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Like Polaris being Magneto's daughter. I think that was the laziest piece of loose-end-tying-upping I've ever witnessed (next on their to-do-list will be finding a way for Nightcrawler to have fathered Blink). It does make sense and it's not as though it's the first time a female character and an older male character, who share the same ability, were inextricably linked to each other. Instead of making it officially official that Lorna Dane is Mags' daughter they should rather have gone for a surrogate daughter spin on the whole thing. He feels this absence in his life and this hole left by being rejected by Wanda, so he feels drawn towards this young woman, who resembles his real daughter on so many levels and who resembles him when it comes to his mutation. He takes her under his wing and she becomes the daughter he has always wanted the Scarlet Witch to be.

Brilliant idea in regards to Quicksilver, that idea is far more interesting than him just having the ability to run really, really fast. With him controlling the flow of time, he isn't actually running fast at all, he's just speeding up time around him and it looks like he's speeding along to those outside the field he is controlling. Wanda and Pietro are twins (I think) and in the Marvel-U twins share the same abilities and often act as counterparts to one another (Northstar and Aurora, Fenris?). With Wanda being a nexus being through which all points in time converge it seems more appropriate that Pietro would also have a time related ability rather than her having a brother who is just a sooper-dooper athlete. I think Quicksilver is also quite unaware of this ability, he just starts to run and his mutant gene speeds up time and he moves fast. As far as I know he first discovered his super-speed when he rescued Wanda from the angry mob, he ran and since then he has just assumed this is the extent of his mutation.

It’s also interesting to think that if Magneto had actually taken more interest in his children when he first found them instead of exploiting them and using them merely as henchmen, he would have discovered that he is father to two of the most powerful mutants in the world. If he wasn’t such a shit father he could have trained them to use their powers to their full potential and most likely have won the war against Xavier. Then again if he really cared for those two, he would have sent them to the Xavier school where they would have learnt to fully develop their gifts and Scarlet Witch would have met a nice mutant boy and would never have needed to resort to doing it with a kitchen appliance.