Cameron Hodge makes Warren's situation even worse because this is somebody who was already inside his life. It is one thing to know Apocalypse is dangerous. Hodge had access thr…

Cameron Hodge makes Warren's situation even worse because this is somebody who was already inside his life. It is one thing to know Apocalypse is dangerous. Hodge had access through a relationship Warren trusted, and that makes the betrayal personal in a different way. The confrontation involving Candy Southern is especially brutal. Warren goes looking for her, fights his way to Hodge and still cannot save her. Hodge makes sure Warren is there to experience that loss. There is cruelty in the way he turns the rescue itself into another opportunity to hurt him. Candy deserves to be remembered as a person in Warren's life before this scene, too. If she is reduced to the terrible thing that happens to her, the relationship they already had gets lost. The scene hurts because she matters to him, not because the story needs another reason to make his wings look threatening. Warren's response becomes violent, and I do not think discussing that means pretending the transformation alone explains every choice. He is grieving, furious and dealing with someone who has deliberately attacked the people and life he cared about. There is a lot to untangle there. He has regained the ability to fight back, but that does not give him a way to repair what Hodge has already done.