Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness: Is This Really The End For [SPOILER]?
Warning: The following contains spoilers for Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness.Over the course of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s films, only a handful of main characters have lost their lives so far. Of those main characters, most have sacrificed themselves in fights against major villains to save the world or protect other heroes. That’s not exactly the case for Wanda Maximoff in Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness.
Wanda has been thoroughly corrupted by the influence of the Darkhold between the events of WandaVision and Multiverse of Madness. So much so that she becomes the antagonist of the movie in her quest to get to a universe where she can be with the children she lost in her home universe. Her grief and loss of control is very much a retread of what the audience saw in WandaVision, but here, Wanda doesn’t just make the choice to stop her violent actions, but also to “close the Darkhold” on herself. The audience might be wondering if this is the last they’ll see of the character.
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Though Wanda repeatedly makes bloody and morally reprehensible moves throughout the movie, she also repeatedly makes the remark that she’s, “not a monster, [she’s] a mother.” The idea that a mother would do anything for her children is one that other action movies have explored in a similar way, and it’s not until she realizes the children she so desperately wants see her as a monster that Wanda understands just how far she’s gone.
She tells Stephen Strange that she has to “close the Darkhold.” Because a copy of the Darkhold in their universe is already destroyed, that involves bringing down Wundagore Mountain’s Darque Hold on herself so that no one else can be tempted
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