Update:

It appears that the origin of Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver has been given another revision.

Uncanny Avengers #4, by writer Rick Remender and artist Daniel Acuna, reveals that the High Evolutionary stole Wanda and Pietro Maximoff from their birth parents, experimented on them to give them powers, and then returned them to their parents disguised as mutants. So it turns out that Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver are not mutants, but normal humans who were given powers. By that logic, their parents are their original ones, Django and Marya Maximoff, not Magneto and Magda.Why would Marvel make this odd change? The prominent theory is that because the twins are both X-Men characters and Avengers characters, they can be used in both Fox movies and Marvel Studios movies. Fox controls the rights to make X-Men movies, which explains why Quicksilver was in both X-Men: Days of Future Past and Avengers: Age of Ultron, although with different back-stories and played by different actors. We're no legal whizzes, so it's unclear whether retroactively altering the continuity so that the twins were never mutants affects whether they can be used in Fox's movies anymore. X-Men: Apocalypse comes out next year and is reported to again feature Quicksilver, so only time will tell.The original story from February 26 is below.

Art by Danial Acuna

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After revealing that Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch aren't the children of Magneto in last year's comic book mini-series Avengers & X-Men: AXIS, writer Rick Remender is now shedding more light on the real origins of these two characters. As revealed in Uncanny Avengers #2 yesterday, it turns out the two heroes are not mutants and were actually created by the Marvel villain known as the High Evolutionary.That wasn't the only twist in this comic. It turns out that Wanda and Pietro have a sister named Luminous, one whom the High Evolutionary has tasked with killing them:While Remender likely has more to reveal about the revised origin story of these characters, this suggests that the prevailing theory about the two being Inhumans rather than mutants is false.This new comic origin sets them apart from their movie versions set to appear in May's Avengers: Age of Ultron. In the recent digital comic Avengers: Age of Ultron - This Scepter'd Isle, we learned that Wanda and Pietro gained their superhuman abilities after Baron Strucker used Loki's scepter to unlock their hidden potential.As for why their origins are being altered at all, the prevailing theory is that Marvel wants to make the comics more like the movies, and because Fox owns the film rights to the X-Men franchise, Marvel isn't able to depict Wanda and Pietro as mutants or children of Magneto in their movies. Now that both the comic book and movie versions of the characters are no longer mutants, it would seem that's no longer a problem for them.

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