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PrivateBiscuit1 posted...

I don't see how Wanda's characterization was wrong (aside from that shitty line at the end of WandaVision). She was always heading deeper and deeper into her own madness and desperation to have any kind of semblance of belonging or for anyone to truly care about her.

She lost her parents, then lost her brother, was outcasted from being a beloved hero and hated by everyone, then lost her lover, and she was desperate to give herself any sort of happiness.

So after being woefully alone after Avengers Endgame, she created her own world where things were simple and she could be loved again. And when that was shattered, she had a taste of her perfect life and while Vision made it clear he didn't want any part of it, she still wanted to at least have her children. And so she went deeper and more desperate and found bad book to try to use it but it ended up making her use it for more sinister purposes.

It's a pretty understandable and natural descent to villainy. I don't think it was out of nowhere at all.

This is a good summary of things Wanda has gone through if you ignore anything she has actually said or done or tried to do

Re: all the stuff at the end of WandaVision - I completely agree Wanda is let off easy at the end of show - that was already a complaint I had about WandaVision itself - the ending does not line up tonally with what actually happened in the show - it's a hastily written hand wave to KIND OF bridge the gap to MoM - which it completely falls short of doing too, so it weakly ends the show and doesn't really connect to the movie. NOT GOOD

Really, any justification on why she is the way she is in MoM that hinges on that last scene where she flies away from town or the fact that she's reading the Darkhold don't really hold much weight - they are just as much the problem.