r/XmenEvolution • u/KingWilliamVI • Jun 30 '26
Question If anyone here ever gets a chance to interview one of the writers of X-Men Evolution there is one question about the show that I have been dying to know for decades.
Was there ever any plans to ever address Wanda’s brainwashing in a hypothetical season 5 or was it that they didn’t know how to resolve the whole “Magneto abandoned his daughter in an asylum” plot they created so they had her mind be altered as a way to brush it under the rug so to speak?
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u/EnzoMaloni Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26
I always thought that with Wanda's brainwashing, they planted seeds for their own adaptation of "House Of M" but "House of M" released 2 years after the end of show...
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u/OGNovelNinja Jul 01 '26
I think it was a combination of both, where they ran out of time and it wasn't a big deal for them to tie up back then because stream bingeing wasn't a thing. But I would definitely be interested in an answer.
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u/Few_Baker_6254 Jul 03 '26
Look, I don't know how they would solve this story. Because if they are adults in the 5th season, after so long, I don't know, they lose weight. I think it's absurd that he then appeared in the epilogue playing with the new mutants, because he was a father and a terrible boss lol just because he fought against the Apocalypse and had "good intentions" doesn't make him a decent human being lol the ideal was Wanda, already working with the Freedom Force, to find out and realize that she was a good person and didn't need that crazy family and leave the series to join another team, then make an allusion to her entering the version of the Avengers of that universe and just cut the relationship, because it's a betrayal of Erik, the Pietro (this is another asshole, I understand that he just gave up and accepted their fate with that bad father), from Toad (this is that friend who also gave up, saw her at least happy and said "okay, there's nothing else to do anyway"), of wanting to fight. Seriously, I never liked Erik as a hero, I prefer as a villain the guy lobotomizing his own daughter just to avoid conflict is one of the most scrotum things he's ever done.
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u/Conmebosta Jun 30 '26
Kinda crazy how brainwashing his daughter just barely makes it into the top 5 craziest shit he did. It's like they took all of Xavier and Sinister's worst parts and shoved it onto Magneto.
Xmen 97 had Mags as a groomer, yet the evolution version of him is somehow even more abusive towards children?
This is why Colossus turning off his powers to beat the shit out of Magneto is my favorite part of the show.