Okay so the director of WV, Matt Shankman did an interview yesterday and said something that inherently pissed me off so I’m gonna rant.
In an article with TV Line (and probably other sites too but this is where I saw it) he claimed: "Wanda has suffered more loss than anybody in the MCU.“ (and in another interview he also claimed that WV is the only MCU project to explore mental illness)
Let me tell you why that pisses me the HELL off.
They’re trying to make us feel sorry for Wanda as if:
She’s the only one who’s suffered loss or trauma in the MCU (newsflash: she’s DEFINITELY not. Not even close.)
She didn’t willingly join a Nazi organization. She literally volunteered for Hydra.
She didn’t take a whole town hostage in her grief and when they asked her to free them all she said NO.
You know who else in the MCU has suffered grief and trauma? Just as much (if not more than whitewashed W*nda?)
Tony Stark: Iron Man 3 is literally an entire film about him dealing with PTSD and anxiety from going through a wormhole in the Avengers. (Don’t use the ‘he sold the missile that killed W*nda’s family argument when it was established in IM1 that all that shit was Obadiah Stane and Tony didn’t know about that then)
Thor: Lost both his parents, his brother, his best friend Heimdall, and half his people were slaughtered. And worse? His trauma and depression were just mocked and played for laughs in Endgame.
Bucky: Was brainwashed and tortured by Hydra (coincidentally the same organization that W*nda volunteered for) for what…. 70 years?
Gamora: Half her planet was freaking destroyed by Thanos who then essentially kidnapped her and tortured her to become a killing machine for him.
Nebula: Was also made and tortured to be a killing machine for Thanos. (both her and Gamora were/are now redeemed as of Endgame)
Carol: Was kidnapped by the Kree, brainwashed/gaslit for god knows how many years to kill and slaughter other planets for the Kree.
Now…. Onto the ‘only MCU project to explore mental illness’ part:
Another hilarious statement to make when:
Iron Man 3, again pretty obviously shows Tony dealing with PTSD and anxiety. And even talking his shit out with Bruce in the end.
It’s already been stated by Sebastian Stan that in FAWS Bucky will be going to therapy and will be ‘a mess’ (understandably so) throughout S1.
It’s been stated that Moon Knight will address Marc Spector’s mental illness/Dissociative Identity Disorder. (I know this isn’t out yet but I wanted to point that out)
So to sit there and act like W*nda’s some special snowflake when she is in fact, NOT. Pisses me the hell off.
Especially since after all of the previously mentioned characters were redeemed….
And none of them took an entire fucking town hostage and then outright refused to free them when asked.
I’m not here to feel fucking sorry for her after that shit, so don’t add any W*nda apologist crap on this post. I will block you so hard and fast if you do.
