>>150001021
>Hence why people care about Scarlett Witch, but couldn't give two fucks about Vision, for example.
To be fair, Vision used to be a popular character in the 70s and 80s. It took a lot of time and a lot of effort on Marvel's part to intentionally try and make Avengers readers stop liking him, largely for shipper reasons of writers or editors just wanting to make Wanda into some other guy's love interest.
The MCU made both characters more well-known than ever, and basically just relegated Vision to the role of being Wanda's love interest, while she's the breakout star. Being the less popular half of a pairing is still fine for him so long as people remember that both characters work better as half of that specific pairing, and so long as nobody wants to split them up to do something new and stupid.
Cloak & Dagger wasn't a romantic pairing originally, but the same principle still applies. Dagger may be the more popular one, but the two halves of the whole function best together, not when separated, nor when one half is paired with someone else, you can't just replace a dynamic that works with some other rando the current writer likes better, even if that other rando is a bigger name character in their own right.
