>>119220794Penance is a clusterfuck that's why.
Penance was created as a Balkan girl who was a captive of M's evil brother Emplate that escaped and joined Gen X.
Lobdell had plans for her but never got around doing them before leaving the book.
Larry Hama of GI Joe and Wolverine fame came along, having been demoted from Wolverine to Generation X so they could do stunt casting hiring big names to write Wolverine for arcs. Hama is bitter as fuck and decides to crash Gen X with no survivors to spite Harras for demoting him.
He does a nonsensical bullshit "reveal" that M was two twins pretending to be the "real M" and that the "real M" was really Penance all along and turned her "back to normal". And that the twins were the kid siblings of M and Emplate.
This rendered Penance persona non-grata even as later writers tried (then stopped when fans refused to buy it) to keep Penance around by having them continue to wonder twin merge to create "Penance". The twins were written out all together and later writers have opted to make Penance just be a Super-Saiyan form for M (most recently seen in House/Power of X).
And Hama? Got blackballed from ever writing at Marvel again as he was fired and had to beg and plead for Hasbro to make Devils Due give him work writing GI Joe, as they were the only people who'd give him comic work after he burnt his bridges at Marvel.
>>119220908Yes and no. After Black Widow killed his kids and wife and let the Russians torture him, he went kind of insane and basically had a death wish wanting to die (a factor made worse by the fact that his costume during this era was the only redeeming thing to come out of Ultimates V3).
Mark Millar ironically toned down Clint's grief fueled assholery when he did his Ultimate Avengers minis and Hickman ultimately reset Clint back to normal in a Hawkeye mini he wrote.