Fair for Its Day: Even in the 1990s, when attitudes towards the less fortunate weren't as progressive as they were in subsequent decades, the comic portrays exploitation of the destitute in a very harsh light.
2019-2023 Revival Run:
Complete Monster: Lorinda Johnson, otherwise known as the "Widowmaker" is the misandrist head of an assassination and forced child prostitution racket who regularly takes in runaway girls, manipulates them, and trains them as underage assassins, aka "Widows", one of whom was Bobbi Vasquez herself. Additionally, the Widowmaker regularly threatens the families of her Widows who refuse to comply. Once she has ordered Bobbi to kill the New Orleans Police Officer Brett Huffman—Bobbi's would-be brother-in-law—after the latter attempts to expose her, when Bobbi doesn't follow through, the Widowmaker eventually makes Bobbi accompany her during one of her Human Trafficking shipments, attempting to deflect Bobbi's subsequent confrontation. When Bobbi subsequently refuses to comply with the Widowmaker's order that she kill Brett, the Widowmaker threatens Jennifer—Bobbi's sister—if Bobbi doesn't comply. Upon finally encountering Keith "Demon" Greyson, Brett himself, Bobbi, and the warrior Kunoichi in a showdown, the Widowmaker detonates her base of operations before escaping.
Realism-Induced Horror: Despite being a setting with superheroes, one of the most disturbing motifs in the 2019-2023 run is sexual abusers getting away with their actions, and adolescents being groomed into killers.
