"He Was A Plot Device That I Wound Up Falling In Love With": Not Even Its Writer Could Stop This Brutal X-Men Storyline Once It Was Set In Motion
Juggernaut wouldn't be the vital mutant hero he has become if it weren't for the pivotal, heartbreaking death of one early 2000s X-Men character.
One of the most heartwrenching deaths in the X-Men’s history was planned from the beginning – but that didn’t stop the character’s creator from getting attached. As writer Chuck Austen explained it, Sammy the Squid Boy was always meant to die in order to further Juggernaut’s redemption arc, even as Sammy’s own heroic journey became powerful in its own right.
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