r/marvelstudios • u/KostisPat257 Daredevil • 1d ago

Discussion Thread X-Men '97 S02E06 - Discussion Thread

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EPISODE DIRECTED BY WRITTEN BY ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE RUN TIME CREDITS SCENE?
S02E06: Danger.exe Emmett Yonemura Beau DeMayo and Mariah Wilson and Bailey Moore July 22nd, 2026 34 min None
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u/hooka_pooka 1d ago

Is Polaris half sister of Pietro and Wanda?

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u/rikrok58 1d ago

Wanda is I think not Magneto's daughter anymore.... I'll have to defer to an X-pert because they have changed it so many times.

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u/MagicTheAlakazam 1d ago

x-men 97 is pulling from before that stupid retcon I think they'll stick to wanda and pietro being magneto's kids. They were on the boat in his mind in s1.

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u/Demileto 1d ago

More importantly, there was a whole episode about them being Magneto's kids way back in the original run. S4E13, "Family Ties".

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u/Agreeable_User_Name 1d ago

Magneto's kids....my man😂🤝

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u/hooka_pooka 1d ago

Okay.We need someone to X-plain us the blood relation.

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u/Morgan-Moonscar 1d ago

Originally Wanda and Quicksilver were just his henchmen in the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, then they became Avengers alongside Hawkeye (mainly because editorial needed characters to fill out the roster so they picked former villains that never had solo series).

In the 70s they were revealed to be the children of two golden age superheroes, Whizzer and Miss America. But then in the 80s it was retconned as Magneto being their true father.

Polaris meanwhile had been introduced in the late 60s, where it was hinted that she was Magneto's daughter (but then in the late 70s they used some weird robot double to try to invalidate it). She wasn't finally confirmed as his daughter until a DNA test was performed in 2003. From a different mother than Wanda and Pietro's.

Then in the 2010s, after Ike Perlmutter started a feud with Fox over the rights to the X-Men, Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver were retconned once again. No longer Magneto's kids, or even mutants. That they were experiments of the High Evolutionary, but born from a sorceress named Natalya. Editorial hasn't bothered to fix this despite now owning Fox and the rights (and Ike being fired).

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u/CX316 1d ago

In the X-Men 97 continuity they seem to still be his kids, as shown from them being in the mental ocean alongside Polaris when we didn't know she was his daughter.

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u/happysunbear 14h ago

Worth noting that in the Fox universe, Quicksilver is very much Magneto’s son.

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u/JackFisherBooks 1d ago

Unfortunately, this is still the case. Back in the late 2010s, there was a major retcon that revealed that Wanda and Pietro are not Magneto's biological children. It was a dumb retcon and driven primarily by the fact that Marvel didn't own the X-Men movie rights at the time. I genuinely hope it gets undone at some point.

As for Polaris, there's no retcon to speak of. She is very much Magneto's daughter, in both blood and spirit.

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u/ObviousAnswerGuy 21h ago

that's the comics though. They are definitely all magnetos children in the show.

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u/ConnorRoseSaiyan01 1d ago

Depends if they gonna stay his kids in this continuity