How (Not) to Turn a Hero Into a Mass Murderer | Wanda Maximoff Character Analysis 

You got to give it to Elizabeth Olson for caring about her character.

It may be irrational of me, but I've always found Wanda's resolve to remain a hero despite all her heartache extremely inspiring. Her going full villain really insulted me because of that.

Agreed, I feel turning her into a villain is not only a huge disserve to her arc, but also to Vision who believed in her and inspired her in a way to do the right thing at the end of WandaVision. Not only that, but doing so sort of shows little care for the invested in her arc audience.

Why does it always have to end with a grief/scorned red headed woman with telekenetic powers ending the world?

Let’s just all agree that Michael waldron single handedly ruined her entire character. It’s extremely disappointing to see how horribly he handled her arc and pacing.

It's so bizarre how evil she is in the movie. She didn't hesitate kills dozens of people in horrific ways. When did she change so much that??

seriously, Marvel failed Wanda here.

I hated what they did to Wanda in Multiverse of Madness. Her arc was done in WandaVision. Regardless if people say it was the Darkhold, even that doesn't justify Wanda's actions in the movie. While I like the cameos and some of the plots in the story, Multiverse of Madness remains one of my least favorite Marvel movies.

Anakin Skywalker in the prequels is a far better example of how to do a tragic character correctly. Through a combination of his childhood traumas, character flaws and circumstances, Anakin ends up descending into ever increasing paranoia and desperation over the supposed imminent death of his pregnant wife to the point where he ends up making a deal with the devil who’s spent the past 15 years convincing him that he’s actually the angel on his shoulder.

I could also see the darkhold making Wanda believe her alt-kids were in danger and twisted her mind and perception to make her a villain in her ruthlessness to "save them". It's really too bad they did such a lazy script for MOM, I agree with you completely here.

they should rename the MCU to the MCAU Marvel Character Assassination Universe

Not only that but also: In the post credit scene of Wandavision, Wanda is studying the Darkhold when suddenly, she hears her kids calling out to her for help. "Mom, help us. Please." The show, sets up an understandable and sympathetic motivation: Her kids are presumably in danger, so she's going to search the multiverse in hopes of finding and saving them. Hard cut to MOM and this is never acknowledged. Her motivation now is changed to something unbelievably horrific and evil: Wanda has been dreaming about her kids every night. Earlier in the film, it is revealed that dreams are the window to other universes. She's been chilling in her cabin, sending demons after America in order to steal her powers and has a very specific plan in mind. She'll leave Universe 616 and head to another. There she'll kill her variant, take her place and raise the kids. The kids that she *knows* are safe and happy with their *actual* mother. By changing the reason for her descent into ruthless villainy from "my kids are in grave danger, i don't know where but i need to find them immediately so get the fuck out of my way" to "i want to find a universe where I'm happy with my kids and so, i will kill my variant and raise my (hers) children", the writer shoots himself on the foot and open a can of worms. The only reason why people complain about the lack of Vision, Pietro or hell even Wanda's parents it's because of the way that the movie stupidly presents her reasoning and contrasts it with Strange's "are you happy". Nobody would question Wanda, if she was desperately searching ONLY for her kids while their cries tormented her. But alas...

I'm a Wanda Stan and I loved seeing Wanda be all powerful in MoM and I'm even okay with her being the villain, the only thing I didn't like was her motivation for being the villain, in the wandavision post credit scene it showed her using the dark hold when she hears her kids calling out to her, her kids were saying things like "mom help" and "please". I understand wanda believing that her kids are in danger and wanting to help them by doing whatever is nesscascary even if it means hurting people, this would have been a much more believable justification for her actions instead of just I want my kids back so I'm going to steal a girls powers killing her in the process and then travel to another universe where my kids are living happy lives with there mother and then I'm going to kill there mother and raise them myself, I hope that marvel realizes there mistake and gives Wanda the redemption ark she deserves.

