Ultron’s Coolest Scarlet Witch Moment

The twist in WandaVision’s second episode reflects Scarlet Witch’s coolest display of power in Avengers: Age Of Ultron, but also hints at a dangerous warning.

Warning: spoilers follow for episodes 1 and 2 of WandaVision.

The end of WandaVisionThe second episode confirms that the world at the heart of Disney + is created by the magic of Wanda, reversing Scarlet Witch’s coolest moment of Avengers: Age of Ultron. This moment also confirms the huge potential scale of Wanda’s powers and how much she invests in creating her perfect world to keep Vision alive. And while she may have changed in terms of potency, the roots of the powers Wanda so shockingly shows in WandaVision were very visible in his first real MCU appearance.

WandaVision is the sum of the traumatic parts of Scarlet Witch and while there is no concrete explanation yet of exactly what happens, the end of the second episode confirms that this is Wanda’s work. The telltale signs of his red magic at least back it up. Of course, there may be other elements involved in the inaugural Disney + MCU plot, with such an invisible villain pulling strings from the darkest corners, but it is Wanda’s mental state that is the foundation on which to do so. most important. After a life marked by profound traumatic events, including her own death, Wanda’s grip on reality has slipped so much that she is now creating her own.

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The MCU’s aesthetic may have changed to embrace 1960s sitcom tropes like Nice to meet you and I dream of Jeannie and Wanda may look very different as a result, but despite what she’s been through, Wanda still has the same power. And the revelation that she is using her powers to convince not only herself and Vision, but apparently the trapped residents of Westview of a fundamentally false projection mirrors what she did to each of the Avengers when she met them in Africa. in Age of Ultron. In fact, Wanda’s self-deception shifts her from the bearer of this magic to her target, putting herself in the position she forced the Avengers into before Ultron’s true goals turned her and Quicksilver against him. .

The moment at the end of episode two effectively distorts the narrative of WandaVision. Until then, Wanda feels like a victim of an external force trapping her in Westview, especially since she has had some key memories deleted and her deleted memories are trying to break through. But even as Agent Jimmy Woo’s voice calls him from the real world on the radio, trying to break through, Wanda’s reality shift to escape the “truth” threatened by the beekeeper invasion SWORD confirms that she is really in control. It remains to be seen if she has full control, but Age of Ultron established that those who were the target of Wanda’s powers were apparently unaware of the deception. It was even enough to have a permanent impact on Tony Stark’s mind to the point that he was “haunted by knowledge” until his death.

It’s arguably Tony’s reaction to visions of Wanda that offers Scarlet Witch the most dangerous warning in WandaVision. If she is indeed mistaken to escape the trauma that has defined her real life, her lack of memory and awareness would suggest that she has used her magic against herself. And while that might seem like a smart solution, the fact that the experience threatens to make the Hulk wild and unhinged Tony Stark permanently holds a grim indicator that Wanda may well do more damage to herself and make herself even more volatile. So WandaVisionmirror of the Age of Ultron moment may be cool, but it also carries a scary message for the future of the series.

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