In Avengers #200 Carol Danvers was subjected to a sexual assault that was characterized as non-traumatic and even as an act of love. Fans of the character were outraged. 1/4 #xmen @carolcomics

Claremont, who had written Carol years prior, objected to the story and recontextualized Carol’s experience as rape in Avengers Annual #10, giving her a monologue that seemed aimed at other writers as much as at her former team. 2/4

Years later in UXM #236 Rogue loses her powers and is assaulted off-panel. Far from fridging, the scene emphasizes Rogue’s mental and emotional anguish. Her response is to turn her consciousness over to Carol. 3/4

The story in 236 portrays a post-traumatic dissociation followed by a reclamation of power and agency through community and disclosure - redressing, to some small degree, the problematic historical erasure of trauma from superhero comics about sexual violence. 4/4