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Bendis gives an interesting reading on the existence of Wonder Man in this excerpt from a very recent Newsarama interview...
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NRAMA: That said though, when Wanda did give everyone their deepest desire, which gave Wolverine everything, she also planted the seed that led to the downfall…
BB: Yeah – but was Wolverine the only seed?
NRAMA: Right – presumably, she let Layla Miller exist, and she was more of the mechanism that led to her downfall…
BB: Right. We can talk about Layla Miller, we can talk about Magneto too. She left weaknesses that could easily be exploited if the right events took place – which they did. We don’t know how long Wanda had been screwing around with stuff. She clearly had something like a multiple personality disorder with her kids, who were representing different voices in her head. Could Layla be one of those?
Heck – could Wonder Man be one of those?
NRAMA: Why are you bringing him into this?
BB: Go back to Kurt Busiek’s issues of Avengers, when Wanda just barfs Simon out of nowhere, because, pretty much, she wanted him to exist. He’s still alive and thinking and walking around, but he could just be an aspect of Wanda that’s broken free – or allowed to roam free on its own.
NRAMA: And that’s something Simon doesn’t want to give too much thought to?
BB: Yeah, and that was a subplot that I left for another day. Even back in issue #1 – Simon wasn’t talking at all about what they should do with Wanda, even though they had been lovers and very romantically entangled before. In my mind, Simon was hanging in the back thinking, “Oh maaaan…what the…who…what am I? Am I going to be dead again?”
But in the end, I had to leave that for another day.
So there is that – even in creating this entire world, Wanda’s doubts and uncertainty still shows up and manifests itself in different ways – or in different people.
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