Couldn't she just make a small Hex only surrounding her house or am I stupid
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distilledwill2025-12-07 11:37
Ain't as dramatic though is it?
IndominusTaco2025-12-07 11:38
then vision and her kids would be wondering why they’re never allowed to leave….. lmao. a town is believable, most people never venture outside their town so they don’t think anything of it. but isolating it to a single house would be noticeable
vivianvisionsburner2025-12-07 11:38
That's not the point of the show. The point of the show was that she needed to resolve her issues and address her grief - continuing that fantasy ultimately would not have been doing that.
Yes, she could have done that, but she shouldn't have and didn't.
Any-Transition952025-12-07 11:56
This. I feel like so many people missed the main narrative of the show, even tho the show spelled it out repeatedly.
I think WandaVision suffered the unfortunate fate of being the first ever MCU project to release post-Phase 3, after three years of content break from Marvel, near the end of the pandemic. Everyone was eager to see what Marvel had been cooking, so an unbridled amount of unfiltered expectations were forced onto the show instead of just people who would usually be interested in Wanda and Vision's story.
It was peak MCU theorycrafting gone awry, especially due to its episodic nature. Some people were expecting Wanda to usher in the multiverse, Fox Quicksilver joining the MCU, Mephisto behind the scenes, Reed Richards being Monica's scientist friend, Dr Strange coming in at the end, etc. In reality, it was just a show about Wanda's grief, the fantasy she created for herself, and the reckless devastation she caused in her grief.
peteybombay2025-12-07 11:58
It was the first one and in hindsight, I think was actually one of the best...definitely in the Top 5.
Any-Transition952025-12-07 12:06
I think the general consensus of the show would have shifted massively in its favor if FatWS was released first, as originally planned in the Phase 4 reveal. That show was narratively much more straightforward, and the stakes are also much more discernible. It would have done a better job of setting the tone for what expectations Disney+ shows should have going forward, giving WandaVision and Loki the space to explore their own themes.
_Fizzy2025-12-07 11:39
Sure, she could. I’m sure Vision and the kids would love being imprisoned in a single house for the rest of their existence.
Any-Transition952025-12-07 12:04
Wanda on her Mother Gothel arc
martinexjay2025-12-07 12:32
Mother knows best. ✔️
SharpshootinTearaway2025-12-07 17:15
The alternative is dying, though.
Vision was okay with it, but the boys never agreed with being erased from existence, lmao. From what we see in Agatha All Along when Agatha makes Billy relive the moment he and his brother died, it looked pretty damn traumatic.
_Fizzy2025-12-07 18:35
Personally, I think all that trauma is a very valid reason *not* to do it again.
SharpshootinTearaway2025-12-07 18:41
Aren't we talking about not doing it *at all*? Shrinking the Hex down to a house in order not to destroy the children's bodies? So that they don't go through the trauma of feeling themselves dying?
_Fizzy2025-12-08 12:50
And thus imprisoning them to a single house, as I said initially.
Strange-Sort2025-12-07 11:39
I'm half joking but I think It's chaos magic not logic magic xD
Would have been more convenient though
Realistic_Analyst_262025-12-07 11:39
Then her family can’t leave the house. Also she wasn’t fully in control of her powers. She accidentally made the hex in a moment of grief and just went with it. She could have probably learned it afterwards if the Darkhold didn’t corrupt her.
That-Guava-94042025-12-07 11:43
This. She is the Scarlet Witch after all - once her powers started to become unleashed, taking over an entire small town without full consciousness that she was doing so would be easy for her
Edboy7962025-12-07 12:00
Didn't Wanda step out of the hex to toss out a spy drone, then she expanded the radius of the hex effect?
It felt like she was well aware of what she was doing it.
