I am unlucky in comic book love, I was brought into comic through the fox kids X-men and Spiderman. I found a comic shop around Operation: Zero Tolerance, i collected Generation X, X-force regularly and sometimes X-men and Uncanny X-men occasionally, X-man sporadically. I also followed Jay Feaber to New Warriors (Sought out back issues) and eventually got recommended Teen Titans, I also followed Gen 13 and DV8.
I loved the Teen Books
Did I Follow Young Avengers? Runaways? Initiative? Academy X/ New Mutants/ New X-men/ Avengers Academy? yes to all but through trades, I knew what I was getting into after Generation X but I just enjoyed these new characters. Their triumphs and tragedies, their loves and losses, their battles in which they survived by the skin of the teeth!
As for Generation X (My first love) Skin and Synch pointlessly killed off, Chamber and Jubilee Depowerd (Chamber got better later), Husk constant cameo'ed when she is not being made into....Angels...Waifu.....
Only Monet thrived out of the class, mostly due to Peter Davids X-factor, she was later used in Brian Woods X-men after Rouge was taken to Uncanny Avengers, and was a part of Magneto's team in Bunn's X-men. Teen Characters/ C-listers tended to become comic book equivalence to Star Treks: Red Shirts.
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Having the New Warriors "Incompetence" set off civil war I figured either the powers that be severely disliked 90's characters or C-list Cannon Fodder (A trope I would discover around 2010)
But I have noticed something, New Warriors, New Mutants are not getting killed off anymore, in fact many are being resurrected. I heard Stature was killed but later brought back, in such a "Short" time!
Has the trope of C-list cannon fodder become passe? Has the practice of killing younger hero's at a high rate finally ended?