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8/4/2025, 3:16:06 AM
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>>149684402
Wanda married The Vision, an android, and they had a family because of her magic powers. John Byrne hated this, and had an autistic hateboner for Vision in general, and just wrecked Wanda as a side effect of destroying Vision and the kids. Most other people at Marvel afterwards seemed to agree with Byrne or just not care about Wanda or Vision enough to want to fix things, and the few writers that did care never stayed long enough to do it, but nobody really seemed to specifically hate Wanda back then,
It's Bendis and House of M that are to blame for people hating Wanda. It was the first time she had a big role in something outside of Avengers, and that big role is being a plot device who de-powers 99% of the mutants (early 2000s comics had suddenly increased the number of mutants from a few thousand to millions of them everywhere, and Marvel editorial wanted to roll things back). The books kept portraying this as genocide and a hate crime, and though the story intends to portray Wanda as a tragic figure whose powers had driven her insane, the fan narrative became that she was just an evil psychopath who could never be redeemed. The absolute state of the people employed by Marvel meant they had writers and editors who were blaming the character for the thing their own writers and editors had her do, and holding a grudge against her for it.
And then we got people projecting their grudge against comic Wanda onto the MCU version, and Marvel refusing to do anything with Wanda when she started getting popular in the MCU, then WandaVision being the first MCU thing where there was no synergy comic, then her next appearance was getting killed in an X-Men story. Even though she came back quickly, it was aggressively petty.
>>149684402
Wanda married The Vision, an android, and they had a family because of her magic powers. John Byrne hated this, and had an autistic hateboner for Vision in general, and just wrecked Wanda as a side effect of destroying Vision and the kids. Most other people at Marvel afterwards seemed to agree with Byrne or just not care about Wanda or Vision enough to want to fix things, and the few writers that did care never stayed long enough to do it, but nobody really seemed to specifically hate Wanda back then,
It's Bendis and House of M that are to blame for people hating Wanda. It was the first time she had a big role in something outside of Avengers, and that big role is being a plot device who de-powers 99% of the mutants (early 2000s comics had suddenly increased the number of mutants from a few thousand to millions of them everywhere, and Marvel editorial wanted to roll things back). The books kept portraying this as genocide and a hate crime, and though the story intends to portray Wanda as a tragic figure whose powers had driven her insane, the fan narrative became that she was just an evil psychopath who could never be redeemed. The absolute state of the people employed by Marvel meant they had writers and editors who were blaming the character for the thing their own writers and editors had her do, and holding a grudge against her for it.
And then we got people projecting their grudge against comic Wanda onto the MCU version, and Marvel refusing to do anything with Wanda when she started getting popular in the MCU, then WandaVision being the first MCU thing where there was no synergy comic, then her next appearance was getting killed in an X-Men story. Even though she came back quickly, it was aggressively petty.
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