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Ifâlike Wanda Maximoffâyouâve been living in your own reality, distant from all things in 2021, you may not have heard about âWandaVision,â whose first and only season ended on March 5th. (If youâre planning to watch it and hate spoilers, stop reading now.) The immensely popular show, from Disney+ and Marvel Studios, follows Wanda, a.k.a. the Scarlet Witch, an Eastern European refugee with âchaos magicâ powers, and her husband Vision, a synthezoid (android) who died in the events of the Marvel movie âAvengers: Infinity War.â Nearly all nine episodes of âWandaVisionâ depict the pair in what appears to be domestic suburban bliss. Nearly all take plots and visual style from one of the sitcoms that Wanda watched for solace during her bleak wartime youth, from the black and white of âThe Dick Van Dyke Showâ to the faux-reality vibe of âThe Office.â
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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was all over the internet when Agatha Harkness referred to her as the Scarlet Witch for the very first time in the
Marvel Cinematic Universe.
By the time the finale had drawn to a close, Wanda even had a brand new costume for good measure, as she fully embraced her destiny despite being warned on more than one occasion that she might very well bring about the end of the world. The post-credits scene saw her indulge in some light reading, too, leafing through the pages of the Darkhold and setting up the Book of the Damned as a major plot device that will no doubt be integral to
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Wanda Maximoff’s debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, much like her solo outing in the recently concluded
WandaVision, sparked a lot of discussion. Early on, the casting of Elizabeth Olsen in
as the Scarlet Witch (though she wouldn’t receive that title until much later) faced criticism for effectively erasing Wanda’s backstory as a Jewish-Romani witch driven by the injustice she faced. But after seeing Wanda’s first MCU appearance, I couldn’t help but resonate with her quest for justice after repeated trauma. In the midst of figuring out who I was in the aftermath of surviving violence myself, Wanda Maximoff became my problematic fave.
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