As Madame Xanadu makes every effort to protect those close to her, her own innocence begins to whittle down. Xanadu is in no way the naivet sprite she was in Madame Xanadu #1. Though while her childlike face has since matured, she has not allowed bitter feelings to take over her mindset. Xanadu firmly believes that fate is not what moves us, but instead our actions. However, by keeping this issues final twist in mind, the idea of fate becomes more ambiguous. This allows us to believe that perhaps fate does exist, but not in the way that we perceive it to " that perhaps fate is not entirely out of our control, instead fate is nothing more than the consequences of our actions. And if this is the case, then perhaps Madame Xanadu and Phantom Stranger are one and the same, or rather, each are a part of a puzzle, and without one or the other the puzzle could never be whole.