>>150838249
Eh, given how things went in the first movie it still seems like something they'd rework later. It's clear that Marmalade hates Diane and almost got her friends killed, so her opening up about something as private as her personal life with Kitty to Marmalade of all people seems out of character. It would feel a lot more appropriate and earned if they found a way for her to tell it to Wolf, unless the implication was that she'd already told him.

You are correct that it was cut for timing reasons, though. Not just in terms of overall runtime but also because Kitty was originally supposed to have a moral turnaround arc, and there was already a lot happening in the movie's climax (and you couldn't just dangle Kitty's adorable younger self in front of the audience without giving her a redemption arc, or the audience would feel too sad about her). You had the big action setpieces on the space station, the gold cataclysm scenes on earth (which they actually ramped down a bit from the early storyboards), fighting with Kitty, Diane and Wolf's big kiss scene, and then the escape and (delightfully subversive) fakeout death scene. If they had to cram in Kitty's redemption and a tearful reconciliation between her and Diane, there would be no time for it to feel natural or earned without making the climax into a bloated mess instead of the very tight and expertly paced act it ended up being.

Which is a shame, but for a 82 minute movie I think it has exactly what it needed, and I hope we get more Kitty in 3.