I know Elizabeth was uncomfortable with the drastic change and I thought it was lazy writing. Wanda is my favourite character and to see her so mistreated was painful and that ending was an insult to her too. Stephen Strange made so many similar choices and as Wanda said he's hailed a hero. I hope Kevin and Marvel see this and rectify it with Childrens Crusade.

You talked about something really important about Wanda. She doesn't like to inflict pain on others. She was horrified of Ultron's plan. When she lost control containing the bomb and ended up killing people in the building she felt horrible for what she did. When agatha set free the minds of westeview residents, they said "We have your nightmares". The first thing she said wasn't a justification, it was "what?! no!". She realized at that moment it wasn't mind control, it was mental torture and released them and then the town after defeating Agatha. From begining to end Wanda doesn't like to inflict pain and never ran way from her responsabilites. It doesn't make sense she flying away from the police and then becoming a cold blooded murderer in MoM.

Her arc in MoM is too similar to her own in the wandavision series and Eternals with Icarus (good intentions but then realizing they were wrong) which just happened in the MCU timeline.

I think the reason for her villain era is simple. The writers bound themselves to making Wanda the villain, purely because she is capable of showing immense power. The writers should've watched Wandavision and analyzised it for her change to make sense, but they didn't. They simply took the darkhold and made it the entire cause of her corruption, neglecting her entire story. It's a shame how lazy they were with writing Wanda from a hero to villain, but I still really enjoyed the movie because I still loved her character. I hope they don't make the same mistake again.

Just watched the WandaVision final fight scene, after she takes Agathas powers, Agatha said “you don’t know what you’ve done”, they could have expanded on that so easily! Agatha absorbed magic during her centuries that was evil, and helped to corrupt Wanda. Instead, nothing has happened with that. Wanda didn’t even try to continue learning from Agatha or try to find out what Agatha meant.

I remember seeing somewhere Wanda was supposed to be a Villian much later down the line but Rami (?) said "why should they get the good villain" and decided to rush the arc. Such a shame because I loved Wanda and they ruined her arc

I thought Dr. Strange and TMOM would be them both teaming up and exploring the multiverse together for some reason but nope. Sam had to f*ck it up

From what I’ve seen and read, Wanda as a villain was a last second re-write, mauler did a video going into this

Granted I have not seen Wandavison yet but I thought Elizabeth Olsen gave such a great performance as Wanda that it worked for me I totally believed she was a mother who was willing to go to extreme length to get back together with her children and that final scene with her is heartbreaking.

I think what really got in the way was the desire to keep Wanda as the villain a twist. Wandavision could have had pretty much the same story but if they highlighted darker tendencies and made her reluctantly give up her family rather than graciously, the transition to a villain would’ve been smoother but much more obvious. And they clearly couldn’t do that given how much they tried to keep her villain status a secret up until multiverses release

The Mcu should have ended at Endgame.

My friend, with whom i watched the Multiverse of Madness, was like: This makes no sense, I don't want to watch every little thing Marvel puts out just to understand the movies And I was like: Don't worry, I watched the series and it still doesn't make sense

To me honestly. Her murderous rampage is from her corruption by the darkhold and it’s spells. Then at the end when she realizes what she became after seeing her children afraid of her, she breaks out of the corruption and then has the emotional moment with 838 Wanda and then doing the right thing in the end by destroying all the darkholds and the throne.

Olsen truly gave brilliance, intrigue and power to the character of Scarlet Witch. Superb actress. 👌❤️

Mulitverse of Madness was meant to be Wandas arc into villainy but the writer didn't want to do that as he wanted a villainous Wanda. So you get this massive jarring of Wanda now being a killer for little to no reason. I think in Wandavision Wanda was still a villain at the end as she still saw herself as innocent of what she had done. Making Wanda a villain fits but it was just done so badly but then Marvel has always sucked at villains

Great breakdown. I was really disappointed by what they did to her character.

