The thing that I honestly hate the most about ToM is that Leah Williams is trying to put out this narrative that Wanda needs to take accountability, whether it's past or present Wanda. It doesn’t matter that she hasn't done it yet, she's the ticking bomb ready to go off.
Also what accountability is she supposed to take? Wanda's been taking accountability ever since she got back in 2010, restoring the depowered mutants powers and not expecting forgiveness from them because she's not owed that just for restoring their powers.
If we're going to have a discussion again about accountability, it should be one about how Pietro, Magneto, the Avengers, and the X-Men need to take accountability for making it happen too, because it was just her. The fallout of a much needed discussion could've provided rich tension and development in characters
I agree with you about Wanda, she has literally been in this same cycle for a decade, and not one writer is willing to move on, she’s already gone through this, it’s already been done, and yet Williams throws this back at her again why? My theory is that it’s cheap, familiar, drama, there was no need to do a set up for those scene, EVERYONE knows about House of M/M Day, so it was easy to use it for some “heightened stakes” but the issue with that is, that isn’t wasn’t supposed to be about Wanda’s past “misdeeds” which she already atoned for! How many freaking times does she have to go through this cycle???
This book was supposed to be about Magneto, and a mystery, but now its all gonna be solved without even the help of the X-Factor detective team! What use are they. Also what was up with Tommy and David in the vines? We literally have not seen Pietro’s reaction to any of this. Why are so many plot lines dropped in the space of 4 comics? Where is the TRIAL OF MAGNETO?
I don’t agree that this was all Pietro’s fault, Pietro was reacting, he wasn’t setting out to hurt people like the Avengers/X-Men who all decided that they had to kill Wanda. He and Wanda are victims of the Avengers/X-Men’s choices, and I am really tired of Pietro & Wanda being blamed when they have already done everything they could to atone, both already suffered. Pietro had his powers taken from him, he did alot of bad things, he later tried to make up for it and he took full accountability for his actions. Wanda has tried to fix what she did as well already. But you know who has never been blamed or done anything about this? The ones who wanted to kill Wanda, their FRIEND, because they were afraid of her. Erik also has some blame because of his inaction to stop them, prompting Pietro to ask her to change the world, and also because he killed Pietro.
I am very tired of the Maximoff Twins tied to the House of M and unable to move on because everyone wants to write “aftermath” of M Day. The Twins have done enough, they have been through enough, and Trial of Magneto was sloppy writing built on shoddy grounds, if they wanted to undo the retcon they failed, if they wanted to provide a good story, they failed. There is only one more issue left but I know it’s not gonna be enough to fix this mess of writing.
Williams says that her writing was interfered with, if that’s the case then I understand how hard it is for a writer, however that doesn’t excuse HOW she writes Wanda, or any other character, they are all so wildly ooc and it’s tiring to see her constantly trying to add in fandom fanon characteristics to these characters. However it’s clear she really doesn’t know anything about Wanda’s character with how she writes her, nor Lorna’s, nor many others.