She just didn't realize how much it was hurting people in lieu of living out life like a sitcom going through the decades
Realistic_Analyst_262025-12-07 12:03
She was aware of what she did but she wasn’t fully in control when it happened. She just didn’t want to take it down when she realized she had everything she ever wanted in there.
jasegro2025-12-07 12:12
I’d always just assumed that the grief of losing Vision had caused Wanda to enter some sort of dissociative state
Jet-Brooke2025-12-07 12:23
Exactly. She lost her family, her twin brother, and then Vision, and then the rest of the world had previously shunned her. Imo the hex was like a convenient way to deal with that grief and trauma.
andrewtater2025-12-07 12:50
Convenient for her.
Not the *entire town she functionally kidnapped.*
claimui2025-12-07 13:38
They'll never know what she sacrificed for them!
evapotranspire2025-12-07 18:30
u/claimui \- oh man, I wish that line had never been said. I loved WandaVision, but that came darn close to ruining it for me.
What-The-Heaven2025-12-07 20:01
It's not even nearly as bad a line as everyone clowning on it claims. It's quite naive but that's Monica up until that point, she literally ran through a field of radiation to help a woman who had violated her mind days before.
And she did let her husband and children die. We know from Agatha that at least the boys were real, living children. Ask any IRL parent to choose between keeping a town hostage or letting your kids die....I'd wager majority choose their kids.
Realistic_Analyst_262025-12-08 12:01
I feel people don’t really understand this line. It’s not saying that Wanda is innocent like many claim it is. The point of this line is to highlight that Wanda is a grieving wife and mother who accidentally created her dream life but was forced to tear it all apart, including her family, in order to free innocent people. They will see her as a villain for what she did, and rightfully so, but they will probably never truly realize what she had to give up for them.
jasegro2025-12-08 12:04
Absolutely, media literacy as a whole isn’t great these days but I for one definitely read that line as Monica acknowledging how easy it would’ve been for Wanda to NOT do the right thing and keeping Westview locked in the hex
ArticulateRhinoceros2025-12-07 14:17
I'll just say this once, the world is *very* lucky I didn't have superpowers after my husband died.
I feel Wanda, fantasy > reality.
Nothin_Means_Nothin2025-12-07 14:33
Sorry for your loss
ArticulateRhinoceros2025-12-07 14:35
Thank you. It's been a few years now, but in the immediate aftermath, if my subconscious could have made manifest the way I was feeling, I'd have incinerated the whole damn universe.
Jet-Brooke2025-12-07 14:56
Feels. I said the same after my mum died.
Acrobatickilla55nhc2025-12-07 17:02
U could have had Superpowers, just not the Scarlet Witch one..
HarietsDrummerBoy2025-12-07 20:02
No more husbands
tom-of-the-nora2025-12-07 14:59
And traumatized.
ChurchBrimmer2025-12-07 12:27
It felt to me like she didn't realize initially, but at a point she obviously does.
Edboy7962025-12-07 12:52
She seems to know once her accent is gone lol
Aivellac2025-12-07 14:55
My impression was she didn't know what was happening until episode 3 when she chucks out Monica and then it's that she knows she's in a hex but not how it started and what's she's doing to people. She's able to leave when her kids are about to be killed and makes it bigger to save hexVision then realised the reality thanks to our hero Agatha Harkness forcing her to confront her past and her present.
dvasquez932025-12-07 19:40
Possibly. I think no matter what we call it, she was not completely stable during that entire ordeal, so it makes sense she’d have periods of lucidity and periods of altered mental state. She might even be aware of the changes without being willing or able to sort through the cognitive dissonance.
jasegro2025-12-07 19:43
It’s almost like she was suffering from something resembling dissociative identity disorder, with one personality protecting the other from the reality of what happened in Infinity War
FreeStall422025-12-08 11:56
Also the government was basically tormenting her with her husbands dead corpse.
Edboy7962025-12-07 13:10
This is a good point here
LemoLuke2025-12-07 15:14
My take is that she didn't intend to create the hex, it was purely an outburst of her pain and emotion.
