Ahh, great stuff! (though I hastily skipped the part about B5 season 4 since I haven't finished that arc yet)

I particularly like the observations about Kitty's arc (what changes, what doesn't) and the aggressive potential of her power. Interesting that "I can phase you into something and kill you" was first mentioned to Emma in "Gifted" -- in an exasperated "God, woman, won't you hold still?" way -- and then turns into a real threat which she uses not against Emma but (terrifyingly, as you said) against Peter -- only in the dream, yes, but it's a dream that's extremely real to her.

It's really fascinating to look back and see how Kitty's point-of-view functions throughout the three arcs -- Joss has variously mentioned Kitty and Scott as the characters he identifies with in writing AXM, which is interesting because when it comes to Emma these two are pretty much diametrically opposed, from the start. Kitty comes in with "you can't change who you are and you'll show your true colors one day" while Scott, as I mentioned before, doesn't actually deny Emma's former villainry, but doesn't really factor it in. As far as he's concerned, she's proved her true loyalty.

"Torn" initially seems to confirm Kitty's point-of-view and refute Scott's, and ending issue 15 with Kitty's echo of the Wolverine line in Dark Phoenix (now it's my turn! -- which, hmm, sounds vaguely familiar if one has seen Serenity) seems to confirm that, in fact, nothing has changed. I think the Wolverine panel is actually from the Xmen's confrontation with the Hellfire club, if not with Emma herself (will have to check the book when I get home). Most of issue 16 seems to confirm that it's all going to be about Kitty going Ninja and coming back to kick ass and then. . .it turns out it's all part of the plan and Kitty is going to be victimized by the White Queen, once again. Issue 17 goes further to get the reader sympathizing along with Kitty (it worked on me, anyway) and the last panel (together with the first few of 18) suggests that even Scott has come around to Kitty's point of view. And then. . .the last half of the book ends up being about overcoming the instinct for vengeance, represented by Kitty, and see that Scott was coming from the right place all along.