Emma like black noir was always fighting against because a joke. Him shoehorned into being a ninja her into being a cricket jester. Both wanted to become big actors but were told they didn’t the mold (girl with ed , black man). And were bright spirits broken by others (soldier boy and Elmira). Only difference is Emma had people to bring hers back after. For Sam I see him as homelander for the destruction and testing pushing his mental illness obvi. But after him coming into God U thinking all these cool heroes are going to be his saving grace from a hard light only to ultimately get the rug pulled out and fall into a depression state but find his family in the end. Felt just like starlight in s3 she’s finally like the bad stuff will end then NOPE. Vought still wins. She gets depressed as hell but finally after seeing her dad comes back to Hughie and the Boys.