BUT, once she had created it, she was aware of what she had done, but didn't want to think about the ramifications because she knew deep down that it was wrong. She knew that she was hurting people, but chose to take an 'Out of sight, out of mind' approach. As long as people were playing their part and smiling, she could remain in denial and convince herself that everyone was happy, ignoring the damage she was causing, because if she accepted it, she'd be forced with the decision to either admit to herself that she is evil and is choosing to keep everyone prisoner, or 'destroy' her family and dream life.
Darth_Nykal2025-12-07 16:43
Nope, her conversation with "Pietro" made it clear she was fully aware of how much it was hurting people, she just doesn't care. She's even surprised when he doesn't seem to think it's wrong.
H3li0s12012025-12-07 17:18
Wanda finding out that it was hurting people was what caused her to try and take it down in the first place with Episode 9. It’s why she “chose a strangers over her own flesh and wires”. Her conversation with Fietro was about being in control, Fietro reinforcing her denial by saying that she had generally improved their lives.
Darth_Nykal2025-12-07 17:44
She knew she was hurting people as early as episode 1 and didn't bother with anything until Viz finally broke free and called her out on being the bad guy. People just like to victim blame so their uwu Wanda is innocent.
H3li0s12012025-12-07 17:48
I’m not victim blaming, where did you even see that in my reply? I know that she is one of the antagonists of the show, that’s a fact. But what you are claiming goes against the actual facts of the show.
Olsen said in an interview that Wanda didn’t get her memories of the outside world back until the end of Episode 3, after the twins were born. In the first three episodes, we visually see Wanda being confused about what’s happening and trying to figure it out. And her dialogue with Fietro in Episode 6 had been centered around being in control, around the roles that the Hex gave everyone inside.
And again, her realizing what the Hex was actually doing to them is what got Wanda to try and take it down the first time, continuing to do so after her fight with Agatha.
Gilded-Mongoose2025-12-07 21:35
She was doing it like a break from psychosis.
FriendlyDrummers2025-12-07 12:41
Give them a hex bubble that encompasses their body and follow them around ! It honestly wouldn't be the most powerful thing she's capable of
Realistic_Analyst_262025-12-07 12:45
I’m sure she can do it but she doesn’t know how to.
ghalta2025-12-07 16:34
So like Elsa and the little snowstorm that hovers over Olaf.
3-DMan2025-12-07 17:58
> Then her family can’t leave the house.
Oh boy here I go playin Sims again
Fazaman2025-12-07 23:20
> She accidentally made the hex in a moment of grief and just went with it.
The writers should have comitted to this more. The hex should have effected everyone inside it, including her. And that's how it appeared for a while, but it seems like they just forgot about that. Every time someone tried to break her out of it, she "removed" them. It was a great view of how grief can make you deny all reality. The writers had this great thing going, and then just had her completely understand what she was doing, enslaving an entire town, and be fine with it.
Instead, they should have kept up with the idea that she was (almost) as deluded into believing the lie as everyone else, and that the story was breaking her out of it, making her realize that it wasn't real and that *she* was the cause of all of it, and then she could have tried to get a grip of her powers and break free of the hex, and free everyone else. Then she would have been a sympathetic character at the end, and not a monster that was ok with what she did.
It seems like that was the idea at the beginning, and they just ruined it. Rewrites, perhaps?
Afwife19922025-12-08 00:47
Yeah the hex was created when her grief burst out Ala her breakdown in Ultron which destroyed a bunch of bots. Once it was there and her family created she just couldn’t bring herself to alter or end it.
FreeStall422025-12-08 11:40
Felt unclear how much she actually knows about what was going on.
EarJazzlike89212025-12-07 11:42
Well she's fkn nuts soo...
zarif_chow2025-12-07 11:44
If she understood what was going on to begin with. She didn't, and Agatha took advantage of that.
Sushi_Is_Kill2025-12-07 11:44
The lack of critical thinking when posts like these are made is absurd
rhysu692025-12-07 11:48
Thanks for the clear explanation of my question
BasedAustralhungary2025-12-07 11:50
Even if she could, she had no control over what was happening because of her weak mental health. A lot of choices she made in the last arc of her character are because of grief, pain and a lot of issues caused by depresion and codependent attach.
