{"id":7361,"date":"2021-12-02T21:48:02","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T21:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=7361"},"modified":"2021-12-02T21:48:02","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T21:48:02","slug":"x-men-the-trial-of-magneto-4-annotations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=7361","title":{"rendered":"X-Men: The Trial of Magneto #4 annotations"},"content":{"rendered":"

As always, this post contains spoilers, and page numbers go by the digital edition.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>X-MEN: THE TRIAL OF MAGNETO #4<\/strong>
\n“Verdigris”<\/strong>
\nby Leah Williams, Lucas Werneck, David Messina & Edgar Delgado<\/strong><\/p>\n

COVER \/ PAGE 1:<\/strong>\u00a0Three intertwined Scarlet Witches – one in the centre, one upside down, and one apparently made of branches.<\/p>\n

PAGE 2.<\/strong> “Data page”, though in the magical designs used in this series (note the parchment effect). The spiral text is a description of the sensation of being reborn, with the narrator finally recollecting that they brought this about themselves. Presumably, this is Wanda describing the events of the flashback that follows.<\/p>\n

PAGE 3.<\/strong> Flashback: The Five resurrect Wanda.<\/em><\/p>\n

This presumably happens between pages 4 and 13 of issue #2. Hope takes the initiative to resurrect Wanda (just as she quietly ignored resurrection protocols to bring back Scout in\u00a0New Mutants<\/em> #21. As Hope points out, the Five are essentially untouchable because they’re vital to resurrection; they haven’t done much to use that political power.<\/p>\n

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However, in the end Wanda is able to resurrect\u00a0herself<\/em> using Cerebro, evidently reaching out from the limbo dimension where we saw her in previous issues. There’s a precedent for this in\u00a0Way of X<\/em> #2, where Legion was similarly able to force his own resurrection once his previous body had died.<\/p>\n

PAGES 4-5.<\/strong>\u00a0Flashback: Wanda’s children talk to Prodigy.<\/em><\/p>\n

As we established last issue, this Wanda’s memories have been reset to a much earlier point in her life, so she knows nothing about Wiccan or Speed.<\/p>\n

Speed saw Wanda’s body in\u00a0X-Factor<\/em> #10.<\/p>\n

Prodigy recaps the clues that X-Factor found in issue #1. Wiccan suggests that enchanted metal provides an explanation for Wanda’s death by strangulation that exonerates Magneto. Northstar decides to call Excalibur, though Magik would surely be the natural choice – she’s an actual magician, which is more than can be said for any of Excalibur besides the rookie Rictor.<\/p>\n

It’s not spelt out, but this scene is a flashback which overlaps with Wanda being told about the details of her life by Jean and Rachel in the previous issue.<\/p>\n

PAGE 6.<\/strong> Recap and credits.<\/p>\n

PAGE 7.\u00a0<\/strong>Speed and Wiccan take Wanda aside.<\/em><\/p>\n

As Prodigy says, the kaiju attack began last issue and was prompted by Wanda getting her memories back (or, surely more likely being given an infodump about her life – the whole point of her lacking memories is that Cerebro\u00a0doesn’t<\/em> have a more recent memory backup).<\/p>\n

PAGE 8.<\/strong> Data page, showing the multi-arrow symbol (from the data pages of issue #1) transmuting into an opening eye.<\/p>\n

PAGES 9-10.<\/strong>\u00a0The other two Wandas fight.<\/em><\/p>\n

This picks up from the confrontation that was underway at the end of the previous issue. The future Wanda has apparently come back to tell Wanda that her guilt is producing the kaiju, and that she needs to let it go; but the fact that they’re reunited later suggests she’s actually a projection of one side of Wanda’s personality.<\/p>\n

PAGES 11-22.<\/strong> The three Wandas defeat the kaiju and are reunited.<\/em><\/p>\n

Krakoan refuses to accept that she did any of the things she was told about, and denies responsibility – more or less exactly what old Wanda seemed to be asking for. The kids tell her that’s not acceptable, and at the same time the older Wanda apparently says that she needs to forgive herself instead of punishing herself. Honestly, it’s all pretty contrived, and rather obviously an attempt to dig the character out of the dead end she’s been in ever since Brian Bendis.<\/p>\n

But if people are going to keep using her, then something like this is unavoidable; the Bendis stories are one of those rare bad ideas that has proved so unignorable that it’s effectively ruined every attempt to use the character since he left. At some point you either stop using the character, or retcon the Bendis stuff away somehow, or do something very contrived like this and hope everyone accepts it as the Moving On Point. It’s not a particularly good story, but that’s because the brief is impossible. It’s just one of those rip-off-the-sticking-plaster storylines that needs to be done to clear the way for something else.<\/p>\n

PAGES 23-24.<\/strong>\u00a0Wanda addresses the mutants.<\/em><\/p>\n

Magneto is happily reunited with his figurative daughter, as he’d wanted at the end of the Hellfire Gala.<\/p>\n

Quite reasonably, some random mutant voices the objection that Wanda is getting a pat on the back for saving Krakoa from herself. I think it’s just a generic, although it looks like we’re maybe meant to recoognise her. We’re left with the X-Men and Avengers defending Wanda from the mob, which seems a more fitting result.<\/p>\n

PAGE 25.<\/strong> Trailers. The Krakoan reads NEXT: THE ACCUSED (with the T and H written separately, instead of using the Krakoan TH symbol).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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