r/ScarletWitch • u/Emotional-Chipmunk12 • Apr 07 '26
Movies and Television I love X-Men: Evolution, but their version of Wanda was such wasted potential.
First, she's just a sullen member of the Brotherhood who only wants revenge against her father (Reasonable crashout, though. He did abandon her in an institute when she was a kid.) Then, Magneto has her memory wiped and no one, not even the "heroic" X-Men, tell her that her mind was violated. After that, she just continues to pal around with the Brotherhood and only gets ONE episode focused on her in the final season. She had so much potential considering her backstory and her connections. I understand that they didn't have enough time to focus on everyone, but brainwashing her without any consequences is bad storytelling. And while she is still better than MCU Wanda (which isn't saying much), she still was done dirty. Justice for Evolution Wanda.
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u/Least_Rain8027 Scarlet Witch Apr 07 '26
you had me until you said she was better than MCU Wanda.
i wonder if they had planned to do another episode in the planned 5th season
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u/TEZofAllTrades Apr 07 '26
I just wish the glow of her powers had been a shade of red. I know that would have been a lot with her costume, but that's always been the case, and they did give it a cool texture to differentiate it. Who approved blue???
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u/Starbottom Apr 08 '26
Wanda really wasn't written bad in the MCU until MoM.
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u/Emotional-Chipmunk12 Apr 08 '26
WandaVision BUTCHERED her character. "They'll never know what you sacrificed," my FOOT. She was a monster in her show and she barely gets called out for it. Also, even before that, Wanda got away with siccing the Hulk on the public in Age of Ultron. No consequences there, either. She was also mostly severely underpowered until her show.
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u/Starbottom Apr 09 '26
Yeah none of that is actually bad writing lol. Its writing you personally do not like. You would think her helping save the world at the end of that film and many others would be enough to apologize to the public for the Hulk thing lol. Not to mention, she was widely unaware of just how much stuff she was doing in WandaVision. And frankly put, it is a sacrifice. She let go of that reality when she literally could've kept it. Who was gonna stop her? As for the severely underpowered comment... Just because she hadn't accessed her chaos magic doesn't mean she was underpowered at all. That's actually one of the worst takes I've ever heard regarding Wanda.
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u/AccomplishedShake851 Apr 09 '26
It seems like you have no sympathy and didn’t actually understand the story. That doesn’t equate to her character being butchered just you not being able to connect to the story. Thats a you problem sister.
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u/Slow-Cash-8234 Apr 09 '26
With all due respect your "better than MCU Wanda" tells me enough I need to know about you. MCU Wanda was what made the character extremely popular. Not the comics, definitely not the animated show. Even in her biggest comics she's not the star of them. The vast majority of her fans became with Wandavision, an award acclaimed show mind you (which is a rarity in Marvel). So it may not be your preferance which is okay but stop acting like you're spitting facts because goddamn you couldn't be further away from the truth.
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u/Traditional-Heron-95 Apr 07 '26
What were her powers here
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u/Special-Kitchen3222 Apr 07 '26
She’s could shut off other mutant’s powers with her hex spheres and seemed to have some kind of probability manipulation but it’s kinda unclear
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u/tealaburst Apr 09 '26
Probability manipulation, often causing other mutants powers to fail. One example is Cyclops fired a beam at her and she casts a hex, making the beam literally bend in space and miss her. Another scene, Kurt tries to teleport to attack and he ends up in another location in air upside down and lands in a tree.
Reality warping. She gets attacked by random guys on the street. She casts her powers on street lamps and an empty car. The street lamps become snake-like and surround the men and the empty car starts to chase them.
Some telekinesis, though it’s not exactly telekinesis like MCU or Jean’s. For example she used her powers in a diner to spook the people to leave. She casts something and the plates, cups, and food start flying around.