Yeah, she could do a small Hex surrounding her house... hell, technically she could even just introduce Vision and her childs to the reality itself without needing a Hex, but the reality is that she usually don't control her powers but her powers control her based on emotional issues and mental problems that have been growing since she was a kid.
Gon_Snow2025-12-07 11:52
She did an oopsy and took over an entire town. I don’t think there was much planning involved
rhysu692025-12-07 11:55
Sorry I was referring to the finale after she learned what she did was wrong and displayed control over the Hex
spidervenom6192025-12-07 12:34
That's even worse for the Kids. Do you really wanted your children to grow up in only one place and not be kids? That's a fate worse then death for the Boys.
zombie_singh062025-12-07 17:08
Also, she said a very emotional goodbye at the end. So she didn’t want another toy to play with, she wanted the real thing - Darkhold showed her the power to tap into different universes and make that into reality while corrupting her
Live_Angle46212025-12-07 17:40
Is it better they die?
TripleStrikeDrive2025-12-07 11:56
Madness lacks logic but not purpose. Frankly, she didn't care about other people lives.
Ranos1312025-12-07 12:05
What sort of a life would that be for fake Vision and the boys? They would live their entire lives in a house. That wouldn’t be living.
Erikthered652025-12-07 12:06
Tell me that you don’t comprehend themes, subtext and metaphor without telling me that you don’t comprehend themes, subtext and metaphor
TheJack0fDiamonds2025-12-07 12:08
It’s a solution, yeah but the very idea of living in a fantasy is not a good one. She’s meant to let go.
spidervenom6192025-12-07 12:35
Also the Boys would get bored fast and she would hate that for them.
Hedgewitch2502025-12-07 12:15
She wasn’t some mastermind villain she had a mental breakdown mixed with reality powers. Agatha states she can’t alter the flaws in the existing hex so either the whole thing went or she kept it up.
UnderShaker2025-12-07 12:15
From what Agatha said, a spell can't be changed after it was casted, and they are tied to that spell. she would need to dispel and re-cast it which is something she should be able to do. maybe that's the plot hole?
Uncanny_Doom2025-12-07 12:21
So you think her solution would be essentially to have her family on house arrest and nothing will go wrong?
RhubarbProper19562025-12-07 12:30
Better yet can't she just find a nice guy, impregnate herself and give birth to those kids. Since her multiversal counterparts all had the same kids it doesn't really matter who the father is, the kids will be the same...
spidervenom6192025-12-07 12:36
Except for the fact that in DSMOM it was stated that The twins are infact Wanda/Vis Kids. If she was to fine a nice guy and get impregnated then the kids won't be Billy and Tommy.
RhubarbProper19562025-12-07 12:48
They never mentioned Vision in alt-wanda's world...
Nosedive8882025-12-07 12:30
No because then it would have been a really boring show
keithstonee2025-12-07 12:50
That's not fun tho
addicted_cats14122025-12-07 13:09
Oh man this fandom is beyond stupid
LoreMasterBryan2025-12-07 13:11
SWs powers have always been inconsistent. This is a woman/mutant that rewrote history in a moment without realizing it after all. I believe it was her husband/fiance that died (in her arms) and she literally rewrote Marvel history by just saying 'No more mutants' in a moment of despair/anguish.
In other instances, she struggled to hold back the explosion in Civil War that was the 'last straw' leading to the Sockovia Accords but she was practically able to be an existential threat to Thanos in Endgame out of rage and the thought of revenge for Vision.
Then again, a lot of 'OP' character tend to be inconsistent because 'reasons'.
H3li0s12012025-12-07 15:39
For “No More Mutants”, it was her brother. Magneto found out that he was the one who asked Wanda to make that world and tried to (or did) kill him, Wanda saving Pietro.
I mean, Civil War happened about two years before Infinity War so she did actually have the time to improve. That and her magic had been seen to grow in power in moments like the ones in Infinity War and Endgame, such as when she basically vaporized vibranium when she felt Pietro die.
