Doctor Strange 2 Villain Tease Makes MCU's Scarlet Witch Hypocrisy Worse
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is teasing Scarlet Witch to play a villainous role, but this only makes the hypocrisy surrounding her character worse. In terms of Wanda's narrative, the film will lead off from the events of WandaVision which saw her deal with her immense grief in the aftermath of Avengers: Infinity War, in which she lost Vision. The show saw Wanda essentially blackout in a spell of mourning, and unintentionally take over a town and mind-control its citizens to play out a happy sitcom life where she and Vision had a family. Once she came to, she clearly felt immense remorse and regret for what she did. She let go of Vision and her kids and disappeared to isolate herself. This isn't the end of her arc, however, as Multiverse of Madness teases her to play the villain to Doctor Strange.
In the trailer for Multiverse of Madness, Wanda's darkness is shown in full force. She's shown in her Scarlet Witch costume, sometimes covered in blood, with it even being gruesomely splattered across her face. There are even some theories that she could be the one to kill the Illuminati. The film is setting her up as a fearful enemy, hinging on the darkest aspects of her in order to paint her as an unhinged and irredeemable character. The MCU does have a history of hypocrisy concerning Wanda, and Multiverse of Madness seems to be making it worse.
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The hypocrisy lies in the fact that Wanda is repeatedly held to a different standard from everyone else. This tracks back to Scarlet Witch's crimes in Captain America: Civil War, where Tony had her on lockdown because they didn't know what else to do with her or how to contain her power. The fact was,
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