Rarely do I write about comic book news on The Daily SuperHero because being just one-man running everything for this website, I can only write so much. But this new piece of information is worthy of posting about because it may also have implications with Marvel movies.
Here is a SPOILER ALERT for comic book readers since Uncanny Avengers No. 4 doesn't come out until next week.
According to the website io9, who also credits ComicVine, Marvel is retconning the origins of Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver. In this report, it looks like Magneto is out as the father of Wanda and Pietro Maximoff and their powers were given to them by the being known as the High Evolutionary. This powerful being is obsessed with perfecting the human race and his experiments on the twins is what gave them their powers.
In other words, they are no longer mutants and they are now super-powered humans.
This may or may not have other effects outside of the comic book universe but since 20th Century Fox owns the movie rights to all mutant characters, there was a gray area when it came to the movie rights of Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver.
Fox used Quicksilver in X-MEN: DAY OF FUTURE PAST, in 2014, and then Marvel Studios used him and his sister in AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON. Now, in theory, since the twins' origins are revealed to be not mutants this could be a loop hole found by Marvel to prevent future use of both Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver in any future X-Men movie. There's been multiple reports of discord between Marvel and Fox when it comes to the X-Men universe and it now seems like Marvel is making moves with characters to prevent Fox from future use.
Does this mean Marvel might be looking for a way to retcon other highly popular mutants like Wolverine or Deadpool? This is unknown but if they are willing to change the origins of the twins then anything is possible since Fox has zero say in what happens in the Marvel comic book universe.
Stay tuned because this story will probably develop more in time.