Today, we look at just how, exactly, Scarlet Witch's children with the Vision (as we saw on WandaVision), who were babies when she lost them, are suddenly teenagers now, as Wiccan and Speed of the Young Avengers.

In Left Unresolved, I spotlight storylines that have been, well, left unresolved.

HOW DID SCARLET WITCH AND VISION HAVE CHILDREN?

One of the key points of Steve Englehart and Richard Howell's year-long Vision and Scarlet Witch mini-series (from 1985-86) was the establishment that Vision WAS human. Just in an artificial body. Vision embraced his humanity at the end of #2 when he decided, "Hey, we should have a kid." In the following issue (by Englehart, Howell and Jim Mooney), the Scarlet Witch expresses some natural doubts about the possibility of a human woman having a child with a synthezoid.

Later in the issue, though, Vision and the Scarlet Witch are captured by the Salem's Seven, who prepare to sacrifice Wanda to Lucifer. There is a whole bunch of magick energy being contained by the leader of the Salem's Seven, Vertigo. When Vision takes out Vertigo, there was suddenly a whole lot of magick with no one to control it. In steps Wanda, but she needs help to control it and the Vision helps her (meanwhile, she is seeing a vision of her magic mentor, Agatha Harkness, basically hinting, "You know, with all of this magick available to you, maybe you can use it for your own benefit").

For lack of a better term, at that point Wanda essentially used the magick to make magic sperm there, impregnating her. Heck, if you want to read Vision and Scarlet Witch's interactions above as "magick sex," well, I guess you could. In any event, in the following issue Wanda learns that she IS, in fact, pregnant, as Doctor Strange gives her both a medical exam AND a magical exam, as he essentially confirms that the magick created a baby inside of her. I love how casual Doctor Strange is about how the baby was conceived. "Eh, it's only magick." At the end of the series, Wanda gives birth to twin boys.

Of course, though, this is comics, so it was not that simple (and, again, it really wasn't that simple to begin with).

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NO, SERIOUSLY, HOW DID SCARLET WITCH AND VISION HAVE CHILDREN

In West Coast Avengers #43, new writer/artist John Byrne (with Mike Machlan on inks) retcons the above story so that now it is Wanda's probability-altering powers that created the babies and not magick. Later that same issue, though, her babies disappear. She keeps firing governesses, but the babies keep disappearing (it turns out that only Wanda's powers were keeping them in existence and since her husband, Vision, had been kidnapped and had his personality wiped clean, she was so freaked out that she couldn't concentrate on her kids). The villainous Master Pandemonium shows up and he tries to use little Billy and Tommy to replace the missing parts of his soul that he had lost years earlier. It turns out that they weren't parts of his soul, but they WERE from someone else's soul. Agatha Harkness explains in 1989's Avengers West Coast #52 (by Byrne and Machlan) that the Scarlet Witch used her reality-altering powers to create the babies...

And the two souls she got for the babies were from pieces of Mephisto. Okay, so the babies were now gone. Years later, Scarlet Witch was reminded of her lost kids and she went nuts on the Avengers, blaming them for her lost kids. Basically a total mental breakdown. She destroyed Avengers Mansion and killed a few Avengers, including her former husband, the Vision.

WHERE ARE SCARLET WITCH AND VISION'S CHILDREN NOW?

After the Avengers disband following Scarlet Witch's rampage, a new team formed called the Young Avengers. One of the team members was a teenager named Billy Kaplan, who lived with his parents in Manhattan. He had various powers, including casting spells. In 2005's Young Avengers #10 (by Allan Heinberg, Jim Cheung, Rob Stull, Dave Meikis, Dexter Vines and Justin Ponsor), the team freed another teen named Thomas Shepherd, who looked like Billy's twin.

In the next issue, a Skrull explains that Billy (now going by Wiccan) and Tommy (now known as Speed) are Scarlet Witch's lost twins!

Billy and Tommy eventually accept that they are Scarlet Witch's reincarnated kids. In 2008's Young Avengers Presents #3 (by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Alina Urusov) they meet Master Pandemonium and he agrees. Eventually, in 2011's Avengers: Children's Crusade #6 (by Allan Heinberg, Jim Cheung, Mark Morales, John Livesay, Dave Meikis and Justin Ponsor), they meet Scarlet Witch (who is no longer mentally unbalanced) and she uses her powers to confirm that Billy and Tommy ARE her children.

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WHY ARE THEY TEENAGERS?

Okay, so Billy and Tommy are the reincarnations of Scarlet Witch and Vision's kids...but what does that actually MEAN? For instance, when we last saw them, before they vanished, they were BABIES and now they are teenager. So how does that work? Billy grew up raised by his parents in Manhattan. In fact, a year or so before the Young Avengers formed, he literally MET the Scarlet Witch in Young Avengers Special #1 (in a story by Allan Heinberg and Jae Lee). So how are they genetically Scarlet Witch's kids if they were born to other people? And if they are reincarnations, how does that work when they were obviously alive when Scarlet Witch had her kids? The whole thing doesn't make sense, and I normally would just lump it into my other feature, "How Can I Explain?" about inexplicable comic book plots, except that I imagine that some writer eventually WILL resolve this, so I am leaving it here.

In 2016's Scarlet Witch #8 (by James Robinson and Tula Lotay), Wanda visits her psychiatrist (actually the Grandmaster of the Circus of Crime, but Wanda is impressed by how good of a therapist he is, even if it is part of a scam of his) and she lays down the two possibilities. Either Billy and Tommy, in effect, took over the souls of Billy Kaplan and Thomas Shepherd (which is messed up) or the souls traveled in time and joined them before they were born and Billy and Tommy were simply raised by other people until their teen years (which is ALSO messed up)...

However, it is important to note that these are just THEORIES by the Scarlet Witch. Again, no one knows for sure how this whole deal works, including the whole "But wait, if they are just soul reincarnations, why do they physically look like each other? Why do they have powers like their mother and uncle? Why do they have powers like their mother and uncle when apparently Wanda and Pietro aren't even mutants?). There are lots of questions that we do not yet have an answer for, but I figure some writer will crack this baby in the future!

If anyone has a suggestion for an unresolved comic book plot, drop me a line at brianc@cbr.com!

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