Now I think the MCU has actually done a decent job at walking that fine line. I mean she got an entire show dedicated to exploring her character. It's just that honestly she needs to be in the right environment going forward. In the comics and the MCU.
If we are honest worldly threats are not really a threat to her at this point. An entire group of armed thugs is a decent workout for someone like Cap or Black Widow but Wanda will just put everyone to sleep or something like that just like in that scene against the Bank robbers in her solo book.
I think that's why MoM is actually a very good move. In that kind of environment her powers can't overshadow her character anymore because they are not this overbearing thing anymore but are just adequate to survive and have a fighting chance against the threat at hand. I feel in anything lower there there will always have to be an excuse why she doesn't just cleans house or she will be the plot device to resolve everything at the end. Marvel has this running with Dr Strange already who mostly doesn't concern himself with more trivial threats and keeps bigger stuff at bay that most other heroes are not able to handle. Wanda moving in a similar direction is probably a solution if you don't want her power to overshadow her character. I think her solo book got that right already. It just needs to be consistent.
I don't think Wanda really has a problem with being too powerful. She's as powerful as the writers care to make her. Even in her show, her powers were limited to one town and the constructs she created couldn't survive out of a limited space. The "leaks" for MoM have her suddenly being extra powerful as all characters are when they turn evil/possessed; when characters are themselves, writers just find reasons why they can't fix everything.
The problem with Wanda is the comics won't use her and we still don't know how the MCU is planning to use her. But her powers are so poorly-defined that all a writer has to do is come up with plausible explanations for why she can't do something. In the MCU especially since she doesn't fully understand what she can do. But even in the comics, she's never been too powerful to use as part of a team because her power levels have never been (or should be) consistent. Even Billy, who is probably more consistently OP, has been on teams, so Wanda wouldn't have a problem if Marvel cared to use her. Which they don't.
Can they for once actually introduce her with the majority of her contents instead of "uwu she is like Mag, daddy's girl", his influence on her is mainly just being a shitty ex-boss.
And seriously? Since when is Mag the poster boy of "idealism"? I thought the whole premise of early Magneto/Xavier conflict is Mag being more of a pragmatist. Did they literally just imagined how her character should be?
If anything she is the kind who see the humanity in everyone, but not really someone "who fight against all kinds of persecution" she surely would be against them like most superheroes, but it's not her main theme or story elements.
That sounds like editorial bias, either against Wanda in particular, or females in general lol.
If his previous posts are any hint, he'll pick up the convoluted stuff and use them to explain stuff lol.
I know 616 Xavier is a piece of **** but, aside from that random crush on Jean, which even Onslaught points out he repressed, I didn't know about him molesting children, when did that happen?
Why are you leaking the next Kingdom Hearts' plot? .
Stuff like that is partially why I don't care too much about feats, unless we get ridiculous stuff like that time Spidey defeated Firelord, 'cause I still want power separations to be a thing, otherwise if a weak scrub like Spidey manages to defeat someone as powerful as Firelord easily, then power separation means nothing.
But yeah fans can have these problems where they look at feats and not characters, if we're going to look only at feats, then the best character at Marvel is pre-retcon Beyonder, considering how casually he used to outclass everything.
And that's honestly the thing, making strong characters is very easy, anyone could create some crap character who can outclass pre-retcon Beyonder, TOAA or living tribunal, making them interesting, that's hard, making them strong and interesting, that's even harder.
This is such a fucking terrible mix man, Bendis, the guy who doesn't care about continuity besides his own stuff and random **** he read, taking notes from Byrne, the guy who doesn't care about continuity besides his own stuff and random **** he read...
I think we can say it's a miracle Wanda was salvageable at all after HoM if we think like this, even if it still took too damn long for Marvel to actually fix her.
The article failing to mention Wanda telling Magneto off about the way he goes about things. It's the biggest problem about that relationship being glorified. People forget the actual canon in exchange for some heavy romanticization. And sometimes just make stuff up.
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During her hex moments sometimes she did crazy things or sometimes it backfired in some stupid way, she was powerful as the writer wanted but limited her in other aspects, im kinda glad she moved to the magic witch route.
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I never liked the chance of her powers backfiring thing. It made more sense when she was a novice, but some writers still include it despite her having honed her powers in training. And it just reduces any progression for the character.
Chaos magic to me isn't difficult to understand. It's just the umbrella for everything she was able to do before. Her hexes are still there. Hex orbs, energy projections, reality warping, etc. It's just writers need to remember her taking up traditional magic to control her powers. Bendis wasn't the one to give her reality warping either. That happened before that, during Busiek's stuff. He had the limit that she had to be tapping into something. Where Bendis just had her go out of control. Then Marvel corrected it later as her tapping into the Life Force.
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While I'm glad that it left Wanda in a better position. I wish it had produced some results yet. We are still in the position of waiting for months for her next possible appearance. I hope there ends up being something in May (the month Strange 2 is released), but I also won't hold my breath. They just really haven't been good at promoting Wanda in comics to coordinate with her MCU popularity.
Love is for souls, not bodies.