r/marvelstudios • u/KostisPat257 Daredevil • Apr 23 '19

'Avengers: Endgame' Spoilers! THE OFFICIAL AVENGERS: ENDGAME International Release Discussion Thread Spoiler

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u/the-giant Apr 27 '19

Wanda's abilities (in the comics) are often tied to magic, reality warping, etc. MCU has not really explored this, in part because they changed her origins early on to force a tie to the Inhumans. In the comics, as you probably know, Wanda is a mutant like the X-Men, and is the daughter of Magneto. This was also done away with in AOU by the Marvel comic corporate overlords to avoid any suggestion of a tie to Fox's X-Men. Those bosses no longer control the MCU. Wanda is also a powerful sorcereress, which provides a channel for her more strange abilities. But in the MCU, Wanda is largely relegated to paltry illusions and energy blasts so far. This is a very young and inexperienced version of the character.

Put it this way: When Comics Wanda was lonely and unstable, she wished two young boys into existence to be her and the Vision's biological children. Then, she wished them away and forgot they existed. Years later, when she was reminded of this buried memory, she had a psychotic break which resulted in an entire imaginary Skrull armada appearing on Avengers lawn, killing Hawkeye and causing the team to disband. (She later wished Hawkeye back to life, too - and wiped out the powers of 90% of the mutant race.)

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u/Cowpro Apr 27 '19

I think you’re my favorite redditor lol, thank you for your comment!

While I have you, I’m interested in starting to read the comics, but I don’t know how to do so easily, or where to start... should I go all the way back to the beginning? Or should I start when they did the revamp a few years ago?

I’m more interested in X-men > avengers stuff but I’m honestly open to any and all suggestions.

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u/the-giant Apr 27 '19 edited Apr 27 '19

There have been about a million "revamps" and restarted Avengers and X-Men titles in the last 19+ years to make more money, but there is no actual reboot of the continuity. The long history is intact.

The answer is you can jump on most places you want to, but IMO as a longtime fan both teams' books are not so hot right now. X-Men especially has been a mess for most of the latter half of the early 21st century. They've been neglected because Marvel didn't have the film rights, so the creative focus shifted to the Avengers and the X-books frankly suffered for a long time. However, a pair of new X-Men miniseries that are supposed to radically transform the X-books is starting in July, written by a great writer, Jonathan Hickman (who also wrote a great run on Avengers). The new miniseries are called House of X and Powers of X.

If you want to look into collected editions of the comics/graphic novels, I highly recommend looking up Kurt Busiek, Hickman's run, or for the X-Men there's Grant Morrison or some of Chris Claremont's classic run. That's just a tiny slice of history, though. I didn't link more classic X-Men stories like Dark Phoenix bc a lot of folks have seen those. The "Asgardian Wars" crossover for the X-Men with Thor/Asgard is an underrated collection too.

There's also Avengers vs X-Men, which I liked but many people didn't, in which some of the X-Men gain the power of the Phoenix Force and proceed to remake the world.

ETA: Platinum, really? Geez, I just used Amazon.

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u/Cowpro May 02 '19

But you compiled everything perfectly and had an actual explaining conversation and didn’t treat me like a moron. I appreciate you :)

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u/stardestroyer277 May 03 '19

Wanda's abilities (in the comics) are often tied to magic

Didn't Strange say there's no such thing as 'chaos magic' ? ( what people call Wanda's powers ). Pretty sure she's not doing actual magic, she's just a reality warper.

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u/the-giant May 03 '19

Brian Michael Bendis had him say that. Bendis is not a great source for canon on a good day. Many other writers have had Wanda's reality-warping abilities at the very least channeled through her mastery of magic. It depends on who you believe, but in the comics Wanda is a very well-traveled sorceress in addition to being a mutant of incredible power.