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Mutant Kid: *has the power heal all injuries and to annihilate all forms of illnesses* Wanda: I'm gonna do what's called a pro gamer move.

I always imagined that Wanda whispered that line.

I'd never thought about House of M kickstarting Marvel's age of big crossover events. Never really occurred to me just how indelible an effect that book had on the future of the Marvel universe all the way through to today. Excellent video as usual, Owen!

And yet no one ever considers that Scarlet Witch Powers are ridiculously OP that they’re nearly Godlike.

Wanda is the Jean Grey of the Avengers! Whereas Fox screwed up the Dark Phoenix storyline, the MCU is meticulously moulding the Scarlet Witch travails in WandaVision and onward.

Surprised you didn't mention the retcon of Wanda and Quicksliver NOT being mutants that happened years later and how it seems Marvel may in fact be reversing course on that in reestablishing them as Mutants in a Pax Krakoa Marvel Universe. Especially since Wanda was declared a traitor and pretender to the Mutant Race.

you’re doing god’s work owen, we’re getting closer and closer to time runs out 😤

Avengers disassembled is the comic series that made marvel fans aware that Bendis should not trusted with the main continuity, because he'll disregard it and do whatever he pleases leaving it to the next writer to fix. dc fans found out the hard way what Marvel fans went through during the early to mid 2000s with his Superman run. Bendis does his best work when he's not confined to previously established continuity there's a reason his Ultimate Spider-Man run is so good because he didn't have to worry about that pre-established lore of Earth 616. I will admit Bendis Batman Universe miniseries is really good because it wasn't constrained by continuity.

It's hard to revisit House of M and not ultimately view it as a petty ploy to devalue the X-Men brand while Fox held the film rights... and Bendis went along with it as he got to bring some of his most wanted toys back...

Quicksilver can never catch a break

It's interesting to that this was the beginning of Marvel's modern age. Personally, I'm not a huge fan of Marvel post-2005, but I think it's plain that understanding this story is important for understanding the comics of today. Bendis, for all his faults, knows how to challenge people's perceptions. I don't like where they've gone since, but I do appreciate how stories like this make clear how they intended to move forward. Great video, Owen.

I really loved House of M as a teenager and I think that good part of it is the art of Coipel, he makes everything looks epic, elegant and exciting. He really has a unique take on superhero comics.

Who's here because of wandavision

Thank God, that Hickman made mutants their House of X. It's practically a "Mutant Heaven" (won't call it Utopia, because last time it didn't work out for them). I love the fact that even old greatest X-Villains like Apocalypse and Mr. Sinister are welcome their and are practically heroes in new X-series. After all those "Ages of..." and "Houses of ..." mutants are being fine. Especially awesome is the that the mutants who died years ago or lost their powers after House of M are back (Banshee, Wind Dancer, Wither) I just hope they would somehow bring back Jimmy Hudson (Wolverine's son from Ultimate Universe), because he's awesome and Marvel practically abandoned him after he was infected with Poison in X-Men Blue.

Bendis is the biggest one-hit wonder in all comics, making a modern classic in Ultimate Spider-Man. Then for every comic he does afterwards he just ignores any previous contiunuity, characterisation or previous events just to make his stories work. His writing is filled with the most obnoxious of dialogue and entire filler pages because he's either too uncreative or too lazy to write something engaging. His writing only works when he gets a story alt-universe story so he can have his own sigular story without ruining what came before like he did with his moronic desicions in his Superman run.

I think WandaVision will end with Wanda being completely alone, Hayward calling her a mutant; insulting her, saying she’s the only one. And she takes on the title and her last words will be “No, more mutants”. Giving so many mutant abilities, and rebirthing her children.

House of M is one of my favorite Marvel stories ever and I am so glad to have it in floppies. Great video, keep up the good job 👏

I remember reading this the summer of 2005... I was 16 going on 17... good times. Still have this run in my collection btw.

Love the era of X-Men that followed this, Messiah trilogy is fantastic, Hope is one if not the only one to get a rather conclusive arc, though I would like to see more of her as I think there are plenty of stories to tell, but I don't mind the wait... And I never saw Cyclops as taking a "villainous turn" I feel he became more anti-hero, colder and more means to an end, more Punisher than Captain America.

The Messiah trilogy was one of the best stories that came from the shadow of House M.

