

Fan-favorite writer and artist John Byrne did this to tremendous reader acclaim in 1990 when he first “revealed” that Wanda’s hexes didn’t so much alter probability on tiny scales but rather alter reality itself – and then had her go insane and attack her Avengers teammates.

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