With three little words, Scarlet Witch changed the face of the Marvel Universe. After becoming unstable with her powers, a group of heroes, including Avengers and X-Men decided Scarlet Witch's powers were too dangerous. She was out of control. She caused too much damage and death. When it seemed they were going to simply kill her, Quicksilver convinced her to change the world and we saw House of M. At the end is when she uttered the words, "No more mutants" and things haven't been the same since.

im just glad my fav superheroine is comin back, but yeah she definetly did a number on the mutant pop :P,  to me "no more mutants" has never been anything but an off handed remark she made at the edge of sanity, out of pure desperation, not a intentional hey "x-gene go **** yourself" hail mary pass. cant wait to see how crusade is going to address these problems. hopefully they can manage to keep the story interesting for the next 18 months

Why try to figure out perhaps the most case of bad writing in the last ten years of Marvel?

Isn't that a bit under the assumption that the remaining mutants was Wanda's actions and not the part of another force preventing the utter annihilation of mutant kind?
I remember reading that Iceman actually protected himself someway from Wanda's actions. He thought he had lost his powers, but they were actually just locked away in an unconscious act of self preservation.

There was also the fact that new mutants weren't being born. No children were being born with the X-Gene until Hope. I believe that was in X-Men Supernovas. That little fact may cause some issues later down the line when they try to introduce new mutants from Hope's generation later down the line. Though, it's not like Marvel writers haven't danced around plot holes before.
 
I always found it weird how Wanda flipped out over not having a child. So, adoption was out of the question?? I would of thought it would be part of Hope's destiny that she was to reverse the House of M events. Otherwise, what is the point of having a "mutant messiah"?
 
@Raven117 said:

" Why try to figure out perhaps the most case of bad writing in the last ten years of Marvel? "

Well Wanda did mean No More Mutants she wanted rid of what she was because  Magneto killed Quicksilver. She saw what all the Mutant stereotype's feared about her people because of the damage caused at House Of M. Why this didn't depower  every single mutant is still a mystery 
Hopefully everything will be explained in Children Crusade  

marvel has a habit of leaving unexplained holes. I know you want to know why there are still mutants left after what she said, but it wont be explained. I promise you. If this was DC it might be explained eventually because DC is always really tight with stories.

Um it could be her subconscious wouldn't allow her to completely rid the world of mutants because she herself is a mutant. 

" Why try to figure out perhaps the most case of bad writing in the last ten years of Marvel? "

Lets also hope wiccan doesn't go crazy to because that could mean something far worse could happen.

"Lets also hope wiccan doesn't go crazy to because that could mean something far worse could happen. "

" Why try to figure out perhaps the most case of bad writing in the last ten years of Marvel? "

" marvel has a habit of leaving unexplained holes. I know you want to know why there are still mutants left after what she said, but it wont be explained. I promise you. If this was DC it might be explained eventually because DC is always really tight with stories. "

"Wasn't it stated that any mutant that had time traveled or been chronally displaced was immune to Wanda's spell? "

" Wasn't it stated that any mutant that had time traveled or been chronally displaced was immune to Wanda's spell? "

not all the mutants were "un-mutified" because that would essentially end one of marvel's most profitable franchises

i thought that Dr. Strange and Emma Frost cast an astral shield and could only protect so many mutants...

i do agree that having mutants outnumber the human population was too much but i hated that a lot of mutants i liked got depowered and tossed out there had to be another way to get the mutant population down to a reasonable level without making the avengers look like complete hypocrites cause lets face it if doom or kang did what she and quicksilver did they wouldn't stop till they paid for it but one of their own gets a pass at near genocide. id be intrested to see the general public of the marvel u's reaction to this actually

" i do agree that having mutants outnumber the human population was too much but i hated that a lot of mutants i liked got depowered and tossed out there had to be another way to get the mutant population down to a reasonable level without making the avengers look like complete hypocrites cause lets face it if doom or kang did what she and quicksilver did they wouldn't stop till they paid for it but one of their own gets a pass at near genocide. id be intrested to see the general public of the marvel u's reaction to this actually "

" Lets also hope wiccan doesn't go crazy to because that could mean something far worse could happen. "

   No more mutants was another poorly thought out idea by the creative team and those in charge over at marvel. But it seems whenever they need an out they use magic so they dont have to really explain everything. Wasnt Marvel supposed to the be the "more real' universe where this type of thing didnt take place? Then within a few years two of their top series, Spiderman and the X-men were horribley altered by magical means. 

