Tbh when I first encountered her I didn't understand how exactly her powers worked.
Tbh when I first encountered her I didn't understand how exactly her powers worked.
I honestly understood her powers more when she just had the mutant "hex" power than the rules of magic in Marvel in general.
I recently reread Bendis's "New Avengers" run where he proudly stated that he was "rewriting how magic operates in the MU" and I am still confused on what he actually did.
Outside of some crazy fonts in the corner of the panel reading "Book of Vishanti, page 121" whenever Dr. Strange or Voodoo cast a spell I didn't see any actual explanation as to how magic now worked. Still seemed as random as ever.
"The White Queen welcomes you, TO DIE!"
Love is for souls, not bodies.
"By Earth and Sky, By Craft and Hex -- By The Past and The Future – I Call HOPE Forth From The DARKNESS! I Speak The Words We Made Into MAGIC! Let THEIR Power Augment Our OWN! To Strike ONE BLOW From Our HEARTS and SOULS – From ALL THAT WE ARE! Let The CALL Go Forth -- AVENGERS! ASSEMBLE!" Scarlet Witch/Wanda Maximoff ~~ From Avengers #689!
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Calling Wanda the MCU Jean grey is like calling Sam the MCU Warren Worthington III
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.
Personally I'd say Wanda is way more entertaining than Jean, but that's subjective