Wanda “I have terrible coping mechanisms and I’m gonna make it everyone else’s problem while playing the victim and never truly accepting consequences” Maximoff
Tony: We can just hang out with pizza and watch TV.
Bucky: Fantastic idea! Can I join?
Bruce: Of course, Bucky! Tony?
Tony: You sure can! ;)
Wanda: *appears from nothing*
Wanda: Well, well, the assholes are planning a date.
Tony: *calmly* We are going to eat pizza and have a good time. Want to join, Wanda?
Wanda: Pch! Who wants to go to date with you?
Bruce: It’s not date.
Wanda: It’s date.
Wanda: And close your mouths, I am the queen here.
Wanda: And anyways, y’all are losers, so go fuck yourselves, bitches.
Bucky: *pushes table and stands up*
Bucky: Listen there, little bitch! Shut the fuck up and go fuck yourself! No one messes with me friends and I will fuck up everybody who does! Close your fucking sarcastic mouth and mind your own shit!
Wanda:…
Wanda: *runs away*
Tony: That was amazing, Bucky!
Bruce: Omg, did you see her face when she ran away?
My aesthetic: Post civil war fics where after getting pardoned Clint and Wanda are 100% sure they’ll be welcomed back with open arms but get shut the fuck down by Laura and Vision.
so were you??? but someone defended your actions by claiming you were “jUsT a KiD”??? when you were a full grown adult??? and why do you think killing a supernatural child would be any better than killing a normal child???
Wanda trying to justify her actions by saying “I’m not a monster, I’m a mother” she’s not even a good mom. honestly. In WandaVision, the twins were babies for at most a few days (unclear with WV time) maybe just a night before she’s trying to use magic to make them stop crying instead of actually figuring out what they need to get them to stop. It’s not clear to me whether the twins aged themselves up the first time or if it was the effect of the Hex, but I think there’s a case to be made that it’s the latter and they became kids so she would have an easier time taking care of them instead of actually putting in the effort to raise them. After Vision tried to leave the Hex, she completely ignored her kids all day, passed them off on Agatha at the first chance, and didn’t do anything or even seem to care at all when Billy tried to tell her about his powers and how they were hurting him.She’d had them for a week at most.
In Multiverse of Madness, yes she is corrupted by the Darkhold. That is a narrative fact and frankly, I don’t think you need to make things up or change the story to make Wanda look bad (she does that on her own). But trying to kill another version of herself to steal children that aren’t hers, and being willing to kill America to do it, is the dark but logical conclusion of the selfish behavior that MCU!Wanda has always had. The Darkhold took that and exaggerated it, but those are the worst traits Wanda’s always had just blown up - she’s selfish, she does whatever she wants to get what she wants, other people pay the consequences, and she’s not even a good mother to make up for it.
It infuriates me every time Wanda says I didn’t ask for these powers. You did! You absolutely fucking did! You let Hydra do experiments on you so you could get revenge on Tony Stark. You went to literal Nazis and said hey I want some super powers. So stop fucking saying you didn’t ask for this you whiny irresponsible selfish garbage human being!
You also did it because you wanted to take revenge on someone who had no idea that their company’s weapons ( technically products of an industry that their DAD created) was smuggled without their knowledge, was used to bomb your fam!
When someone shoots your family, you blame that person , not the CEO of the gun industry you motherfucking rotten brain psychopath!
J-just saw a youtube comment comparing wendy martin and tony stark by saying their character arcs are the same like ???
tony stark’s arc begins with him being an arrogant bajillionare genius that sleeps around and runs the company his father started from the ground up. his eyes are forcibly opened to the horrors of said company’s products and is held captive and tortured by terrorists and after freeing himself of captivity through his own genius and ingenuity he ends weapons productions and promptly begins trying to right the wrongs he himself is not culpable of and finds out that a man he trusted was responsible for the illegal selling of his weapons to terrorists and puts his life on the line to stop stane (orders pepper to overcharge the reactor to kill stane even when he was in its line of fire). tony’s arc is about self-growth and change and responsibility and accountability. In IM2 tony’s a bit more reckless than usual because oh, yeah, he’s actively dying :))))) do you know what heavy metal poisoning does to a person?
to name a few symptoms/effects. No wonder the guy was all over the place.
Wendy, however, begins her arc in the mcu as a WILLING HYDRA volunteer/agent that plots to kill tony stark for something he isn’t guilty of. She mind rapes the avengers, triggers tony’s ptsd, is at least 50% responsible for ultron’s creation, sets the hulk on Johannesburg, plots to kill all the avengers and help ultron do so, and only backs out and changes sides when she goes into ultron’s mind (mind rape :)) and sees that his plan is GLOBAL ANNIHILATION and that includes her and her twin brother. she didn’t change sides for altruistic reasons. It was self-preservation at its finest. She was a willing and eager nazi terrorist.
In CACW she accidently tosses a bomb into a building full of people and they die and/or are injured. At this time the avengers, of which she is a member, act as an unfettered, unsupervised (I’m team responsibility and accountability and oh, so is Tony) police force and so it’s absolutely likely that, in real world situations, house arrest is the LEAST of wendy’s problems. But she throws a tantrum and shoves vision through dozens of floors because “I can’t control their fear, only my own” says the girl with the ability to mind rape people and bring up their worst fears :(((( poor bbby. At the Leipzig airport in Germany she tosses several cars at Tony, a baseline human under the suit, because “uwu u lockeded me in my woom u big meanie! :(” she then goes on, after endgame, to trap an entire town under her powers against their will (MIND RAPIST) because vision died and acts as though she’s the victim and deserves sympathy??? No??? And let’s not get started on her arc in Multiverse of Madness because BITCH IS CRAZY AND UNHINGED AND I hate her bye
My point is this:
tony stark is constantly trying to better himself in each movie he’s in. Is he perfect? No, but at least he actively tries and does better himself.
