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Well, I don't think she looks very good here zapping Jean Grey into the ground as usual. (It's X-Men Forever, so no one cares what happens there, but Wanda always beats Jean in every continuity for some reason.)
Scarlet Witch fanatics know that if she is portrayed as a murderer or self-hating mutant it's a writing mistake, and so in House of M we are free to enjoy the awesome Coipel art, knowing that she's not a murderer no matter what the writer says.
The saddest thing about her absence from comics is that so many artists love to draw her but rarely get the chance. Coipel, Cheung... they really need to get more Wanda assignments.
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Agree with all that. There's no substitute for an arc. Quicksilver barely did anything to atone for what he did in HoM and the even worse things he did in Son of M, but because he was in comics, we got to see him transition back to being a hero and it felt like he'd made a journey back, even though technically he got away with everything.
If Children's Crusade had been done earlier as planned, and Wanda had spent some time on the Avengers or in an ongoing X-Book before AvX started, I think her transition back would have been much smoother. Instead Crusade ended just as it was time for AvX to star.
Beauty = goodness is a thing. I mean in the original Brotherhood, the actual evil characters were all ugly and Wanda and Pietro were pretty and therefore not evil. Magneto started to be drawn handsomer around the time Claremont decided he wasn't a bad guy.
This may explain why every time writers try to turn Pietro bad, they have the artists draw him ugly.
Could the mutant population, at least, shave her head bald for her crimes.
I’m sure Wanda would think it’s brutal torture.
Or better yet, since she’s a scarlet witch, put a scarlet letter on her. Do the M-tattoo that Bishop, Layla and Madrox have over her own face.
She was in limbo for what like 7 years which was a long time by comic standards. Marvel missed the oppurtunity to kill her off in HoM or had her imprisoned during this time bc they werent really using her much anyway
My impression was that Children's Crusade, which had been in the works before House of M happened, was supposed to start with Wanda living in her home country as someone who may or may not have lost her memory. And when the story got delayed, instead of using her for something else, they just kept her on ice, so the few times she was seen, it was always exactly the way she looked/lived at the end of HoM.
I give credit to Children's Crusade though that it actually referenced the stories where Hawkeye and Beast met her, and it didn't shy away from mentioning post-HoM X-Men stories about mutants who died because their powers were lost. Say what you will about the story making the X-Men look bad (and it's true, Scott in particular was way out of character), it's the only story that tried to really grapple with what Wanda had done and what the fallout would be.
I dug it....I actually lliked the point in Nocturnes Exiles when she was rocking the braids and 'thinking of herself as a colored person'
lol reeeeedic
lol cracked me effin up
Right!!
ooooh do tell.,,
agreed
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