The era following Decimation up until AvX was one of my favorite for the xmen. They were really able to push that feeling that the time of mutants had passed and that all they could do was just try to strive off extinction that little while longer.

Great video. I've been a Scarlet Witch fan since X-Men Evolution when she destroyed everybody. So hearing just how powerful she really is gives me hope we see this in WandaVision.

Certainly an interesting era and event for the X-Men.

Amazing video as always Owen, I always look forward to these

This is probably such a dead horse to beat but I'd love to see you tackle Tom King's Vision run since it's the other side of the coin of what WandaVision is alongside House of M.

Awesome video man, I read house of m at the right time it seems. Been looking forward too this, keep it up!

You're my favorite channel. Thank you, sir.

House of M is evem still relevant in the Hickman X-Men era. Wanda is basically is a antichrist scapegoat figure on Krakoa, and the decimation event is one of the most significant actions against mutantkind that compelled Xavier and Magneto to participate in Moira's agenda. (Although it kinda doesn't make sense why they'd hate Wanda when she can just remake a House of M reality since that's basically what Krakoa is trying to accomplish now).

House of M was great, but can we finally acknowledge how inconsistent The Decimation was? First they said that only 198 mutants still had their powers, then they said that was only in America. Iceman lost his powers, until they revealed that he was just faking it. Wanda said no more mutants taking away the powers of mutants throughout the multiverse, and then they pretended that never really happened. Some mutants and people weren't in the House of M reality, even though they clarified that the House of M reality had encompassed everybody on earth. At the end of AvX all mutants got their powers back, wait, no some mutants did not have their powers returned. So confusing!!!!

Great video! It's so interesting to think that this one event did so much for the Marvel universe and the mutants themselves. On one hand the mutant era it ushered in was such a weird one for story-telling with the loss of the minority metaphor often associated with the mutants. On the other hand, it is because of this weird era it created, that we were given the current Hickman-led era of mutant stories that has been some of the best x-stories in a long time. From the outside looking in, I see why they went this path but still thought some of it could've been avoided. Looking at it in an in-universe lens, they made the story work and were able to adapt following its conclusion. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Owen. I always look forward to when you have a new video drop!

Great job as always. Anytime you do a vid on mutants, I'm all in. Keep up the great work and stay safe.

I have 3 other Comic story recappers subscribed to. But I really love your style. Not too long not too short. Just the right information I need. Subscribed to you now. Looking forward to future work

Wow she literally broke the 4th wall and changed Marvel itself.. Scarlet Witch 🧙‍♀️ too OP

I had never read house of m despite always meaning to but this video is the kick I needed to finally pick it up and give it a go

Beautifully constructed, great video!

Just a suggestion Could you cover how all over the place the iron man comics are they have no direction

10:07 Strange how that coincided with Disney getting the rights back from Fox

Bravo , fantastic video, great job

I LOVE this story! One of my all time favorites. I’ve enjoyed it many times over. During my rewatch of your video, at about the 4 minute mark, I wondered if Wolverine is actually the villain of this whole story. From the perspective of those who enjoy their existence on this reality, he offers an alternative that is rife with suffering and ideology. No thanks, Bub…I’d be all-in

great job on covering house of m man ;)

Wolverine being able to remember the real world because of his desire to remember his past is fucking brilliant.

EVENTS, EVENTS, EVENTS! If everything is special then nothing is special.

cool video, good pacing and explanation of the story.

I actually just was gonna start this today so I came to drop a like. Ill be back when i finished it. Keep up the good work my man

House of M definitely feels like a pivot point, both creatively and business wise. I dont think it can be really discussed without talking about the Fox Xmen movies and the change in Marvel's business going forward. Both in trimming a lot of the post 90s Xmen glut but also shrinking their exposure in Marvel when their relationship with Fox got contentious. But either way, its probably the clearest point of delineation between comics and style I remembered as a kid, and those I read in late high-school.

House of M was good, but I really grew tired of all other stories trying to adapt and face the consequences of Wanda´s actions.

Excellent brief synopsis of House of M!

Yeah, I read this one. 4:29 this part stayed in my mind, because it’s Logan as director of SHIELD, he has a thing with mystique and Kurt and Rogue are there too. What are their lives? 🤣

This should be an animated movie

Hearing Owen curse, even if it was just him quoting someone else, really caught me off guard.

