Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness Doesn't Undo WandaVision

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A common complaint about Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is that it completely undercuts Wanda’s arc in WandaVision, and indeed the entirety of the Disney+ show. As a major WandaVision fan (I still regard it as head and shoulders the best Marvel television offering), I find this idea perplexing, and people seem to have confused liking Wanda as a character with her being a good person.

Wanda is (was?) one of my favourite characters in the MCU, but that’s what makes her such a perfect villain. Bad guys who are bad for the hell of it, or who have contrived, plot-centric reasons to be the antagonist, always fall flat. Killmonger is such a memorable hero because he is largely justified in his stance, if not in all of his actions. Wanda just wants to be a mother, and that’s something we can all get behind - it’s in the way she carries out her plan that sees her shift from sympathetic hero to unsympathetic villain.

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To fully understand her journey in WandaVision, we have to go back to Avengers: Infinity War. Despite being the strongest Avenger (Multiverse of Madness seemingly answers the question of Wanda vs. Captain Marvel in her favour), Wanda spends most of Infinity War on the bench. This is all in her quest to protect Vision, which eventually results in her having to perform torturous surgery on her husband, without anaesthetic, to remove the Mind Stone from his head. The operation is extremely painful and done in the heat of battle.

Then, thanks to the Time Stone Doctor Strange willingly gives Thanos as part of a long-term game so that it all lines up for Iron Man’s Endgame snap, Thanos rewinds time. Vision