Let's talk about Wanda Maximoff.
From the beginning in Avengers: Age of Ultron, we find out that her and her brother were volunteers in a HYDRA program that was using the scepter (mind stone) on human beings.
Pretty rudimentary information.
As AoU goes on, we see that Wanda sees into Ultron's mind and makes the decision to back off because total annihilation of the human race isn't what she signed up for. This leads into the twins making the right choice and fighting with the Avengers rather than against them, successfully placing them on the side of good.
That being said...Pietro dies before the movie even ends. This post says it all.
Wanda wasn't allowed to grieve. She wasn't given a funeral for her own twin brother she hadn't separated from her entire life.
Vision then swoops in to save her after she whoops Ultron's metallic, flat-ass and rips his wirey, roundish heart thing out of his chest. After she did that to Ultron, Wanda did not have a single reason to live anymore, not after the only person she's cared about for years was just shot to death. On top of that, her home was plummeting to the ground and was about to be pulverized. She didn't care if she died up there. Not even when Vision found and took her away.
That, however, as we see in Wandavision (Ep8), leads to a friendship. Vision reaches out and tries to comfort Wanda in her grief and sorrow over her brother despite being a synthezoid with little to no emotional capacity. He recognized that Wanda was hurting and attempted to console her. That's sweet.
Fast forward to Captain America: Civil War. Wanda is trying to do the right thing - being an Avenger, saving the day - hero stuff. Then she makes the split-second decision of saving 1 person versus saving a million, so to speak. She chose right, of course, but the government said she didn't.
Sokovia Accords happens. Team Cap and Team Iron Man happen. Everyone fights.
At the end of the fight, Wanda and Vision apologize to one another. They grow even closer, which is good, seeing her let someone else in after Pietro.
But she still gets locked up. She gets thrown in a maximum security prison in the middle of an ocean and forced into a straightjacket. They treated her like an animal - like she was insane, like she deserved to be in one. You could probably imagine what effect that would have on her already fragile mental state.
Avengers: Infinity War. The secret two years of stealing moments with Vision. The fugitive, on-the-run window. She saw her boyfriend get impaled. Then she saw him nearly die multiple times just to find out that she herself has to kill him, and then sees him die AGAIN to Thanos.
Hello??? She's holding off the guy with five infinity stones in his hand and killing her boyfriend, aka destroying the sixth infinity stone (an item that has been there since the universe's creation), AT THE SAME TIME.
The same post as linked above explains it again. Vision doesn't get a funeral. Wanda is snapped. This girl does not get any breaks.
Five years or half a moment later, Wanda fights the bad guys that she thought had just won. She single-handedly would've killed Thanos if he hadn't ordered that strike. All while still mourning Vision (again, who she watched die TWICE).
So, that's two deaths that A) did not get a funeral and B) she was simply told to move on and get over because things happen. On top of that, the Avengers dissembled and went their separate ways after Endgame. Wanda didn't have anyone left, which led her to S.W.O.R.D. headquarters.
As broken as she already was and with no one to understand the absolute debilitation she was experiencing, seeing Vision's...dismembered body made it worse. The only thing she had after that was a cute red car and blueprints for hers and Vision's forever home.
Admit it, everyone cried during this scene.
With the pamphlet in hand, she broke down and accidentally created the Hex. She thought of a happy place and ended up projecting her grief, her pain, her sadness, and dare I say her trauma - onto the town of Westview and...into Vision. Wanda only wanted to be happy and for the love of everything holy Marvel won't let her.
Then she has S.W.O.R.D. constantly trying to topple the Hex, weird occurrences (like episode one at dinner, or anytime Agnes said anything lmao), Agatha being an aggressor and trying to 1) take Wanda's powers 2) making Wanda relive her past 3) the whole Pietro thing. And that's not even everything bad that happened in Wandavision.
Overall, I'm tired of seeing people hate on Wanda. Yes, we all have different opinions of different characters, but remember:
Wanda lost her brother, lost her home, lost her love 3 times, lost her kids, nearly had her powers taken from her, was hunted by S.W.O.R.D. and the government respectively, her parents killed...it's a lot of trauma to unpack and it all started when she was a child. A literal. Child. In spite of this, she still got up after every fall, every beat down, and kept moving forward. She kept her good heart despite it being broken again and again, and she kept going strong all those years. She was able to keep going despite everything she lost, and that? That's the heart of a true hero.
Just food for thought.
