Scarlet Witch Appreciation Thread

[WallStreeter]

There absolutely is a reason. Because it still has him consider himself their father, while keeping the Maximoffs in place who actually raised the twins. And they likely don't want to do anymore retcons. Wanda is already on par with Donna Troy.

The Maximoffs are basically no name characters with no fan base. There’s really no commercial point to them. Magneto is one of the most popular X-Men. I’m pretty sure an official re retcon is coming as these decisions are purely corporate and commercial. Not personal.

[MaximoffTrash]

She completed a mutant power circuit. She is a mutant. They are saving the official change for a later date, probably in 2022’s Scarlet Witch series.

Why wasting time of her valuable issues on such a pointless matter lol. It's a freaking a tag and nothing more.

[MaximoffTrash]

The Maximoffs are basically no name characters with no fan base. There’s really no commercial point to them. Magneto is one of the most popular X-Men. I’m pretty sure an official re retcon is coming as these decisions are purely corporate and commercial. Not personal.

Lol, now you just resort to the classic "you are nothing" argument.
The Maximoffs don't need fans just like freaking Uncle Ben doesn't need fans, your reasoning is literally tortured logic, why a character need a famous relative when they get popular themselves anyway?
Pickup artist behavior but in a fandom.
De-value others and promp up your own.
Please, let us rot in peace.

[MaximoffTrash]

The entire world is not about what you like or don’t like personally. You don’t like things then you get bitter because you can’t control what other people like. And it gets ridiculous.

Dude you are just seething at this point.
You are literally accusing others of your own behavior, when what you predicted doesn't happen, you literally twist the whole situation around and claim it's true again. How many times have you posted about Wanda are totally being re-rectonned again when people are not even discussing this type of stuff? And when others give a objective reading about the ToM ending, you come along and say nahhhhh, it just means "not yet".
Like your average fandom fan theorist.

[WallStreeter]

Dude you are just seething at this point.
You are literally accusing others of your own behavior, when what you predicted doesn't happen, you literally twist the whole situation around and claim it's true again. How many times have you posted about Wanda are totally being re-rectonned again when people are not even discussing this type of stuff? And when others give a objective reading about the ToM ending, you come along and say nahhhhh, it just means "not yet".
Like your average fandom fan theorist.

I am not. These are characters I don’t own or control and with all the problems we have in the world to get worked up over this is just plain silly.

Obviously no one else here owns these characters or control them or else we wouldn’t be having this conversation.

[WallStreeter]

Dude you are just seething at this point.
You are literally accusing others of your own behavior, when what you predicted doesn't happen, you literally twist the whole situation around and claim it's true again. How many times have you posted about Wanda are totally being re-rectonned again when people are not even discussing this type of stuff? And when others give a objective reading about the ToM ending, you come along and say nahhhhh, it just means "not yet".
Like your average fandom fan theorist.

I’m not at all angry. I look at the current and upcoming events from a purely commercial sense and from that viewpoint Marvel is predictable because they are out to maximize profit.

They’re going to do what’s best for them. As well they should.

[GenericUsername]

The entire world is not about what you like or don’t like personally. You don’t like things then you get bitter because you can’t control what other people like. And it gets ridiculous.

I never said it was. It's also not about what you want in comics either.

[GenericUsername]

The Maximoffs are basically no name characters with no fan base. There’s really no commercial point to them. Magneto is one of the most popular X-Men. I’m pretty sure an official re retcon is coming as these decisions are purely corporate and commercial. Not personal.

Their parents don't have to have a fanbase to be valid. That's pretty shallow. They were the ones there for the twins through every retcon. Like it or not, they are their real family.

[GenericUsername]

I’m not at all angry.

Then why did you decide to get angry at me and insinuate something I never said?

[BobbysWorld]

Anyway, so how about that Wanda Maximoff, huh? Sure do like this character!

[WinterCoyote]

Anyway, so how about that Wanda Maximoff, huh? Sure do like this character!

Really fun to play as in X-Men Legends II!

[GenericUsername]

She's fun in MUA 3 too. Was fun in Marvel Heroes, but unfortunately that got shut down. Strike Force needs to buff her.

[WallStreeter]

Their parents don't have to have a fanbase to be valid. That's pretty shallow. They were the ones there for the twins through every retcon. Like it or not, they are their real family.

That’s not shallow. Their parents have no fan base means Marvel can’t make money off them. This isn’t about parenting. It’s about money. These are real people, these are fictional characters a corporation uses to make money. Wanda was rekindled to Magneto in order to increase sales since they can make more money off her as one of the X-Men’s most famous characters daughter, and ultimately once again as a mutant.

That’s all this is.

[BobbysWorld]

Really fun to play as in X-Men Legends II!

I've always thought that a good way to handle Wanda's powers in games or in other universes or runs where they want her to be less vaguely defined would be to have her have like a set repertoire of 'spells' that she could learn more of or add to as the comic progresses or you advance further in gameplay.....like essentially, they're just her using her chaos magic or probability hex powers to unlock specific effects, and the spells are essentially just mnemonic devices she uses with set gestures and words specific to her. Like, any time she achieves a specific 'impossibility' she sorta copy/saves the mindset she was in when shaping reality in that specific way and pairing it or 'keying it' to a combo of gestures and words that allow her to duplicate or call upon that effect as needed.

And writers could easily make it just a chaos magic thing or say that she's a mutant and her mutant power is channeling chaotic impossibilities, and either way, there's not really precedent for what she does (I mean, in the Marvel Universe she was basically one of the first actual practitioners of chaos magic with Dr. Strange even thinking it didn't exist before her), so the point of it is more that like.....it gives her a more streamlined way of being written using her powers that doesn't really limit her power-wise because her spells can be as powerful as any given writer wants her to be. But it also pays homage to the fact that there's really no one like her or any precedent for what she does because she doesn't so much LEARN spells from other magic users or tomes, but rather she's essentially INVENTING her own spells, and building her own grimoire of reality altering chaos/possibility spells as she builds her repertoire one feat at a time, contriving a way to 'remember' each feat and code it to a spell of her own making that lets her repeat it later down the line.

[GenericUsername]

That’s not shallow. Their parents have no fan base means Marvel can’t make money off them. This isn’t about parenting. It’s about money. These are real people, these are fictional characters a corporation uses to make money. Wanda was rekindled to Magneto in order to increase sales since they can make more money off her as one of the X-Men’s most famous characters daughter, and ultimately once again as a mutant.

That’s all this is.

It is shallow. When you consider popularity more important than the character getting actual parental guidance and support. Yes, that is very shallow. It's all about celebrity at that point. Wanda doesn't need Magneto to sell more. She does that on her own.