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Also, why do so many people treat every major change to a character as some kind of imagined competition between characters? I swear, if they'd gotten rid of Black Panther's cape today, there'd be readers going, "Oh yeah? You think capes suck or something, writer guy? Well, I'll have you know that Thor's worn a cape for decades and he's gotten along just fine!"

Writers and artists make changes on case-by-case basis, according to the specific situation of the character they're working on it. They're not making grand statements about How Superheroes Must Be.