A priest will tell you how Jesus loves trannies and fudge packers, and you should love them too because to do otherwise is to be a racist bigot Nazi.
I wish that was a joke, but it does serve as a good reminder that even religious institutions are just as susceptible to the moral and mental rot...
It's comic books. Power levels and attachments are all variables for whatever the current writer wants to write. Lack of continuity has always been their Achilles heel. But the character has been around for 100 years, so that's probably inevitable.
He's dead, bro. Let him go. When you make threats against the site, legal or otherwise, there's no coming back after that. He granularly salted those fields.