I still don't get why Polaris was made Magneto's daughter. Just because she has the same powers as him doesn't mean they have to be related. Before that retcon Starr Saxon tried to use a Magneto robot to trick Lorna into working for him but Iceman found out her real parents died in a plane crash.

WandaVision about to get serious

Could you do a video on the 2013 Avengers limited series "Children's Crusade"? I think it has plenty of plot points that the MCU might take from, so I think it would be cool

Wanda: oh no. Woopsies! [Laugh Track]

Love this

One of many reasons why DC should never have let Bendis near Superman.

I realized that the No More Sex meme was from that No more mutants panel

Meanwhile in Space Thanos: Hmm... that's not a bad idea

It may have been shocking at the time but now it just seems like in desperation Marvel let a madman go into a fine China shop with a baseball bat .

If you want to say so, dude but for X-men readers HOM and the Decimation was Quesada and Bendis wrecking a franchise to bring back their childhoods for the 60's and 70''s sent the x-men down nearly a Decade of mostly crap stories. I dropped everything except X-factor and later picked up the trades of New X-men. X-force was decent enough writing wise but wasn't my taste. Messiah Complex and Necrosha being interesting crossover. I peace-ed out of marvel after the Vampire vs X-men story arc. Kept an ear to the ground only came back in early 2020 after watching a few Rob reviews of Dawn of X-/Powers of X .

@05:35 I remember the Hawkeye moment at the end of issue three was specifically the scene that Bendis said would "break the internet in half." That Wednesday I secured my copy and called in to work...like an idiot. Wow, what a letdown that was. The watercooler chat about this series cratered at our local shop. It was overhyped and under-delivering...repeatedly. The only thing worse in comics, I think, than death-stunting is resurrection-stunting. I try time and again to return to the stories and I find I liked so many of the spin-offs better.

The huge crossovers were a big marvel staple loooong before Bendis. Contest of champions, secret wars 1 and 2, etc.

Do you think Marvel will ever consider a true reboot of their comics continuity? Not an alternative continuity like Ultimate or Heroes Reborn, but a full reboot starting the main line of comics over like DC's Rebirth (or New 52). I'm not sure I like the idea, but I wonder if it would ever be viable.

This all coincided with the fox/mcu back and forth during that time in an attempt to devalue mutants due to movie rights issues

3:16 *wanda vision walks through the door*

Both Marvel and DC have had some truly awesome and epic stories, and this one, and everything that came out of it, was one. Sadly, both companies have decided to commit suicide, and are now producing absolute trash that even insane monkeys don't want to read. The new Golden Age was short-lived.

Nice

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There's also the theory that the no more mutants aspect was kind of a fuck you to Fox Studios. The X Men movies were doing gangbusters and Marvel didn't want to keep giving them free publicity. So they were trying to reduce the mutants involvement in the Marvel comic universe. And it was around the same time that Marvel got back the rights to some of their characters for movies and wanted to focus the comics on those. Iron Man began scripting in the same year as House of M and also explains why he was such a pivitol part of Civil War.

When u'll upload vdo on Superman 1978

My wandavision theory is Wanda is going to be Scarlett witch and accidentally create mutants with this “dome” reality show. As they leave they’ve been altered but if the dome comes down then maybe everyone inside becomes a mutant.

fifteen years? crap, where's the time gone? hey Wanda, try this one: "no more cross-over events!"

The death of superman/house of m and their consequences, have been too disastrous 😔✊

House of M is what makes Hickman's run so enticing to me, he made mutants powerhouses again, they stopped being everyone's bitches. I hated what Bendis did, he essentially drove me away from the X-Men when he took over and Rosenberg made sure I stayed away, but Hickman has done so much in so little time that I feel grateful for the past now.

The line should have been “we don’t have the film rights to the X-Men”. That’s why they did this.

I'm sure this won't have any other ramifications in other media. *We are an unusual couple intensifies*

Owen, do you remember Emma Frost in the Civil War story, asking Tony " Where were you, when our babies were dying?"? Is that how House of M influenced Civil War?

You know something funny? Just yesterday, I picked up House of M from my public library in preparation for WandaVision. *COINCIDENCE?!?!?!?* ....probably. xD

My Hero Academia is a must read manga.....

