Everyone’s jaw dropped when Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness released its trailer during this years’ Super Bowl and debates between fans arose whether Wanda is actually becoming a villain and if it is acceptable. Some views show that it is. Why is that so?
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Wanda started in the MCU in a different way than others. She and her brother, Pietro, were experimented on and it was further revealed that Wanda got exposed to the mind stone, hence her powers. In WandaVision, it was shown that she has capabilities even before her exposure and the experiment only raised her abilities by a magnitude unparalleled than the others, making her one of the most powerful heroes as of late.
However, since the start, she has been treated differently. Every time, she felt like a liability to others. She had been carrying so much guilt within herself every time she hurts others in the process and this was best shown on two occasions, in Civil War where she accidentally redirected an explosion towards a building as she tried to save a populated market, and in WandaVision where she unconsciously held an entire town hostage in her grief.
In the words of Black Panther, “victory in the expense of the innocent is no victory at all.” However, on almost every occasion where Wanda used her powers, she is taken by some storm that would only hurt others. That part of the trailer where Wanda asks Strange how unfair it is when Strange broke the rules and he emerged a hero but when she does it, she becomes a villain, there is that frustration in her feeling as if nothing she does seems right.
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When it comes to other heroes, they remain treated as heroes like when Strange cast the spell for Peter Parker then opened the multiverse or when Hulk destroyed Harlem, Captain America had his share of mistakes, too, but he even got a musical dedicated for him. Whatever their motives were, they were still considered heroes, never treated as villains, all in the name of saving others.
Wanda recognized her mistakes but what makes hers different is that it is all anchored based on her emotions. She is her worst enemy, the pain within, the fear of losing another person she loved because she has no one left for her, truth be told. She lost her family, her brother, the love of her life, and even her kids in WandaVision.
Possibly it is because her story is always about loss, but when you think of it, she doesn’t have the experience to learn how to safely deal with her emotional outrage. Other heroes had their fair share of those as well but they knew how to deal with it and they had someone to go through with it. With Wanda, she never gained. She was always at a loss, and more notably, she was always on her own.
In Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Wanda knows better now that he has taught herself, however, the source of her knowledge is the Darkhold, studying the entire chapter written for her and possibly some dark magic, too. With so much pain within her, being a villain is not far from happening to her, however, everyone knows how much goodness there is within her. It’s all up to her how she would emerge in her internal battle.
Will she be able to turn things upside down or will she go to become a full-on villain? See more of the Scarlet Witch in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness on May 6, 2022.
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