Doctor Strange 2 Writer Defends Scarlet Witch's Post-WandaVision Story
Warning: This article contains spoilers forWandaVision andDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
The screenwriter of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness has defended the villain arc of Scarlet Witch. The sequel, which hit theaters on May 6, 2022, is the first film from the Marvel Cinematic Universe this year and acts as a direct follow-up to the 2021 projects Spider-Man: No Way Home and WandaVision. After his experience accidentally sending villains from previous Spider-Man universes into his own world when a spell he cast for Peter Parker goes wrong, Doctor Strange is sent on a multiversal adventure with new teen heroine America Chavez (Xocitl Gomez) when Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) targets her to steal her ability to hop between universes.
The reason Scarlet Witch, also known as Wanda Maximoff, wants these powers is so she can access a universe where she is reunited with her children Billy (Julian Hilliard) and Tommy (Jett Klyne). As revealed in the Disney+ series WandaVision, these children were an imaginary creation of Wanda's when she was wracked with grief over the loss of Vision, leading her to create a sitcom-inspired faux world inside the town of Westview, New Jersey where she and Vision were married with children. At the end of the series, she faced her grief head-on and reversed the spell she had put on the town and its inhabitants, so seeing her take such a villainous turn in Doctor Strange 2 was challenging for some viewers.
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