Wanda is the same mind raping nazi HYDRA scum bitch she’s always been in the mcu and she hasn’t tried to better herself other than call herself a hero and offer empty apologies :)
Idk bro maybe it’s just me but the concept of a Jewish Romani woman being whitewashed and made christian and having her willingly join nazis in the first movie she’s in. And then commit mass murder in the most recent movie. Maybe wasn’t the best choice for the character. Yk. From a personal standpoint. I do not think that having a woman who was canonically Jewish and Romani be a nazi and later commit mass murder was the best decision to have ever been made. But yk. That might just be me. Could be wrong. But. Yk. Hm.
Also don’t really vibe with the whole “mother grieving the loss of her children goes Absolutely Insane and kills….. other…….. people’s….. young.. children………” Uhh. Okay buddy. That sure does Make Sense and is Totally Sympathetic?? Somehow???
so multiverse of madness once again reiterates that whitewashed wanda’s character entirely revolves around white woman victimization and killing or attempting to kill poc but it’s girlboss behavior cause she’s white like you all ate up that doesn’t seem fair that she’s not seen as a hero line and the context of that line is her planning to kill a little girl
Okay so one thing that was my biggest gripe in the film is that-prior to this when MCU!Wanda goes “You break the rules” and all, I thought it was referring to the whole NWH situation. And, if that were the case, I could be a little more lenient on my feelings because, while with good intentions, in the end the spell was risky from the start. However, instead, the movie decides to have her bash Strange for…giving Thanos the time stone? Even though, for one, he didn’t even really want to do it, you could see how much of a difficult choice it was for him to give it up. Two, he literally searched different possible outcomes and that turned out to be the best one. And three, his intentions were for the greater good, and even still Strange is shown to have wished things had gone better. Like it felt as if they were framing it as Strange just going off and doing his own thing, with no regards when he actually took the time to work around ultimately having to give up the stone. It is not on the same field as taking a whole town hostage, removing dozens of people’s autonomy just to play into your fantasy, and then harming those who went against what you were doing-only for you to not only not apologize to any of them (that apology to Monica was trash and we all know it), but continue to act as if it was right.
“I put a bullet into the forehead of the man I love, don’t talk to me about sacrifice.”
Cool. The guy you’re talking to lived through 14 000 605 possible outcomes, trying to find one where they didn’t lose to the space grape. Presumably each time experiencing terrible death and grief, though it’s not clearly stated.
But it can be gleaned from his earlier sacrifice of locking himself into a time loop with an endless horror heading for Earth. A time loop triggered by his own (violent) death.
He was also given a choice of using his mystic powers to regain the use of his hands, allowing him a return to his old and glamorous life. Or instead learn to live with the constant pain and tremors in order to focus his use of the mystic arts on protecting others. He chose the world and the multiverse over his own comfort.
multiverse of madness thoughts. spoilers obviously
1. i think critics are insane for the way they’re ignoring benedict cumberbatch’s performance. he gave each of the four stranges nuanced, distinct personalities that allowed them to shine through. even supreme strange and his “i’m ready” comment when facing death — a nice call back to stephen’s “i am not ready” comment in the first movie.
2. wong had some good scenes but i am angry at how much they nerfed him. even if the scarlet witch is a super op character, wong is the sorcerer supreme ffs. he is supposed to be powerful and he didn’t even get a single hit at wanda, just got thrown around a lot and it was frankly insulting.
3. they did mordo so dirty. first by not even including mcu mordo in the film, then by retconning his backstory. waldron is a fucking demon because one of the reasons why mcu mordo was so appealing was because his enmity with strange had a logical starting point versus the comics mordo. but of course waldron retconned it into the comics verse where mordo is just a bitter jealous man. i fucking hate this. chiwetel doesn’t deserve this rat man’s nonsensical writing.
4. master mordo was a cutie tho. my favourite bit was when stephen put that magic dampener cuff on him and they started throwing hands at each other. lol dumbasses.
5. the Illuminati were boring except captain marvel. i refuse to believe that she is dead given she literally is one of the most powerful beings in every universe. it was so good to have lashana lynch back ❤️
6. the sorceress sara was done so fucking dirty. they gave her a funkopop, they chose her name to tease sara wolfe (wong’s interest) and then they killed her off so horrifically. i hated that so much. this film somehow relished hurting and killing bipoc and ofc you can’t expect anything different when you consider the people in charge. it was nauseating and the more i think about it, the madder i get.
7. wendy was surprisingly good as a villain but then marvel did its thing and tried to excuse her actions every step of the way. like sorry u lost your imaginary kids. maybe seek therapy instead of trying to kill a literal child for your gratification. plus the justification she gave for wanting to kill America? nauseating.
8. i really liked america chavez. she may have lost her moms in the multiverse but I’m return she gained two incredibly tired dads
9. one day marvel is gonna respect reed. one day. but let’s talk about clea. one of my legitimate fear was that they’d cast some 20 year old to play her and it’d be just as iffy as their ambiguous age difference in the comics. idk how charlize will do as clea but im happy that she’s at least bc’s age
10. overall a very mid film that was both a doctor strange film but it also wasn’t. i’ll have more thoughts later but one thing is clear. waldron is a demon. doctor strange 3 should be about doctor strange characters so pls no wendy or loki or anyone else. jericho drumm, more mordo, clea and wong pls. would love to see america too and maybe vvd.bye