Everytime something sad happens, we all think and assume that this is the start of her arc of acceptance and heroic legacy… but every time no she has a chance to become a main avenger and lunch box hero… another sad thing happens and resets her depression.. and multiverse of madness didn’t have that loop.. just when you think it’s gonna happen, it takes a SIKE and k1lls her off at her worst and most depressed and when she feels like a demonic monster

I think MOM was a BIG mistake. And Olsen's Wanda should have another opportunity.

I wish she was more of an ally in Multiverse instead of a villain

If Marvel wanted to go the anti-hero/villain route then she needed to be in endgame, that alone could've served as the movie where she starts to lose her cool and maybe you can show her starting to warp reality in an end credits scene. That leads into WandaVision where we see the effects of that. And maybe we see in WV that the presence of the Darkhold is slowly corrupting her, even though she wants to do good. That could culminate into MoM as she's been fully transformed by being so enveloped in studying it. But that would also require the studio to collaborate as a whole and they haven't seemed to have the desire to do that since after Endgame

Anakin turning to the Dark Side was more believable than Wanda's turn. She's good. Dr. Strange Multiverse is a heartless, WOKE cash grab.

Multiverse is a mess. I heard in the original script there was another villain manipulating her, and that really would have helped.

judging by the clips i've seen, it's a little too gratuitous. I only just realised how much I actually cared about her when she became Scarlet Witch. I don't like the fact that she is Evil now.

I didn't mind Wanda being a Villain in Multiverse of Madness, because I know what she went through. I just didn't think her turn to the Dark Side was executed well.

Can’t agree more. There is a serious problem of inconsistency and transition of Wanda’s essential character between Wandavision and Dr. Stranger 2.

Wanda is my favorite hero what marvel has done to her in wandavision is disgusting

MOM should've been the movie to have Wanda, having become the Scarlet Witch after WandaVision, to team up alongside Strange and Wong to fight a common bigger enemy that's after America Chavez's multiversal travelling powers and they could've had Wanda occasionally using the Darkhold during the movie, slowly falling into darkness. During the movie, they could've kept the dreamwalking story, showing Wanda dreaming about other worlds, but instead, show other Billys and Tommys being unhappy or unsafe in their worlds. Maybe Wanda could tell Strange and Wong about her dreams of other Billys and Tommys being unsafe in other places and Strange could tell her that her dreams are windows into her other variant's lives, which gets Wanda interested in discovering where the boys are to help them. Meanwhile, the villain that they're fighting, during a showdown, could slightly reveal something about America's powers that would pique Wanda's interest and get her to slowly begin thinking about what it'd be like to have those powers to explore the multiverse to get to the unhappy/unsafe Billy and Tommy and by the end, we get the first sign that she's nearly fully corrupted, maybe alone in her cabin or maybe even somewhere in the Sanctum or Kamar Taj, with Strange and Wong elsewhere in the building, even have a voice of some creature or being whispering in Wanda's head about using the Darkhold, and getting America's powers, to travel the multiverse to find and save the unahppy/unsafe Billy and Tommy that she dreamed about, and then, the NEXT Wanda-related movie should've had her as a villain, on a ruthless quest to find and save Billy and Tommy, full force, which would then force Strange and Wong to now view Wanda as an enemy, trying to reason with her, even offering to help her find the boys, but only if she stops her rampage, failing to reason with her, then it becomes a Strange v. Wanda movie showdown, kind of similarly to their MOM battles, but more detailed with longer choreographed battle scenes. THAT'S how I'd write for Wanda, if I were a writer, for this era of her character. I'd make it a 3 part movie of her descent into darkness for the sake of finding her unhappy variant sons, facing off against Strange in real toe to toe magic battles. I'd even keep the scenes of her rampaging through the 838 Illuminati, who would try to convince her that her intentions are noble, but her execution is villainous, turning into a full throttle fight as they try to stop her rampage, but fail in the end, like MOM. I'd end it with her and America having their fight at Mt. Wundagore and America punching Wanda into the universe where Billy and Tommy are, she finally sees them, is about to save them and take them back with her and then, a bad/evil Wanda steps into the frame, revealing that she's why the boys are unsafe, which leads into the third movie, basically with a brief, 15-20 minute backstory of how the other Wanda came to be evil, how she began harming the boys and even her feeling our Wanda's presence in the multiverse, getting closer and closer until she finally showed up with America, then the movie would continue with some Wanda v. Wanda showdowns, etc, etc. OMG, I wish they did that with Wanda instead of how they did MOM!

