I think Moonstone is a pretty cool character. Like a genuinely evil Emma Frost without the mutie baggage.

She gets more or less completely b***hy, but even when she was at her most least selfish, I don't think she was ever "not" evil.

The fundamental difference is Karla has never really grappled with approaching the world in a different way. She grows closer to people and is willing to go out on a limb for them, but unlike Melissa and Abner, who genuinely change their lifestyles because it brings them more happiness and fulfillment or even Norbert who just kind of goes with the flow either way, Karla has always remained the same person with her own ambitions. One who manipulates and seeks out peoples' weakpoints for her own selfish, material gain. Even Zemo will have, like, grand designs that might have ends beyond merely himself, but Karla will always think about her own petty plans. Petty in the sense of the overall scope, she's not out to rule the world or even be like the Kingpin. Just plans that revolve around being a narcissist seeking to schmooze with others to take advantage of them. She likes doing this, it's comfortable to her. She's not some "oh woah, I need to live this was because I have some trauma or inability to trust people" sob stories. No, she's an evil psychiatrist who abuses her power, literal and figurative, for her own gain.

But that's ultimately both less and more than what people think when we argue about "being evil." This early page is a great example of like, how Karla is evil, but that doesn't mean there's just NOTHING there. She can feel certain things, want to do certain things, but her character is ultimately a selfish one (note that her focus is on how good playing a hero "feels," not anything truly selfless).

Feet

No

Having a Hawkeye fetish is understandable.

Look this isn't the best take on her but I will admit "So utterly fricking done with shit that she's just resorted to shitposting at people" is at least a somewhat entertaining take.

There are some lines drawn down there. The artist possibly meant for it to be some kind of ultra-skimpy thong and they just had the colorist make it look like more skin was covered up.

Moonstone is Emma if Emma wasn't a hypocritical nazi b***h prostitute. Moonstone knows she is evil, knows she's a b***h, and doesn't hide behind "mah persecution complex" and owns what she is and that she's only a "hero" because it beats being in jail.

And her current burial in comics, as far as no one using her except in random ass stories, is due to the fact that editorial is still seething mad butt-hurt that Moonstone is infinitely more popular than Carol Danvers, to the point that after her brief stint in Dark Avengers as Dark Carol, writers/artists tried their best to make Ms Marvel and the original costume, Karla's default codename/costume.