mcu wanda is such a ball of wasted potential. There’s the whitewashing bit which, no matter how much you stan her cannot be ignored or disregarded as an “anti-point” when her history is literally the building blocks for who she is, and Wheatthins insistence in turning her into a white River Tam isn’t lost on me.
On top of that, they scrapped character development, cohesive arcs, and a legitamige character build for a ‘strong female’ personality type. Girl can’t even keep her opinions straight for two movies, but sure! She’s strong!! She’s powerful!! That’s all she needs, who needs story and character arcs when you can have lightened hair, less makeup, and energy balls!! like,, I dislike mcu wanda for a plethora of reasons, which I’ve gone over repeatedly and will continue to do so. But like, she could’ve had such potential and with a combination of shit introduction, shit character writing, a lack of cohesion between films, and general iffiness has completely tainted the on-screen character for me. I’m just so wholly disappointed in what we could’ve had versus what we got