This is where you start pulling twigs, rocks, broken limbs and torsos out of the big snowball – The Scarlet Witch, was responsible for the House of M** and killing a few Avengers***, so the X-Men and the Avengers, both want to find her, but not for a happy, feel good reunion. What starts as a fairly simple story – two members of the Young Avengers, Wiccan and Speed* believe that they are the sons of the Scarlet Witch and with Magneto’s help hope to find her. This storyline is a lot like a little snowball. In a cartoon, when someone rolls a perfectly round snowball downhill, the snowball ends up huge with rocks, trees and skiers all collected within and sticking out at odd angles. A big Thank You to everyone who helped me find all the titles I needed to get here. <-mini-event, maybe?Īt any rate, this was the story I'd been trying to find since I first read the birth story in Vision and the Scarlet Witch #12. Pretty coherent stuff for a comic that has so many different teams and characters colliding in one event. So while this is a Young Avengers story, it's also a Scarlet Witch redemption story.Īnd hey! Doctor Doom shows up! Gotta love any comic he shows up in, right? Not so in her case, as almost everyone feels like she needs to be put down.

If you think about it, something along those lines has happened to almost every character in the Marvel universe that has a power set like hers, and they've all been forgiven for their fuck ups. Her powers were too much for her (or anyone else) to control and she eventually gave in to madness. In her defense, she had literally lost her mind. She killed a few people, wiped out their reality and replaced it with her own, and also kinda-sorta decimated the mutant population for several years. Well, not irrationally for a real-world scenario, but irrationally angry for a comic book setting. Another thing you should know is that everyone from the Avengers to the X-Men is absolutely furious with Wanda. Now Wiccan has a line on where she might be and he wants to go find her and figure out what exactly happened.Īlright. After the House of M debacle, Wanda just disappeared. It's a weird story in the way only a comic book story can be. However, they were both originally born/created by Wanda's powers when she was married to Vision, and then disappeared into the ether due to Mephisto and Master Pandamonium. Both Speed and Wiccan were born (this time around) into other families.

Avengers the childrens crusade