New Marvel Cinematic Universe Book Opens The Door To Scarlet Witch And Quicksilver Being Mutants

New Marvel Cinematic Universe Book Opens The Door To Scarlet Witch And Quicksilver Being Mutants

A new Marvel Cinematic Universe book hints that the source of the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver's powers may not be the Mind Stone after all. Does this open the door to them being revealed as mutants?

By JoshWilding - Oct 22, 2020 11:10 AM EST
Filed Under: WandaVision
Source: Screen Rant

Disney recently released The Wakanda Files, a new Marvel Cinematic Universe book presenting Shuri's notes on the world inhabited by Earth's Mightiest Heroes. As you might expect, T'Challa's younger sister has plenty to say about the Infinity Stones, and her research means she's gathered plenty of intel on both the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver.

The latter was killed in Avengers: Age of Ultron, but Wanda will receive the spotlight in WandaVision. That and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness will likely delve into her reality-altering abilities, but is the Mind Stone really the source of her powers? 

According to Shuri's records (shared by Screen Rant), HYRDA didn't choose to settle in Sokovia just because it's out of the way; they'd learned of a number of genetic anomalies among the people living there, and that made them the perfect test-subjects for the Mind Stone experiments carried out by Baron Von Strucker. 

This definitely lends some weight to the theory that all the Mind Stone did was activate powers already dormant in both heroes. The use of the Infinity Stones in Avengers: Endgame could have done the same to people across the globe, hence why mutants are about to join this shared world. 

Time will tell on that front, but this is definitely a very interesting development. 

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SanFranLand
SanFranLand - 10/22/2020, 11:05 AM
I can dig it
WeaponXCII
WeaponXCII - 10/22/2020, 11:11 AM
RegularPoochie
RegularPoochie - 10/22/2020, 11:28 AM
@WeaponXCII - i have been thinkin that Eternals has something to do with this also and are Connected to Wanda. Maybe she is the one to let mutants and Eternals remember their past and who they really are. Except mutants doesn't make that much sense because I guess they get their powers randomly when te time is right if I remember correctly.
WeaponXCII
WeaponXCII - 10/22/2020, 2:59 PM
@RegularPoochie - So... I don't know a whole lot about the Eternals. But I do know that the Celestials performed genetic experiments on early man that led to the creation of not only the Eternals, but also Deviants, as well as the potential for mutations due to exposure (i.e., mutates, such as Spider-Man), as well as more inborn mutations, such as those we see in the X-Men.

The Eternals (the upcoming movie, and the the IP) absolutely have something to do with this.
JustALurker
JustALurker - 10/22/2020, 4:22 PM
@WeaponXCII - imagine the MCU does that, in reverse, shall there be mutants!
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 10/22/2020, 6:06 PM
@RegularPoochie - Mutants are born with an X-Gene in their DNA. The gene lies dormant until about their young teens (except for some exceptions). But mostly when they hit puberty.

But you're not far off. The Eternals movie will likely explain that the Celestials performed genetic tests on humanity hundreds of thousands of years ago and implanted a percentage with the X-Gene. But humanity needed to reach a certain point in evolution before they would start activating, which is why we've never seen any. (This os the case in the comics, so it makes perfect sense to use it in the movies too.)

So in the movies, the Infinity Stones helped activate the X-Genes in these people that have had it passed down from generation to generation.
RegularPoochie
RegularPoochie - 10/22/2020, 10:19 PM
@JustALurker - yes! I didn't write that because I didn't wanna sound stupid, but nice to see someone thinking this as well. I mean that reverse thing.
WackyBantha
WackyBantha - 10/22/2020, 11:11 AM
Mutant and Proud.
JustALurker
JustALurker - 10/22/2020, 4:23 PM
@WackyBantha -
TheIronDuck
TheIronDuck - 10/22/2020, 11:11 AM
They're not even mutants in the comics anymore.
noahthegrand
noahthegrand - 10/22/2020, 11:12 AM
They found out Sokovia had people with dormant X-genes then?
TheWalkingCuban
TheWalkingCuban - 10/22/2020, 12:06 PM
@noahthegrand -
Socovida
Ultron was right
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