Character assassination is one of the most unforgivable crimes in all of imagination

As a (kinda) long-time reader of hers, it's honestly heartbreaking to see her ending up like this in MCU. Wanda was not always a popular character, but she was pretty stable and consistant in terms of comic appearances until 2004's Avengers Dissambled and 2005's House of M which functionally made her a plot device to shake up the Avengers lineup as well as creating (yet another) extinction plotline for X-franchise. It took her 7 years to appear in comics again, and even after that she has very limited resources. MCU is her few good news which boosted her popularity by a significant amount, so it' extra insulting when MCU straight up rehashed the very story(or say the general them and toxic tropes) that damned her in the comics. It's all a sickening joke.

They really f'd up Wanda and her intentions. Not only did Sam Raimi not watch all of "WandaVision" and get it but the screenwriter didn't as well (as he also stated publicly". Elizabeth Olsen is incredible as Wanda and not only deserves more, she deserves BETTER!!!!

Some great points. Never really thought about because 1 she read the evil book and became god like powerful.. 2 she has decided to get a family no matter the cost. Sometimes people just make a choice and keep going no matter the cost. 3 once you realise there's a multiverse with endless copies of everyone does anyone matter (Rick and Morty morality) 4 it's mavel init

It really does show that Sam Raimi did not see Wandavision, and I think that it really hurts the movie. Also just to mention, I feel like my first viewing was a bit guided given I knew a bit about the Comics and how Wanda goes crazy for her children so I was already expecting something but out of context I do see your points

It's funny how I found this video. I am an MCU fan who never saw Better Call Saul. I loved Wandavision and I hated what was done to Wanda's character in the Dr Strange film. I would get into arguments online with Marvel fanatics who said I "didn't pay attention" to the finale of Wandavision and it was the fault of the Darkhold. I kept saying it was poor writing and wasn't earned but couldn't properly express exactly what my problem with the switch was. Then I binged the entirety of Better Call Saul. The painstaking character work in that show really drove home how shoddy, sloppy, and destructive the writing for Wanda's character was in Dr Strange 2, especially after all the work that had been done in Wandavision. I've been binging BCS video essays non-stop and came across yours. Then I saw this video. Wow.

Couldn’t have said it better

I can’t believe that they turned her into a villain again. Seriously, it was so bad that her redemption arc in “Age of Ultron” was all for nothing.

WandaVision showed how flawed Wanda was. She's not a hero, and she's not just a villain. She's a bit of both. She was becoming one of the best characters out there, unfortunately, MoM literally destroyed her character. I don't know how she can possibly comeback from that character assassination....

Honestly, Can Someone explain to me how Wanda and shape reality and create illusions at will with no mind control? Since her power originated from the Mind Stone, how is she creating reality at will? Since there are no mutants or Inhumans during phase 2 and the Mind Stone does not give the wielder power to creating reality at will.That is strictly what the Reality Stone Does. That is a huge plot whole from Wanda Vision and Doctor Strange Multiverse of Madness. The Writers basically gave Wanda powers of the Reality stone without having a Reality stone. She is a walking talking Infinity stone.

