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Drops Of Venus
I’m pretty sure the title of the video is just clickbait to promote WandaVision. Either way, it was a pretty cool video.
BTW, Steve Orlando tweeted about Avengers: Children’s Crusade being among his homework for Darkhold, so I’m definitely expecting some references to the events of that book.
There’s no evidence Doom was insane. I’m not trying to excuse his actions here, but him killing Cassie was very obviously a reaction after she attacked him. He should’ve measured his force in that scenario, but it was still a reaction and not a deliberate, premeditated action. His goal there was not to kill people, otherwise he could’ve easily done that when he got the Life Force. He only killed someone after a fight escalated and he was attacked. Cassie was collateral damage, unfortunately. When he got to become God during Secret Wars, he wasn’t acting that much differently, if you ask me, so I’m inclined to believe that that’s just who he is, possessed or not. So no, I don’t think his behavior was similar to Wanda.
As for everything else, you’re missing the point here. Again: this is not about whether you think it was a good representation or not. Like I said, I don’t even think it was good, and yeah, I agree that a proper, genuine representation of mental illness should be done with a lot more care, but that’s the thing: it was just not that kind of representation. The way that I see it, Bendis just wanted to weaponize mental illness because he thought that made for a cool story. And there absolutely were signs of that, or are we all just forgetting that Wanda was literally suffering from hallucinations during AD, seeing her children and Agatha? She was clearly portrayed as someone who was losing her grip of reality. That is not something that you write if you want the readers to think a character is mentally stable. And in that case, you can’t even use the possession excuse for the writer, because it wasn’t canon back then. It wasn’t canon for years, which is why I don’t think it was the sole motivation behind that story.
Now that I think about it, we did get a moment in Robinson’s Scarlet Witch that could point to her still having hallucination episodes: I think it was in the same issue where she goes to therapy, and we see her playing with her kids in the end, which were obviously not real. I never really understood why James wrote that, but just saying, it could be a sign that she’s still not completely over some of her past demons and they weren’t just magically erased after she stopped being possessed.