Originally Posted by
Sutekh
Man, they just dropped that whole thing, too. Were there D'Bari off-world? Is there a small population of D'Bari 'in exile' living on other Shiar worlds, cursing Jean Grey's name? Is there a death-cult that worships entities like Galactus, the Celestials and the Phoenix, and considers their coming to be a holy cleansing that judges and culls worlds based on some divine criteria, and considers survivors (like any D'Bari or Skrull survivors of the destruction of their homeworlds) to be unholy abominations that must be cleansed? Sometimes when folks die, there's a 'psychic death-scream,' such as when Alderaan blowed up in Star Wars, was there one when D'Bari blew up, and did perhaps awaken someone far away to vast psychic powers, their head ringing with the last moments of fear, pain and confusion of eleventy billion asparagus people? And do they now want to find that woman they saw, wreathed in fire, laughing in their heads as they all died, and make her suffer?
So much left lying on the table.
Same with Wanda and the Decimation. Regardless of whether or not she *is* responsible or culpable or blame-able for what happened, what about the mutants affected? Surely there are some who hate her. Surely, and we've seen them many times in the past, there were mutants who *hated* their mutations, and open no longer being deformed freaks with no kewl superpowers, they could again have lives and jobs and lovers and families, and they might *thank* Wanda (which she'd find horribly awkward, since she doesn't really seem to think she was really responsible anyway...), or, worse, after the 'un-Decimation,' they might have *reverted* to being a smelly tentacled slime-freak that has to be kept damp or their skin cracks, and has the amazing mutant power to constantly drool copious amounts of paralyzing phlegm, and be furious that *once again* their entire life has been stolen away by this mutant crap, which *did not* give them supermodel good looks and the power to fly.
Yes, it was an ugly stupid story that ignored all previous continuity about how Wanda's powers worked, and used her as a deus ex machina. But it happened, and better writers have come along and kludgily tried to 'fix' it (that 'Life Force' thing). Now, moving forward, some actual *storytelling* could be salvaged from this pig's ear. There could be growth. Character development. Maybe some drama. Not just Wanda defensively saying, 'Why did there need to be so many mutants anyway?' or something, just, apparently, to make X-fans hate her even more.