Well, that should be interesting, since they were not "fragments of Mephisto" to begin with.

QUOTE: Billy and Tommy coming back is about the same as soap opera kids growing up between seasons. At least on Fresh Prince of Bel-Air the poked fun at it. "Well, Byrne destroyed them as kids, so let's bring them back as if they were never gotten rid of, and make them teenagers so they can interact with the Young Avenger's."

I don't think that's the case. We don't know how they came back exactly yet, but Byrne's story was directly referenced.

So what's your problem; that they were brought back in the first place?

I agree that the love affair of Vision and the Scarlet Witch seems odd, but it makes sense in way that "comic book logic" works.  If you think the Vision is simply a robot, then it's particular weird.  This is how the Ultimates seem to be handling it. 

However, the Vision is not a robot, but a synthetic man.  Roy Thomas called him a synthozoid, but I think Roy just like to show off by using long words.  The Vision was supposed to have been the original Human Torch, and the original Human Torch was an "android" - not robot - who seemed like an artificial, but still biological man.  He had blood, looked human, breathed, had emotions, and presumably had hormones just as any real man did.  If we remember this, then we can see that the Vision was much more like a man than any robot.

Englehart, who created the twins, seemed to think it was very important to the Vision and the Scarlet Witch creatively, but I don't think it added a lot to them.  It just complicated a lot things.  He was probably wrong in doing it, but once established I think it should simply have been left alone.  JB "fixing" it by making them to have never existed just made a weird situation even creepier.  Still, who knows how everything would have turned out had JB been allowed to complete his storyline.  I don't think it's correct to judge the merit of an aborted run - some storylines just need to be played out in full before we can say whether it was a good idea or not.  I was not bothered by the new depiction of the Vision because such things can easily be restored in the course of a storyline.

However, now that the twins are gone, I feel this is yet another occassion where they should have been left behind in peace.  Bringing up this old bit of continuity only highlights the problem.  Nor is it necessary.  One problem of today's comics is that they keep dredging up old bits of lore, when the writers should be thinking of NEW things to delight and amaze us.

That's not really comparable.

What would be comparable would be if Franklin was suddenly a teenager and it was accepted as the norm.

We don't know the full origins of Wiccan or Speed yet, but it's not like they just walked by the dinner table and Scarlet Witch said, "Hey boys, did you brush your teeth?"

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