I had no problems with wandavision at all i think wandavision was the best underrated amazing fun disney plus series to me in my honest unpopular opinion it gave it a 10 out of 10 i enjoy it so much

This is quite a few times now that directors have said they haven't watched the movie or show before or consulted the source material. I no longer wonder why everything is starting to suck.

I don't think they knew what to do with her when Phase 3 concluded. Looking at all those shows, they are a directionless chaos. Also: I do not like when a character has vague powers. In Multiverse of Madness she is basically a god, capable of removing mouths, healing herself and turning men into spaghetti in a second. Why? Because the writers were too dumb to make use of the powers we all knew and understood from previous films.

Such a waste of time introducing new characters on “Multiverse” and killing them off. Just lazy.

I really liked this video and I think it explains Wanda to an excellent degree. I will have to push back on Wanda not knowing what she was doing in Westview. By episode four, we know she's in control and that she knows she's in control. I think it fits into her descent since they were going the villain ark. Marvel has always sucked at Villains, so idky I thought they'd do her justice.

She keeps flipping back and forth between hero and villain its so jarring, that's not an anti-hero its just bad inconsistent writing. She started out a villain so its nothing subversive or groundbreaking to turn her into a big bad. Its like these writers want a Dark Phoenix moment without ever understanding why that story worked so well.

she rly became my new fav female comic book character then they destroyed her

8:23 you absolutely can say her powers aren’t believable. She can basically now do anything and everything the plot needs, despite not even knowing his to do a hex before being told how by Agatha. MoM has no idea what it’s doing with her powers. 9:57 Wanda is only a victim of her spell for an episode or three. She willingly corrects everyone’s behavior when they break her fantasy and is aware when vision is trying to leave. She stops him with full knowledge of what she’s doing and EXTENDS her barrier to prevent vision from escaping. She even resets him and the townspeople when they break character. She knows she is controlling the town when she throws Monica out as well. They are begging her to die and to free them and their children and she doesn’t because she doesn’t want to sacrifice her own happiness. As if she is the only one who suffered during the events of thanos and the snap. Her assassination started in wandavision. And of course she softens the landing of the army Agatha attacks. Agatha had been trying to convince her that she was a monster and she wanted to prove her wrong. In an earlier scene she threatens said soldiers for trying to free the town telling them not to interfere and saying that she isn’t the one with a gun lmao implying they are the tRuE ThrEAt

It seems that Kylo Ren's line "Let the past die. Kill it if you have to. " inspired all the wrong people at Disney. Doctor Strange 2 was unbelievably horrible.

Imagine if there is a Plot Twist in Multiverse of Madness that Wanda was possessed by either Chnton or Mephisto all along which revealed all of the events in WandaVision were manipulated by the same being that led Wanda into a villain, it could have been a mind blown to everyone.

Wanda Maximoff did nothing wrong.

I feel like it would have made more sense if Chthon was slowly possessing her as she tried to learn about her powers, we still get villain Wanda while having possession an excuse to have her do all of that with her intention being to have more control of her powers to harken back to Wandavision and it takes a soul removal spell from strange to snap her out of it

This shouldn’t be an excuse for you people in the comments to trash the CHARACTER. Trash the WRITER.

To think she went from being an Avenger to being a demon killing monster here.

Be happy you guys never read The Ultimates 3, where Wanda and Pietro are in an incestuous relationship, where Pietro is so clingy and possessive he threatens to kill anyone who even speaks to Wanda...where's that barf emoji...

Imo they did Wanda so dirty in this film and ruined her character

The way Wanda suddenly become so violent and murderous is such whiplash that it disturbs me to my core-by that I mean, I’m disturbed by the writers. “It was the Darkhold!” no that’s the excuse the writers used to take a woman who has undergone so much grief and so much pain and who faced that grief head-on in WV, who already had a rock-bottom of bringing immense pain to others while still not being a bloodthirsty, violent person. I would’ve much rather seen Wanda trying to atone for what she did in WV than to see everything she ever fought for be absolutely, wholly spat upon by her becoming a vicious murderer of good people for her own gain. It’s not even a gradual, planned-out descent into villainy, it’s like the writers and director took a baseball bat to her knees and knocked her off a cliff.

