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I don't get why they keep making Wanda seem so incompetent. When she had practiced magic enough to take on her own apprentice. It's like they have her trapped in this perception they have of her from her earlier career where her powers could backfire.
This all stems from the popular notion of Wanda's power being "unearned" and an accident of birth, a notion very tied to her being a mutant, and thus one which X-books have tended to push hard. You'll quite often here people influenced by that depiction call Wanda a mediocre sorceress, because apparently she's not a "proper" magic user.

Wanda being an accomplished sorceress is something you would think would be firmly established now, but the "Wanda can't control her powers because she's an amateur" is something that those who want her power portrayed as an aunearned ccident of birth would relish.

The absurd thing is that the Wanda portrayed by Hickman would not have lasted 5 seconds against Chthon and Set.

The nature of Wanda's power being connected to her emotions is a rich seam for writers to explore the power and risk that comes with using your emotions to harness ancient power. That has so many nuances and personal stories that can flow from it, yet sintead

Incidentally, I think in the MCU they will portray Strange and Wanda's relationship as much more one of peers and equals.