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Agreed. Also, the entire point of the story was about each generation supplanting and improving upon the work of the previous. The death (or in Simon's case, self-imposed exile) of the Mega Heroes was part of this symbolism--Kamina dies and passes the torch to Simon. Nia dies, and Simon retires, passing the torch to Gimmy and Darry. Because it was a happy ending (albeit a bittersweet one), we can probably assume pretty safely that both Gimmy and Darry would grow up to be better than Simon and Nia.
Yeah, it sucks that Nia died young and Simon didn't get to spend that much time with her before it was time for them to pass on the baton, but that happened because they peaked early--they accomplished their Big Accomplishments in their youth. Meaning the ending of the show hit while they were still young, and thus when Nia had to die for the sake of the symbolism, she was still young.
I suppose you could've gotten away with giving them like a year before Time Caught Up With Her, but it would've muted the impact of their decision, and made it less an example of heroism on their parts to accept their fates, because they DID have that time together. That final bit was supposed to be the sacrifice that both characters were making--Nia in fading away, and Simon in allowing her to do so, rather than put the universe at risk for the sake of their own selfish motivations. And make no mistake, even though Simon would be doing it for Nia rather than for himself, it WOULD be selfish of him to endanger the universe for her, and both of them knew it. We generally see stories like this where the willingness to make the selfish decision is considered virtuous, but in this case they went against the grain to say something different: sometimes the most heroic thing you can do is surrender.
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