LoreMasterBryan2025-12-07 15:46
Thanks for clarification. Years ago since I read it.
As for the two years between CW and Endgame, I geuss so. They're still other moments (just in the MCU films alone) where her abilities are over the place. Have always liked SW and her abilities but sometimes it feels they scale to the lowest common denominator and other times they scale to infinity. (No pun intended)
Aromatic-Cupcake48022025-12-07 14:05
In episode 8 Previously On, we do see her create her ideal home, she stops and then expand it further.
alexiakinkylina2025-12-07 14:09
I‘m so sorry, I don‘t want to come off as an asshole but that wasn‘t the point of the show.
No, she couldn‘t make a small Hex for her family. She had to let them go, to grieve them and to learn to live her life without the people she loved.
I believe the Avengers were supposed to support her during her recovery, should’ve been better friends to her. However, she found the book and ended up under a big mountain, only wise choice after going on a killing spree.
stonespiral2025-12-07 19:55
I mean, who hasn't been there amiright?
The--Numbers--Mason2025-12-08 12:59
Literally this, people say "but other characters who lost so much didn't turn evil" forget the fact that she not only lost literally everything, but became one of the most powerful beings in the multiverse all of a sudden AND no one was there to support her trough any of that. Even though the Avengers were disbanded someone like Hawkeye should have been there for her or the masters of the mystic arts reaching out to her right after Westview
pnoisebored2025-12-07 14:22
she couldnt control her power totally.
GloriousStarlight6192025-12-07 14:55
The Scarlet Hex is entanglement to abuse and trauma victims, it transcends location to souls themselves, ultimately across the entire cosmos.
Scarlet Witches… Scarlet Angels…
alex4942025-12-07 15:12
She lost control due to her grief and by the time it settled down she was in too deep.
sQueezedhe2025-12-07 15:16
But then how do you have a big story about coping with how damaging to everyone around you grief can be?
Romnonaldao2025-12-07 15:21
Let's remember that she did this in a moment of grief and was mostly a subconscious reaction. The Hex was not a planned event
jrobertson502025-12-07 16:08
The hex and proceeding events where the results of a psychological breakdown.
Butterfly_Wings2222025-12-07 16:24
This was my first introduction to Wanda and Vision, the show was absolutely beautifully done. I loved their story. It was written so heartbreakingly well.
Abides19482025-12-07 16:31
She didn't know she could or had created a Hex. If Agatha hadnt been attracted and started poking around, she might never have known she had made one.
Freedog6662025-12-07 16:37
History would show you that it's always easier to subvert the minds and keep control of the minds of a smallish community than create one entirely from scratch. Look at MAGA.
Viciouscauliflower212025-12-07 17:00
If she was doing it consciously then yea. In the state she was in tho she just let it all out and well, she ended up with a whole town to herself
devilsbard2025-12-07 17:04
Did you watch the show?
No_Mood_75152025-12-07 17:21
In the Multiverse of madness... Rather than f- ing killing so many...she could have gone to a world where the wanda is dead nd her children are alive and orphan.
H3li0s12012025-12-07 17:58
Well, there was the whole Darkhold aspect of the story. The One Ring of Marvel that corrupted and broke Wanda’s mind to make her essentially into a rabid attack dog (for itself and Chthon). Wong pretty much asked something similar to that and her answer is basically a symptom of the Darkhold.
There’s also how they can’t dream of worlds where the variants of themselves on said worlds are dead.
Lordlegion50502025-12-07 17:31
That would require her to be a decent person, but she’s not. She’s a monster and people keeps acting like she’s not
H3li0s12012025-12-07 17:35
If Wanda was a true monster, as you say, why would she take the Hex down at all? Why would the Darkhold have needed to spend an entire year corrupting her mind into a rabid attack hound to get Wanda to go after America?
Instead, we have how “she chose a town full of strangers over her own flesh and wires” and her destroying every single copy of the Darkhold to keep it from corrupting anyone else.
justlakings2025-12-07 17:49
This is a good point lol wanda was a great villain tho and wandavision was a great origin for her bad side. I hope the character isnt dead.
