WandaVision spoilers follow. Boy meets girl. Girl gets super-powers. Girl loses control. Boy stops girl. It’s a tale as old as time, or at least, as old as Marvel Comics. Because ever since titles like Avengers, X-Men, and Fantastic Four were first released in the 1960s, female heroes like Wanda Maximoff have lost control and been transformed into villains, thereby feeding into a number of unfortunate sexist tropes… The clearest example of this can be found in the X-Men’s Dark Phoenix Saga, when Jean Grey was consumed with cosmic power and destroyed an entire planet. Before that happened, Marvel Girl was portrayed as far weaker than her male teammates, and once she did become stronger than them, she quickly became too unstable to get a handle on her newfound power. Because of this, Cyclops was forced to kill his “hysterical” girlfriend in order to save everyone, including Jean herself. While that remains one of comics’ most popular – and frequently told – stories, other writers soon drew inspiration from Jean’s downfall, including John Byrne, who transformed the Fantastic Four’s Sue Storm into an evil, semi-naked dominatrix called Ma… Click below to read the full story from Men’s Health
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