Biography - page 5
During the Acts of Vengeance, Magneto seized the opportunity to reunite with his catatonic daughter and magnetically lifted her entire cottage into space. Wonder Man and U.S. Agent were available to pursue the odd vessel in a Quinjet. Simon was attempting entry into the flying house when it exploded in the vacuum, killing him. [Avengers West Coast #54-55]
Yet he survived. Wanda's deteriorating mental state was inverse to the growing power at her fingertips. She emerged from her catatonia under Magneto's care as the "Dark Scarlet Witch," a 
cruelly aggressive, mutant supremacist. Her powers were not only great enough to kill Wonder Man in that explosion, but also restore him to life afterwards and reconstruct the destroyed cottage at its original location. Wanda held Simon and several other Avengers and associates prisoner in her cottage, paralyzed in place by her powers while she bragged about being unshackled from her humanity. Here, Wanda's newfound cruelty was on full display when she finally acknowledged Simon's affection for her. Wanda's mockingly seductive behavior was in poor taste given the circumstances, and the appreciation she next demonstrated, well... the less said, the better. [Avengers West Coast #56-57]
[Note: As an aside, the original pages for this issue were ambiguous, but strongly implied that Wanda performed oral sex on Simon against his will off-panel. Editors caught the implication at the last minute and made changes to the scene... only for the final released copy to strongly imply Wanda physically castrated Wonder Man instead! The exact details of how Wanda "hurt him," as the dialogue states, remains up to the reader's imagination.]
Wonder Man and the Avengers failed to "rescue" Wanda from Magneto, as her new personality didn't want saving. Matters only got worse when Wanda was kidnapped by Immortus in order to fulfill his long-running plans for manipulating her. Simon and the Avengers West traveled to Limbo to confront Immortus, and Wanda finally reclaimed her sanity while casting off the nexus energy Immortus cultivated inside her. [Avengers West Coast #60-62] Simon and Wanda had an awkward reunion as she recovered in the hospital after her ordeal, but all seemed to be forgiven between them. Still, Simon's short fuse revealed itself when he called New York to tell Vision about Wanda's injuries. Vision had transferred to the East Coast roster during Wanda's deterioration and now formally replied it was best he and Wanda have no further interaction in the future. Wonder Man nearly destroyed the sitting room in Avengers Compound after that, lashing out at the unfairness of being in love with a woman in love with his dead brother, who was nevertheless still walking around. Nothing could be more futile than competing with a living ghost, it seemed. [Avengers West Coast #63]
After Wanda left the hospital, Simon finally asked her out to dinner (as friends), and the hesitant Wanda agreed to the date. Their talk was unfortunately interrupted by the resurrection of the GrimReaper, now a life-energy draining zombie with no qualms about hurting Simon or anyone he loved in his previous life. Still, a quirk of Wonder Man's ionic physiology made him immune to the Reaper's scythe -- Eric's stolen life essence actually began to flow out of him and into Simon when they connected.
When the Reaper escaped, the Avengers West chose to follow up on an Ultron-related plot while waiting for fresh leads, but Wonder Man refused. Simon broke ranks with the team to hunt his murderous brother before anyone else died to feed Eric's selfish interests. Even Wanda couldn't dissuade Simon from running off half-cocked. Eventually, the two plots intersected as Grim Reaper wanted to stop Ultron-13's scheme to "robotize" humanity, which would deprive Eric of his "food supply." Additionally, with Ultron inadvertently absorbing human life essence into himself from his Andrones as a side-effect, the Reaper was uniquely positioned to stop the mad robot.
