10 Fans' Thoughts About Wanda Maximoff After "The Multiverse Of Madness"
SPOILER ALERT!!!!After watching Dr.Strange: " The Multiverse Of Madness," there is a controversial issue about whether Wanda Maximoff deserves a sense of excuse or not. While there are several acceptable reasons she chose to do that, some argue that she has no right and no humanity to do so.
Although the movie named "Dr.Strange." But a significant amount of comments are around Wanda. For that reason, we'll give you fans' thoughts about Wanda and her things in the movie. They are seemingly divided into two opposite sides, one supports her with practical reasons, and one goes against her by pointing out the consequences that she made. Below are the ten fans' thoughts about Wanda Maximoff after "The Multiverse Of Madness."
"Ok, so take my opinion with a grain of salt, but to anyone who is unhappy about Wanda’s arc in MoM:
*Spoilers ahead*
ETA: I don’t think 616 Wanda is dead, but I still have to cover all of my bases
As a longtime fan of the comics, I am more than familiar with the song and dance of Wanda oscillating between being a hero, an antihero, and a villain.
Changing sides has been the story of her character since her origins as a member of the Brotherhood alongside Pietro and Magneto and continued on through the decades with her going crazy, turning evil, and/or dying probably once a decade ever since.
From the beginning, Lizzie has said that she wanted to see some of Wanda’s most iconic moments, ie. the “no more mutants” line from House of M. She WANTS to see House of M.
She wants to touch on those infamous moments of villainy that are so well-known and loved. She wants to portray Wanda in a comic-accurate way (sans the sexualization) because she sees how unique Wanda is and how fun she is to play.
From the very beginning, Lizzie has done her best to champion Wanda being treated correctly as a complex, troubled young woman who has lost everything and been wronged by the world over and over.
She has helped tremendously in crafting MCU Wanda as a well-rounded character who went from forgettable in the minds of many to absolutely adored thanks to Wandavision.
I remember seeing Infinity War and Endgame in theaters and being one of the only ones cheering when she beat Thanos’s a*s, meanwhile at my MoM screening 80% (or more) of people were wearing Wanda/Wandavision shirts and cheering when she came on screen."
"One thing that bugs me about Multiverse of Madness is we’re supposed to believe this is a world in which Wanda can access any possible reality and is trying to find the perfect reality but she doesn’t even look for Vision??? We got like two mentions of Vision and that’s it. When Vision is one of the most important things to Wanda along with her kids. I just don’t understand why Wanda wasn’t looking for a reality with Vision and the twins??"
"What I find most funny about MoM is how it would have been 15 minutes long if any of those people actually knew how to have an actual conversation lmao?
Like even when Steven asked Wanda what was she gonna do with the other Wandas once she crossed the multiverse, you can see she was listening, her mind was processing and Steven just straight up attacked her at the moment?
I facepalmed so hard fr. All the other Wanda had to do was caress her face and our Wanda immediately softened. I'm convinced they sit with [her] and ask her about her feelings and you have her down in 5 min. Give her a hug and the scarlet witch powers will literally leave her body.
Also, she still has many untreated traumas, plus the influence of the Darkhold, and 0 support. Totally insulated. 0 friends (that keep in touch with her anyway).
Her mind literally invented children to try to cope and fill her emotional holes created by that untreated trauma. Pat her on the shoulder may be, give her a call and ask how she's doing."
"One thing that was so true about MoM Wanda is the fact that the only person who could save her and make her see what she did was herself. I absolutely loved that. For me, that part follows her storyline really well."
"The whole last 15-20 minutes of Multiverse of Madness, I kept thinking, “Why can’t they send Wanda to a universe where her kids exist but she doesn’t?”
Surely there’s a world where she died fighting Thanos or someone else, and her kids are more or fewer orphans (maybe Vision is around, IDK).
Why couldn’t Wanda step in and look after them since their mom died? And she could be happy with “her” boys without having to kill another version of her to do it?
If The Watcher can put Black Widow from the Ultron Apocalypse universe into another universe that lost their Black Widow, IDK why America or Steven or someone didn’t think to look for a universe where Wanda could take over for another Wanda that died."
"Strange literally had to reanimate a corpse and attach countless souls of the damned to it like a big f*cked up cape just to have a chance at beating Wanda.
Even then, the only thing that actually stopped her was realizing she was hurting her kids, so i never want to hear someone say she’s not the strongest avenger ever again."
"Not to split hairs or whatever but Wanda isn’t even a full-on villain in Multiverse of Madness, she’s an anti-villain. She’s been influenced by the Dark hold and her own incredibly traumatic past, leading her to believe that what she’s doing isn’t wrong but is simply her taking what happiness in life she thinks is owed to her and that she thinks she can get.
