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>So there are countless people telling you their opinions on the Magneto and Maximoff twins subject. I won’t repeat the points they’re making since you’re clearly not taking them seriously. But what I will do is point out that as a writer, you’re messing up. This thing you’re doing to your characters? It serves no purpose except to shock the readers. This is one of the sloppiest techniques for storytelling in existence. Shock value is a dangerous tool: it can either make a story brilliant or send it right down the toilet. With great power comes great responsibility, right? You clearly aren’t responsible enough to use shock value, and you are sending marvel down the toilet. No matter what the storyline is after this, no matter what it stands for, it will not excuse or validate this. 

You are disrespecting the Maximoff twins by doing this. You are disrespecting their lives, their heritage, their religion, and most of all their fans. You are disrespecting Wanda as a female superhero. You are disrespecting Pietro. You are disrespecting every child who ever bought one of your comics, and every person who felt even a spark of like for either or both of the twins. 

Now you might be feeling like you are validated in doing this because marvel has agreed to your storylines. And yeah, why wouldn’t you? Marvel has approved this plot twist, and they’re the ones with the funding. But when fans start to boycott their comics and movies, they might take notice. They might notice when people start to lose faith in marvel as a whole. Do you even care about that? Will it take a cutoff of consumer funds to marvel before you start to care?

Maybe people won’t boycott. Maybe people won’t stop supporting marvel. But no matter what they do, it doesn’t change the fact that you are a bad writer and you’re shitting on everything the twins stand for.>

Magneto being revealed as Wanda and Pietro’s father was a shock twist, one that came after twenty years of storytelling featuring those characters.

It seemed to work out all right.

Which shows that any story, regardless of how shocking it might be or not, can potentially work out.

So you can read the story that we’re doing or not, that’s completely up to you. But it’s no less valid than the one that overturned the fact that the Whizzer and Miss America were the parents of Wanda and Pietro.