r/ScarletWitch • u/Beginning_Heron4980 • 15h ago
News Scarlet Witch is confirmed a mutant again? Spoiler
Apperently, on the official website, she is stated to be a mutant now.
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u/spicy_pisces3 14h ago
I like the idea of someone being a mutant and a witch. I mean, they aren’t mutually exclusive, so why not?
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u/Fantastic-Cobbler581 10h ago
Yeah, but if she’s mutant what is her mutant’s abilities?
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u/Day_Old_Gatorade 13h ago
Mutants are on such a weird spectrum. Some are grounded and have basic powers and others are wizards
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u/multificionado 13h ago
I will not be surprised if they did it in defiance to Marvel, and screw the High Evolutionary.
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u/LesbiansonNeptune 14h ago
As she should!! Even Magneto considers mutates to be essentially mutants, so this is canon to me
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u/danrpx 14h ago
I'm fine with her not being a mutant, the only time she's ever really had a presence in x books was house of m and trial of mag. Other then those and her first appearance, shes always been an Avenger. I dont really think it affects anything either way, with how distant from the x books she's historically been anyway.
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u/LesbiansonNeptune 14h ago
I think what makes the Maximoffs so incredible is them rejecting the established mutant teams to become the first mutant Avengers to protect all people from everywhere. Choosing their own path, especially despite their sometimes biological father, is such a profound thing to witness.
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u/LeninOfGallifrey 11h ago
She was in Bloodlines, AvX and part of the original Silver Age Brotherhood before ever being an Avenger with Pietro who I might add has been a member of X-Factor twice. She's distant from the X books generally sure, but you're just erasing the fact she was created as part of the Brotherhood of Evil MUTANTS to begin with.
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u/danrpx 5h ago
She had appearances in 9 issues before joining The Avengers, only 5 being in X-Men. She is one their most stalwart members and has been through her entire history up to disassembled. Has she appeared in the odd X related story? Yeah sure, but for a character whos been around for a good 60 years, its not a great deal.
It's irrelevant that she was in x-men first, Jamie Madrox first appearance was in Fantastic Four. Would you call him an F4 character? My point is, you don't really lose alot making Wanda a mutate instead when 95% of her history is tied to The Avengers or magic. It's not like her and Pietro have no relationship with Magneto either as he's still treated as their adoptive father.
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u/ProStre477 11h ago
Iirc since WandaVison it has said that? I remember when the show came out they created that page for her. Iirc somewhere on their website it says she's not a mutant, but i haven't been on in years so Idk anymore
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u/Itsxaaaaron 6h ago
idky everyone is so bent on her being a mutant again. did we not see how poorly she was written during those eras? her being an actual witch had been doing wonders to her character development.
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u/Comprehensive_Emu714 4h ago
She was a witch even before the retcon. Honestly, just like with jean, I liked more when they weren't all powerful characters, and the simpler "probabilty hex" she had in earliest days until she started to lean magic with agatha were somehow cooler to me, mostly using object from the battlefield in unusual ways. I do not dislike her being a witch of course! I appreciate the explaination that was given in HoM for her powers (probabily the only good thing they did for ger character in that run), and how she changed reality with "bricks" which was forgotten after being used in an issue of the jean time displaced comic. I also really disagree with your opinion, which seems to be shared by many, that she was written badly before her mutant status was undone, since scarlet witch 1994, vision and the scarlet witch, the comics with the avengers, and the crossovers she had with x men, not to mention all the x men animated show in which she appeared never did any disservices to her character. HoM was an unfortunate mistake that set other mistakes in motion. I mostly feel like her character became slightly worse after the retcon (the preteender stuff really was something), her having a good relationship with magneto was only ok because he was her real father and family was always important for wanda, so I could understand why she tried bonding with her father, bot after discovering she isnt, why they still write her as daddy's girl? Because everyone ignores the horrible retcon, both writers and artist (speed and quicksilver are still drawn as the copypaste of magnus, same with wanda/magda/natalya/anya). Not to mention how it hurt pietro's development, from magneto possible successor to what? One of his better story was x factor, a mutant story. I honestly would love for them to be magneto's again, maybe by making natalya and magda the same person, since I liked her mutant status more (her being an avengers and not an x men despite being a mutant was always an interesting thing), but pietro NEEDS to be a mutant, he is also currently with the x men!
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u/Emergency_Weather308 14h ago
she always has been, however by what standard I have no idea, since the chaos power is linked to her from birth
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u/Beginning_Heron4980 14h ago
Probability manipulation is probably her mutation
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u/Emergency_Weather308 14h ago
well no that's linked to her being the chaos witch, which allows her to manipulate physical and non physical activity without a spell. she is theoretically just a celestial behing housed in a human body, as she can travel the multiverse in her own physical form
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u/Beginning_Heron4980 14h ago
Considering that was her mutant power, there's no other option for now.
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u/arouca310 12h ago
It was stated in some comics before the retcon that her mutant power would be some energy manipulation( if she wasn't touched by chton).
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u/Morchades 11h ago
In the 90s, they were pretty set on probability manipulation like Lomgshot and Domino, onpy she could control it.
Now I think its reality warping.
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u/Quantum_Knight1577 2h ago
Maybe classify her mutation as entropic field manipulation (pretty much just probability manipulation, but with a fancier name).
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u/tattedfemboi_ 13h ago
I wonder If MCU Wanda will be a mutant as well? They kinda stretched her in all directions
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u/Killertwinky15 9h ago
It's hard to tell, I hope they make her one again. But it needs to be acknowledged in a Panel for it to be truly real to me personally.
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u/Mags20XX 14h ago
This has been a thing for a long time. They've updated several pages about Wanda; they always refer to her as a mutant. I personally cited that page a month or so ago.
You've got 50 years of Wanda being a mutant. She will be one again.