Though Marvel and the X-Men’s Hellfire Gala was meant to culminate within the grand unveiling of the mutants’ newly terraformed planet, the soiree unexpectedly grew to become the scene of the primary main, and seemingly everlasting loss of life of one of many X-Men’s most controversial members of the family (as soon as eliminated): the Scarlet Witch. Thanks to Comic-Con @ Home 2021, we discovered a bit about what’s to return.

We nonetheless don’t know who killed Wanda Maximoff or if her loss of life was a homicide in any respect, however the X-Men and various different Marvel characters are set to unravel what occurred within the upcoming Trial of Magneto miniseries from author Leah Williams and artist Lucas Werneck. Speaking on a panel at this yr’s San Diego Comic-Con, Williams, who beforehand wrote on Marvel’s X-Factor collection, described how The Trial of Magneto will dig into what went down and the way Wanda’s standing because the Great Pretender nonetheless shapes how a lot of the world sees her. “So it’s a murder investigation, and obviously Wanda has made a lot of enemies in Krakoa, whether or not she intended to,” Williams defined. “It’s just kind of a byproduct of her traumatic past.”

That Wanda occurred to die proper after exhibiting as much as the Hellfire Gala to reconcile with Magneto—her estranged, adoptive father—immediately made it appear as if he may need performed some function in her loss of life. Canonically, Wanda and her twin brother Pietro nonetheless aren’t mutants, that means that even when Magneto had been to bury the hatchet with them, they wouldn’t precisely be welcomed on Krakoa.

The incontrovertible fact that the X-Men have just lately gotten into the essential, and extremely secretive enterprise of resurrecting folks may issue into what turns into of Wanda down the road. But Williams additionally shared a bit about how her loss of life and the Trial of Magneto are going to pose some tough challenges for the mutants, who’ve been working very onerous to maintain a few of their tech hidden from the general public. “This is a really deep look into the proceedings of Krakoa’s first really high-profile murder investigation that brings a lot of outside attention and threatens a lot of Krakoan secrets, and a lot of Krakoan peace,” Williams mentioned. “It’s also a deep look into, you know, the House of M dynamic. It’s called Trial of Magneto, and trial has more than one meaning.”

While Williams didn’t go into element about precisely what types of “trials and tribulations” Magneto will undergo on the literal and metaphorical stands, she did level out that at this level in Marvel’s comics universe, Wanda’s nonetheless very a lot thought of to a type of boogeyman. Some of that boogeyman power will possible be part of Steve Orlando and Cian Torney’s upcoming Darkhold Alpha #1, that includes the Scarlet Witch preventing to get ahold of the paranormal tome as effectively. In The Trial of Magneto, although, it’s going to be fascinating to see the long-lasting antivillain need to grapple with this newest instance of his household falling to items.

The Trial of Magneto #1 hits shops on August 18.

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