I generally don't get the outcry about the brooding and dark themes in works meant for moody teenagers - which is a constant trait of them across space and time

I generally don't get the outcry about the brooding and dark themes in works meant for moody teenagers - which is a constant trait of them across space and time. If we didn't single out superhero comics, we could mention a great number of young adult works with dark themes - Harry Potter, Hunger Games, Huckleberry Finn, Arthur Gordon Pym, Jack London's works just to give some examples of the top of my head. I'm not a developmental psychologist, and I don't want to speculate why teens are this way, but they certainly always have been.