H3li0s12012025-12-07 17:54
She likely isn’t dead and they do seem to be ending her madness arc. Particularly since Agatha All Along and Vision Quest seem to be setting up Children’s Crusade, where she is supposed to be found by her sons and return as a hero.
And OP’s “point” isn’t really a great one since there are several explanations for why she wouldn’t.
mynewaccount52025-12-07 19:07
Did you actually watch the show, or just the wikipedia plot entry?
Adorable_Ad_34782025-12-07 19:10
Wanda is crazy. She doesn't make rational decisions.
This is why she wants to kill America Chavez instead of just asking for her help.
vtblue2025-12-07 19:14
Mentally ill people don’t think or behave rationally.
Far_Combination76392025-12-07 19:17
Her grieving subconscious was trying to recreate the sitcom ideal that she experienced in her youth. It wasn’t really a conscious decision, it was just a weird coping mechanism her mind did as a result of her loss.
Luvke2025-12-07 20:07
I just enjoy these threads because people try to explain away what Wanda did instead of embracing that it's okay for characters to do bad things.
RagnarTheRed22025-12-07 20:43
Technically, I think she can do whatever she wants to.
eagc72025-12-07 21:03
I don't think she'd want to keep her family stuck in a hex for the remainder of their lives, i think Wanda would want her family to live a normal life if she were to keep them
bassoontennis2025-12-07 21:12
The thing was unless she hexed the world those kids were destined to be trapped. Her powers are so insane that she not only created them, she created a Vision with all his powers (minus the real infinity stone) and 2 children with both of their powers. The point of her letting them go was supposed to be her understanding she made a mistake and fix it and heal.
I know people get upset with MoM, but the truth is she was always headed in that direction because we saw at the end of WV she was studying the darkhold. People wanted her to heal and learn, but the truth is she was always going to try and figure out a way to get her kids back no matter what.
Also by the end the kids also knew they weren’t real but actually Wanda’s magic. Vision knew the same thing, that existing only in a small hex house would not be real
H3li0s12012025-12-07 22:02
The problem with that is that Wanda’s dialogue at the end of the show stated that she was going to try and learn how to keep her magic under control. It only really changed when the Darkhold used that mimic to redirect her, though that was in the post-credits scene that had been added on by the people who made MoM.
And I think an overall better story could’ve been if she had actually been trying to find the twins from WandaVision, especially given that it is what the post-credits scene implied rather than the whole multiverse mess. Agatha All Along did establish that the twins were both real though and had to explain why Wanda didn’t find or sense them.
bassoontennis2025-12-07 23:51
Okay from what I read Jac Schaeffer wrote and came up with the idea of the cabin ending scene as a way to introduce MoM. So even if people didn’t like the way MoM turned out, the creator of WV came up with the idea for that scene.
See I loved MoM personally, and my only true hope is that her “death” was her simply just removing herself from reality for a while until someone forces her back into the action.
ChildofObama2025-12-07 21:21
She had a breakdown over Vision being disassembled by government officials and lost control of her powers. Then decided the hex was nice enough to stay in.
indeedy712025-12-07 21:56
Some people here are being seriously obtuse. It’s not unreasonable to ask if there might have been a way to save two children rather than let them die for her own personal development in learning to grieve, and given the events of Agatha All Along and the cast of VisionQuest it’s clearly a question the MCU itself is asking (and a really interesting one imho).
However, as other people have pointed out this wouldn’t have worked. Trapping two kids in a house as an alternative to letting them die when they’ve only been alive for days probably wasn’t something she would have considered, especially in the moment. Wanda is powerful, but the Hex wasn’t that stable and she may not have had that level of control. It was still someone else’s house. Given subsequent events though, it might have been a better option.
voidsong2025-12-07 22:21
It's way harder to enjoy the illusion once you know it's fake.
pcolabella2025-12-07 22:42
Witches be trippin
disneylegospider12025-12-07 23:41
Besides the fact she didn’t willingly create the hex originally, it would mean her family can’t leave the house, nor could they interact with anyone else (unless they happened to stumble into her property).
