Love Wanda portrayal here (Star 2)
Love Wanda portrayal here (Star 2)
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Wanda being a social outcast feels so unnatural to me, I've used her being in the Avengers and there she's a social butterfly. Not in Wasp's level, but she's well liked by everyone and knows how to act like a normal person, as normal as a person can be in her circumstances. That's why I don't like when writers make her go crazy with power like she's Dark Phoenix. Bendis is a great writer but he failed her badly and she never fully recovered from House of M or when she needed Strange to stop her Chaos Magic.
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A lot of Wanda's problems can be traced back to John Byrne and his whole Dark Wanda storyline he did in WCA, where he tried to create another Dark Phoenix style story, like he did with Sue in F4. Heck, Bendis even said it was an inspiration; which makes me wonder why would you ever take inspirationf rom a terrible story? Oh wait because Bendis is a hack
WandaVision wrapped up filming https://comicbook.com/marvel/2020/03...ng-wrap-party/
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I guess the CGI and stuff for WandaVision ins't finished but at least they can show some images or something
Yeah, I'm guessing that's why it ended soon. So they have months of post-production.
Love is for souls, not bodies.
Sorry to bring this up again but I wanted to note what I said in a different thread, which is that what interests me about this "Pretender" thing is that Hickman is the first writer to try and really run with the idea that she's not a mutant. (Every other story since AXIS would be exactly the same if she and Pietro were still mutants.) Now he's introduced the idea that the mutants have turned Wanda, the evil non-mutant who posed as one of them, into a legend to give mutants a common non-mutant enemy to unite against.
It's another example of how she's an unlucky character. If the retcon had just removed Magneto as their dad but not the mutant designation, this story point wouldn't exist. I'm not a big Hickman fan (though he's better at the X-Men than the Avengers) but I can't blame him for running with that.
I'd actually be OK with this story if it builds to an actual in-story appearance by Wanda. It seems like it will happen, but knowing Hickman it could take years. Meanwhile she's not appearing much, not necessarily because of this story but just because most of Marvel's resources are focused on the X-Men now, and she won't be allowed in that story for some time at least.
I really hope we at least get something to tie in with the TV series. We haven't gotten anything yet but we haven't gotten anything for the Eternals yet either, and that's closer to the release date. Marvel is really weird about synergy.
Yeah, but they wouldn't be able to use this plot point of her not being a mutant. However, you're right that they could still do something similar, like make her the Judas of mutants. Hickman obviously knows that mentioning her gets X-fans all riled up, though at least so far he hasn't put it into the mouth of a sympathetic character. I would like to see him have someone speak up in her defense, but that probably won't happen for a long time, as it's not a major plot thread.
That probably won't happen. They were never concerned in using Wanda as a character in that story.
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Why isn't Wanda used more often?
There's no one answer. They include:
1. Her only real "home" as a character is on the Avengers, but Marvel doesn't want to put too many old-school pre-2004 Avengers on the team at once. Now that there's only one Avengers book and that book is almost nothing but star characters, there is no place for her to go other than minis.
2. She was out of the comics for so long in the 2000s that many writers and editors simply don't know that much about her or want to fight to use her. You almost have to be a fan of pre-2004 Avengers to be a big Wanda fan, whereas almost every X-Men character is the pet character of some creator.
3. Being in the MCU is a mixed blessing because Marvel actually waits to see what the MCU is going to do with her before making plans. And up until WandaVision she almost never had a lot of screen time in the MCU.
Ultimately she has a lot of the same problems as Hank Pym, though she hasn't been treated quite as bad by writers/editors lately.
I think her main hope is that someone someday puts together an Avengers lineup with more of the old-school characters, but I suspect it won't be until after Tom Brevoort retires, as he said a number of years ago that he'll never go back to the pre-2004 cast/style completely, because the franchise became so much bigger and more popular after 2005.