#eric williams

Hank Pym is Ultron’s dad, who is Vision’s dad, who is Viv’s dad

Vision is brain-brothers with Wonder Man, who is actual brothers with Grim Reaper

Vision had kids with Scarlet Witch, who is siblings with Quicksilver as they are Magneto’s kids

Magneto has another kid, Polaris

Vision & Wanda’s kids are Wiccan and Speed, and Wiccan is married to Hulking, who is the child of Mar-Vell

Mar-Vell had two other kids, Genis & Phyla

Quicksilver had a kid (Luna) with Crystal, who’s part of the Inhuman royal family

Ultron made wives for himself TWICE and had another kid in Victor Mancha

Hank Pym sorta kinda had a kid with Tigra (William), and had a daughter from his (dead) first wife (Nadia), who was adopted by his second (and ex) wife Janet van Dyne

I'm a really, really big fan of how they adapted these two. As mentioned in my earlier post, I think the adaptation choice they made with the Williams' and Simon was very elegant, and that applies to Simon and Eric too.

Making Eric be not abusive, but just kind of unsympathetic to Simon and wanting the best for him but only in a way that aligns with Eric's values was a really clever way to maintain the complexity and nuance and tension of Simon and Eric's relationship from the comics, while also not making Eric a complete bad guy and making him feel more grounded and connect him more to his second-generation Haitian immigrant roots in the MCU.

Simon and Eric have always had a complicated relationship in the comics. Both are victims of abuse, and as the older and stronger of the two, Eric took out his resentment towards his father on Simon. However, both Eric and Simon both see Eric as Simon's protector, and despite his cruelty, Eric also clearly loves his younger brother and was the only person who tried everything to bring Simon back when he died. There has always been this tension, between Eric being a bad person, but also being someone who loves Simon and tries to protect him in his own weird, twisted way.

And I think the choice they made of Eric being this more successful, financially stable guy working in construction who wants to help Simon but also isn't sympathetic in the slightest to Simon's goals or life desires was a really good way to maintain their innate complexity and tension while not making Eric into a complete supervillain. Because he has a point! For the rude way he delivers it, Eric has a point and you can sympathise that he doesn't really want to see his 30 something year old brother be coddled by their mother when he is in a situation of his own making.

And Simon fearing the worst from someone interviewing Eric, and being surprised that he only had good things to say about them, further shows that there is love in their relationship, it is just complex and not always easy and hurts more than it helps.

From Vision and the Scarlet Witch #003

Art by Lorenzo Tammetta, Jacopo Camagni and Ruth Redmond

The Vision & The Scarlet Witch #4 (2025)

My Top 300 Songs of All Time

This pack of benighted idiots, this band of obscurantist politicians, this unholy alliance of egregious individualists, who have nothing constructive to say, who babble week after week the same criticisms that we have lived through for five long years, who, nincompoops that they are, think that they can pick up any old book the day before a debate in the Legislative Council and can pull a fast one in the Council by leaving out the sentence or the paragraph or the pages which contradict their ignorant declamations for people like these power is all that matters.

I love this aspect of Caribbean language-ways and how we adhere to that particular era of English that came over on the boats. It's like how the specific form of Bhojpuri spoken by East Indian indentured labourers didn't develop in an Indian context but alongside/blended with other language groups in Trinidad & Tobago, and why our words for things don't scan with Hindi-speakers from the sourceland.

When I moved back to Canada from Trinidad and spoke with other Indian people, sourceland Indians, they never knew "what I was" or what I was saying when I used Trini Hindi. It was a source of embarrassment then, constantly having to explain that we from the diaspora are still Indian and also distinctly individual, but now I love it. My sister nearly physically fought some dude in a kebab shop in England over her identifying as Trini-Canadian rather than South Asian because he said she "wasn't proud of who she was".

We have to tick "South Asian" on forms because there's no space for us and any reference to Caribbean is Afro-Caribbean, but that's not really what I identify as. I'm the granddaughter of those sugar cane plantation workers who were told (in 1926!) "the less education your children have, the better". I'm the daughter of a man who grew up in the plantation barracks where the sugar employers thought it "unnecessary to provide adequate sanitary facilities for their employees, because the workers would not use them".

Massa day done. It's a powerful phrase when you're constantly decolonizing your own identity in the face of a world that isn't aware of what you are.