COMICS: 'Quicksilver' And 'Scarlet Witch''s True Parents Revealed In UNCANNY AVENGERS #4

It makes a bit more sense. The whole thing originally involved Whizzer and Miss America being their parents and taking them to High Evolutionary, so retconning some of that isn't that bad.

However, this undermines the likes of House of M.

Arguably making mutation the default explanation for powers (as Marvel did for many years) is less interesting. The High Evolutionary's never really been all that much more than a weird dude with a furry army, but I think if he was more integrated into the world, he's always had the potential to be really interesting.

As for the change. Meh. Never really cared much about the characters, and this alternative explanation doesn't amount to much. Sort of like JMS's mystical totem stuff in Spider-Man. Even if it's technically drastically different, it doesn't do much for the fundamentals of the character.

@SpockOclock man don't get it twisted,mutants/mutation is the best thing to happen in the marvel universe since bread on butter

The big 2 just keep creeping the prices up for their books. There's going to be a breaking point soon. My order last week was like $54.

@NovaCorpsFan Ahhh, I see someone else enjoys the classics as I do. :)

Remembering the Whizzar and Miss America shows quite a knowledge of history my friend.



Off topic, but do you have a twitter?

So she wiped out the mutant race for no damn reason? At least Cyclops is a mutant.

Are they technically still mutants then? If not Sabretooth and rogue are the only two mutants in this unity squad.

Also every mutant on this team was a member of the brotherhood of evil mutants at some point yet cap won't leave Scott alone for killing one man... just saying

So where is Bova in all of this? High Evolutionary's story seems to retcon her from the mix entirely... Or is he saying that after Bova gave the twins to the Maximoffs, he came and took them back, experimented on them, and then returned them?

Even if Magneto isn't their genetic father, Magda should have been their mother unless the entirety of Bova's account was a pointless lie.

@ManCalledSting
Amen, this retcon is so [frick]ing stupid, I feel physically ill.

They just need to reboot the whole universe at this point...

I really want to see what Quicksilver's new suit was going to look like if he survived AOU

#SaveQuicksilver

I haven't been reading this....so I'm slightly confused. Has it been stated that Magneto isn't their father? Just because they aren't mutants doesn't necessarily mean he cant be, right?

@NovaCorpsFan - I completely forgot about the Whizzer and Miss America thing and good point about the House of M story. Was House of M one of the revisted events for Secret Wars? I can't remember, there were so many announced.

@TheRealMandarin

You're not going to find a bigger X-title fan than me, but mutants have their problems in the larger narrative of the Marvel universe.

1) The Double Standard: An astronaut get dowsed with radiation and turned into a giant rock creature, he's obviously a celebrity hero. It turns out that a brilliant biologist has slightly large feet and hands, he's clearly a monster. The fact that mutants are categorically hated in the Marvel universe while powered people in general are accepted makes no sense.

2) Mutants are Way Too Cosmically Important: I don't have the time or knowledge to list all of the prophesies and dimensional alignments and general universal weirdness that is ultimately accounted by some TCAG's getting rearranged. People have freaky powers from it? Fair enough. But the fate of the Universe and Timescape and even metaphysical angels and demons themselves being explained by something that is a relatively mundane natural process? That's a bit much.

3) The Social Narrative: Obviously it was a nice way for comics to have conversations about race without having to have a real conversation about race. But when the X-Men just hammer home that same theme over and over again (like the movies do), it becomes tired and boring. Thankfully the books are frequently about other things.

4) It's Lazy: At least, some of the time. Characters with wide variations in abilities and appearances are just lumped together with a label. Powers are often treated as being almost "packages" that can be gained, lost, or passed from person to person without actual explanation. Some mutants are painstakingly written to give some sort of biological explanation for their powers, and then others are pretty much given a vague abstraction of their powers and let loose (like Iceman becoming literally living ice in some incarnations).

Again, I love the X-Men. But at the same time, I've never really liked the constantly shifting plot point of mutation as the main driver of the franchise. Sometimes it works (like Sinister's obsession with evolution), but often it was more in the way (what did the Phoenix saga have to do with mutation, really?)

@mexicansuperman

Does it really bother you that much? I didnt know I had that much control over your emotions.

And for anyone reading this, what is the Vision's heart's desire?

Booo!

Having Quicksilver and Scarlet witch be the bastard children of Magneto is an interesting angle to explore on the characters, explains why they both are so damned powerful, and gives dimension on their "grey" morality.


F*ck this!