#mcu illuminati
there I was just chilling about thinking on the illuminati scene in multiverse of madness and what Wanda did, and then I realized something — 838 Reed Richards mentioned having kids, which means there is a Franklin Richards in that universe whose father was just murdered
oh no
if 838 Franklin Richards is anywhere close to the level of power that he’s shown to have in the comics, then our 616 Wanda and possibly our 616 Earth is about to become the target of a very powerfulandvery angry reality warping being who’s been known to outclass quite a few omega level mutants during his comics existence
I mean this is the same person whom as a kid created a baby universe!
and as an adult has taken out Celestials and made Galactus his herald without breaking that much sweat!!
our Wanda has just given him a very legitimate reason to use those powers in very destructive ways!!
so I’m guessing a young 838 Franklin Richards going into Earth 616 to wreck shit and get revenge might just be marvel’s way to jumpstart the Secret Wars arc???
if this happens tho, well Earth 616, it was nice knowing ya, I hope Franklin be gentle we’re fucked
SPOILERS FOR MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS!!
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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
