Scarlet Witch's Powers Prove That Her Son Has The Wrong Hero Name
Wanda Maximoff, aka the Scarlet Witch,is a magic-user who knows her way around a retcon. Her origin has been rewritten multiple times, with the latest retcon revolving around her reality warping powers. This new set of rules not only contains her further in her own circle of the Marvel universe, but also proves that her son's superhero name, Wiccan, is just as wrong as it is problematic.
Billy Kaplan first graced the pages of Marvel Comics in 2005's Young Avengers #1 and is a magic-user just like his mother. Fellow hero Prodigy has called out his name as problematic, because it refers to a widely practiced faith that he himself does not subscribe to. However, despite multiple attempts to change his codename, Wiccan is the one that has stuck through his stories. This is a particular shame given the fact that the legacy of Scarlet Witch's powers mean Billy should already be known by another title.
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The source and origin of Scarlet Witch's magic has changed many times throughout the character's history. For most of Marvel's history, Wanda and her brother Pietro, aka Quiksilver, were Magneto's children, with the mutant X-gene being the source of their powers. Later, this was changed to them being the failed experiments of the High Evolutionary. Like its predecessor, this origin story did not last for long, and was changed (or at least adjusted) in a 2016 storyline that rewrote Scarlet Witch's history. Scarlet Witch #12 reveals that Wanda belongs to a legacy of witches and warlocks that use the adjective «Scarlet» to indicate the lineage their powers. Wanda is the Scarlet Witch of her generation, just like her mother was the Scarlet Witch before her,
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