Phase 5 Will Make MCU's Scarlet Witch Retcon Even Weirder
Following Disney's acquisition of FOX, >MCU Phase 5 can finally see the mutants join the franchise – and that can make the creative decisions regarding Scarlet Witch’s story even more strange. Three years after Disney obtained the rights to the X-Men as a consequence of the FOX acquisition, Marvel Studios has yet to announce a project focused on the mutants. Seven years ago, however, the MCU managed to introduce both Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch in Avengers: Age of Ultron, except they could be described neither as mutants nor as Magneto’s children.
The MCU’s solution to having Wanda and Pietro fighting side-by-side with the Avengers was to establish that the twins received their powers through HYDRA’s experiments with the Tesseract. A similar thing happened in the comics, as Marvel tried to establish that Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver were never really Magneto’s children, something that most likely had to do with how the movies were having to ignore the X-Men. All of that is now in the past, with all of the mutants at Marvel Studios’ disposal.
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Once the X-Men properly join the MCU, the fact that Wanda isn’t a mutant nor has any connection with Magneto in this universe will become even stranger. So far, the absence of the mutants in the MCU made it easier for the franchise to keep advancing Wanda’s story as an enhanced person and magical being only. However, with Magneto and the rest of the X-Men mutants possibly joining the MCU in Phase 5, it will be hard to overlook such a major change in the background of a character so important. Even when the comics tried to retcon Wanda and Pietro’s mutant background, at least some connection with
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