![]() Wanda and Pietro Maximoff in the movies are super-humans whose powers were engineered by Hydra’s Baron Strucker, utilizing the power of one of the six Infinity Stones, the Mind Stone. Mutants are an often feared and distrusted minority in the comics. The Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver of the comics are mutants, people born with powers that typically manifest at puberty.There are some notable differences between comics and movies, some which may prove relevant to events in, and our understanding of, WandaVision:Īvengers #57, Oct 1968 – First appearance of the Vision, created by Roy Thomas and John Buscema. Joss Whedon), with Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff To the best of my knowledge, she’s never actually called the Scarlet Witch in the MCU. The Marvel Cinematic Universe versions of these characters - the ones we’ll be dealing with here in WandaVision - both made their first appearances in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015, d. If you’re thinking that creating a synthetic super-being for the express purpose of eliminating your enemies is taking the long way around, fact is that’s just the way shit got done in 1968, particularly if you were a megamaniacal human-hating robot. by the ape-shit evil super robot Ultron-5 to destroy the Avengers, the Vision instead wound up embracing humanity and joining the group. Created / repurposed We’re not going to go into it, but trust me when I tell you that the particulars of the Vision’s origin story are a labrythine rabbit hole of epic proportions. ![]() As for the Vision, his first comic appearance was in Avengers #57, October 1968 August 10 1968, CCE. Wanda and Pietro, along with Hawkeye, would join Captain America as the first Avengers replacing the departing original members. ![]() I’m not sure how many Marvel Comics I’m harboring / hoarding in my collection, but it’s somewhere well north of sanity…all of which is to say that I’m walking in the door of any MCU movie or television show pre-burdened with decades of history and unreasonably militant notions too powerful for mortal brains to contain.Īvengers #16, May 1965 – The Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, and Hawkeye join Captain America as the first replacement Avengers. This phenomena is a little jarring for someone like me, who’s been living intimately with the idea of mutants, androids, super-soldiers, thunder gods, and crime-fighting teen-agers in spider costumes for pretty much the entirety of their life. Thanks to the movies, you find people who’ve never read a comic book in their lives taking ownership of the likes of Captain America and Iron Man, and discussing the Marvel Cinematic Universe by the cold light of day, as if that’s a perfectly normal thing to do (which now, I guess, it is…but oh, my sweet summer children, ’twas not always so). One of the weirdest things about the post-geek world we find ourselves living in is the way in which what was once the secret, shameful province of a select and outcast few has not only been embraced by mainstream pop culture, but has become, for the moment at least, a vital part of its foundation. This article assumes some familiarity with the Marvel Cinematic Universe, so if you haven’t seen Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, and the first episode of WandaVision, do that first and then come back.
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