I actually hope she is. Bendis, like Byrne, realized Wanda, with her unworkable powers, is only interesting when she's going off the deep end. That's why those two have written her only memorable stories in 50 years.
I actually hope she is. Bendis, like Byrne, realized Wanda, with her unworkable powers, is only interesting when she's going off the deep end. That's why those two have written her only memorable stories in 50 years.
It's similar to Jean Grey in that regard.
I don't think writers want either insane 24/7... but it's certainly fair to argue their biggest most memorable stories had them going off the deep end. But I don't think that means marvel or any of their writers want them insane villains all the time. Both are perfectly usable characters which have been functioning in decades worth of stories when they're sane.
It's aspects of their characters that are worth playing it, but it's far from being their sole defining characteristic.
She just has her flaws.
'If you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, its not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them'
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Disassembled would have made more sense without the insanity excuse. Wanting to murder the people who killed your kids seems perfectly rational to me.
virtue untested is innocence
Except no one really killed her kids. Certainly not Scott Lang or Hawkeye.
Her being driven nuts by the life force (not unlike Scott being driven nuts by the Phoenix or Hal Jordan being driven nuts by Parallax) was really the only way they could get the to where they needed it to go.
At this point, I think that Wanda and Hank Pym fans need to resign themselves to the fact that their hero will always alternate between sanity and insanity and in universe people will always be walking on eggshells around them.
The fact is, characters oscillate but always come back to their best known version. For Wanda, that will always be "Darker than Scarlet"/Dissassembled/Possessed by Chthon. It just is what it is.
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