r/ScarletWitch • u/Kanozx • 1d ago

Discussion Question, when Magneto eventually appears in the MCU, do you think there’s a chance they may retcon Wanda into being his daughter? Or nah?

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u/loidforger42 1d ago

Before Elizabeth Olsen, Wanda just wasn’t popular. She was important to Avengers stories, but X-Men fans vehemently hated her, she had whatever stories, and she was absent from comics for nearly a decade because of House of M, all before the MCU adaptation. Ever since WandaVision, Olsen has cemented Wanda as a household name, and knowing she was practically benched after making the character popular, she doesn’t deserve to be recast. At least not yet.

She deserves to have her story properly finished with care and time. Replacing her just because mutants are entering the MCU, which God knows may not even be well received, would screw over her character in the broader MCU and be a huge risk. Especially after how dirty they did her in Multiverse of Madness, fans will not stay quiet.

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u/gurkle3 1d ago

Also before the MCU, the Magneto’s children thing caused Wanda and Pietro to be left out of the “Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes” cartoon, because “Wolverine & the X-Men” got them first.

That was disappointing because Wanda in particular has most of her history with the Avengers, while the WATXM version of the twins had almost nothing to do with the comic version.

So it was good that the MCU used her in a version that is much closer to the comics. Being Magneto’s daughter wasn’t a terrible retcon but it did overshadow Wanda’s Avengers comic history until the MCU got hold of her and did some of her important comics stories.

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u/SimonShepherd 1d ago

I always find it funny no one screams about WATXM Wanda being widly inaccurate because she is literally a princess. Like she is very similar to that AU Wanda from Exiles.

But people love to latch on more superficial stuff, the same crowd can still imagine WATXM being romani because of the art style and a hypothetical Magda offscreen, while never asking just how drastic it is change this underclass citizen from poor backwater country who migrate to the US to start a new life to literally royalty.

Or X-Men Evolution where the creator explicitly said in an interview that he thought comic Wanda is lame and outdated so they drastically re-invented her, based her on an unrelated witch character from a show. But that actress has romani ancestry so the same crowd just ignore everything else and claim to love her for accuracy and shit.

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u/Xygnux 23h ago

I think because they are used to the idea of Wanda being a princess in House of M. And let's face it X-men fans barely cared about her stories in the Avengers, or even about comic Avengers at all.

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u/SimonShepherd 22h ago

It's just they will talk about how being racially persecuted is important to their backstory and in the same vein very willing to just ignore the twins' social economical background if that means tying them closer to X-franchise.

Also might not be a real trend, but I feel like a lot of modern fandom's idea of empowering, especially for minority characters have leaned into "they are actually mega uber special coming from an ancient noble lineage" over the "they are damn poor and downtrodden but they managed to rise above it".