>>130136779An interview Remender did before he added Wonder Man, Wasp and Sunfire to Uncanny Avengers said his plan was for Wonder Man to take the pacifism a lot further, he'd be sat in an office as the team's PR man, refusing to participate in missions at all, and how it would cause conflict with other team members. Plans evidently changed, and they ended up using him in a defensive role, shielding people with his invulnerability, but refusing to throw punches. The original plan was also to continue to address his instability during Bendis' Avengers, and play up his feelings for Wanda as more of an unhealthy, stalker-like obsession rather than pushing them as a couple. It all sounded a lot more interesting than what we got. But other writers seem to like him as the pacifist superhero, it's a trait that's stuck with him for almost ten years now, through various writers.
>>130137401The only reason he kept occasionally getting books was so Marvel could hold on to the rights to a character name that DC would probably want to get. But his last book was over 15 years ago, it's possible DC might be able to grab the rights to the Wonder Man name by now.
>>130137706He'd be an inoffensive filler character if not for writers trying to replace Vision with him. Nobody would care enough to hate him if Marvel hadn't spent decades trying to replace Wanda/Vision with this guy.
