I’ve linked it before, but in this episode of the X-Plain the X-Men podcast, the guest host repeats a few times that ROM was “…surprisingly dark for a toy tie-in…” while going over two issues with the X-Men in them. Those issues of ROM were published around when X-Men was re-titled to Uncanny X-men in 1981 and they were introducing Marvel’s first dark future alternate timeline.
The 2018 Doctor Strange comics were built on that premise. I remember Kanna’s approach to magic as being pretty fun.
