#but i think it could've been far more interesting if jinx had lashed out at isha more

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I think one of the reasons "Isha is a personification of Jinx's inner Powder" doesn't work for me is that Powder is, as Mylo might put it, a screw-up. Obviously, Powder was a child - possibly not even a tween - and shouldn't have been in the situations she screwed up. But the series basically kicks off because she ruins the heist (and has ruined numerous previous jobs). The big finale of Act 1 is her killing most of her family, further traumatising her sister, by accident. She instinctively kills Silco in the finale of Act 3, the one person who seemed to accept her as she is (read: basically made her uninhibited). Powder's mistakes came at a bigger cost to everyone else, and part of the tragedy/moral ambiguity is that she's a kid who's in way over her head (even now, Jinx is an incredibly traumatised teenager who's been groomed into being a killing machine).

Isha doesn't really have a moment like this. She 'screws up' Jinx's suicide plan, but is 1) keeping Jinx alive and 2) not preventing the gas diversion really a failure? She helps Sevika rally the Undercity together, it's not her fault that everyone gets caught or that Warwick decimated most of the prison population. She sacrifices her life to protect Jinx, which... first of all, why would anyone be convinced that a tiny kid with a tiny gun would protect Jinx from giant super-powered Warwick, even if you didn't believe that Warwick was a Champion and thus has plot armour? But moreover, it's a sacrifice where she's the worst-off for it. And while Jinx utilises Vi's own method of raising her (Jinx nonchalantly checking on Isha after Vi pushes her is basically Vi acting confident in Powder roof-jumping), Jinx is never brought to a point where she lashes out at Isha the way Vi or even Mylo ever did. Isha doesn't really have any flaws of her own nor does she bring them out in any other character (except for maybe Vi, but it's never really about Vi and Isha, it's about one of them and Jinx).