Her character gave us the first Decent Dark-Phoenix Saga 😅

I would argue the title should be "how not to turn a mass murderer into a hero and then turn her back into a villain and expect people to be surprised". Because I wasn't. The MCU never convinced me she changed from the start of Age of Ultron, so her allowing her grief to lead her back to murdering people again, after also being responsible of accidentally killing people even while good, didn't really surprise me. I never liked this version of Scarlet Witch. I've liked Wanda from various xmen cartoons, but never got attached to this one.

Dude I miss your Saul uploads! Last episode felt quite rushed I hope they don't turn that show to shit in the end.

I don’t believe Wanda unconsciously created the Hex in Wanda Vision. We see multiple instances where something or someone attempts to make Wanda face reality (not just the reality of her loss, but the reality of her horrific and selfish actions) and she becomes angry and avoidant. - she makes Mr.Hart choke on his food when he was poking too much into things she didn’t want to think about/didn’t want Vision to think about - she sees the Sword drone and expels it from the Hex - she rewinds and resets the scene when she sees the Sword Agent emerge from the manhole - she becomes angry when realizing that Rambeau isn’t one of her puppets and expels her from the Hex and lies to Vision about it and carries on with the “show” - she continues to alter the world around her and “start over” in a new tv-show adjacent world every time something doesn’t go her way and she can’t face the truth that she knows but chooses to avoid and deny - she gaslights Vision when he begins to question things - she gets angry with Vision when he confronts her - she brings more kids out into the neighborhood when Vision notes the lack of children - she expands the borders of the Hex - she consciously changes the furniture when things go wonky - she confronts the Sword agents outside of the Hex and warns them not to interfere with her literal hostage situation There are a lot of examples of how Wanda very intentionally did everything we see her do in the show. I don’t think there was ever a point where she didn’t know what was happening and just went along with it.

Mother of the dragons = mother of chaos.

Ok. What about "Better call saul" ?

In the movie, Wanda’s argument was actually reasonable. She was supposed to be a hero in Infinity War. She blew a hole in her husband’s head, sacrificing the love of her life to make sure Thanos couldn’t get all 6 stones, but Strange giving the time stone to Thanos undid all her actions, making her efforts meaningless. When Thanos brought Vision back and crushed Vision’s skull, Vision’s blood was actually on Strange’s hands. From Wanda’s point of view, if Strange could justify his action leading up to the deaths of Vision, Black Widow, and Iron man was for the greater good, why can’t she justify taking America’s power is also for the greater good? I mean, who is to say Strange didn’t have selfish motives? In another timeline, it was literally Strange who died after using the darkhold to defeat Thanos. Of course our Strange wouldn’t choose that fate for himself.

People who internalised their feelings usually let loose own their own because they don't want to be seen an emotional unstable.

I think she could've been a kinda not too heroic hero. I agree with wanda shouldn't be a full fledged avenger and join every mission. She could've been assigned to stand by until big events come up. She can still side with cap in civil war but make people think tony is right, she's dangerous. In infinity war, she should just protect vision by caging him with her power but vision somehow figured out a way to use that cage to destroy mind stone. That could be counted as her killing him, and after thanos interfere, it still make the double death. I agree with the endgame ending where she would be isolated or isolated herself from others and only talk to clint. I prefer wanda defeated in wandavision and ran away to the mountain place.

This is the first I've actually heard about any of this, stopped watching after Loki... It's just all too much, too rushed, and keeping up became a job. The MCU ended with Endgame

Mcu: Hey, Lets turn Wanda aka the Scarlet witch into Carrie White from stephen king books.

