Originally Posted by
gurkle
Most characters don't get due process, for reasons Reed Richards explained in the panel I posted earlier. The characters you mention are the exception to the general rule that super heroes never stand trial for the massive amounts of harm they cause, because "possession" is a get-out-of-jail-free card. (The reason everyone points to the weirdness of characters yelling at Scott Summers is precisely that it's such an unusual situation: 9 times out of 10, a hero who does something bad while possessed, Avenger or X-Man or whatever, never has to face any consequences for it.)
Besides, in Bendis's telling, the Avengers abandon one of their best friends and longtime members and give up on her as a hopeless nutcase; most of them never look for her and the only one who does, Hawkeye, just sleeps with her while she doesn't remember who she is. Billy and Simon in The Children's Crusade are the first characters to bring up the possibility that she might be innocent or at least wronged, 6+ years after Avengers Disassembled. That is - the way Bendis and the other writers characterize them - the exact opposite of coddling their own; that's the Avengers treating Wanda far worse than any X-Men have ever been treated by their own, including Scott.
Here's the thing though, and here's why I keep trying to understand the thinking of "Wanda Iz The Worst" fans: I don't hate the Avengers for the way they treated my favorite character. It's just a story by a writer, strung through some other stories by other writers. I know that because Cap would not stand up for Wanda in this story does not mean he is officially a man who does not stand up for his friends; I don't think Dr. Strange's "Wanda is crazy and has been crazy all along" speech characterizes his attitude toward her. I dislike them in the context of that story. Not in other stories where they're acting normal.
I don't get the idea that you can't separate a character from a story, and I don't understand why, if I don't hate characters for what they did to a character I like, some people are obsessed with the idea of this character being punished for stuff one writer made her do.