Thanks for your comments, Wiccan and Cubbyboo. A lot for me to think about.
Thanks for your comments, Wiccan and Cubbyboo. A lot for me to think about.
A reminder for the next few weeks.
I don't know if she'll be the only one. At some point they'll likely reboot everything.
People know that her being Romani was established in the 70s. She didn't really have anything said about her ethnicity before then though.
I don't think people are trying to tear down the character. A lot of them seem genuinely fans of the character, just not of the MCU portrayal. I was ok with the MCU portrayal, until they ruined the character like in comics. And I was ok because I know they are never gonna cast Romani actors to play Romani people. There's only one example I can think of where they actually did that in all the decades of cinema and TV. Hollywood just loves their white actors too much. But I did like that it brought comics Wanda some popularity. It's good that the comics aren't ignoring her ethnicity either.
I don't think the MCU version is coming back. It's just been quiet for too long. And all the scoops talking about Avengers 4 and stuff don't seem to mention her at all. Olsen seems to have moved on.
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Love is for souls, not bodies.
I just want a high production value Avengers animation with Wanda as a one of the main characters, preferably a brand new one with an overreaching arc of "rookie to veteran Avenger" for her. (Continuing EMH would be nice but I don't want Wanda to be a later addition and an afterthought.) Hopefully things like X-Men 97 and Invincible revived the market enough.
MCU style live action universe takes forever to see some characters again, and MCU Wanda feels like a logistical nightmare to use again. I do think there are ways to efficiently and coherently continue her arc, but that won't the path Disney/Marvel would choose.
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I am surprised that they haven't done another Avengers cartoon yet.
Love is for souls, not bodies.
At this point do we think they'll ever restore the twins as mutants and the children of Magneto?
They effectively have ignored the retcon in most mega used games that aren’t pure MCU tie ins. They are probably going to include them in their current animated X-Men series for an ep or two at least as his kids. And, they are more then happy selling family trades and omnis making a mint.
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Once they ended ban on them interacting in the comics after the Fox buy out it was only a matter of time. The hold up is due to Marvel wanting their MCU backstory for Wanda and their comic backstory to entirely line up. I think they are thinking about a new backstory for MCU Wanda that connects her to mutantdom.
They just haven’t settled on what exactly it’s going to be as yet and that has created a continuity limbo which has mildly held back Wanda and majorly held back Pietro. The whole the MCU decides comic canon notion holds back the comic storytelling in general.
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I care more about them being restored as mutants than children of Magneto -- them being mutants was a part of their history from the very beginning, and it's also an important part of Avengers history that those were their two longest-serving mutant members.
Unfortunately while the comics now treat them as Magneto's children in all but biology (which is better than doing yet another parental retcon) they don't treat them as mutants. Maybe that will change now that Brevoort, who also had Franklin Richards retconned into a non-mutant, is over on the mutant side of things. But probably not.
I won't mind them being mutants again, especially as it is easy to retcon it back. Them Magento's kid, I hope never gets undone. It never benefited Wanda.
It feels like they are waiting on a shoe to drop before banking in on the family angle among the general public. I am talking outside of comic fans and casual readers whose wallets they have been tapping.
That shoe might be TAS97 dealing with it or something else. I am fairly sure they will be dealing with it on TAS97 and Marvel is going to do something for next year in the comics which is the HoM’s 20th. Not sure what yet. Given they are employing Christos Gage again it might just be another mini or something else entirely.
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I still feel like being a mutant only matters much to Pietro. Wanda already has a source for her powers.
Love is for souls, not bodies.