@Life Is A Story Well I don’t think the decision to read the darkhold wasn’t justified. Wanda didn’t show any signs of knowing its corruptive effects in both WandaVision and MoM, so we could still go by this point of view. After all, her original intentions with the Darkhold were to better understand her new powers so an accident like Westview wouldn’t happen again. It is only when we see WandaVision’s post-credit scene that we clearly hear the Darkhold’s influence on her by tempting her with the recover of her children. So what became a careful study for control turned into a bloodlusted crusade for family.

Can you do another one like this for Nick Fury?

You know I mean wanda and Iron Man are the same cause Iron man did a mistake Once by inventing nuclear weapons that killed wanda's parents that's how wanda also did a mistake. Iron Man wanted to take revenge from Bucky who kill his parents and the same happens to wanda. Iron Man indirectly kills wanda's parents and wanda wanted to take revenge and Iron man only just save the world by giving his life but Wanda saved the whole multiverse by destroying her life and dark hold in every universe

Could we see some Mr robot reviews/breakdowns?

Lazy Storytelling and Marvel? Get right outta town.

Bro the darkhold... she turned to it in desperation(analogy for drugs/trauma) and it cemented the monster she became. It wasnt character assassination, it makes sense with how much she's lost, she wants to fill a void. She has a major arc.

I dunno i think wanda is a cyclical arc kind of character but each time things get more harder to deal with

The son of a bitch didn't even saw wandavision

She held captive and tortured an entire town because her feeling were hurt...anybody?

Don't really agree, Its not unplausible to a Hero turn to villain, after have lost so much, plus it is consistent with her character in the comics, who goes from hero to villain every now and then. I think where they failed, is that they could've made more clear that she was being corrupted by the darkhold, and making hzr actions more from the darkhold than her own. And that could lead to a sequence where they could introduce the demon C'thon(the one who's written the darkhold) in a future movie.

I think the Multiverse saga is ruining a lot of really interesting superheroes like Wanda that were secondary protagonists in the Infinity Saga, because they have to share space with other IPs and their famous lines from other franchises The multiverse is a mess, and it shouldn’t a core plot point for any “saga”. It’s too much of a mess, and prevents us from witnessing characters like Wanda and Dr Strange actually develop and become iconic Because let’s be honest, Dr Strange kinda drew the short straw in this movie too. Even Benedict Cumberbatch in interviews didn’t seem to think Strange got any solid development

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Wow just watch this good video. I would say Wandas transformation was far worse than The one on Game of Thrones. Because I don't see how you can never bring that character back and I know fans will forgive anything because it's all fiction. Sadly sometimes people forgive anything in real life too. But she tortured to people in Westview even though she may not admit to but in Doctor Strange she just straight up murdered peopleyeah there's no coming back from that.

This is the hugest disappointment from such a potential that lay into complex bombshell of poor and lazy writing with no real effort of feeling the what should of been the most empowering and mind blowing movie ever imagined. it is waste having such a determine and lovely actress who does her deepest and hardest reflection on making such a character into something amazing. it is another reason why i never want lazy Disney to deal with such an amazing character being portrayed by a dedicated actress of all time. It is so obvious that this lazy writing gives them no excuse to complete something as lazy as this and it takes more than one lame season to show direction of why Wanda went down as a threat. It is in Disney to always hire a cheap writer instead of good one who can deliver the workload of expectation. in response of who to study before whiting Wanda, you can study a version of Wanda's younger sister Polaris from the Gifted, Raven from Dc' TeenTitans, and the Two versions of Jean Grey to give a decent level of writing. i don't care if you cant make it great but there a standard of writing you should at least give. i can taste bullshit writing from a mile away. I also learning visual effects and i am completely disgusted on the lazy representation of embodiment of the Wanda as Scarlett Witch. Scarlet Witch is an intense and emotional character that goes in deep and great mental breakdown. it has to fit the bill but nothing but slop. it is not that hard to do. i seen millions done it in cheaper ways but that was just trash. it another disgust on lazy attempt on customize design mixed with hair design. Moment she went into Disney control, her style went in route of lacking. I have no issue in poking comic book looks fun but the official look requires effort and time. it is where artist go deep in reflecting look on this actress that reflect the story she is being part of. it goes deeper in scenery and writing. it was failure and disgrace from what i knew to be something so much more. it has a deeper reflection in how people learn from Wanda in problems of her life. in a sense Wanda and Rogue has a history that is not about the world being black and white. Rogue lives with regret of steal the life and memories along with powers of another mutant who she fought against because she followed orders of her beloved Mother { Mystique}. it dark past to over come and it not easy road. it is not a story for lazy people who don't like to write stories like this. it harsh reality in how you learn to deal with life. Disney is trash. simple as that. it a company that will hire best actors for the worst script imaginable.