Ok this is going to take a minute and I think this is a good place to ask this. I grew up in the 80s mostly on DC because of COIE which I loved. I didn't get into Marvel until later in college and dipped out in the mid 90s. I like the MCU and in the last couple years I've been catching up with the comics, and am really disliking Bendis. House of M was so dirty in so many ways.. One of the reasons I like the MCU is that the storylines are from runs I know from back in the day, and they made a lot of bad runs into good or at least decent movies. I'm still 11 years old when I get to see great action scenes with real movie stars instead of Superman III & Howard the Duck, I still can't believe they made Hawkeye, Captain America and Vision look not just good but cool. But now that they're doing Carol Danvers & House of M I don't know what to make of this. These runs, finding out about them now were toxic. There's always going to be writers that don't care to know the continuity of the characters they're writing, it's comics but how do you let someone destroy mutants and the X-Men? And it is an absolute character assassination of Scarlet Witch, if someone hates mutants don't have him write X-Men. And especially don't kill your biggest asset because you don't like the studio that has the film rights, I am just catching up here and it's absolutely astonishing what has happened to the industry. So is it inevitable now that the MCU goes All New All Different? I don't know..

house of m I thought was a okay story but oh boy I really don't like the way we got to house of M with the terrible destruction of the avengers and scarlet witch character with avengers disassemble but that's just my opinion.

I hated House of M when it happened, bc like you said, it kick-started crossover events. I was a big fan of that Avengers run and they just suddenly cut it short with dangling plot lines to lead into the event and then soft rebooting. It's what started my declining interest in superhero comics. As any time I got invested in a single series there was the likely event a new crossover story would happen and at best pause or at worst completely end whatever stories were going on. And this would keep happening over and over with basically annual events that required every series to be involved. Like how Civil War basically ended that Spiderman run by making him reveal his identity to the world. But at least House of M and Civil War were generally interesting events I did enjoy conceptually. They did build Wanda's faltering mental state for awhile in Avengers and Civil War was kind of brewing for like a decade in Marvel in general and felt relevant in a post 9-11 American paranoia. So I kept going. But I really called it quits when one of my favorite runs of the time, the really great and underappreciated meta She Hulk story as a multi dimensional lawyer, got ended by Secret Invasion. I couldn't care less about Secret Invasion, it felt so artificially inserted, that it became extremely apparent to me that investing in any one series and writer would just be ended by an editorially mandated world event.

So Joe Quesadilla hates mutants?

U should do daredevil born again

Season 2 Cliffhanger I hope is Season 3 House of M (Wandavision)

three words no more mutants

Great video as always Owen. I wonder about the long term ramifications regarding both the comics and the MCU. The issues that Marvel and Fox had over the film rights caused a larger rift than us true fans wanted in the publications. It obviously didn’t work out on either page nor screen. Inhumans was a bust and I believe that Pietro and Wanda have been retconned out of Magneto’s family tree in both print and film. I believe that whatever is about to happen with the cinematic “multiverse” will be the closest we get to source material continuity. In Feige we trust. God Bless Marvel.

X men are finally back in Hickman's story... as villains. Yeah I think I'm good thanks.

i thought the comic that inspired WandaVision was The Vision and the Scarlet Witch? A specific comic about how Wanda loses her kids because like the devil or something wants their souls back? But I do see how House Of M also inspired Wandavision AND EVEN Dr Strange MoM

God, Avegners Disassembled was so bad. Literally the only good thing to come out of it was the short Thor run by Oeming.

Ah The comic where scarlet witch said fuck it and destroyed The whole universe

House of M is Marvel's equivalent to the death of Superman In the fact that it had long term-negative consequences 😅😣🙃

What’s really disappointing is that Wanda Vision has very little to do with House of M save Scarlet losing her grasp on reality. Besides being the cause, Wanda had a very small role in that storyline. The context of that story had much more to do with the other heroes having to come to grips with being given everything they’ve ever wanted only to have to sacrifice their greatest wishes for the sake of the world. Saying Wanda was the main character is like saying Legion was the main character of Age of Apocalypse.

Reality warping is bonkers.

Gee, I wonder if this video about House of M being released now has anything to do with an upcoming Marvel TV show about Wanda seemingly getting everything she wanted which half the Internet believes is some kind of adaptation of House of M........

And then in 2011 they redeemd Wanda and in 2015 it was revealed that she never was daughter of Magneto and wasn't even a mutant lol

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I think West Coast Avengers 51 & 52 is more taking place

So if I read house of m before avengers vs x men I will understand ?