I AM A PHOENIX (insp.)
WANDA.
(Here it is, guys, the first of the rants. Spoilers ahoy.)
I LOVE WANDA. WANDA DESERVES NICE THINGS. WANDA IS THE FRIGHTENED, FRIGHTENING QUEEN OF MY HEART JUST NOW.
Her characterization was so much tighter in Civil War, first of all, her emotions were so much more real, her horror in Lagos, her tentative affection for Vision, her anger when she realizes she’s being kept on the compound. And that last one, God, it’s a gift that just fucking keeps giving, plot-wise, because of course she’s loyal to Steve and to Clint, because they got her out of that, she’s been imprisoned before and she doesn’t want to do it again, she wants to help. And then, hell, because she so much wants to help, because she is so determined to help save the people who will be saved by getting Steve and Bucky off the tarmac even at the cost of herself, she goes back to prison. And I have to ask, I’ve just gotta ask, how does one get a powerful telekinetic and mind-hacker into a straitjacket? Because she clearly wouldn’t go quietly. I don’t think I’ll like the answer, I barely like considering the question. I just want to wrap her in a soft blanket and snuggle her down into a comfortable bed and put on Disney movies and give her chocolate and Sokovian delicacies.
I really liked the way that she was established as ridiculously powerful, like, probably one of the most powerful people on the team. She takes out Vision without breaking a sweat by pulling apart his component molecules and then squashing them back together to make him too dense to function. WHAT. Also, thought the pre-romance between her and Vision was amazing and adorable and I am so ready for that to be a thing. No mutants in this universe, so he can’t get kill and resurrected and trigger the House of M plot line, so I will have NICE THINGS for my girl, including a CUTE and HAPPY relationship between her and the resident android. (PLEASE DO NOT TAKE THIS AS A CHALLENGE.)
Also, she is, as Steve points out, a kid. Like, she can’t be more than, what, 22? Is she even legal to drink? She’s, like, my age. This kid gets villified as the impetus for the Accords, because of the disaster in Lagos, and as long as we’re on the subject, Wanda genuinely tries to save everyone in Lagos. She opts to throw the bomb into the air rather than let it explode on the ground, where it would take out a whole crowd of civilians, and when it explodes unpredictably and takes out part of a building, she is, undeniably, horror-stricken. And then everyone is beating down the door to shout about how much of an uncaring monster she is. This poor girl. I just. Sweetheart, I am so glad for Steve’s leave-no-man-behind policy, please tell me he gets you and the rest of the squad holed up nice and safe under T’challa’s protection, please.
(Source: ludi-lin, via bronzedragon)
