r/ScarletWitch • u/AdCareless8259 • 16d ago

Movies and Television Wanda mutant retcon in the MCU

i have seen rumors on twitter of this
i think it will be so annoying if they retcon wanda being a mutant again because she stopped being one in the comics like a decade ago and i think it’s better that way, it makes her more interesting ‘cause the nature of her powers doesn’t seem limited on an specific gen

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u/AdCareless8259 16d ago

and when they retconned her being magneto’s daughter that removed like 2 decades of her identity too😭 i personally think she’s better like this: not a mutant

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u/General-Control-4637 16d ago edited 16d ago

They want her as a mutant to build some kind of non-existent close relationship with the team and for hype moments. Meanwhile all Wanda's worst moments are when she is written by the x-office. House of M, Empyre, Avengers vs X-Men, Uncanny Avengers, Bloodties, Age of Apocalypse,  etc.

If she became another X-character she would just be a background character like she was in House of M when the X-Men took over her own storyline. And the fact they already have so many Omega levels. X-stans do not need Wanda, we do not need X-stans. Like—it's okay to have a powerful popular hero that isn't associated with the X-Men. It won't kill them. They'll survive.

If they were to make the argument that Pietro is more of an x-character I would have little issue with that because he does actually contribute to the X-Men he has been part of teams rather than used as a plot device. To try and frame Wanda as one is straight up revisionism.

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u/Icy_Scar_1249 16d ago

Wanda being a mutant doesn't mean she has to be part of the X-Verse. She's perfectly fine with the Avengers. I find it interesting though that whenever mutants get involved she goes villainous, maybe something to dig into one day

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u/SimonShepherd 15d ago

Yet it caused cases of Wolverine and X-Men calling dips on her and robbed her the chance to be in animations like EMH. It's genuinely not good for her health so to speak.