Originally Posted by
PwrdOn
It's a bit rich to accuse Wanda of being a Jean ripoff when Marvel has trotted out dozens of characters with some combination of Jean's look, powers, or Phoenix connection, and all of them have been met by the fanbase with a resounding meh, because all of them fail to capture the je ne sais quoi that made Jean resonate with fans. Wanda feels like Jean to an extent because she DOES have that quality, far more so than Hope or Quentin Quire or Phoenix Thor could ever have, but she still has a original backstory that's a lot more fleshed out than Jean's was, and Marvel hasn't saw fit yet to devalue her gimmick by passing it around to inferior characters, yet.