Ok so if you haven’t seen Avengers: Endgame yet there are some very mild spoilers ahead, but I feel like if you haven’t seen it by now I’m A: doing you a favour and B: extremely disappointed in you.
So, Wanda…
YES BITCH!!
Her re-entry into the MCU in the rather climax inducing climax of Endgame was I think my favourite scene in the entire film. (Yes like everyone I have my own little hang-ups on the film but lets just say overall I enjoyed it)
But DAMN did she slay!
She had Thanos completely and single handedly on the ropes to the point where he had to call in an air strike, jeopardising himself and his entire army just to get her off. But it wasn’t just the power she displayed, it was the madness in her eyes that really got me going…
Her character has been one of my favourite in the MCU and I think fantastically portrayed by Elizabeth Olsen, right from the offset with that post credit scene in Captain America: Winter Solider where she looks completely bat-shit.
Not only does her origin through human experimentation (with the mind gem) give the audience the sense that she might be slightly unhinged, but her subsequent tragedies, struggle with heroism, lack of acceptance by fellow Avengers, not to mention the fact she falls in love with an android can’t help but flash up as warning signs that maybe at some point she’s gunna lose it…
So, here’s my thinking/ wishing/ dreaming/ link to Bendis’ Avengers: Disassembled:
In Disassembled the ‘chaos’ magic that are her powers (or are they mwahahahahaaa… sorry) take their toll. Wanda, an otherwise strong and powerful lead female character and long time Avenger, has a mental breakdown.
Not only is it a very well scripted look into the psychological toll of prolonged selfless heroism, but it also delves into her family dynamic, which if you didn’t know stems from the X-Men comics, what with mutant terrorist Magneto being her Dad. Queue issues.
This is what I want to happen; Wanda gradually gets more unstable, uses her ‘hex’/ ‘chaos magic’ whatever they want to call it to rebuild another Vision, create their children, the Avengers realise she’s cuckoo, and then Avengers: Disassembled happens at some stage in phase 4 or 5 of the MCU which leads in to, wait for it, Magneto and therefore the X-Men’s introduction into the MCU…
I reckon its an entirely feasible, incredibly clever, and nerds-the-world-over satisfyingly brilliant way of doing it and therefore I’d like the credit if it happens.
This post is dated.
Guess we’ll just have to wait another ten years to find out.
Oh and if you haven’t seen Endgame go see it (I saw it here) and if you haven’t read Disassembled then do it (I picked mine up from here).
‘Nuff said.
#harrisonthehand