Scarlet Witch and the Heroic Age

[Havok83]

Okay so its been almost 6 years since Avengers Disassembled where the Scarlet Witch dismantled the team which paved the way for alot of the turmoil in the MU over the past several years. With the Heroic Age coming soon, will Marvel use this to finally redeem her? For such a huge character, its odd that she's pretty much been sitting in limbo, not really being dealt with. She's one of the most prominent and recognizable Classic Avengers. Will 2010 mark her return to sanity, being a superheroine and maybe even an Avenger? Has there been any plans or tidbits released on what her upcoming status will be?

 

[Spider-Jay420]

I haven't heard anything about her lately. Last time we saw her, I think Clint found her in Transylvania or wherever (early in New Avengers?) and she didn't remember who she was but was living a peaceful life? Something like that.

I would like to see her come back. She was always one of my favorite Avengers.

 

[CaptainCanada]

Bendis said a while ago that we'd next see her in a story written by Allan Heinberg (that would be this summer's announced Avengers: Children's Crusade).

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Makes sense. I hope it's Tommy and Billy (and maybe whatever's left of the original Vision in Vision Jr.) who bring her back to normalcy. That would be fitting.

 

[iloveclones]

Bendis said a while ago that we'd next see her in a story written by Allan Heinberg (that would be this summer's announced Avengers: Children's Crusade).

Please tell me this is a collaboration. A really good idea, badly executed, 4 years from now...

 

[runawayboulder]

I haven't heard anything about her lately. Last time we saw her, I think Clint found her in Transylvania or wherever (early in New Avengers?) and she didn't remember who she was but was living a peaceful life? Something like that.

I would like to see her come back. She was always one of my favorite Avengers.

It was NA #26. Clint found her living on Wundagore Mountain and was gonna kill her. Instead he banged her and realized she was amnesiac and still living in fantasy land. (She referred to Agatha Harkness as being alive). Then he left.

I'd like to see her come back, she's been in exile for too long.

 

[Manic]

Beast also ran into Scarlet Witch in his travels during the "Endangered Species" storyarc. They talked, she didn't remember who she was, etc. Difference is that Hank didn't do her like Clint. What gets me is that Hank didn't even tell the other X-Men that he found her. He knows exactly where to find the solution to all of their problems, but he's said nothing.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to Wanda being fixed in the near future. She's been stuffed into a refrigerator long enough.

 

[storyteller]

It would be unwise to confront Wanda without risking her next meltdown being the end of the world.

 

[runawayboulder]

Anyway, I'm looking forward to Wanda being fixed in the near future. She's been stuffed into a refrigerator long enough.

I wouldn't consider this a case of Women in Refrigerator Syndrome, she's just been in limbo is all.

 

[Havok83]

what is "Women in Refrigerator Syndrome"?

 

[runawayboulder]

what is "Women in Refrigerator Syndrome"?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Refrigerators:yay:

 

[Specter313]

Link fix: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Refrigerators

Basically how women in comics being used as a plot device for a male character, usually being seriously harmed or killed. The most famous one, where the name came from, was when Kyle Rayner's one girlfriend was killed and stuffed in the fridge.

 

[Jennifer Walters]

I hate when people bunch Gwen Stacy in that.

Cause it's just very demeaning to think Gwen's death hasn't had a lasting impact on Peter.

 

[Manic]

But Gwen Stacy is a woman in a refrigerator. She's a textbook case of the superhero's girlfriend being killed solely as a plot device for the comic's male character. It just happens to get brought up all the time so we remember that this was an important case of a woman in a refrigerator.

And Wanda counts. She lost her mind solely so she could be used as a massive plot device for the entire Marvel Universe, then promptly disappeared and has only since been seen without her powers (and depowering counts).

 

[CaptainCanada]

She does fit, though I also consider her an example of the limits of the usefulness of the term. She was a supporting character in Spider-Man's book, which means that, by definition, her job is to further his story. The term is more valid, in my estimation, with characters who have a more independent existence.