Queasy-Ad82612025-12-08 00:46
It was accidental! Also, it wouldn’t have been a life she wishes to have without the neighbours and the overall neighbourhood. She just wanted a normal day-to-day life, which wouldn’t be possible in just a house.
Defiant-Band45732025-12-08 01:40
She realized that she had to move on and accept what happened. She had no idea that her children were real.
AngeloNoli2025-12-08 01:54
The second thing you said.
blackbutterfree2025-12-08 02:53
Yes and no. By the time of Multiverse of Madness, she would be that powerful and knowledgeable. But by the end of WandaVision, she was not. She was capable of expanding the Hex, but she had no conscious control over it to make it smaller.
Defiant_Wheel48882025-12-08 04:15
Technically she can. That is what HISHE video told. Problem is it's not necessary when she saw her kids in alternative universe alive and kicking.
TheTrueFury2025-12-08 04:54
I think the real question should be, why did she ever even consider using the Darkhold when she clearly already had the power to manipulate reality like that. Obviously once she read it that was her mind gone. But, she, like Peter Parker, never even considered a simpler solution before leaping to such a ridiculous 'fix'.
RubFun63992025-12-08 06:58
Watch the HISHE for Wandavision
insert_emoji2025-12-08 07:50
could've asked for prisoners or homeless people and given them a new life?she was after all, controlling everything..
AobaSona2025-12-08 08:10
Most of the answers here a missing a major detail: After Agatha takes her power, having said before that she would fix the hex, she then says: "Once a spell is cast, it can never be changed. This world you made will always be broken."
So no, she literally couldn't change the hex to be just around the house, it was cast on the entire town and she can only destroy it or keep it up.
Upstairs-Temporary562025-12-08 09:13
Why didn’t she just contact Wakanda or Bruce Banner about Vision? Is she stupid?
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Yes, she could have done that, but she shouldn't have and didn't.
I think WandaVision suffered the unfortunate fate of being the first ever MCU project to release post-Phase 3, after three years of content break from Marvel, near the end of the pandemic. Everyone was eager to see what Marvel had been cooking, so an unbridled amount of unfiltered expectations were forced onto the show instead of just people who would usually be interested in Wanda and Vision's story.
It was peak MCU theorycrafting gone awry, especially due to its episodic nature. Some people were expecting Wanda to usher in the multiverse, Fox Quicksilver joining the MCU, Mephisto behind the scenes, Reed Richards being Monica's scientist friend, Dr Strange coming in at the end, etc. In reality, it was just a show about Wanda's grief, the fantasy she created for herself, and the reckless devastation she caused in her grief.
Vision was okay with it, but the boys never agreed with being erased from existence, lmao. From what we see in Agatha All Along when Agatha makes Billy relive the moment he and his brother died, it looked pretty damn traumatic.
Would have been more convenient though
It felt like she was well aware of what she was doing it.
She just didn't realize how much it was hurting people in lieu of living out life like a sitcom going through the decades
Not the *entire town she functionally kidnapped.*
And she did let her husband and children die. We know from Agatha that at least the boys were real, living children. Ask any IRL parent to choose between keeping a town hostage or letting your kids die....I'd wager majority choose their kids.
I feel Wanda, fantasy > reality.
BUT, once she had created it, she was aware of what she had done, but didn't want to think about the ramifications because she knew deep down that it was wrong. She knew that she was hurting people, but chose to take an 'Out of sight, out of mind' approach. As long as people were playing their part and smiling, she could remain in denial and convince herself that everyone was happy, ignoring the damage she was causing, because if she accepted it, she'd be forced with the decision to either admit to herself that she is evil and is choosing to keep everyone prisoner, or 'destroy' her family and dream life.
Olsen said in an interview that Wanda didn’t get her memories of the outside world back until the end of Episode 3, after the twins were born. In the first three episodes, we visually see Wanda being confused about what’s happening and trying to figure it out. And her dialogue with Fietro in Episode 6 had been centered around being in control, around the roles that the Hex gave everyone inside.