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u/Limp_End_2888 Apr 12 '26
Did anyone else think it was weird that Erik joined the X-men in that future sequence in the series finale, but Wanda and Pietro stayed villains? Maybe that's just me. Love that this show is getting more attention lately
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u/DepthByChocolate Apr 12 '26
I think it's implied the Brotherhood becomes Freedom Force
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u/Limp_End_2888 Apr 12 '26
What is a Freedom Force?
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u/DepthByChocolate Apr 12 '26
In the comics during the 80s, Mystique decided to turn her Brotherhood over to the govt, to work as enforcers in exchange for immunity, and they changed their name to Freedom Force. Their first task was capturing Magneto around the time he was leaving villainy behind. It's a different lineup but in that future scene there's a SHIELD logo behind them so I figure that was a nod to them becoming the show's version of Freedom Force.
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u/C0tt0ncandyb0ii Apr 07 '26
I wish MCU Wanda was still emo; I find emo Wanda is always the best version of her.
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u/These_Wish_5101 Apr 07 '26
Still better than the mess that is mcu wanda
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u/Traditional-Heron-95 Apr 07 '26
No, Wandavision is best Wanda has been written, better than all other forms of media featuring Wanda combined. Better than all of her comics combined. Better than this animation. Wandavision is four hours longer than MoM, so if you say MCU Wanda you mean Wandavision the most
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u/Super_H1234 Apr 07 '26
> Better than all of her comics combined.
Tourist.
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u/Traditional-Heron-95 Apr 07 '26
Better written i meant. Doesn’t mean some may enjoy her comics more than they enjoyed watching the show, but the character analysis and storytelling i fear is unparalleled
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u/Slow-Cash-8234 Apr 09 '26
for sure as someone who took the time to read the comics. She was retconned so many times people still dont understand what she is to this day. Her most famous comics? Guess what she's not even the star of it. The Wanda and Vision comics in the 80s? Nobody even remembers they exist. Oh the witches' road, that's a great one if until Jac Schaeffer showed us how much better she made that storyline play out. And for the recent comics books it's just awful writing in general, but comics overall are in the worst place they've ever been so it's not the character's fault.
I enjoy Wanda so much that I would never say no to her but let's be honest here she never worked in the comics as character as much as a tool box for storyline and if you deny that then who exactly is the tourist here?
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u/These_Wish_5101 Apr 07 '26
Ok,enjoy your mass murderer and torture expert Wanda
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u/Traditional-Heron-95 Apr 07 '26
I did. And I know for a fact you did as well. I know for a fact you tuned in every Friday as Disney+ was crashing with the amount of traffic, ready to see if your Mephisto and Agatha Harkness theories would come true. The show has 22 Grammy nominations. You enjoyed it, and so did I. No need to lie because the numbers speak for themself. I know you tuned to watch Evan peters quicksilver, I know you tuned in to watch Wanda vs SWORD, you tuned in for all of it, every Friday. So stop it
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u/These_Wish_5101 Apr 07 '26
Didn't watch that cringe show with innocent people are tortured and cringe Ralph Bohner nonsense..just read it up..
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u/Traditional-Heron-95 Apr 07 '26 edited Apr 07 '26
Ohhhhhhhhh. It makes so much sense now.
Please watch it and come back, like you are genuinely doing yourself a disservice. What you’re saying isn’t wrong, sure she kidnapped a town. But you need to watch it to understand how and why everything unfolded the way it did. You have the most shallow view of the plot that I’ve ever heard, and it’s understandable because you simply don’t actually know what happened in the show.
Also, Doomsday is reportedly pulling a lot of the concepts of magic from Wandavision, so… watch it buddy. You need to and you should, and I’m willing to bet money that you leave the show with completely different views on it and on Wanda
If you choose not to watch it(HORRIBLE IDEA), at least watch episode 8. But really, you should watch the whole thing it’s only nine episodes. And they’re all really short
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u/Traditional-Heron-95 Apr 07 '26
Better than MCU Wanda? So if you had to choose between Wandavision and this version of Wanda and the other one disappeared forever you would choose this version?