>is named the Scarlet Witch
>isn't a redhead
What was up with that?! he 90s costume was perfect because it solved the problem of the cape and shit, and gave her red hair. Besides, she was always drawn with reddish, auburn hair, but then people made her everything from a brunette to a ravenhead.
Red Wanda = Best Wanda.
>is named Nightcrawler
>has no earthworm-related powers
Darkness Falls!
Magic Stirs!
As we become creatures of the night!
>is named Cyclops
>has two eyes
How did they get away with this?
>is named Wanda Maximoff
>literally as French as it gets
>she's a gyppo Balkan
Literally what the FUCK was Kirby smoking?
You see now that's just ignorant. Not every mutant has a red hair fetish and you're perpetuating a hurtful stereotype.
>Twins
>Muties
Get the fuck outta here Mutiefag!
>Wanda
>female given name of Polish origin
>Maximoff
>male first name of Roman origin common in Slavic-speaking countries + anglicized Slavic -ov surname suffix
Post sauce. All I can find is that it's found in France more than any other country.
>Is called Spider-Woman
>Has nothing to do with Spider-Man
>Doesn't spin a web
Huh-what?
>Ironfist
>Fist isn't made of iron
>Post sauce
>What is Wikipedia and basic Google searching
>All I can find is that it's found in France more than any other country.
France has nearly twice the population of Poland so that's not very helpful in terms of absolute numbers.
I could see Kurt being mistaken for a Darkstalker in a Marvel/Capcom crossover.
>is named Wanda Maximoff
>literally as French as it gets
>she's a gyppo Balkan
She was never French. The name 'Maximoff', and the twins being half-Gypsy were both things added many years after Kirby last worked on them. Wanda and Pietro were just white teenagers from a fictitious East European nation that resembled 1800s Germany or Austria more than it did a real Balkan country. Pietro having an Italian name was the oddest thing about them at the time.
What's with this thread?
It could have been a comfy weekend Wanda Thread but chose to be a Misleading Character Names Thread instead, OP failed to see that the name 'Scarlet Witch' came from her wearing red, not from her hair.
so what you are saying is, post more sexy Wanda?
>Named Medusa.
>Doesn't have hair made of Snakes.
They can't keep getting away with this.
Sure, what else is Yea Forums for?
>called Captain America
>Doesn't hold the rank of captain
Who cares, she got blacked by Brother Voodoo
Wanda retired to raise her twins in the 1980s, nothing since then is canon, certainly not anything Zub did.
Drax: The Thread
>energy powers
seriously what the fuck?
best costume?
best ship
Loeb you degenerate
>green goblin
>shoots glitter lazers from his hand
I will never get why goblin shoot lazers the bombs and chemical smoke seem more than enough
Her first costume was green.
>Her first costume was green.
Only on the cover, and this was corrected on reprints. She's always worn red.
Got to go now, show Wanda the love she deserves, anons.
She and Nightcrawler were retconned into having been adopted by Gypsies around the same time and for the same reason, "Magic Gypsy" stereotypes explain why Django Maximoff could trap his children's bodies in dolls and why Nightcrawler's adopted mother magically trapped him in Hell to punish him for killing his adopted brother.
Adopted parents kind of suck.
Anyway this adoptive background plus one throwaway line about Magneto's wife possibly being a Gypsy created the whole "WANDA IS WHITEWASHED ZOMG" thing you see on Tumblr and Twitter sometimes, though fortunately it never really took off even when this kind of thing was at its height.
Some of that also comes from the Busiek/Pérez era when they tried playing that background up a bit (probably just to establish her as more than just "The daughter of Magneto," but it didn't work).
The dumbest part of that was not the belly dancer costume, which was just Pérez's fetish, but Busiek giving her a themed catchphrase that lasted exactly one issue.
I liked the Deodato costumes for the 90s Avengers, only Thor was terrible but it wasn’t on the spirit of the 90s at least.
The 90s was bad for a lot of characters but it was surprisingly good for Wanda after John Byrne quit. You had:
- West Coast Avengers has to figure out how to use her without Vision or Pietro
- Abnett and Lanning's EDGY EXTREME version of the character in her miniseries and Force Works actually turns out to be one of the best versions of the character, even when the comics are near-unreadable
- The Crossing gives her one of her best costumes and generally leaves her character un-assassinated
- The 1998 relaunch makes her pretty much the lead character for the first two years
- Because Doctor Strange is one of the characters shifted over to Marvel Knights she becomes the MU's go-to magic person for a couple of years
And then came the new millennium and it all went to hell