the Enchantress to appear instead.

You seem very upset about this, like you’re taking it personally somehow, but it’s not personal at all.

What history shows us is that, given enough time, virtually any character is likely to make some manner of reappearance. Doesn’t mean that they’ll ever become a mainstay headliner–but you never know. Star-Lord was a failed series from the 1970s that wasn’t even set in the Marvel Universe, the character sat on a shelf for about twenty years, and now he’s at the center of a big movie–so anything is possible.

Are we done here now?