The Real Reason Scarlet Witch Never Joined The X-Men
While it may seem obvious that Scarlet Witch would never join the X-Men due to the unforgivable crime of mutant genocide she committed in House of M, she actually revealed why she didn’t join the team of mutant heroes long before that traumatic event.
House of M was a Marvel Comics event that shone a villainous light on Scarlet Witch after years of the character acting as a hero following her initially-evil debut. In House of M, Scarlet Witch rewrote reality to make mutants the superior species over humans, with Magneto acting as the unchallenged ruler of the world. However, at the end of the series when she felt overwhelmingly unappreciated by Magneto, she uttered the now infamous phrase, “No more mutants” and in the blink of an eye, eliminated most of the mutant population. This event made Scarlet Witch a pariah in the mutant community until very recently in Marvel Comics continuity, though it wasn’t the first time Wanda deliberately separated herself from mutantkind.
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In Avengers #16 by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, and Dick Ayers, the founding members of the Avengers are getting worn down by the job and wish to take an indefinite leave of absence. However, they couldn’t just shut down the Avengers Initiative as that would leave the world vulnerable to any number of attacks that are too great for any one hero to handle. So, the Avengers decide to look for replacement heroes to take their place while they take some time off. In that effort, the Avengers place an ad in the paper, calling for any and all superpowered or highly-skilled individuals to try out. Scarlet Witch and her brother, Quicksilver, answer the call.
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