One thing I think is being overlooked: At the end Wanda was reading the Darkhold. In the comics and in Agents of SHIELD, that is a dangerous thing to do.
Sounds perfect.
Wow, this was quite the disappointment. Bunch of nothing on a cute little fairy walk over enslaved people so she can get her codename.
Sokovia was not her fault but this definitely was. Yet Wanda just walks through all the people she painfully enslaved for a week, ignoring them, to apologize just to Monica for, what, punching her this one time? And Monica just shrugs all the horrible things Wanda did off and just says bye? Hayward gets arrested for ... what, exactly? Trying to take out an actual terrorist threat who was causing terror and mayhem in a town that no way deserved it? Arrest freakin Darla and Woop for obviously cheating on their law enforcement entry exams.
Monica would have done the same thing in Wanda's position, really? Painfully enslaved an entire town. Ok, bye Monica, another character to dislike.
Problematic stuff. More Marvel TV, end justifies the means poop.
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Every day is a gift, not a given right.
This is probably one of the more depressing and somber coming of age stories.
Although Wanda ended up being in more control than Bruce usually is with The Hulk.
Sometimes that is a legitimate legal verdict against someone, along with imprisonment.
I guess if Monica had been more open about the fact that they had no real way of taking Wanda into custody unless she left them instead of saying "it was great meeting you, no one will ever understand your sacrifice, I would've done the same thing in your position," it would've felt better.
I imagine the intro to his next movie will address what he was busy with during Westview, because on the surface it looks like he really dropped the ball here.
Now I'm suddenly imagining this incident is going to incite the government to make sure they have their own heroes to be on standby and enforce the Accords whenever they need to, because they had literally no ability to properly respond to this and can't count on The Avengers anymore.
(Cough)Thunderbolts(Cough).
Falcon's show was actually supposed to air before this one, so I guess we won't really see any reaction to that or Zemo bringing it up. Or Sam going "I hope Wanda's okay."
The Avengers hardly ever really talk to each other in the movies, at least the New Avengers who were only really together for five minutes.
Y'know, there was a cut moment of the scene where Wanda goes to SWORD and talking about her grief and how everybody is mourning pretty much Tony, Tony, and Tony while people like Natasha and Vision are dead too. Which goes to show she still didn't really like Tony and cared about Natasha.
Hayward lied to the FBI (Jimmy). He fabricated a story and framed Wanda for breaking into a government facility and stealing Visions body. He tried to illegally start up a sentient weapon and use it for his own purpose.
He shot at the kids even if he believed they weren't real. He still tried to kill Monica and then flee. He didn't know she had powers that made his bullets no threat.
None of that excuses Wanda. She held people captive and tortured them. I mean she did. Who had any authority over her now? You would need a magical prison to keep her against her will at this point. Technically she should pay due what she did but whatever. She didn't go to jail in the comics either due what she did to millions of mutants. Some died.
I'm kinda surprised how no one's talking about how bad ass Vision was without the mind stone. It makes a lot more sense now, Wakanda willing to put up their soldiers just to save Vision's life.
If the plan worked, he and Thor might have been able to kill Thanos.
Yeah, Hayward really went off the deep end as this show went along. I feel like they kind of went overboard with him.
Again, this incident seems like it justifies the Accords as much as it shows how little the government is actually able to enforce it. They couldn't stop Wanda, and they can't really hold her accountable, either.
It's easy to forget how powerful Vision is because he never really got to fight after AoU.
I was more disappointed in Monica. An actual superpowered being who at least had a shot at doing something about Wanda just flying away free and clear. And the White Vision as well, who would have the same moral code as the fake Vision after the memory swap. Fake Vision is off the hook because he was basically just Wanda. But Woo, everyone there with a gun, everyone there without a gun, a kid with a broom -all could have tried at least something. You know, tried something like Hayward was doing the whole time - to take care of a clear and present danger to innocent people.
Oh well.
Every day is a gift, not a given right.