Always Something To Deal With After The Fighting's Done

Assuming the Avengers Academy cadets survive, I'll be curious to see how the teachers move things forward after Fear Itself wraps up. Mostly, it's the fact some of the cadets did kill some of the bad guys. Mettle seems appropriately bothered by it, and Tigra's already tried to assuage his feelings of guilt. But Striker didn't seem particularly bothered by the idea, and Veil went for a revenge kill, which is certainly something I imagine the teachers will want to address.

If they find out about it. I can picture Veil voluntarily mentioning it, but I have this impression Gage might be setting up a jealousy thing between Hazmat and Veil, with that panel of Hazmat looking on while Mettle describes surfing to Veil. It could be that was Hazmat simply checking in to see if talking to Veil was really helping, but I don't know. I could see Hazmat letting the teachers know because she hopes it would get Veil removed from the Academy.

I'd like to think the teachers would be understanding. After all, they were the ones who threw the kids into the battle. But the heroes can be so weird about this killing thing. Ms. Marvel killed a bunch of Skrulls during Secret Invasion, but she wouldn't kill Norman Osborn when she had opportunities. Lots of people were killing Skrulls, but because Triathlon happened to kill the one Skrull that was on their side (though he wasn't broadcasting it), he was ostracized by the rest of the heroes*. I can't tell when the heroes are going to overreact, or when they're going to be fairly reasonable about the whole thing.

Maybe it won't even come up. I doubt it, if Veil knows soldiers returning from combat struggle most with having taken a life, I have to imagine Pym knows it, too. Still, there could be so much else going on the cadets have to muddle through on their own, which would be better than receiving condemnation for it, but not as good as - hey, I just realized, Veil could talk with Justice! Tigra said she really looks up to Vance, and he spent time in prison for killing his father. It isn't quite the same, since Vance was trying to defend himself and got a little overzealous, but he was fed up with some abusing the power they thought they had over him, and he struck back. Veil was angered by how the Nazi guys callously chopped down that woman, just because they could, and killed them. Hers was certainly a more intentional act, but it would be a place to start.

* Going by that first issue of Atlas, that's how it went. I haven't read the Avengers: Initiative issues in question.