thank fucking god you made this. it's everything i've ever wanted to say with the appropriate amount of outrage this movie deserves. ive never seen something so incompetent and narratively irresponsible. and stupid.

i recently made a video about wandavision and i could not bring myself to address the mess of MoM, so i linked to this instead. thanks for your service

So much of the film could have been fixed just by having the villain be a Wanda from another multiverse, in a universe where she didn't experience growth from Westview. I think we'd all want that because having a Wanda vs Wanda fight scene could have been a visual masterpiece

Marvel expects its audience to watch all the shows and movies in order to keep up with the plot, but many directors can’t even be bothered to do that

The fact that Elizabeth Olsen was openly shocked about Wanda becoming the villain after Wandavision says it all to me.

I think the fact that Marvel killed Wanda as a villain in the Doctor Strange movie shows that they never gave value to her caracter

The end of Wandavision was Wanda coming to terms with her actions and trauma, accepting that she had to let go of her family to move forward and then they FUCKING make her the villain for no reason AT ALL

Finally someone understands wandavision. So many people saying that she knew what was happening all along....

She DOES feel like a different person with each movie after the other

It feels like all the writers of MoM and Sam Raimi knew about Wanda was what happened in AoU (volunteered for Hydra, influenced Tony's mind to create Ultron, helped only when she realized she would die as well, after a pep talk and her brother died) and they were told that she had twins that died.
Seriously it's like nothing happened between AoU and MoM

This is so true. So many people said that ‘I support women’s wrongs.’ in reference to Multiverse of Madness.. and that’s fine but her wrongs made no sense???? Like??? And bro… the fact that Sam Raini didn’t watch WandaVision?? Like tf?? R u serious? You had one job??? Anyways I love your channel!!

Thank you!!! I watched this recently and was absolutely baffled by Wanda's characterization. How do we go from an emotionally/morally conflicted person who ultimately does the "right" thing even when it costs her everything to MUAHAHA I WILL KILL THE CHILD!! Even if the narrative reason is "well the darkhold undid all her character growth" to me that is a sloppy and disappointing choice; clearly they just wanted her to be cool and scary and they didn't give a darn about the person inside all that. As someone who has been a big Wanda fan since Ultron it was very annoying to see her suddenly be The Grudge after the beautiful emotional portrait we got with Wandavision. Ugh!

Wanda losing everybody is another reason I don't think Steve would have left the modern times to go back to Peggy in the past.

He was always there for her

while i do think raimi should be held accountable for his negligence to the works he was building off of, i also think that michael waldron should take some of the blame. he continuously managed to contradict both loki (which he also wrote mind you) and wandavision along with fundamentally breaking the fabric of the universe to the point where absolutely nothing can make sense anymore.

Totally agree, it was heartbreaking seeing Wanda given up vision again. And I don’t even buy Wanda and Vision relationship. They have nothing in common but the mind stone. But wandavision make Wanda such a deep and heroic character, to them throw it all alway

As hard as it is to believe, the problem with this movie actually isn't that Wanda Maximoff is the villain... the problem is that she ISN'T the villain. The Darkhold is. WandaVision did such an excellent job of giving Wanda complete agency over all of her actions - the good, the bad and the ugly. It was a true character study that was driven by Wanda's unconscious mind, her conscious intentions and her physical actions. Wanda exited her Westview quarantine as a beautifully rounded character and yet, WandaVision still managed to still make it feel like this was only the start of her journey. It was a true origin story for THE Scarlet Witch!

DSitMoM, however, managed to completely strip Wanda of all agency, reducing her to a shell of A Scarlet Witch puppeteered by the Darkhold - the perfect plot device for Waldron to do absolutely anything he wanted with Wanda's character. LAZY WRITING AT ITS FINEST. Plus the exact reason why DSitMoM feels like it has no arc or message... the plot isn't really driven by Strange's actions and decisions. And you know what, fine, you can still grow his character by having him help Wanda learn her lesson based on her actions and decisions - he is a doctor after all. But none of her actions and decisions actually feel like hers if she is going to be an exoskeleton for the Darkhold!

And you know what, the Darkhold as a corruptive artifact isn't even a poor concept, you can still retain Wanda's agency despite using the Darkhold as a morality bender. Just let us into Wanda's mind to see how it is corrupting her. The bare minimum way to do this was to make the Darkhold make her believe that her children were reborn in another universe and under threat! LIKE THE WANDAVISION POST CREDIT SCENE ESTABLISHED.

And on that note let me make an even wilder proposition, a la the dialogue:

Vision: “We’ve said goodbye before...it stands to reason that,”
Wanda: “we’ll say hello again.”

Imagine if the Darkhold made her hallucinate a Vision with a dark, corrupted colour palette pleading her to do anything to save their children reborn in another universe. How genuinely maddening would that have been for Wanda without annihilating her agency??!! That's a true mother storyline... we have seen that she won't consciously harm others to secure her own comfort, but will she consciously harm others to secure the safety of her own children??

I agree with your sentiment, but I definitely blame Michael Waldron the writer more than Sam Rami for her character assassination. I read a previous draft of the script that leaked online several months before the movie, and it was a lot worse than what we got(I straight up thought it was fake).
I think Elizabeth's amazing acting and Sam's directing actually helped improve the character in the movie a lot more, but still writing problems are writing problems, and major writing problems that assassinate characters and disrespect their previous arcs are so fundamentally bad that the movie still suffers.

Exactly. The same problem as Daenerys. You can't possibly believe she would go balistic THAT HARD. Remember that scene in Age of Ultron when Wanda cries after facing some robots about how the suffering is her fault ? And when Hawkeye comes to find her in Civil War and she's all like "I've done enough damage". Not having any sort of guilt about murdering people in sequels is either becoming a psychopath or bad writing. I think you can agree on which choice the movie made.

Also something to add too Wanda didn’t know she was a witch or that her powers where centered around magic. Up until Wanda vision she had never actually cast a spell before. All she had done was levitate/fly, move things with her mind and blast shit that’s all she knew.

I also felt like it was very "whiplashing" to see her character be like that after wandavision. I was so confused as to why we didn't really get a reason as to why she was so hellbent except for hearing her kids in an end credit scene at the end of Wandavision. The only reason I liked the movie was because I like Dr. Strange (even though his whole huge ego thing is tired) and I loved America Chavez (it's hard to get representation around here)

100% agree with everything said. It's like they used the excuse of the dark hold to ruin her character. I wouldn't have mind if she was being manipulated like Shang Chi's dad. It would have been a much better excuse to make her the "villian" even though I don't think she needed to in the first place. I just feel like making her the villian was fan service since she is one in the comics which is annoying. (Also this rant was basically me coming out of the theater lol)