The original script of multiverse of madness before covid hit put america chavez in spiderman no way home and wanda finds out she can get her kids back during multiverse of madness. Mordo is suppose to be the villain in the film.

In wandavision Wanda deliberately keeps the town enslaved for a LONG time. She knows everything she's doing but she's just in denial. I don't think it's unreasonable to read some dark magic book. Though you made some good points and marvel did rush her development similar to how they did with Loki. Wanda skips characterization by reading a book and Loki skips charactization by watching a movie.

i think tying all her villainous acts to the darkhold and it’s influence is just very lazy and honestly insulting writing. this way when she comes back, she doesn’t really have to do much to redeem herself, she doesn’t even have to take responsibility for her actions because it was the darkhold controlling her and she did the right thing and destroyed it. now compare this to the comics where wanda practically *is* the darkhold and literally has Chthon possessed inside her body (under her control, never his). in the comics she’s reached a certain level of power that would make any fight with her just useless so they find other creative ways to make her useful or continue her story. i think that’s how it should be here. also, the demonstration of her powers in MoM was lazy asf

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I don’t get how this is character assassination while Wanda was an antagonist when she was first introduced. And then when she sided with the Avengers, she was impulsive. When she lost her brothers she abandons her surveillance post which causes the town to fell. And then in Civil War she causes death of civilians in Lagos. Wanda has always been an antihero, and the most controversial Avenger member. The only significant act of heroism was when she destroyed the mind stone to prevent Thanos from getting it. Then, when she comes back in Avengers Endgame she is getting her revenge from the one who killed the only person who made her feel alive again. Thus I have no problem to buy that she abandons herself to selfish motivations to live a normal life. And I’m tired of hearing people comparing her to Thor or Drax, those two live in environments where those things are common. Wanda live on earth, amongst people who have a normal happy life. She’s a lot like Magneto in X-Men Apocalypse, who can’t get passed his suffering and seizes the opportunities he has to find peace in himself, even if it hurts others.

Compassionate person who enslaves an entire town and mentally tortures them. WILLINGLY!!!

The most shocking thing is that they made a female character a villain in the modern day era. Honestly it seems like they meant for her to not really be a villain like many of the others we have seen where actually she is supposed to be fighting for who she loves and all that. I think she was just so poorly written that she didnt come off as sympathetic as they meant for her to. That film was definitely one of the worst MCU disasters. The politics are wild in that movie. The movie starts off with dr strange's gf marrying someone else after he is told at her wedding that he is responsible for all the people that died. He says nothing to defend himself. His ex then tells him it is his fault she left him. And at the end he meets basically incel strange who found that across the entire multiverse where anything is possible even reality defying things, there isnt one universe where she loves him. LOL It goes from the usual male character deconstruction we have seen these days to just full absurdity parody.

I am actually thankful this movie did this bad arc and here’s why. It’s a reminder to avoid the “power mad woman” trope. It’s a trope as old and misogynistic as the “damsel in distress.” Hopefully more people see it for what it is and it progressively leaves our literature and film.