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This setup allows Vaughan to explore a specific, painful portion of the teenage experience: realizing your guardians are fallible, corrupt, or even monstrous. For the Runaways, that realization is literal.
Why does Marvel's Runaways matter?
The core question—"What if your parents are evil?"—is universally terrifying. It's a metaphor for growing up and realizing your guardians are flawed, abusive, or ideologically monstrous. Marvel-s Runaways