Quote Originally Posted by gurkle View Post
Rosa, most of us have read the story, but what's your point? You're not going to convince anyone who likes the character to stop liking her, and that story has not only been retconned a lot, it was retconned within the story.

That is, it starts off saying that Wanda's kids are figments of her imagination, but then reveals that they were actually pieces of Mephisto's soul, and the reason the children disappeared when she wasn't thinking about them is that her pregnancy spell went wrong. The idea that the character was so baby-crazy she imagined she had children by a robot isn't even backed up within this story, let alone anyone else's.

Not that I blame John Byrne for wanting to get rid of Wanda and Vision's kids, by the way. There was always something creepy about the two of them having children through magic, and especially Steve Englehart's insistence that this "proved" Vision was human (when in fact the reason they had to resort to magic is that he's not, at least physically, human). And super hero couples probably shouldn't have kids anyway. Unfortunately people who don't read closely - let's call them Ryan Rendis - got the impression that this was the story of a baby-crazy witch-bitch who imagined she got pregnant by a robot, when that's not what happens in the story, it's not what happens in Englehart's story, it's not what happens in any story. A lot of weird stuff can happen when people write comics based on their vague memories of other comics...
Or choose to ignore it.