Is what was done objectively wrong? Yes, but she didn’t know that. The moment she realized it, really realized it, when she looked into the faces of her terrified children, she stopped and corrected her course.
If Wanda were truly evil, she would have wanted America’s power in order to inflict evil on the world or something along those lines, and she wouldn’t have stopped just because her kids were afraid of her. But that’s not what happened, because, at her core, Wanda is still capable of good. Misguided, misled, and deprived of stability, love, and safety, but still can be good."
"The Wanda Maximoff I know would choose a reality where Pietro is still alive.
He didn't even get mentioned once."
"I mean, ik America might not have been open to it since Wanda was literally trying to kill her, but wasn't the obvious solution here for Wanda to adopt America??? They're both extremely powerful women, and America probably could have learned a lot from her.
Don't get me wrong, evil witch Wanda was f*cking incredible, but I just think, here's a woman who's desperate to be a mom, and here's a kid who lost both her moms....... neither one would truly replace the ones they'd lost but maybe they could have been the key to each other's healing."
"Wanda’s motivations in this film were strongly established, yet simplified to a fault. She was the best character in the movie thanks to Elizabeth Olsen’s magnetic performance, and because she got to be the centerpiece of the most memorable scenes of the movie. Sadly, it all came at the expense of Wanda’s complexity.
Gone was the layered character Wanda became in the brilliant WandaVision, in which she gained power and learned a valuable lesson about dealing with grief and loss, and in her place was a flattened villain who has completely forgotten that lesson and is incapable of thinking past her most primal instincts.
This was explained in the movie by her having been corrupted by the Darkhold, but that felt like a lazy excuse to get out of coming up with more interesting a way of turning her into the relentless yet soulless monster the story needed her to be.
What a force of nature she would have made had she been allowed to be the villain of this movie while still retaining the depth, the heart, and the mind she had when we last saw her.
Now, this is also a problem I have with the way the character is sometimes written in the comics, but it just really annoys me that Scarlet Witch falls victim to the sexist tropes of a) the woman who goes crazy because she has too much power for her pesky female emotions to handle, and b) the woman who goes crazy when she loses her children because motherhood is apparently an all-consuming identity that leaves women no other reason to exist."
Although the movie named "Dr.Strange." But a significant amount of comments are around Wanda. For that reason, we'll give you fans' thoughts about Wanda and her things in the movie. They are seemingly divided into two opposite sides, one supports her with practical reasons, and one goes against her by pointing out the consequences that she made. Below are the ten fans' thoughts about Wanda Maximoff after "The Multiverse Of Madness."
1. Wanda's Character Arc Makes Complete Sense
Source: Marvel Studio
"Ok, so take my opinion with a grain of salt, but to anyone who is unhappy about Wanda’s arc in MoM:
*Spoilers ahead*
ETA: I don’t think 616 Wanda is dead, but I still have to cover all of my bases
As a longtime fan of the comics, I am more than familiar with the song and dance of Wanda oscillating between being a hero, an antihero, and a villain.
Changing sides has been the story of her character since her origins as a member of the Brotherhood alongside Pietro and Magneto and continued on through the decades with her going crazy, turning evil, and/or dying probably once a decade ever since.
From the beginning, Lizzie has said that she wanted to see some of Wanda’s most iconic moments, ie. the “no more mutants” line from House of M. She WANTS to see House of M.
She wants to touch on those infamous moments of villainy that are so well-known and loved. She wants to portray Wanda in a comic-accurate way (sans the sexualization) because she sees how unique Wanda is and how fun she is to play.
From the very beginning, Lizzie has done her best to champion Wanda being treated correctly as a complex, troubled young woman who has lost everything and been wronged by the world over and over.
She has helped tremendously in crafting MCU Wanda as a well-rounded character who went from forgettable in the minds of many to absolutely adored thanks to Wandavision.
I remember seeing Infinity War and Endgame in theaters and being one of the only ones cheering when she beat Thanos’s a*s, meanwhile at my MoM screening 80% (or more) of people were wearing Wanda/Wandavision shirts and cheering when she came on screen."
2. What About Vision?
Source: Marvel Studio
"One thing that bugs me about Multiverse of Madness is we’re supposed to believe this is a world in which Wanda can access any possible reality and is trying to find the perfect reality but she doesn’t even look for Vision??? We got like two mentions of Vision and that’s it. When Vision is one of the most important things to Wanda along with her kids. I just don’t understand why Wanda wasn’t looking for a reality with Vision and the twins??"
3. Wanda Just Needed A Friend... Someone To Listen To Her
Source: Marvel Studio
"What I find most funny about MoM is how it would have been 15 minutes long if any of those people actually knew how to have an actual conversation lmao?
