Who do you blame for the mutant wipeout at the end of House of M?

[Mutant God]

Wanda and Bendis

[Drops Of Venus]

Honestly... it still seemed to me like Doom was accepting the blame for House of M just to try and get Wanda off the hook in the end. Or at least that's how I interpreted his actions.

I just always read it as a man with his ego bruised because he failed at being a god, so he wanted to go down reminding everyone of what he's capable of. Doom grooming Wanda for all that time because he was power hungry with a god complex makes perfect sense to me. After all was said and done and she wasn't useful to him anymore, he never gave any crap about her again. That doesn't sound like it was ever true love or care, so I don't believe he had any genuine reason to protect her.

[Alan2099]

I don't blame anyone.

Rather, I try to forget about it considering how horrible the storyline was set up and how bad the characterization in it was.

[Star_Jammer]

The canon answer is the Life Force, so anyone arguing otherwise is incorrect.

[Wiccan]

The canon answer is the Life Force, so anyone arguing otherwise is incorrect.

Well, and Doom is to blame for giving her to Life Force knowing it would drive her mad. The life force AFAIK isn't a sentient entity like the Phoenix Force, is just too much power for any person to handle and naturally messes up their mind.

Yeah, there's a HUGE difference between Wanda's treatment and Scott.

It took Wanda 7 years for her to get off the hook. It didn't take Scott half that time. If they were treated equally, Scott would have gotten off the hook in 2019.

Preach. After AvX, Scott was still the protagonist of Uncanny X-Men. He was a controversial figure but he was still portrayed as a hero. Eventually, even a bunch of people who were against him like Kitty and the O5 ended up going to his side. The series ended with him being portrayed on a positive light on a big heroic moment. The whole Hitler thing was much later and it was revealed as actually being all Emma.

[MaximoffTrash]

Can we choose a real person, like a certain writer or editor?
Bendis Force disguising as so-called life force.
Magneto didn't really spend years twisting Wanda's mind, Wanda at that period shouldn't give a F about what Magneto want, but because she got casually nutty and amnesiac. She just did that. And casually read Bendis script and undid that, what Magneto did other than comply with Bendis's shitshow by randomly throwing a chunk of metal onto Pietro?
And there is Joe Quesada who couldn't do the math. Minority means like a couple hundred people, including most of the mutants you know about.

[leokearon]

The Bullpen for letting the crap happen in the first place.

[Shadowcat]

Joe Quesada and Bill Jemas.

[Digifiend]

The answer is always "Brian Bendis."

Quesada fits too, but there's a reason why it was so easy to tack the mutant decimation onto the end of that story: so many characters' motivations made absolutely no sense (why does Quicksilver want Magneto to be in power? why isn't Vision in Wanda's new world? etc) that they could attach literally any plot point to it with the explanation "oh, well, she's crazy." Even crazy characters need to have some kind of motivation.

Vision was excluded because he was dead in 616 at the time. Apparently being in House of M can resurrect people, as that's how Clint Barton, who like Vision was killed in Avengers Disassembled, came back (their deaths had allowed for the introduction of a new Vision and Hawkeye in Young Avengers).

[Carabas]

Somebody else: Joe Quesada. He had been quite open about wanting to radically reduce the number of Mutants in the MCU long before House Of Meh came out.

[MyriVerse]

DOOM! of course.

And Bendis. And Quesada.

[Gambit, King of Thieves]

Yeah, there's a HUGE difference between Wanda's treatment and Scott.

It took Wanda 7 years for her to get off the hook. It didn't take Scott half that time. If they were treated equally, Scott would have gotten off the hook in 2019.

well, Scott only killed a few people. He's disliked by a lot of characters. Wanda almost made mutants extinct.

[Ropeburn]

The answer is always "Brian Bendis."

This. In order to make his Avengers more appealing, he neutered the Marvel Mutant Brand. Supported by upper management. X-Men has never recovered.

[cc008]

#BlameBendis

[Alan2099]

Somebody else: Joe Quesada. He had been quite open about wanting to radically reduce the number of Mutants in the MCU long before House Of Meh came out.

Honestly, he almost had to. The way Morrison wrote the X-men it seemed like one out of every ten people was a mutant.