I'm a big fan of when you model a character as someone with a biological origin, doing deep dives and a lot of research.

When you're a kid, regardless of the age you grew up, everything is high opera. With hormones raging, you have to fight external and internal battles that you've never had to deal with before. Unlike Tony Stark and Steve Rogers, who have seen it all and been through it all, everything heightens the drama.

We have a lot of supergeniuses in the Marvel universe, but very few of them are women.

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