Warning: SPOILERS for DC's Stargirl Season 2, Episode 7 - "Summer School: Chapter 7".

With her tragic storyline in DC's Stargirl season 2, Wildcat AKA Yolanda Montez (Yvette Monreal) has become the Arrowverse's version of Wolverine, and this causes a slew of problems for the young superhero. In Stargirl season 2, episode 7, Yolanda quit the Justice Society of America after coping with multiple traumas, especially the return of Brainwave (Christopher James Baker), who Yolanda killed in Stargirl season 1 but returned by using his psychic powers to take root in Wildcat's mind.

Stargirl may be a teen superhero show on The CW but it also deals with heavy and mature themes by putting Courtney Whitmore (Brec Bassinger) and her friends through emotional wringers. Even before she reluctantly became Wildcat at Courtney's urging, Yolanda made a terrible mistake by sending nude selfies to her boyfriend, and Brainwave's son, Henry (Jake Austin Walker), which he then shared with the whole school. Not only was Yolanda humiliated but she was cruelly ostracized by her judgmental parents. Becoming Wildcat offered Yolanda new friends and an outlet to do good by saving Blue Valley from the Injustice Society of America, but her superhero persona also came with a terrible personal cost for the young Miss Montez that has echoes to the violent life Wolverine led in the X-Men movie franchise.

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Like Wolverine, Wildcat's primary weapons are razor-sharp claws, and this is an immediate problem because using them to their fullest potential means killing your enemy. Brainwave discovered this harsh truth just as a multitude of Wolverine's adversaries did. But, like Wolverine, the emotional toll of killing has harmed Yolanda's psyche, which is made worse since she is only 16. In contrast, Logan has lived for over a century in the X-Men movies and he is perpetually haunted by the trauma he carries with him. Wolverine sublimates his guilt and grief with alcohol and other means of release, like cage fighting, but these aren't options for Yolanda, who, like Stargirl, is still in high school and lives with her parents but she has already faced choices as a superhero most adults will never have to.

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While Yolanda's personality couldn't be more different from James Howlett's, both Wildcat and Wolverine are placed in the unenviable position of being their superteam's designated killers, a fate Montez fears and rejects. Wolverine has a fearsome reputation, even among the X-Men, and he has hurt friend and foe alike. When he was having a nightmare in the original X-Men movie, Logan accidentally stabbed Rogue (Anna Paquin) with his claws, and he did the same to Kitty Pryde (Ellen Page) in X-Men: Days of Future Past. Of course, Wolverine killed his love, Jean Grey (Famke Janssen) when she became Dark Phoenix in X-Men: The Last Stand, and this continued to haunt him in The Wolverine.

Given Yolanda's Catholic upbringing and bedrock of morality, she continues to struggle with the fact that she killed Brainwave, an act she can never take back or forgive herself for. Montez realizes that as long as she's Wildcat, she will be placed in a position to kill again and Yolanda already dreads that the JSA will place the burden of killing Eclipso (Nick Tarabay) on her shoulders. Hence, Yolanda quit her super friends, just as Wolverine has taken sabbaticals away from the X-Men and being around regular people. Unlike Logan, who retreats to the wilderness, Yolanda isolated herself at home and cut off Courtney and the Justice Society.

Being a teenage superhero is hard enough in Stargirl but Wildcat faces emotional burdens Courtney and the others simply don't, and her guilt has tragically forced Yolanda to question whether or not she's even a good person. Being a teenage version of Wolverine in Stargirl is a harrowing proposition for Yolanda to find herself in.  However, even though he exists in an entirely different universe, Wolverine has struggled with the same questions about himself for decades, and Logan would definitely understand the pain Wildcat is going through.

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Stargirl airs Tuesdays @ 8pm on The CW.