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X2: X-Men United (2003) | X-Men: First Class (2011)

#lmfao #xmen

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Hugh Jackman as Logan 'Wolverine' Howlett in X-men: Days Of Future Past

#his best look honestly #logan howlett

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Rogue

#rogue

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Endless X-Men 97

#rogue #remy lebeau #romy

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Mayyur Girotra Couture at South Asian New York Fashion Week

#desiblr

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🤍🐇💮🦢

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X-Men: First Class (2011) | Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)

#logan howlett

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Magneto- Not a hero (2011)

By S.Young and C.Mann

#pietro maximoff #wanda maximoff #erik lehnsherr #magnet family

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The upcoming Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver series includes a promising bit in the preview that I have a lot of thoughts about:

“Above all, they are twins who look out for each other. So when Wanda receives a letter from the recently deceased Magneto that would upset Pietro, she burns the letter before her brother can read it.

But her choice drives them apart at the worst possible time”

It seems this series is going to take a more unconventional route where Wanda creates conflict between the two. Not that I think this is OOC, on the contrary, I think it’s a very interesting and often overlooked part of their relationship.

Pietro was always more imposing and vocal about it, but Wanda is equally as protective of her brother as he is of her. And she has made mistakes for this too just as he has.

But before I can go any further into that we need context.

After surviving a childhood of extreme racism and their saviour’s indoctrination (who also turned them into highly profiled criminals), the twins find themselves at the mercy of public opinion. Cap’s Kooky Quartet may have saved them from being convicted, but it’s not enough for them to simply do superhero work, they must earn the mantle of superhero (the idea of what makes someone a superhero and who get the be the verdict is already a very loaded notion that I won’t expand on but it’s worth being conscious of this here). In order to be accepted the twins are essentially marketed as the ‘American Dream’; a couple of impoverished immigrants who worked their way up to success, a pair of misguided misfits who needed the guidance of the all American Captain America. Their relationship with Steve IS meaningful and important to their ability to become heroes but it’s not because he ‘turned them around’, rather by simply giving them accommodation, resources and opportunities they’ve never had access to in their lives. But that’s not what the majority see, to them the Maximoff’s are a rehabilitation project that’s a testament to their society’s benevolence. It's a similar kind of rancid vibe as those mission trips in Africa. They are tokenized and tolerated only when the narrative forced on them feeds the white superamcist ego.

And most importantly, this tolerance is completely conditional.

While the two do have genuine fondness for their time on the team, their livelihood as Avengers cannot be divorced from this groundwork. In fact, multiple Avengers stories from their early days delve into the complicated relationship they have with this fact (and no this is not an ‘Avengers are cops’ rhetoric, joining the Avengers literally saved them from a more punitive judgement from the criminal justice system).

When Pietro voices very real concerns about this we see Wanda undermine him. When he learns of his wife’s infidelity her first reaction is to convince him to forgive her and move on. There’s another moment and for the life of me I can’t find the panel but after some brief reflection Wanda admits she may have been rash to dismiss Pietro as fanatic.

All of this does come from her love and protectiveness for her brother but it also comes from a very real trauma and fear.

Before I go on let me clarify, Wanda has never been a self hating minority. I mean the whole reason she called herself Scarlet Witch is because she was reclaiming a stereotype her persecutors used against her. Nor has she ever been an obedient damsel without independence. Since her very debut she has been a character with agency, while Pietro can be chauvinistic at times her relationship with her brother has always been the one of equals, and fighting for her autonomy (usually against literal demons) is one of the major recurring themes in her evolution.

That being said, it’s worth examining the conflicting self-repression that’s followed Wanda since the very beginning. She and pietro both understandably reacted in extremes and where he grew abrasive and restless, she could show a tendency to something akin to a model minority complex at times (remember her livelihood literally depended on advertising her as one at a certain point). There is room for a longer and more thorough analysis on this but to keep it brief and to the point I want to highlight specifically the way she has projected this onto Pietro. Again, the both of them have made their own mistakes, hurt themselves, each other and others for this, but while we have seen stories allow growth for pietro’s mistreatment towards Wanda over this, the inverse has been mostly forgotten. Until now it seems.

Wanda and Pietro have come a very long way and I trust Orlando to treat Wanda as a character who has made mistakes and who’s flaws lie in her compassion. His run was heavily dedicated to acknowledging the harm her actions have done to others in the past without letting it hold her back and acknowledging how she was victimised in those situations. What I’m more sceptical of is his understanding of where that trauma comes from, because there was no meaningful examination of this so far. Wanda is a displaced refugee with violent experiences of racism and poverty. The Avengers was more than a team to her, it was a sanctuary. An extremely precarious one. She was also like.. a teenager when this was thrusted on her. It’s completely reasonable that as she grew into herself she would struggle with respectability politics and would project this onto her brother who’s indignation often isolated himself.

I’m not expecting Orlando to write critical race theory or anything but since it seems an important part of the story will lie in addressing this particular contention between the twins then personally I feel what will make or break this series will be whether Orlando can communicate this. We know he’s AWARE of their heritage and origin and is consciously trying to include it in how they are represented in his work so I’m choosing to be optimistic but I guess only time will tell.

#pietro maximoff #wanda maximoff

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Scarlet Witch & Quicksilver #3 (2024)

written by Steve Orlando art by Lorenzo Tammetta & Frank William

#pietro maximoff

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// Uncanny Avengers (2023) #4

#rogue #pietro maximoff

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Morph as Quicksilver in X-Men '97 S01E07 - Bright Eyes

#pietro maximoff

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#😩 #erik lehnsherr #pietro maximoff #wanda maximoff #lorna dane #magnet family

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Here’s my SCARLET WITCH #3 cover — featuring my new design for LORE, an evil Wanda variant! 💀🖤

I’ll also be drawing a bit of ✨INTERIORS✨ in this issue!

The bit of the issue I’m drawing is where Lore faces off with our Wanda — I’m thrilled to draw it! 😈 SCARLET WITCH issue 3, out in August — written by Steve Orlando, interior art by me alongside series artist Jacopo Camagni, main cover drawn/colored by me!

Lore is a demonic Wanda variant, so I wanted to contrast my design for our Wanda. I wanted the Scarlet Witch design to be magical, vibrant, and super-heroic. For Lore, I tried to contrast that by going dark and sinister, with a goth, undead vibe.

#looooove #wanda maximoff #lore

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Magneto Testament: Max & Magda 1/?

#erik lehnsherr #magda eisenhardt