WandaVision: Is Wanda The Real Villain?

WandaVision: Is Wanda The Real Villain?

Comic Book·2021-02-07 10:02

Every superhero story has a villain. It's just how the genre works. Someone is doing something very bad so the good guys have to come together to solve to problem, stop the bad, and save the day. Generally, the identity of the villain is pretty easy for the audience to sort out and that's where the latest from Marvel Studios, WandaVision, deviates from the norm. The Disney+ series has established that something is very "wrong" with Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) somehow having created her own reality that includes people who may not be there of their own free will, but they've never explicitly stated who the "bad guy" here is. However, this week's episode -- the appropriately titled "On a Very Special Episode..." -- went a long way to suggest that Wanda herself may be the bad guy. It's a theory that fans have entertained almost from the first episode of the series given some of the character's story arcs in comics, but even with this week's episode offering new details, the idea that Wanda is the villain may be a red herring. Wanda Maximoff may not be the villain at all but instead a victim herself.

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