Still, in exchange for his help tracking and stopping Ultron, the Reaper made Wonder Man swear an oath not to interfere with his feeding, so long as he didn't exceed the necessary one lifeforce a 
day he needed to survive. Simon reluctantly agreed to Eric's terms, and the brothers located Ultron in a concealed airship over the Rose Parade. When Grim Reaper used Ultron's artificial lifeforce as a loophole to drain the robot's power, he cackled victoriously about the hundreds of people he would kill a year now that Simon had sworn not to stop him. Wonder Man yelled at his brother that they weren't children playing games anymore and fought to bring down the Reaper, despite his oath. [Avengers West Coast #65-68]
Days later, Avengers West voted to finalize their official roster under the new Avengers United Nations charter. Simon was thrilled that he and Wanda were voted in by the membership as part 
of the final team, and began talking dinner plans. Simon was crushed, however, when Wanda said they shouldn't see each other anymore. Dating someone so much like Vision used to be was twisting her up inside, and Wanda would rather remain friends. [Avengers West Coast #69] Simon did not take the rejection well. He was cold and dismissive towards Wanda for days, flaunting his date plans with Hollywood starlets when Wanda was around at Avengers Compound. Simon eventually cooled down and they went back to being friends, but somehow an even more awkward friendship than before. [Avengers West Coast #70-74]
It would be easy to assume this contributed to Simon's decision to finally move out of the Avengers' bungalows on the Compound and get his own place in Hollywood. Despite the success of Arkon IV, Simon's career had been idling since then. His agent, Neal Saroyan, was determined to keep Simon in the action business, but Simon wanted to branch out into more serious films. Neal also had other ideas about Simon's image that he initiated without Simon's consent. Neal 
wasn't above illegal dealings to build up Simon's spotlight, and he even paid off the villain Goliath to start a public brawl with Wonder Man for the publicity. He also staged a media relationship between Simon and Ginger Beach, a 19 year old beer commercial model from his agency. Together, they set up Simon with a sidekick, Ginger's kid brother Spider. In the first "Wonder Man and Spider!" adventure, Simon wrecked his one-of-a-kind Stark Enterprises belt jets, and was forced to get around Los Angeles by jumping like the Hulk. Since he didn't have a car. In L.A.!
Zaniness aside, Simon also met a relatively normal woman named Alex Flores, a screenwriter on one of his films. Alex took it in stride when Wonder Man was mind-controlled by the Enchantress and tried to kill her, and saw past his beefcake exterior. They became friends and Alex even saved Simon from an assassin named Splice a few weeks later. Simon was taken aback at first when he met Jamie, Alex's 12 year old daughter, but still wanted to pursue a relationship with her. In Simon's mind, Alex, Ginger and Wanda represented the normal, Hollywood and Avenger aspects of his life, and choosing between them meant choosing the type of life he wanted to make for himself. [Wonder Man (1st series) #1-4, 10-11]
Wonder Man thought he had long ago put his past as a weapons manufacturer behind him, but the Kree-Shi'ar War reawakened his guilt about those days. As part of the Avengers envoy to the Shi'ar Empire trying to stop the war, Simon witnessed Empress Lilandra preparing the Nega-Bomb for deployment in the Kree Empire "as a deterrent." Wonder Man knew some weapons 
were inevitably used, regardless of intent, and leapt aboard the massive bomb casing with Vision as it began its flight through stargates to the Kree galaxy. Wonder Man fought with the Starjammers, intervening Skrulls and even the Vision onboard the bomb over whether it should be used. Eventually, the multiple conflicts aboard the Nega-Bomb shook the detonator, causing the anti-matter force of the Negative Zone to be released. The bomb exploded, with Wonder Man and Vision still on-board.
Miraculously, the two Avengers survived the point blank detonation. Because the charge was primed to race away from the center of the Nega-Bomb, the majority of the blast erupted beyond Wonder Man and Vision, keeping them relatively intact. The same could not be said for billions upon billions of Kree. A full 98% of the galaxy-spanning empire was killed in the blast. As the surviving Avengers arrived on the Kree capital of Hala to survey the damage, they learned the entire war had been orchestrated by the Kree Supreme Intelligence in order to jumpstart the evolutionary development of the Kree survivors. In response, Iron Man organized an execution squad of Avengers to assassinate the Intelligence, and Simon and Vision were a part of it. These seven Avengers succeeded in their goal and executed the Supreme Intelligence in cold blood. The demoralized and divided team returned to Earth, shell-shocked by their "victory." [Operation: Galactic Storm crossover]