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I love the acting/attitude you bring to the sweater over the shoulders section. Would loooove to see more of it is it works for the topic.

FireMermaid

I sympathize with Wanda very strongly, and always have. She's one of my favorite Marvel characters outside the X-Men. That said... As an X-Men fan, I feel they're pretty sorely misrepresented here, and the problems Wanda's Decimation caused for them are minimalized. Unlike most of my fellow X-Fans I don't hate her for this, but I do think it needs to be said that people DID die, or were maimed, by their power loss. And the ones who did not were often hunted and killed by opportunistic bigots - one such story involves a whole schoolbus full of children, who were leaving the Xavier Institute since they were no longer mutants, when that bus was bombed and the lot of them murdered. It was far, FAR worse than "a bunch of people lost their powers" (setting aside that losing your powers in the X-Men universe has been treated as a traumatic event in itself, a loss of part of your identity, to say nothing of the obvious conversion therapy parallels). A lot of people blame Wanda for this, I feel wrongly so, but M-Day was not a deathless event. I'm also not sure that the depiction of them as an insular echo chamber is fair either. Yes, they HAVE been like that a few times, but just as often they've tried to be a more integrated force alongside humans. There were two phases, once in the 1980s and once in the 2000s pre-Utopia, where they lived and worked in San Francisco, and bigotry against them there was reserved for pre-existing enemies like Freedom Force (the Brotherhood of the 80s, granted government sanction to be a kind of mutant police), and the Purifiers (2000s). Everyday people welcomed and accepted them and their aid. The only reason they don't reach out more is the same reason that Wanda is judged the way she is: something happens beyond their control and forces them to become insular again. A lot of this, like M-Day itself, can be blamed on the powers that be at Marvel. The X-Men are led by Professor X, and live apart from humanity, usually in a Westchester mansion, currently on a living island that may or may not be itself in a parallel pocket reality. Thus has it always been, thus must it always be, no matter how much this hurts the anti-bigotry message they're trying to use the team to push. The isolation of the X-Men has been even more pronounced in recent years, and even Disney's acquisition of Fox, and thus Marvel's ability to re-integrate the X-Men into their larger universe, has done little, if anything, to alleviate this (unless Multiverse of Madness gives us the return of the mutants that I so desperately crave). Apologies for this essay of a reply. Overall I agree with what you are saying about Wanda, I just feel this one area needs further clarification.

Curt Clark

This was wonderful. She is absolutely a queer icon; even if many of us don't identify with her specific desires for her life. Wanda is a much more complex person than casual viewers and readers realize. I'm concerned how she'll be treated in Multiverse of Madness. I know many people are going to ignore the hypocrisy inherent in the situation. Other heroes make intentional decisions that harm other people's lives and they're lauded as heroes. Wanda makes mistakes or things happen outside of her active control, she does everything she can to rectify those things, yet she is demonized as a villain. It's incredibly unfair. Please, don't ruin her character for me Kevin Feige!

Mandi Mateer

bloody hell! I never knew Wanda had all that trauma behind her. I'm not much one for comic books or the comics Films. But my friends where so I at least knew of the Scarlet Witch. But, wow! That is a lot!

I love the video, thanks for you hard work!!!

Not going to lie, the sign off made me cry. Well tear, but that was lacking in the rhyming department. That was a very insightful exploration of the deeper meanings and themes of the scarlet Witch. Really excited for Tallos. Thank you for all the effort you put into your videos, even your "short" videos. So glad I found you channel.

allykitten87