From a story perspective perhaps some of the mutants that survived had a secondary ability that made them resistant to magic or having anticipated someone using magic against them had constructed a wall of spells to protect them from just such an occurance. Some of the mutants could have been her friends whom she did not want to see hurt by what she was about to do. Still others could have been off-world or off dimension during the event. A couple might not even be true mutants at all but have had something else happen to them(Spiderman/FF and the whole mutant vs mutated arguement)and so were not affected. 
I believe that her mind at the moment she said the fatefull words was working no where near 100% and so some, for the reasons I and others have stated, survived.

 
I would like Marvel to tell us how many mutants were still powered after the Decimation and not be so vague about it.

It was Jow Quesada. At the time, he had Bendis do this cause he thought there were too many mutants in the Marvel U, so he had it put out in this arc, so in cases like this, it was the personal politics of Joey Q, or the beliefs of teh creators. :(

As long as the answer to one the problems isn't Wiccan shouting,
 "I want more Mutants!
I want more Mutants!
I want more Mutants!" 
I just might check out this Children's Crusade

" @Comiclove5 said:

" Lets also hope wiccan doesn't go crazy to because that could mean something far worse could happen. "

That' exactly what I was thinking... Wiccan has his mother's powers add this guy plus Wanda and the world implodes!  I always thought "No More Mutants" meant no more can be born, the de-powering was just a bonus side effect for the rest leaving 198... "

Maybe no more mutants doesn't mean that there are no more mutants but that Wanda is done with mutants, hence her new life.  Like when you drink to much and your huggin the toilet going "no more beer", meaning your done drinking not that you want to end beers existence.

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I would like Marvel to tell us how many mutants were still powered after the Decimation and not be so vague about it.

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" @ComicMan24 said:

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I would like Marvel to tell us how many mutants were still powered after the Decimation and not be so vague about it.

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They tried.  They even put the number 198 in every issue for a year.  Then people did the math and realized they miscounted. "

i thought the reason those select mutants didnt get depowered was because they figured out what was going on (the alternate universe Wanda created) and so they were some how nullified from the effects, also i thought they had a mutant girl with them that knew everything that was going on and could change it back to normal for the small few around her.

" i thought the reason those select mutants didnt get depowered was because they figured out what was going on (the alternate universe Wanda created) and so they were some how nullified from the effects, also i thought they had a mutant girl with them that knew everything that was going on and could change it back to normal for the small few around her. "

" @ComicMan24: i try to keep up with them as much as possible but i seem to miss issues every now and then but that is the one thing i remember. "

" @Bloodstonefreak:   Bendis was told by Quesada to reduce the number of mutants, thus it was done, they gave an explanation remember?  It's MAGIC... we don't have to explain it. -JQ  Almost ten years is not good writing, plot building, or anything else. Fans like you actually believe these guys know what they were doing when clearly, from this to OMD to Captain Marvel being a skrull, they don't know what they are doing they are simply winging it, or at least they were for the first seven years. It usually takes another writer coming in and fixing their mistakes like Fraction did with Iron Man. "

The Decimation was a ploy by the editorial staff to reduce the number of mutants in the marvel universe. This was done so the "Heroes" would not have to deal with the ever growing mutant population around the world. Admittedly the same editors had allowed the number of mutants to grow into into millions so this and the destruction of Genoshia were heavy handed ways to prune back their numbers. And things have been great for mutants since, oh wait except if you count every nut job and freak mutant hater since then has smelt the blood in the water and has been gunning for them.

Three little can mean so much...not just her words...

It is weird how just those certain few got passes but hopefully she pays for what she did it may not be genocide or decimation but she rid some people of their identity, either way Marvel has dug a hole for themselves and it's going to take a long time to dig themselves out unless this new Generation Hope Arc has her going around giving people's powers back or they just give us a magical deus ex machina;  
Scarlet Witch: Now that you have seen real suffering and pain X-men it's time to return your "Mutant Population" or some disney magic crap along that line

" @ComicMan24: yea, I know they are supposed to come out every month but it seems like they are more random then that and just come out whenever they have time to complete an issue "