I started writing a post about why the Illuminati got what they deserved in “Multiverse of Madness”.
Then I got to Maria Rambeau and I’m stumped. She’s a cinnamon roll, too good for this world. She’s got a Monica who needs her.
But then, this is a woman who can punch through entire space fleets so a statue falling on her probably wouldn’t kill her, right? She’s just unconscious. Monica is gonna come and get her probably laugh at her?
some folks are so pressed about Wanda bodying the illuminati and it’s just making me laugh bc some of y’all really need to understand context????
like the illuminati didn’t get shredded bc they weren’t powerful enough, they got shredded bc they were arrogant as fuck and underestimated her
“but Reed is so smart he wouldn’t just give away a solution to the enemy” — yeah Reed is fucking smart, but he’s also just fucking arrogant enough to show off to someone he didn’t think was a threat — he thought he could just scare her away
if the illuminati had gotten their heads out of their asses and listened to Strange or taken his comments about Wanda seriously, they would actually be alive, they could have properly strategized on how to take Wanda down, hell, Black Bolt probably would have been able to take her out with his voice if he had the element of surprise — but they didn’t, they were convinced that Strange was the threat and they were arrogant and smug enough to believe that if they think something is right then it must be right
now to be fair their Wanda probably wasn’t a threat and likely never exhibited our Wanda’s level of abilities so in their experience, they just didn’t deem her to be an issue for them
but that’s how you get killed, arrogance and overconfidence and not listening to the concerns of others about the threats you’re facing because you think you already know the answers
and let’s be honest here, arrogance and that know-it-all attitude literally IS a central core of the very concept of the illuminati so this isn’t even any of these characters acting out of character, that’s just how the illuminati acts, I mean look at the scenes, they sat up there in their high and mighty chairs, their attitudes were generally dismissive and smug and seemingly think they were above it all
they could have been ready for Wanda, but their arrogance blinded them and got them killed
this isn’t Marvel “doing dirty” on these versions of the characters, this is just what happens when you’re overconfident and don’t properly prepare
the marvels being directed by a beautiful talented black woman who has directed incredible films before. im so excited to see what she does for the film, i just know shes gonna do monica and maria justice
captain marvel maria rambeau from the Illuminati universe and captain marvel carol danvers from the mcu universe as space wives. they’ll be unstoppable, wendy won’t get to touch a hair on their heads.
