In 2021, Jac Schaeffer, creator of the Marvel streaming series “WandaVision,” told Total Film magazine that the show — in which magical heroine Wanda Maximoff, a.k.a. the Scarlet Witch, accidentally traps an entire town in her grief-fuelled fantasy after a mental breakdown — would not be a sexist portrayal of a powerful woman.
But when Schaeffer gave that interview, Marvel was already filming “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” out in theatres this weekend. The film has Wanda becoming a villain after using power she can’t handle — and while “WandaVision” ended with her accepting the loss of the family she created in that show, the movie makes her willing to hurt anyone and everyone to get them back.
But no powerful woman in comics has suffered more from the trope than the Scarlet Witch. For most of her comic book career, she was the primary heroine on the Avengers team and one of the most popular in the company’s relatively small number of heroines. True, she had a bad time for a spell.
Even at the time, some commentators noticed that the premise was largely based on sexist clichés about women who can’t be trusted with too much power and are made irrational by their attachment to their children. Television writer John Rogers wrote a blog post called “Womb Crazy!” in which he pointed out that Wanda is made to go insane for “specifically weak-ass girly reasons. Wanda kills because she wants babies.
Wanda’s transformation into a murderous mom was so obviously incongruent that comic book characters would occasionally lean on the fourth wall to point it out. In “Young Avengers,” a comic series created by Allan Heinberg and artist Jim Cheung, a group of young superheroes decides to search for Wanda and try to rehabilitate her.
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Yoga delivers tamer stretches than this.
Another garbage journalist
Slow day at the office from some who perhaps never pick up a comic book
A fictional character is suffering! Lol who reads this trash
What a surprise. Someone who doesn’t understand or has even reviewed the source content criticizes the film. Marvel has done more than any other publisher to diversify it’s content and include more women/minority characters. You just don’t know anything about this character.
Really ? Really?
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