Like even when Steven asked Wanda what was she gonna do with the other Wandas once she crossed the multiverse, you can see she was listening, her mind was processing and Steven just straight up attacked her at the moment?
I facepalmed so hard fr. All the other Wanda had to do was caress her face and our Wanda immediately softened. I'm convinced they sit with [her] and ask her about her feelings and you have her down in 5 min. Give her a hug and the scarlet witch powers will literally leave her body.
Also, she still has many untreated traumas, plus the influence of the Darkhold, and 0 support. Totally insulated. 0 friends (that keep in touch with her anyway).
Her mind literally invented children to try to cope and fill her emotional holes created by that untreated trauma. Pat her on the shoulder may be, give her a call and ask how she's doing."
4. Wanda Could Only Save Herself
Source: Marvel Studio
"One thing that was so true about MoM Wanda is the fact that the only person who could save her and make her see what she did was herself. I absolutely loved that. For me, that part follows her storyline really well."
5. There Has To Be Some Universe For Wanda To Live With Her Kids
Source: Marvel Studio
"The whole last 15-20 minutes of Multiverse of Madness, I kept thinking, “Why can’t they send Wanda to a universe where her kids exist but she doesn’t?”
Surely there’s a world where she died fighting Thanos or someone else, and her kids are more or fewer orphans (maybe Vision is around, IDK).
Why couldn’t Wanda step in and look after them since their mom died? And she could be happy with “her” boys without having to kill another version of her to do it?
If The Watcher can put Black Widow from the Ultron Apocalypse universe into another universe that lost their Black Widow, IDK why America or Steven or someone didn’t think to look for a universe where Wanda could take over for another Wanda that died."
6. Wanda Is The Strongest Avenger
Source: Marvel Studio
"Strange literally had to reanimate a corpse and attach countless souls of the damned to it like a big f*cked up cape just to have a chance at beating Wanda.
Even then, the only thing that actually stopped her was realizing she was hurting her kids, so i never want to hear someone say she’s not the strongest avenger ever again."
7. The Darkhold Is To Blame
Source: Marvel Studio
"Not to split hairs or whatever but Wanda isn’t even a full-on villain in Multiverse of Madness, she’s an anti-villain. She’s been influenced by the Dark hold and her own incredibly traumatic past, leading her to believe that what she’s doing isn’t wrong but is simply her taking what happiness in life she thinks is owed to her and that she thinks she can get.
Is what was done objectively wrong? Yes, but she didn’t know that. The moment she realized it, really realized it, when she looked into the faces of her terrified children, she stopped and corrected her course.
If Wanda were truly evil, she would have wanted America’s power in order to inflict evil on the world or something along those lines, and she wouldn’t have stopped just because her kids were afraid of her. But that’s not what happened, because, at her core, Wanda is still capable of good. Misguided, misled, and deprived of stability, love, and safety, but still can be good."
8. What About Pietro?
Source: Marvel Studio
"The Wanda Maximoff I know would choose a reality where Pietro is still alive.
He didn't even get mentioned once."
9. Wanda And America Have A Lot In Common
Source: Marvel Studio
"I mean, ik America might not have been open to it since Wanda was literally trying to kill her, but wasn't the obvious solution here for Wanda to adopt America??? They're both extremely powerful women, and America probably could have learned a lot from her.
Don't get me wrong, evil witch Wanda was f*cking incredible, but I just think, here's a woman who's desperate to be a mom, and here's a kid who lost both her moms....... neither one would truly replace the ones they'd lost but maybe they could have been the key to each other's healing."
10. Wanda Deserved More Nuance In Multiverse Of Madness
Source: Marvel Studio
"Wanda’s motivations in this film were strongly established, yet simplified to a fault. She was the best character in the movie thanks to Elizabeth Olsen’s magnetic performance, and because she got to be the centerpiece of the most memorable scenes of the movie. Sadly, it all came at the expense of Wanda’s complexity.
Gone was the layered character Wanda became in the brilliant WandaVision, in which she gained power and learned a valuable lesson about dealing with grief and loss, and in her place was a flattened villain who has completely forgotten that lesson and is incapable of thinking past her most primal instincts.
This was explained in the movie by her having been corrupted by the Darkhold, but that felt like a lazy excuse to get out of coming up with more interesting a way of turning her into the relentless yet soulless monster the story needed her to be.
What a force of nature she would have made had she been allowed to be the villain of this movie while still retaining the depth, the heart, and the mind she had when we last saw her.
Now, this is also a problem I have with the way the character is sometimes written in the comics, but it just really annoys me that Scarlet Witch falls victim to the sexist tropes of a) the woman who goes crazy because she has too much power for her pesky female emotions to handle, and b) the woman who goes crazy when she loses her children because motherhood is apparently an all-consuming identity that leaves women no other reason to exist."
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