And again, her realizing what the Hex was actually doing to them is what got Wanda to try and take it down the first time, continuing to do so after her fight with Agatha.
Oh boy here I go playin Sims again
The writers should have comitted to this more. The hex should have effected everyone inside it, including her. And that's how it appeared for a while, but it seems like they just forgot about that. Every time someone tried to break her out of it, she "removed" them. It was a great view of how grief can make you deny all reality. The writers had this great thing going, and then just had her completely understand what she was doing, enslaving an entire town, and be fine with it.
Instead, they should have kept up with the idea that she was (almost) as deluded into believing the lie as everyone else, and that the story was breaking her out of it, making her realize that it wasn't real and that *she* was the cause of all of it, and then she could have tried to get a grip of her powers and break free of the hex, and free everyone else. Then she would have been a sympathetic character at the end, and not a monster that was ok with what she did.
It seems like that was the idea at the beginning, and they just ruined it. Rewrites, perhaps?
Yeah, she could do a small Hex surrounding her house... hell, technically she could even just introduce Vision and her childs to the reality itself without needing a Hex, but the reality is that she usually don't control her powers but her powers control her based on emotional issues and mental problems that have been growing since she was a kid.
In other instances, she struggled to hold back the explosion in Civil War that was the 'last straw' leading to the Sockovia Accords but she was practically able to be an existential threat to Thanos in Endgame out of rage and the thought of revenge for Vision.
Then again, a lot of 'OP' character tend to be inconsistent because 'reasons'.
I mean, Civil War happened about two years before Infinity War so she did actually have the time to improve. That and her magic had been seen to grow in power in moments like the ones in Infinity War and Endgame, such as when she basically vaporized vibranium when she felt Pietro die.
As for the two years between CW and Endgame, I geuss so. They're still other moments (just in the MCU films alone) where her abilities are over the place. Have always liked SW and her abilities but sometimes it feels they scale to the lowest common denominator and other times they scale to infinity. (No pun intended)
No, she couldn‘t make a small Hex for her family. She had to let them go, to grieve them and to learn to live her life without the people she loved.
I believe the Avengers were supposed to support her during her recovery, should’ve been better friends to her. However, she found the book and ended up under a big mountain, only wise choice after going on a killing spree.
Scarlet Witches… Scarlet Angels…
There’s also how they can’t dream of worlds where the variants of themselves on said worlds are dead.
Instead, we have how “she chose a town full of strangers over her own flesh and wires” and her destroying every single copy of the Darkhold to keep it from corrupting anyone else.
And OP’s “point” isn’t really a great one since there are several explanations for why she wouldn’t.
This is why she wants to kill America Chavez instead of just asking for her help.
I know people get upset with MoM, but the truth is she was always headed in that direction because we saw at the end of WV she was studying the darkhold. People wanted her to heal and learn, but the truth is she was always going to try and figure out a way to get her kids back no matter what.
Also by the end the kids also knew they weren’t real but actually Wanda’s magic. Vision knew the same thing, that existing only in a small hex house would not be real
And I think an overall better story could’ve been if she had actually been trying to find the twins from WandaVision, especially given that it is what the post-credits scene implied rather than the whole multiverse mess. Agatha All Along did establish that the twins were both real though and had to explain why Wanda didn’t find or sense them.
See I loved MoM personally, and my only true hope is that her “death” was her simply just removing herself from reality for a while until someone forces her back into the action.
However, as other people have pointed out this wouldn’t have worked. Trapping two kids in a house as an alternative to letting them die when they’ve only been alive for days probably wasn’t something she would have considered, especially in the moment. Wanda is powerful, but the Hex wasn’t that stable and she may not have had that level of control. It was still someone else’s house. Given subsequent events though, it might have been a better option.
So no, she literally couldn't change the hex to be just around the house, it was cast on the entire town and she can only destroy it or keep it up.